some of our favorites

Trent and Ashley
What do you like? I dunno, what do you like? hmm... 

favorite song to listen to. . .

Hey Mama Mat Kearney       Put Your Records On Corine Bailey Rae

tree in Fall . . .

Fire Maple      Ginkgo Biloba

thing to do when you have nothing going on. . .

check in on scores at ESPN.com 

researching wedding flower ideas 

Sport to Watch. . . 

football or college basketball (TIE)      college football

favorite goofy thing about him/her. . .   

Ashley sings random songs that she makes up 

Trent dances anywhere at any time

worst moment in Kentucky . . . 

  walking a mile in a downpour to spend 10 hours at a hospital 

my one day at Molly Maid. yikes.

sport to play . . .

volleyball

local restaurant . . .  

Chipotle

scripture . . .  

Moroni 10:32      Ether 12. . . all of it.

movie . . . 

All of the Harry Potters      Despicable Me

Sunday activity . . . 

waking up from a nap to the smell of delicious food 

curling up for a nap with Trent

go-to shoes . . . 

New Balance lightweight runners

 Bass mid-calf leather boots

food . . . 

pizza      savory green salads

flowers . . . 

I'm not a girl . . .      peony

website . . . 

espn.com    houzz.com

best Kentucky memory . . . 

  going to horse races

 Trent taking the bus to the grocery store to get food for dinner

Trent's 26th Birthday

July 18th was a great summer day!

We woke up, studied for several hours for our anatomy lab test. Then we took our three-hour lab together (cute, eh?) working on cadavers and studying muscles of the legs.

Trent's working on his artistic er, abilities. My drawing, although not to scale, is beautifully displayed on the left.

When we left, we were stopped in the hallway. "Trent!" Two voices called from behind us. It was our student T.A.'s from anatomy lab. They had brought Trent some birthday cake! :) We spend so much time in that lab with the T.A.'s and cadavers that we almost feel like family. Darrin and Paige had remembered Trent's birthday and brought some cake and brownies down the hall. We chatted and enjoyed the chocolatey-goodness! How nice! I wish I'd had a camera. There we sat, eating cake out of the Pyrex containers with lab-goggle indentations on our foreheads and smiles on our faces.

We went home and started to prepare dinner: chicken on the grill with potatoes and corn on the cob. I surprised Trent with a charcoal grill for his birthday. He was a grill master and the whole meal was quite delicious! He joked that he received "big boy" presents this year with the grill and the tool set my parents gave him after Sunday dinner the day before.

Marinated chicken on the grill. Yum!

But the day didn't end there! After dinner, I presented him with one last gift: two new t-shirts. We have a running joke that Trent's entire wardrobe consists of UVU apparel, so we're working on diversifying it before we arrive in Kentucky. :) After presents and cake, we played some Rook with Mac and JoAnn. Mac and I lost :( but at least the birthday boy won!

9:30 rolled around and we headed to Megaplex 8 at Thanksgiving Point for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Alex and Kristen, my sisters, joined us for the affair. Good movie and good "closure" according to Trent, who is an avid Harry Potter fan. He cites this day as one of the best birthdays he can remember. I am very grateful for him and the wonderful husband, friend, and person he is. I am constantly amazed at his goodness, patience, and sense of humor through thick and thin. I just adore him.