Valentines Video

Mark and I had a pretty exciting Valentines last Thursday... for the complete story check out our video under "Bevans' Memories"

The BIG 3-0

Well Mark turned the "big 3-0" as we've been saying for the last couple of months leading up to his birthday. On Friday my mom and Robert took everyone out to dinner to the Cheesecake Factory and then we went over to their house to have the very much talked about ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. Every birthday Mark has mentioned this cake that he grew up on that actually has no cake in it (he says that the cake is a waste of space... personally, I love the cake part... just give me homemade yellow cake with chocolate frosting and I am happy girl!). Of course, I didn't know this at first so I would buy a cake at "Cold Stone" or at "Baskin Robbins," etc. but we did find out from Mark's dad this year that he purchased this AMAZING cake at Dairy Queen. Surprisingly there is not a Dairy Queen on every corner here in Utah... or at least in the section we live and I did get lost on the way to the one I found somewhat close to our house (sad I know especially with Utah's grid system- but for some reason, I still have a difficult time finding places). But as you can see I did find the Dairy Queen and Mark enjoyed and still enjoys every bite of this enormous cake (there was a smaller one, but why buy a smaller one when the largest is just $2 more?). I have to say the cake is delicious and I usually give into temptation by taking just one small bite of it... okay fine… then 15 minutes later I usually give up trying to be good and cut myself a generous slice and guiltily enjoy every last bite! I am horrible at resisting anything sweet!

On Saturday we did another celebration of Mark's birthday (just the 2 of us) by going to Mark's favorite restaurant- Tucano's which is an all meat restaurant, of course. We definitely enjoyed ourselves and I think we both gained probably 10 pounds in 2 days, but it was all worth it. We have decided that February is a bad month for trying to eat healthy with both our birthdays and Valentines (and of course it is never JUST those days that you eat bad- you have to finish everything off- we can't just leave it there!) But, now Mark is officially- well he has been for about 4 days now- 30 years old! WOW!

Shauna's Adventure

This morning I was rushing out the door (as usual... I am always leaving at the very last second). I run to my car, careful not to slip on the ice like a couple of days ago (yes, I fell at work a couple of days ago... twice- first, I fell 1/2 way to my car and then I fell again as I was opening the car door... it is definitely in genes... my mom can attest that we are all a bunch of klutzes). I hit the unlock button on my keys.... no sound, I hit it again and thinking that maybe my power key thing has died (what do they call those things anyway?), I look down at the power key thing and I see the red light flashing. Even though I am at this point standing about 1 inch away from my car now I am still pressing it over and over thinking that maybe, just maybe it will eventually unlock and then it occurs to me that I could unlock the car the old fashion way. So, I reluctantly resign, put the key in the lock and turn (it feels so weird... what can I say, it has been awhile since I have had to "manually” unlock my car). I open the door, put all my junk (a.k.a my massive purse, water, my massive "Anna Karenina" book, and lunch) in the passenger seat, sit down and put the key in the ignition... nothing. My car is completely dead, even when I get out of the car and attempt to press the lock button on the side of the door my car refuses to do even that! Ugh, so now I am sitting here writing my blog instead of at work (not that I am complaining about not being at work... it is nice and I would much prefer doing this); however, it is pain to have your car battery die and your schedule thrown off. You never realize how dependent you are on your car until you lose it. At first, I actually thought when I was waiting for the tow truck that I could get some errands done- go to the post office, the grocery store, etc., but then I realize, "Duh, I don't have a car!" So, anyway I thought I would share this VERY exciting adventure that I had this morning on my blog for all to read :). Hopefully the start of your days are going much better! Although, I really can't complain too much since I am sitting in my warm apartment working on my blog that I rarely get a chance to work on :).