Valentines Day

This is a little late but I just have to share the great Valentines Day that I (we) had!

Jeff surprised me the night before Valentines Day by telling me that he switched his schedule so that he could come home at 3 instead of at 10. Then I went into work early so that I could come home early too. It was so nice to spend the afternoon/evening together, especially because it was unexpected!!

Then to make it even better, this......

is what I came home to.

Then we made dinner together...

Delicious!!!

And if the day couldn't get any cuter it was our 3rd Valentines Day as a couple and our second anniversary of dating. It was a great Valentines Day and I really am quite the spoiled girl over here.

I'm Way Too Attached

...to my mascara. Pathetic, I know. However, I feel like I am not necessarily the only female in the universe that feels attached to a certain brand. This is why it was so devastating when, while doing my makeup, i somehow hit my open bottle of mascara off of the counter and into the toilet. Now, if it had been closed I may have thought twice before throwing it away but since it was open there was no way that I was going to use it. Gross.

...to google searching. I google search reviews on almost everything before I buy it, even if it means reading reviews on different brands of mascara. I decided to switch to see if mine was really the best out there and, much like a new haircut that needs a couple of days to get used to, I think this new stuff will be fantastic after a couple of days. And thank goodness, unlike a bad haircut, mascara can be replaced if it ends up not working. I also learned after an unfortunate quick trip to walmart after getting a call from a boy when I was already on my way and practically ran through the store to get the basics, I now always double check to make sure that I am not grabbing the bright blue mascara.

T minus 32 hours

In about 32 hours we will be in the Valley of the Sun and couldn't love that name any more than we do right now. After the snow storm this weekend and the cold, cloudy weather today we cannot get home faster. Isn't it funny how the days before a vacation are more hectic than normal days? Make sure the laundry is done. Do the dishes. Pay the bills. Clean the house. Not to mention switching car insurance. I don't know how you people with kids do it. I may bring a lot of this on myself since the I feel the need to mop the floors and clean the bathrooms the day before we leave even if they have all just been cleaned. Maybe it's because I hate unpacking so I think that maybe if I have a clean house to come home to it will make the unpacking a little less dreadful. Either way, a clean house is much nicer to come home to than a dirty house so maybe the craziness of the days before vacation help make the vacation that much better.

We cannot wait to see...

 and...

I've Been Thinking...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Emergency Preparedness and the things that we need. Thanks to my mother-in-law we have a pretty good supply of canned/boxed food that we could eat off of for a while. However we don't really have stuff together in a quick way to grab in case we don't have a lot of time to gather everything together or things always in the car in case there is ever an emergency either. Now, if any of you have ever seen the trunk of my car you know that I could probably survive out of there for plenty of time but do I really want to eat ridiculously stale peanut butter crackers or have to layer on all of the clothes that I have been meaning to take to DI for months? No, I'd rather just take some time and put an actual kit together for Jeff and myself in our cars. So what does this all mean?

My goal between now and General Conference is to have a 72-hour kit for each of us in the house and an Emergency Car Kit in each of our cars. That gives me about 3 months to collect and shop the sales. Thank goodness for pinterest and all  of the people out there that have gone before and made awesome lists. I have compiled a list of things from these lists adjusted because let's be honest, I'd rather not eat those tuna from a pouch things.

These are not ours but they're what I hope that they end up looking like.

I wish I could be like this woman so after the Emergency Kits maybe I'll try doing this. She plans all of her 3 month storage into meals in bags with the recipe. Genius!

I'm always up for ideas and suggestions so if you have any, let me know. Oh and I do plan on giving a Christmas/New Years update, maybe today, probably tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We:
     -Survived Black Friday
     -Accomplished a lot of our Christmas shopping
     -Spent a fun Saturday night at Cafe Rio and Dairy Queen
     -Caught up on Biggest Loser
     -Had a delicious Thanksgiving Dinner!

Picture Time!


Checking the temperature of the turkey. Okay, it was more like a turkey loaf but I still didn't want a nasty under-cooked turkey loaf. Plus, who wants a 14 pound turkey for two people?

I can't remember what this face was about. 

But he is the pro at making mashed potatoes. De-li-cious!

Turkey, green bean casserole, rolls, and "sparkling" 7-up.

Mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and gravy. 

No pictures of the banana cream pie but it was also delicious! We hope your Thanksgiving was as fun and delicious as ours!

Thankful

Today I am thankful that--
1. My Teacher Work Sample will be finished by the end of the week.
2. I only have tomorrow left this week of school. Thank you Utah for giving Wednesday off for Thanksgiving break too!
3. That by the end of this week, the craziness of Black Friday will be over and life will get a little more back to normal in the lives of the Clarks.

Two Posts in One Evening?!

I just figured out that Blogger is like Gmail in that it saves your posts as drafts in case of moments like I just had. Why are things like this always trial and error? Lame. I did just grab the camera so here are some pictures from our recent adventures.

The Big Red Barn. Jeff's mission president owns the place so we went down and went on a hayride out to a pumpkin patch and got out pumpkin! It was tons of fun!

Spanish Fork Reservoir. One Sunday after church we went up to the reservoir and had a picnic and then walked around. It's gorgeous up there. You could see over the valley and the leaves changing.

Happy Halloween! Mummies and Coffins for dinner! Yum! Sadly we had zero trick-or-treaters.