Fairy Tale

Now that Riley has been gone for a while (far too long!) i've had alot of extra time on my hands. you're probably wondering what a Marine wife does all day to keep her mind from the obvious... well it depends on the day, but here is a little list of things that keep me busy most days. when i'm not running errands or doing pictures.. just the "at home" stuff.

1. Dishes (i can't believe how often i have to do this with just me)
2. Shower (yes, finding the motivation to do this is difficult when you don't have a husband around who informs you that you smell "ripe"... but i still do it daily!)
3. Laundry (even though when i'm home i try and stay in Rye's sweats for most of the day)
4. sweeping and mopping (i have a dog.. he drools.. and gets hair all over)
5. Play with the puppy, and play with him enough to tire him out so that when you're exhausted.. he doesn't want to attack you to make you play)
6. keeping food in the house (once again, this one is hard to find motivation to do... i go somedays with maybe eating one meal)
7. Reading... ALOT of reading, i recently got a Kindle. it may be the best invention EVER... except now that i can buy books with the click of a button... i do.
8. Chick Flix... i have Netflix so i watch alot of instant netflix, usually at night.. when everyone else is home with their families and everyone on the mainland is asleep so i get lonely.

So this post is actually about that last one. I am a total sucker for chick flix.. but not the uber cheesy ones, those irritate me. some of my favorites include...

• P.s. I Love You
• The Notebook
• The Last Song
• My Best Friends Wedding
• Pretty Woman
• A Walk to Remember
• Eat Pray Love
• Pride and Prejudice
• Titanic
• 50 First Dates
• You've Got Mail

Now those are only to name a FEW!!! pretty much any chick flick can catch my attention. except that stupid one that came out this last year "Letters to Juliet"...............LAME But that's just my opinion.. and this is my blog so i can say what i want about it :)

I was watching a movie the other day which is what made me think of this though. i was watching Eat Pray love, and when she meets the man of her dreams (the same guy that the girl in P.s. i love you meets) i had that typical girl moment of... "awwww i wish i had a fairy tale like that! i want to meet a gorgeous scruffy man and kiss him oh so passionately"  or something along those lines. but as i was sitting here swooning over this guy.. i realized that he looks alot like what Riley will look like in 20 years

Javier Bardem

My Better Half :)

now the hair is OBVIOUSLY different.. but all in all... fairly similar considering the age difference. as i was realizing how similar they are... i realized the ONLY thing i'm missing for the fairy tale of my dreams is for him to have an accent :) however... IF Riley had an accent he would say really awkward things and wouldn't realize how awkward they are... haha off topic!!!

Anyway!!! so i was putting all of this together in my mind, and i came to the realization.. i already HAVE my fairytale! it started the night i met him on the blind date and wasn't crazy about him, and how he chased me for months! (even though he'll TOTALLY claim he wasn't chasing me he just didn't date me because he had "better" things to do... believe what you want cute bum) down to the night he first held my hand during the midnight showing of Harry Potter 3... and a few weeks later when he asked if i would be his first kiss... and a few months later when we first said we loved each other. The countless nights we spent sitting on the side of the rock canyon bowl just talking about EVERYTHING in life, snuggled up in his sisters fleece blanket that we have stolen. The night he asked me to marry him, a few weeks after we'd had a fight, and i didn't think he would WANT to marry me... and how it started to POUR snow as soon as he asked me. The night before we got married, when he told me he didn't want a bachelor party, and the thing he wanted to do most was take me out one last time before i became his Mrs. we took his dad's jeep out on the trails behind their house and went Stargazing on the roof of the jeep, while listening to Bryan Adams... just like we had when we first fell in love.. only this time he brought along a little 4 pack of my favorite flavor jones soda...

All leading up to the moment that i walked down the aisle wearing my Aunts wedding dress (that i told her YEARS before when i was like 8 that i wanted to wear it one day when i got married) and i was able to marry my very best friend. We've definitely had our ups and downs... we struggle... but mostly we struggle with ourself, not so much with each other anymore... i've made more memories with him, than i ever did with my sibblings. we started out as an awkward couple... the girl that none of the guys wanted to date... just wanted to be "friends" with... and the boy, who had never dated, never kissed, and had never had his heart broken... and wasn't near as good looking as he's turned out to be :) but we've made it soo far. it's now been over 7 years since we first met at the Haunted Forest in American Fork, where you wore your red Forum hoodie, and those jeans that i hate and trashed looong ago :) and then you and Sterling took Meg and I on a moonlit picnic with spaghetti, Grapes, and martineli's and you bent your knife trying to open the Martineli's since you were dumb and forgot a bottle opener. :)

And another thing... in MOST of these movies, there is a common thing. Tragedy and heartbreak... in order for MOST if not ALL these girls to find their happy ending... and i mean yea i had a few heartbreaks, and a few tough choices, it was all worth it. every time i was told i wasn't pretty enough, every boy that cheated on me (and the one that i walked in on) all the tears i cried over STUPID boys, it all led me to my happy ending. we still have a loong road ahead of us, we still have a bunch more trials, and like i've said before, with the foundation we've built those will be just little bumps in the road. and hopefully we'll be able to continue to work together and NOT against each other in our difficult times, cause it makes it SOO much easier to have a partner.

Wow, this has been an UBER mushy post.. but i haven't blogged in a while.. and i wanted a good one for the end of the year... so here you go 2010, going out with a BANG!!! :)

Remember to Keep Riley's unit in your prayers! and continue praying for Jaxon, he's starting his 3rd round of chemo i believe tomorrow. He is responding well to treatments so far, but we don't want to get cocky... so keep the faith and the prayers coming!