March Madness

Which includes dancing!

And basketball of course...

Free jazz tickets with our UCC branch

We've been swimming a lot now for my back

And looking at huge lizards for fun

Hey, Tegu!

The past Saturday I went to the LDS Women's Conference with MIL, DeMarie, and Lorien

We had Taylor's parents and DeMarie over for birthday celebrations and split pea soup

It snowed a ton

And I walked around blind for 4 hours after I got my eyes dilated by the eye dr

These Weekends

Last Friday, I came home late from work to be surprised with a delicious BBQ from Taylor of fresh fish from Gpa Luzitano and veggie rolls

Saturday was our music day.  We bought Taylor a nice tenor Uke and a harmonica for me.

We roamed around playing harmonica outside and feeding ducks for a while.

This past week, I had my lumbar MRI read and was told I have 2 bulging discs and a herniated disc.  One of the bulging disc is also a degenerative disc, so we've decided to try and stop it worsening by increasing our calcium, vitamin K, vitamin D, and glucosamine vitamins.  So....even more spinach b/c we already eat a lot of it....

A different spinach salad every day!

Taylor helped me make cards for my MS Tysabri patients who are reaching their 100th infusion

Mango enjoyed watching us

We watched Frozen with my parents.  It was their first time!

Foot photo!

And now we are going to eat dinner with Taylor's parents for some family March birthdays!

Texas Trippin

Last friday I came home to a sweet love note on our new dishwasher: home-made magnets! 

We left Saturday early afternoon to TX to see all the sights. Mom forgot her purse 

First time on the plane together since HS!

I had fun making my sister a new home present for her bedroom wall

 Taylor had fun with all the wild ducks and squirrels

 I had to lay on my back with my legs up as often as I could and Taylor joined me

I have quite a few pictures like this...

 We visited SMU 

Lover's Lane lovers

We visited Carlie classroom

 IFly! I was the picture/video taker and ring wearer

The Doorbell Rang, the Angels Sang, the Dishwasher Came!

February we spent as sick invalids.   Missing a few days of work and Hospital church.

We are finally feeling better at the beginning of March!

Taylor made me home-made chicken noodle soup in the crock pot on an especially bad day of congestion and pain.

Best you'll ever taste!

We had fun going to the ortho dr 

My new strassbourg sock for my foot

Whittling away hours playing scrabble when we had energy for little else

And due to our low energy we decided to finally buy a dishwasher and fix up a dryer

Taylor fixing the free dryer we found

Our favorite friend

Valentines Celebrations

We celebrated V day the week prior by going out to lunch at Braza Grill.  Taylor bought me daffodils and a flower bouquet so he could make me flower jewelry as well.

Valentines Day rolled around and I came home from work to a huge surprise!  Taylor had decked out our door and table in pink wrapping paper with notes written all over them for me and an orange rose on top!  He even made all the ingredients for me to have my favorite meal:  homemade pizza!

The next day, Saturday, my sister was in town so we went to a play and ate dinner and celebrated my Mom's birthday.

On Sunday we went to our branch at the hospital and then met up with Taylor's parents and sister for dinner that DeMarie made.

After dinner we went to my Mom's piano recital where I played one of my compositions.

Wearing the necklace Taylor made

Some other funny moments of last week:
~Taylor accidentally showed up at my work because he took the wrong bus but I didn't get his texts about it.  I walk out of the clinic and all the sudden stop when I see him sitting there on a bench and think, "what...is that MY husband?  OH NO.  What's the bad news?"  Gave me quite the scare but it was sure fun driving home from work with him!
~My back is obviously hurting because I am not cleaning as much and leave paper shreds on the floor for a few days:

~Taylor teaching Carlie how to draw cartoons for her third graders:

~Going to Riley's for a shake on our first V-day being married to remember our first date 4 years ago
~Red Pepper shaped hearts for the pizza!

The Drake Lately

I've been having fun going to lunch with my Mom and Dad

I've enjoyed making lots of cards with my cricket and cuttlebug

I've enjoyed trying new recipes with Taylor like spinach lasagna, vegetable-full meatloaf and breakfast for dinner with lemon poppyseed bread

The bouquet of flowers Taylor bought me for early V day and to make me jewelry

This was THE BEST lemon poppyseed bread

Taylor's had migraines so he has to wear sunglasses inside

And my Valentines present from Taylor he made with flowers from my wedding bouquet