Thursday, April 8, 2010

Been busy....

Well, we have 1 year down! This year we celebrated our first anniversary and I really wanted to get a cute picture of us, I was thinking along the lines of us being all done up and ready to go on our date, but.......we forgot! Late that night we hurried and took this one so we officially had a picture of us on our anniversary! So, since I was in charge of our lovely Valentine's Day date (see awesome previous post), John was in charge of this bad boy for us and I have to admit he took me by surprise! We actually celebrated on the 13th, because our real anniversary landed on a Sunday this year, so the 13th being a Saturday I had to go coach Special Olympics that morning. As I was walking out the door I saw 2 envelopes taped to the front door. Curiously, and quickly because I was late, I did as I was instructed: picked one at random, did not open (actually I accidentally opened it, didn't peek though!) and set it on the piano.

Well practice ended up going short because it started to snow pretty badly. Naturally I called John to tell him I was on my way home, but I was instructed to stall because I wasn't allowed home yet. I was curious! John has only ever really surprised me a couple times before, so I ran to Bed, Bath, & Beyond to buy some time. When I was allowed to come home I was welcomed into a sparkling clean living room and a candle lit lunch! It was so adorable especially because I had left laundry and my school stuff all over the place! (Disclaimer: it was mid-terms, and housework tends to get ignored during weeks I have exams.) The cutest part was that he actually cooked me lunch! John HATES cooking and would rather eat nothing at all than heat something up, so needless to say this was super out of the ordinary. I guess when I had picked my envelope earlier that morning I chose chicken enchiladas (my favorite dish) for lunch. I was curious who helped him make it because well, lets be honest, I knew he didn't do it himself :), but he wouldn't tell me! Later I found "Murphy" written on the bottom of the casserole dish and thanked his mom. After lunch another set of envelopes was awaiting me, the one I picked held a cute, hand-drawn picture of the movie "Shutter Island." So later that night we went to the show and ate dinner at Olive Garden where I was able to get my favorite dessert, their Lemon Cream Cake! So this was our super-cute-couldn't-have-been-more-perfect first anniversary.


So the next awesome thing I did this year was go to my first concert! With Ry! And it was Michael Buble! Perfection! John got me this ticket for Christmas and even though it felt like forever I finally got to go! Of course I went with Ry because she introduced me to him one dull night in our dorm, and we've both been a little obsessed ever since. The concert was amazing! He is one talented man and not bad to look at for an hour and a half....I'm just sayin'.....Anyway,I had a blast and came home with a sore throat that night. I honestly had never screamed like that before and I'm sure it was at a pitch that only dogs could hear. It was ridiculously fun and kind of sad as well, because its the last big hurray Ry and I will have before she grows up, graduates, and moves away from me in a month! But what a perfect way to go.



Ahh Michael.... :)

Lastly. The final "cool" thing I've done in a while was go to Moab! In order to keep my student loans for this semester I had to find a 2 credit class to keep me enrolled full time, so I took a rock climbing class! For our grade we went down to Moab, climbed, camped, hiked, oh yeah....and rappelled Corona Arch! The rappelling was my favorite part! Up until then 85 feet was the highest I'd rappelled but Corona was about 150 feet. The actual rappel was a blast, but ascending up the mountain was the scary part. The reason it was so scary is because we had to climb a wall that had an 800 ft drop on one side, plus I was hooked in to a line with 5 idiotic freshmen boys. Need I say more? I was so sure that while they were horsing around, one of them was going to topple over the edge, pull the line, and take the rest of us with him. I doubt the little anchors in the mountain would have held a couple tons of stupid teenagers, but I made it to the top, tying all my own secure lines along the way and I could probably be a boy scout now with all the knots I had to learn to tie. Waiting for my turn was pretty scary too because it was starting to get windy and the anticipation was intense. The girl in front of me started bawling and had to be caressed off the edge by one of the instructors, I don't blame her though, it was her first rappel and boy was it hard core. When it was my turn, I got up there like a champ and shimmied right off the top. It was such a blast and the view was breathtaking! Personally, I think its more fun to go off the side of a cliff rather than do a free rappel, but coming across an open rappel like that is actually pretty rare, so I'm stoked to say I've done it!



Just some more of Moab...