oh you wanted to see a million pictures?!

Two weeks in Washington does great things for a person. 

We had a blast soaking up the sun and spending time with friends and family. 

Here is the proof...(ALL phone pics, lucky you)

Also there are a few things to remember when vacationing
1. It's really cool to let your hair air dry. every. single. day.
2. It's cool not to do your makeup
3. It's cool to live in your swim suit
4. It's cool to eat way too much every day and gain a few lbs

Some highlights:

Sisters

Murphy Bear (the dog)

Wedding dress shopping!

Cousins

Grandparents

Sand

Boating

Tan lines

Happy Thursday!

according to my phone

The excitement according to the iphone...

fire// good faces at lunch// Brian loves the bachelorette// rain and flip flops...bad idea

weird cat// good life jackets// more good faces// current reads

We're off to Washington this week....couldn't be more excited!!

Linking  up with Brooke

july fourth

4th of July highlights:

well this isn't really a highlight...just our faces

kayaking with really good life jackets and really good hair

an amazing view!

Hope y'all had a happy 4th!

mostly the weekend + some other cute ones

a classic photo//hot air balloon that I didn't ride in// reupholstering my kitchen chairs// no pants? thats cool//

Sonic with my man// bored at work (it's my hand)// $1 flip flops!// Ammie & me at Tibble Fork//

  more Tibble Fork// babysitting// the workout that I'm too lazy to do// Tibble Fork

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Linking up at Silver Lining today!!

the usual

This guy ^ loves Sonic. And do so I.  

We've got all the weekly special memorized.  

Out favorites are Mon/Wed/Sat (none of the other days are worth your while). 

Those three days offer popcorn chicken, the chicken club toaster and mozzarella sticks!! 

Go at 2pm and you can even get a half price lemon-berry slush.

Sound like Sonic is paying me to say this huh? 

This happened to be a chicken club toaster day. 

Delish

We also got to watch this sweet girl!

She was loving Brian :)

It was a good day

its been a while

Yeah I know its been 6 months or so since I've said a single word on this thing but once again, work drives me to blog.  

We'll see how long this lasts.  

Cross your fingers.

All I have to say for right now is that it's hot and I don't like it.  No air conditioning will get you every time.  

So, considering that our house is roughly 900 degrees, and our bedroom is about 1000, we've broadened out horizons and moved our bedroom to the living room.  

It has been great. 

A bedroom away from bedroom.

I'm telling you it's hot.

If you don't believe me just ask this guy

Stay cool...

Also I updated the blog...what do you think?

Christmas collage

Instead of writing a huge long drawn out post to describe my fabulous Christmas break I've decided to just post some pictures instead (collages to be exact)! 

But here are the highlights:

*we spent 10 days in Washington with my family!

*my main man turned 24!

*we got to spend some time with our cute nephew and the rest of Brian's family!

New Years is next...hope it's happy!

a few things to say

You missed us huh? (well mostly just me since Brian doesn't blog but you get the point)

Well things have been busy around here lately!

we got some new flooring! A huge improvement to the old stuff. 

We also got a new (old) table that actually has chairs.  We can finally eat dinner at a table and not the couch! Yessss

To celebrate all of the six months we've been married we went to Salt Lake last weekend to watch BYU play Oregon and then went to The Red Iguana (has some yummy Mexican food). Our seats for the game were super crappy but hey that's cool.

And finally, just the other day I was having a Cup of Noodles for lunch and I got the hugest piece of meat EVER. SO naturally I took a picture of it for you to see.  Here she is (the picture doesn't do it justice).

Besides all of this great stuff we just have finals starting tomorrow.  I have a final at 7am. You might be wondering if this is a joke, but no, no it's not a joke.  All I can say is that a week from today we will be living the life (in front of a wood burning stove) in Washington for 10 DAYS!!!!!

Yessssss

Have a happy week!

we're getting by...

Welp we've been running low on toothpaste for roughly two weeks now.

Somebody's lazy.

Yes I have brushed my teeth twice everyday for the last two weeks.

There's a few good brushes left.

(don't worry about my dirty looking tiles...it's permanent)

Happy Tuesday

6 months

Brian and I have been married for six months today :)

He surprised my with these!!!!!!

I love this guy :)

Also check this sweet song out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qea3lLr5qQ

Happy six months my dear xoxox

turkey day!

This yeah I had my first Topham Thanksgiving and it was great!

We of course had all the Thanksgiving usual plus probably 30 pies (this is not a joke)

We ate, watched (too much) football,payed games and then ate again!

I got a couple pictures from turkey day!

Brian left me to play football at 8am so on his way home he got me a turkey day balloon!

 (it has little leaves on it but it's hard to tell). 

And of course I look bald in the second picture but whatever it's cool.

Hope you had a yummy Thanksgiving :)

on the weekend

Welp it was a cold weekend.  It snowed :(

This means that I had to wear all of this to the 8pm BYU game:

Chill Chasers (thanks mom!)

