Happy Birthday

(This picture was taken the night before we got married.)

Happy Birthday to my brown eyed boy!! I love you more today than yesterday. Thanks for 7 great years together and here is to forever. You truly are my best friend. And if I knew how to upload music on our blog, I would put the Bob Dylan fast version of "May You Stay Forever Young." Thanks for being such an awesome father and a great husband. I love you more than life itself. To quote Tom Cruise, "You complete me." Baaa haa, Love you lots!!

Little Ruffer

For those of you that have the pleasure of knowing my Grandpa and Grandma Fowler, I just love them. They are from Alabama and they are hilarious. I think they have dated since grade school or something ridiculous like that, and they are still so in love. I went up to Garden Valley a couple of days ago with the kids for a little break. Katelyn relayed a story to Stephen and you'll get the punch line later, it's pretty darn funny.

Katelyn: "Um Daddy when I was in Garden Valley, my Grandpa called me a little ruffer. And then my Grandma said, Ben don't call her that, she's a sweet little girl. And then my Grandpa said, I know, she's a sweet little ruffer."

I laughed and laughed when I heard this. My grandpa calls people little heifers. He always says, "In our family that's a term of endearment." Sorry I just thought that was too funny.

On another note, Preston said Grandpa while we were there. It was so stinking cute. I keep thinking he is still a baby because to me he is, and I am not planning on having another one for a while. Anywho, he throws his food all the time and I just pick it up. Well yesterday he threw it and Stephen disciplined him by firmly telling him no, and patting his hands. Preston pulled out the biggest cutest frowny face I have ever seen in my entire life. It made me want to laugh and cry. He handed Stephen his hot dogs. This proves that he can actually understand us and needs to be told no more, by me. Oh my baby is growing up.

Let's talk about S...

SODA! You naughty. It is seriously getting to be so expensive. I tried to find coupons online and couldn't, can't find them on the box anymore, so I decided to write Diet Coke a little love note. Here is my actual email to them, I will let you know if it produces any results.

Dear Diet Coke,

I love you so very much. Especially with Lime. You are my favorite. I am just not sure if I can afford to drink you anymore. Everywhere I go, it's almost $5 for a 12 pack. I have kept my eye out for coupons on your cute little box but I haven't been seeing them. Any suggestions on where to find coupons so that you and I can continue our little love affair?

Sincerely yours,
Kendra Nicolaysen

My Birthday

So for those who know me pretty well, I love my birthday. I celebrate it as long as I can. I think of what I am going to get the day after my birthday for the next year. This year is a big one because I am going to be 25!! That sounds so old, although I feel like I am 40. My dream birthday party would have ponies, cotton candy machine, a jump house, and a bbq. Pretty much like a fair but for my birthday with all my friends and family. It's really not realistic or mature for me to have a birthday like that in my old age, someday I might just go for it, it will probably end of being one of my kid's birthdays. Anywho, this year I've got it all planned out. And these are all going to happen on different days to drag it out as long as I possibly can. :)

I am going to go ice skating with my favorite cousin Krista. We are going to hold hands and dance and pretend that we are retarded for majority of the time.

I am going to go to Wahzoo with Stephen and spend the day playing lazer tag, miniature golf, and racing go carts.

I want to go to the YMCA with my mom and brother Jordan, and my brother Jake and his cute wife and kids. I haven't cleared that one yet though. Or any of the following.

I want to go to lunch with my Dad and Step-mom Rochelle.

I think it would be super fun to go bowling with the Nicolaysen Clan.

I would love to get my girlfriends together and go to lunch or dinner.

Basically I just want to spend time with the people that I love and I find it easy to get them to hang out with me by pulling the birthday card. And I freaking love my birthday.

And if I have enough money, I would LOVE to go on a HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE!!! They are about $250 bucks though. Just don't know if it's worth it or not.

So my birthday is on April 14th, we've got a long way to go. Stephen's birthday is March 16th. We may get to sneak away to a hotel for the night. I try to do big stuff for his birthday but he's not really into all that stuff.

Anywho, these are just my random thoughts and an excuse to blog. Thanks for listening!

