First Time Christmas Displaying as a Married Couple

This story was written back in December of 2018:

I decided to post about the Christmas display that I've outdone this year. I started working on the display during Thanksgiving when Walmart let me have the day off for that. However, with the biggest semester going on, it's been a little limited for me to put up more lights, because of big assignments that are due every week and I work at Walmart full time in order to make enough money to take care of myself and Puppy Lover.

And speaking of Puppy Lover, some of the times it took me away from her and I to spend time together other than sleeping together. Putting up lights on the house for a very quick time has been easier for me when I wasn't taking a lot of classes while being employed at the same time, and it got more challenging now that I'm a married man and have been since Dr. Seuss's birthday this year. I shouldn't be complaining about that, because I should be happy being married, and that Puppy Lover is also happy. It's the first time for me to put up lights as a married man and I'm hoping that Puppy Lover will love this.

With the progress of putting up lights, I still face the troubles of finding strands that are broken and that I ended up having to come up with another plan with the extra lights strands in the boxes. I was even worried about some of the appearances of inflatables or stands of characters that have worn out over the years. I ended up buying some more inflatables, despite my mom warning me about spending my money.

 My parents thought that they saw our state news truck parked in front of our house to take photos of our display and they thought I put ourselves on KSL again this year. I told them I didn't, because I didn't think I would be able to become news worthy for people around the state to come to the house to see the entire display all set up. But my parents kept on urging me to get back out on a warm day to put up more before I ever go to work.

But with just one day off of the week and being done for the semester, I barely finished it and it's ready to be shown to you on the blog and possibly to those who want to stop by to look at it. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and have a chance to come see this house if you live in Utah.

I'm hoping by next Christmas, I won't have to face anymore troubles of having to put up more lights on days when I'm scheduled to work at Walmart.

Troom Troom Treats

This story was in November of 2018:

I wasn't quite sure what has been happening with my life lately that I wanted to talk about, but then my mom wanted me to write about some gifts that I've been giving to some of the family members on their birthdays for the past few months. For a while, I've been watching a channel that talks about girls making unique recipes, DIY projects, and many other life hacks that are quite interesting to try. Their channel is called Troom Troom. 

I've been giving it a try on using their recipes to make giant candy bars, unicorn treats, edible stress relievers, and inside out food. I won't be able to explain how I made them, but you can always check it out on their channel, because they do demonstrate how to make the recipes, life hacks, and the DIYs.  I will show you which of these treats I gave to each of the birthday people I've been giving to. I don't have every picture of the same the treat I've been giving to the people on their birthdays, but I can tell you what it was.

 This is a giant Reese's bar that I made for Drama Queen's birthday. She really like it and was always wondering how I made it. Even Teach would want to have a Giant Reese's for her birthday next year. I made another giant candy bar for Curly, but I never took a picture of it, because I didn't think of it. But it was a giant pack of giant starbursts. He was so amazed to see it, but he wasn't able to finish it all by himself. Besides, he always liked to share his gifts with other people, as long as people asked him.

 These are Oreos that I learned how to make in an inside out way. I gave these to my dad. He thought they were good, but he would still prefer the regular Oreos, because he doesn't like double-stuffed ones, just like these inside out ones could be considered them to be.

 These are giant edible Orbeez in all the colors of the rainbow. I gave these to Princess on her birthday, because she likes Jell-O and orbeez at the same time, so I learned how to make edible orbeez for her. She liked them, but they weren't easy to make.

 These are rainbow spreads that I made for Crafty, since she likes to spread things on her toast. I made them in different colors and flavors. I once put all of them into one big jar, but it was quite hard to reach the bottom of it, so I ended up trying to make these individually in small jars and they turned out great for everyone to try at once without having to start from top to bottom in one jar, but they can choose one.

I haven't given these giant KitKat bars out yet, but I'm planning to give them to the Frog, since he likes KitKats. There is one flavor that no one has ever made before and it make sound weird. I made a Strawberry Limeade KitKat that looks exclusive and it might be delicious for the Frog to try on his birthday. 

