March is National Craft Month

I decided that while my husband was out of town that I would keep myself busy by doing crafts!

I don't have any St Patrick's Day decorations so I decided that I would m

ake one to hang on my front door. It is definitely not the best thing I have ever made, but I think its cute and I wanted to be at least a little bit festive.

I had an idea of making an Easter egg by mod podging paper on to wood. One day while at hobby lobby I found a oval piece of wood for $1.50, and thought it would work perfect! I bought it and already had paper at home. I took Megan to hobby lobby to get her a piece of wood too. (Collette and Nicole. I should of thought of this craft earlier because it would of been a good one to do for craft night. But I knew there was no way we would all be able to get together before Easter.) I used my cricut to cut out the paper, then mod podged it to the wood and decorated it with buttons and rhinestones. I am pretty proud of it! But Megan's turned out a lot cuter then mine!

On one of the craft blogs I look at I saw all these d.i.y subway art. I decided that it was exactly what my living room needed. One night while watching TV, I used my cricut to cut out all the words I wanted on it. Then arranged them on the floor how I wanted them. I measured to see about how big of a canvas I would need. At hobby lobby I found a canvas for pretty cheap the size that I needed. I painted it black and the mod podged the words on. I am very proud about how it turned out! I can't wait to hang it up in my living room!

It sure has been fun being crafty but I am sure excited for my husband to come home! 2 weeks is way too long. Josh doesn't hold back my craftiness or anything, I just like to spend all my time with him, plus I don't think he would be very happy about the mess on the living room floor the whole time he was gone :) I plan to keep embracing my craftiness and I will be sure to blog about it!

Crossfit Battle Wounds!

I get bruises a lot. Thats just who I am. Mostly I have not clue how I got them and they mostly don't hurt. I have at least one bruise on one of my legs at all times.

Today I was at Crossfit Draper working on my Squat Cleans with my trainer when I was pulling the bar up i totally hit it on my knee, which hurt a lot. Then Our work out of the consisted on LOTS of Deadlifts which involves pulling the bar up from the ground to above your knees, where your arms hang, keeping it in contact with your legs the whole time. So this is what my knee looks like now after hitting it with the bar and then dragging a heavier bar over it 37 times!

It looks a lot worse in person believe me!

Getting buff

This picture was posted on the crossfitdraper.com blog yesterday. This is obviously not the most flattering picture of me, but i am proud of it! This is me doing thrusters for the first time. Not my favorite because they involve squats and I hate squats.

I just thought I would show you guys how buff I am getting :) I feel like I am starting to actually progress. Even though I hate working out and I don't want to go every time we go, I am starting to feel good after, not like I am going to die, which is definitely good :)

ABC easy as 123

A - Age: 22
B - Bed size: King
C - Chore you hate: Dishes
D - Dog's name: No dog
E - Essential start your day item: Coke!
F - Favorite color(s): Purple
G - Gold or silver: Silver or white gold
H - Height: 5'5"
I - I am: nervous for my job interview
J - Job: Looking for one
K - Kids: not yet
L - Living arrangements: I live with my wonderful husband in our townhouse in Draper
M - Mom's name: Terri Lynn
N - Nickname: Ash, Smash, Smash Dawg, Shlee
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Never as the patient, I stayed over night with my mom lots
P - Pet peeve: People in my business (nosey people, even though I am kinda nosey myself)
Q - Quote from a movie: "Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded."
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 3. Travis, Collette, Megan
T - Time you wake up: When ever i wake up or when Josh wakes me up
U - Unique thing about your car: Its name is "lil' Maxine Sparkles"
V - Vegetable you hate: Squash
W - Ways you run late: My husband doesn't tell me people are waiting for us until we are already late
X - X-rays you've had: Only teeth
Y - Yummy food you make: Chicken Salad sandwiches and gluten free cinnamon rolls
Z - Zoo favorite: Hogle Zoo is the only zoo I have been to, I think

I am not tagging anyone, if you want to do it feel free. I wasn't tagged I was just bored!

Vegas!

One of Josh's friends got us free tickets to The Shot Show in Vegas a few weeks ago. We didn't really have anything going that week, except for house sitting Josh's parents house, but Josh's sister graciously took the dog for a few days for us! We tried to decide what day we were going to leave and decided Thursday, but on Wednesday Josh decided that we were going to leave that day! (SURPRISE)

We went to the SHOT SHOW on Thursday. We got to the convention center around 10:30 that morning and we turn our passes in at 5 that evening. Wow that was a lot of walking

This was right after we walked into the SHOT SHOW! Josh was pretty excited!

This was a pretty cool SUV with a giant machine gun coming out of the roof!

There were lots of skanky girls like this walking around but this one was pretending to be a mannequin! I thought she was real and then thought she was fake and then saw her blink!
Josh posing with one of the guns!

Me posing with the "swamp thing"! This was a mannequin thank goodness.

Josh's favorite part was playing a simulation shooting game. He was really good at it too!

While looking at one of the booths Josh whispers in my ear "some guy is changing over there" he wasn't just changing he was just sitting there with his pants off. It was kinda funny but sad and weird too. The owner of the booth had to come tell him to put his pants back on. I will spare you guys the picture because I bet you don't want to see it.

After the SHOT SHOW, Josh took me out to a great dinner, since we both hadn't eaten since about 10 am. Then we walked around the strip for awhile. We walked so much that day, Josh bet we walked about 25 miles. I was sore the next day.

It was raining in Vegas a few days before we got there and it rained till Thursday night. Vegas does not know how to function in the rain. They have really bad drainage on the streets and on the sidewalks. I always would accidentally walk through the deepest part of the puddles. At one point Josh had to pick me up and carry me across the road because there were so many deep puddles. It was my favorite part of our trip!

On Friday we drove to Primm to go to the outlet mall. I love that place! On our way back to Vegas we decided to stop at Lake Mead because I have never been to Hoover Dam. It was fun!

I forgot my camera so you have to deal with phone pictures!

I started this blog post the day we got home from Vegas, and just never finished it until now. I need to get better at blogging. Sorry!

I am the Luckiest!

Today has been 6 months since the best day of my life!

Happy 6 month anniversary to Josh and I!

I couldn't have married a better guy!

Thanks for all you do for me Joshy. I love you so much!

I skied! I am a skier!

On Saturday Josh took me skiing for my first time. (In 5th grade I went cross country skiing and snow boarding and neither of those caught on) I have actually never wanted to go skiing. My brother Travis came with us, because it had been a long time since he had been to he just wanted practice and to see if he still liked it! We stayed on the bunny hill the whole time. On my last run I was starting to get the hang of it and didn't fall the whole way down (I did just sit down, but that was because I panicked and thought I was going to run in to a tree :))