Take Out

Day 9:

I'm grateful for Chinese take-out after a very long day.

My great mom

Day 8: today was such a busy day that I didn't have time to blog! In the evening after a long day we went to my lovely mom's house for dinner. Mom & her roommate Fumie invited us and a friend (jon forsyth) to come and they made a very yummy dinner for us!

I have an awesome mom who has given us a lot of opportunies to learn, grow and develop our talents. My mom is very intelligent. She's taught piano for more than 30 years and is very good at teaching to the needs of the kids. She uses their strengths, strengthens their weaknesses, and figures out how to teach them in ways that it clicks for them. Plus, she makes it fun and always has projects and performances for them to work towards: they compose & perform their own songs, play with a classical trio, play with a jazz band, make music videos to post on youtube, and more.

Mom has always wanted to go to culinary school, so she recently got a job at kneaders bakery so she can learn the things she wants to. She's having lots of fun learning tricks-and she did all the food at my wedding reception and it turned out amazing! In her little free time, mom's also writing a book on addiction.

I'm grateful to have an intelligent, fun, loving mom! :)

Toasty warm!

Day 6: I'm grateful for the new heaters that were installed in our basement apartment. This winter we can control the heat in our apartment and stay toasty warm! That being said, I guess not having control over the settings was a first world problem. The bigger thing to be grateful for is that I live in a place where we do have indoor heating in the first place!

Grandma & Grandpa

Day 6:  I'm grateful for my grandma and grandpa!

I had a meeting in Midvale, so I stopped by my grandparent's house in Taylorsville before coming home. We ate dinner, talked, looked at facebook, and I showed them some tricks with my new smart phone. Grandma was impressed by the camera, and the fact that I can load pictures from it directly to facebook. She's an avid facebooker. :)

I'm grateful to have such fun, sweet grandparents who enjoy my company (because I'm awesome, haha) and let me stop by nearly unannounced for dinner/hangout time. :)

Missed the memo...

I must've missed the memo or something, because I've been confused as to why I keep seeing posts on facebook numbered with days saying "I'm grateful for..." Finally today I understood! It's November, so people are posting what they're grateful for until Thanksgiving? or maybe until the end of the month? Don't know, but either way I think it's a great idea! Since apparently I'm a little slow on the uptake, I missed the first few days, so I'll just start on day 5.

Day 5: I'm grateful for my awesome husband!!! If you haven't seen it yet, check out my post dedicated to him on his birthday here and then you'll know why I'm grateful for him.

Check out my blog every day until Thanksgiving to find out what else I'm grateful for!!! :)

Cornbelly's!!!

For John's birthday we went to cornbelly's at thanksgiving point! We went to the corn maze, haunted corn maze, a haunted monster, and we especially enjoyed the tree of carved pumpkins. My mom's roommate Fumie (who is from Japan) came with us because she was really excited to see the pumpkins. My uncle Brian and John's work friends and his wife came as well.
The haunted corn maze was really scary-and it turns out that the scariest scarer was my dear friend (and former roommate) Kim's brother! I didn't even recognize him and I was seriously convinced he was a serial killer ha ha! I'm glad to know he wasn't! :)

My Silly Bain

Pumpkin Tower

Pumpkin Tower Lit up

Me & my John!!!

Awesome!

Uncle Brian

My John got cold, so he borrowed my warm, fluffy earmuffs. Yes!!! :)

50 Reasons Why I love my Husband

1. He's striving to be a good man
2. He makes me laugh
3. He's silly
4. He works & studies hard
5. He's a thoughtful person
6. He rubs my back when I'm stressed/tired/want him to
7. He loves to read to me
8. He's handsome
9. He has an evil, clawful, fangly cat
10. He makes the bed every morning before work
11. He's intelligent
12. He's supportive--he wants me to develop my talents & do the things I love and am passionate about
13. He's generous
14. He's kind
15. After events are finished he often stays longer to help clean up
16. He's loyal to his friends and family
17. He likes to do things the right way
18. He's a great cook (better than me, most of the time)
19. He has a beautiful singing voice
20. I love to hear him sing and/or whistle along with his eclectic mix on itunes
21. When he makes that 70's----noise
22. He'll go out of his way to help a friend--and sometimes even a stranger
23. He knows my ticklish spots
24. He's honest, even when it's hard
25. He loves his mom
26. If he doesn't know how to fix something, he teaches himself
27. He's a problem solver
28. He likes to create programs to help make my life easier (for example, when I was sorting through hundreds of graduate schools he created a program based in excel for me to keep track of things I was considering about each school)
29. He puts up with me & holds me when I'm emotional for no reason other than fluctuating hormones
30. He tries to explain what he's programming/learning at school using simple analogies & comparisons to things I can relate to
31. He likes to take me on romantic motorcycle rides :)
32. He tries to finish all of his daily work, homework & studying by 9 pm just so we can spend some time together
33. He likes symmetry (it's endearing)
34. He still loves and cares for people in his past who meant something to him, even when they've hurt him
35. He's practical but he lets me be impractical when I want to be
36. He wears protective gear on his motorcycle in order to be safe, even though it looks funny & elicits comments from strangers when he's wearing it in class or work
37. He wears really ugly ties which he collected on his mission ;)
38. He has adorable nieces
39. I never get tired or bored of talking with him--he's a great conversationalist
40. He's a good listener, even when I'm excited and forget to stop talking
41. When I get home he excitedly says, "My Nyatt, my Nyatt, my Nyatt!!!!" and hugs me tight
42. He has a great, contagious smile
43. He laughs at my jokes (most of the time--when I'm being really silly he just rolls his eyes though)
44. He has a great brain
45. Sometimes he doesn't have a brain
46. He looks good in hats :)
47. He listens to me rant & he knows he can rant to me and I'll listen
48. He makes delicious jalapeno cheddar bread (not to mention rasberry-white chocolate bread)
49. He fixes my experiments with breads (like Naan) when I mess up
50. Just because he loves me, and I love him!!!!