She's a Wonderful Wife!

So last week was a really hard week for me - it was pretty much non-stop every day from 5:00am until whenever I got home (usually around 7:00pm), not to mention the day where I was up until 2:00am working on homework...

Needless to say, I was pretty tired by Friday. Melissa picked me up from the bus stop around 6, and when I got home, this was waiting for me...

You can't top coming home from a long day and getting a kiss from your sweet wife who has dinner all ready for you. But then when she's made a cute card and sign and rocky road brownies for you? I'm a very lucky guy! :)

YUM!

Oh, and One More Thing to Our 1 Year Anniversary...

While we were in Ontario, we stopped at a little purple and green house called "The House That Art Built." Inside were lots of things for sale that local artists had made. In one room, we found some really cute little lunch boxes that look like a purse! I thought it was sooooo cute, and Brandon is sooooooo sweet, so he got it for me. :) Here it is!

It comes with a little tupperware box that fits perfectly inside!

The tupperware has either Japanese or Chinese written all over it (I can't tell which it is)! I thought it was cool! :)

Food Storage and Dinner Calender

We've been pretty busy lately with a couple of projects! We decided that a really good way to save on money and to make sure we are eating healthy would be to make a dinner calender for each month. It took lots of work to find all of our favorite recipes and ones we want to try, put them on small cards with ingredients included, and arrange it all on the bulletin board. But we are very excited and glad we finally got this done!






We've been doing a bit for our food storage too. We really didn't start it when we were living in Idaho Falls, but we've decided to really try hard to get it up and going! It's not all organized and in the containers yet, but here's what we've got so far!











These are really nice for storing cans, as long as they are the same size as Campbell's soup! :)

Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day, we had Mom and Dad Dodds, Michael, and Elizabeth over! We made a really nice dinner for them and got to use our china, nice silverware, and goblets! It was sooooo much fun to have them here, but...of course....we forgot to take pictures of it all. :( Buuuuut, we did get some nice pics of the cupcakes I decorated! :)

I'm really happy how they turned out. They were so much fun to make! :D

I think this cupcake sums up how we feel about our marriage. :)

Our 1 Year Anniversary!!!

February 15th marked the day of 1 year of married bliss! :) We went to a really nice bed and breakfast in Ontario, Oregon and enjoyed wandering the town and relaxing for the weekend!

This is the Creek House Bed and Breakfast!

Here we are!

These are pics of our really pretty room. We were in the "Southern Comfort" room.

Pretty pretty, huh? ;)

Here is downtown Ontario. Not a whole lot, but hey, we live in a city, so small and quiet isn't bad. :)

Here we are with a random oxen team!

So, we stopped at an Eddy's Bakery, hoping to get some Hostess Pies (I know they are TERRIBLE for you, but hey, it was our anniversary!) but they were all out. So we got donuts instead. However, they were kinda falling apart, and while I was trying to keep them together, they just fell onto my lap instead! So, here is me, with a lapfull of messy donuts!

We went to a pizza place called Dolphie's Pizza House! Brandon couldn't wait to get his pizza!

He was sooooooooooo hungry he started to eat his plate!

While I waited patiently and prettily!

Our pizza came and we were both very happy and no longer hungry!


See?

I Made it All By Myself...

Here are some pictures of an apron I made! I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It's reversable, so you can choose if you want stripes on top, dots on bottom, or dots of top, stripes on the bottom.

Brandon's Birthday!

So, it was actually on January 18th, but we're just slow in posting. :)

I made this cute sign for him :) In my family, we always make a Happy Birthday sign for birthdays.

These are the decorations! We had some friends over for games and cake and ice cream. It was so much fun that we forgot to take pictures of everyone while they were there. So, even though we didn't take pictures of the actual party, just know that we had a good time. :)
Here's the German Chocolate cake I made for my sweetie. It was delicious, thanks to the Pilsbury Dough Boy!
Here's the Birthday Boy with all his fun presents! Ooh, what's in the big one?????




Brandon opened presents from me and Mom and Dad on Sunday (his birthday day). Nicole and Asmir (my cousins) got him some really good chocolates! Yummy! Thanks!Brandon got a two-disc DVD of The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again from Mom and Dad Dodds! These are sooooooo funny!
Here is one of the funnest games (in my opinion)! It's called, There's a Moose in the House! Sooooooooo funny!

A box of M&M's! YUM!
Here's what was in the big present! A Brave Little Tailor Mickey Mouse! This is definetly a Brandon Mickey. Oh the joys of working at the Disney Store! ;)