Great Dill!!

Hi everybody! If you know ANYTHING about me besides that I love JJWT and Anthropologie (but I like to call it "Anthro") and that I am seriously so blessed, you probably know that I love cute stuff. Especially cute stuff that has an overpoweringly cute smell!! Therefore, I especially love CANDLES!

Name a brand. LOVE IT! In fact, I sell it, and have tons of cute new candles in my basement, so I just wanted to invite anyone who likes cute stuff that smells AWESOME (and who doesn't, right?!) to come over and check out all the darling new smells and if you host a party, I can get you 5% off orders of over $200!!! And there's this new kind that is extra super. Instead of using wicks, they use a warmer and cute little bars of wax. Smells YUMMY! They smell so much better, are so much safer, last way way longer, are way cuter, AND they don't leave the ugly black smoke marks on your walls! Serious...they are the best! You should totally do it. But more than anything, I am just so greatful to have a healthy, moving body to be able to participate in such fun adventures as candle selling. Candles are a way cute, way affordable, way awesome way to make your house a home, which is where the heart is.

Which reminds me, I am looking for a way to make my teeth so white they glow in the dark. I think this will make me feel even more adorable, and also help with my emergency preparedness so we won't need flashlights when the power goes out.

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Hi gUyS! NeW tO mY blOgGy? ThIs stUfF mIgHt hElP. Seriously, LOVE YOU!

Seriously, So Blessed in the News!!

• City Weekly's Best of Utah Award Winner: "Finally, a blog that captures the satirized soul of the young, Mormon, wanna-be housewife...The hilarity of her wishful pregnancy and other calamities...have made us at the City Weekly truly heart this blog."
  
• Salt Lake Tribune's Culture Vulture: "An astutely sharp" and "wickedly dead-on spoof of the suddenly trendy married Mormon blog phenomenon."
• The Deseret News' Mormon Times: "A clever twist on Mormon mommy blogs," it's "a hilarious spoof...so true to form, you might not catch that all those exclamation points are meant to be ironic."
• The Provo Daily Herald: "All the stereotypes and cultural quirks of the quintessential modern Mormon mommy rolled into one comically self-absorbed and self-righteous 'sassy hottie.'"
  
• TAMNers on Utah Public Radio's Access Utah
• KSL Eyewitness News: "She's living the dream in Utah with the perfect husband. She loves pedicures, scrapbooking and is a Bunco fanatic. TAMN's also preggers, as in pregnant, and is completely made up."
• BYU's 100 Hour Board: "Why is it popular? Because it is (1) accurate and (2) hilarious. I cannot recommend this website enough."
• City Weekly's Holly Mullen: "Try to match this blog for unparalleled and excellent satire. I dare ya."
• TAMN receives a "GINORMOUS welcome" from the Deseret News' Mormon Times!
• TAMNers on KJZZ's Home Team talk show w/ Julie de Azevedo Hanks

ABOUT ME

Hi everybody!!! My name is Tiffany/Amber/Megan/Nicole and I am married to Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor, and we have non-stop fun all the time and are LOVING married life! We are super busy but we still love to make time for fun stuff and we just love being married and living our awesome lives. I LOVE crafts (especially Stampin' Up! and homemade jewelry) and he loves sports. I went to hair school/teach 2nd grade and now we are going to law/dental/business/medical school! So hard! But being in law/dental/business/medical school is really fun for me because there are tons of wive's clubs like bridge club, book club, walking club. Pretty awesome! Just gave birth to the CUTEST TWINS EVER in March. Love you guys!! If you have anything you want me to blog about, puh-LEASE let me know at seriouslysoblessed at yahoo.com.

My freinds n fam:

• TAMN: That's me! My name is Tiffany/Amber/Megan/Nicole but everyone calls me TAMN or TAMNers or TAMNitall.
• JJWT: That's my cute hubby, Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor, the best husband EVER. He served his awesome A.P. mish in Brasil and I waited and always knew he was the one even though I got engaged twice while he was gone. He saved up $ for my ring by selling pest control slash security systems in the summer and our wedding was the best slash uniquest day in the universe and I love my loverbuns a buttload! You can read about our seriously so incredible first anniversary here!
• Alivyiah TreCole & Tridger Kaegrin are are DARLING twins who started signing and rolling over at 2 weeks. Read their birth storys here and here and here!
  
