First comes Love, Then comes Marriage...

Then comes the cradle list.

Getting pregnant is not a race.
Sure maybe someday I'll want to have lil chillin's as badly as Ben does, but until then I would like to check off my cradle list.
What is a cradle list? It's like a bucket list, but instead of things you want to accomplish before you die, it's things you want to accomplish before you have screaming babies.

This is mine so far:
1. Travel (Mainly Scotland next summer)
2. Get a puppy (I want my kids to grow up with a pet)
3. Move (Into a real home, or an apartment that's more sound proof)
4. Get a second car (The one we have right now doesn't even belong to us...)
5. Save (It is nearly impossible to save when you first get married)
6. Day job (Ben needs a day job, no more of this working until midnight every night)
7. Concerts (We are really getting into concerts lately, and I want to see as many as we want)
8. Splurge (I still need to buy clothes for myself, let alone a newborn)
9. Work out (I want to actually have a nice body to lose when I get pregnant)
10. Enjoy each other (We've only been married six months, I want to have him to myself a bit longer)

That's all I've got right now, but it keeps me motivated to work towards those things, baby or no baby. 

Everyone deserves a pick me up

and here's one from me:

(everyone should do this)

Now you will never look at a monkey bum the same.
Have an excellent day!

Sold Out Mackelmore Concert

Where do I start...
Ben and Sharon picked me up from work and we went straight up to Park City.
When we got there we had to park almost 7 miles away from main street which is where the venue was. Luckily, during the film festival Park City has free shuttles everywhere that take you into town! We got to main street about 7pm and just wandered the shops and hung out in some weird lounge until the doors opened at 8:30.

While we were looking in stores, we found this and laughed:

 We were one of the first people in there and it was the fanciest venue I've ever seen before. There were little chandeliers hanging everywhere, and vip booths set up all over, it was cool looking.
 Now keep in mind this was a 21 + concert, and we came to find out why fairly quickly. There were about 4 bars set up around the room, and girls in their underwear serving alcohol to everyone, and there's more, but I'll explain that in a minute. We decided to stand right up next to the stage about an hour and a half before it was supposed to start, just so we could be close...little did we know that the owner of the venue had seriously pissed "The Talent" (as all the bouncers were calling them) off. Most of you have probably heard about Neon Trees canceling their show there because of ticket prices, well, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis tried to do the same thing but were unable to find a different venue, so what did they do instead to stick it to the man? Start their concert TWO HOURS late!! Sharon was keeping up with his tweets so we were aware that we were going to be standing for four hours total smashed up against psycho strangers and big huge bouncers before the show even started.

Don't even worry though, the owners of the venue knew exactly how to entertain everyone while they waited.... we got to watch like 13 different go-go dancers shake their butts in our faces...for two. hours. There was no avoiding it, the venue was filling up so incredibly fast, there was no moving, and we had already committed to staying in the front. It was the longest two hours of my life, luckily Sharon was entertaining me with stories of what she would do if she were a dancer, like she would eat a Cafe Rio salad on stage. While that was happening, we were lucky enough to get to know the girl on crack, the couple that used to be mormon and the old married people that were at least in their late fifties. I didn't take pictures of ANY of that.

Thank goodness the show actually started, people kept saying that there were too many people there and that if any more kept showing up that they would have to shut the whole thing down. The bouncers in front of us kept saying how crazy it was and how they've never ever seen so many people there before. I might have just died if they ended up canceling it, four hours of girls in thongs is too much to handle for nothing. Macklemore finally FINALLY showed up though at midnight, and he did such an excellent job. He was super entertaining, he was very interactive with everyone there and he was so much smaller than I imagined him. He's just a tiny tiny little guy! Ben almost died when he got to give him high fives and touch his thrift shop fur coat. We all took so many pictures and videos, it was so worth it standing around for so long to be as close as we were. He was literally in our faces the entire time. When the concert ended, I reached over and grabbed the set list, but the bouncer made me give it back, because the "scheduled encore" (I think that's so dumb) wasn't done yet, but when it was over, he handed it to me =]

Afterward, we ran to the shuttle station but of course, where we needed to go had stopped shuttling people at midnight. So we went back to main street and caught this huge bus looking van with a Taxi sign on the top of it and had to pay him $25 to take us back to the car. We drove though the canyon in such thick fog, it was terrifying but we made it back at about 3 in the morning. I've never been so anxious to take a shower and get into my bed.

It was an incredibly fun night, super crazy and really really long. I'm so glad we were able to find tickets at such a late notice, and I wanted to thank the stranger that accidentally texted the wrong number that ended up being Sharon's phone and telling her about this concert none of us even knew existed.

