Introducing Stormy :]

I feel like I have been so crazy busy lately but I have nothing really worth blogging about. I guess I could post that I start working at Salon Evolution tomorrow and would love to do everyone's hair... but I really feel like everyone is sick of hearing about that so I won't bring it up haha. One exciting thing is this..

We have a cute puppy at our house!!! Her name is Stormy and she was Anthany's family pet but they really didn't have the time to give her all the attention she needs so we have her now :] She is so much fun and pretty well behaved.. I'm really not a dog person, or even an animal person at all haha but she has been good. I love that when I let her out of the garage in the morning so she can go to the bathroom, she waits for me to go inside cause she is too much of a lady to pee in front of me. I love her stubby little legs and chubby body [chubby dogs are just the cutest!]. I love how she will follow Anthany everywhere he goes like a little shadow. I just love her already! The only bad thing is my poor cat is so scared of her that she has relocated to the roof of our house! I'm not sure how to get her to come down. It's tough to be a cat lady when my cat is living out of my reach :]

Also, my life has been pretty full lately of a computer game from my childhood named Roller Coaster Tycoon. I really don't know why I'm so entertained by it lately but I just can never get bored of it. It's a real problem. However, I am starting to consider that maybe my true calling in life is to own an amusement park :]

My last big news is I get to go to Colorado for my cousin's graduation at the end of May! I seriously can't even wait. It's going to be great to be there on her big day AND get to see my family and all my cousins AND run the BolderBoulder which is the funnest race ever. So exciting!

If you are wondering what Anthany is up to lately, he is just so busy with work. His nice tan that I'm so jealous of truly reflects his long hours of hard work in the sun everyday. On the weekends, we try to spend as much time together as possible and do fun things. This last weekend we went to Wal-Mart and bought FOUR new movies [buying new movies is our biggest weakness] and watched them all that night. Of course, we had to make a midnight run to Maverick for snacks and energy drinks. We also spent Sunday at my Aunt Audrey's house which was awesome cause she made us dinner. I'm in love with her sweet little girls. And I love that the baby is finally starting to learn to say my name! But that's really all we have been up to lately. Really just nothing too exciting.

-Lindsay :]

Weekend Getaway

One of my absolute favorite things in the world to do is to go to Anthany's families cabin. I love that it's my cabin now too :] I love that there is no cell reception there and no internet and no neighbors and no jobs. It is simply heaven. This last week Anthany took me, Kenley, and Bo Briggs up to the cabin for some quality bonding time. While we were there I definitely become more of a pool playing expert. I wish I had more talent at it like all the boys did; I pretty much just tried to hit the ball as hard as I could and hope that something good would come from it haha. It was really fun. We played the game of Things too which is honestly the funnest and most hilarious game in the world. I definitely recommend it to anyone and everyone. But the most common activity while we were there was trying to scare each other and Bo definitely won. Here are some pictures from our nature adventure hike :] 

It was alot more pretty than my crappy pictures give it credit :]

Kenley LOVES photography. You can almost always find him with a camera in his hands.

Nice greenish water :]

I love that these two last pictures were taken in pretty much the exact same place but the first one was from when we had JUST begun dating and one from now. It's so crazy thinking back to the beginning of our relationship and where we are now.. who would have thought! So overall it was an awesome trip. There will definitely be several more cabin trips this summer :] Now I'm gonna get mushy for two seconds cause I adore my husband :]

Top 5 things I love about this man :]

1. We have the same sense of humor so we are really good at making each other laugh

2. We are always having fun and doing new things. We love playing catch, going on trips, being outside, hanging with friends, going out. We aren't a boring married couple, at least not yet :] haha

3. He teases me for anything and everything from messing up cooking to the TV shows I watch to the way I say "crayon". It makes me work alot harder to not make mistakes cause I know he will ever forget about it.

4. He loves to surprise me. Sometimes it's coming home with a new movie to watch, sometimes its a delicious grilled cheese he makes me when I'm too busy to make something, sometimes its a new football that's easier for me to throw cause it fits in my small hands. Little surprises make life so much more fun and exciting.