• Yvette: My poor spinsty friend! Have a seriously close group of gal pals, and she's the only brunette out of all of us and I seriously pray for her tons bc she's sad, single and grosses me out. I give her awesome dating advice like all the time.
• Ruth: Ew. She's my frumpy almost-SIL bc she's getting married to JJWT's bro and she's a TOTAL blechy yawner.
• Ryan: My poor, boring, TOTALLY still single ex-fiance.
• Blake: Ryan's older brother who I accidentally made out with and who looks tons like Kirby Heybo(u)rne.
  

I = the MiaMaid advisor in my ward which is seriously so awesome, so go read about my way uplifting experiences w/ them here, here and here. Used to work my fingers to the bone tons but quit my job to be a SAHP (stay at home preggo). I'm the first lady of JJWT's law/biz/med/dental school bc I'm pres of the wives club and we do TONS OF FUN STUFF! Being preggers rocks and NO ONE can believe my oven has two buns in it bc I look so H-of hot! Also, I am way deep and often give my smarty pants opinion on things like the economies and politics.

My life is such a kick-A fairy tale I even have t-shirts! Got any Qs about my life or helpful explanations that belong on this page? lemme know at seriouslysoblessed at yahoo dot com. Love you times infinity!

Best brake ever!!

So we just got back from Pal and as usual, AWESOME! I loved every single second of it. Except that JJWT had to do some boring serious law/dental/business/medical stuff for part of the time and so even though we were having non-stop fun, I got a tad pouty and began worrying that he thought I was gross and/or that he had a crush on some valueless temptress he works with. I know it's bad and I try to be positive and trusting, and I know he loves me more than words can say, but sometimes I get a teensy bit jealous, because once when we were dating, JJWT and I broke up for a week when I saw that his old girlfriend (who is gross but has cute hair) sent him a text. I cried for EVER, he held me, and then he promised to only text ME from then on, and now I'm the only one he texts (not a euphemism). And we are more in love and happier than anyone can fathom. Now, to help increase our trust and unity, we share an email address. Not only does this make us really feel like two branches on one tree, but it also helps him avoid temptation, and I think he likes having me all up in his business. Anywho, so because of text drama, I sometimes get a little needy, but in a cute way, not an unstable way, and for part of the Pal trip, not only was he not paying attention to me, but when he was doing work stuff he used way hard work-words I didn't understand...finally, he explained what he was doing in Laman's terms and then we made up by smooching on the houseboat and taking TONS of pictures of ourselves. And now I love him quadruple the amount I loved him before, which was already infinity!! So other than that, I absolutely loved every second and couldn't have had more fun. LOVE YOU, ANGELBABE! I hate boring things like work, but I love fun things like SUNSHINE with JJWT and must never lose sight of our potential for fun and for greatness! Can't wait for our next spontaneous trip (we're planning another one for next month) to get even more TAN and have even more FUN that is totally off the fun charts (I mean in a high way, not a low way). He is SUCH a supportive studly stallion.

I just keep crying, and crying and crying!

So I've been sobbing my brains out for half an hour, alternately calling JJTW and my mom and just sobbing. But here's the thing everybody, it's not a sad cry, it's a HAPPY cry!! Because I am going to Powell (pronounced Pal, but I'm surprised you din't know that) this weekend!! I am seriously so blessed to be able to go!! SO excited! But, I am sort of sad that my abs aren't quite as toned as I wanted them to be before this trip. I don't get how I'm still not skinnier because I go to Golds and walk around looking at people, AND I run around the neighborhood scantily clad in the early morning and evening, AND I go on absurd crash diets. Last week, for example, I only had diet coke (way bad, I know, but I'm off it now), cabbage, and fat-free, sugar-free ice cream, and lost 2 lbs! What else is it going to take, people!?? Maybe I should get addicted to yoga like Madonna, but keep my values, UNlike Madonna. Pros: I can say I do yoga, and wear yoga pants! Cons: might have to see girls with hairy legs, which makes my heart hurt because they obviously don't understand femininity and their role in the plan, and even just imagining living without that makes me sad for them. No wonder they don't have husbands!! Sad! And when I get sad I meltdown. Which is why I need to focus on my Powell happiness. SUMMER and SUNSHINE and TANS and JJWT!! And my cute new swimsuit! It's a bikini, but a totally modest one, because I know who I am and how important that is! And we'll be on a way fun boat! And tons of cute pictures! And my hot new sunglasses! And fun tunes on my cute new pink ipod! Also, I hate materialism. It makes me cry.

HELP!!

