I Love My Husband

This is a short story about my husband that I wanted to share simply because it makes me happy. 

My husband and I have been working for the same company this summer. He is doing sales and I work in their office. Every morning the sales team comes in for a meeting. Chris always comes in, gives me a kiss, and goes to his meeting. After the meeting he always gives me a kiss before leaving. Sometimes we have conversations and other times we don't, depending if I'm on a phone call or not.

Today my husband came in gave me a quick kiss and went off to his meeting. I worked hard for the next hour until the meeting was over and the sales people started leaving. During the meeting they discussed a competition to see who can work more seven hour days consecutively and the winner gets an iPad.

Chris didn't really want to win because he doesn't really want an iPad. But then he remembered I want one.

So after the meeting today Chris walks proudly out of the back, past my desk, and announces that he is going to win that iPad for me, and he leaves the building. He then walks back in and comes to my desk to give me a kiss and tells me he was going to give up but he wants to win it for me.

After he left my coworker, Angel, tells me that she hopes her daughter finds a husband as kind as mine, and I felt truly special. Chris really is incredible and I am so blessed to have him. I love my husband!!!

(Later he called and said that a few of the other guys on the sales team are trying to help Chris win for me by sabotaging the others. I feel so lucky! Ha ha!)

HAPPY COW APPRECIATION DAY!!!

Naming my blog after cows was no accident, I honestly, wholeheartedly, 100% think cows are amazing and they are my favorite animal. They are so cute and fat and kind and honestly helpful to people (ice cream anyone?). So every year Cow Appreciation Day isn't a joke to me, it's for real one of my most favorite holidays.

I always wear black and white, wear my cow necklace and earrings (but not the earrings this year because they are breaking and since for work I'm on the phone all day I didn't want them to break more), Chris and I always have milkshakes and we try to visit cows and take pictures with them.

This year I worked most the day, Chris works late, and we're picking up my family from the airport tonight (cannot fully explain my excitement about that) so we don't get to visit cows this year. And I'm sad because while I don't always love living in Logan, I'm able to see cows more frequently because they are close and always around. I have yet to see any cows in Texas, at least nearby. I see a lot of horses. Our apartment complex is across the street from a horse race track. Too bad there aren't cow races there too.

Despite not getting to celebrate the way I want to (I don't even have my cow footie pajamas here with me!) Chris, of course, tried to make it special for me. As I was sitting at work making phone calls the salesman started coming in one by one and each would look at me and say "Happy Cow Appreciation Day!" It was both super embarrassing and sweet.

I honestly love Cow Appreciation Day and one of the main reasons is because of Chris. He lets me act like a child and drive around searching for cows, he dresses in black and white with me, he humors my childish glee when I take pictures with cows and start cuddling with my cow pillow-pet Ty. Seriously, I married the greatest man in the world who lets me celebrate Cow Appreciation Day every year without thinking I'm a weirdo. BEST HUSBAND EVER!!

I hope you all are having a wonderful Cow Appreciation Day. Don't forget to have a milkshake to appreciate the wonderful gift of milk that cows provide for us. Or if you want to be mean have a steak as long as you appreciate the cow that sacrificed his cute and precious life for you to eat something delicious (I totally have the mindset of a vegetarian but not the willpower). Also if you dress like a cow, Chick-Fil-A might give you a free meal! I'm honestly so upset I didn't bring my footie pajamas to Texas...

HAPPY COW APPRECIATION DAY!!!! 

This pic is from Cow Appreciation Day two years ago. I'm a dork, I know, but I don't care. :) 

Book Club July 2014: Pride and Prejudice

I know the majority of the world has already read this book, but I for one have not. So whether or not you've read it before, I would love for you to join me and my Book Club and read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for the month of July!!

I've seen the movie, I know the story, and you might know it as well, but regardless I always think it's important to read the classics, and this is certainly a classic. Also, I was only able to bring a very limited amount of books with me to Texas and this was one of them, so it had to be a part of Book Club at some point.

Hey, have any of you ever seen that Mormon-ish, modern day version of Pride & Prejudice ? I always liked that because it was so cheesy and ridiculous. I would watch it with my old roommate Kristina and we would laugh so hard. I miss her.

Anyways, as always, around the 20th of the month I will post a discussion post, but you can always join in on the discussion on our GoodReads page! But try not to spoil it for everyone at the beginning of the month. Even though I already know the story...

If you haven't already joined my Book Club now is your chance!! We pick a new book every month and it's absolutely no commitment! But if you do join in I'd love to hear about it through social media with #dancingcowbookclub.

Happy Reading! 

The Scorpion in the Bathroom

I like Utah. My husband wants us to move out of Utah but I like Utah. Utah feels safe. There aren't giant tornadoes or hurricanes, we're supposed to have a giant earthquake someday but haven't had any big ones yet. It's a protected, safe little area and I like it.

It also doesn't have scorpions. Or at least, if it does, I've never seen one in the twenty-one years I've lived there. And they certainly don't appear in my bathroom like they do here in Texas.

It wasn't the biggest scorpion in the world, maybe two inches long, tan-ish colored, like a baby, but regardless, it freaked me out and I ran out and stood on a chair watching Jenna Marbles and Frankenfood (who tweeted me back so they are pretty much awesome!!) until my incredible husband left work to come to my rescue.

He came home because I had called him complaining but I was so upset (and I think I'm PMSing) so I started crying and once I start crying Chris is like putty in my hands. I swear I wasn't trying to manipulate him by crying, the tears just came because I'm pretty much scared of all insects and animals and scorpions are pretty freaky. And, you know, being a girl is hard sometimes.

So Chris was my hero and killed the scorpion and helped me clean up the apartment a bit, looking for any other pest for him to kill before heading back to work. BEST HUSBAND EVER.

Also, he told his boss to come spray our apartment with pest control, but his boss was a little upset Chris was leaving work to help me, but Chris said if you would have sprayed our apartment two weeks ago when I asked you to this wouldn't have happened. Also, how can Chris go out and sell pest control and talk about how great they are if we personally found a scorpion despite their product? So hopefully the company sprays our apartment soon and this never happens again... because I'm a wimp when it comes to creepy-crawly things (remember the cockroach story?)

Because of the scorpion I went into crazy cleaning mode and have pretty much cleaned everything in our little apartment, because if our bathroom had been clean, maybe the scorpion wouldn't have been hiding in a pile of dirty clothes on the floor. Everything is so clean now and I almost think the scorpion scared me into continually keeping things clean, because I never want to find one in a mess on the floor again.

So moral of the story, maybe it takes a scorpion the scare me into keeping things clean. Hopefully that lasts.

Hey look, I was brave enough to take a picture of the scorpion among a pile of dirty clothes and a shoe.