Funny to me stories

Okay so you'll have to excuse me. I am weaning myself from Tylenol PM. So instead of just crashing when Preston just woke me up, I laid in bed chuckling to myself about how semi-funny I am. So here's two stories that I think are pretty funny. Keep in mind it's 6 am, thanks.

Okay so some of you 8th warders might remember this one. About 2.5 years ago I went to an Enrichment activity at some one's house. It was outdoors and they had a trampoline. So already my mind was thinking of how I could be super cool and do a back flip in front of all these ladies, because then of course they would think I was super cool. So we played this guessing game and I said that I could do a back flip, they guessed it was me who said it but didn't ask me to do it. What? My plan failed miserably. Well before we all left some sweet sister mentioned that I never did my back flip. So I ran over there as fast at my legs could carry me. I didn't get enough air and ended up doing a back flip, then a backward summer salt, then hit my back on the bar and fell on the ground. Boy was I cool! I sucked in my tears all the way until my car and didn't try it again...until YESTERDAY! Let me rewind a bit now to when I was younger. We always wanted my mom to jump on the tramp with us and every time she would, she would pee her pants a bit and go into the house. Disgusting right? Well considering I am an old lady now, I did it too! And it wasn't disgusting, it was hilarious! I am supposed to be in my prime, and here I am once again thinking I am super cool doing a back flip, and I pee my pants! But to quote Billy Madison, "You ain't cool, unless you pee your pants." That makes me feel much better, thanks Billy!!

Story Number 2: This one isn't that funny but again, it's 6 am, so to me it is. I have been taking out the trash our whole marriage. Does it bother me? Not at all. I am actually a little freak about it. About every 2 days I go around and empty all the little trashes even if there is hardly anything in them. I have read books where women think that if their husband doesn't empty the trash they take it to mean he doesn't love them. Well that's just crazy. I don't empty it because I love Stephen (although I do, very much) I do it because it is full and it needs it. It's a common sense thing for me. So anywho, we missed trash day last week and have had even extra this week. I was seriously stressing about fitting it all into the trash can so we could clear it out. The garbage was full and I had bags on top of it too. Well Stephen went out there yesterday and came back in two minutes, I was expecting bad news, but he fit it all. Here is the funny part. He said that he thinks the wrong person has been doing the trash. I know that was supposed to be a dis, but I took it as a compliment. As President of this operation, I took it upon myself to fire the crappy worker, and hire the good one! Thanks honey for volunteering! You rock!

Little Miss Sassy Frass

After chasing Katelyn with a camera and getting terrible pictures, see below. She finally decided she did want to look cute on the blog. Haa.

I have been dying to get Katelyn's hair cut in an a line. So I cleverly convinced her that she wanted to get her hair cut like mine. She was pissed while getting it cut. In the car she said, "I telled you that I wanted YOU to cut my hair like yours! UGH." She wants me to cut it like her's now. Baa haa. If she ever kept a bow or rubber band in, then that could be a possibility. She has been such a stinker bug lately. She is constantly defying authority and pushing the limits. Sometimes I want to spank her or pull my hair. I have been pulling her close and hugging her and that seems to work the best. Who would have thought? :) I love my little sassy frass so much even when she is a stinky bug.

New Desk and V-Day

For Valentine's Day Stephen and I went out Saturday night. We weren't able to get into Texas Roadhouse so we grabbed a quick bite at Q'doba's or something like that. And then we went and saw Avatar in 3d. The first 5 minutes I was pissed that we paid the extra 6 bucks for blurry glasses, and then my eyes adjusted and I really liked it. Such a weird movie, but actually pretty good. I didn't want to see it because I hate doing things that everyone else does. It's really the only way I can rebel in my life now. :) Stephen took Katelyn with him to pick out flowers for me and she picked these out for herself. Ha. I got teary eyed when I saw that he got her flowers too. She is so very lucky to have a Dad that loves her so very much!
Check out these gorgeous flowers! I took a picture because they don't last long and I want to remember how beautiful they are!

Okay this is our awesome new desk. It's so freaking cute and we are finally "in style". We bought it from Office Depot or Max, I get confused for $119! What up?! It's cheap, but so are we, and it fits perfectly in our overstuffed living room.

This is our old desk that I bought before we got married for our little home. I got it from a garage sale for $50. It's served us well, but I will not miss it.