Adam and Lauren Graff

Its been a few months...

2011-12-18T10:46:00.003-07:00

I have been a bad blogger for awhile! Although lately I really don't have a whole lot to blog about, the only time I think about blogging is when something funny happens. Like today. BUT before I start into that story I will give ya a quick summary of what we have been up to. I think I can sum it up to one word though: WORK. I know lame, but Adam and I have really been so busy with work. Other than that we have been trying to get our house in Murray. There are so many details that go into buying a house--who knew? I am overwhelming Adam with all of my ideas for the house, planning our summer vaycay, and occasionally emailing him a car I really like. So I have stopped doing all of those things so I don't drive him to insanity.

The reason I was going to blog is because of Adam of course. So for a little back ground, Adam is on this weight loss kick. AKA we go to the gym more but he still eats whatever he wants. So its not that intense of a weight loss kick (He thinks his body will respond to the gym like it did when he was 18). Yesterday we went to the gym, I weighed myself on their scale because I know it is more accurate than our scale at home with the dying battery. Adam is really weird about the gym scale, I don't think he has ever used it. We got home from the gym and Adam comes out of the bathroom "I lost 6-7 pounds already! Working out can transform your body so fast bla bla bla" I just start laughing because I know we need a new battery in that scale. So I make him watch me get on it and it was 8 pounds lower than what the gym scale said! Adam: Devastated. Lauren: laughing all day long about this. Sorry Adam, maybe next week you will really drop 6-7 pounds by going to the gym 3x and eating 5,000 calories/day. :)

I Cried Because I Laughed so Hard. Story Time:

2011-09-21T19:19:00.005-06:00

As many of my stories do, this one too happened at work. My co-worker Sara (we will call her) just had a baby so she has to pump while she is at work. Well one day we had a few tours/things going on so she decided not to pump in an open office because she didn't want a tour walking in on her, sounds reasonable right? So she decides to pump in the storage office thinking that is a safe bet. Well not safe because Heather (another co-worker; there are just us 3 at our center) and I sent out an email to sell some of the crap in the storage office. Meanwhile Sara sits on the floor to be close to an outlet in the storage office with the lights off (I still don't understand the lights off thing, but ya) and starts to pump. Meanwhile a client comes and gets Heather's keys to get a floor mat from the storage office. And there it happens. He walks in on her sitting on the floor in the corner pumping with the lights off!! She freaked out! She started yelling "Get out, get out of here!!" Client is pretty shocked/stunned: "I just want a floor map" Sara: "No, no just get out of here, I will bring you one, just get out". About two seconds after this encounter Sara calls the work line and whispers "A client has just walked in on me pumping, I am not coming out of here." Right as this phone call is happening Client comes back to Heather to give her the keys back and says "Um....ya so Sara was in there...." Heather: "Um, ok did you get a mat" Client "no". Heather runs into my office to tell me what happened as I hang up the phone with Sara...We pretty much lost it from there, I laughed about this on and off all day long. Of course Sara eventually made her way out of the storage office and had to tell us the details and how she "used a vicious yell at Client to get out"... Here is what I think is one of the best parts of this story-- Client comes back to Heather later that day and says "do you know what Sara was doing in there?" Heather "She had a headache and was laying down" Client "Oh, I thought she was in there doing something nasty with another client or something along those lines. I mean she was in the back of a dark storage office and yelling at me to get out, I didn't know what to think." I still can't get over this story. How embarrassing, poor girl!!! We love you "Sara" Please don't kill me for sharing this story, you know it's funny!

I quit blogging because of this:

2011-09-21T19:12:00.002-06:00

My new/old job. All I do is work and sleep. If you need me call my work number. Somebody please give me a life....

Lesbian Hike is What We Call it:

2011-05-15T19:32:00.006-06:00

I looked up this hike before we got to Hawaii. It was only an hour and a half round trip according to the website. So we take off on the hike excited to get to the waterfall. About 15-20 minutes up the trail we run into these two girls, we follow them on the trail for a few minutes. The one pink haired girl tells us she did hike a few years ago bla bla bla. We keep hiking. Then we get to a fork in the trail. The two girls think we should go straight. I keep saying I think we should go left. But whatever, they have done this hike before. We keep following them. And following. And following. And following. Pretty soon it has been about an hour. I reference the website that said it would be an hour and a half round trip.....
JUST THEN--we come across this little sign:

I almost cried. We were soo tired and hungry at this point! So we turn around and head back. The lesbians took the 6.3 mile route. Hope they had fun.

We get back to the fork and turn left. 5 minutes later we get to the waterfall. Lesson learned: Don't follow crazy lesbians with pink hair. Ever.

This is where we get to the waterfall, get attacked my mosquito's, and yell at Taylor to get out of the back ground of our picture. haha good times!

This just happened:

2011-05-15T19:28:00.004-06:00

Adam: "Lauren, what time is it right now? (He just woke up)
Lauren: Um...Almost 7:30
Adam: Uggg, shouldn't I be at work by now?
Lauren: No response, I just wait for him to figure it out
Adam: Oh yeah, its still Sunday. I'm so confused. Comes down stairs and eats ice cream... haha

HAWAII

2011-05-15T18:43:00.009-06:00

Was amazing! We spent 11 days in Oahu. My family was there for a week, and we stayed a few days after they left. We had sooo much fun! This was our last little vaycay/hoorah before Taylor leaves on his mission AND our second anniversary! yay!

This restaurant was amazing. My salad not so amazing, but the view was awesome and I can never complain about chocolate fondue!

Polynesian Cultural Center! Yes, that is Adam dancing on stage in the picture below! haha

Of course we went to Dole!

Boogie boarding. This is me and Taylor's favorite thing to do in Hawaii! Notice that I am out there with my dad. Adam went out for probably 15 minutes. Who is this man that I married? I love this stuff. Me, Taylor and my dad were on the boogie board on and off for over two hours.

Snorkeling is my next favorite thing. Is this as tan as I got? Pretty much. Was this the second day? Yes. This is the gist of what people say to me at work "11 days in Hawaii, where's the tan?" My response is "Um....I'm a little paranoid about skin cancer and wrinkles"

I Hope They Frame This One Above the Mantel:

2011-04-29T10:45:00.003-06:00

ksl.com - Britain celebrates monarchy as Kate, William wed (Gallery Viewer)

Gottcha!

2011-04-10T17:18:00.003-06:00

April fools was on a Friday. By the time we get to Friday I am just done. Then to add April fools to a Friday makes an awesome combo. So I spent a few minutes in the morning googling April fools jokes. (A few minutes...um...ya...I'll say that) BUT this little baby I came up with on my own. On my lunch I picked up a pregnancy test and had my pregnant friend Erica pee on it. I didn't think Adam would fall for this at all! It is not an original April fools prank. But...He did! It was classic. Best $6 I've spent in a long time. I felt a little bad after though, because he really fell for it!

TAYLOR'S MISSION CALL!!!

2011-04-10T17:10:00.004-06:00

He was so nervous reading the call; it was awesome, a room full of people and Taylor stumbling over words!

He is going to Honduras! Yay! My guess was way off. I love my little brother!

Congratulations Taylor! We are excited for you!!!

Time For a Little Catch Up--Adam's Birthday!