Leggings

Long sleeve shirt

Sweatshirt

Columbia Fleece

North face coat

Sock + another pair of wool ones

Scarf

Earmuffs

Gloves

and a fleece blanket

Needless to say I looked about 30 pounds heavier than I really am.  It was great. NOT.  

SOOOOO freezing I wanted to die.

I'm a wimp and I hate the cold.  I can never get warm (net even in all that junk^)

Then we went to a friends and ate popcorn and star bursts and watched Zoolander (I fell asleep of course)

and that's pretty much it.

Happy Sunday

love him

I'm just sitting at home all alone thinking about my cute husband who is stuck on campus taking a molecular biology test. 

Bad deal.  

Anyways I love this kid :)

He hates this picture so don't tell him I put it on here. Ok thanks!

Happy Monday

taco eh?

Today one of my second graders called me Mrs Taco. It was so funny I almost died.  It went like this...

2nd grade boy with a crush on me: "look how good I'm cutting!"

Me: "Oh yeah that's so great!" (we all know it was pretty rough)

2nd grade boy with a crush on me: " Mrs. T...T...Taco, look at my spider!"

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha so funny

Just a genuine mistake :)

Taco, Topham- one in the same

Oh ps I'm teaching in a second grade class for the next three weeks for my program at BYU...it's a great time!

this is real people

Here is my husband watching Boy Meets World. 

This is not a joke....Mr. Feeny is right there!

 (oh and Bri's hand is on the left shielding his face from the shame).  

He begged me to watch the Halloween episode with him last night.  

Mostly  I just looked at pinterest then fell asleep sitting up. 

love me so pumpkin

I made the yummiest pumpkin cookies this afternoon with the some cream cheese frosting. 

SOOOO GOOD

They look a little lumpy, I know, but they are sooo delish!

Seriously try them...they're easy to make!

I'll give you the recipe:

2 1/2 C flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 C butter

1 1/2 C sugar

1 C canned pumpkin puree

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

Direction: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt; set aside

In another bowl, cream together butter and sugar.  Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla to butter mixture until creamy.  Mix in dry ingredients. Drop cookies on baking sheet by tablespoonfuls; flatten slightly

Bake for 15 to 20 min. Frost as desired!

I usually bake mine for about 12 min. Check them at 10 min, they're cakey cookies so you can tell easily when they're done. I frosted mine with cream cheese frosting and I usually add some cinnamon and nutmeg to my frosting for something a little extra special.

Enjoy :)

Happy Saturday and happy Halloween!!!!

a little bit of goodness

This weekend was pretty swell.  Here's what we did...

Flag football (Friday and Saturday)

Laundry

Tests :/

BYU football

SONIC (cheese sticks and an orange soda for the lady, a slush for the mister)

Movies with friends on giant Lovesac COUCHES (what?????)

Dexter

Ice cream (don't worry we each bought our own gallon)

 We probably had the crappiest seats in the world and BYU spanked Idaho State so shortly after this photo I took a little nap on the bleachers. Impressive, I know.

Every Saturday the Sonic special is 99 cent cheese sticks. The greatest I know. We just always wind up there between 2 and 4pm.

This is where it's at people. Did you notice that I've devoured half the carton in 3 days???

Welp hope your weekend was great and that Monday doesn't super suck:)

 Mine will be great because my sucky class is cancelled. YEAH!!!!

mostly I'm not a fan of this day of the week but...

Today was a good day (for a Thursday) mostly because I got some gelato at costco...yeah baby!

now I should be studying all of this :(

(it actually is front and back, thanks for asking) 

but instead I've decided to paint my nails

take that OPI

also I learned that my heater vent acts as a great nail dryer...who needs the salon anyways

(yeah I know I broke down and turned the heat on.  I was freezing people)

I seriously think I have ADD... wish me luck on this whole studying thing

(oh and don't mind the crappy cell phone pictures)

super suck

Today I was on campus for 12 straight hours (even had to sleep in my car for a bit). It super sucked.

That's all

OH! I heard you wanted to see what my house looks like!

So here's the thing. Brian and I are lucky enough to live in a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom HOUSE! It's really great....we have wayyyy too much room.

Come stay

We're thinking about holding gymnastics classes in our living room.

Brian's parents own the house.

The deal was...we paint the WHOLE house in exchange for cheap rent.
Let me tell you...painting is the worst. 

Especially the ceilings. 

But we're basically done and decorated so here are a few pics!!! (it's much cuter in person. trust me)

Living Room:

Told ya it's huge...pull out the leotards friends

 Kitchen...not too exciting

 Dining room table with no chairs :)

 Here's my bathroom...it's small so hard to get a great pic. Just notice the green and blue tiles...they're great.

The 2 spare rooms, the master bedroom and spare bath aren't pictured cause they're just not that exciting.

Well the master bedroom is exciting...just kinda messy at the moment.

PS....it costs a ton to heat this place 

(that means we're ALWAYS freezing and sleeping in chill chasers, socks, sweatshirts and 10 blankets), 

and yes we did paint-mostly just creamish :/ 

and also there are too many spiders in this place.

Happy Tuesday :D :D