Las Vegas!

A couple of weekends ago Mike and I took a mini vacation down to Las Vegas. My parents were flying out for my cousins wedding, so we drove down to see them and the wedding. It was a lot of fun, although waaaaay too short of a trip for both of us. We left at about noon on Saturday and left Sunday evening so that we wouldn't miss any school. My parents made the trip a lot easier on us financially because for my birthday present they booked our room for us. We stayed at the Hilton, which we were both really impressed with. This was our room, at least most of it. We had a huge walk in closet and a big bathroom too. Mike's favorite part was showering without one arm against the wall and the other against the shower curtain. This was the outside, and the view was amazing from our room on the 18th floor.

We're terrible at taking pictures together, but this is one that we did get!

These are my wonderful parents, who I can't wait to see again in August:

You might think that this picture didn't turn out very well because it's dark, but thats exactly the point! I have a certain luck with Vegas, which I'm sure Mike will blog about at some point because he finds it hilarious. Anyways, Saturday night all of Las Vegas was participating in a Wildlife conservation thing and everyone turned off all non-essential lights from 8:30-9:30. We were very impressed with how many people did it.

We went to MGM to see the lions, which were alseep pretty much the whole time...

And, of course, we went to the M&M museum!!! It was pretty awesome!

My cousin got married in a little garden at Cesaers Palace, it was very nice. *In a completely unrelated side note, I just had a heart attack. I was innocently typing, and all of a sudden, all my internet windows closed, so I thought that I'd have to redo this whole post. Thank goodness for autosaves!*

On our way out, we stopped an In-N-Out to experience the wonderful things we had heard about. It was pretty good, but not great. I think that Five Guys is better, so I'm going to take Mike there sometime so he can compare. The trip was a blast, and I'm so glad we went. A little longer would have been nicer, but any break is a good break!

YAY!

So as it turns out, I'm terrible at blogging. Half the time I don't have anything to blog about, and the other half I have things to blog about, but no time to get to it. Having said that, I do have things from the past two weeks to blog about, and hopefully I will get to it either later today or sometime this weekend. This post is simply to say that it's official: I will be graduation in August and Mike will be graduating in December but will be walking with me in August. YAY!!! We're really excited to be done with school and moving into the real world. It also gives him more time to find a job and such. It will also make this summer a lot more relaxing with not having to find a place to live and moving within a week after graduation! so, again, YAY!!!!

My birthday and other things....

Sooo, my birthday was a week ago, and it was pretty sweet. I got some awesome stuff and got to go to Tucanos for the first time (although I think it was more of a present for Mike than for me). I got cards from both sets of parents, and Mom Bevans, this is what your present was used for:

Thanks so much! This is my new toy, and hopefully I'll use it really often once Mike oils it up for me. I got it off craigslist and it squeaks a lot, but should be easily fixed. This is the other stuff that I got:
Mike and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond in the morning and got the cooking stuff with a coupon I had. Our friends Tanya, Brent, Melia and Devon got me the Sims game which I got addicted to a couple of weeks ago, and the card and M&M's are from our neighbors, April, Eli and Andrew. We also stopped at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory after Tucanos and I got chocolate covered oreos! Yum!

Two of my old roommates Jenn and Jill came to Tucanos, as well as one of Mike's old roommates, Brett.

This is Brent and Tanya, Mike's boss :) They're pretty awesome and helped us know what to try there. Although, they also made us try the chicken hearts, which were in fact pretty gross. But now we know what not to get from there! Mike absolutely loved the place, and I thought it was pretty great too! They have the best pineapple ever! So, all in all it was a great birthday!! Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

And for amusement, this is Mike drinking water upside down to get rid of hiccups. He hadn't heard of that remedy before, but it worked! I had never thought of doing it this way and thought it was pretty funny!

Utah weather is the worst thing ever

So, this week has been beautiful, sunny and warm with a nice breeze. Even the evenings have been perfect for walks. It seemed like Spring was here, and everyone was happy. And then it snowed. Twice. Yesterday morning and this morning. It's really depressing to have wonderful weather and wake up to snow, even if it does all melt away during the day. Hopefully Spring will come for real sometime soon.

On other news, I got the happy news that my best friend Sara is going to be very close to me the week after our birthday, so I'm very excited! She lives way up in Idaho but will be down in Rexburg for her Spring Break (don't get me started on BYU's lack of one) and so we'll hopefully get to see her! I haven't seen her in two years, and Mike hasn't even met her, so it's really very exciting.

Mike and I are also going to Las Vegas the last weekend in March to see my parents and some of my extended family. One of my cousins is getting married, and he lived with my family and I for a little while, so my parents (luckily) are flying all the way out to Vegas for his wedding! We'll drive down on Saturday and drive back up Sunday night so we'll have about a day and a half with my parents, and they're booking our room for my birthday present! Yay!