2011-04-10T16:58:00.003-06:00

Adam is now 27! Yay! I think he had a pretty good birthday if I must say so myself. We stayed at the Alaskan Inn in Ogden--it was awesome! I booked the Eagles Nest room--everything eagle!

Yep, everything eagle.

Martnelli's, cookies, and romantic music was playing when we got there! And naturally an eagles cry. (Broke one of those glasses) haha

Breakfast was sooo good! We ate way too much and it was worth it!

Happy Birthday Adam!

Dear Cadbury Mini Eggs,

2011-03-22T13:51:00.002-06:00

When I am feeling self concious in a swimming suit in Hawaii I blam you.

This is Me:

2011-03-22T13:43:00.004-06:00

Because Adam got a job!!!! YAY! I am so happy! Two incomes? What are we going to do with all of this excess cash? haha ok enough fun. Back to reality.....But I am so excited! Good job Ad!

2011-03-17T21:33:00.004-06:00

Adam says this to me:

"I was sitting in my underwear ordering shoes off Sears.com when I realized that I never have to go into another store again! They are going to send them right to our door!!"

Root Canal. I am Irresponsible.

2011-03-09T13:52:00.003-07:00

Kill me. I have to get a root canal tomorrow. A) $800 B.) Why is it so expensive? I have insurance. C) I officially am on my works insurance--I feel like such an adult. D.) I will feel like an official adult when I get off my parents cell phone plan...not sure when that is going to be. E.) Apparently I was supposed to pick up my anti-biotics for my root canal 3 days ago=maybe I won't be having a root canal tomorrow? F.) how am I supposed to remember all of these minor details like picking up a prescription? My mom always did these things... Wish me luck!

In this Lobby....

2011-02-22T13:38:00.009-07:00

In this lobby I have witnessed one of the funniest things I have ever seen. My dear beautiful, hilarious, talented, pregnant friend Erica fell off the chair at the front desk. My favorite part was that we were being so serious before this happened. She didn't just miss the chair and fall on the ground, she hit the end of the chair so it flew out from underneath her and went about 5 feet away. And she didn't get up. She sat under the desk as if nothing had happened trying to fix the computer. My next favorite part was that it was a full lobby and everyone got super awkward. I was crying because I was laughing so hard. I love my job.

The MOST Embarrassing Thing I Have Ever Said...

2011-01-09T16:00:00.004-07:00

I have had sooo many embarrassing things happen to me in my 23 years but this one tops it all off! Adam always brings it up. He brought it up yesterday so I thought I should share it with the blogging world! Here is goes: I was dating/not dating/going out with/hanging out with this guy (he was a total tool), I'll call him Jeff. Jeff had told me about his family a bit and I knew his parents because my friends and I rented our house on campus from them. He had told me about his crazy handicapped sister, and his sister that lived in SLC. So I think he only has 2 sisters. We were in SLC at his sisters house and his other sister Lacy comes over, so naturally i think she is the handicapped sister right? Right. So I didn't think she seemed very handicapped, but whatever, she was a bigger girl, seemed a little different--handicapped. Jeff's mom comes over and we start chatting. She asks "have you met Jeff's handicapped sister?" Me: "Yes, I met Lacy last night" Jeff's mom: "What? Lacy's not handicapped!!! Hannah is handicapped! You thought Lacy was handicapped?" Me: "Um...no. I didn't think she was, I had never heard about Lacy so I though she was..." Jeff's mom=pissed. I have never felt so awkward in my life.

Late Thanksgiving!

2011-01-09T15:46:00.002-07:00

WAY late Thanksgiving! Naturally I would add Christmas with all of these late photos but someone (Adam) lost my sim card! I am going to kill him! Anyways...We had Thanksgiving at my Grandma and Grandpa Niederhauser's house this year! I love my family!!!

This Storm Did Happen.

2010-12-29T22:36:00.000-07:00

Left work at 4:16. Got home at 5:56. This is true.
Powerful winter storm pummels Utah - ksl.com

I've Never Been Called Creepy...Until Now...

2010-12-29T22:09:00.002-07:00

Short story:

I'll cut to the chase: Adam and I were in the slow lane driving on the icy road. This random Altima starts following us way close. Adam says "get off my ahh buddy". The guy turns right and gives us the stare down as he passes. What do we do? We decide we should follow him. Yep. We followed him home...pretty far. We are creeps. And the best part is that we had to turn around because he lives on a dead end street. He defiantly knew we were following him. Dear Altima guy don't stare people down you never know how crazy they will be.
We thought we were pretty funny...writing this post it doesn't do it justice, you should have been in the car, it was much funnier then.

Lauren=MIA

2010-12-16T14:30:00.002-07:00

Time sheet=101 hours. The end.

BFF's Wedding!!!

2010-11-14T14:21:00.003-07:00

My best friend got married!! Yay! It was seriously perfect, just like Tawni! The weather was beautiful, the pictures were amazing, her reception was the coolest reception I have ever been too and of course beautiful couple! This picture was the only one I had of them riding off on their scooter--how funny are they?! Loved it!

Beautiful Tawni! I love her.

Tawn lost the guarder so she just tied a tie around her leg, thanks to one of Chad's friends! This is Chad pulling his head out of her dress and saying; I can't use my teeth its tied to tight! haha

If you know Tawni you know she had dancing at her wedding! Adam is dancing with some one's baby we don't know!

Tawni is cool and also had Cold Stone at her reception!

23rd b-day!

2010-11-14T14:04:00.004-07:00

I LOVE ADAM! I had such a fun 23rd birthday! We went to my favorite bed and breakfast in Heber (the Johnson Mill) and shopped ALL day; and went to dinner at night. Loved my birthday! Adam is such a romantic, and I love it! At the b&b they have this cute little pond on the property that we took a canoe around one night.

I just love this picture! Its from My 21st birthday when Adam and I were dating! He always spoils me! I love him!

My Secret Obsession is...

2010-11-03T13:10:00.004-06:00

WHAT NOT TO WEAR!

I am addicted to the show. It is seriously my favorite. Sometimes when I call my parents on Sunday my mom and I talk about the episodes we have seen that week! We really do. haha! on Busy Bee Lauren they asked her who her style icon was...I thought about mine....UM....no one....wait...Nope, Stacy London!! I love her. She is trendy yet classy. I want to be her. Yes, I want to be Stacy London. haha that is my confession for the day.

From a Month Ago to Current:

2010-11-02T13:37:00.003-06:00

MOVED. Enough said. Leads to my next point:
House is a mess, why do I have so much useless crap?
BUT no more second hand smoke
BUT I feel like 75% of the people in Utah County are weird!! Seriously. You have to live there to get this.
"Maintenance Required" light is on in my car
The registration is expired on both of our cars, wish me luck when I drive!
My birthday was AWESOME! That will be the next post...When we get around to calling Comcast for internet! (I feel so disconnected without internet!)
Adam had a root canal
Adam had an ear infection
Adam is still sick
We are shutting down my center at work--lots of awkward situations with clients... Good news: I will still have a job. Bad news: Word on the street is that I am going to be sharing my job with another girl at the Sandy center...Pretty sure it won't take two of us to do one job. I feel like this is a demotion...lame
Have you seen the construction in Utah County? It is a joke! And yes, I drive though that everyday!
Back to good news: My best friend Tawni gets married on Friday! I am super excited! And that means four day weekend! hallelujah!
Current.

