Watch Dog? Hmmmm

Well, Abbie likes to think that she is all tough and would protect us if anything were to happen, but the other night Bryce shoved a pretzel up her nose while she was sleeping and she didn't even move, flinch, smell anything out of the ordinary or open an eye. The funny thing was that after he did it I thought, crap that was a once in a lifetime picture with a dog and a pretzel up her nose. So I made him do it again, low and behold twice in a row, pretzel up the nose and nothing! Maybe she was having a really good dream. Watch dog or not, we love you just the same.

PS...don't worry, there were no animals injured during this act, and she did get two pretzels out of it.

8 years

Today is the day I woke up 8 years ago, and changed my life for ever. I married my best friend, Bryce Daren Stevenson. It wasn't always such a love fest however. In high school we started off really not liking one another all that much. I grew up, he went on a mission, and there you pretty much have it, we've been happy ever since. It's amazing to me sometimes to think about finding "the one", and how hard that should be with a whole sea of fish out there. Thank goodness it wasn't for me. 19 rolled around pretty quick, I met Bryce, and 6 months later we were married. I posted a new playlist of songs that remind me of Bryce. The first one is, "to make you feel my love", by Garth Brooks. Bryce sang and played this when he proposed to me at the Timbermine Resturaunt, (we both cried, and I said yes!) Next, "I wanna grow old with you", by Adam Sandler. Bryce used to sit on the couch across from me and just play and sing songs to me, after we were engaged, this is one he would play for me. (I would get a little teary eyed). Lastly, I thought of, "All because two people fell in love", by Brad Paisley. Bryce heard this song for the first time on his way to the temple to marry me. He later told us at the luncheon about this song he heard today, and how he thought how true that song was, he was so grateful that our parents fell in love, and how there is this big chain of events that happens to people because you fall in love. Because of that love, we were there today. He explained it much better than I just did, and I think we all cried a little on that one! I woke up this morning to a light snow flurry, wind and probably 35 deg., definitely not the beautiful spring day we were married on, flowers in bloom, a little rain however, but everything looked so alive, and not still dormant. Bryce, babe, I love you, you know that. I can't wait to see what the next 8 years bring us. We have definitely been through some rough and good times together, and the best thing about it was that I didn't have to go through things alone. You have a pretty boney shoulder, but that has not stopped you from letting me sob on it time and time again. Thank you for putting up with my emotions, craziness, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Thank you for making me laugh and for making me so happy. I cannot wait to spend all of eternity with you, my best friend, companion, oh husband of mine, I love you more than words can express.
Happy Anniversary!!
Love, your Lady Cakes.


*Sorry the pictures were taken from pictures, so they don't look that great.

manual labor??

It's been awhile since my dearest has had to hold a hammer or a nail gun in his hand. The only thing he holds anymore is his cell phone or a golf club. Don't get me wrong, Bryce does work hard, it's just not that manual labor that he once had to do. But for the past month, Bryce has been framing in a basement for the Stoker's on his Saturday's. I know he has enjoyed refreshing his memory on how to do a lot of these things that he used to not have to think twice about, but now does. I just wanted to tell Bryce how amazing he is. He is the true meaning of service, he does it so selflessly, and I love him for that. You are a good man babe. (now if I could only get you to do my crap around the house so easily)

Doesn't he look so cute doing his manual labor and all? And that tool belt, AHHHH!!!

Yeah, FedEx!!

Well this morning, it was official, good old FedEx delivered our passports/visas. I'm starting to think this trip is really going to happen, yeah for FedEx, and for us!!!

Passports and Visas, Oh My!!

Well, a couple of days ago, Bryce and I just decided that we finally need to take that trip to Brasil that we are always saying we'll do, but don't. Within the last couple of days we've looked into airports, visas, hotels, transportation, restaurants, old mission spots, and of course the places that he never got to see before. And the best part about it, is we will be leaving next month. I can't believe we are finally going, and Bryce especially, is on cloud nine with having the thought of visiting the place that he loved so much. To this day, many years later, he seriously lights up when he talks about the mission, I really love that about him. He loved the people, the place and the food. We honestly can't walk into a grocery store without him holding up a piece of fruit and saying, "this is nothing compared to the avocados in Brasil, they are this big in Brasil." And most of you that know Bryce can picture his eyes growing the size of that avocado as he's explaining it. In a whole, it's quite overwhelming, I've never planned anything like this before, especially in a foreign country. We are so blessed that we are able to do this right now in our lives, I can't wait to go with Bryce and share what I'm sure will be very spiritual moments in the places that he grew so much. Brasil, ready or not, here we come!! (well,only if we can get our visas in time)

"lovely" day, isn't it?