5. He supports my dreams and ideas no matter what. Which sounds corny, but really is a difficult thing to find, especially since my ideas are not always realistic. I know without a doubt Anthany will stand by my side no matter what.

Alright mushy stuff over :] haha But people ask what I love and it's really too much to list, but that's a good start. I absolutely love my life and being married. :] Now time for family game night!

-Lindsay.

Big Announcement :]

On May 1st, I begin something in my life that I am SO incredibly excited about. I get to start doing hair again at a salon starting up in rexburg called Salon'Evolution and I honestly can not wait! It's going to be a blast being busy again doing something that I absolutely love. And I hope that I will be seeing tons of my friends and family more often cause I will be doing their hair! So anyone that needs their hair done I would love to do it! It's going to located by the round-about in Rexburg next to Subway. You can find it on facebook here. The phone number is 208-356-6555 if you wanna start calling and scheduling appointments! As it gets closer to opening, I will let you all know about specials and deals goin on for the opening :]
Anthany and I have been so busy playing with friends lately. Both of our best friends Brittanee Peterson and Kenley Briggs were on spring break last week so we spent tons of time with them. The boys bought clay pigeons for us to shoot and I'm proud to report that I did not shoot one of them :] haha But the funnest thing was this:

Honestly such a fun game! Brittanee and I played for hours haha. We have watched a ton of movies, ate out a couple times [including our traditional weekly Pizza Hut trip with Kenley haha] and played so much catch that most of our arms are still sore. I wish I had more pics from this last week, but you will just have to enjoy the few that I have. I hope you are all having a great week!

Everyone so focused haha

"best friend almost matching gaming outfits" haha

I am so lucky to have this girl!

-Lindsay

A Little More Personal

So I keep getting "tagged" and I feel bad that I keep ignoring everyone that's tagging me haha so I finally decided to quit being a fun wrecker and join in the game :] So here are the rules...

Rules

1. post the rules

2. post a photo and 11 random facts about yourself

3. answer questions from tagger

4. ask questions for those you wish to tag

5. tag


Here we go :] Starting with the 11 Random Facts!

1. I have several TV shows I love to watch including The Office, Desperate Housewives, Dancing with the Stars, America's Best Dance Crew, Saturday Night Live, America's Next Top Model, Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, and 16 and Pregnant to name a few. I don't know why I'm so easily entertained by TV haha

2. I'm an extremely light sleeper. Anything and everything wakes me up during the night and sometimes I wonder if I ever even sleep at all haha. 

3. I am a picky eater and I really just can't help it. I'm mostly picky about toppings like syrup, gravy, salad dressing, mayo, that kind of stuff.. I hope I get over it one day.

4. One of me and Anthany's favorite things to do is do our best Lil Wayne impersonations while we listen to his songs. We make up our own lyrics to his songs too and they are just as weird and nonsense as his lyrics. I laugh my head off every time.

5. I'm really afraid of masks. I have no idea why, but I scream and cry like a little girl whenever someone is wearing one. That's why I absolutely hate Halloween and will probably never accept trick-or-treaters at my house :] haha

6. I love eating at Denny's. It might even be my favorite restaurant now that TGI Fridays shut down.. I love eating breakfast especially super late at night. And Denny's is ALWAYS open :]

7. I get bored with my hair really easily. So I love changing it from brown to blonde over and over again. But I'm always too nervous to cut it haha

8. I love things I can play outside by myself like croquet and horseshoes. I've always been good at entertaining myself and I love practicing alone so when I play with people I look like I'm really good :] 

9. I have a terrible habit of playing with whatever jewelry I'm wearing, especially rings. So I always have to wear a ring on my right hand that gets constantly dropped and lost to keep myself from messing with my wedding ring.

10. Floating the drybed is probably my very favorite thing to do. 

11. My favorite holiday is the 4th of July. I absolutely love the fireworks, parades, barbecues, hot weather, early morning 5K, Menan celebration, all of it. I think it's SO much fun!

