A Happy List: 100 + GIVEAWAY

GUY IT IS MY 100TH HAPPY LIST. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR SO LONG. SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE GIVEAWAY DETAILS.

When I was stretching my arm and my coworker thought I was raising my hand and called on me ha!

The hand gesture the girl at Starbuck's did when she was complimenting my bangs.

Going to IKEA and picking things out for our New York apartment!!!

My favorite female under the age of 40 returning from her mission.

Having 2 out of the 3 recipes I tried this week be delicious.

When we find Trixie in her bed all the way on her back.

Creating a vision board for our future apartment.

When the boy at Starbuck's winked at me lol. 

Not wearing pants pretty much all weekend.

The Lindt "hello" candy bars. All good.

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Here are some funny things people said this week:

Jake: "Would you be so happy if you could somehow know that in Trixie's mind she calls you bb?"

Jake looking at my papers: "I won't snoop."

Me: "I don't care."

Jake: "In that case..." *snoops*

Jake referring to a computer mouse: "I don't think they have mice there."

Jake referring to an apron: "Do we have a cooking bib?"

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

Ok, so I'm basically just really happy I've done 100 happy list. #accomplishments. So, I want to send someone a package with all the things that make me happy! This may or may not include beauty products, candy, music, and other cute things. I don't really know yet, I haven't gone shopping for all of it. Anyway, enter below! The giveaway will run for 2 weeks. Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

XOXO
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Errands R Us

Isn't this the cutest planner?

CHIPOTLE IS COMING TO AMERICAN FORK. I AM SO EXCITED.

As much as I died of boredom over Christmas break, it was pretty nice to get ish done. One day we went to Target to return my planner. (It had a misprint of all the months under the wrong tab, ha!) I am obssed with this planner... well, actually with all of Target's planners right now. They are so cute. Run, don't walk, and get one of your own!!

We couldn't be in The Meadows without going to Five Guys. I am seriously obsessed with it lately. If you're veg, here's what you should get: grilled cheese - add tomatoes, pickles, lettuce, and onions. You're welcome. We also tried their Oreo shake. It was pretty good! My favorite shake is still at Shake Shack. I had never had a shake I liked until I tried theirs <3 #truelovewaits. 

Anyway! I'm trying to photograph more every day things so I have more pictures to edit and post. I think it will help a lot with feeling depressed and anxious if I can come home almost every day and edit some photos :). So, that's why there are going to be some more random posts haha.

XOXO

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P.S. Do Five Guys outside of Utah have fry sauce at the them? Please tell me yes.

P.P.S. If you go to Utah Guide under the "Categories" you can see all the local (and some not local) places we've been to :). I'm planning on making a more offical guide once we move, but for now that's all I have.

Kneader's Gingerbread Men Recipe

At one point, this gingerbread cookie recipe was posted on a new's site (I think KUTV or something. They were for the mummies Kneader's sells during Halloween.), but the page has since expired and it is NO WHERE else on the internet. These are literally the best gingerbread cookies you'll ever eat, so it needs to be shared.

I'm new to this whole bake-food-and-photograph-it-beautifully-thing, so you'll have to excuse my sub par photos :).

ONTO THE RECIPE!

 

I, of course, had to make a ginger family haha. Trixie looks like a dinosaur, but what can you do lol. 

Here's the recipe! You can print this image and add it to your recipe book. (Which I recommend because everyone will love you and your clan of ginger people.)

XOXO

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P.S. If you make these let me know how you like them!

A Happy List: 99

(My feelings toward 2015 haha.)

I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE HAPPY LIST UNTIL I'M AT 100!!! I'm so excited, you guys. I think I am going to do a giveaway with all my favorite things that make me happy next week :) :) :) So stay tuned!

Going through boxes and figuring out what to sell, what to take, and what to put in storage.

All of Jake's back rubs and hair combs when I'm feeling sad. He's so sweet.

Watching lots and lots of Zoella vlogs. (Thank you, Beverly.)

My mom's obsession with boxes and Christmas bags.

Finally some-what catching up on blogs.

Five Guys fries and veggie burger.

Ron Swanson without eyebrows.

This chocolate bar. Holy cow.

Wearing a crown.

Jake's sass.

XOXO

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P.S. What do you all think of the new blog design? Yay or nay? (I'm keeping it either way, but just curious haha.)

