The Dating Days: Spring Break Spent Apart

Even though Allan won't be in any of these pictures, we were dating...so it counts, right? I went up to Utah to visit my brothers/Emily and Dad for Spring Break '08. I was gone for 9 days and [mushhhhy] missed Allan terribly! But I had a blast. Look at these awesome jumping pictures we took...

[I love how casual John looks]

 [BEST.PICTURE.EVER! Yes, I was a cheerleader.]

 [having a little fun at Temple Square]

[we even got my Dad & Elizabeth in on the fun!]

We went to the conference center. I want to go to Utah sometime in the summer when the garden on top of the conference center is in full bloom. I bet it's beautiful...

[HEY! They look just like me & John!]

[I love my bro and miss him. and miss those sunglasses. JUNO WHAT!]

We also went shopping in Park City [you have to do that when up in Utah. I loooove Park City. I saw David Boreanez there one time!] I found a hot new boyfriend to replace Al for a few days...

 Actually - two hot boyfriends!

Anyway, it was so much fun. This is making me want to go up there! How bad would it be driving up there with a one year old? Probably bad...

-Little Wife Power House

The Dating Days: Levi's Fiesta

These are our friends, Mindy & Levi...

The birthday boy, Zost:

They are such great friends and now they have this adorable baby boy...

Mindy planned this whole awesome party complete with mustaches, a pinata, and a nacho eating contest. You know Allan won the nacho eating contest! He had me stack all 6 chips [plus tons of queso] and shoved them in his mouth at one time. Yuck! And impressive...

Here is Levi trying to crack that pinata wide open. He reminds me of Luigi [from the Mario Brothers] for some reason in this picture.

Doesn't Allan look creepy? Haha...there's a picture where he looks even creepier but I decided against it for everyone's sake :)

I love Rachel so much. She is one of the funniest people I've met in a long time without even trying. Read about her & her hubby's shenanigans in their new stomping grounds here. 

Finally, the big, group shot!

Happy very, super, extremely late birthday, Levi!


-Little Wife Power House

The Dating Days: Putt Putt & Arcade Games

For Chris' 18th birthday, we took John Robert putt putting for his first time. Putt putting is one of those things that I'm not very good at but really enjoy [much like bowling]. 


Little tidbit about my little bro, Chris. He finds little joy in activities unless he is giving 100% and kicking everyone's butts. I say competitive, Chris says "That's normal, not competitive! Who would want to do something and not be good at it?" This was when we were bowling and I barely broke 50 :) Love that brother. He really is good at everything he wants to be good at. Basketball, bowling, WOW, the list goes on!  He's such a great brother and I can't wait to see what he does in life. 


Back to the putt putt/arcading. JR had a BLAST hitting the ball with the club! He whacked it, he missed it, and whacked away again. Here he is beating us all:

He got distracted by an elephant somewhere along the way...

We played a little DDR...

JR & Robert drove a Mack Truck, terrorizing highways everywhere...

Allan & Chris, of course, were drawn to the shooting games...

We really need to go back. We haven't been putt putting since then! Maybe for my 24th birthday we can go. Hard to believe I'll be 24 this year. When did I get so old? ;) JK!


-Little Wife Power House

The Dating Days: The Heart Attack Burger

There's this place in Denton - I think it's called RG Burgers [stands for Real Good. It's something like that]. Anyway, we got together with a few of our friends to go there one evening. Allan thought it would be a good idea to order this burger:

It had two patties, like 3-5 pieces of THICK bacon, and everything else you could imagine. There was a disclaimer on the menu that stated an ambulance should be on stand-by. This is why a lot of Americans are overweight...because things like THIS are on the menus! 


Here's a picture of Allan trying to chew one bite. Yes, that's one bite in his cheek. 

This is also the night that Allan told Garrett he loved him [Garrett - is that right?] That's Garrett there in the vest with Allan & his mondo burger. We were leaving RG's and Allan was used to saying "love you" to me and when he was saying bye to Garrett he said, "Love you!" Garrett slowly turns....love you too? *confused look* hahaha. Allan also opened Garrett's door one time. Bromance? 


One last shot of the beast. This time demolished. 

-Little Wife Power House

The Dating Days: Dallas Arboretum

Since I found all of these great old[er] pictures from my pre-blogging life, I think I'm going to do a "Dating Days" series and re-live some memories.


For today's post, I guess it's more accurately the "Engaged Days". 


These pictures were taken in June 2008. Back when my hair was super long and we weren't even married. It's crazy thinking about how much has changed since then. We've been in 3 houses [the last of which we purchased], I graduated college, Allan got a big boy job, we had a baby, Allan's been off DP about 100 times, the list goes on. 


One of our favorite things to do is go to the Dallas Arboretum. My mom has a family pass so we can go whenever we want! I love walking around when the weather's nice. They always have beautiful displays. 

[Look at that hair! I kind of miss it right now...I look so much different I think.] 

The Guerrero family always joins us and aren't they so cute? This was in the pre-Asher era. They've only gotten cuter. 

If only we had a looooong trenchcoat for the next picture...

i love looking so little next to my man. did i just call him "my man?" aye. 

This one's just weird/funny.

Check in tomorrow for more of the Dating Days Series!

-Little Wife Power House