Nights out

So last night Larry and I went out to celebrate my friend, Chau's, 23rd birthday. She had a bunch of us meet over at Sandbar in good ol' Salt Lake (though I claim to be from Salt Lake, I'm not as close to the actual city area of it). While Larry was gone in the military I went out quite a few times with some friends there and had such a blast, but Larry is more of a "I prefer to mix my drinks at home" sort of person so I was kind of nervous to bring him along. I thought for sure he'd hate how loud the music was, how you can't walk anywhere without bumping into anyone and spilling your-a bit more expensive-drinks all over yourself (that's happened to me quite a few times), or how rambunctious my friends, or even I, can get when we've had a few drinks, but once we got around people I was familiar with and I could introduce him to everyone we actually had a great time! We laughed about jokes and got to meet more new people and we even walked around downtown for a little bit.
The nicest part about the whole night was we got to be young! He and I have been together for a long time for people our age and so sometimes we can get into this boring old homebody routine, which is really nice at times, but I get into these moods where I just want to remind ourselves we're in our 20s, we should have fun while we can! I love coming home and watching movies on our couch while eating popcorn, and I love spending a day doing laundry and running errands or just plain grocery shopping with him, but at the same time it's SOOO much fun to go out with friends, have some drinks, and just let loose and not care about what's going on outside! So all in all it was really fun to go out and I can't wait to go again with him, hopefully sometime soon, but I also love that today we'll be cleaning our own little area of our home, but spending the time together while we do it!

Due West and an anniversary

So my mom has a customer, Doug, who has a son, also named Doug (Jr.) that is a kind of freelance musician, he tours with a bunch of different bands and plays for them. Well each year, Doug Sr., who owns a HUGE piece of land, has Due West (a country band) come and play courtesy of Doug Jr. It's a fun, free get together. Doug Sr. has hot dogs and hamburgers to cook and then everyone just brings a side dish or drink or dessert or whatever and you bring some lawn chairs, blankets, etc. and listen to the band play. They also sell t-shirts and cds and just different assortments of merchandise.
For the past 2 years I've gone with my mom to the show, but this was the first one I got to share with Larry. It's not his particular favorite music, but you can't help but enjoy the crowd who dances in the front to pretty much their own beat, you don't have to pay to join in, and you get free food that's really good, what more can you ask for? Oh and this also happened to be the same night as my parents 6th anniversary so I have to say Happy Anniversary to the cute couple! Below are just some pictures from the night :)

This is the band after I ran in front of everyone to get a good shot

Another closer up shot of the band

<3 The happy couples <3

One story, different versions

Her version:

Larry and I-Christmas 2008

"Ours was a traditional love story, boy meets girl, boy asks girl out, they fall madly in love-at-first-sight and live happily ever after...well that's not quite how it worked. I persued him for quite a while and finally convinced him to go out with me and that I was perfect for him, don't worry though, the constant 'I told you so's' are worth it ;) the real story goes a little like...while I was dating a boy during high school, I had seen another boy go down the stairs and into our common room, I had thought he was cute, but once I saw him sit down next to his girlfriend at the time (a scary looking girl I might add) I thought I would be out of his league. During the summer after our Sophomore year my boyfriend had broken up with me. Feeling sad, my friend, Kristin, had offered to let me stay at her house for the weekend to help cheer me up. Once I showed up I saw a picture of the boy I had seen long ago and told her that was the one I thought was 'totally cute.'  She found that to be funny because it happened to be her current boyfriend's, Tyler, best friend. I got excited thinking this was for sure my way to him. During that weekend we went over to Tyler's house and she told him I thought he was cute, his response: 'who doesn't think Larry's cute?' which I found to be funny. Once the school year had started Kristin called me up one day to say Larry wanted her to introduce him to other girls so he could date around, knowing I thought he was cute she asked me if I would be willing to go see a movie with him. I thought 'cute boy AND a movie? For sure!' So one night in September we went on a double date with Kristin and Tyler to dinner and a movie at Hollywood Connections and had such a good time. Towards the end of the night there was a mixup with dice and his friend somehow tricked me into saying I wanted to get married to him, we all got a laugh out of that. It wasn't until a month later that I finally asked him out. We've been together for almost 6 years now and it's been one filled with many more embarrassing but laughable moments."

Larry and I in Vegas 2010

His version:

"I was hangin out with my best friend and his girlfriend when his girlfriend said that one of her friends liked me and wanted to go on a date with me. I was like 'oh yeah? What does she look like?' and then they showed me a picture of her. I was like 'sure, I'll go.' and then we went on our first date to see Without a Paddle and on the way back she basically said she wanted to be my wife and I thought it was cute"