Hey you guys, I am trying way hard to come up with 100 things about me and I want to do it so bad, but a hundred is tons!!! Even though ME is my favorite thing to talk about and the funnest thing ever, it is still way hard and is making my brain hurt...OW. And since most of you are my BFFs, and know me better than I know my self, I need you to help me!!! Seriously, email me stuff about me at seriouslysoblessed@yahoo.com or in the comments, because how else will I ever come up with a HUNDRED?? Now I can relax and lay out. Thanx!!

GNO!

So after our amazing date on Friday, the weekend got even funner when a few of my friends and I decided to get together for a GNO on Saturday! Even though JJWT and I are already in seriously tons of debt due to our recent Condo/Townhouse/Mini-Mansion purchase, JJWT always let’s me go out with my friends! Sometimes you just need time with your girls! Plus, my parents generously offered to pay for JJWT’s school so that I don’t have to worry about providing an income...LUCKY!!!!! You guys, I am so blessed to be raised by such great parents who are such great examples to me and my dad totally taught me how to have a good work ethic, I probably wouldn’t have made it through hair school/my elementary education major without his example of hard WORK...love you!

Anyway, I love GNOs, even though every-time I type that word I think about having to go to the girl-doctor right before I got married...EWWWWWW! In fact, the only thing I love more than GNOs is using acronyms to describe everything, even though I probably couldn’t tell you what an acronym is, seriously, I LOOOOVE using them! My friends and I call each other the E.A.R.L.Y. girls for our names, Emilee, Amber, Rachel, Lisa, and Yvette! EARLY! So cute, right? We also like to joke that we are like the EARLY bird who catches the worm because we all married such great catches so EARLY in life! LOL! Except Yvette, but we are all praying for her, and I know she will find someone almost as great as my husband super soon, otherwise she will probably have to go on a mission or do something else boring and serious! SAD! Who knows!!!!!

So we all decided to go to Café Rio for dinner, and we all ordered the yummiest thing ever, pork salad, which honestly, I don’t even like the pork salad, but it’s what all my friends order, and individual thought is just kind of beyond me, and getting the same thing at all the same places is how I meet my need to be the same now that second grade is over and we're too old to actually dress like twinners!

(Insert picture of girls sitting at Café Rio. Yvette, the old maid, is the only brunette)

Love these girls, just love them! (This is not a command, but rather my way of starting sentences without using "I"...though I'm sure you can't help but love them!) They are so darling! They were my bridesmaids at my wedding! There is never any drama between us, even though I know it must be hard for them to be married to someone other than JJTW and to be fatter than me! We’ve known each other since kindergarten and went to high school together which was so great because then I never had to make new friends OR hang out with people with different standards! I’m seriously so blessed to never have known anyone who believes differently than I do. When the prophet told all the girls to take out those second pair of earrings, we did it together, and now when we see girls with more than one modest pair, we just look at each other and think about how much more blessed we are than everyone else to be friends so we can follow the prophet together!

GTG! TTUL8R!!!!! Thanks for letting me go to the GNO, JJWT!

Hooray for Date Night!!

I am so addicted to summer! Friday night, Hubby and I started off the weekend with a super fun date night at...the Gateway! It's hard for me to go there sometimes because I have an on-
again, off-again relationship with shopping depending on if I feel like a fattie, but Friday I felt super hot so it was ok for us to go there and by the way, parking there is IN-SANE! Has anyone else noticed that!? We drove our little Civic/Corolla around for seriously like five hours you guys, before we finally saw a Suburban/Hummer pulling out of a spot! TOTAL tender mercy. So, after we were blessed to find a parking spot, we had a cozy dinner at CPK (LOVE it...so dang good!) and split a yummy BBQ chicken pizza (totally crave it), big salad and MONSTER raspberry lemonade. We really like to split things so that we can sit on the same side of the booth and feed each other from each other's plates and everyone can covet me and see how JJWT has broughten sexy back. I literally LOVE my life!!
Then we walked over to the fountain where we found the brick that Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor bought for me before he left on his mission. (Anyone want to guess what it says?? I'm not telling . . .) That brick brings back literally a bazillion memories--LITERALLY--of the two years he was away! Whenever I started to miss him too much I would go sit by it, gaze into the dancing waters of the fountain and find the inspiration to write him, even when it was impossible to live because I felt like half myself had literally been amputated. So hard! But we made it through – even though I got engaged twice during the time he was away – I just KNEW that Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor was the one I was meant to be with! And now we are more in love and have more fun than anyone else, so thank you for making each and every minute of each and every day the best possible minute and/or day for me!

