Sunsets at the Beach...

I forgot to mention that my husband is fabulous and planned everything perfectly so we could have a sunset at the beach...which is phenomenal.

Just look. Because words just wouldn't be enough...

GATOR GAMEEEES

So we have school spirit, big whoop!

I'm pretty sure I'm pretty awesome at hootin' and hollerin' and talking smack or whatever.

I feel like my undergrad yrs of spirit were all just a big prep for FLORRRIDDDA.

(BYU-I doesn't have competitive sports...)

BUT the gators do!!

So basically, I'm terrible at the "chomp" though.  It's slightly embarassing; I NEVER get the timing right, but it's all in good fun, so here's to our Gator Mania.

Turns out we're quite the gymnastics fans.. seriously. it's.ridiculous.

I love date night gymnastics meets..and catching the end of baseball games on our walk home... and having it sprinkle on us along the way! It makes me miss/think/love home.

Day Trips and SunBurns

 Taylor had Spring Break a few weeks back, so I took a couple days off and we did some random day trips. What fun to spend time with the boo.  He's quite the catch.

We live near this preserve called "Payne's Prarie" and ....it's pretty sweet.  Nothing like Washington's greenery, but fairly pretty in its own right. There weren't too many bugs out yet, and it doesn't feel like I'm walking around in a shower...or somebody's mouth so. Hey, it's not that bad.

 

 

Our second day trip was to Honeymoon Island State Park.  Taylor said we'd have to leave at the crack of dawn (it's 3hrs away) to miss all the Spring Break crazies...yano' stake our claim on a nice piece of beach...so when we arrived at 8 AM, this was our view:

 

This is my 8 AM beach face look, except it really was 5 am.. because that's when we got up to leave.
At least one of us is always perky = )

Hey, we beat everyone else, that's for sure.  Actually, it was super peaceful and relaxing to get there so early. We literally had the beach to ourselves.

...We ate over-priced chicken fingers, laid on the beach, swam in the gulf, and strolled. Best.Day.Ever...until the burn.

So, spf 4 is a no, so is spray tan, so is forgetting to reapply.. so is white-reflective sand. Hello, feet burn?

But, we've since recovered. I'm sparing all of you the Aloe bottle usage, reddened, blistered, peeled pictures that could have been taken.

Yah, for beach days in Florida! We're prepared for next time.

I wish I took at picture of the Garden-Taylor found this uber-cute restaurant in St.Petersburg with delic food, and jazz entertainment. We ate on a patio and were serenaded with some Otis Redding classics...fav.

Temple fun with the Blay's

We have this couple in our ward who are practically our twins.

Meet the Blay's.

Everyone gets us confused because...basically:

We're all from the West Coast... our husbands are in law school.. we're both going in the same nursing program.. we all have the same life plan.. and we're blonde, young, married, etc

So, needless to say, we became temple travelling buddies.
Here is our latest temple pic. Because we had travel buddies we didn't need to take a picture of ourselves, by ourselves. ha. What a relief!
 

We love the Blay's.

FRANKENOVEN

so i have this FUNFETTI -obsession. really. it's true. and this die-hard dream to be a CUPCAKE decorator.
Anyhoo, as of late our oven has been on the fritz. now known as "frankenoven"-rightfully so.

It's cooking time/temp/anything and everything are completely wrong and off and you have no idea what the darn thing is doing until it's too late and all of your fabulously piped cupcakes are incinerated to a blackened crisp.

Look at my precision!

take.note. ha

AND, gasp! horror.

thank you frankenoven for completely demolishing a batch of perfectly piped FUNFETTI cupcakes.
i currently loathe you.

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But, on an up note! I did pipe some super cute cupcakes ...later on..for a friend, Meghan's bday bash, that looked fabulous (and i didn't take a pic! curses!) just imagine they were the best darn pink funfetti cupcakes you'd ever seen!

happy 22 to me!

Here's to posting a month late:


i am a lover of all holidays--especially merryhappyjulianuarymonthiversarybirthday's.
go big, or go home around here!

i feel like i didn't get to use "21" very much, so i hope i get to use "22" MORE. come on ppl!

Anyway,

I had a super-uber fabulous birthday with my hubs. I had a wonderful Thursday off (thank you supervisor Jess. you're an angel)...I relaxed, got all dressed up and ate a classy dinner with my boo at the FAT TUSCAN.

Shout out to FAT TUSCAN, ohmygoodness. you stole my heart. cute lil' backyard, hold-in-the-wall authentic italian eatery.. with tiki lights, a fountain, and an elegant ambiance. thank heavens for living in florida where eating outside in january is possible!

Following dinner, we came home, ate a wonderful publix cake and opened presents. which i do so very much love = )

tops.hair straightners (thankyou georgia).gift cards (thank you momma) and everything else fabulous!

Enjoy my picture mania:

 

 **Look georgia! proof i opened it myself!

Ohmygoodness. i totally forgot i ALSO went to the zoo.

did you know the community college here has a ZOO!?

seriously. and it is completely legit with alligators and all. Go florida!
Anyway, gal pal Cal and I went for free with our student id's
We had fun! oodling all the crazy animals...

..except for the part where the turtles were getting frisky. awkward.

and then that weekend, we had a game night bash with all the besties! ohhwhat a lovely
merryhappyjulianuarymonthiversarybirthday.