meet matilda

one day we were bored.

i said lets get a fish.

mike said how bout a turtle.

turns out sea turtles stink. bad. and are a lot of maintenance.

so we decided on a tortiose.

after that, mike was online every free second he had looking up tortoises.

so we went to taylorsville and got one.

MEET MATILDA aka "tilly"

she is a yellow-footed tortiose.

she will probably get at least twice this size.

and live for 40 years.

mike is trying to feed her but she got shy and tried to go in her shell

tilly "soaking"

our...family....ALBUM!

a day in our life....

yesterday mike was in the shower and i needed to get ready. the fan in our bathroom is pretty crappy so by the time you get out of the shower everything is always all steamy. so i just opened the door a crack so that it could air it out a little and the mirror wouldnt be steamy when i went to get ready.

i should have known better.

our fire alarm goes off it the steam from the shower gets to it. it has happened a few times, but last time mike just untwisted the whole thing from the ceiling. i knew that if i opened the door it would usually go off. but i thought that since it was just hanging from the ceiling that it wasnt working. wrong! i was in the bedroom and it started going off. and when one does, they all do. i walked into the hall to see if it was that one that was going off and sure enough, it was. the one i thought wasnt working. great....... so i just stood there like an idiot with my hands over my ears cuz it is so dang loud. i was thinking "i dont even know how to turn this off if i wanted to". so i went in the bathroom and shut the door which muffled the sound quite well. mike was still in there and he said "go shut it off". i said, "umm i dont know what to do." he told me to just untwist it from the ceiling. i reminded him it already was, and thats why i had opened the door in the first place. so after a sec he came out and tried pushing buttons and covering it with a blanket. nada. he told me to go get the stool so i ran downstairs, and that alarm was going off too. it was so loud everywhere. the neighbors were probably ready to beat us. anyways, i grabbed the stool and ran back upstairs. and just as i put it on the ground and set it up, they all stopped. of course. i told mike it was a good thing he was home becuase i probably would have just stood there with my hands over my ears hoping it would turn off by itself. he told me just to take a blanket or something and try to fan the steam away from the smoke detector. that was what he had just done. or if that doesnt work he said grab the stool and take out the batteries.

my thought was "or just keep the door shut"..... probably the simplist solution :)

after that we met up with the girls from my family for lunch. mike had to work at 1 so he was leaving the restaurant, and i told him i would just stay for awhile and go back to my grandmas with them. then my mom or someone could take me home so i could be to work by 3. so he left, and later megan was driving me home. when we got almost to the house i thought oh crap i dont have keys. mike isn't the best at locking the door when he leaves. pretty much he never does. so i got after him about it the other day and told him he needs to start locking it ALWAYS! the good news is that he is a good listener. it was locked. so i had to call work and tell them i would be late. then megan had to drive me to maceys to get mikes key, back home to change, and then i had to turn right around and go back to maceys. super fun. after that it turned out to be a nice day.........

BIRTHDAY BOY!

Mikes birthday was on the 10th. which i just realized also means we have been married for 9 months.... HOLY COW!! anyways it was a nice relaxing day because its spring break so we didnt have school, and we both asked for work off. we got up and mike opened his presents, and then we pretty much bummed around all morning. then we went to lunch and went to get a few things for that night. we had both of our families over for cake and ice cream and, as usual, i forgot to take pictures. i swear unless the camera is actually in my hand i never remember. anywho, it was a pretty fun day and mike got some cool stuff. thanks everyone!

mike shaking his present to see if he can guess what it is.

he is actually a really good guesser!!!

we went to dollar tree to get some birthday plates

and napkins and he really wanted the hat. then i

was totally joking and asked if he wanted the button too.

of course he did.

Mikes cake

On a side note, we finally finished the puzzle mike got me for christmas. we started it in our old apartment and got pretty far, but then we just broke it all apart for the move. we dont have a lot of free time, but we liked to work on it here and there. now its time for a new one i guess :)

catch up

since we moved in we havent had internet so i havent been able to update this thing. so now im just playing catch up from the last little while. mike always says "i got you a new camera for christmas, and there are no cool pictures on our blog".... so here you go. i hope you like pictures :)

me, mike, taylor, and megan

sledding at my parents house

we invited mikes friend zach and his fiance heather

over to make pizza and watch a movie. the boys

wanted a deep dish pizza, and were very

proud that they made this.

this is the cake i made for the superbowl party at

the Boam's. mike served part of his mission in

Green Bay, so of course we are Packers fans

oh yes. the move. this is our entire life packed and ready to go.

it doesn't look like much, and in our new apartment it doesnt feel like much either.

but when you have hardly any storage (aka our old place) it feels

like you own way too much!

our tiny kitchen in the old apartment

living room

bedroom

bathroom (couldnt figure out how to flip the picture... sorry)

POLAR PLUNGE

Me and Mike heard about this on the radio, and i said who

in their right mind would pay to go jump in a frozen lake?! weirdos!

Well.....Megan talked me into doing it with her...

not as bad as i expected. she said it was a lot warmer

than it had been in past years. still cold, but i got a t shirt.

worth it? i would say yes to say you have done it, but not

something i'm dying to do again

me and megan getting out of the water FAST!

Audrina, me, megan, and trevor (aka santa)

random picture of me and mike when we went bowling