Day 24! Favorite photo!

Oh my! I cant even express how much I loved this weather today. Rylee and I literally spent maybe 2 hours indoors all day long. I think not only I was having Spring fever but Rylee was too. She was so happy all day without any naps. It was amazing! On top of that she was in bed at 8:30:) Had a talk with someone and I finally feel content and did my part and all that I could. A perfect day that's for sure!

I have been sitting here thinking about my favorite photo and then went through some of our old photos. That didn't help one bit! I kept running into different ones and loved them and they brought back so many memories. I'm just going to have to upload the few of the ones that I love!

Day they induced me 40 weeks 5 days

about 30 mins after she was born

Oops!! ha ha

my chunky baby!

First ultra sound sucking her thumb.

Those are just a few of my favorite that bring back the most memories. I cant believe how much time has passed and honestly I cant wait for a second child!

Day 23! Your favorite recipe!

Other than going out and eating Olive Gardens Recipes. I would say my Dad's rib recipe is my favorite! He will season the ribs, put them in the oven for a couple hours. Then he takes them out and puts them on the grill with BBQ sauce. They are amazing!! Make a salad with it and its a perfect family dinner:)

I just have to say this weather is lame!! I am so done with the rain, snow and cold. I am ready to be able to fill a pool up for Rylee and let her go wild in it while I am getting some sun or just planting some pretty flowers. Or just buy a big pool so we both can be in one. We have a perfect spot for it! Have to talk Daddy Aaron into that one:)

I think that would look perfect in my backyard:)

Day 22! A place you've traveled to!

Well to me to travel and vacation are different things. I think to travel that means to go from place to place and to vacation is going to a beach/resort where you just sit and relax while you are there and soak up some sun. So with that being said, I would have to say I have never actually traveled anywhere. I have gone on lots of vacations. My favorite vacation would have to be North Carolina. We had a beach house for a week and I was in heaven waking up everyday to the sound of the ocean right in my backyard! NC has some beautiful beaches. Cali has great beaches too but in my opinion NC is so much better! Since I havent actually traveled anywhere I would have to say the one place I would love to travel to and around would have to be Italy! I have always wanted to go there since the first time I saw pictures of that place or heard stories. Not only is Italy amazing looking but the FOOD!! I love American Italian food so I cant even imagine what real Italian food tastes like. Mouth watering is all that comes to mind! I have eaten at this authentic Italian restaurant in San Fran and the people that worked there were straight out of Italy. But nothing beats eating real Italian food from Italy! So I have heard:)

North Carolina

Day 21! My friends!

I saw this saying on facebook from a girl and I completely fell in love with it. It explains exactly what a friend is! F.R.I.E.N.D.S: (F)ight for you. (R)espect you. (I)nvolve you. (E)ncourage you. (N)eed you. (D)eserve you. (S)ave you


I wont lie when I saw I had to write about friends I have been dreading this day. I know that sounds really bad, but I have come to learn in my 24 years that good friends are hard to find and really noticing it the last month. I have always had a hard time finding close girlfriends. Its important to me to have a friend that can handle my blunt personality and can except it. So I cherish the ones I do have that stick around through thick and thin. Plus I dont want people to get hurt feelings if I have left you out cause I have lots of amazing friends. These are the ones who have touch my life the last years on months:)
I have been hanging out with Lin a lot lately. I have known her since 6th grade and we have had mutual friends, but have never really hung out as just her and I. Its been so nice to be able to talk to someone with the same problems/issues with life. Its amazing how much we actually have in common and never really knew it!

I have known Steph since 3rd grade and she is now married to my brother and is the mother of my amazing niece. All I know is that Steph will always be my good friend. Not because she is married to my brother but because we have had so many ups and downs in the years we have known each other and we arent afraid to tell each other exactly how we feel at that moment. If she is being a B I will let her know and if I am being one she will let me know. Yet we still will always turn to each other at the end of the day.

Tara is actually my cousin but in our eyes and how we were raised she has always been my sister. As children we hated each other. We always fought! Now that we are older I hate knowing she lives in Cali and I dont get to see her very often. I love when I get to spend time with her! She is my go to girl when I am feeling down and just need to vent and she just listens. I love this girl to death!

So I did this blog early only because Aaron gets the day off tomorrow and I want to spend time with him instead of the computer:)

Day 20! Favorite song!

All I have to say is I completely needed this weekend! The festival of colors was so fun. It had amazing energy and it just made you so happy and excited for Spring. The only thing I would change would be bringing some sunglasses. The chalk in your eyes wasn't a fun feeling! Next year we plan to bring Rylee with us. I know she would have so much fun putting colorful chalk all over everyone. After The Festival of Colors we headed up Spanish Fork canyon and did a 3 mile hike each way to some beautiful natural hot springs. The water was about 107 with a freezing cold waterfall running into and through the hot springs. The water was perfect and being outdoors and appreciating everything around me was a great way to spend today.

On to Day 20! This one is hard for me. I cant pick just one favorite song. So how I am going to do this is pick a song for different people and different memories. That's one thing with music I always relate it to people or things that I did while I was hearing that song.
Rylee:Taylor Swift   Never grow up
Aaron:Bob Marley   The whole CD of Legend
Dad:Bob Carlisle    Butterfly Kisses
Mom:Trace Atkins  Honky-tonk badonkadonk
James:Nelly    Grillz
Steph:Ja Rule  Murder and Lumidee  Never leave you
Mat:Anything techno.

Day 19! Something you bought recently!

Another one of the random 30 day blog questions, but I will answer it anyways. Besides I have done pretty good with this 30 day blogging thing. Haven't missed one day yet!:)
So a couple months ago I started back up on my savings account. It was much needed! I was feeling so guilty that I didnt have a decent savings account for us/ mostly Rylee. So any extra money I have it goes straight to savings. I havent spent a lot of money on things and if I have it has mostly been on bills. I guess that counts as something you have bought recently. Oh the joys of living on your own taking care of your responsibilities. As much as bills suck I am glad I have them. If I didnt I wouldnt have a car, phone, house and much more. My most recent purchases I bought outside of bills would have to be a birthday present for Taylor. A shirt for Rylee and then I bought a black jacket from my work that I have been watching for months. Waiting for it to go on sale and it finally did $60 to $20! Im a bargain shopper:)

Taylors Present

Close to the one I bought.

 

Day 18! What makes you different from everyone else!

Well I cant say I can do something out of the ordinary like double jointed stuff. Im for sure not  double jointed at all! I can say the thing that makes me different from everyone else though is my DNA! Its not the same as anyone elses. Nobody has my exact style, personality, and unique look on life. My experiences I have gone through and the outcome of them are diffenent than others that have gone through the same thing. Everyone is unique and everyone has something that is comepletely different than the next person, but thats what I think makes me different from everyone else.