The Not So Greatest Fishing Story

Last Sunday Chris and I decided to go fishing. Here is our story: 

So we ventured out on the confusing Texas roads to find a specific lake to fish at (which I don't remember the name of). We reached the lake but our GPS led us to this crazy giant factory thing which is located almost inside of the lake. We had to go around the whole thing and we went around like twice before we finally figured out how to get into the lake area to actually fish.

We had to pay a small fee to get into the "park" area where it was completely crowded. There were tons of boats on the water but all the shores were surrounded by people are cooking and fishing. Chris was super upset about there being so many people and we didn't get in a good spot but we got one, Chris hooked up his pole and let it out into the water.

Then he worked on my new pole, we got it set up and he put a worm on it and cast it out... but it got snagged. So he worked really hard to reel it back in (I'm totally helpful while fishing huh?). We ended up losing the hook and he was all grouchy and upset. He was getting super annoyed with this zip-tie on my pole, because it's new. So he, very smartly, decided to take his fillet knife and cut it off.

But, as luck would have it, the knife slipped cutting the back of his hand. I didn't see it cut him. I just looked up as he shouted and angrily threw the knife at the ground and then rushed to the water to wash his hands, and that's when I noticed to large amount of blood spilling from him.

My adrenaline was pumping, I didn't even think about how blood sometimes freaks me out, I just knew I had to help my husband right away! So I kind of stripped in front of all the people and took off my under tank top that I was wearing and gave it to him to soak up the blood and keep pressure on it, and then I put my shirt back on. I then reeled in his fishing pole, he took the worm off because I hate worms and I cleaned up all our stuff and packed it away. Again, this was like 10 minutes into our actual fishing trip.

So we rushed to the car and drove to the front of the "park" thing where we had paid. We went inside to see if they had a first aid kit and if they could help us find the nearest hospital, because even though I hadn't seen the cut yet, both of us were pretty sure he would need stitches.

Okay, this is the part that irritates me, the people in that office/gift shop MADE US BUY A CRAPPY LITTLE FIRST AID KIT!!! They didn't have one to just help us???? They didn't even offer to help!! They made us buy this little one, and I handed her my debit card and she was all "no cards for purchases under $4". Seriously???? This woman could see that both of Chris's hands were covered in blood and my tank top around his injured hand was soaked in blood! And she seriously expected us to be fine with a tiny little first aid kit???? And not even offer to help??? They were basically "park rangers", aren't they supposed to be prepared to help with first aid problems, or is that seriously not a thing? Shouldn't park rangers know basic first aid and have a first aid kit available for emergencies? Is that not a thing? I worked at a gym and they made everyone learn CPR and basic first aid! This is a lake! People are fishing and boating and very likely to get injured and they don't have the necessary equipment to help someone who cut his hand open????

Yeah....  I was really ticked off about that.

So we purchased the stupid kit and went to the bathroom (I went in the men's bathroom!) and Chris run his hand under water, tried to clean himself up, it was still bleeding but not quite as much. The first aid kit had these antiseptic wipes that were incredibly tiny they were probably made for like paper cuts, and we used like three of them to try and disinfect the area. After it was cleaned up we could see the cut wasn't nearly as bad as I had dramatized in my mind. I was thinking he had cut the whole back of his hand! However, it was about an inch long but it was deep so we decided to still go to the hospital to play it safe. And it was still bleeding so that was probably a good idea.

So I had to drive on the Texas highways which is something I absolutely hate (we've been here a month and I hate them so much already!!). The whole time I'm still in adrenaline pumping/freaking out mode because even though it was a smaller cut, this was still my husband and I love him and never want to see him hurt or sick or injured in any way so it was difficult for me. Chris said that it didn't hurt though so I was able to relax a bit more.

We reached the nearest hospital and it was like a baptist church hospital or something and honestly Chris and I were the only white people in that building. No lies. All the paperwork was also in Spanish and everyone around us were speaking in Spanish. It was clear we were no longer in Utah.