Anyway, the Gateway fountain was full of WAY cute naked babies running through it and it made me so dang baby hungry, LITERALLY!!! It was impossible for me to handle the baby hunger! All the moms looked like they were having so much fun in their capris and flip flops chasing after their babies! (Not sure where their husbands were, prolly working late again? . . .My dad worked late a lot too . . .Daddies work soooo hard for their families!) But then the lame-jerk security guards asked all the cute moms to either put swim diapers on their kids or get out of the fountain because of some bacteria thingy from going #2 called Crypto-saurus or something like that. Sad!! Rude!! Mean!! Those naked babies were so stinkin' cute! That security guard was such a party pooper. No pun intended! LOL!

Then we went to a special screening of "The Notebook" at the Gateway movie theaters. Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor is such a stallion to go see that again with me. I remember when it was first released we went and saw it THREE TIMES! I still cry every time! I just ball. BALL. (But even when I ball like a baby--ooh, baby hungry--I am still so dang happy, happier than anyone can fathom. Don't get the wrong idea and start thinking that when I have meltdowns it might mean something is wrong because I have non-stop fun without any exceptions, ever, so never doubt that my fun level is literally through the roof.)

THEN, on the way home we met up with our friends at Maggie Moo's/Coldstone for a yummy-yum treat! As always, we shared a thing of cake batter mixed with Oreo pieces and then fed it to each other with tons of love – we are SOOOOO predictable! Love it! I wouldn't change anything about our life, not one tiny thing because I am as happy as possible and even just writing about this is making me grin my head off you guys because life is just so dang good my eyes almost pop out of my head when I emphasize my life's goodness and the fun never, EVER stops, even though you would prolly change like forty things about your life because not to be rude or anything, I just can't help it that I am...

seriously, so blessed.

I'm so busy I don't even have time to think of a title for this post!

Ok, sorry guys, I know I’ve been a totally lame blogger lately! Sorry!!!!! It’s just, I’ve been soooo busy, so I’ve totally neglected my blogging duties! I am SUCH a slacker. And I know there are three of you counting on reading my unique and zany adventures each day so for some reason I truly feel the need to apologize with excessive exclamation points at the beginning of every post!!!! Because not blogging makes me fill like a horrible person with her roots showing!!! But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean I’ve neglected my husband! Even though we are super busy, we still find time to do stuff together! Fun! (You may have noticed this is something I love to do...count one three-letter word as its whole own sentence. "Fun!" and "Sad!" are the most frequently used).

Sooooo, update on our lives. I’ve been super busy doing hair/teaching 2nd grade/working as a secretary at my dad's office by day and scrappin', stampin' and craftin' by night and it reminds me that all the hard work I did in hair school/college was worth it, taking 12 credit hours each semester--hardest thing I've ever done but I swear, it made me a better person because I now am driven to achieve. Like when I took Math 101 it nearly kicked my TRASH, soooooo hard, and I thought for sure I had failed, but I got my test back and I got an A and my husband was soooo proud of me that he brought me flowers.

(insert picture here)

Adorable!

(insert picture of us smiling by the flowers but zoomed in on the gift certificate next to the flowers)

That's right!! Whenever I fill stressed with my crazy-busy life, he tells me to go get a pedi! So he gave me a GC for a pedi that time and it was the sweetest thing ever as he is always thinking of me. That's one thing I put in my engagement box we made in Young Womens when setting marriage goals, I wrote in pink gel pen that I wanted a man who thinks of nothing but me and who will give me GCs for pedis, and I was blessed enough to get that! Plus, he's way spiritchal. I am.....seriously, so blessed.

That reminds me of this crazy story...you will not even believe it! One time, I came home and I was SO stressed, that I just started bawling, I mean really BAWLING, and my darling husband came right over and wrapped his arms around me and told me that everything was going to be ok! I’m so lucky to have him, he makes me a better person! Can you believe that story??

Speaking of becoming a better person, I am so glad Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor will not have to work for some random stranger when he graduates! Because my dad has already cleared a position for him at his office!!! I knew he married me for love!! But for now his summer internship at another law/dental/business/medical office is going way well and he does tons of important things so they will probably offer us a job (when I say "us" I mean "him" but it's hard for me to use plural pronouns correctly in our marriage). When I pack his lunch every day I make sure to cut the sandwiches diagonally because we call it "the love cut" so when he sees his sandwich cut that way, he knows I love him, and that's one way we don't let the sizzle fizzle. With all the stress, I've been sooo busy that it doesn't even fill like summer yet and I haven't even gotten to test out my new swimsuit. Love you all!!! But for now I guess I will try to not go crazy from being crazy-busy, because the prophet said so, and because I want to be a good example to my future kids who will probably be gifted.

love!

