summertime and the living is easy

back story: my dearest husband and i sleep with separate blankets at night. why? because he would steal mine every.single.night. and i got sick of it, so i got my own.

i woke up this morning with a sore throat. when i sent a text to my husband he responded with "it's probably too cold at night." which i thought was weird since its summer, and also because we live in arizona, but we have a big fan blowing on us so i just kind of blew it off.

tonight:

j: you stole my blanket last night

c: no i didn't

j: yeah you're right, i stole yours

c: you did?

j: yeah, i woke up and you were curled in a little ball and you looked so cold and i felt so bad

c: that's why you sent the cold text?

j: well mine was just next to me and i woke up wondering why i didn't like this blanket and then i realized it was yours

c: so if i get sick it's your fault

j: well i felt bad!

i love him.

in other news, we're sleeping in our family room again! j insists that it's too hot in our bedroom so my options are to join him on the floor or sleep without him for the entire summer... i decided to join him. it's been a week and i'm pretty sure the memory foam will stay on our family room floor till we move outta here in july. we are just classy like that.

i have lots of catching up to do so hopefully i can get to that before we go to my favorite place in america next week.

you have two guesses.

xoxo,

c

ps- i'm already dying because my shows are over. any recommendations for the summer? i have netflix and hulu! please&thankyou.

because my brother is the best

remember how my older sisters were always too cool for me growing up so i was always forced to play with my brother instead? well said brother is graduating high school tomorrow, which means he is turning in his mission papers, which means he is leaving soon. and i know i'm supposed to be so excited for him, buuuuuut did you read the part where i said he'll be leaving?

 in case you were wondering, we do know how to make normal faces in pictures.

 ...but then we go back to this.

he had his last choir concert last week and i may have cried when they were announcing the seniors.

j: why did you cry?

c: because he's all grown up and now he is going to be leaving on his mission

j: but he hasn't left yet.

ugh. men.

anyway. in all honesty, i really am happy for him and oh so very proud. somehow he survived being raised by four moms and a brother (our little family joke. we know, we're hilarious) and he's turned out to be a pretty dang good kid. i'm so excited for everything life has in store for him, even if part of that means communication via email for a couple years ;)

one of my favorite connor quotes:

connor: i'm getting fat [as he leaves the room].

cassie: stop drinking soda.

connor: [comes back with glass of soda in hand] it's okay, i'll just be one of those guys that's a little chunky, but has a nice wife.

connor,

thanks for being one of my best friends my whole life. love you so much!

-your favorite sister (we don't have to tell the others)

hi, remember me?

time to play catch-up!

we went to see wicked! my parents got the whole fam tickets for christmas so we all got to go together. it was so fun and soooo good! i had seen it before and so had my mom and connor but everyone else was a first timer and they all loved it!

at the beginning of march we took a road trip up to utah for the funeral of j's cousin. it definitely wasn't the best of circumstances but we were so so glad we went and were able to see some family we haven't seen in a while. that family has some of the most amazing people i've ever met. we love them and we miss t, but we are so thankful for the gospel and know we will see him again.

j won suns tickets at work. we invited his parents and drove all the way down there and when they scanned our tickets they said we had to go the box office. apparently someone at his work had reprinted the tickets, making ours invalid, and they wouldn't let us in. so we went to a movie instead. when j went back to work the next day he told them what happened and the guy that reprinted the tickets felt so bad. the company has 6 tickets but they only gave j 4 of them and he was printing the other 2 but whoever he spoke to at the arena misunderstood him. so then they gave us all 6 tickets so my parents got to come too! we sat on the 7th row behind the bench. it was so fun, even if the suns are no good this year ;)

we got to babysit this cute thing for an entire weekend!

can we just talk about how much i love her? look at that face. she kills me. i had been drilling my name into her head for weeks and she finally started saying it a few days before we watched her so it was so fun since she knew who i was. every time i would open the car door to get her out of her carseat she would go "CASSIE!" as she was frantically trying to unbuckle herself. cutest thing ever. i love her!

