COUCH FOR SALE!!!

We are asking $90 for this couch.  It is super comfortable, we just don't have room for it in our apartment anymore.  Let me know if you are interested!  It also has many pillows, but you can take or leave as many as you want. email me at and10020@byui.edu if you are interested!

Memorial Day

Well, this year for memorial day we really wanted to go camping.  My father in law had a 45% coupon for kelty camp stuff.  Kelty is a super nice brand of outside camping gear, backpacks, etc.  Tanner and I want to go camping a lot when we are older and have kids so we thought this was a good opportunity to get it all 45% off!  Well, we were disappointed because none of our camping gear came.  And on top of that, it was a heavy downpour, and it even started snowing.  Not cool.  So, we spent the night in his parents camper for 2 nights.  That was still fun.  We watched the grinch in the camper, and had a good time.  I didn't take any pictures....but we had a fun weekend!  On Sunday we helped his brother Ty move to Montana.  That was crazy.  It was so super cold, and not very enjoyable.  But we got them settled in in no time and we had a good time spending some time with them.  To top off our memorial day, we watched the Grinch.  What a good weekend!

I am a true believer

So, the first 5 months of mine and Tanner's marriage, I will admit, we were super lazy.  We would stay up until 3 in the morning watching prison break and other movies, sleep until 10 or 11 (oh my) and then waste our day doing silly things like facebook, watch movies, eat popcorn, go to school, etc.  We never did anything fun, exciting, uplifting, nothing.  We found ourselves getting into this hole where we started gaining weight.  and being lazy.  In high school, i LOVED staying up late and not going to sleep.  I've always been a party animal. hahaha. But now that I'm married, I'm realizing that that's not exactly the right way to live. My dad has always taught us to go to bed early, and to wake up early.  But none of us have ever believed him.  Well, now I'm starting to believe him.  In March-ish, I realized that we were really lazy, and that we both had gained weight.  Gaining weight is never attractive. haha.  Anyway, so we decided to make different goals for ourselves.  We decided to go to the temple at least once a month, exercise EVERY DAY, go to bed at the latest 11:30, actually cook dinner and cook healthy, not watch tv so much, and make more time to study for school.  Oh my lanta....I feel so much better!!! I love exercising every day, and especially because it's with my hubby.  We always glance at each other and wink haha and it just keeps me goin!  I have found that going to bed earlier, waking up earlier, and especially EXERCISING every day, has made both of us happier people, more alert, and we have more fun together!!  We are starting to realize how funny each other is, and we just have a ton of fun together.  It seems that now everything fits into our day that didn't used to.  It's kind of weird.  But, to sum this all up, I just want to say I'm a firm believer in exercising.  Not gonna lie, the first 2, even 3 weeks of exercising was NOT enjoyable.  Like at all.  I would feel like death during, and I would just fall and die after like 10 minutes of running.  Oh ya, I forgot.  I made a goal to not 'become a runner' but to 'become comfortable at running.'  My whole life I've felt like running is a weakness of mine, and I've always been a really slow runner.  So...I decided that running would be my goal for the year.  Become comfortable at it, and hopefully lose like 15 pounds.  Anyway, exercise isn't easy, but now after about a month and a half, I am actually starting to enjoy it.  And I've lost 4 pounds! Woohoo for exercise.  All of you out there that have ever felt like Tanner and I, lazy, and fat, you can change.  Because  if we are, so can you!!

 p.s. We made goals to look like this someday:

This is what Tanner wants to look like:



  And this......this is me. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. We'll let you know our progress.

:)

So....I know every woman out there thinks they have the best husband in the world.  But I think after reading this post, we all would agree that MADDIE STEVENS has the best husband in the world.  There are many reasons why I do, but this is the most recent one.  A little background on this,  So  last night Tanner and i started watching Rango.  It's about a lizard, and it's hilarious.  Well, I got bored and started painting my toenails.  Without saying anything, Tanner took off his socks, put his feet up by mine and said, "paint mine."  I just kind of stared at him like are you serious?  But...I didn't hesitate, and I got right on it!!  I painted them pink and purple with a cute little message on them.  I was laughing my head off the whole time because I kept wondering why he was letting me do this. hahahahahahahaha oh my heck so funny.  When I finally let him look, he died.  As I'm sure you can imagine.  But, we went to bed and he didn't ask me to take it off.  Now ladies- if you have a husband like mine- you know he's a keeper.  hahahaha I love him so stinking much!  Anyway, here are some pictures:

                                                                   Here's HIS toes

                                                                And here's mine.

