"The smile on your face"

1 year ago today I became the happiest girl ever

I had no idea 1 year ago that I would be as happy as I am today.  I absolutely love my life.  I have an amazing husband and all because one year ago he asked me to marry him.  Best decision ever.  I feel really grateful today and I love it.  I LOVE BEING HAPPY!  I know most everyone that reads this blog has been married a lot longer than I have, but I love it! I often feel the need to say that I am married out loud, (not because I forget, just because if often seems too good)... which usually makes Josh laugh at me, but I love it.  Any

ways, I know this is nothing important to anyone (not that what I say is ever important to others... but that's okay with me) but I like posting when I am happy and feeling grateful, hence the reason for my post today!

SMILE!!!

All Time Favorite!!

or maybe I should say all time favorite for the week.... but same thing.....

ICE CREAM SANDWICHES

I am in love all over again.  I'm doing all I can to not go get one out of the freezer right now.

just a reminder: WEAR SUNSCREEN 

I can't believe it is May!

I should be reading Huck Finn... but I am really good at procrastinating it. Plus, it is hard book to get through in one week... It takes me a long time to read the language...

I have started Spring term so now I teach one aerobics class, then I have two classes... Chronic disease prevention and American novel. I am already bored with my first class, and my novel class is crazy. We have six novels, one for each week. And my teacher was telling us that Carmen and Marlowe rhyme... WHAT? If someone can explain this to me that'd be great... I am not an english expert...

Other than school and reading I just have fun at home and wait for Josh to get home. So I like doing crafts. My sisters got me a magnetic board for my birthday and I just finished decorating it. I like it, but I feel like it needs something else, but don't know what to do. Also, I cut my hair. It was falling out like crazy and we thought it would be best to cut it... I like it so far, but I am no good at styling it. I tried it curly today and I don't think I will be doing that for awhile. 

Busy weekend

This weekend was crazy! My parents drove up and arrived Thursday morning. We went to Josh's graduation and lots of shopping and driving. Friday was the graduation and my birthday. After the convocation Josh's parents arrived in Utah and we all went out to eat at PF Changs. It was delicious. On Saturday Josh and I drove up to Bountiful for Grandma Katie's funeral. After the luncheon Josh had to go to work, so he dropped me off in Draper to hang out with my parents before they left town. We palyed games and had fun. Sunday after church we drove up to Ogden to spend time with Josh's parents and some siblings, and we are going again tonight. I feel like we haven't been home very much... and maybe that explains why the grass is so long...

shaking hands with Elder D. Todd Christofferson

Don't Worry, BE HAPPY

Winter Semester is over--completely done--no more!  It is awesome.  It was a really hard semester in a lot of ways, and I can't wait to move on.  I had great classes and did well in them all, but I am glad to be done.  I took the ACSM health fitness specialist certification exam today and PASSED!  I am finally certified! I was sure I was going to fail once I started the test and they were asking questions about marketing strategies, but I guessed well and passed! 

So, this week I have to the realization that gardening will never be a hobby of mine.  I feel like it is just weeding, and that is not fun.  After 4-5 hours of it, and still more to come, I have decided to not ever have a garden of my own.  I came away with rashes on my arm and sunburns... I do have a lot of pretty tulips... but not worth it, I'd rather just take a walk and look at other people's flowers.  If you love gardening and want to tell me why go ahead, but I may not believe you...

 

mini golfing

It was my cousin Sully's birthday on Sunday. He is 5. We had a family party on Saturday for him, and then on Monday Josh and I took him mini golfing for his present. He LOVES mini golfing. Mini golfing is the theme of his bedroom, his party, his cake, most of his presents, and pretty much everything we did had something to do with mini golf. So, since Josh couldn't come to his party because he had to work, I thought it would be fun to take him golfing, especially because I know Sully really likes Josh. It was nice because we took our time through the course... we had a family of eight in front of us... so we had a lot of fun... i had a lot of fun laughing anyways. My favorite quote of the day was when Sully turned to me after one of the holes and said, "I won't cheat on the next hole." Let's just say that didn't happen. Also, everytime Josh called me Lani, Sully corrected him and told him my name is Alana, it was funny...

I asked him to give me his best action shot... this is what I got...

march project...

I decided to recover the gliding chair my parents gave us.  Before it was an old light blue cover that had gotten quite dirty.  I wanted to recover it, but didn't know how to do so, but just decided to give it a try anyways.  I found some cheap fabric at a closeout sale and even though it looks like a table cloth... it isn't.  

Anyways, now that I am done with the cushions I want to restain it.  I was waiting for spring and warm weather, and now that it looks like it is finally I want to get started on staining it.  

Any advice on how to restain something??