Monday, December 19, 2011

some randoms


So I basically shoplifted today. I was buying lemons at Smith's and as the nice lady rung me up, my three lemons came to 4.89. SERIOUSLY!? $4.89? Apparently, they were "organic", special, Meyer lemons...Bless my heart. So the chick just ran me up for the normal lemons (59 cents by the way) and told me to go grab the lemons. With everyone watching me...I walked on over to the normal lemons, looked around suspiciously, grabbed three lemons, and busted it out of there. It's the closest I've ever gotten. It was thrilling.

So yesterday was James' birthday and Saturday we had a lovely get-together at Bombay House where we ate WAY too much Indian and came back where we played the all-famous Settlers of Catan. It was so fun to be with the parents (I think my mom is secretly really good at Settlers) and Katie, Sam, James, Dan, and especially Thayner. I ended up winning (because of some mercy and cheating on the part of my handsome husband) and I've felt guilty all weekend. So I officially declare Sam Taggart the winner.

Katie had her first dress fitting today and it was hilarious! I'm so grateful that I'm not getting married anymore. All that jazz takes so much time and comes down to, yes, a wonderful wedding day and reception....but not much else. Everyone says your wedding day is the best day of your life...but I think that's wrong. I think your life can get continually better--and it should...or people would just recreate their wedding day over and over again. And who wants the stress of picking out the color for their napkins AGAIN?! Anywho...Katie is going to look gorgeous...she'd look gorgeous in white sweatpants on her wedding day--so no worries there!

One last random for the weekend! We went to the Motab concert Sunday morning and Sara Whipperdavis danced. What a wonderous, beautiful, amazing production!!! We both loved it!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

oh, thayner

I wrote something Thayne said that was hilarious, but he made me delete it. Love him.

feast your eyes

So I had my first taste of candy last week. My first taste of the annual-Davis-women-baking-and-candy-making-extravaganza. It was crazy, it was hot, there was melted butter and sugar everywhere. It was delicious. Here are our spoils:
I'm going to credit Paige and cute Becky for these puppies.
I got the first-year-Davis-novice-baker assignment of Mexican Wedding Cookies. Arriba!!!
Katie working her magic.
Janene just being magical.
Anywho, it was just an all-around wonderful experience and I'm looking forward to many years to come!

Monday, December 12, 2011

great weekend

Okay people, such a wonderful weekend. All sorts of stuff going on while we're living large in our basement! In no particular order, here's what we did:

We celebrated the 100th year of life for the coolest Swiss woman in Thayne's ward: Martha Border. In 77 years, we will have the experience that this woman has...wow. She really helped put it all in perspective for me. As you can see in this first picture, Thayne was NOT stoked to be there (in his defense, the Barcelona/Madrid game had just entered the second half and he was gettin' antsy).
But as you can see from this second picture, we are happy as clams to surround Martha with birthday wishes...what a cutie pie. She is totally with it, happy, and ready to live another 10 years. Go Martha!
We had a freshmen-roommate-and-respective-husbands reunion (every husband's dream Friday night, I know) at Temple Square. The Biggarts, Williams', future Swims (no idea what Spencer's last name is....whoops!), Katelyn Turner, and us had a jolly ole' time looking at the beautiful lights and temple. I stalked down a Chilean sister missionary from Concepcion and we had a lovely little chat. Ah, how I miss the Chileans...
While my parents were living it up with Mike and Ash in Mexico, my dad's coveted turkey-frier arrived and Thayne was the first one to touch it. My dad leapt with joy at the news it arrived.
Sophie and I got major plastic surgery and went bowling together...she almost beat me.

On the happiest note of all...I ignored finals ALL weekend and Thayne and I just watched a Muppet Christmas Carol. It wouldn't be Christmas without it.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

the tree

There she blows!!!
Our first ever REAL legit straight-from-the-forest-that-we-chopped-down-with-our-bare-hands Christmas tree. Sure, it might be a little Charlie Brown-esque, but it's ours. Glen has this awesome little analogy about looking for a Christmas tree and how it's like looking for a spouse.
So you go out into the forest (world) looking for the perfect Christmas tree (spouse). You spend hours and hours (years, in some cases)tromping through the woods (stake dances, BYU, singles wards, blind dates) and see many awesome trees (awesome people), but you can't find the ONE (the ONE). Until, suddenly, you realize that you are exhausted and freezing and want to just go home (sick of dating) and you go back to the one you really liked (the boy you went to senior Christmas dance with) but passed up because there was a gap here or there (minor flaws). You cut down that tree and take it home (marriage), not even considering any other tree along the way (wandering eyes/doubt) and it resides in your house all season (eternal marriage).
The whole flaw thing is lame. Someone wise once told me "Never ever complain about your husband's flaws because it's those very flaws that kept him from getting a better wife!" So true.
I love it. I got me the best tree (husband) in the world.
Merry Christmas!