April showers brings....... my Birthday!

Lets start back when I was born. It was a Friday the 13th. and everyone thought I was going to be a cursed baby. Little did they know I would only bless their lives for the better.

Growing up every few years I had to share my birthday with Mother's day. If you know me at all you know I like the attention on me. Not saying I don't like mother's day because I do. My mother is my best friend and I don't know what I would do with out her. But for me birthdays are a BIG deal. Well this year was a little different.

I started out Monday the week before heading to work and starting my routine for the week. My boss walks past me and says in a stern voice. I need to speak with you in the office. OH CRAP!!! What did I do??? Trying to rack my brain nothing was coming to mind. As I follow him into the office he shuts the door and I sit down on the ever so comfy couch. Oh here it comes. The speech about how the spa could be doing better and with larger spas in our area closing we have a great opportunity to pick up some new clients. BLAH BLAH BLAH oh and we need a manager at the spa would you like the position? WHAT?!?!?! well let me roll over in my mind what is going on here.....Yes it is true I am now the manager at The Dead Sea Spa. It is quite awesome to be doing such great work and having people love what you do for them.
What a great way to start off my birthday week. Yes a WHOLE WEEK dedicated to my birthday!

Jordan and his fiance Maggie (LOVE HER)

I had originally planned a small group dinner for some close friends on Saturday but that got thrown away seeing as some of our friends wanted to go to the Bee's game. So of course me LOVING baseball (can you hear my sarcasm??) decided why not lets go and then we can do dinner after. Catye (Jamie's younger sister) and her husband Mike drove up from Provo to come hang out with us that night. Thank you guys, We love you! All in all the game wasn't that bad. I didn't start to actually watch the game until the 8th inning only because Jamie forced me to. After the Bee's lost we decided on The Pie for dinner. A VERY late dinner.
It was a fun night with good company and good food, But it just wasn't my birthday yet.

Mike and Catye Jones

Dayne and Kristen Peterson

MMmmm The Pie! 

Sunday came and went and all I asked for for my birthday was Jamie to go on a walk with me. (He HATES walks) when I said all I asked for was a walk I was kinda hoping for something more. Jamie has never been fond of birthdays so to him it was just another Sunday for napping and playing video games. To me well.....I was kinda bummed we didn't do more. I even hinted at him and asked what was for dinner. His reply whatever you want to make....so I ended up just making Mac and Cheese and picking up a good book to read the rest of the night.  It wasn't quite was I was hoping for it suited my somber mood. The poor guy figured out I wasn't quite myself so he came in and tried making me feel better by singing to me and being his goofy ol' self. I love him more and more everyday for the effort he puts into our marriage. He is not the most romantic man ever but I can tell he loves me and does things his own way to show it.

Jamie promised  he will try harder for birthday's in the future. Did I mention I love this man? I really shouldn't ask for anything more, because I already have it all with him in my life. I Love You Jamie!!

Yours truely

"Happy Birthday to me...(Jamie)"

It all started at Midnight April 30, 2012 I am laying in bed trying to fall asleep. I cover my ears from noises outside and the constant singing from someone a little off tune. I sit up and listen to the noises around me and I realize what the lyrics to the song were. "Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to meeee. Happy Birthday to me." "Happy Birthday to me. I ammmm awesome. Happy Birthday to me and it issss my Birthday." Yeah Really these were the lyrics to Jamie's birthday song he started singing at exactly 12:00 am. Oh boy am I in for a LONG day if he is already singing and this happy.

I finally fell asleep though, for all you who were wondering if that went on all night...no just most of it.

I woke up in the am and decided I was going to have a very productive day today. I made yummy peanut butter pinwheel cookies (which are amazing) and I went to the store and got a few things to dinner this week. I also went running. I decided a few days ago I am going to sign up for another 10K. I know it's not far but it does help me get in shape. Let's see I went to the leasing office and told them we were moving out because they wanted us to pay $200 to upgrade apartments. FORGET IT! I did all of that before I left for work at 11:45 am.

I only had work for 5 hours, but I do feel like I accomplished a lot at work. Such as a new way to apply shellac nails and teaching my new Esthetician how to properly give a pedicure. I got off work rushed home to find Jamie showering and getting ready for dinner tonight. We were meeting up with Catye (Jamie's sister) and her husband Mike as well as Dayne (Jamie's best friend) and his wife Kristen at Famous Daves. Of course he chose Famous Daves for the BBQ but also because Jamie has a fixation for "free meals" he  researches which restaurants give you free meals and he signs both him and I up for them. Did I mention our birthday's are 2 weeks apart go we get to go to all these places twice in 2 months.....It's free right???

All in all dinner was delicious and it only cost each couple $16 with our discount we got for Jamie's birthday. We decided to make a fun night out of tonight and chose the new City Creek Center to meet up. Catye and Mike hopped in with us and we met Dayne and Kristen at the mall. If you guys get a chance to go there it is very pretty and clean! After we explored the mall as best we could we said our fair wells to Dayne and Kristen.   As the rest of us were on our way home we decided to go see a movie.
There is this movie theater we go to where they show new movies but only charge $6 for tickets. It's so amazing we go there often. I think they are starting to know us by name. Just kidding.
We talked Catye and Mike into watching the 3 Stooges with us. Yes the 3 Stooges, and it wasn't Jamie or my first time seeing it. That movie is so ridiculously dumb it is funny! We were the only 4 in the theater and it was probably a good thing because we were laughing to hard it might have made other mad.

All in all Jamie's birthday was a success and we had a good time. Thank you mother for the great card. Jamie loved it.

Thank you Cayte, Mike, Dayne, and Kristen for coming. We love you guys.

A Time of Catching up

Ok so this little part of my life I completely suck at.

I have never been good at keeping a journal and I thought well I am on the computer a lot maybe a blog is the way to go. HAHAHA wrong. I realized I would write maybe once every 6 months and that is pushing it.....Today this is going to change! I am determined to write a blog. My goal is to post one post at least every 2 weeks. Not bad eh? Well It is going to happen. I just hope all of you guys bug me about updating it :)


I want to officially tell everyone the last 7 months in Salt Lake City have been a rough one.  When we first moved here I started working at a Child Care Center (I respect anyone to works child care now) and getting paid $8.50 an hour was just too hard for Jamie and I to live on and the hard work I put in. I went to work at 6:30 am and didn't come home until 4:30 each day. That is 10 hours!!!!! Granted I did have a 2 hour break somewhere in my day. But let me tell you taking care of 2 and 3 year olds is hard work and I have learned SOOOooo much about parenting. Let's just say I would be ready and prepared if Jamie wanted to have an army...JOKE! We are not having kids any time soon. But seriously I learned so many good things working there.
Life has come to a sweet ending at the day care and I finally found a job at a spa! A spa I am completely in love with and I enjoy getting up for work everyday. I love what I do helping women take care of themselves and their skin. It is amazing to watch someone lay on my bed, I perform the service and when they get up they just have a glow about their skin. The Products we use are called Adovia. We import them from Israel and they are all natural products from the Dead Sea. Hence the name of our spa...The Dead Sea Spa :) Let me tell you, I have used MANY different products and this is by far one of the best products I have found. VERY good for your skin. I LOVE MY JOB!!!! thedeadsea-spa.com

Jamie has finished his first year of college (finally) and we made it through our first year of marriage. I couldn't be more proud of him for all he does. He is so amazing and works extremely hard to make me happy (which can be difficult if you know me) and I love him. I can't wait for more years like our first to come.

As far as I can see this is the basics of what has happened the last few months and I am really hoping to keep up on this now.