So the first male nurse guy helped clean Chris up and wrapped up his hand. He was really nice. When he asked Chris on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad his hand hurt Chris replied with a 1, so we really were doing fine.

Then we went in to the actual hospital area and Chris got to sit on a hospital bed and watch TV. The doctor's came in and joked "are you ready for surgery?" So they looked over Chris's hand and decided instead of stitches they would just use skin glue. So the woman took care of his hand, showed him how to apply the glue and sent us home with some extras.

And that's our fishing story where we never actually did any fishing. And now Chris has to wear a bandage on his hand. But the other day we had to replace the glue and it really does look like it's healing and we really did get lucky, it could have been a lot worse.

Fishy Fishy

SHIRT: PacSun* BOOTS: Kohl's

This shirt is actually my husbands. I saw it and wanted to try it on and ended up loving it so I wore it the rest of the day. It has little fishies on it! I liked this outfit because it was just simple and comfy, and that's my kind of style. I decided I need more over sized sweatshirts like this one... but for women.

It was raining and then snowing and then hailing and then raining and then snowing.... all day. So I decided it would just be fun to take pictures with my umbrella (which can be found in a haul post HERE). And I told my husband to do some close ups so you can "sea" the fish better. I literally just mis-typed that word and decided to keep it because it relates to fish. I totally didn't do it on purpose... at first.

What do you think of this outfit? Do you ever wear your spouse's clothes? Leave a comment below and let me know! 

THANKS FOR READING!! 

*I previously had the shirt saying it was from Zumiez, but my husband informed me that was incorrect. I just changed it though and I apologize for unknowingly lying to you. 

Web Video Wednesday: Pond Creatures

I decided this year that I wasn't going to do Web Video Wednesday. I'm working on updating my blog to make it more appealing and Web Video Wednesday was just one of those things that was easy to get rid of and not regret. This particular video is an exception, because it's my husband's YouTube debut!!

Chris made this with his brothers about a year ago (they are on missions now and he's not wearing a ring because we weren't married yet, crazy huh). Sadly it took this long to get the whole thing edited the way they wanted, turns out all they needed was the right software. More episodes were made and Chris has ideas for more to come, and I will always be featuring them on this blog, because I'm super proud of my hubby for being so passionate about something. 

So prepare for an awesome fishing video parody of River Monsters (which is an awesome show whether you enjoy fishing or not, check it out). I hope you love it!!!  
(PS, if you can't watch the whole thing just skip to 7:47 to see just how obsessed with fishing my husband can be, I promise it's worth it.)

Pinterest Sunday: DIY, Foods, Neon, Cruel, Disney, Pink, Pinwheel, Roadtrip, Scriptures, Disney Parks, and Phoebe

This week I've pinned a ridiculous amount of clothing/fashion pins because I just want to shop and I'm so sick of my current wardrobe.... but I am going to save most of those pins for a Fashion Friday post this week. So stay tuned for all of those and I hope you enjoy this Pinterest Sunday post! 

As one of his Christmas presents, I promised my husband I would make a board/frame thing for the pictures of fish he catches. I had a pretty good idea in mind but then I saw this and knew I have to do this! But I could use like fishing wire and hooks! It'll be great! Stay tuned for a tutorial and video on it when I finally get around to making it. 

New Year, new me. I'm trying to lose one pound a week up  until my one year anniversary, because then I'll be at my wedding weight (yes I strayed that far off in the last 8 months). So I'm always looking for healthy foods and ways to lose weight. 

P.S. -I am already behind. I got sick so I didn't go to the gym at all last week and we still have tons of left over candy from Christmas (I have a theory that Santa gives us all so much candy so he doesn't feel as overweight himself) but this week I'll be starting a new routine (even though I still feel sick) and I'll be writing about it on here soon. 

Autumn in Logan Canyon

This post is a part of The Cache Valley Checklist

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Alright, so this post is basically just a bunch of pictures. That's it. But before we begin, you should know that autumn is my favorite season! I'm so in love with autumn because it's the most beautiful time of year. Sunday, my husband (still trying to keep me happy from my recent emotional breakdown) drove me through the canyon to look at all the pretty leaves changing colors and to pick leaves to press. 

