Memorial Day!

I love holidays, especially patriotic ones. My favorite holiday of the year is the 4th of July because I just really love America and the freedom that I have been blessed with. In church yesterday we sang America the Beautiful and the organist really played the song with feeling and it just made me feel so grateful to live in this great country.

I decided that for breakfast I wanted to try and make my sister Stephie's recipe for Strawberry Lemon Cream Cheese stuffed french toast. So I had to go to the grocery store on Saturday while Derek was at work and I decided to go out to Walmart because I also needed an iron. I don't like going to Walmart because it is always so crowded and I feel like everyone is trying to kidnap me...... annywaysss I try to pull out two different carts from the little cart garage and neither of them would come loose from the carts behind them (they were stuck) and I was getting embarrassed yanking on them and not having them come free, so I move to a third cart hoping that it will do like every cart should and be easy to pull away from the rest, and it was... but after a couple of seconds I regretted my cart choice. It was one of those carts that is SO LOUD that it makes you feel like you are wearing a strobe light around your neck and jingle bells on your ankles because everyone stares at you because of all the noise you are making. But, it was too late to go back and switch it. Butttt, I got all the french toast stuff ready last night and put it in the fridge over night and then popped it in the oven this morning and it turned out soooo good! That's another reason I love holidays because breakfast foods are my favorite and on holidays you can go all out :)

After breakfast, I let Derek go study and I finished up the dishes and tidied up the kitchen and then we decided to go an play tennis. It was such a nice day and nice days should never go to waste. So I put on my most impressive tennis get up to try and intimidate him and it didn't work. I wouldn't say I am bad at tennis but I'm not that good, I haven't played in forever and he was pretty good and kept taking advantage of my short legs and arms and lack of arm strength. I am glad though because I want to be one of those couples who is good at tennis so that one day we can go and play and I don't have to embarrassed by my lack of skill and the only way I will get better is by trying to keep up. We probably played about 7 or 8 games and I came close to winning about 3 and then I actually won one game. Which I was happy with :)

Then the day got kind of boring... well not boring because only boring people get bored but it just wasn't too exciting, Derek studied and I don't even remember what I did... wasted time probably. But then Derek had to go to work and I went to go and pick up Derek's wedding band (the sent the wrong size at first so I had to go exchange for the right size) and I signed my name as Amanda Stewart.... it was very uncomfortable and I had to actually think about my signature which made me even more nervous that I was going to mess it up. But I guess it was a two second adventure :) As for now, Derek is taking a practice test and I am writing this. Tomorrow we both work at 8, which is early but we have leftover french toast for breakfast! Yay!

Playing House

Well, here we go... I have decided to make a new blog for me and my husband Derek that is all about our new life and adventures together. A lot of people might wonder where the H-E- doublehockeysticks this title came from for a blog. And it's really quite simple. I love Brad Paisley and one of my favorite songs by him is called "New Favorite Memory".... you should all listen to it, here is the link: 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKBneYZt21g


It is such a cute song and I like to think of my new life as a time to make new favorite memories, memories that I will make with my husband and one day my children :) 


Anyywayysss, enough with the boring stuff... Me and Derek were married on May 11th (the best day ever!) in Orlando and now we live in Provo, Utah where we are both working for the summer and going back to school in the fall. We live in this little tiny apartment that I am trying to make cute... it's pretty difficult but I guess I like the challenge. 


I love being a wife. Derek is taking the MCAT in less than a week so when he is not at work he is studying and so I have a lot of time to do something quietly by myself. This morning I decided to make the bed a few times and decide which way it looked the prettiest. Then I scoured the bathroom and kitchen with a lot of Bleach and Scrubbing Bubbles. Derek kept asking if he could help but I was actually having fun doing all of that and I know it is important for him to study. Yesterday to take up time I decided to make chocolate chip cookies.... I don't have a mixer yet... so my arm muscle is like ten times bigger now (it was nonexistent to begin with... seriously, my arm muscles are the joke in my family). Right now he is taking a full practice test, so I decided to make this blog. 


Another reason I love being a wife is I get to be creative with my cooking. The other day me and Derek made Chicken Caesar Salad pizza and it was sooo good! And for Monday morning, because it's a holiday so I don't have work in the morning and Derek doesn't work until later, we are going to make some french toast casserole :) We both love cooking together and are enjoying it now because once he is in med school and residency I don't think that will happen very much. 


So this first blog is a little all over the place but I went into Target the other day to grab a few things and I had to get a cart and explore the home section of Target and it was so fun. I have decided that being married is like playing house all the time except there isn't anyone pretending to be a dog... which I am okay with. :)