"ANyOnE cAn bE a fAthEr, bUt iT tAkEs sOmEonE spEciAl tO bE a DAD!" -- either by Anonymous or Boyd K. Packer, I can't remember.

Sorry this is late!!! Even though Jordan/Jason/Wes/Taylor isn't a dad YET, one day he will be (No this is not an announcement....!!! LOL!!! That's an inside joke so you probably don't get it, even though I'm obviously saying I'm not pregnant). Since he is the future father of our future kids (and he'll be the BEST dad EVER since he is already the BEST at everything else...golfing, law/dental/business/medical school, and being spiritual) I just want to publicly say LOVE YOU ANGELBABE! So that inspired me to tell you some of the other things that I love.

• I love blogs with alliterations in their headings: the family's last name, followed by a real silly adjective describing just how zany their daily adventures are. In this, proper use of apostraphe's somehow eludes me and all my friend's.
  
• I love SUNSHINE and I hate when it's FREEZING and I love capitalizing WEATHER-RELATED DESCRIPTIVE TERMS!
• I love running errands. I run TONS of errands. It is really rewarding to not only run errands, but then to blog just how many errands I run because I run so many errands. Phew!
• I love diet coke. But more than that, I love to talk (and blog) about how I know it's a WAY bad habit and I'm trying to cut back so I pretend that I only have one can a day. For some unknown reason, I love pretending a sugar-free soda is meth.
  

What do YOU love???

i'Ve bEen taGgEd!

1.Who eats more? Him for sure! I am trying to loose weight so I mostly just eat salads, except I have a GINORMOUS weakness because I'm a chocoholic.

2. Who is taller? Him. He is really buff and way tan.

3. Who is smarter? Depends on what. I'm hair smart, he's business/law/medical/dental smart.

4. Who is more stubborn? We both are SO stubborn!

5. Who is more clean? Well, we are both clean, and have really white teeth.

6. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Him for sure! I wear cute skirts and dresses and am saving up for laser hair removal because I am way sick of shaving.

7. What do you like to do together? We like to go on cruises and attend sporting events. Sometimes we like to take pictures of ourselves eating various meals and then blog about them for no apparent reason.

8. How did you meet? Well, it feels like we have known each other FOREVER, but we met through some mutual friends (love ya Kyle and Alli!)

9. Who asked who out first? He totally asked me, and I had a cute new haircut and a darling shirt on so LIKE he could resist.

10. Who kissed who first? (lol) I made him kiss me...I hinted like crazy but then he finally did and there were fireworks and it has been nothing but passion ever since. Hi cutie!

11. Who proposed? Duh! He did! And I was totally surprised. We had already decided to get married 3 months earlier and had told everyone we knew that we were basically engaged and I had picked out the ring myself that I designed when I was in 8th grade and I already had my dress. But I didn't see it coming AT ALL.

12. Favorite things: I love purses, tans and step aerobics!

Now, I tag YOU.

in the press

Seriously, So Blessed in the News!!

• City Weekly's Best of Utah Award Winner: "Finally, a blog that captures the satirized soul of the young, Mormon, wanna-be housewife...The hilarity of her wishful pregnancy and other calamities...have made us at the City Weekly truly heart this blog."
  
• Salt Lake Tribune's Culture Vulture: "An astutely sharp" and "wickedly dead-on spoof of the suddenly trendy married Mormon blog phenomenon."
• The Deseret News' Mormon Times: "A clever twist on Mormon mommy blogs," it's "a hilarious spoof...so true to form, you might not catch that all those exclamation points are meant to be ironic."
• The Provo Daily Herald: "All the stereotypes and cultural quirks of the quintessential modern Mormon mommy rolled into one comically self-absorbed and self-righteous 'sassy hottie.'"
  
• TAMNers on Utah Public Radio's Access Utah
• KSL Eyewitness News: "She's living the dream in Utah with the perfect husband. She loves pedicures, scrapbooking and is a Bunco fanatic. TAMN's also preggers, as in pregnant, and is completely made up."
• BYU's 100 Hour Board: "Why is it popular? Because it is (1) accurate and (2) hilarious. I cannot recommend this website enough."
• City Weekly's Holly Mullen: "Try to match this blog for unparalleled and excellent satire. I dare ya."
• TAMN receives a "GINORMOUS welcome" from the Deseret News' Mormon Times!
• TAMNers on KJZZ's Home Team talk show w/ Julie de Azevedo Hanks