Download: Primary Crown

I usually don't post stuff like this, but I was trying to prepare my first lesson of the year "I am a child of God." I obviously wanted my kiddos to have crowns haha. But I couldn't find a downloadable crown that said "I am a child of God." literally ANYWHERE. So, I made one in Photoshop :)

In case anyone else teaches primary, here you go! I used this crown for lesson 1, but you could use it for whatever :)

Click here to download it.

XOXO

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New Year's Festivities

(This is what the majority of our "Let me get my focus." pictures look like hahahahaha.)

I love Jake's face in this photo haha.

Yup. This was our New Year hahahahaha. I always complain about the lack of activities for married adults. There are dance parties for single people and fun things if you have kids. But, if you're married without kids it's always kind of boring. At least for us haha. One of these years I'm going to throw a party, but my vision for that requires mucho moneys that we don't have yet hahahah.

Anyway! We ate some Digornio's pizza, tried to buy Martinelli's (It was sold out at two different stores so we settled for Welch's sparkling cider. NOT as good, by the way.), watched Where The Wild Things Are, and were king and queen of the world :)

I'm not one for yearly reflection posts or New Year's resolutions, so we'll just say that 2016 is going to be kick A. Mainly because we'll finally move to New York and have great adventures! 

Thanks to everyone who follows this little blog of mine :) I truly enjoy reading and responding to all your comments and emails! #ilovecyberfriends

XOXO

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January Playlist

I've just decided to do a monthly playlist. I love finding new music! When I was in high school, I had a friend who I would exchange mixed CDs with every Monday. It was so fun to have some new tunes to listen to.

What you can expect from these monthly playlists:
- No country. Sorry, I'm not the biggest fan. No pop/radio music either.
- Lots of beats/electric-type music. It's what I'm most into at the moment.
- Alternative - always my favorite as well.
- Maybe some slow jams. Sometimes I just can't help myself.

Also, I'm updating them every month, so if you come back to this post any time after February 1st these songs won't be here! Never fear, my sweet children, I'm making a mastery blog playlist that I'll add each month's songs to. Happy listening!

XOXO
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Caputo's Deli

We did sort of a delayed Christmas dinner last week. We wanted to go to Slice's, but it was closed :/ So we tried Caputo's instead. It was a fun little market (expensive though!) to browse through. We got sandwiches and a kouign-amann. I actually really liked my sandwich (mozarella, tomatoes, and balsamic). Jake got The Caputo and wasn't the biggest fan.

We decided that if you're in the area it's worth a try, but it's not worth a 45 minute drive haha.

XOXO

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Hawaii Video

It's a little late, but here's the video from my trip to Hawaii!

XOXO
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Top 10 Favorite Bloggers!

I finally had time to make a video! I think I'm going to make more, so keep an eye peeled of vids are your thing :)

XOXO
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Christmas Pictures?

My mom took these while we were in Park City haha. I had a photographer friend who was going to come and do them, but she got the flu and I didn't feel like wasting our new outfits. So, this is as close as we got to Christmas photos haha!

XOXO

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XOXO

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Christmas Festivities

Christmas Eve morning we went to Kneader's for breakfast. I know everyone is obsessed with their french toast, but I truly love the steel cut oats. It's why I am obsessed with steel cut oats now haha. 

The rest of the day was spent getting ready and watching T.V.  We went to Jake's family's house for dinner and had the most delicious cheese fondue.

I FINALLY GOT THE HANNA ANDERSSON PAJAMAS. You guys, I have been waiting SO LONG for this. I got them on mega discount and they are so great. We'll probably use these every year, because they're just too cute.

Christmas morning we opened our presents! I kept telling Jake how cute we were and he was like, "We can be even cuter." and went and got Martenelli's ahhaha. It was fancy indeed.

Jake did such a good job wrapping my presents. :) I have no regrets about our kraft roll.

Trixie was the cutest every day. We bought her santa costume from Target on whim and it was the best decision. 

The rest of the morning was spent building the coolest igloo ever. We're not done with it yet, but I'll post picture when we finish it. We had dinner and played games with my family later in the day. That night, we saw Concussion. It was so good and made me dislike sports more hahahahaha. 

We went to bed with a Trixie Santa and all was well. 

XOXO
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