unfriended.

    so today i found out the truth. and i can't seem to stop laughing! 

    a year and a half ago i went to alaska to visit my sister for 10 days. josué and i had just started dating again***  and things were going great! thanks to alaskan cellular service, texting or calling each other was nearly impossible. of course, my sister was curious to know more about this guy that i was making such a fuss over. i went to show her pictures of him on facebook. 

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    ***josué and i had our first date in december 2011. i was on winter break from snow college and he had just gotten back from byui. we decided mutually that we didn't want to do the long distance relationship thing. but every time i went back home, we'd hang out. josué even came down to snow on valentine's day to take me on a date and asked me to be his girlfriend but i said no... poor guy! :'(

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    i got on facebook and typed in his name, clicked on it, i tried to make his profile pic bigger. it wouldn't allow me to. it took me a second, but then it hit me... we weren't friends! "what?! we used to be friends!!" my sister just looked at me, "really? you're not even friends with your boyfriend on facebook?" "no really," i protested, "we used to be!" and hit "add as friend."

    later that night, i got lucky with the phone call and said to josué, "so the funniest thing happened to me, i went on facebook to show kim what you looked like and we weren't friends! isn't that weird?!" i said innocently. He responded, "pshh, uh, yeah, that's sooo weird! the weirdest!" and i believed from then until very recently that this was just a facebook glitch. 

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    and tonight i find the truth. as i was looking at our pictures together on facebook, it hit me that i had proof that we were friends before. i had a picture of our first date in december 2011: josué had commented on it, he was tagged in it, we must have been friends before!!! so i asked him, "remember how facebook somehow unfriended us, and then we were dating and didn't even realize it?" 

"yeah," he says. 

i persist, "kind of weird how i remember wishing you a happy birthday in march, huh? are you sure you didn't unfriend me for some reason?" 

then i see it in his eyes, "yes, i unfriended you! but you made me mad! you told me you didn't want to date me then you started dating this other guy and i was all, 'forget her!' and unfriended you!"

the truth has come out. i can't stop laughing. my husband, sweet, innocent, amazing husband, unfriended me out of jealousy, and acted like it never happened. i mainly posted this for my own memory, but i hope you can find the humor in it to :) have a great day!

this guy...

so i have been blessed with an amazing hubby. i know... shocking, right?
but this is why i feel this way:
sometimes i get in these horrible, no good, very bad moods.
and it's usually for no reason other than hormones.
i actually cried while watching "undercover bosses"
and he sits there patiently, as i cry in his arms... usually anywhere from 2 minutes to an hour.
he listens to me, reassures me, and allows me to cry... and i'm a very ugly crier.
sometimes he takes responsibility for my tears, when he hasn't even done anything wrong!
i know i'm not the only one that this happens to.
but i just have to say, he is the one person/thought/thing that can cheer me up instantly.
good golly i just love this guy...

when things don't go our way.

It's taken me forever to want to write this post... but I feel like there have been some great blessings that have come from our ordeal that I need to openly recognize. 

As some of you may already know, Josué and I are supposed to be back East but as life would have it, I am currently sitting on Josué's parents couch in our hometown writing this. 

Things we've learned since being back:

DO WHAT YOU LOVE.

A major blessing was that we decided life was too short to work a "job" just for the money. This experience gave Josué the push to change his major back to exercise science and to finally sign up for a personal training course. Being away from the kiddos made me realize how much I enjoy being in the classroom. We both feel we found career's that we can be pleased with for life. We might be poor for the rest of our lives, but money can't buy you happiness!

BE GRATEFUL.

I can't begin to express the gratitude I feel towards my family, friends, and co-workers as they've supported us throughout this whole thing. Both Josué's parents and my parents have made HUGE sacrifices to help us get back on our feet. 

HAVE FAITH.

"Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come."Jeffery R. Holland (watch or read, here)

I believe God has a greater plan for us. I also believe my husband would do anything to succeed and provide for me. I trust in both. I have faith in both. I know it's hard at times, but really, let's learn to "fake it till you make it" it's a proven fact that if you smile at yourself your mood is instantly lifted. :D

Thanks for your love and support! Have a great day! AND SMILE!

See? We're smiling and genuinely happy! 

the taco song.

every time that "cups" song from "pitch perfect" comes on i picture this.

another fine photoshop job, if i should say so myself! and yes, you can thank me the next time that song comes on and you hear, "you're gonna miss me by my taco"

what to say when you don't have anything to say...

Josué and I had a fun weekend. Instead of boring you all to death with details, I'm going to do a quick checklist:

• Friday night date to Smashburger (Divine, fresh burgers if you like stuff like that) and watched "The Croods" (Josué would give this a C+ at best and I would give this a B-)
• Saturday Gen. Conf. Me and Josué decided to help each other stay awake... Keep in mind we were sitting on opposite sides of the same couch... texting each other these photos:

• Sunday morning we got to go to Gen. Conf. which was a real treat! I think from the whole week, my favorite talk was this one. 

Monday was back to school for me. Boy, were those third graders hyper to say the least. It's good to be back though, I started to miss them a little... just a little!

Learning new things!

So I have 2 sisters that are professional photographers. They stole all of those cool genes and I was left with none. I was on my family's blog the other day and realized the family picture was a little out of date and I was looking lonely. So I went onto that onlinefreephotoshop dot com place and youtube'd how to add a person to a photo.... and voila!

I'm obviously really good at photoshop so far... so look out world!

P.S. This spring break, I have wayyy too much time on my hands. 

P.S.S. I am available this week and this week only for freelance work! Give me a call if you'd like to have someone added to your photos... because I know how to do it now at such amazing quality! *sarcasm*

almost 4 months

It's been almost 4 months since I married the man of my dreams.
There are a few things I've learned/figured out/have been reminded of since December:

1. I hate canned veggies. Thanks to my parents who have an amazing garden or always bought frozen vegetables, I literally gagged down the canned corn and green beans we had the other night.

2. I am NOT a bad cook, in fact, I'm actually pretty alright! In college, I either ate out, made mac n cheese, or didn't eat at all. I never trusted my cooking skills... plus I never wanted to be the roommate that used all the dishes in the house.

3. I am a messy person. Josué is the one that keeps our house clean 80% of the time, even as I look around our bedroom, I see MY towel on the floor, MY boots laying out, and MY clothes laying right next to... not in the clothes hamper.

4. I hate laundry. I always have. I always will. It is never finished.

5. Josué is a hardworking man. He is a working machine and you can tell he's driven by the fact that he wants to provide for our little family. I am the luckiest woman alive. Seriously.

6. I am terrible at keeping secrets or surprises. Josué's birthday was last week... let's just say I couldn't wait until his actual birthday to give him his presents! Oh and I made him a birthday cake while he was at work... he got off early that day and walked in on me frosting handed! One day, guys... I WILL surprise him.

7. I married my best friend. I fall more in love with him every day. Many people told me that would happen and I just couldn't believe it... "how could I love him more than I do today," I would ask myself. It's true though... I don't know how to explain it, but it's true!

8. I'm super sappy now. And sometimes it grosses me out.

I've changed a lot in the last 4 months, yet, I don't feel like I've changed at all. Weird feeling!