my wittle kannie cousin got married! kansas and i are two years apart and have been pretty close growing up. and now she is married and i feel old.

after nine months of living here we decided to give up that whole white trash vibe we had going and clean up our "backyard." it was full of weeds and had leftover carpet and padding that was just sitting there. we made plans to clean it up and plant flowers. and then i came home from work one day and j had done the cleaning and weed picking all by himself. love him! so conference weekend we headed to home depot and planted some flowers and it looks so much better now. and a week and a half later, most of them are still alive (thanks to j)!

easter was... easter. we saw lots of family and ate lots of food. typical holiday stuff.

typical cassie=no pictures of easter.

in other news, i got a gym membership. yes, you read that right. it's been 10 days and i'm still going strong! and if you know me, you know that is kind of a big deal since me and exercise have never been friends. (proof here, here and here). but j goes faithfully everyday so i figured i might as well go with him! and the fact that i can prop my phone up on the treadmill and watch tv whilst i run may have been what convinced me to join.

speaking of tv, i started watching vampire diaries (because i obviously don't watch enough shows) and i'm obsessed.

wow. see what happens when i don't blog for almost two months? you get too long, too detailed posts.
and let's not pretend like you didn't miss me.. ;)

xoxo,

c

loVe day

j surprised me the friday before vday and took me to the melting pot. YUM. he'd never been there before and any time we'd talk about going out for dinner on the weekend i'd always say i wanted to go there. it was delicious.

he also left me a couple love notes

it says "she is my valentine"

"aww" -you.

on the real vday i made dinner, which sadly is a rare occasion over here.

i also gave him movie passes and bought us gift certificates for massages that i cannot wait to use.

also, in case you thought i was kidding in my last post:

  i can't make this stuff up.

xoxo

no news is bad news

[almost] every day i come home to find my kitchen like this:

is my husband the only one who never closes the cabinets?

or the shower curtain?

or his dresser drawers?

or turns off lights?

ha! it used to seriously bug me but now it just makes me laugh.

i love love love this man of mine.

he's pretty much my favorite of all time in the history of ever.

and remember this?

my [sister's] baby girl turned one last week.

say whaaat?

she kills me with her cuteness. happy birthday ry ry!

also, i stopped drinking caffeine about a month ago and have been totally fine.

this weekend, i caved and had a root beer.

and now i get headaches every.single.day.

and i'm not sure if that's why, but it's driving me crazy!

any suggestions?

please&thankyou.

all you need is love

back in december we went to california for the wedding of one of j's mission companions best friends. zack and nicole were married in the san diego temple and it was beautiful! we were so happy it was close enough that we could be there. now if we could only get them to move on down to az...

bridal party! sorry for the poor picture quality..

a few weeks later one of my besties got married! hillary and alex are PERFECT for each other. for real, i haven't met a better match than them. i am so so happy for them and was so excited to be a part of their special day! i also have to say that their first dance was the best i've ever witnessed and as soon as i can get a hold of the video, i'll be sharing :)

bridesmaids!

love her :)

i also have two friends that just had babies, and another two that are due this week! i'm kind of loving this stage of life we're in with so many babies and weddings. so much love! j would love it too if it didn't also include bridal and baby showers for everything... but he'll survive :)

uncharted

one of my goals for this year is to rid my life of all things negative.

to dismiss whatever it is that is keeping me from being happy.

"if you don't like something, change it. if you can't change it, change your attitude." -maya angelou

so every day i wake up and think all positively and promise to be nice to people. and then something happens and that attitude goes right out the window. and sometimes i have to laugh at myself because i know i'm not perfect and i know this is something i will have to continually work at. but mostly i just let it ruin the rest of my [work] day.

the other day j was telling me a story and when he was done, all i said was "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (eleanor roosevelt) and he just looked at me because he knows me. and i smiled and made a mental note to take my own advice.

well, eleanor, easier said than done. but i promise i'll keep trying.