our time with nature

rarely in rexburg is it nice enough to spend more than an hour out of the house. but on saturday the sun was shining & the ducks were quacking for us to come out and play!

so we did.

we fed them pieces of bread & andrew almost caught one, we laid out in the sun & had a little picnic. all around perfect.









xo lauren

advice on a friday

do not cut your own bangs. ever.
i knew better when i was seven, i knew better when i was awkward & in junior high, but for some reason this week i decided that it would be a fabulous idea to cut my own bangs. notice how they're a little diagonal? that definitely wasn't on purpose.

it's a lazy friday morning here in the t&l home.
travis woke brovs & i up to go to JB's for breakfast... 15 minutes before they stopped serving breakfast. we made record time! now it's dishes & organizing for me & more zombies for my hard working boys!
have a fabulous friday.
xo lauren

oh heyy

we had a totally lazy weekend. travis got the flu and i did my best to shove cough drops and nyquil down his throat till he felt better. on saturday we met up with trav's brother & family at their friends' house... and it was the most beautiful house is the history of ever. they designed the floor plan themselves and she made absolutely everything in the house... from the kitchen table to the lamp shades. oh it just makes me so excited when we'll actually live in a real live HOUSE one day. to finish up the weekend, we ate at the taco bus by our apartment and had a few game nights with friends. a very chill weekend.
how was yours?
xo lauren

oh & i dyed my hair. surprise!

Valentines Cabin

all day last saturday, travis was acting weird. we had plans to go take photos of the mountains and play in the snow later that day, i didn't really want to go. i was feeling tired & poopy. but i said, "i'll go, because you want to so badly". And he did, I'd never seen him so excited to take photos before. then he started acting weirder. stepping out of the room to take phone calls, packing up the car with blankets, pillows and my make-up? when i asked what they were for he said, "duh. an eagle scout is always prepared!" so i just let it go.
thirty minutes of driving went by and i asked what the heck was going on. then we parked. i looked at the sign: "Kelly Canyon Ski Resort". We were going snowboarding!!! I was the happiest girl in all the world.
it felt so good to be on the mountain, shredding the gnar, and riding the oh so romantic ski lift with my man. i felt so incredibly lucky.
the time came for the park to close, and we drove out of the parking lot with a huge and tired smile on my face. but, instead of turning left... we turned right. i said, "wrong way! maybe there's a place up here to turn around?" and travis just smiled.
then we parked again. travis walked up to a lonely little cabin marked "Private" and walked right in. i was so confused! i followed after him and saw the greatest surprise yet, a sweet Valentines set-up just for us. What a lucky girl I am, I felt so very loved!
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the next day was Sunday, and we had the whole park to ourselves. we watched old movies, went sledding, ate hobo dinners and had too much fun. oh how i love that man of mine.
thank you SO MUCH to all of our friends that helped trav to plan it. we are so blessed!
xo lauren

Shootin' Shtuff

It was a Saturday. We grabbed some of Trav's friends & hopped in the truck. We drove out to the wilderness to shoot at shtuff. Do you see me holding that big 'ol gun up there? I let out a yelp each time it shot. Powerful gun! Travis thought it'd be funny to challenge me to shoot it, cock it, shoot it, cock it--three times in a row. I tried my hardest, and got pushed back three feet each time. I think if I had tried one more time, i'd have fallen over onto my bum. T thinks he's sooo funny sometimes. {smile}
go shoot some shtuff this weekend!
xo lauren

pocatello, pies & zombies

this weekend was chill. i went on a girls' overnight trip to pocatello, too much fun! travis played lots of zombies with lots of people while i was gone. i attended a Pride & Predjudice tea party & made this for dinner. Sunday was filled with visiting teaching for me & for travis, more zombies. we invited some friends over for dinner where we ate their killer enchiladas & my yummy blackberry pie! it turned out fabulous guys, I CAN MAKE PIES!!!

how was your weekend?
xo lauren