Here are my questions from Jessica :]

1. What is one of your favorite childhood memories? Probably going on fishing trips with my dad down the Salmon River. It was really fun having time for just the two of us and I love catching big fish. Plus it's SO pretty down there!

2. What was the funnest date you have ever been on? Ohh that's a tough one, I've had so many good dates! My first official date with Anthany though was so much fun. We went to Inception, saw the Blue Angels jet show, went out to eat, swimming at Heise, had a huge campfire, then went to a midnight movie premiere. It was a blast. 

3. What is your favorite thing about yourself? I love to play. I don't think I will ever be too old or too grown up to just have fun.

4. What was your favorite talk from conference this past weekend? I love Elder Holland's talks always. He is such an incredible man.

5. What is a dream you have for your life? I want to be able to stay at home with my kids and be there for every single little moment of their lives.

6. What was your favorite subject in school? History, if I had a good teacher. I just thought it was the most interesting subject.

7. What is your most embarrassing moment? Ohh boy.. one of my most embarrassing moments was probably a couple days ago. Let me begin by saying I have never ever used my emergency brake before haha Anthany pulled the emergency brake up on the car and so when I went to drive it, and the car was barely going 15 mph when I was pretty much flooring it with the gas, I was so confused. Then the car started to stink so bad kinda like burnt rubber. So I went back to the house and Anthany told me what my mistake was. I felt so incredibly stupid.

8. Nysnc or Backstreet boys I loved Nsync.. especially Justin Timberlake :]

9. Why did you decide to make a blog? Because every married woman has a blog :] haha I wanted our friends and family to be able to keep up with what we were doing and I think it will be fun to be able to go back through all these old memories one day.

10. What is the best piece of advice you have ever received? Don't go talk to other people about any of me and Anthany's problems. It's always better to just talk things out together and not get anybody else involved.

11. What is your favorite dessert? I love Cocoa Bean cupcakes probably way too much. 

My questions for my taggers...

1. What was your worst date you have ever been on?

2. What's one of your proudest accomplishments?

3. Who is one of your biggest role models?

4. What's your favorite thing to do?

5. What is your dream job?

6. If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would you go?

7. Which celebrity would you like to meet?

8. What's your favorite movie?

9. What is your most prized possession and why?

10. What was one of the scariest moments of your life?

11. Where do you see yourself in five years?

All done :] 

I tag Brittanee, Aubree, Brianne Price, Danielle Anderson, and Savanah Coon!

Everyone have a wonderful day!

-Lindsay.

Days Worth Blogging About!

I guess this is Easter post number two! But it was equally fun as Easter post number one :] Anthany my sister Briana, and I had the extreme privilege of journeying to St. George to see my family. It was an awesome trip. We basically spent the entire trip in my family's tiny backyard swimming pool, even though my family has a free membership to a huge pool in town but... it was just more fun having our own :] Here is us swimming!

[Notice my sister Briana on the far left who refused to get her face and hair wet the
entire time we were there. Baby. haha] 

The pool is exactly as small as it looks! We really wanted to play Marco Polo in it but the pool was just way too small. So we had to make up a game where one person was it and they had to keep their hands over their eyes the entire time and just go around the pool trying to run into somebody. It resulted in plenty of bruised shins from everybody running into the stairs of the pool :]

Anthany is gonna love that I posted this picture :] haha The story here is I absolutely hate going underwater without using my hand to plug my nose so Anthany went out and bought me those pink nose plugs so he could teach me to go underwater the right way. So that picture is him demonstrating how to correctly use the nose plugs :]

 We dyed Easter eggs again while we were there too. But for some reason the egg shells were so fragile I broke every single one of mine haha They still turned out super cute though :] After a stressful fifteen minutes where I nearly destroyed my car by forgetting to put the emergency brake off [I'm not going into detail about that story...], it was time for us to go back to Idaho. It always sucks leaving my family especially after having so much fun.