A lot of these treats I made from the Troom Troom show were really hard, but fun to make. The only people I didn't make these treats for were Bossy and Baby Doll. The reason was that, Bossy was worried about her diabetic condition and wanted me to make something that she can use, instead of eat. I made her some more Christmas albums that showed individual pictures of her children and their own playlist of Christmas songs. She's very excited to listen to them this Christmas. And Baby Doll didn't receive a treat like these, because I made her a Sprite pie, just like she explained on the other post about Baby Doll's birthday. I have a feeling that I should probably lay low on the treat making habit and try making real food that could be healthy for everyone, but I hope you liked this blog and if you're interested, check out the Troom Troom show.

Yuba Camping Trip

This story was back in August of 2018:

It's been quite a while for me and Cat Lover to write ever since we explained about other great events we've had ever since we got married. Another fun event that we did for the first time as a couple is going on a camping trip to Yuba with Cat Lover's side of the family. It was a chance that Cat Lover and I could spend together while being away from our everyday routines. It was also a chance that Cat Lover and I could demonstrate the Wolf-em treat to her family.

The trip started on the 27 of July. We had to wait for almost an hour to wait for one of Cat Lover's sisters' husband to come out from doing a blood test at the doctor's office. We drove all the way to the Yuba Natural Park. I've never been to Yuba in my life. It's just on the other side of Nephi City where Drama Queen taught at Juab High School. When we got there, it was a great looking lake to sightsee. Cat Lover and I had a chance to go for a little bit of a swim in the lake before the rest of her family showed up with tents to set up on the campground we made a reservation to.

Cat Lover grew up loving to ride on a four-wheeler and motorcycle with her parents on bumpy dirty rides. In fact, her entire family had grew up loving to go dirt riding. I never rode a motorcycle or a four-wheeler. A funny thing is, I used my car to drive on the dirty bump ground near a beach of the lake. Even Cat Lover was with me on one run. She thought it was fun, but she would prefer riding on the four wheeler with her mom and the motorcycle with her dad.

We had lots of fun having a campfire around, even if there was so much wind that was always trying to blow our tents down and I would feel really stressed out that it's been a while for me and my family to go on an outing from home. On the first night, it was hard for me and Cat Lover to sleep on the air mattress that was blown up for the night, but then by morning it had deflated itself. However, on the second night, we slept with Cat Lover's parents on mattress pads. It was still hard to sleep inside a tent, because you never get used to camping often, but I didn't want to disappoint Cat Lover and her parents.

There have been a few of the times during a day that I was feeling so stressed out about being out in the fresh air with mosquitos flying around, wind blowing our tents down, and even having to toss and turn on the ground to sleep. Cat Lover was always worried that I wasn't having any fun on the camping trip, but I kept telling her that I really was having fun, even if my gestures sometimes didn't look like it. She did let me have the opportunity to go home a day early and wait for them to come back home, but I told them that I could still be at camp, because if I left camp without Cat Lover, my family would be so upset with me for abandoning my spouse with her parents all alone. That would make me feel like I'm a terrible husband, so I just stayed with them until the last day when we had a chance to go home after a fun camping trip.

We stayed in Yuba for two nights until Sunday when it was time to go home. We still had fun in Yuba, experiencing a new place you've never been to before and even sightseeing the valley. I'm hoping next summer, I'll have another fun camping trip with Cat Lover and her family. And that time, I will make sure that I really am having fun with a fun gesture!

The Manti Trip

This story was also back in June of 2018:

It's been recent that I blogged for all of you, especially blogging about Cat Lover's missing wedding ring. Well, she wanted me to talk about a fun trip that she and I went to over the weekend. As many of you might expect, we took a one night trip down to Sanpete County to go see the most exciting event that has been a legacy for my side of the family. 

I'm pretty sure that my Mom told you all about the Mormon Miracle Pageant and how it's been a fun event to attend. Cat Lover told me that she only went to see it once in her life. And I thought with requesting a weekend off from work, I would take her down to Manti to go see the pageant. We drove all the way down to Sanpete County after we finished packing for a one night sleep at my grandpa's old home in Ephraim. We did a first stop at the Terrel's grocery store in Mt. Pleasant. We always like to eat their doughnuts, especially with the ones that are shaped like a foot. Unfortunately, the doughnuts at Terrel's were all sold out! It's sad, because my Mom was hoping that I bring her home one of the apple fritters. Instead, we bought the different kinds of cookies that were still on display at the Terrel's bakery. I guess Terrel's doughnuts are popular on Saturdays down in Mt. Pleasant.

