Love

I completely understand if you forgo reading this post and just stare at my smiley baby. He's quite the cutie.

For Christmas, I gave Matt Jazz tickets. It just so happened that the game was the weekend right before Valentines Day, so we decided to call it our Valentines date.


This picture makes me laugh because it was actually the best of three different pictures I tried to take. I kept putting my finger in front of the camera! It got frustrating, so I decided that this was the best that I could do.

When we go out, we always try to go somewhere that we can't take our kids to. That means that they can't have chicken nuggets, chicken tenders, chicken fingers, chicken bites, or anything related anywhere on the menu! This means we usually end up eating Thai food or Sushi. We ate Thai the last time we went out, so sushi it was!

We went to a place we had never been before. I HATE HATE HATE to do that. I have a certain item I get at every restaurant we go to. Mexican: Cheese Enchilada. Italian: Plain Ole' Spaghetti. Thai: Pad Thai & Panang Curry.... The list goes on! The point is, I don't like change. I don't like trying new things. Which is hard on my husband because he LOVES to do that.


Technically, it was Matt's night out because it was his Christmas present, so I consented to trying some place new. After a quick internet search, we decided to try Takashi. It was amazing! It was the best sushi we've ever had. When we walked in my first thought was, "Great. This looks like a place that won't give you a fork...." It was. Great sushi. No forks. I toughed it out and used the chopsticks. It was way worth it.

The game was fun. It's the first game we've attended where they've lost. It was sad, but I got to have ice cream, so I left happy. ;)

Matt and I have a pretty easy going marriage. Not because of anything I do, but because of everything Matt does. He's probably the most patient person I know. He has to be. Putting up with me and the kids would drive any moderately patient person CrAzY. But, not Matt.

I don't feel like I blog about Matt and I very much. Our kids are our life right now and we like it that way. However, we have our quirks.

For example, some of our favorite channels on TV are: The Food Network, National Geographic, Planet Green, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel... The list goes on. We both have a "inner nerd". In fact, we got so obsessed with a show about Egypt and mummies that if we ever see a show that's even remotely related to that subject on, we have to watch it. Pawn Stars and American Pickers are also two of our favorites.

We love games. Very rarely is there a time when we're not playing an on-going game of WordFeud on our phones. We start a game on our phones and sometimes it can take over a week for us to finish it, but we love it. We also love to play cards, but we hardly ever play just the two of us. It would get way too competitive and we'd probably end up in a huge argument. Playing with other people tends to keep us in check.

We both love to read. We couldn't live without our Kindles. More often then not, we read the same kind of books. However, I refuse to read the Wheel of Time series until Matt reads the Twilight series and vice versa. One day maybe one of us will cave, but I doubt it. Our inner nerd comes out in the books we read too. There's not many people in the world who will listen to you talk about a book written about the Watergate Scandal over the course of two weeks.

Matt has an uncanny talent of getting me to laugh about stressful days with the kids. For example, last week in church, Sloane fell off of a chair during Sacrament meeting and cut her lip open. She bled all over the sleeve of her dress. Normally I would've taken her home to clean her up, but it was the first Sunday that we were supposed to teach Sunbeams. There was no time, so I just rolled up her sleeves to cover the blood and took her into nursery. Her lip swelled up huge during the two hours she was in nursery. When we got home, we discussed what happened. Instead of blaming me, because I was the one who let her stand on the chair, Matt laughed. Which got me to laugh about it and made the situation a lot more bearable. Sloane lived and we moved on. With three little kids ruling our lives, these sort of experiences come up often and it's always nice to know that Matt's there to make me feel better. Our kids aren't going to be little for very long and I don't want to look back at this time in our lives and think, "That was so hard and overwhelming". I want to look back and think, "It was a crazy time, but we definitely learned to enjoy the chaos". Matt helps me do that.

We don't adhere to very many parenting philosophies. We don't really read books about parenting or anything like that. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We've just always felt like we've been giving so many good examples of parenting around us that we can usually just ask for help or advice. One thing always rings true for us though. Matt is my teammate. We don't work against each other and we don't work separately. Both of us are always on the clock when it comes to our family. When Matt is at work, he's there supporting our family, while I'm at home holding down the fort. When he gets home, he immediately pitches in and lightens my load, but I try not to throw the entire task him alone. It works for us.

I love my husband. Sorry ladies, but I got the best one.

I'm wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day. Matt couldn't think of anything he wanted, so I bought us new bedding. Hehe.