                                  This is true love. hahahaha. I just got thinking...in 10 years when I                         show our kids my blog, what are they going to think?? BAHAHAHAHA

Our new found love

Well, Tanner and I have found our new found love.  Any guesses????




















.....FISHING!!!!  I've always enjoyed fishing, and he's always wanted to go more, so we decided to make it a weekly thing!!  We love it.  It's relaxing, it's a break we both get from school, its time we get to just be together, its a time to get away from our hot apartment, and many more things.  I just like it because it's just me and my hubby, doing something we love, with the one we love.  So far, we've caught 8 fish total. haha.  None of them have been large but we figure we have to make baby steps right???  Here's some pictures.

 This was our fishing trip on Saturday.  We went to Robinsons Creek in Ashton.  This was my first fish.  Biggest one of the day...haha

                                  Here's Tanners little minnow. hahahahahahaha just kidding.

 Gorgeous view!!  We had to hike a ways to get where we were.  My legs are all scratched up from it, but it was all worth it.

                                           What a fun day.  And I sure love my hubster.

This is love. haha.

Here's a video to brighten your day.  It sure brightens mine whenever I watch it.  I love my hubby. He's a keeper :) Sometimes he gets in these moods where he's super goofy and makes me laugh till my gut hurts.  It's so funny.

Remodel

So...Tanner and I decided we were sick of clutter, and wanted something that "Tanner and Maddie wanted."  It was kind of fun.  We were blessed with a tender mercy recently, we found an abundance of money we didn't know we had, so we decided to use it to do something we both wanted: a remodeled apartment.  I've been so excited to decorate my apartment the way I want it. hahaha.  With a color scheme, and my own arts and crafts.  Anyway, so one saturday we went to Idaho Falls and went on a big shopping spree!! We got a table, a cough cover, pillows, 2 adorable lamps, a ottoman, a tv mount, and little odds and ends.  It was so fun to put the house together with my hubs.  We had a lot of fun.  It was fun to just spend the day together, laugh together, spend money hahaha, and just spend quality time together.  I took some pics of Tan in his work mode.  Something I love about Tanner is how hard of a worker he is.  He has been so determined to buy his own tools and drills etc, and this is why.  He loves doing things for me and making me happy.  Not only was I excited, but he was just as excited with his toolbelt hahaha.  I love him.

                         He was measuring the wall to get our tv mount just perfect hahaha :)

                                              He thinks he's pretty cool with all his tools :)

.I wish I had a before and after picture, but I forgot to take pictures of what it looked like before.  Oh well!  Here is the finished Stevens apartment:

 We got this adorable table for a exceptional price.  I just love it.  Now we can actually eat on a table and not the ground! haha.

 Our tv mount is hilarious.  We can pull the tv out like 4 feet, and its so funny.  It will be like in the middle of the living room by the time we pull it out all the way...haha.

 I just love how it all looks.  there's no more clutter, and we love it.  We are so grateful for the extra money we had to be able to do all of this!!!

This is my favorite part:  I just finished this a couple days ago.   I found the idea on pinterest and we both loved it.  So I decided to make my own!!

The one on pinterest looks a little different then mine, but I love mine more hahaha.  It's a key ring holder!! I love the his and hers idea. Anyway, we love it!!  All I did was painted a board, (That tanner made for me) sand it to make it look antique-like, I found the hooks at target, and I found the letters at porters.  I painted the letters red, glued them on, and bam.  DONE!!! Anyway, I kinda like it.  I'm likin the idea of making my own decor :)

There's one more thing that keep forgetting to put on here.  My hubby is very talented when it comes to building things.  For  a wedding present to me, he decided to make our bed.  Not buy it.....MAKE IT!!! He spent so many hours doing it. He cut down his own trees, and literally made this bed from scratch.  It was probably the best present ever, because he made it with his bare hands, all by himself.  He is so talented, and I keep telling him that he should start a wood building business someday.  He said that this bed is probably worth thousands of dollars.  Anywho, I just love it, and I'm so impressed with Tanner's skills too! Love you sugar.