On the same note, almost all of Mike's family is coming down to Utah for a week or so to spend time in Southern Utah. That'll be a lot of fun to see them and be close enough to home that we won't have to miss a lot of classes. They might even get to see our apartment! That's really exciting because Jeremy is the only member of either of our families to see our apartment. Although, Mark, Shauna and Jackson will be here for Easter, so they'll get to see it, too. We know it's Wymount, but we like it and want to show it off!

I think that's all the exciting news for now, sorry for the lack of pictures!

This week...

On Saturday I worked from 2-6:30, but to my surprise, Mike and our brother-in-law Jeremy showed up at around 5:30 with heart shaped pizzas! Here's a picture of a heart shaped pizza I found online (because I'm terrible at taking pictures):

Ours looked very similar, except it wasn't Papa Johns. Then we played games all night. First we played Settlers of Catan, which Jeremy won. We love that game and were glad that he wanted to play with us! Then we played Whoonu, a game that my best friend Sara gave me for my birthday a couple years ago. We had a lot of fun with this one and got to know each other a lot better because of it! We played it several times, changing the categories to make it more interesting. I think I won most of the rounds, but what can I say? I got good cards!

Monday Mike was home all day and I was at work all day! I had to switch days with another girl because BYU decided to make Tuesday a Monday, which is all fine and dandy for people like Mike who work on campus, but makes it difficult for people who have other jobs. That night we went to Outback to use our gift card, and it was delicious! We stopped at the Verizon store on our way home to get a converter for me, but we ended up getting Mike a new phone. He was up for one and he fell in love with the new chocolate, so he got it, and is loving it now.

Almost a month ago, Mike ordered a few edited movies from a place that was going out of business. He finally got them on Tuesday, so Wednesday night we had a couple over to watch Kingdom of Heaven, and Mike and I watched Rambo (whatever the newest one is) last night. He's ecstatic, me- not so much... but at least it makes him happy!

Besides that, it's just work and school for both of us! We're also looking forward (and hoping) to seeing our families relatively soon in March and April/Mayish!

Valentine's Day

Mike and I celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday night because I worked Saturday night. When he came home from work he came home to this (minus the flowers, he brought those for me :))

I had a lot of fun making the decorations and surprising him with them. I made his favorite macaroons, and my mom sent us some yummy cookies from this place she discovered my freshman year. I love that place :)! Mom Bevans sent us Little Mermaid!!!! That was a very happy surprise, because we were (well, I was) really sad when we found out it was going back in the vault and we missed getting it.

After he came home, we were going to go to dinner but neither of us were hungry, so we went to a playground instead. It was really nice. We talked a lot and played on the slide and swings. I love swings, which is why he took me there.

After that we went to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Mike has been wanting to see that movie for a long time, but we never go to the real theatre. It was our Valentine's day splurge. Plus we got popcorn and candy and a drink! Things we really never do! It was a great night though, a perfect Valentine's Day!

Ridiculousness

So, Mike has to work one Sunday a month, and this past Sunday was the one for this month. I went with him, being the nice wife that I am, and helped him out. On Sundays there is only one person on patrol at a time, and so they have to take pictures to prove that the tickets are valid. So, Mike was writing the tickets and I would take the pictures for him. It really is ridiculous how people think they can do whatever they want and not suffer any consequences. They park in motorcycle spaces, handicap spaces, buffer zones, service vehicle spaces (that clearly say that they are ALWAYS for service vehicles), and they make up their own spaces. And then get mad when they get a ticket. I mean, these are things that are obvioulsy wrong all the time, even on Sunday when you're going to church.

Mike has to put up with so many rude and angry people that are just crazy! One guy totally made up a space in one lot, and Mike wrote him a ticket. This car was blocking half a road, and the guy comes out while Mike is walking away and gets an attitude and everything. And he had been parked there for hours, because we had been there and left and come back before he came out. Another car actually took someone else's ticket off and put it on their own car to try not to get a ticket. Luckily it was in a tiny lot, so Mike saw the ticket when we were driving by and didn't remember giving it. Since he was the only one writing tickets, it was obvious that something wasn't quite right. We went in and Mike looked at the ticket and couldn't figure out at first why the descriptiion of the car was so off, then looked over to a car he had ticketed earlier and saw their ticket was gone! We were both shocked at how self-centered and mean that was. The first car could have gotten two tickets and not even known about the first one! It is amazing what some people will come up with to get out of something though.

I'll admit, I think it's fun going to work with him. I am always amazed to see what people will do, and honestly I think they do deserve to get punished. Anyone who parks in a disability stall and is not supposed to should get their car towed, not just get a ticket. What if someone with a disability comes and then doesn't have anywhere to park? It's just not fair. Anyways.... The awkward thing, though, is when someone comes out while we're writing the ticket. Especially for me since I don't even really work there. It also surprises me that even though there are only two people giving tickets out at all on Sunday, and only from 6am-2pm, they get tons and tons of tickets. And really expensive ones, too, since they only ticket the really bad things. Really, isn't it rather hypocritical to park illegally to go to church? Well, that's my rant on Mike's job! :)

P.S. Sorry if anyone does the things I ranted about.... :)