A Few Things I Must Document Before We Move....

2010-10-10T15:05:00.005-06:00

Yes, you heard it right, we are moving! Hallelujah! Right now we live in an "OK" apartment, I call it ghetto and Adam gets mad because I guess he doesn't think its getto. Well it is. Here are a few things we laugh at about living here:

First our apartment, smallest living space ever! And so annoying. I am just all around disgusted by it.
TOM: our neighbor. Whenever I see Tom he is in a wife beater tank top, holding a beer in one hand, and a cigarett in the other. And he always yells "Hey bud how are ya" Once he called me Miss America; that's a pretty big jump from 'bud' don't you think? We do love Tom though, he is soooo funny! We'll miss him, except for the second hand smoke he gives me.
I think it is ghetto because I am seriously afraid of most of the people here. They are scary, I don't do the laundry by myself (plus this creepy Spencer guy lives by the laundry room and he talks my ear off)! Yes, we use a pay laundry facility at our apartments. Brings me back to my first year of college except my apartment was WAY nicer! Ug.
In front of our apartment complex is a trailor park. During the 4th of July we were standing on our porch watching them, Tom told us that after dark police don't go into that neighborhood! haha
Brings me to my next point, there was a sign on the sidewalk pointing to the trailor park that said "Yar sale" They somehow missed the 'd' hahaha!
I think those are all my points. I am just sooooo happy to move. Maybe I will take a few pics of this place just for memory sake! Maybe not, I just want to get out of here! The end.

Have you seen "Sister Wives" on TLC??

2010-10-10T14:40:00.005-06:00

Tell me I am not the only person that has seen Sister Wives? I think I am. Well it's a new show on TLC about a Polygamist family from Lehi. I know I have better things to do with my time but whatever I watched it Thursday night because Adam was gone. I thought it was pretty lame. Why am I even bothering with this post? This is why---Last night Adam and I were at the University Mall in Orem and WE SAW them!!!! Not all 5 of them just the guy with his new hot wife Robin on the far right--the other wives are jealous of her. Apparently polygamists like Tae Pan Trading too! Who knew. I thought their house was pretty ugly from the show though, they need that store! Adam didn't think this was interesting at all. He didn't spend an hour watching them on TLC though and my secret guilty pleasures are shows with lots of drama that no one would admit to watching. This post is pointless. I know, but I saw them!! haha

Story of My Life= Now What am I Supposed to do?

2010-09-28T18:10:00.004-06:00

Dirty Dashers!

2010-09-28T17:35:00.009-06:00

Before the race started, we thought we were pretty sweet! And yes, we are matching once again...haha and to add to that; yes, my shorts really were that short! Yikes! (At least I match unlike Adam's outfit! haha) The whole fam minus Danielle--just had a baby, Danny--didn't sign up in time, and my mom...well...she was there she took these pictures!

My dad, me and Adam in action! Too bad we only kept up with Taylor the first 100 yards or he could be in this picture too; he killed us!

At the end still thinking we are pretty sweet!! It was SOOO fun!

The reason Adam complained the whole time. Sick, I know! He has said "look at my blisters" so many times I thought I would take a picture, it lasts longer!

Red Rock Relay!

2010-09-19T17:37:00.004-06:00

Red Rock Relay--So fun! We ran 186 miles from Brian Head to Zions National Park. We had 11 people (1 short, long story) and 2 cars aka vans. This was our car and our team name!

I was the last runner in our van. This was my first leg, 5.8 miles, I thought I was going to die here. Isn't Bre cute?! What a good friend! I just ran up this HUGE hill, the van pulled over and she ran out to get me some water and a good pep talk! I love her!

This is our van at the starting line!

The girls being sweet! haha! So of course there is a story with this post...So I just have to start by clarifying to those that don't know that I need 8 hours sleep every night and regular food intake or I die. So I had no sleep at all. My last leg was down Snow Canyon, the van couldn't come down it with me because it was before 6 AM. So I ran down it scared to death, I was on this creepy trail by myself for 5 miles. I got back in the van and I was so relieved. Then we started driving following the next runner and I just started feeling sooo sick. I was freezing, nauseous, and dying. I sat up and everyone looks at me and says "Wow you don't look good, you look really pale." I just started crying!! (I started my period the next day TMI I know) But the point of this is I don't have any pictures of all of the team at the end because Adam came and picked me up in Washington County. :( sad. But I am alive and my team did so good! I really did love it!

Predictable Labor Day:

2010-09-19T17:23:00.004-06:00

Labor day at the cabin: Predictable. Taylor teasing Cayli: Predictable. Going on a LONG walk: Predictable.

Playing games all night and all morning: Predictable. Cayli and I on a team: Predictable.

As soon as the new neighbors drive away from the cabin they are building we invite our selves in to snoop around: Predictable.

Lauren and Cayli: Predictable.

BYU vs Utah rivalry: Predictable.

Baby Caleb is Here!

2010-09-03T17:04:00.010-06:00

My sister and her husband's first boy! (And last supposedly, but I've heard that before) He was born on Danny's birthday! He is so cute! I love him already. Don't mind the awkward picture Adam took it! JK!

I think my dad loves babies, children and his stinky, barking, dogs more than anything in this world! Besides my mom of course!

Oh Bre, where do I start with you? Well she's 3. She cried when they told her it was a boy, she wanted a sister. She didn't like the name Caleb, so she said for months "My mom and dad are naming him Caleb but I'm naming him Jeffery." And at the hospital she kept saying "He cries like a lamb huh?" haha I always joke "Oh Bre you make me so baby hungry" in the most kind, loving way of course. Love you Bre!

Adam held the baby! haha he thinks they are scary until they can talk--we'll work on that later. Isn't Ali gorgeous? Her first day of kindergarten was Wednesday and the first thing she said about it was "We can't tear the paper off the crayons, it's a rule" I talked to her on the phone on the way to the hospital and she said "Lauren, Caleb came out today" I love her.

Congratulations Danny and Danielle!

Last of Texas

2010-08-29T17:26:00.005-06:00

Hangin out with the sister-in-laws, the ones that married Graff brothers. Love the beach house walls right? haha. Well in this picture we were all confessing our "guilty pleasures" and somehow we started watching Teen Mom on MTV and we all enjoyed it!!! haha OK I had the remote and they like it too! Also it was soooo hot and humid I could not be outside!

Rare occasion. JK But really it was so hot and humid I could not lay out very long! Hence the pale skin still.

Geo cashing!!! I love this! I keep hinting to Adam that we should geo cash sometime...aka lets buy a geo cash thing. We finally found it.

Do I really need to say anything about this picture? Other than I hope Adam survives skin cancer one day?

Texas Part 2

2010-08-29T17:14:00.006-06:00

Shark fishing! The girls caught a shark! Not that I contributed to this at all, but I was there. I was either standing over the edge puking my guts out or laying on a dirty bean bag

All of the girls! This is the few minutes that I wasn't as sick on the boat. We saw some dolphins right after this pic, it was sweet!

Adam with the fish the guys caught. I love him!

Mini golfing!

Adam and Brandon on a ride (I have no idea what its called and I was too chicken to go).

