Jeff and Jill went up the hill...: July 2012

Jeff's 23rd Birthday! (surprise party)

This year, I decided to be super sneaky and try and throw Jeff an epic surprise birthday party. Believe it or not, I actually kept the secret in for about two whole weeks! I invited some of our old friends, too. In order to get Jeff out of the house so I could decorate and make all the food and stuff, I told him that I was taking a test, and that I needed to study for awhile. I also had to lie to him and tell him that the testing center closes at 5 on Saturdays, when they actually close at 3. I know, really sneaky. So I eventually got him out of the house because I told him I had to go study at UVU and then (after a little bit of convincing), he agreed to go on campus at BYU and work on some of his dental school applications. He kept begging me to let him stay home so that he could watch the Olympics and take a nap, but I eventually talked him into going to campus, mostly because I told him that 'he would be more productive there.' Haha. Anyway, while he was gone, I got most everything ready. However, thanks to Jordan Bean, the surprise was not ruined. Basically, I called Jordan up a little bit before the party and told him that I really needed his help stalling so I could have more time to get things ready. Jordan definitely saved the day. He told Jeff he needed help with a couch, and somehow, he distracted him for like two hours. Jordan and Emily are awesome haha. By the way, they're getting married TOMORROW! Woohoo!

Some of the decorations.

I know, fancy haha.

I also attempted to make a fruit pizza thing this year for Jeff. He absolutely LOVED it. I was so happy. Basically because my mom made fruit pizza for me a few times for my birthday, and I would pretty much beg her to make it for me all the time. So I was pretty confident that Jeff would like it, too. I was brave this year for his birthday haha. And it was great, because this thing was gone in about ten minutes.

Jeff's birthday fruit pizza!

Birthday boy with the birthday brownies. So precious.

Oh yeah, he's mine. What a cute birthday boy.

Having fun with the noise-makers that totally did NOT make any noise. Thank you, dollar store.

They looked pretty cool though.

Looks like he had a great birthday party. So glad the surprise part was a huge success!

Happy birthday Jeff!!!

Fun dates in July

For Jeff's birthday this year, I decided to attempt to be sneaky and order a nice new 6 player croquet set so we could go on more dates with other couples. I mean, come on. Croquet is the perfect date idea, right?! So, it got delivered to our door step, and Jeff saw it waaay before his birthday. So the surprise was pretty much ruined. Long story short, we decided to just bust the box open and go out and play that night together. We even had a little picnic together with free pizza before playing. It was a lot of fun. It is definitely not the fanciest croquet set, especially since the balls we used got pretty banged up already, but we are really excited to use it! We are both happy with his awesome (not-so-surprise) birthday present.

Jeff showing off his juggling skills with our brand new croquet balls.

He was actually pretty good. I'm so proud.

Jeff and I also got to go zip-lining for free in Provo Canyon with our starving student card deal. It definitely did not last for very long, but it was a lot of fun. And it was cool to be in the beautiful mountains while doing it. We kind of decided that this was our honeymoon replacement photo, since they didn't let us take any pictures on our zip-lining tour in Mexico.

We almost got attacked by a bunch of cows driving back from zip-lining.

Random man fly-fishing.

Driving back to Provo from the Canyon.

'This is the Place' Heritage Park and Hogle Zoo in SLC

A couple of weeks ago, Jeff and I took a little trip up to Salt Lake because we had free tickets to the 'This is the Place' Heritage Park, and also free tickets to the Hogle Zoo. We had such an amazing day! Jeff and I had also signed up for a bunch of the birthday club things at various places, including Benihana in Salt Lake, so we got to go there for dinner that night together. Yay for free tickets!