kiss kiss.

There is a song that my dance partner and I loved to dance to called Turkish Kiss and after taking this picture to send to hubs for after he gets out of a final I can't get it out of my head!

I miss my competing days but I love my life and am so grateful for a husband who encourages me to keep up with my passion of dance even if it means sitting in a room trying to study while his wife flails around the room to blaring music.

Hubs is taking a final as I type, and I'm actually "studying" right now ;) Hope the week is turning into a great one for all of you! 4 finals down and 2 to go over here and only one more week til Virginia!

p.s. who else is enjoying the christmas music a little too much? i may or may not have gone through my christmas playlist on grooveshark like 20 times just today.

p.s.s. justin bieber? why do i all of a sudden really like him..? especially his christmas songs? i'm okay with it.

because i am blessed.

one more to go!

It's the last day of the second to last semester of my Brigham Young University career!

Which doesn't mean a ton but I'm excited nonetheless! I mostly felt like I needed to post because I've been uber poopy at blogging lately..I was going to blame it on the fact that my blog has been silly lately but that really would be a major lie considering even if it was being completely cooperative I still wouldn't have had time to blog. It's also a bit pathetic that my countdown has been zeroed out for a good month and a day now..oops.

Point is I am only 50 hours of work and 4 finals away from being pretty dang free! The Hubs and I are going to Virginia for Christmas and we are soo ready for the break! We hit up Az for Thanksgiving and spent a week with my familia which was beyond needed and so wonderful! But, sadly, I forgot Lady (our nikon) at home here in Uthar :( so no photographs por tu. Just imagine my huge family (aunts, uncles cousins and cousins kids included).

Sort of a pointless post but I just wanted ya'll to know I'm not dead and doing fairly well and maybe at some point I'll be able to focus long enough to write a post that is actually coherent and possibly even *gasp* witty? That'd be pushing it but we can hope :)

p.s. i've been thinkin' lots about new years resolution. i have a few that i'm actually really excited about but have never really had concrete, measurable resolutions before so i'm a bit nervous! have you thought of yours yet?

do tell.

because i am blessed.

Meet George.

This is George.

You may call him Mister Fix It

George and his wife, Lucille (you may sigh at how the adorable-ness), are our wonderful landlords. We LOVE George and Lucille and often find ourselves in their living room talking for an hour before we even realize time has passed at all. And we never leave their home without food. We love George and Lucille.

Two adorable things I must share about this couple before I explain the manliness that is pictured above..

1.George is extremely hard of hearing. His hand is constantly attached to the side of his head as if to cone the soundwaves more directly into his ear. Despite the fact that he rarely hears everything you say he smiles and pretends your story is the most pleasant and compelling thing he's ever heard.

2.These two are the King and Queen of flirting! George will tell Lucille how pretty she is almost constantly and tap her foot playfully as we talk. They also call each other Mom and Dad..too cute.

Pictured above is the famous George himself fixing our tub. You see, George is the ultimate handy man. It would take me all day to list off the things he has done and the number of houses just in our neighborhood he has built with his own hands but if you're interested ask husband. Husband knows basically everything there is to know about George and his accomplishments and could talk for hours about "how much of a man" he is :) We've lived in our apartment for 10 months, in that time George has fixed our sink, re-roofed our bathroom, patched up leaks, painted walls and reattached our soap dish in our tub. We've kept him busy, and he loves it ;)

Hubs and I are infinitely grateful for George and Lucille and the love and service they give despite the fact that they are 84 and 87 years old (not joking). They are such a wonderful examples of life-long service and loving your neighbors! Thanks George and Lucille, for teaching us how to grow old together.

I (not so) secretly want to be them when we get to be old and wise.

Seeing them together makes me so grateful to have Kimball for a husband, I can't imagine growing old and flirting with anyone but him.

twenty-two.

I turned twenty-two yesterday!