Remodled

WOOHOO!!!!
Guess what we finally did?? GOT REAL FURNITURE! I've been so excited for the day when our apartment is finally all put together! The last piece is getting a real bed, not a full mattress that's on the ground, and hopefully that will happen var var soon.We also don't have anything up on our walls, but in our contract, it says we can't put any holes in the walls! So that makes it hard to decorate, I'm working on it though.
Ok, here's the unveiling, are you psyched? Probs not because this is extremely boring stuff but here it goes:

Front room before.....

Front room AFTER!

Spare bedroom before....

Spare bedroom AFTER!

SUCH an improvement! Now we can actually have our nephew's and niece over for sleepovers and we can bust out the N64, Game cube and PS 2! I love not having a crowded home, it makes being here so much nicer. Ben had to throw a lot of his stuff away, and I thank him for that, I know it was tough babe, but it had to be done....no man should have 8 boxes of "things".
Come visit us! and we will give you a 3 minutes tour of our humble abode.

Baseball...Come Back!

Shredding

Ben and I have been wanting to go snowboarding for so long! The last time either of us went was about two years ago, and it was with each other, funny coincidence. Well, for Christmas, two of my brothers got day passes to Brighton! So I talked to Ben and we got our own day passes and we were able to go up with Alex and Steven for a day!

It was so much fun, I don't think Alex had been since before his mission and it had been at least four years since Steven went. It was a blast spending the day with all of them! We were all out of practice so it was perfect. We stayed away from the black diamonds and hung out at the kiddy terrain park.
I'm glad we were able to go at least once this year!

Bye Bye Bunny

We've got some catching up to do.
Remember this post?
We absolutely loved that little bunny. When we finally moved into our apartment, I begged the landlord with every bit of persuasive writing I've ever learned from English classes to let us keep Rio. Of course, the answer was simply "no."
I was heartbroken, I probably cried more than necessary. My dad continued to keep Rio at the house until I could find someone to take her.
In between renewing KSL ad's, and frequent trips to Walmart to get bunny food for a bunny I didn't even get to see on a regular basis, I made a discovery. Our little girl was, in fact, a very big boy. I don't know what was wrong with the person that sold HIM to us, but we distinctly asked for a girl, and we got the opposite. It was as if that little bunny matured over night, because as Ben put it, "He just wanted to fertilize the universe." It was such a strange day, but we still loved that little bunny! So the first thing I did was get on KSL and change all the ad's I had for a female bunny, to a male bunny and it only took a couple days before I finally got a text from someone that wanted to come see him.
Luckily I was at work when the guy came to get Rio from Ben, or else I would have lost it. Needless to say, no more pets until we can keep them for good. If we ever have kids that want pets, I'll probably go get it the minute they ask for it.

Happy Holidays

Tis the season to take down the Christmas tree and put away the eggnog. So I guess I better get to blogging.
This was Ben and I's first Mr. and Mrs. Christmas together and it was busy.
We got our first tree together at a black Friday deal at Target, and of course once we put it together the lights didn't work. We took it back, and a few weeks later I caved and bought basically the same tree for almost twice as much money. I wanted a tree!
We didn't do anything Christmas-y all month. Just too busy I guess. I'm really upset we didn't go to Temple Square.
Our festivities didn't start until Christmas Eve. My family had the good old "Bowling Movie Pizza" day that we do every year. The only bad thing was that Ben had to go into work at 3 so he was only able to come bowling. I missed him all day, it really sucked not having him there.

 On Christmas day we opened gifts at Ben's parents house with his little sister. It was fun opening present with everyone. Ben's parents were far too kind this year, they got us a brand new TV! It was such a relief getting rid of our monster in the front room.

We got so many other gifts, and Ben got freaking spoiled. I keep asking him if that was his best Christmas ever, because if it wasn't, I don't think I want to know what was. My favorite gift that I gave him was a T shirt with two of our favorite shows mixed together, I've had it for months and could not WAIT to give it to him. I also drove to Lehi the weekend before Christmas to pick up tickets. What kind of tickets you ask? Why tickets to see one of our favorite teams play the Jazz!!

 Afterward his Mom made everyone breakfast. Ben's family started a little tradition a couple years back, I'm not sure where they got it from, but here's how it goes: They have a little green pickle ornament that one of his parents hides in the tree, once it's hid the kids come and try to find the pickle in the tree, whoever finds it gets a prize! It took us SO long to find that dang pickle this year!

After breakfast we went to my parents house and had lunch with everyone and opened Christmas crackers. It's a Scottish thing we've been doing for as long as I can remember. Here is the history behind Christmas crackers if you're interested.

That night we went to a movie with Ben's family then went and played a board game at their house. It was such a long day, but it was fun seeing all the family.