We call this our George Washington hair haha. LOVE this cute sister :]

The rest of our week has been crazy busy. I finally got to have a play day with my busy college student best friend! We played our Up video game for hours haha we also splurged to buy more playstation games but they ended up being way lame so we were super bummed. Anthany's best friend Kenley is in town from Florida right now. So we have been spending all week with him. For some reason, we are really into playing catch with the baseballs and footballs right now. It seems like we spend pretty much all of Anthany's paychecks buying more baseballs since all of ours end up getting accidentally thrown in the river haha! I absolutely love playing horseshoes too, but I'm the only one that likes that so I spend most of my spare time practicing by myself :] The only other exciting thing that happened lately was my cousin came over last night with a hair dye he bought at Wal-Mart wanting me to dye his hair like a light brown. I didn't think it was the right stuff.. but we decided to try it anyways. I sent him home to wash it out and twenty minutes later he was back at my house..... with Grayish-purple hair!! haha Moral of this story... do NOT trust Wal-Mart hair dyes! 

Anthany has a long weekend from work this week so I'm excited to spend extra time with him! I'm hoping I can convince him to take me to the cabin.. fingers crossed! It's nice being so busy doing fun things, cause I feel like I have so much more stuff to blog about.. but then I don't have time to blog! haha But we are both doing great and are loving all the time we get to spend playing outside! I will try to blog again soon!

-Lindsay.

P.S. Anthany got me a swimsuit, Kung-Fu Panda 2, a new shirt, and two more pairs of shorts for Easter! Technically, I bought them for myself.. haha but he was a good sport about it. With it being so warm outside it's SO hard to keep myself from buying all of the cute summer clothes that I see! I need to stay far far away from all stores! :]

We Love Eggs and Cats :]

It's Easter time! So we are celebrating our second holiday together as a married couple. Well it's been three if you count St. Patrick's day, which we don't :] haha. So to kick of our Easter celebration, we went to Grandma McCabe's house to dye eggs with Anthany's family. Veronica got 6 dozen eggs so each of us got to do a dozen eggs! Growing up in my family, we each only got like four eggs so it was crazy having that many to do! I was really excited at first but it was way hard to think of twelve different ideas. But it was still really fun. Anthany's sister Kayla and her boyfriend are so creative so it was cool to see their eggs but they made me feel pretty lame. We had lots of fun till Anthany spilled one of the egg dyes all over him, after that he was pretty much done with the eggs haha. Here are some pictures :]

I hate how pale he makes me look... haha. His construction job is giving him a really nice tan.

We are competitive with everything, even coloring eggs :]

He was being really difficult about getting his picture taken. Rascal.

I'm sure everyone is dying to see how our Easter eggs turned out so I took some pictures :] [But I only took pictures of our real masterpieces]

My Princess, Peace & Love, Bumblebee, and Sunset eggs

Here is my McCabe family portrait egg. Including our two kitties.

Here are Anthany's eggs.. Some egg guy he was really proud of, his patriotic egg,  egg cracking open, and the
last one says "Lindsay + Anthany"

 So as you observed from my family picture egg, I love my cats haha. Originally, we only got them to help get rid of any mice.. but now they are truly part of the family. I would let them live inside if I wasn't so allergic to them. My friend Brittanee told me that she is extremely jealous because she thinks that since I'm married, she should be the cat lady. But I get to be married and a cat lady so I'm pretty blessed :] We have a third cat too that until recently, I thought was dead. Turns out, he is just living way out in the field behind our house. We kind of think of him as a long lost son, who we hope will eventually come around and decide to love us. His name "Rascal" is pretty accurate.

Cute kitties Iggy and Kuzco

Well enough about my cats :] Today is a big day because my sister Bri is moving in with us for the summer. She is off track at BYU-I this summer so she will be spending some quality bonding time with us. I'm very excited for this weekend! We are going to St.George to celebrate Easter with my family. It is going to be a super long drive, but it will definitely be worth it. I can't wait to be in that hot sun and hopefully catch up to Anthany's tan :] Some other big news is.. I got a job! It's at a new salon opening in a couple weeks in Rexburg called Salon Evolution. I really couldn't be more excited. It's going to be such a fun place to work so I'm gonna be more busy and less of a cat lady :] haha I will keep you all posted on when the salon is opening so everyone can come get their hair done :] 

-Lindsay.