When I was younger my parents once took us into the mountains and we picked our favorite leaves off the ground and we pressed them into a large book. (This is what you can use the textbooks you can't sell for!!) It was so much fun and we still have those leaves in that book. So I wanted to press leaves with my husband. So on our drive we stopped to pick leaves. 

I can't say "Let's drive through the canyon" without my husband thinking "FISHING". Yep. So he took his fishing pole and we stopped at First Dam, Second Dam, and Third Dam. He fished and I took almost 200 pictures. Ha ha. Chris did catch a fish at Third Dam. It was a little guy and we let him go (you'll see a picture of him below). 

I don't think I have much else to say. Just enjoy the beautiful pictures (semi beautiful, I need a new camera). If you have your own adventure looking at autumn leaves, I'd love to see them! Leave a comment or send me an email! Thanks for reading/looking!! 

There's almost 50 pictures so if you want to see them all at one point you'll have to click the link to read the whole story. Thanks! 

September Review

Hello everybody! Welcome to October!! I love October because it ends with my favorite holiday, Halloween, and leads into November 4th, which is my birthday!! I also absolutely love this autumn time of year! I'm so excited for hay rides, corn mazes, pumpkin carving, and the ever beautiful fall leaf colors!!

So before we lead into October, here is my September in review, which is basically a small compilation of all the things I did during the month of September, with pictures!!!

So it rained a lot in the month of September in Logan. And elsewhere, I was so sad to hear about all the flooding and mud slides! I'm praying for everyone affected by it! But with it being the first big rain storm since we moved to Logan, we had tons of fun playing out in the rain. It was a blast! I love spending so much time with my husband!

 So I bought these new rod curlers to try them out, you can read about that HERE. I did two things with them, curling and a sock-ish bun (because it wasn't a sock, it was a curler). I am still debating with how much I like these curlers. They tangle in my hair to easily and rip some of my hair out, but I do like the results. But I only really used them the beginning of the month, so I haven't fully figured them out. If you want a tutorial on either of the styles above, just leave a comment below!

Chris started soccer intramurals again!! If you've ever heard our love story, we met through intramurals. He was on my roommate's co-ed team and the rest, as they say, is history. So his first game was at 9:30 at night in the pouring rain, which is the reason for the poor quality photo. It's also the reason for this:

Honestly, that experience was so incredibly to me. She seriously went out of her way to keep me from getting wet in the rain. It's so incredible to have an experience like this and be able to see that there is still so much good in the world!! Honestly, Caitlin (or however you spell it), I cannot thank you enough!

Once upon a time it was Friday the 13th, and I had to give an oral book report in class. I was super nervous! My hands were shaking, I had prepared late the night before, and I had that awful fast/nervous speaking voice. My book was Inside Out: Strategies for Teaching Writing. It was over 300 pages long, I had about two week to read it, and (don't tell my professor or parents) I didn't read one page. I skimmed through the whole book, read all the chapter headings, looked online for summaries and reviews (which there were none) and I basically just made up my report. It went really well though and on the written section, I got an "A"! However, on the oral section, I accidentally called the book a novel, not even thinking about it. I knew by definition the book wasn't considered a "novel", but it was merely a slip of the tongue... but my teacher certainly didn't think so. She called me out on it right away: "A novel? Do you know what a novel is?" I was already incredibly nervous, but now I was incredibly embarrassed! "I know, I didn't mean to say that." I tried to cover up my mistake, but it was too late. She had chastised me in front of the class and my face turned red with embarrassment. And that is my Friday the 13th story.... and watching and smelling as my coworker cleaned throw up out of the garbage can, but that's a whole other issue.

First of all, I'm kind of upset at my dad for lifting up his hand and ruining the only good photo I have of my brother from this day. So football season began and I had the wonderful opportunity to drive for two hours in horrible dark rain to watch my old high school's football game... just for my brother performing at half time. The Alta High School Marching Band is new this year, and I'm so glad my brother is able to be on it for his senior year and doing something he loves. He did a fantastic job! I would show you pictures from when he was on the field (at Rio Tinto, which was pretty cool) but my sister took pictures and I recorded it. I might put the video up, but I don't have any pictures because my sister hasn't made them available to me yet. I had a great time watching my brother doing something he loves! He went to all my dance performances and I was very happy to go and support him too!

