Happy Birthday to MEEEE!!!!

So today is my birthday! This morning I got to sleep in with my husband, and then I got up and got ready and my mom took me to lunch at Porcupine! If you have not been (and you live in the Salt Lake Valley) you need to go! Then the maintenance guy came and told us that our AC was broken which is actually a relief because now I know I wasn't just going crazy! LOL!

After he left Matt started making the pizza. He made the dough last night and let it sit and rise over night, and most of today. The pictures are backwards... next time I'll know to start backwards and then they'll be in the right order...

The aftermath of our kitchen mess... SOOOOO GOOD!

When the timer dinged and Matt pulled it out of the oven!

Waiting patiently for the pizza to cook!

All put together!

Putting it all together!

My birthday soda! I love Dr. Pepper!

Matt's such a happy boy!

He made me a pretty card... I absolutely love it! Sorry the pics are sideways!

Just starting to make the sauce.

So far today I've had a super duper birthday! My sister came by and brought me some new pants! YAY! She's the best! Thanks to everyone who's wished me a Happy Birthday, you guys rock! Perhaps there will be more to come... we'll just have to wait and see!

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8 Things I did yesterday:

*Worked

*Laundry

*Ate dinner

*Did dishes

*Hung out with Matthew

*Watched SVU

*Checked the mail

*Watched The Rock N Rolla

8 Movies I love to watch:

*The Goonies

*The Lost Boys

*The Burbs

*V for Vendetta

*The Big Lebowski

*The Hangover

*Kelly's Heroes

*The Italian Job

8 Things on my wish list:

*Being debt free

*A house

*To go to school

*A new car for Matt

*A bike for Matt

*School for Matt

*To lose 20 lbs.

*To be a mom (not yet though)

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

*Being debt free

*Owning our own place

*The new bid at work

*Taking a phlebotomy class

*Matt starting school

*My bonus at the end of the year

*Homemade Pizza tomorrow and lunch with my mom

*GETTING OUT OF DEBT! (are you noticing a theme?)

8 Favorite restaurants:

*Arroyo's

*Cafe Sylvestre

*La Mela

*Ralph's Italian Ice (that counts right?)

*Sette Bello

*The Blue Plate Diner

*Betos/Albertos

*Matt's cooking... =)

8 People I tag... take your pick!

I'm so bad at this...

I'm such a bad blogger! I started this so people could know what was going on, and I almost never update it, and if I do, its usually silly stuff that no one else cares about... =) One of the things we did was celebrate our 1 year anniversary with a much needed getaway to Vegas! So much fun! Unfortunately, I got sick when we got there, and continued to be sick the whole time... we kept having to go back to the hotel room for breaks, then we'd head back out. I didn't get as many cool pictures as I wanted, or get to go into many of the other hotels, but we did have a blast! Here's just a few of our pics.

My work is putting out a new bid, so my schedule will be changing again here in the next month or so... Its ok though because I actually like the change, it keeps work enjoyable. I'm hoping to get 2 10 hour days so I can find another part time job. Matt is hopefully going to start school this semester, if not, next semester for sure, but I'm still holding out for this semester!!! I'd like to take a phlebotomy (I think that's how you spell it) class so I can get started in the field I want, then start school for nursing. Hayley, my sister got me started on this class thing, because she was thinking about doing it. They make pretty decent money, and apparently are always in demand because people use it as a bridge (like I'm hoping to do) into the medical field, so the turnover is high. We've started a budget with the help of my good friend Jenn, and are doing well with that. It's hard because we haven't been too smart about budgeting before, but its good, and I'm really proud of us. Things are looking up, and becoming less stressful, YAY! I can't complain! I married the best!

Little Darlings!

Check out my friends page! "L.darlings.blogspot.com". They have the absolute cutest dresses, skirts, bows, headbands, blankets and burp cloths ever! And tell your friends, and have them tell their friends!

I'm so excited!

Matt and I have our 1 year anniversary coming up next week! I can't believe how fast the time has flown, it's been amazing so far. So, for our anniversary, Matt and I are heading down to Las Vegas! Neither of us has ever been before, and we're both super excited! We're staying at the Stratosphere, and we'll be there for 3 nights and roughly 4 days. We know we need to see the water show at The Bellagio, and the volcano at the Mirage, but if anyone else can think of any more free or inexpensive things to do while we're down there, we're open to hear them! Please let us know! Thanks!!!

I'm such a slacker.

I must apologize to my friends, I have not logged into blogger in soo long. And I haven't been letting any of you know what's been going on in our lives. Matt and I have been working hard, and we had our good friend Jenn help us set up a budget so that we can get it together. We are planning to leave for Vegas next Thursday or early Friday for our anniversary! I can't believe its almost been one year! It's gone by so fast! I love being married to my best friend! And I'm sad for all the ladies at work that are constantly complaining about their husbands, or vice versa. We are so happy, and I know that we always will be, I'm not saying it will be easy, but I think some people forget that marriage is still work, and the minute something doesn't go their way, that's it, they give up and start thinking negatively. I hope I never forget how I have felt this first year, and that when things may get bad, I still love him more.

It's ummm....

I should be sleeping now, but I just can't. Have you ever done something, not that you necessarily regret (because it needed to be done one way or another) but that you wish you'd handled differently. I don't have many moments in my life that I feel that way about, but I do have 1 or 2. I'm the type of person that will lie awake over these types of things too, oh and missed birthdays! And there isn't much I can do to fix them, there's nothing I can do actually. I guess it just feels good to write it down, so I don't forget and make the same mistake again. Otherwise I'd probably never be able to sleep.