Thursday, February 13, 2014

Love is...


-letting me eat the last fry

-kissing me every morning (even when you're only semi-conscious)

-letting me pop your zits and pluck your eyebrows

-agreeing to take a picture with me so I can post it on Instagram

-texting me every morning

-driving to Swig with me every Friday night

-complimenting me when I feel my worst

-watching How I Met Your Mother with me every night

-talking in your nasally voice to me

-encouraging me to study (multiple times)

-surprising me with food instead of flowers

-pretending to be interested in my rants about clothes, makeup, and Pinterest

-admitting that I'm funny (even if you think you're funnier)

-starting my car for me on cold winter mornings

-making me waffles on Sunday

-loving me even when i'm hangry

-wearing your "ball smasher" pants because I think they look good on you

-making me laugh with your dance moves

-patiently waiting for me to get ready for church, and not saying anything after I make us late

-when you make me want to be a better person

-commuting to Salt Lake everyday because I'm not done with school

-always putting me before yourself

-the reason we get to spend eternity together

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I love you Chris Gourley! And I love our love.


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because we're an old married couple


Does going to dinner the night before Valentine's Day to avoid the crowds make us an old married couple? 

Answer: it does.

 We were so proud of ourselves for coming up with this plan! The only problem with that was the fact that all old married couples think alike. 

Hence, the 45 minute wait at Outback tonight... and hence this picture I made Chris take with me while we waited outside for a good 30 seconds before Chris suggested we go to our car to wait. 

So waited in the car we did! On our phones... not saying much to each other... romantic, right? Don't worry, once we cured our hanger with 4 loaves of bread (ask me about my bikini-ready body for our cruise... I dare you!), we were all kinds of cutesy! 

And to top off the night, Chris took me to Yogurtland! Chris isn't the biggest fan of that place, so we don't go there very often, so I made sure to take full advantage of our visit there by filling my cup to the brim with cookie dough bites and gummy worms. Which didn't last long. I pounded that ice cream on the drive home. Seriously, pounded--it wasn't dainty.

 Sigh... I love this pre-Valentine's Day tradition we've started. 

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Just Call Me Shamu

We ain't above bathroom selfies.

You'd think after being married over a year we would know all of each other's annoying habits by now, right? Wrong! Chris just recently discovered that I wash my face a little differently than most people. And by most people, I mean everyone.

You know in the face wash commercials when they splash their faces with water coming from all different directions and it's in slow motion? That's how I wash my face (minus the slow motion thing), which results in a completely sopping wet bathroom. Seriously--I'm talkin' puddles of water around our toothbrushes + damp toilet paper + water on our toilet seat. Our bathroom looks like the Soak Zone at Sea World after I wash my face! Which must be why Chris feels it necessary to call out the warning "Oh no, watch out! Here comes Shamu!!" before I go into the bathroom.

How I managed to hide this from Chris for over a year? I'll never know. I just hope the next habit of Chris' I discover lets me give him a nickname that has to do with an animal that weighs over 6 tons....

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Monday, February 3, 2014

my funk


Warning: this is a ramble/vent. Brace yourselves.

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All last month I was just in a funk. I couldn't really put my finger on what was making my funk so funky, and I'm still not even sure if I can. Last week at work I tried to explain said funk to a co-worker of mine and it just sounded ridiculous when I said it out loud! Granted, it probably is ridiculous, but I thought I'd at least give it another try explaining it to blog world.

First, a fun fact about Shayli: I hate change. Hate it! Just give me a routine where I can be sure I know what cereal I'm going to have in the morning and what time I'll be home so I can make dinner and watch Netflix accordingly! You know... important things. Anyway, this semester I have felt like I just haven't been able to get into a routine. Some mornings I would have to wake up early and go to class for two and a half hours, and others I would get up early and only have to be in class for half an hour. Where is the consistency, people?! Although, I can't be too upset about getting out of class so early, since that usually resulted in me with a dirty DP in hand while watching the Vampire Diaries.

But it's not just that my classes have had weird schedules that put me in a funk, but also that I'm really not that into my classes. Last semester I was so excited for my classes and now I can't even tell you the name of the classes I'm taking. Biomechanics..? Kinesiology... err something? Plus I feel like all my professors skipped the magnificent first day of school that consists of going over the syllabus and explaining the flow of the class y'know? Actually, now that I think of it, a lot of my classes didn't even hand out a syllabus... which is probably why I feel like I'm always two steps behind in all of my classes--how am I supposed to follow without the schedule?! I need to know the flow!

It's not even just school that put me into a funk, though. I feel like this semester has just squashed any ounce of wifey I had in me. You wouldn't think sitting at a desk for four hours would be exhausting, but it is! *cue eye rolling* After I come home from work, I just feel exhausted. I can barely get up the energy to cook dinner these days! And cleaning the house? Forget it. You know it's getting bad when your husband starts scrubbing the bathroom... bless Chris. Bless him. It may sound normal to some of you that I don't want to cook dinner and clean my house but that's not my normal--I LOVE doing both of those things! Seriously, I ask Chris on a regular basis if I can just quit everything and be a stay-at-home-wife (just wife! that mom stuff still looks a little too hard for me...) to which his reply is always, "No."

Speaking of Chris.... have you seen him? Because I haven't. At least that's what it's felt like this past month. Any night that I was home, he had basketball, and any night the he happened to be home, I would be at Zumba (because hello! I'm going on a cruise! And that bikini body isn't going to form itself!). Even on the weekends I felt like we didn't see each other...even if we were together all weekend it just felt like we had other things going on and not really spending "Chris and Shayli" time... ya know? *cue more eye rolling* And to top it all off... my phone got stolen before I even got the chance to take a selfie and show the instagram world my new dark hair (thanks again, Ali!), but don't worry I'm sure there will be one in the works soon... I just need to learn how to use my new phone. 

....Am I completely ridiculous for complaining about all this? Answer: yes. But no worries! It's out of my system and in blog land! Plus, I was de-funked today! And it's the beginning of a new month--a short month! And I got to start it out by feeling like a wifey again and going grocery shopping and cleaning my house! Oh, the sparkling counter tops and folded laundry! I have missed you. Oh, and to answer the question you're all dying to know... I'm having multi-grain Cheerios tomorrow ;)

Here's to a funk-free February!

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p.s. these kinds of posts will be far and few... I promise.
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