Speaking of my brother, this handsome boy turned 18 on the 18th! He is seriously one of my best friends in the whole world and I just love him so much!! I was really sad I couldn't be there to celebrate his birthday with him, but I got to over the phone!! While he was opening presents, my family had me on speaker phone so I could hear what was going on. After presents, we all sang to him before he blew out his amazing Darth Vader candle:

 It was sad to not be there, but I got to be a part of his birthday anyways, so I was happy. Nick really is like my best friend and I just love him so much. Even if he did grow to be almost a foot taller than me, he will always be my little brother Nick!

And for any of my LDS peeps wondering, he is not going on a mission yet because he's still in school. He'll probably be putting his papers in next summer, which is totally crazy to me! He's too old! It still weirds me out that he can drive, it's even worse that he's a senior this year... stop growing up Nick!!

After two months of searching I finally found Impress, Press on Manicure. I have an official review HERE, but just know I absolutely loved it!! It looked so good and took less than five minutes. I love it!

I wasn't there, but my husband came home one Saturday with this monster fish!! It weighed about four pounds (our scale didn't work well with measuring the fish) was almost two feet long, and it tasted delicious!! It was super scary though, take a look at it's teeth:

(The eyes only look so scary because of my camera flash, but it really is a scary fish, and big) On the same day Chris also caught this fish:

Who wouldn't die. Honestly. He came home from fishing and we had somewhere to go so he stuck them all (there was a third fish too) in the sink and put them in water so they wouldn't start to rot and stink. The bass pictured above (which I apologize for the blood on the fish and my husband's hand...sorry!) started breathing again once we filled the sink with water, but he was upside down and bleeding so we didn't think much of it. Two hours later when we got back from our thing, we came home to find him still breathing. I then suffered though watching Chris and his friend Ben banging the fish's head on our sink to try and kill him as well as stabbing. I then also watched the entire gutting of all three fish, which was a very bloody and dramatic sight where we found half swallowed baby fish inside of them.

I think I learned from this experience that I never want to gut a fish. I also learned that my husband is a very good fisherman and a tough man who didn't flinch whatsoever while cutting open three fish. I also learned that I never want to see people hitting fish against my sink. Lastly I learned that when Chris guts a fish in my sink, he knows he is then required to clean the whole kitchen, and he did a wonderful job at that. And he did a wonderful job at cooking the big one the next day. It was super delicious. He is so talented!

Now onto the thing that kept us from those fish for two hours. I put on my Latin ballroom costume, did my hair in a fake bob, Chris put on a white shirt and tie, and we headed out to the USU Literary Ball!! This years theme was The Great Gatsby, which is one of my favorite books! We were late because we thought it was a seven, but it really started at six. We got to watch the last half of the new Great Gatsby movie (which we both love) and got to eat some pizza. They also had poker (which we didn't do) and dancing (which we did for like five seconds). I was sad because I had been looking forward to it so much, but I was sick with a sore throat, runny nose and extreme exhaustion. I just couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It was decorated beautifully and it was super exciting to see everyone from my English classes all dressed up like the 20's, but I was too sick to have fun. I wish I hadn't been sick. :(

Speaking of being sick, I was so incredibly miserable that my boss allowed me a day off of work. That is when I found the above video. I honestly have watched this video over thirty times, I'm so in love! It is the cutest thing that I have ever seen in my life. I know I shared it for a Web Video Wednesday post, but I just had to share it again. So cute!!

This is out of order from everything else, but I want to thank everyone again for loving this post as much as I do! I never thought that a single post would bring up my page views so quickly! I feel so incredibly blessed by all of you! If you liked this post, know that in October my husband and I will be doing a lot of things on this list, there are many fall related items, so please check back to read about our adventures in Cache Valley.

