The slumbering beauty

You probably cant tell, but thats my sleeping husband and the pile of laundry I am currently working on-his favorite Thor shirt. I dont know if you can make out the number on the clock, but its after midnight. I wasnt home all day since I was at work, and we wont be home tomorrow because joshs uncle is flying into town so we'll be together all day tomorrow. No one knows this, but I rather suck at being a housewife. Its been nearly 2 weeks since I did a load of laundry. I just cleaned the bathrooms tonight after what I think has been at least 3 weeks (thank goodness for whoever invented those lysol clings bowl cleaners for toilets), I finally emptied the dishwasher load that I washed last sunday, bathed the dogs and washed 4 loads of laundry since 8pm. I want to have a clean house, I just never seem to be home to keep it that way. How it gets so full of ceap everywhere is beyond me...tho we are pretty much pros at dumping whatever is with us and running back out the door....anywhoooo
I felt compelled to post this. Why? I have no clue. Maybe because im discovering I like this outlet for my thoughts. Marriage is not always what it seems and I wanted to document it as it is in this moment I guess. ( if I never have another post on this blog its probably because the slumbering husband discovered this picture and killed me). Tonight the aforementioned man decided to hook a giant computer box up to our tv and take up a cubby of the entertainment center. We went to walmart for some ever so important adapter so he could complete this project. Did we get to do the grocery shopping there? No. Because we just needed that adapter. Why do we need this computer set up? Because what if you ever want to access the entire internet from your tv? (I hope you feel the sarcasm) I could give two hoota about all that. But whatev. So we now have a tv with a computer hook up. He spent 3 hours getting it set up and making sure that the sound worked. Then he nade sure to watch many YouTube videos to test it. All while im doing laundery and scrubbing bathrooms to death. In his defense, he did ask if I wanted help foldig a load before he ceawled into bed. And he doesnt feel so hot after dinner, so I shouldn't be irritated. Why am I? Dunno. But I am slightly irked about all of this evening. While I was balancing the newly dried load on the end of the bed, trying to keep him from rolling over on it or impaling himself with one of the shirt hangers, I realized that this is just our life! It just is weirdness and unexplainable stupid projects,  its messy and exhausting and totally imperfect on every level.  We argue, we get angry, I get irritated thinking that while hes sleeping and tangling himself up in the blanket I am standing on my tired feet folding his socks and going to be freezing cold since I cant get that blanket back when I crawl in bed....but this is who we are. This is our wonderfully imperfect life. We are happy in it the way it is. I love him tremendously,  and he loves me back. We irritate the living snot out of each other somedays. There are some days that this whole marriage thing is really hard. But I would never trade it, even on it's worst days, it is still the biggest blessing of my life.
So I'll go crawl in bed now, without a blanket, probably with some serious snoring and a head/arm/leg/body all up on my side of the bed. And ill probably be irritated about it for a minute, and then I'll settle in and smile to myself. Because thats my slumbering husband, snoring and hogging the bed and the covers, but he loves me. Despite the fact that he almost didnt have a clean pair of underwear anymore. And this imperfect messy life full of laundry at midnight is ours. And im okay with that.

To My Super Hero Husband

Since this was our first ever anniversary, I thought I'd go all out with a cool gift idea.  I have been planning it out for weeks.....being sick has totally ruined all of that for me.  I didn't get it all put together like I wanted to.....but he loved it and was super happy so I guess that's all the really matters! If I haven't mentioned it before, Josh happens to be Chris Hemsworths biggest fan. Like he has the ultimate man crush on Thor...its actually pretty hilariously cute and funny. I saw a gift idea on pinterest where a wife gave her husband a gift every hour on his birthday at the same time. She did whatever number of gifts and then he got to open each one at 11:08, 12:08, 1:08 etc. I thought that was cute so I thought I'd do 13 total gifts to represent 1 year of marriage and the 13th to represent the future. I let him open them all at once cause it felt silly to wait if we were gonna be out and about all day...
So I decided to theme these gifts as super hero stuff, specifically Thor in honor of the husbands man crush. Let me tell you....there is much memorabilia and knick knacks and such for the Avengers in general, but most everything revolves around the hulk or iron man...neither of which are Thor....this was harder than I planned but I was determined.
So here are the gifts below, each with a description since I never finished the poems that went with each gift. Everything was wrapped in Avenger paper cause that's the closest thing to Thor...

