2011... so far!

Ohh-kay! We are over 1/12 of the way through with 2011. I both hope this year flies by and sloooows waaaay down!

Some awesome things to note about our 2011 activities thus far!

- Spent New Years with all of my aunts/uncles/cousin/family on my dad's side! We spent New Years Eve eating, playing that Xbox game that's sorta like the Wii... but better(?), and chatting! (Also, kissed Ammon at midnight! Duh!) Then the next morning all of us made it up to Soldiers Hollow and tubed for a few hours. Now that is my idea of snow activities. All you have to do is hand your tube to the worker, they hook you up, and you get dragged up the hill and then you slide right back down. You have like no actual work. It's awesome. Look into it!

-Ammon went to Wisconsin for a month (this was not awesome) for job training. It was a long month indeed. Thank heavens for texting, Facebook, Words with Friends, and Face Time on the iPhone (Well ok, actually we only used Face Time once or twice because when it didn't work properly it just made me extremely angry....)

-I started my student teaching! Woo-hoo! I'm in 4th grade, Scera Park Elementary, and seriously loving it. Although it is extremely exhausting... I am learning a lot! And will miss the little buggers once the time is over.

uh.... what else....

-We got a Wii for Christmas from my parents, and I just have to let the world know that I kick Ammon's trash at Wii bowling. I'm really proud of this because I never beat Ammon at any game. Ever. Like every game Ammon and I have ever played of Words with Friends he's beat me by like at least 150 points. It's embarrassing. So I gotta be proud of when I can beat him. ;)

So... those are the main things we've done so far this year!! We've done lots of boring stuff too... but no one wants to read that. (Or does anyone ever read this at all? I haven't updated in forever.... I probably wouldn't read this blog either haha)

So... Sometimes I fail at blogging!

Alright, so when I started this blog I knew I wouldn't be very good at updating it. I've started enough journals in my life to know that I'm not very good at keeping up w anything even remotely similar to writing down my life details. I think that the last time I wrote in my journal was before I MET Ammon.

Yeah.... Epic fail.

Sadly, nothing super awesome has happened in our lives recently. The Internet is still not working at our apartment (I'm currently blogging from my phone), I've been spending my days teaching in the 4th grade at Scera Park Elementary! :) sadly I only have 2 more days left w them. :( but then I'm back again in January! Woo-hoo!

We celebrated Ammon's birthday this past weekend! He's the big 23 now! (gosh, he is old... Poor kid) sadly, we spent most of his birthday with him at work and me at school.. Then we had my grandma's viewing that evening. But! We did manage to sneak over to Red Robin for dinner. (on Ammon's 21st birthday I took him to Red Robin because he had never been there!)

Besides that we haven't really been up to much... We're really rather boring people! Stoked for Thanksgiving this week though (and for the 5 day weekend)! Also, counting down the days til Christmas-Palooza... Yeah, that's what we are calling it this year. It's gonna be good. Hopefully. ;)

This is a test...

So... I just wanted to see if I could figure out how to post from my phone!

Have a good day! :)

Happy Anniversary to US!

Seriously, how have we been married for a year already? It flew by. If every year goes this fast I will be 87 before I know it.

Honestly, I can't even imagine being married to anyone more perfect for me than Ammon. I seriously love him so much! He's my best friend, we even have the Best-Friend-Panda-Key-Chains to prove it.

He's the greatest!! He cooks 99.9% of the meals at our house (one day I really will learn to cook! I swear), he lets me hog all of the blankets at night (as long as his feet can be under the covers), he'll even wake up in the middle of the night to get me a glass of water when I'm sleep talking about wanting a drink, he watches Desperate Housewives with me and actually enjoys it, he doesn't complain when I choose to listen to Christmas music in September, he listens to me talk and complain about the exact same things over and over again, he doesn't care that my clothes take up 85% of our closet (even though he jokes about throwing them all away), and a million other things that I just love about him!

Anyway, what we did for our anniversary!!

The night before our actual anniversary we went to the temple with Ammon's parents and brother! :) I love going to the temple, and it was fun going with the Cunningham clan! (at least those that are in the state of Utah). After the temple we all went to dinner at some fun Mexican restaurant. (The one with all of the guacamole in case you're reading this Ariel).

Also, for our anniversary dessert we got this rice/pudding/tapioca/cinnamon thing! (I really have no clue what it was)

Now for the actual day! :)

Ammon planned the day for us, and it was fabulous! It was nice and chill and so fun just spending the day together.

The morning started out with him surprising me with Starbucks in bed, which let's be honest, is the greatest way to start your day! Mmmm.... Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate!

(Please don't judge my appearance... I had just woken up. So this is me in my no make-up, crazy haired glory!)

Then we got ready and headed up to Salt Lake to go to the Apple store because my phone had been having some serious issues! While up there we stopped and ate at Thaifoon (I think that's how they spell their name...?) and had some awesome fake Asian food.

Deeeee-licious!