Texas Part 1

2010-08-29T16:54:00.008-06:00

It started off with Austin (Adam's little brother) and I rockin' the mini. Not really but this is where we will start. Austin says "I'm thinking about getting a minivan, I think I would get a ton of chicks at BYU because it lets them know I'm family oriented!" Who says/even thinks that?! Austin. I gave him better advice NOT to get the mini.

Finally to the beach houses. Ahhhh. Aren't they so cute? We stayed in the yellow one and Adam's cousins the Young's stayed in the blue and white house. There were beach houses lining the beach as far as you could see.

Adam and Brandon with their crab they caught. Adam loves crabbing!!!

Did we watch shark week up until the day before we went to the beach? Yes. Did I scare Adam in the middle of the ocean because I yelled "AH I think I just saw a shark"? Yes.

Adam and Austin at the fire.

Todd Packer from The Office

2010-07-31T20:39:00.005-06:00

Adam and I went to Wiseguys last night to see Todd Packer aka David Koechner! I had what I call a "perma-smile". I can't even explain how funny it was! It was seriously so funny. I've been quoting lines from it all day long!

Adam and I LOVE comedy! When we weren't even dating, well kinda dating, hanging out, starting to date, he was into me in a big way, you know that stage we were in. Well he came over to my house and we watched comedy for hours, we were sitting on the couch laughing so hard. Suddenly my laptop froze from all the downloads. Still frozen five minutes later. Perfect opportunity Adam goes in for it--for the first time! haha we laugh that our first kiss was when we were watching comedy and my computer froze, so comedy reminds me of kissin Adam! I love him!

Bee's Game Mess:

2010-07-31T20:13:00.005-06:00

Adam is the "jumpiest" person ever! You know where this is going: We barely sit down, Stu yelled "wow" because a foul ball was hit and coming into the crowd above us. Adam jumped and some how knocked Stu's brand new, no bite taken out of, hot dog onto the ground. Lets not forget that we had eaten sunflower seeds previously and spit the seeds on the ground (and in this ladies hair in front of us--oops) haha Stu ate the hot dog anyways, no surprise there :)

Have I said how much I love Sommer? I love her! We love to double with Stu and Sommer they are always so much fun.

Happy 24th!

2010-07-31T19:52:00.006-06:00

Realizing that our men were watching the fireworks together, how cute. Oops that should be us Sommer, we need to go be good wives and watch them with our husbands!

Clinton days fireworks with the fam + Rollins family--classic! We played some hard core Clue; Sommer won!

FISHER! How cute is he? He is such a good baby we love him! Adam always teases Stu and Sommer that we are his godparents! I think Adam thinks we actually are.

So I feel like you can say whatever you want on your blog so here I'm going to say it: I LOVE other peoples/friends babies, cousins, my nieces, love them! But here is the catch--not that we are in a hurry to have babies but the idea of having our own baby scares the hel* out of me! So for now we wait. We are on a "5 year plan". I know I am not a normal girl...Especially in Utah.

Funny story real quick. At the fireworks I mentioned something about our apartment to my niece Ali (she's 5). She says to me "your living in your apartment until your real house is built huh? Just like Katelyn" I say "well that is our real house, we're not building one yet" She says "Oh that's weird" haha I love her. She says the funniest things every time I see her.

2010-07-03T15:13:00.006-06:00

I received the kindest compliment from the treadmill yesterday. It said "User not detected on belt" why thank you treadmill I did lose a pound. THEN I received the weirdest comment of my life. I am on the treadmill trying to get it figured out and this older guy walks in and stands by my treadmill staring at me. I take out an ear bud and say "Yes?" and he says "Oh sorry, I just confused you with the girl that works at the Wendy's drive thru across the street!!!" Oh my gosh! "Nope not her" put the ear bud back in and try not to think too much about that comment ever again....Ever....

2010-06-21T17:50:00.003-06:00

I told you that I would be at a lot of REAL games this summer! Adam always gets us pretty sweet seats. Here is a tangent: I love seeing people from high school. Well not really, only a select few. But I saw this girl that was way better then me at soccer in high school, she thought she was so awesome. Well seeing her at the game I literally laughed out loud. And laughed again writing my friends texts about seeing her. I love carma. I am so rude....

Memorial Day

2010-06-21T17:22:00.005-06:00

Just to start this post off I would like to say that I was dressed before Adam. He copied me. And yes, walking up the trail everyone we passed made a comment about the U or us matching....On with Memorial Day...Adam and I hiked Adam's Canyon, it was so so fun! I haven't hiked Adam's canyon since high school, and in high school I swear I hiked it 15 times! So it was a good little walk down memory lane. My favorite part of the hike, story time: We were on our way back down and this family was coming up the trail. They were at a part where you either scale this boulder or walk in the little stream. Well this mom was trying to get all 4 of her kids across this rock and her husband was in the back ground picking his nose waiting for them to get across. We were waiting as well. Well the mom got scared and started yelling at Adam to help her! So Adam steps on a rock in the stream and it falls so his foot is soaking and this lady is all freaked out that her kids will fall into 2'' of water! I am just standing on the other side laughing like is this really happening? Adam was so mad. At this same time the kids make it across fine and continue hiking. Adam was all mad that his foot is wet and that this lady just yelled at him. He says "the worst part is she didn't say thank you and she was wearing a BYU hat" hahaha. I always think these stories are funny but after I write them I'm not so sure. Maybe you just had to be there. Why do weird things always happen to us?

Back to Blogging!

2010-06-21T17:15:00.002-06:00

Lets first start with apologies: I am sorry to all of my friends that have left messages, texts ect and I have not returned them. I have been MIA for about 3 weeks. Why? Well I just got a new job working 8 hours a day (not used to that), my online classes have been time suckers, and that is about the gist of it. Good news is that I am starting to like my new job! AND our apartment is starting to smell like 'Scentsy' instead of smoke and dog pee. I don't have anything else to say for this post.

FMSC

2010-05-22T22:02:00.005-06:00

OK, lets talk friends. Adam and I just got back from a "meeting" with some friends. We want to bring FMSC to Utah--Provo area in September. Feed My Starving Children is a Christian non-denominational charity. Which I think is awesome! We need to raise $19,000; we already have $4,000. FMSC has never been to Utah before and we think that it would be such a success in here. Our friend Isaac has volunteered with this program back east and he absolutely loved it and contacted the agency to bring it to Utah for the first time. Often we find ourselves wanting to give service but we don't know where or how to go about it. This is a great opportunity, I am very excited about it and I'm sure you would love it too! Please see the website: http://www.fmsc.org/. If any of you would like to donate and/or volunteer your time, and yes, children are welcome and encouraged to come; please let me know!

How is Adam Liking His Internship?

2010-05-18T12:40:00.003-06:00

Well its hard to tell...This was day 2, he comes home reaches for the Ben and Jerrys, actually its Dryers, and then falls asleep twenty minutes later which is about 7:30 PM. Meanwhile I have been looking forward to him coming home all day...Lame. But it has gotten better. He has finally gotten used to getting up early and used to working a 9-5 (I need to get me one of those--9-5's I mean). He is so cute!

Graduation! YEAH!!!