This month I wrote a pretty depressing post in my anger, and I do apologize for that, although the majority of it is true. I wrote about how I am currently friendless and really struggling with depression (which I've had my whole life anyways). I want you all to know that while I am still struggling, I do know that I have the greatest family in the world! My family are the greatest friends I could have ever asked for and I feel so blessed to have them with me for eternity. I love my new family as well, my three new brothers who are all serving missions and my amazing in-laws. My wonderful mother-in-law contacted me when she found out I was sick and gave me suggestions on how to get better faster. She is amazing and I love being the new addition to their family. I know I am blessed, so I do apologize for that post, I wasn't trying to say everything in my life is terrible. I was only saying I wish I had more friends. Sorry for the confusion.

This month we celebrated four months of being together! I feel so unbelievably blessed to be married to this sweet, wonderful, sexy man. He takes care of me when I'm sick and even when I'm just lazy. He cleans our apartment when I'm away. He cooks me meal and makes me brownies. He constantly tells me how beautiful I am even when I don't feel it. I love him more than anything in the world and I am so happy that he is mine for eternity! Our life together is perfect.

Well, that's my September! I hope you all had a fantastic September and are as excited for October as I am! Thanks for reading!! 

Leave a comment if you like posts like this and link up your own posts or videos like this in the comments below. Thanks everyone! 

Pinterest Sundays: Dinosaur, Vest, Hugging a Fish, Mila Kunis, Tiger, Etsy, Anthony Robbins, Library, Lies, Fall, Friends, Isaiah, Dance, Demi Lovato, Victoria Secret, Youtube, Bed, Princesses, Books, and Children.

I missed last Sunday and I was so upset! So this week's might be extra long, might be, we'll see. Enjoy!

So there's a super long pin that can be found HERE and I'm in love with it! Please check it out!!

I don't have much to say about this picture except that I love it. :)

I love this outfit so much and it's getting me really excited for fall! If you haven't already, don't forget to check out my back to school looks! 

I'm in love with this picture. It's both adorable and hilarious at the same time. Her face is just so cute! This picture reminds me of my husband and his love for fish and I'm sure he'll teach our daughter to love fish as much as this little girl. Ha ha!

My husband always tells me I look like Mila Kunis, I disagree, but I absolutely love her hair and makeup in this picture and it's a look that I would love to try out for myself. 

Love this quote and picture! It's just so cute and inspiring! 

Random Events

I wish I had photos for this post (I do have a few, but they aren't up on my laptop yet) but I just have a few things that I want to share with you guys!!

So Saturday Chris and I went to the Cache Valley fair!!! I absolutely love fairs! I don't know what it is. I was hot and sweaty, but I just love walking around, looking at all the booths, holding the hand of my lover! There are so many fun sounds and smells and it's just an environment that makes me happy!

We got ourselves new USU shirts that I'm excited about, because I didn't have any white ones till now, I just have like eight blue ones. Three which are exactly the same... And I got a frozen lemonade that was absolutely delicious!!! It was seriously so good! Chris got an old fashioned soda in an awesome cup. It's was... black cherry... maybe... It was something cool.

AND WE GOT TO SEE COWS!!!!

While there, I got a phone call from my aunt telling me she had an extra ticket to see Fiddler on the Roof that night!! I was so excited because I love that movie but I had never seen it live before. So later that night when Chris was at work I got to see Fiddler on the Roof. It was amazing!! I liked the movie more, but they did an amazing job! But it was really weird that they had the lyrics projected on this little screen, because it made it seem like a sing-a-long, but it wasn't.

Today after church and watching Brave for like the seventh time since being married (Chris is obsessed), we drove down to Kaysville to have a special dinner with Chris's family. While driving I noticed big flumes of smoke, which I immediately recognized as a forest fire (we've had enough fires in the mountains near my house for me to recognize them). I learned later that it was a fire caused by lightning above Millville in Blacksmith Fork Canyon.

On the drive I got a lot of reading done in my book! Yay! Don't forget to join me in my book club! 

