Happy Birthday to me! :)

Our birthdays are only ten days apart, so my b-day was a week ago, on the 22nd, and it was soo much fun! His mom was still in town and she had been celebrating my b-day since she got here lol... then his dad came in town as well and we had a great week! For my b-day, John first gave me two great photo books, one of our engagement pics and one of our wedding pics! I literally cried when I saw them cuz they are just so precious! I just love him! He also rented a jet ski and it was awesome! (we didn't actually jet ski until Tuesday cuz a storm came that morning of my b-day, so then we just went to the hot tub which was fun as well) but when we jet skied it was crazy! i even drove it! i was going one mile per hour but what the heck it was so fun haha when John was driving I told him to be very careful to not drop me and he didn't but it was cuz I was holding unto him so tight! then his mom made me a big chocolate cake with M&M's on top cuz I'd told her that's how my mom made my b-day cakes when I was little :) so it was great! Then we all had lunch at the John Hancock bldng.. great view! then we went to the Navy Pier and rode one of the biggest and I think slowest haha ferris wheel ever! so fun! and also his mom (who wanted to kill me for making her do this) and I got on the wave swinger ride! lol then we went to see the musical West Side Story, and ate more, lots of cake and talked to my beautiful family back home and everywhere else and it was an amazing b-day! We also did the famous Chicago segway tour Tuesday afternoon

and it was so much fun but we felt so bad cuz a lady in the other group in front of us snapped her ankle on the segway! it was crazy! they were crossing the street and somehow she hit the light and I guess lost control and her foot got stuck under the segway and this thing kept on going with her foot under I guess and broke her ankle! the ambulance and fire truck came and it was crazy! I's so thankful that didn't happen to me! or John, I guess I'm just grateful we know how to drive a segway :) anyway... great times!

Let's Go to Bed Bath & Beyond!

So we were getting ready for John's mom to come into town the day before his birthday and we had recently bought a sectional couch from one of our neighbors in the top just above us. It was a really good deal, the couch is in really good conditions, except, this people had a dog that shed a lot, and even though they obviously cleaned the couch before they sold it, I still often find dog's hair on it and I can't really stand that! lol I told John I wanted to fix that, so he said that we will eventually get it reupholstered but in the meantime he was so sweet that he grabbed some rubber gloves and started cleaning it himself, (someone had told him you can get hair off like that) he did a great job, but it wasn't enough... sooo, last Monday, I had gone to Bed Bath & Beyond, (which with my mexican accent I often say Beth Bad & Beyond haha) earlier that day to get new shower curtains and while I was there I decided to look at furniture covers :) specially for couches! Didn't have much success and when John met me there we both decided to just get some chenille bedspreads to throw on the couch to cover it. I was so excited to get home and throw those things on the couch! so we did! We had bought two and realized our couch was bigger and longer than those blankets... it looked really ghetto haha... I wanted to go back and get one more to cover what was left of the couch... and to return the shower curtains cuz they weren't the right color! We looked at the clock and it was 8:45pm... so we both were like, "should we go back tonight? what time do they close? we're not gonna make it! yes we are... no we're not.. let's call to see what time they close..." LOL by that point it was already 8:50pm... we called and yes they closed at 9pm... we still kind of went back and forth for another 30 secs... and finally said.. ok.. lets go! so...

8:51pm- we get in the elevator... by this point John had said, "everything has to go perfect" and so far everything was going great! no one else got in our elevator so we went down 45 floors pretty quick!
8:52pm- We get to the car and start pulling out the parking lot...
8:53pm- We're finally driving... he was driving SO fast I was just praying he wouldn't run into anyone!
8:54pm- Still driving! haha... the momentum had gone way up and we started hitting all green lights! then I said "ok good! this means we're doing something right! Heavenly Father wants us to get there! Cuz yesterday we were hitting all red lights..." but then realized that we were on our way to Church yesterday hahaha... so that was just bad luck, not that Heavenly Father didn't want us to get to Church!
8:55pm- We hit our first red light.. and lots of traffic, and still 2 blocks away... so, I get out of the car and start running like someone was going to take my life away and John rolls down his window and starts yelling "run run run!! hurry! you can do it!" hahaha and everyone starts watching us and I'm just laughing as I'm running! it was hilarious!
8:57pm- I'm way out of breath but I made it to Bed Bath & Beyond and exchanged curtains and got my other blankie! LOL

Funny part of the story... we ended up not using those chenille bedspreads cuz they leave a lot of fuzz! hahaha... oh wow!

Happy Birthday John John!

So a week ago, on July 12th was my hubby's birthday and it was such a fun day! I woke him up singing happy b-day and made him some strawberry shortcake! Then his mom and I had a sailing boat trip planned for him that morning, it was a surprise! We all took a cab to the harbor and he was like "where are we going!?" We finally got there and he looved it! it was soo fun! a rented a little charter and we had a guide and we just sailed for two hours on lake Michigan! so cool! Then we came home and I had planned a surprise b-day party for him that evening with some of our friends here in Chicago. It was kind of fun and exciting planning it all without him knowing anything... I thought I had it all planned like a week and a half ago but then a week before his b-day he gets home and tells me he got that day off so that complicated things and I didn't know what I was going to do to prepare everything that day without him knowing what was going on! I figured it all out, everyone showed up to the party right on time for the surprise, and had party poppers for when he came in lol, it was great! we had lots of food! pizza, cake, ice cream and it was all so good! He was reaaally surprised which made me happy! My baby is now 26 :) he is such a big boy! haha he is doing great with his job and hopefully we'll find out soon if we're staying in Chicago or not! But I think we will! His mom is in town and we are just having soo much fun! I love being in the Merrifield clan! :) They are great!