2010-05-18T12:12:00.006-06:00

One of the reasons, (and probably my only reason along with our cute sunbeams) why Adam and I are so sad to move from our old ward--Alycia and Trevor! We love them! We would sit together almost every Sunday at church, they are so cute! And Trevor and I are awesome and our college's commencement was at the same time!

Our awesome parents

This blog post just wouldn't be complete without a picture of Adam and Dan. :)

Lennon and Sharla Adam's cousin's. Their colleges graduation was at the same time. Sharla is smart and got her Ph.D in physical therapy! Go Sharla. The thought of even getting my masters makes me weak...

Bre and I, I think we have a similar picture from high school graduation--4 years ago!

My Life is a Joke

2010-05-18T11:48:00.005-06:00

Why is my life a joke? Let me list the reasons...So #1 we moved into our new apartment and it smells like a casino mixed with dog pee. Am I a freak about smells? Yes. So here I am renting carpet cleaners, febreezing like crazy, and complaining to management everyday--yes, everyday, they now know my name and hate me but whatever. #2 we have no Internet or cable in this pee/smoke infested house--yet. So I have had ample time to clean and organize. Is it done yet? No. I am going crazy with no internet and home by myself all day!!! #3 I do not have a job yet. #4 Job hunting is lame.

We have these two older men that are our neighbors and I have become good friends with Tom. I talked to him for an hour yesterday! haha he is so funny, I like him except for the fact that he is one of the reasons our house smells so nasty. I need to stop talking about people but I just can't help it...So I went to get the mail the other day and there were these two people outside I politely say "hello" and suddenly I find myself two new bff's and thirty minutes later trying to end the conversation and leave. So the lady has two guinea pigs and starts telling me about why she thinks one of them--Delilah is going to die and how sad she is. She volunteers at the DI, she's from Idaho, I know this lady's life story. Her neighbor Spencer is completely wasted and its only 12:30 on a Friday, He is crazy I had to tell him I'm married probably 5 times because he kept forgetting, he told me all about his son who's mama was his high school girlfriend bla bla bla, I know his life story too. The problem with these two new friends of mine is that they live right next to the office, mailboxes, pool, and laundry. I can never escape them! I have to see them everyday and have long conversations. I attract weird people and I can't help it.

That is the end of my story. Actually my life is good, I need to not complain---well maybe only to the management of our complex. haha

OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY!

2010-05-02T15:00:00.006-06:00

YEAH! We just had our first anniversary Saturday! We seriously cannot believe it has been a year, it has gone by SO fast! I LOVE Adam! He is the best husband ever! Sadly we are right in the middle of finals, Adam had to go to a study group (lame) in the middle of the day. That afternoon Adam brought me home flowers and chocolate cover strawberries! We went out to dinner at the Melting Pot in Salt Lake. It was so so good I don't even care if I gained five pounds there, give me another five for that cheesy and chocolatey goodness! YUM. We loved it! I love Adam so much, it was such a great day to spend with him. I love you Adam! Happy Anniversary (yesterday)!

A Few From Our First Place...

2010-05-02T14:41:00.005-06:00

I am so sad to move!!! I love our apartment, friends, ward, everything...AH! Lets stay Adam! We are moving Friday (yes, right after graduation) and Saturday. I need to start packing....

Too bad our computer room is chucked full of boxes and who knows what else not blog worthy. I have nothing else to say about this post...

Lets Talk About Adam

2010-04-18T15:13:00.005-06:00

My husband is so cute!! He is seriously the funniest person I know...he has been so out of control lately, I think because of his lack of sleep from being a good student and finals coming up.

Last night he fell asleep during a movie we were watching, he sat up suddenly "Shhhh Shh What is going on?" grabs his belt off the floor and starts trying to use it as a remote--looking so pathetic and confused, so I turn down the TV and he says "Oh can I have that?" No. "OK" and falls asleep.
I try to wake him up to go to bed after the movie was over and he got all upset with me saying "don't touch me you just want to tease me, leave me alone" bla bla bla I just make it worse because I laugh, he storms off to bed. Can he recall this happening this morning? NO! haha I married a crazy person.
In bed he was being all cute and cuddly as if he didn't even remember getting mad at me 2 minutes ago. Then starts talking crazy talk. "You stay there I will be there to deal with your problems in a minute." He turns over and started making a business deal talking numbers, finance, and economics. Can he remember this in the morning? No.

Now about Adam when he is not asleep or sleep talking: Adam loves to make scenes in public and embarrass me! And it works...

He picked me up after class one day and there were a ton of my classmates and other people walking out of my building, I'm 10 feet from the car he rolls down the window and starts YELLING at me to get in the car acting all angry. Everyone is staring at me! Of course he was kidding, only I knew that...And of course these are all psych majors and social work majors...Adam! My face is red writing this.
Whenever we are walking into a store and there are people around he will turn to me and say "Listen, try not to embarrass me in here OK!" People think he is such a jerk and I just laugh, what would you think if you heard that!
In the grocery store line I put a pack of gum on the counter and he says loud "What do you think we're made of money" Embarrassing...the checker usually feels pretty awkward.
The only time I didn't have my wallet with me and he knew it--we were in a frozen yogurt place and we were being rung up, Adam at the last second says "Oh these are separate" I say "No they are not, they are together" Adam looks at me and says "Na separate" Me "No together" The cashier, this little 16 year old says "Um...so...um...which...." haha this one i was way embarrassed about! People were behind us in line.

Adam sounds so mean when I read these! He's really not! And he doesn't do this all the time...well...yeah a lot of times but not all the time. He just likes to do dumb things to make me laugh or get a reaction out of me or other people! I love him!

Short Story...

2010-04-18T15:00:00.002-06:00

So I'll make this short. Today at church our Sunbeam Sammy sat by us during sacrament since his dad is in the bishopric and his mom was home with his sick brothers. He likes looking through my purse, he put on some hand sanitizer, really enjoyed the car remote clicker thing, so he's just going through there and finds a tampon. I try to distract him...in no time he has it riped open and says "hey its a pencil" I start laughing try to take it and he starts swinging it around by the string! Oh my gosh, I was trying not to laugh and my eyes were watering...maybe you had to be there to find this funny...It was! He is so CUTE! We just love him. We are going to miss him so much when we leave!

What Women Want

2010-04-18T14:45:00.004-06:00

This weekend Adam went camping to fulfil his 'fly fishing class', perfect timing to have the What Women Want Expo at the South Towne Expo Center. My mom and sister Danielle came to Salt Lake for it. It was so fun. We went to the expo (I got some new jeans!) then did some more shopping and finished it off by eating at the Lion House--yum! It was a successful night, so much fun! And yes, Danielle is 4 months pregnant, please let me look like her when I'm pregnant!

Timpanogas Temple

2010-04-11T14:35:00.005-06:00

The only picture that Adam doesn't have his sunglasses on...story of my life! This Saturday we went to a sealing at the Timpanogas Temple. What a beautiful spring day. This is almost exactly one year since I went through the temple--this temple--for the first time.

The Down-Size!

2010-04-11T14:12:00.008-06:00

Can I start by saying I love Tawni, yes. So the top picture was of our first apartment we each had our own bedrooms and our own closet. Tawni and decided we had had enough of "Rebel Creek" and moved into a house across the street from campus our second year of college. It was so fun! BUT we shared a room...TINY room! I'm not complaining because I loved it, we had so much fun! This is what it looked like about 75% of the time. No biggie, we just laughed at it most of the time; and heck we saved rent!