While we were at the restaurant Ammon let me open my gifts!! Although he had already told me that they were the wrong kind and we would have to send them back.... I opened them up and they were iPhone cases, but they were for the iPhone 4 and they wouldn't fit my iPhone! :( Lame! But they were still cute, Ammon has great taste in iPhone cases. haha!

After that Ammon realized he 'forgot his keys' at the Apple store... so back we went! I started to play with the iPads while Ammon found his keys and while I was playing a super intense game of Flight Control (yeah Erin!) he plopped an iPhone 4 in front of me!!

Woo-hoo!!! Best Anniversary present ever! We have a love of Apple things and we had totally been wanting the new iPhone, so I was so excited to get them!! And yes, they rock just as much as I was hoping!!

(and I can now use my new iPhone cases!)

Overall it was a great Anniversary!!! Thanks so much Ammon for making it such a great day!! I can't wait to have a bajillion more anniversaries with you! Don't worry, I'll make next years celebration super fantastic!

I love you Ammon... even if I currently owe you 659 minutes of foot rubbing...

For Danielle!!!

Well, apparently I'm a bad blogger! At least that's what Danielle tells me!

I want to blog about our anniversary, but I'm on the school's computer and I want to add pictures from the big day!

So, that'll have to wait til Thursday when our internet is fixed! (Hopefully, cross your fingers for that one!)

Hmmm... I feel as if I should fill this blog post with SOMETHING awesome, rather than just blogging about how I'm going to blog later. That makes me seem super lame.

Danielle, you'll probably be the only one who reads this post... so remember that time you got your wisdom teeth out?! And I totally offered to drive you home because I knew it would be hilarious and it WAS. You could barely walk and I couldn't stop laughing... so I wasn't really much help. Then you saw your distorted face in the paint of my car and started crying because you looked fat and everyone kept lying to you when they were telling you your face looked normal. hahahaha!

And then I could barely drive straight because I was laughing so hard I was crying only because you were SOBBING the whole 20 minute ride home about how you couldn't believe I was so cruel as to lie to you about not being fat. Your face was BARELY swollen, but you were positive that the world was ending due to your fat face and that everyone in your life was just a bunch of liars. I've never seen you cry so much in my life.

hahahaha!

Also, remember that time when we were seriously PISSED at each other at the high school? It was like Saturday and we were sitting on the grass with our massive fountain drinks. What were we doing there? (Oh yeah, dad was helping to build my Drill Team props! Thanks dad!) Somehow we ended up getting into an actual fight... and one thing lead to another and I poured my Diet Coke all over you, and then you poured your Coke all over me...

That was lovely!

Then we ended up almost killing each other in the halls of the high school... I think the only thing that stopped us was the fact that the bus full of choir kids pulled up to the school. So we both just stopped what we were doing, and marched our soda drenched bodies out the front door, past the choir kids, and to my car with as much dignity as we could possibly muster.

We had such good times... most of them involving being mean to each other! Remember the 'Scary Rock'? hahahaha! Best day of my life!

I love you Danielle!! I hope Cedar is treating you well. One day I'll drag my butt down there and visit you. Maybe. It's sorta far! Or come up to Orem. It's better (but only barely...) I'll even let you sleep in Brenner's bed. ;)

YES!!!

Ammon is coming home!!!

He is currently in the air and roughly one hour away from the good ol' SLC International airport.

Yesssssss!

He's been gone for 9 days..... 9 extremely long, and boring days (for me, he was having adventures).

I swear that most of the time he's gone rather than being home. Thank heavens he isn't planning on going back to China for another 3 months. Hopefully he won't be going to any other countries between now and then either, because I don't want to share him with them.

I sure do love that face.... :)

Mmm... Chinese Food!

So, if you've ever met a Cunningham before then you know that they all have this intense love of all things Asian... which sort of works out for me because I've always loved Chinese food (and by Chinese food I mean Orange Chicken from Panda Express). The whole two weeks that we were in China I definitely didn't see any Orange Chicken..

We did get other awesome things... such as:

Because who wouldn't want an awesome boiled chicken leg floating around in their soup? yum...

These snails were quite delicious! (At least I thought so... Ammon thought they were gross). I especially liked the fact that you had to like stab the snail and scoop it out with a toothpick. Who wouldn't love that?

Have you ever craved a pastry filled with hot dogs and then covered with cheese and corn? If so, then looky what I have for you..... Yes please! :)

Tons and tons of desserts were filled with this weird red bean paste stuff... I thought it was gross. I'd definitely take chocolate over that ANY day. This is us showing off a red bean pastry thing... which I took like a little nibble of and then let Ammon have the rest. He's into that stuff.

So, Ammon loves these dumpling things more than anything else in the entire world. Including me. Not a joke. We searched everywhere for these things, and he dragged me through all of these scary back alley/sketchy streets til we found them....

They're basically dumplings filled with meat and broth... so you have to bite a little tiny piece off, suck out the broth, then eat them. They're extremely messy and sooo hot. Which is awesome because it's only like 90 degrees there everything with 100% humidity.. haha!