fantastic days

this past saturday was jake's 26th birthday. i'm not one to write corny blog posts listing the 26 greatest things about him because... well... he'll never read it. just know that he's an incredible man and i love him way too much. :) for his birthday i got our family together and we went out to the valley of fire about an hour outside of las vegas. it's very beautiful... full of red rocks and petroglyphs. we bbq'd and enjoyed eachother's company... also hiked around a bit. it was perfect. i love my family so much for driving all the way out there to celebrate jake's big day. and by my family, i mean, both mine and jake's family. i love them all and it was so fun having them there.

before we went out for the day, though, i got up and whipped together some breakfast for jake. i decided when jake and i got married that i wanted to continue with the tradition my family had whilst growing up of breakfast in bed on your birthday. so jake was a champ and let me feed him french toast in bed.

{i posted a picture of the perfect breakfast in bed for jake.... but he made me take it down because he had bed head. :( so.. here's bug.}

  

on to the great outdoors. i realized that i don't post too many pics on here... not as much as my photo blog, obviously... but i DO have about 427 to post today. so... hope you enjoy.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

and although i looked pretty terrible... i was there... see??

jake and i went out to dinner on saturday night for a happy valentines/birthday bash. valentines day was pretty lovely too. sunday afternoon we went on a picnic and grilled up a delicious steak dinner. the weather was perfect and it was just us..... and everyone else at the park. but it really was perfect. 

 

  

  

  

my arms aren't long enough....

 

and to end this long post.... 

bug wants to say hi.

jeep!

so jake and i bought our very first vehicle together... and our first 4-wheel drive, too!

a 2006 jeep wrangler.

it's so fun. we went out to the desert the day after we got it and it'd been raining all day, so it was nice and muddy. :-)

we sold my mazda 3... which was kind of sad. it was a great little car. but i've wanted a 4X4 for a loooooong time so i'm not tooo sad. it definitely eats up more gas than the mazda, but i love everything else about it. so guess we'll just have to deal with that minor detail.

i love that it's orange...

anyways, just had to share this bit of news with ya'll. not much else is going on with us. just work work work for me and work school work school for jake.

hope everyone is enjoying 2010 so far!