So here I am downsizing now that I am married. Adam and I are moving! I am happy and sad at the same time. We are moving to West Jordan to be close to REAL Salt Lake for his internship. Here is the problem. Adam and I are moving from a two bedroom two bathroom apartment into a one bedroom one bathroom tiny tiny place! It is super cute and nice, and it doesn't hurt that the complex has a big pool, BUT it is so small. We are going to have to put half of our stuff into storage aka my moms extra bedroom. And now I don't think its socially acceptable to have a house that looked like our old bedrooms! Wish me luck!

Over-Population

2010-03-31T21:44:00.006-06:00

Welcome to Developmental and Personality Psych 3260. Last week we debated day-care and it got heated, I was afraid there was going to be a fight after class or something. Now our professor has to say "Now lets discuss this, but not let it get so heated like the day-care discussion did." Monday I sat on a panel and answered questions about why I consider myself to be "very feminine" or "womanly" and questions about the things I like to do bla bla. I now feel like the whole class knows too much about me; and thinks I am ridiculas because I haven't put gas in my own car for months--my husband is so good to me. Anyways...today we were discussing teen sexuality. During the class discussion our professor asked the class "why should teenagers not have sex?" This Chinese boy in the back raises his hand first and confidently says with his cute Chinese accent: "over-population!" Our class was laughing so hard! And the best part was he didn't know why we thought that was funny. Oh I love these psych classes of mine...

Happy Birthday Tawni Crabtree!

2010-03-28T15:27:00.004-06:00

Happy Birthday Tawni!! Today is my best friend Tawni's birthday. I love her! We became best friends in 8th grade. We ran the 4x4 together in track and we would walk home together everyday and we have been best friends since. We were roommates in St. George, some of the best memories! She is still there working and going to school to be a master estitition! I miss her so much. But it is great that we can always visit when we go down to St. George to see Adam's family. Happy birthday Tawn!

These Two...

2010-03-28T15:16:00.005-06:00

Dan and Adam...where can I start with these two...Well Adam and Dan have been best friends for years and they lived together when Adam and I were dating. I love Dan. He is awesome. Our house was a mess when he came over and I didn't think twice about it. He is like family--even though I clean when family comes over. So Dan came over on Saturday to celebrate Adam's birthday. They got pizza, watched basketball, and played video games all night. What would any normal girl do in that situation? I went shopping! Did Adam complain? No. He encouraged it! I want Dan to come over more often. It was awesome. Adam wanted me to pick up ice cream on the way home because "they had a surprise for me." Hello molten lava cakes! It was amazing. I am going to blame this dessert if I get diabetes in the next week or so though! It was so good. Happy Birthday again Adam!

The Internship...

2010-03-28T15:03:00.003-06:00

Well the title pretty much says it all. Adam got the internship that he wanted at REAL Salt Lake! YEAH! We are so excited. If you are looking for me this summer just come to the soccer game I'm sure I will be there. So we are moving to Sandy after we graduate for three months then maybe to Orem, or we might just stay in Sandy--who knows. Then to MBA school in a year--another who knows where comment. But we are very excited!!! That is pretty much all I have to say for this post.

Adam Turns 26!

2010-03-25T23:38:00.004-06:00

Happy Birthday Adam!!! His birthday was on Tuesday, March 23rd. Not to be confused with my best friend Tawni's birthday which is on the 28th! Yes, I confused their birthdays a few times in the past and Adam never lets me live it down. I married the most amazing guy in the whole world! Here are some funny things about him and some of the reasons I absolutely adore him:

1. This picture says it all: he is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, a real "man's man" and I love it!
2. He has ADHD....that says a lot! He is so fun to be around especially without his medicine, I think I am a bad influence on him and I tell him not to take it--don't tell his mom
3. He is afraid to hold or touch babies under about 6 months--they make him nervous! haha hopefully that will change one day...
4. He is the funniest person that I know! I think he should be a comedian He makes me laugh everyday!
5. He eats just like my little brother and Stuart Rollins, picky, picky, picky it drives me crazy! He calls it a disorder now...whatever!
6. Adam has such a strong personality sometimes I get nervous when he disagrees with someone in public because he is not afraid to tell them what he thinks. I secretly like it though!
7. He got kicked out of BYU.
8. He now loves the U
9. He has about 15 Polo Ralph Lauren polo shirts in 15 different colors that he loves to wear--all the time--I now don't wash them if I don't want him to wear them.
10. He is so so so sweet and kind, he has such a big heart, he is so good to me!
11. Adam is so protective and sweet to me. His brother says he is my pit bull. Another nick name I like to use for him.
12. Adam always makes up ridicules songs and sings them to me once, but will never repeat the same song twice! He is crazy!
13. He is picky about his hair and no one likes to cut it because of that reason!

Happy Birthday Ad, I love you!

Vaycay Time

2010-03-25T23:05:00.005-06:00

I thought spring break would never come! We have been so busy we just needed to get away for a few days. We called this vacation--spring break, Adam's birthday, and our anniversary (since we will be in the middle of finals on our anniversary--lame) Like I have mentioned before, Adam is taking 21 credits and we just needed some time to chill and hang out together. And that is exactly what we did! I highly recommend The Johnson Mill in Heber! So beautiful, we had so much fun and we also got a great deal because Adam's friend Darrien's parents own it. I love knowing people...Another thing I love is Park City we spent a lot of time shopping and eating there, two more things that I love!

Our room, I shouldn't brag and say we stayed in the nicest room... But we did--we got a great deal! And I loved it! We had so much fun! I wish we were still there. I am pretty set on getting a king bed in the near future too! I realize that lately I have been demanding/requesting/asking a lot from Adam on this blog! haha

It was so beautiful!!!

Dear Adam,

2010-03-21T13:12:00.006-06:00

I would really really love two of these puppies. And an over sized pink puppy carrying purse. That is all.

Love your sweet wife,

Lauren

Re-Uniting with Girl Friends

2010-03-07T14:22:00.004-07:00

Nikki and Elyse! They are so cute, I love them. Thanks for throwing the shower Nikki; and Elyse thanks for having the baby and sharing so many funny stories...Love it!

All of the girls at the shower! We had so much fun!

I love Michelle. She was one of my best friends in high school and in college, we were roommates in Dixie for a year. That was a fun year; we had fun reminiscing on our Freshman year together and all of the ridicules things that we did. She is also a psych major and she told me an interesting fact: When women talk and laugh together there are some hormones released that make you happy. Men cannot get a women to release these hormones. So get together with girl friends more often!

I love my friends! Friday was Elyse's baby shower and it was so fun to catch up with some of my old high school and college girl friends. I love them. I will start by saying Elyse looks amazing...she is so cute pregnant and her baby is going to be so beautiful, I am so excited for her and Jared. We went to our usual restaurant--Red Robin in Layton-- always delicious. The party started at 7 and I didn't get home until 11:30. We had a lot to talk about!

My Life is Average

2010-02-24T22:05:00.004-07:00

So I have recently been introduced to this new site by my friend Kim, obviously it is called My Life is Average. Random people just write everyday things that happen to them that they think are funny. I think my life is pretty average too.