So we ate a small lunch then Chris searched his whole house for all the Pokemon game boy games he could find... I don't understand it, or want to talk about it, don't ask... Afterwards we decided to go fishing, well he fished, I tanned and read my book. But it was so freaking hot!!! Both of us were dying of heat. I picked a bad day to wear pants... but I did roll them up to tan my legs, but it didn't help with that awful, awful heat.

When we got back to Chris's parent's house his Grandma and Uncle were there and then more relatives came so we conversed and Chris played his Pokemon game (seriously, don't ask). Then it was time for dinner!!! We had burgers and chips and vegetables. It was so super delicious, and I'm apparently over my meat aversion. (Which I realize I haven't told you about... basically while watching Youtube an ad popped up which showed a bunch of farm animals being abused and even though I had the option to skip it, I couldn't look away, and it permanently freaked me out... yep, thinking about it makes me regret that burger... but seriously, look at the title of my blog, I LOVE COWS! And after seeing a cow get pushed violently out of a truck, knocked and kicked around, being abused by metal sticks, and getting shot in the head, it's hard to not be seriously scared of eating meat, I don't want to promote that kind of behavior... sorry, super long story...)

Then we took Chris's adorable dog Max on a walk. Max is seriously so cute! I want a Max. I don't love dogs, but I want a Max. He's just the most well behaved dog I've ever met. And he's the only dog I've allowed to sit on my lap because he doesn't lick me or bark and scare me.

Then I just fell asleep on the couch while watching Monster Fish, which by the way, is a dumb show. He's trying to copy River Monsters, but he kind of behaves the way I do around fish, which seriously concerns me. How can he have a fishing show? And, he hardly ever fishes! He just shows off the fish other people catch! It's dumb, but also kind of funny because he's just a weird host. Also, PS, he completely exaggerates things. Like the description of the episode said he was searching for a goldfish as big as a cow, but it wasn't really a goldfish and it definitely wasn't as big as a cow, but he said it could be. Uh huh, sure.

After I woke up we headed back home, but not before Chris's parents gave us food and tried to give us money for gas and basically to pay us to come visit them more. :) They are kind of lonesome because now they're empty-nesters, but we love them and love to visit them and don't need them to pay us to do it. :) On the drive home, that burning mountain in Cache Valley looked really cool. It was dying down and very much taken care of, but it was glowing and pretty looking.

Also, today (August 11th) marks Chris and I being married for exactly three months! YAY!!! I love being married to my best friend! We are so great together in every way and we just have the most fun all the time! I want to write a post about being married for three months, it's in the works. Stay in touch.

That's my weekend story!! I just wanted to share it with the world! As I said, I have a few pictures (very few) but I'll add those later. :) Thanks for reading! I love my readers!!

Jackson Hole Trip 2013

This year was my favorite Jackson Hole trip ever!!! I've been going every year to my grandparent's condo since I was maybe eight, but this year was my favorite. I'm thinking it's because it was Chris's first year there, so I got to introduce my new husband to all the fun my family has up there.

So I took over 600 pictures in Jackson this year, but here are some (okay a lot) of my favorite ones.

Riding the mini train at the fair.

My sister riding on a buffalo. 

Figure Eight races (my favorite!!!)

Playing Apples to Apples while driving through Yellowstone.

Yellowstone!!

Old Faithful

The hot pots, my favorite things in Yellowstone! 

This geyser never stopped!

The "gang".

I like this one because we got my brother, mom and grandma in the background. 

It was pouring rain and at first we all thought the buffalo hanging out by the bathrooms was fake, but once we realized that it was real, my husband and brother were so excited to go up to him. 

Mr. Fishie

I'd like you all to meet Mr. Fishie, the very first fish I've ever caught!! It was one of the most exciting things of my life and I've never had a greater freakout in my life. I was super happy. 

And it totally distracted me from the awful, awful sunburn I was getting (seriously, my ears are so burnt, they are blistered). And even though he scared me a bit, I took a picture with him.

I loved Mr. Fishie. My brother, husband and dad all said he was also very delicious. So he lived to fulfill a great purpose, to feed the boys in my family. :)