When we got hungry, we stopped at my aunt's entrepreneur-made restaurant called Dairy Freeze. It's like Dairy Queen, but this time, they serve bishop shakes in cups with a lot of different options of flavors for shakes. When Cat Lover and I ordered the shakes and they were brought to us, she tried it and she thought in her opinion that they're way better than the shakes at Sonic (no offense to the people working at Sonic).

After we made it to the old house in Ephraim and set up our stuff to spend the night, we just thought that we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, so we stopped by a Walmart nearby in Ephraim to buy some cereals that we an eat for breakfast before we go home. When it was finally time, we drove all the way to Manti, which was only a ten minute drive from Ephraim. It was quite packed with a lot of people going into the Temple ground to settle down to watch the entertainment. We waited for a long time until it was dusk and that's when the Pageant started.

During the performance, Cat Lover and I were always lip-sing the scriptural messages that were being performed in the Pageant. It was because we have been studying the scriptures and we always do, so that we can build a testimony in our lives of what we believe in. Right after the Pageant was over, Cat Lover just told me that she enjoyed it and shared me a kiss of love and gratitude for bringing her to the event. We carefully went through the traffic back to Ephraim to spend the night and then depart home by morning. We both had fun down in Manti, just the two of us. But we both felt like we wished our families would've been there to see it, since it was the last performance of the year. I'm hoping by next year, we can convince our families to come with us to see it. I hope you enjoyed this story about our second mini honeymoon.

Missing Ring

This story was back in June of 2018:

I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to talk about on here that would be considered normal or new to all of you. But then it came to me that I remembered that today was my day off of work and I got to spend time with Cat Lover. She works a three-hour work shift at Village Baker and has lots more time to be around the house. On the days when I'm off of work, I go pick her up and we do something fun together. For example, I read a junior novelization of Inside Out from the Pixar movie and I just finished it to her. It makes her feel like she wants to see the movie again.

Not the actual ring, but it's kind of like the one she lost, but I found it for her.

Anyway, today was going really smoothly, until Cat Lover told me that she lost one of the wedding rings that they were both supposed to be welded together. She was in tears when she told me that she tried really hard to find the missing ring. I gave her a spousal embrace, encouraging her that we'll find it. Then at the possible second, for a random reason, I started looking in one of the laundry baskets and heard a ding inside. I dug through and found the ring! She was so happy that I found it for her and she's happy to have me as a husband.

I didn't think about taking pictures of me and Cat Lover today, so I just found some more of those happy moments we had as a couple together. She's really grateful to have me as a spouse to live with for her life and for the eternities. I don't know what she could do without me. I'm still trying to help her be happy with her life and I still want to teach her some good active skills that she can do, so that someday, our future children will be able to grow up and become like social people. And also to know that spouses can help each other with their struggles and lost items, like a wedding ring!

Comeback

 I realized that I haven't been blogging on this blog in years. I'm so sorry about all of that. It's just a lot of things have been going on with my life that I haven't had much time to blog on here, I have a lot to say about how those years have went with me ever since the last time I blogged on here. I've done some guest blogging on Twelve Makes a Dozen and I ought to show you some interesting that have happened with me. I hope to hear more from all of you again and see what you think of the posts I'm about to show you.

Pie Vlog

It's been such a long time since I got to blog, because things have been going crazy with getting used to marriage and celebrating Mother's Day. I'm not sure if this is what I should be showing you, but Cat Lover and I have been thinking about doing a vlog where I demonstrate my unique techniques of making these pies. The idea came into my mind after Pi Day after I made these pies for everyone to try. I then decided that I could make more pies and show you how I make them. I made this little intro that I'm planning to use for my Pie Vlog. It took me a long time to put it together and find the right non copyrighted music just for it. If you like, I'll plan to do the vlog and show you the demonstrations of my pies If you would like to see more of them, you can subscribe and share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and many other sites that you can share it with. You can even leave comments below on each vlogpost I put up on YouTube. I hope that you'll look forward to it as well as I am.