Why am I even on the computer right now writing this new post? Well that is a good question. I have consumed the caloric intake of a 500 lb obese man today. I decide it would be a good idea to hit the gym up. Being that I just went to the gym I think to myself that I should probably not eat something fatty when I get home. For some reason I steam broccoli...I know...now I feel so sick and our house stinks and this is the only room that I can be in that won't make me want to vomit. So here I sit. And something sad just happened to me. I went to get into the shower and decided to see what damage I have done today and got on the scale. Well I stepped on it weird and it make a crack noise!!! What do you think when your scale makes a crack noise? This should be something to laugh at but no I am on my period so it made me feel bad. Then I was in the shower and laughed that I felt bad about that! Poor Adam has to deal with this....

Speaking of the gym. There is this little Mexican man about 5'4 named Manny. He talked to Adam and I once and I never thought anything of it. The next time I am there without Adam he seeks me out and asks if that guy is my friend, boyfriend, husband....CREEP! HUSBAND Manny, that guy I was with is my husband, now stop talking to me! So he continues to try to talk to me every time I am there. Why do we have the same gym schedule? And why has Adam suddenly gone anti gym on me? Ug...Now I pretend not to see him or hear him pretending my ipod is really up that loud. I should be more creeped out by him but we are about the same height and weight so I know I could take him.

Tuesday in one of my classes I am just sitting there wishing the time would pass sooner, not paying attention. This kid behind me raises his hand and says "hey I'm 8 years old and I still suck on my mothers tit!" What! Did he just say that?? Oh gosh...needless to say we were talking about Freud and his psychosexual stages theory.

In this same class there is this funny looking but very polite girl sitting in the front. There are probably 40 people in this class. The teacher is lecturing and someone in the back sneezes, this girl turns and says "bless you" to him. Weird. Then it happens two more times! She keeps saying bless you in the middle of class. Our teacher snapped finally and said "OK no more!" At least she is polite. Then I think to myself who are all of these weird psych majors I am surrounded by on a daily basis?

In this same class I have gotten my first D+ on a test in college.....oops...And yes, this same class is where Kim introduced me to this website. Go figure.

Last semester in my health psych class I was sitting by this girl who was typing vigorously. I knew she couldn't have been taking notes so being nosy I start reading what she was writing on her laptop. I was in for a shock. She was writing some love drama/soap opera that was kinky, crazy and actually kind of sad. I would try to sit by her every class. I am such a bad person but it was so funny I couldn't help it. My group wasn't there for an assignment once so I asked her if I could be in her group so I could see what she was like aside from her writing. I am a bad person but that was so intriguing. And no she never got to the end. I wonder who ended up with the baby?

The Salt Lake Wal-Mart is the scariest place ever! I think a guy tried to sell me drugs once but I didn't understand what he was saying since I don't know all of the drug users lingo. I won't go there alone, I will go with Adam but only if he carries his concealed, and even then I am jumpy. The last time literally the last time I was at Wal-Mart alone a bird almost flew into me in the parking lot which is more traumatic to me than a normal person since I am scared of birds. Then in line this crazy lady butts me! What? Really? I was just too afraid of her to say anything. Good thing Adam wasn't there he would have gotten us in a fight or even killed. This place is crazy.

I can't tell this whole story but the gist of it is that Adam got in a fight with the Blockbuster guy because they double charged us $4! I laughed so hard when Adam was telling me this story. He held up the line for five minutes and they were yelling at each other over $4...

Adam has a math tutor from the university. So he texts his tutor about their meeting time and he gets this text back the next day: "Yes, we can meet at 3. I was in bed asleep last night when you texted me. You should never text me after 9 and defiantly not after 1o. We laughed at that for a few days. At least his tutor is good at math.

Rollins-Graff Time= Always a Good Time

2010-02-17T17:11:00.012-07:00

On Presidents Day (BOO president Obama) we went to lunch at Chili's--we finally decided after much indecisiveness on our part; ate at the smallest table ever, where they double charged us after looking at our bank account the next day.... To our next stop: the Aquarium in Sandy! So here is our picture....Oh yeah and please notice that every time we hang out Stu is wearing BYU attire or something dark blue and Adam puts on every Utah item he owns. Love it.

Valentines Day 2010

2010-02-17T16:43:00.008-07:00

Stealing this idea from Facebook:

Adam and I met in May 2008 in a singles ward at the Dixie State 4th ward. That was my ward, Adam was home for the summer, once he met me that was his new ward too. :) He convinced me to ditch my plan of Utah State and to move to Provo, the only place in Utah I never wanted to end up. But at the end of the summer his charm had done me in and I was his official "Provo girl". (I hated it when he would call me that). We dated for a year and we were married on May 1, 2009. We now live in Salt Lake and love married life.

Valentines 2010--our cute little candle light dinner

Valenties 2009--notice that my nails are done....you can give me that ring anytime now Adam...anytime now would be great! Luckily for me (or should I say him) a week later we were engaged.

Sunbeam Time

2010-01-25T13:19:00.006-07:00

We have been the sunbeams teachers for a few months now. We LOVE it! We had three sunbeams for a few months, but because of the class changes for the new year we only have one now--Sammy. He is so funny. Funniest kid I have ever met. Adam and I come home from church laughing and trying to remember all of the funny things he says to us. We know all about his family, his dog Benny and cat Sasha and the new movies he sees. This picture is of him and Adam playing with his favorite toys the pig and the dog. He loves hiding them and having us try to find them. The window seal behind them is where he likes to leave two cookies every week, so when we come back to class the next week he eats the two stale cookies in the window seal and has a new bag as well. My favorite thing has to be that he always calls Adam "Sister Graff". hahah "Sister Graff I'm hungry I need a treat" looking right at Adam. Adam has worked hard to teach him the difference but he still gets confused and just calls us both sister Graff. So many funny stories, probably more funny for me and Adam. :)

Soup Kitchen, Ice Skating, Hot Chocolate, Games--Thank You Martin Luther King Day!

2010-01-25T13:01:00.008-07:00

We do have friends and we do hang out with them!

2010-01-25T12:42:00.006-07:00

Meighan and Jared and their combination pizza. We got this game for Christmas--Love Tawni--called "Dirty Minds" It is SO funny! This is us waiting for the pizza to cook playing this game.

Dan and Amanda with their pizza. Dan is holding the dessert the guys made, it was impressive!

Playing "Match Mate" This game was so funny! Such a couples game...

Two of the four pizzas we made. They were so good!

"The Battle Station"

2010-01-25T12:30:00.005-07:00

Sweet tarts, Doritos, Empty bag of bread, can of Country Time Lemonade, half a bottled water with a missing lid...welcome to our computer room or as Adam would call this "His battle station". I went to bed pretty early the other night and Adam was up doing homework until who knows how late I wake up the next day to this! Yikes. I didn't even know we had that much junk in our kitchen let a lone our computer room. I just had to take a picture of this. This is just such an "Adam thing" to do. I love him! He is taking 21 credits! Who does that?! But I am so happy that he is trying to finish school so fast so I won't complain.

Goodbye 2009!