 

 

Here is all of the loot unwrapped.

 

The following are in no particular order....mostly cause I'm lazy and also because that is just way too complicated....

 

 

A Thor CD for my music loving man.  Whether it becomes the soundtrack to your life, or some new music to lay down some sweet new drum recordings for, I hope it's epic.

 

A Thor mousepad for my computer geek.

 

A Thor Hammer car decal, for your beloved FJ.

 

A Thor Bobblehead, because who doesn't need a bobblehead for their desk?

 

 

A Thor mug, for the wonderful husband who makes me coffee since I suck at it and his is the best.

 

 

 

Thor Cologne, so you can smell like the super hero you are.

(I ordered this online because I just couldn't pass it up, especially after reading the description on the box(below).  Whether it smelled terrible or not, he was getting it.  And it smells amazing.  We both love it!)

 

 

 

 

A Thor story book, to gaze at the beautiful pictures of Thor, to one day read to our children, or just to actually get you to read.

 

A custom hand painted Thor Antenna ball, again to deck out the beloved FJ.

 

A Thor armor tee.  To dress like the super hero you are.

 

A Thor USB, to conquer all things on the computer.

 

Thor headphones to listen to your epic music. (And so I don't have to hear it blasting all the time.) 

Thor Stickers.  Jus because.

 

And a Thor puzzle, because you are the missing piece in mine and because we are an ever growing puzzle that I hope is a beautiful piece of art when our lives are through.

 

Happy Anniversary Husband!  Don't know how I'll top this one......guess I'd better get to thinking now!

 

 

 

Hapy One Year of Marriage!

Today we are celebrating one whole year of married life! So weird to think we have been married for a whole year already.  We have been up at the husband's parents cabin since late Thursday night.  It's nice and quiet and we have nothing to do...perfect weekend.  Minus that part where I'm constantly nauseous...but the doc gave me some anti nausea meds on Thursday and it has allowed me to eat and even go off roading!
It's super nice up here in Heber/Overgaard right now.  If you care to know, Heber/Overgaard is just a few miles down the road from the turn off for Snowflake...about an hour outside of Payson.  There isn't much here but there are lots of lovely trees. Everyday has been mid 50s and its only down to about 34 at night. We were hoping for some snow to play in, but all the snow that was forecasted for this last week, hasn't even come....so oh well.
We spent almost all of Friday in our pajamas.  We made breakfast burritos and watch the Lord of the Rings to be prepared for the Hobbit later this month.  Later on we went to Casa Ramos, which is our favorite Mexican restaurant up here and afterward we wondered around the swap meet and the antique store.  We saw the cutest wooden reindeer and a gorgeous nativity sign at the antique store.  We're going to try duplicating them since they weren't overly complicated in any way.
Today we woke up before 930, made some breakfast, opened presents (that post to follow), and then hopped in the Jeep for some off roading.  I'm pretty sure we found the bumpiest trail known to man, and it made us both nauseous, but it was totally worth it!  After that we decided to visit the wood shop where they have the most amazing bear carvings, aliens, asu sun devils, eagles and so much more.  We even learned that they will make you anything custom.  Josh wants them to make him a Thor end table for the mancave.  Then we visited the Bison Ranch shops where we got some delicious homemade apple butter and jam.  And the husband got some hilarious signs for the man cave.  We ate lunch at the Red Onion where they apparantly double charged our card, that was cool beans.  And later on we are going to make steaks for dinner.  Those are only for special occasions, so we're pretty excited about that.  And we might even make some S'mores in the fire pit if Smokey the Bear deems that an okay activity today.  Since I royally suck at picture taking, I only have one from off roading today.......but the day is not over yet, so there is a chance I might add a few more!
Thanks for a wonderful first year of marriage husband!! Can't wait for the adventure that the next year will bring!