I know I know all of you who will be reading this will be saying, "that's not true, my husband is the best", but I truly think mine is. Bryce gave me a fantastic weekend filled with lots of Bryce time. We always celebrate our Valentine's the day before, trying to avoid crowds as much as possible. We went to the Sego Lily Day Spa and had a couples massage and facials, ahhhhh, can I just live there? It was very relaxing, and much needed. Then we went home and he told me to get ready because he had something else planned, threw me in the bedroom and told me not to come out until he came and got me. He then escorted me out to the kitchen, and he and some of our friends,the Stoker's, ended up coming over and the men ended up cooking us a wonderful steak dinner, baked potatoes, salad, they had bought us both flower arrangements and had the table all set around them, even with a lit candle, it was great. I know your probably thinking, well it would have been more romantic with just the two of them. But I'm thinking, just the fact that Bryce planned something was fantastic, I'm usually the one planning the stuff, so it was refreshing to see him putting forth some effort. He even went ahead of time and rented a couple of chick flicks for us to watch. It was really fun, thoughtful, and most of it was romantic. Thanks honey, I had a great Valentines weekend. I love you, definetly don't deserve you, your the best! On another "lovely" note, my little sister got engaged on Valentine's Day to a wonderful guy named Parker Cornaby. Congratulations you two, we are so excited for you, it's about time!!

oh no you didn't

Help me understand, I don't get this whole blogging thing. Someones names will be on my blog I will be on there's, and we make comments on one anothers blogs, back and forth, back and forth, almost like friends would, and then bam, you get on one day and they've gone private, and have failed to invite you. What is that all about? No invite or anything, boom there just gone, as if the comments back and forth have meant nothing to them. It really hurts my ego to have been black listed like that, and you know who you are. I always thought that my comments were quite entertaining, I guess I'll just keep them to myself. If you ever find it in your busy schedules to invite me back into your lives, please let me know. "FRIENDS" ha!

angel tree

We always do something for someone that is in need this time of year with our families, and both of our families said to just do it on our own. So Bryce and I decided to do the Angel Tree. Can I just say how depressing that was? We showed up on the last day that they were accepting gifts at Shopko, and wouldn't ya know that tree was still full of names, I had the hardest time narrowing it down to just one, at one point I left the tree with three names in my hand, and Bryce told me, "no, just one". So we spoiled one little girl named Shaylee but it honestly broke my heart thinking that all these kids were not going to get any presents!! Please, someone ease my mind, I need to think that there is something that goes on behind the scenes, and everyone ends up getting presents whether there names were drawn or not, please someone please put my mind at ease.

a day of thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my loved ones and dear friends. As I woke up today, I couldn't help but think of the things in my life that I'm grateful for. I could seriously type all day about those things but I will just pick a few that seem to stick out in my mind today. First of all my husband. I honestly don't know where I would be without him. He is everything to me. I would spend every minute with him if I could, I don't think the feelings are mutual all the time however. He is such a good man, and I have been blessed to have him in my life.
The next thing would have to be our families. We have the best families ever. We are together all the time, we talk all the time, we work together, and we all just really get along very well. When you get married you hear of all those horror stories about the "in-laws", well I personally don't know what they are talking about, I have the best in-laws!
I just love this time of year, it's seems like you stop more often to think about the things in your life that your grateful for, family, friends, etc.. I'm looking forward to spending time with family and loved ones this upcoming holiday season, I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving, we should all give thanks, we are a very blessed people.

Halloween, Football, Go Jazz!

Wow, could this post be anymore random? I've been a little behind lately on the blogging scene as most of you have mentioned, so I'm trying to multi task. Well it's nice to be missed anyhow. Well let's start off with Halloween since that was first, we don't have kids so we didn't get to make the rounds, but we did carve pumpkins at the Stevenson's. I chose to do a spider on a web, mainly because that was all that was left because we were late, and Bryce did a driver hitting a golf ball, go figure! It was a big production put on by mom and dad Stevenson, as usual, games for the kids, a movie, a story, and of course way to much good food. Thanks for the fun!
Now onto the football segue. We got invited to go to the BYU vs UNLV game with our friends the Wolsey's, Ryan and Miriam. They treated us to a great game with great weather and phenomenal food. We were in the VIP section, of course, 50yrd line about 24 rows up, (don't be jealous Rob). And best of all, we got to go into the Legacy tent before the game, during half time, and eat and drink all the food we wanted, you name it and we probably had it! And to top it of the cougars won!!
And last but not least the one and only Utah professional sport, The Jazz, yeah! We got free tickets to that event as well, what can I say people really like us, they really really like us. We were about 19 rows up center court, way fun and of course they won as well. I think that Bryce and I are really good luck, everyone should give us tickets more often and we'll see what we can do! If anything this post states that you can have a lot of fun on a fixed income, as long as you know someone with money!!