2010-01-10T13:55:00.004-07:00

A few things that have happened in 2009:

1. February 21, 2009 Adam and I got engaged
2. May 1, 2009 we were married in the Bountiful Temple
3. We went on an amazing Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon
4. After we came home we both started summer school at the University of Utah
5. Still at the U...no one has gotten kicked out yet! Sorry Adam had to throw that in there! haha
6. We have replaced both of our cars this year. Adam's truck was totalled in an accident--sad. And we sold the Focus, I know about time!
7. We are now Sunbeam teachers in our ward! We teach the 3 and 4 year olds. We love it. They are so much fun and that is birthcontrol in and of itself.
8. We won the gingerbread house making competition against Stu and Sommer Rollins AKA team Rollins
9. The U has requested that we join the honor society, that has never happened to either of us when we were single. I guess being married really does make you a better student.
10. We are experiencing all of the "firsts" of being married. For example this year was out first Thanksgiving married, Christmas and New Years. We still have a few more to go in 2010.

Christmas 2009 Part 2

2009-12-29T17:23:00.001-07:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Christmas time in SLC!

2009-12-21T23:43:00.006-07:00

Salt Lake is so awesome! We really love it here. I wish we could stay here forever, well maybe not, but we love it! So my dear friend Breanna told me about some awesome places to go to look at lights in Salt Lake:
Christmas Street was so cute. It was just a little cul-de-sac with all of the houses decorated with lights and decorations. They even had their own Christmas tree in the middle of the street.

This was our favorite house on Christmas Street
Bible Street: This was our favorite! This neighborhood told of Christ's birth with pictures and scriptures from the Bible. There were over 30 of these signs. Everyone driving through the neighborhood turned their lights off to drive through looking at the pictures and reading the scriptures. Here are a few pictures that actually turned out on my camera:

Sunday with the Nieces

2009-12-21T23:02:00.007-07:00

Story time: So my little niece Alison who just turned five was at McDonald's with my mom, on the TV popped up President Obama and Nancy Pelosi wearing elf hats. Ali says "Hey that looks like Adam and Lauren!!" What! Nancy Pelosi Ali? Come on! Adam and I created an elf dance on the Internet that she saw it was called "Elf Yourself" we had elf hats on and danced; so that is why she thought we looked like Obama and Pelosi. The same picture came up again a few minutes later and Ali said "I really think that is Adam and Lauren" haha she is so funny.

The girls LOVE playing hide and seek! I think we must be the only ones who plays it with them because whenever we see them that is their favorite thing. Adam was too big to hide anywhere so he put the mask on to be funny. This is Breanne getting mad at Adam because he "isn't hiding" "Go hide in the Barbie tent so I can find you" they are so funny.

I love my nieces, they are so cute and so much fun!

They want to grow up to be just like auntie Lauren. Sorry Danielle.

Gingerbread Making at its Best!

2009-12-20T14:15:00.006-07:00

The workstation

Stu and Sommer--their roof is not staying up!

Adam and I showing off our masterpiece

Team Rollins

Team Graff

My dear husband Adam loves to talk--trash that is--I will explain. So Sommer and I were texting about hanging out over the Christmas break and trying to come up with some things that we could do. Adam tells to to tell Sommer that we could making gingerbread houses and how our gingerbread house would be so much cooler than theirs bla bla bla. So the competition was on. Not to mention that we have had this planned for over 3 weeks because of finals and busy holiday activities. Last night we finally had the competition! Long awaited and anticipated. We even set the timer on the microwave and everything. Adam and Stu were out of control! Talking trash on each other saying things like "Stu I wish you could get control of your wife", "We have been married longer than you two, maybe one day you will understand." Then Stu started eating some of our house Adam was outraged. We always have so much fun with Stu and Sommer! We planned on just showing up at one of our neighbors to have them judge it, but was anyone home? Saturday night--No. So we sent picture messages to my cute little brother Taylor, did he text us or call us back? No. His response was "On a date" over text. Still haven't heard from him!!! So there is still no winner so far. But I would say ours is pretty sweet. :)

Christmas 2009 Part 1

2009-12-13T14:41:00.003-07:00

When Adam has time in between finals I am so so happy to spend any time I can get with him. This adventure: GATEWAY! Best mall ever. We always have so much fun there. It was so COLD! I was dying, but we found this awesome firepit--that I now want in our future back yard! :)

Lesson #1 of our first Christmas: Let Adam stay home and watch football, do not bring him Christmas shopping. This picture is the result of 3 hours of shopping. Sorry Adam, lesson learned.

Our First Christmas tree!! WOOO

Christmas Ideas

2009-12-05T12:08:00.000-07:00

Christmas Ideas

Thanksgiving 2009

2009-11-28T17:22:00.004-07:00

Last Thanksgiving Adam was on a cruise without me--sad! I missed him so much. But this year was much better because we were together! We had Thanksgiving in St. George with Adam's huge family. It was a lot of fun. The girls were killer in the kitchen and Adam and his brothers did a great job at watching TV I guess? haha. Actually they helped a lot with putting up Christmas lights. The next morning Ashley, Kim (my sister-in-laws) and I did some black Friday shopping, we are a success story. Then a few hours later all of the girls went to the Dixie Center for more shopping. It was so much fun. When we got home I crashed. And my sleep is still thrown off...

Happy Birthday Dan Richey!

2009-11-28T17:07:00.005-07:00

Adam and I think we should start a surprise party throwing business because of our latest success. We threw a surprise party for Adam's best friend Dan and it was successful!! He had no idea! Happy Birthday Dan! We love you!

"Witches Night Out"

2009-11-20T15:44:00.003-07:00

Witches Night Out! Loved it! Thanks Bre and Emily!

"Traditions, Traditions" (Fiddler on the Roof) haha

2009-11-20T15:37:00.003-07:00

Adam and I have tried to make many traditions. TRIED--one Adam came up with was mac n' cheese on Halloween, that only made it one year. BUT one that may stick (as long as we are in Utah) is that we love to drive American Fork Canyon on conference weekend. It was so beautiful this year! And Adam's outfit is so hot!! haha

Spending Some Time With the Coombs Family!

2009-11-20T15:23:00.003-07:00

I don't care that all of my blog posts are out of order, bla bla bla. I have other things I need to worry about--maybe my homework? Na. Anyways, we have had a lot of family time with my family since we now live so close. I LOVE IT!! We went to my cousin Cole's football game, ShayLyn's soccer game, Taylor's Mr. Northridge pagent, out to eat with the fam quite a few times, and of course some cabin time!! Woo

Cake Aution Anyone?

2009-11-20T15:17:00.002-07:00

Our ward had a fabulous cake auction, Adam and I cashed in on some awesome cakes--yes we bought more than one!!! We figured it went towards a good cause and we could go to the gym later...(Still need to go).

Pre-wedding events

2009-11-06T16:19:00.004-07:00

If you know me well you know that I was not a typical girl when it came to wedding planning, I just wanted to get married, the planning was a not fun--hence the luncheon only thing we went with. BUT I did love wedding showers and parties with my friends and family!

After the wedding...

2009-11-06T16:08:00.005-07:00

Adam and I went on an amazing honeymoon after we were married. We went on a Caribbean Cruise! We loved it!! I can't wait until we are rich and travel more! (haha in a long time). Two of our stops were canceled, one because of the Swine Flu and another because of rioting, but thats fine, we were on our honeymoon!

Our Wedding!

2009-11-06T15:50:00.002-07:00

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