where to start!! a couple weeks ago on a nice hot sunday Jason and I went hiking at doughnut falls. its a pretty short hike and elevates about 500 ft, it was pretty nice. I am never very talkative or excited during hikes because, again, I am in it for the workout, not the scenery. So when we got to the end it was pretty cool! the water was too high from all the rain lately so we weren't able to cross the river and go up to the top, but the bottom of the fall was still cool.
I took zero pictures on the 4th of July. seriously, I suck. oh well. on the 4th we, hmm, I think we went to lunch with Jason's parents, and I can't remember what we did during the day but we cooked a brisket and ate dinner with Derek. It was SOOO delicious. I really think brisket may be my new favorite meat, except its so fatty. luckily all the fat is contained to one spot so its really easy to just cut it away. After dinner we walked over to Sugar House park, cause we live that close. :-) we met our friends there, Jordan and James. Played uno, talked and watched the fireworks. All in all it was a pretty good holiday, I could have done with some more sitting by the pool, but eh.

my husband is the sweetest cutest thing! the friday before the 4th he went golfing with his brother and I went to layton and hung out with my parents at their pool. around 6ish we both started heading home and Jason called me to tell me he had a suprise. AW! he is so fetching cute. so I got home and he told me I had to find my suprise, I went in to the bedroom and there were two big boxes on each side of the bed, he got me nighstands!!!
before we used a box on one side, and an old night stand on the other. I love them and him for being so wonderful. there is one of those on each side obviously. Jason and I are starting to buy new furniture slowly so that when we buy a house, we will actually have nice stuff to put in it. next is a dining room table set, a TV console and a dresser set. :-)

Jason finally cracked and told me where he is taking me for our anniversary! SAN DIEGO!! I am SOOOO excited. we went there on our honeymoon and I absolutely loved it! he booked a 4-star hotel and its so ritzy. I am so excited I can't wait. When we were there last time I wanted to go to the san diego temple, but the only day we could go was on a monday, so we just walked around, but this time we will do a session! YAY!

there really isn't much else to update ya on. Work is less stressful for Jason and more stressful for me, I guess there has to be a balance lol.

OH!! my coupon shopping!!! I learned how to do it. here are a few tips that I have found helpful.
1. you have to be willing to stock up. which is hard because in our apartment we dont have a ton of space, but so far it hasnt been an issue. 2. get the idea out of your mind that wal-mart is the cheapest, its not. well, sometimes it is, it just depends. 3. stop going to the store once a week to get the items you need for 7 dinners, even if they aren't on sale, thats bad. You will be going to the store about once a week doing couponing. 4. the way you do it, is you match sales with coupons. example. my Kashi go lean cereal is regularly 5$, if you bought ten, albertsons has each one for 2.49$, I had a 1.50 off coupon with makes it 1$, but albertsons also had a twice the value coupons in the paper for up to a dollar which means, it was FREE!! Had I not matched the sale with the coupon, I would have gotten the cereal for 3.50 with my coupon alone, compared to free. sweet huh? Jason and I order the sunday paper, just for the coupons and they have already paid for themselves for a year with how much we have saved. I have done it 3 times so far, once I got 90$ worth of food for 44$, 60$ worth of groceries for 12$ and 52$ worth of groceries for 10$ thats 196$ for 66$!!! I gotta tell, I am not complaining.

there ya go!!