happy...happy

i turned 21 about a week ago...weird. i had a friend ask me on my birthday if i felt wiser and more mature. i wasn't kidding when i answered him, "less, actually." i don't know if my soul will ever grow up. i still sleep with my blankie, i don't like being in the dark, i enjoy dino shaped chicken nuggets and snackpacks, and cartoons are still my favorite form of entertainment. matter can attest to all of this because, also like a child, i don't like being alone and my best friend slash husband is present to witness each of these youthful habits i haven't out-grown. actually, i dont mind being called simple-minded or child like...let's be honest....some of my very favorite people in the whole wide world are little guys (like my adorable nieces and nephews.)


but to get to the point, i had a lovely birthday. i had beautiful birthday songs from mel and the petersons in pleasant view, perfect picture cards from beth and sammer with my fav treats, a very sweet card with a special treat from aleene, dinner with my {gramzie & em & mom} plus sweet gifts from em and gramzie, bowling with daddi and michelle, a vcr, bella, and kittens from auty, a beautiful necklace from my sweet little nephews in CO, and pockets of goodies from matter.




auty and ash

birthday bowling




matthew never ceases to amaze me with his willingness to make me happy {aww} a few nights ago he whine-less-ly sat through 2 hours of mary-kay-ness...including a facial! although, my friends, i must say, he was super interested for the first hour when they were talking all about becoming a mary kay consultant...the business-ie stuff. my husband loves numbers...and stuff that has do to with them.


merv has added a few funny tiny quirks to his lists of things that make me smile. one: he is slightly terrified of the heater. he looks at our vents like there are little creeps in there everytime the heater kicks on and he won't walk in front of them...only around them. i think he will learn to love them as the snow falls. two: we are retraining him with the squirt bottle...and he is demonstrating forceful resistance! merv will take squirt after squirt to get just a lick of something that is not kittie food. three: he has been climbing on top of the tv and trying to take a wack on the green balls hanging from my ceiling. my fav pictures on this:

shadow kittie

balance....balance!

our little alien

so last weekend our family from CO were here and it made my weekend amazing. we had so much fun spending time with family at dinner, lagoon, and sweet little jake's baptism. jake asked his uncle matthew to give the holy ghost talk and me to lead music. it made me smile {even though i struggled with waving my hand the right way haha} uncle matte did fabulous on his talk. we are so proud of little jake.

good job jake!

last night, matter laid on a fork for a few hours while watching seinfeld. when we got up to go to bed, he just walked off and i was left staring at the fork curiously.

ash: there is a fork on the couch....you were laying on a fork.
matt: i thought i felt something poking me!

i guess you could say he is thick-skinned.


in more recent news, i sorta got a new job at my same job and so far it's going well, matter remodels bathrooms {who knew} and mervie is a freak about doggies. auty brought her sweet little doggie izzie over last night and merv was a spaz. izzie is super mellow with kitties and was being so nice, but merv was being rather hostile! merv would stalk izzie, and when he got really close he would start hissing...the little creepie!