I'm Kinda a Jerk..

Stefen has decided he is kinda a jerk and its a good thing he married me.
I am the type of person who always tries to help people when I can.
Stefen on the other hand "forgets" or simply doesn't think about it.
When we were in Utah still there was a snow storm and we were going to my moms house in the truck and we saw a car that has 0% traction trying to make it up a really bug hill. I told Stefen we should tow him up the really big hill. Stefen's response: He will be okay. After a little bit of persuasion and watching this guy literally slip backwards down the hill in this blizzard Stefen changed his mind. So we pulled out the tow strap and dragged the man up the hill. Stefen says he wouldn't have done that if I wasn't with him.
Another time I had Stefen drop me of at church and go back and pick up this cute family that was walking to church in the blaring sun while the mother is pregnant. Well this same family was at walmart the other day waiting for a taxi cab to take them the 2 blocks home when Stefen saw them. He talked to them for a minute and then walked away. Without offering them a ride home.. When he finally thought about it they were getting into their cab. He has told me I need to be there so he can do nice things and not be a jerk...

But hes not always a jerk... In fact tonight he went and helped a family move in... Just thought ya'll would like to hear a story or two..

I guess we should talk about the animal in the trash can... So I was taking the trash out the other night at work and I have a slight aversion to dead animals. I tend to cry and freak out. I opened the gate to the dumpster and I saw a huge dead deer or elk or something. I screamed and I screamed loudly and started shouting DEAD ANIMAL.. I was already in tears and my coworker was laughing as hard as she could as she walked to where I was. She went in the gate with me so I would freak out even more only to discover it was a trophy head of a ram. Yes ladies and gentlemen I freaked out over a trophy animal. (It really was very traumatizing) Well the next morning my boss(who had not yet heard I had a traumatizing experiance in the trash bin) walked to the gate opened it and freaked out as well. Although mine experience was slightly more dramatic and terrifying we both have been made fun of for days.. I thought maybe I would take a picture of it today (its still there) But I couldn't bring myself to walk back over there until its gone.

Today was a huge feat for us.. We finally started to redo the dresser we have been talking about redoing for months and months. Today we sanded it and primed it. Hopefully it will be done by the end of the week.

Things to miss about summer...

Being in Arizona for our first summer has been different.. Don't get me wrong its been fun with the blazing heat and the monsoons but its nothing like home... So here is my list of things that at least I mess about summer..

My friend Breanne and I found this candy shop is Gardner Village that sells taffy town taffy for cheap by the pound.. (I love taffy but Taffy town taffy is my ALL time favorite candy!) I havent been able to find that kind of taffy here. We would go in the spring and summer and get huge bag fulls and pig out.. 

Doesnt it look mouthwatering...

I miss driving right up the mountain and making tin foil dinners and s'mores. Its too hot here and there aren't exactly mountains around to drive up too.. 

I miss being able to drive down to Manti for the Manti pageant. We have the Mesa pageant here but it wasnt as fun without my friends Megan and Dan.. We always had fun on those "short" road trips.

I miss boating. We were able to go to Lake Powell earlier this year which was a blast but last year we were able to go out on the wave runners and boat several times. Unfortunately it is too hot here and there aren't really lakes close by nor do we have a boat or wave runners. 

I miss summer BBQ's. Luckily I was able to participate in one when I went up to Utah. But I usually go to several in a summer... Its too hot here. But we do go to friends houses and play games.

I know Stefen misses boating and wave running as he has told me. He misses BBQ's and his mothers amazing BBQ'd shrimp. (we are cheap right now and cant afford shrimp..)

We have had a fun summer with friends and we are very excited to go to a Supirse Ninja birthday party for a friend.  (hes turning like 25 not 2) We are thrilled to be making friends and being able to be invited places!! 

The boring world of Bri and Stefen

Our lives have not been that interesting as of late.We have been working and doing school and really nothing else. We went to the temple last Saturday and it was wonderful. Stefen's sister sent us a gift card for his birthday and we got to enjoy Red Lobster which was amazing! (Thanks Jena)

I have been doing summer camp at work which has been a blast playing with all the kids!

There is a website called My Give Away Today that features different companies and they well give something away. So I won a $35 giftcard from a cute etsy shop called Justbeccuz. I got this cute Happy Birthday sign that I just LOVE!!!

4th of July

As this wonderful holiday was approaching Stefen and I got slightly worried as to what we were going to do. We had to do something way more fun than last year which was very exciting since we got engaged the day before and the day of July 4th we had a BBQ to get old friends together but to celebrate as well. With not having family here and only having a few friends we thought our plans would be to stay home and watch movies and attempt to watch fireworks somewhere....

That's when we were told that there would be a wonderful BBQ and some water games.. Little did we know that it would turn into a huge thing at the church with a giant slip and slide!! 

So to start at the beginning we were asked to bring a side of some sort and since we can fruit at our famous Mexi Mart we decided to do a mixed fruit salad. We bought some Honeydew and I was trying to deskin the thing, which was not working so Stefen suggested using our most amazing peeler. Well while in a war with the peeler to get the skin of the honeydew it decided to take a chunk of skin out of my finger. (pictures are on facebook) so the few pictures that you will see of me there is duct tape so it doesnt get infected.

Our day started with a ward breakfast (which I forgot my camera) Stefen unfortunately had to work so I went with some friends and it was Delicious. After Stefen got off we watched a movie and got ready for dinner!!

The table setup and some of our friends and the little ones.

Part one of the food table.

Part 2 of the food table. And those 2 giant bowels of fruit with the cantalope is what we brought. Needless to say theres about that much still in my fridge.

Food table part 3. The yummy burgers were wrapped with bacon!! Stefen was in heaven

I couldnt resist. This little man didnt want to give up the ball

Stefen

The duct tape, I'm going to get you finger

I know its blurry but this is about a third of the water balloons we had.

I was trying to get a picture of the little guy holding the ball but he decided to throw it at me

Stefen and our friend Jeremy making sure everyone gets wet!

Stefen doing the slip and slide.

O Ya! Some foot action!

Stefen sliding down as Jordan is priming it back up with conditioner. We were all very soft because of this particular method of priming.

After all the fun we went home to change into dry clothes. On our way to get our friends to go watch fireworks we were informed that some were going to watch fireworks and others were going to watch a movie. We decided a movie would be more fun. And it was!! 

Our 4th of July was a blast!! Its going to be weird not celebrating the 24th of July since its a Utah holiday. But I guess we will have to throw our own little party!!