And it was marvelous :)

thanks to all my loved ones who made it so special!! i love you all so much and appreciate all you have done for me throughout my life.

because i am blessed.

p.s. midway and halloween catch up soon...promise!

not my semester.

okay so it's pretty apparent that i'm struggling with this whole blog and school and work and on and on and on thing. sorry to those of you who actually read but things have been a bit ridunkulous. i love my major, i love my job and i love being busy but i'm sort of not rocking it this semester. i'm not failing any of my classes (of even doing really bad at all actually) but it's just been impossible to feel on top of things. as a result i feel like i'm constantly running around with not only my head but my arms and one leg cut off. luckily i have the most amazing husband ever who somehow knows how to make all of this go away for a moment so i can breath. i hate venting blogs and i have a lot of fun stuff i really need to catch up on here but right now i just need to be human and not just talk about all the good stuff.

i'm so ready to graduate. and yet i hate to say that! i love being here at school and i love learning more and more and i hate to think that a year from now i'll miss it and wish i was able to take fun dance classes and religion courses etc etc. but right now that mentality is far from my brain. you know those days when you stub your toe or someone opens a door on you (just happened) and you kind of just lose it? as if it's like the biggest deal in the world and there is no way you could deal with it right then? yeah. welcome to me for the last month. my poor husband :(

i'm coming to the realization that there truly is no point to this post so i guess in closing i'll just plead with you to tell me i'm normal, not dumb and probably going to be okay..can you do that? thanks.

Halloween Par-Tay!

I love parties.Love love love parties. But I've never thrown one! Kimball and his roommates used to all the time but I would just show up. Well, this year I really wanted to dress up for Halloween but let's face it, we're married and boring and didn't have a legitimate reason. So, what did we do? Made up a reason and threw a party! Not just any party, a costume contest party. Our cute friends came in amazing costumes and made the night so so fun. Here are some pictures..of course :)

top left: chad. top right:ali and nate.

bottom left:jamie and james. bottom right:sarah and chad.

top:sean and jean

bottom:kelly and jacob

top:katherine and paul

left:katelyn and zac right:michelle and jordan

and us? oh, we dressed up.

grecian gods

(i swear we're not vain)

any excuse to wear false eyelashes and

craft together a leaf headdress for Hubs is a good time!

(and thank you mama for making our beautiful costumes!!)

some of our goodies!

some of the games:

costume contest

truth or dare halloween style (soo funny!)

mummy and pumpkin bowling

&

of course toe tags.

I am beyond happy we put this party together!

It was extremely fun to have a reason to dress up and get all of our friends from different areas of our lives all together in one place. We are so blessed to have so many fun friends who make our lives so great! Everyone did such an amazing job on their costumes and were great sports participating in my cheesy games and activities. We may just have to make this a Hicks Family tradition :)

because i am blessed.

Cougar Love

Nope, not talking about older women loving on younger men. I'm talking about a fellow BYU cougar completely making my day last week. Friday was a ca-razy day filled with classes, work, a midterm, a few wardrobe changes, very little food and of course a football game. When I had finally finished my day on campus husband came to pick me up with my third change of clothes of the day (dance clothes to work clothes to game clothes). I quickly changed and we swiftly made our way to the stadium, I was SO excited about it being the weekend and was ready to stand and cheer and not think about school/work/etc.

Husband asks me, probably about four times, "you have your ID,right?" Well, I always have my ID so I say "yes, i do!" until we reach the actual stadium and I realize that no, i don't. It was in my backpack...in the car...all the way across and through and around and beneath and over campus. I was pretty done with the day at that point and began to tell poor husband how "done" I was.

I was not about to make that trek, again, to get my ID. If I walked back to the car we were a-goin' home! I continued to be dramatic until the nicest cougar student in the world came up to us explaining that he had a ticket, a normal non-student ticket meaning I didn't need my ID and offered to switch. Immediately I felt ridiculous that someone noticed how upset/dramatic I was but ultimately grateful and took his offer.

The game was back and forth and then back again until the last 11 SECONDS where the cougars got the final touchdown of the game leaving USU in the dust by only 3 points! It was a beautiful game at the beginning of a beautiful weekend and a fellow cougar is to thank.

I am so grateful for just plain nice people. How wonderful to live in a world with people who need no motive to serve!

maybe complaining loudly isn't such a bad idea...

because i am blessed.