Happy 4th of July!

Our first 4th of July together was awesome! John fortunately didn't have to work so we went shopping in the morning trying to find a dress for my sister's wedding, then we came home and made some delicious turkey burgers! Then we wanted to go play tennis but decided to go rent some bikes instead and that was really fun! it was the perfect day for riding bikes!

We rode all along the lake and the beach, took pictures and then met some friends and walked to the pier and played some frisbee while we waited for the fireworks show! Then we all came to our little place and had ice cream, chips and salsa and it was a fun fun day! I love being able to spend time with my hubby and do all this fun stuff together. I thought I wasn't gonna be able to see him all day yesterday, since I had to go work (babysit) earlier than usual, before he went to work, and then I had a lot of other stuff to do so, when I got back he was already at work, and didn't get back til late at night, (10:30) but somehow we always make it work so we met for dinner just right across his hotel at a great McDonald's :) He looked so cute and handsome in his little Marriott suit, which there's really nothing little about it, my baby is pretty big lol... so I made up a song for him last night... "You make my day, you make my night, you make every minute of my life, I love everything you do, and that's why I-LOVE-YOU!!! lol... it was really late at night and I was too hyper so don't judge me lol I don't remember the tune of the song or anything else, I just know we both fell asleep after I sang it a couple times haha, good times!

FuN DaTe NighT!!!

John and I had a great Saturday yesterday! We slept in, which felt so good cuz all this last week he started working at 6am so we were up super early... but yesterday I had gotten us a deal to go bowling, it was 2 hrs of bowling for 2 ppl for only 15 dlls!! it was so fun! we made sandwiches and went to the Temple first and brought a change of clothes and then went bowling! We also played in the little arcade they have at the bowling alley, he got me a pink puppy from the claw machine, he is so good at those! we also tried to get a bag of chips from the vending machine but it got stuck! then the guy came to help us get it out so he put another dollar and 25 cents and tried again and got stuck again, so now there were 2 bags of chips caught in there (it seemed like they were gonna fall down but they were getting caught on the top, it was weird) and then he put another dollar and 25 cents and it got stuck again!!!!! so there were 3 bags of chips stuck in there, finally one fell down and so we got it and kept on bowling, but then we turned around and we see the guy beating up the vending machine trying to get the other 2 hahaha, it was really funny. He finally got them and gave them to us! :) it was really fun! n then when we were leaving there was this really amazing fireworks show! so we stopped and watched it sitting on the top of his car! it was like the perfect ending to our day! life is great, we love being in love! -the end :)

FuNny StoRy foR all oF yOu wHo miSseD ouR WeddiNg!

Ok, so the day before our wedding, we were all in San Antonio and John and I went with both of our parents to look at the place of the reception. I had just seen it in pictures. We brought the center pieces and arranged some stuff there and then we were trying to figure out where we were going to put our cakes! We had two cakes. The groom's cake was a square chocolate cake with dipped strawberries on top and on the sides, and my cake was round, white with light turquoise designs and soft yellow roses on the top... something like that.. they were huge! because we ordered cake for 300 ppl! So, anyway, we finally decided where to put the cakes, where they would both fit and just look very pretty! So the big day comes. We were happily married in the temple, and then it was time for the reception! We had mariachis and everything was so perfect! We didn't have a line, so my dad starts playing the wedding march as John and I come in! It was so cute, everyone's clapping and then I quickly looked to my right where the cakes were, and I see this little cake, almost like a birthday cake, and I just thought "oh! for some reason I'd imagine my wedding cake bigger than that, in fact, much bigger than that!" but whatever, with all the greeting and excitement I didn't pay too much attention to it, but later on when everyone is having dinner, Jess, my sister in law comes laughing and she says: "did you hear what happened to your cakes??... They were stolen!! These are not your cakes!!" so Im just like, ohhhhh wow! LOL So our cake lady was delivering our cakes, but she stopped to deliver a cake before ours and left the van running for the AC, so our cakes wouldn't go bad I guess and someone steals the van!... with our cakes inside! CRRRAZY! I know! Who does that anyway? So those cakes were done in like 2 hours right before our reception! Until this day I don't know if the lady had them in the freezer and just pulled them out or I don't know how she pulled that off but despite the fact that those were not our wedding cakes, still, she decorated them how we'd asked her, except, there were no strawberries on the chocolate cake, but anyway, they tasted soooo delicious! Im not kidding! Best chocolate cake ever! lol Whoever went to my wedding can agree with me! I was SO surprised! It was a very funny experience, we told the story when we were giving the toast and we were all just laughing! Great memories! It was a very fun and special day! Loved it :)

Grooms Cake... This is exactly how our cakes were going to be,  and they were, just a smaller version LOL...  

And this was my cake, except round and in the colors I told you... light turquoise and soft yellow roses...  very pretty!