10 reasons why Matt and I aren't being Rosemary's baby for Halloween

For the past two Halloween's I have been dying to have Matt get home from his mission so that we could do an awesome couple costume together.  Seriously Matt was back for probably a week when I told him that we had to start thinking of what we could be for Halloween (10 months in advance). Needless to say I have been pretty excited about it. I had come up with several awesome ideas but Matt continually turned every single one down.  Then one day Matt had the weirdest idea ever.  He excitedly told me that we should be Rosemary and Rosemary's baby from the book/movie Rosemary's Baby. Well I gave him an absolute "no" for an answer but for some reason every time someone asks us what we are being he tells them we are dressing as Rosemary and Rosemary's baby. He says he's kidding. I'm pretty sure he's not. Whether he's kidding or not, I wanted to set the record straight and let everyone know we are NOT being Rosemary's baby. Here's why:

10. I don't want to be Rosemary

 I don't like her outfits in the movie. I don't like her hair. It's a boring costume. And besides those reasons, I don't look like her (which I guess you don't really HAVE to look like what you are dressing up as but it always helps...). More importantly, I don't want to have anything to do with Satan. 

9.  I don't want Matt to be my "baby"

That would be creepy, right?

8.  I don't want Matt to be Satan's "baby"

Wouldn't that be even creepier? I don't want my husband to be Satan's offspring. Even as pretend.

7. Satan wouldn't want Matt as his baby

In the story, satan wants a baby to do some "hell raising" on earth. The only hell raising Matt's ever done is spray his 4 year old nephew in the face with a watergun on his birthday. Ok... maybe that does fit the part.

6. Matt wouldn't even be able to pull of being a baby

My 6'4'' husband trying to be....

This? 

Please. That'd be hilarious.

5.  Hardly anyone would know what we were even dressed as

Let's be honest. How many of you have ever seen the movie and would guess a couple dressed as Rosemary and her baby? Probably no one. If anyone guessed what we were they would just guess I was a fat lady and Matt a big tall zombie.

4. It isn't a movie we really want to be advertising

It's about a woman who gives birth to satan's baby. Enough said.  

3. They would both be boring characters to act like

Matt would walk around crying all night and I would just be pregnant.

2. How would we ever be able to compete with these guys?

 

1. The last and most important reason why we absolutely are NOT being Rosemary and her baby this Halloween is.......

it's a stupid idea.

(No explanation needed)

So sorry Matt, for bursting your bubble. But we won't be looking like this for Halloween.

Life keeps on changing, you tell it to stay still but it won't listen

My little sister moved to Logan. My baby sister. Ok, I guess I shouldn't call her a baby because 1. she's only 2 and a half years younger than me and 2. She's not a baby. Not even close. She's a beautiful woman now. But still, I feel like she is so young. I have always been so protective of my little Rica. I remember yelling at little 3rd graders when I was a 6th grader and they were teasing her. I worried everyday when she started high school. I never worried about her making friends because she is the most loveable person you could ever meet, but I worried about her finding friends that would be a good influence on her. That would help her do what is right. Then she made it through high school with a ton of friends and a super strong testimony. Now she is living on her own. In Logan where I can't even keep an eye on her. But I know that she will be so great. I know that she will stay close to her Savior and do all the things she is supposed to. Now I am just worried about me. I don't know how I can live without my baby sister...
So here's to you little Rica. I love you so much! You are the best sister a girl could ever ask for. I will miss having you be there whenever I come to Dad and Lynell's house. I will miss listening to new music that you have found. I will miss borrowing your cute clothes and having you help me stay stylin'. I will miss having you just a short ten minute drive away. I will miss dry bath (haha just kidding, that only happened once). I will miss watching flicks with you. I will miss glee project on Sunday nights. I will miss spying on you and di-lon when you are snuggling on the love sac. I will miss your treat baggies that you are so famous for making. I will miss talking to you about everything. I will miss laughing with you. I will just miss having you around. Seriously, my heart aches to think of you leaving. But I am so happy and so excited for you. You will have the time of your life.
I sure love you Erica.

Rainy days and Sundays

Sundays. I love them. A nice break from the rest of the week. Yesterday was a particularly good Sunday. Here is what I loved about it....

making cookies

Playing games with Matt

Making dinner and eating it together (our first Sunday not going to one of our parent's for dinner !! )

Lounging in Matt's basketball shorts (which are basically capris on me) and watching the rain through our screen door while he talked to his ma on the phone

Going to see the "Up" house...

That had the perfect "Up" mailbox...

And the sweetest old "Up" man

Playing with my babiest nephew Eli <3

Glee project!!!

Matt being fine with the results of glee project and me being furious

And last but CERTAINLY not least of what I loved about Sunday.....

WE GOT INTO POTTERMORE!!!!!!

Matt stayed up so late (I won't tell you how late or you will think we are the biggest Harry Potter nerds ever. Ok. He stayed up until 3) so that we could get the clue to find the magic quill. If you have no idea what I am talking about I will try and explain, JK Rowling is doing something called Pottermore where she is adding to the Harry Potter books (thank GOODNESS) and she is allowing 1 million people to see the site before anyone else does. Each night this week she posts a clue and when you enter the answer it takes you to another webpage where you have to search for the  magic quill. So Matt and I found it and we got in! We are 2 in a million.

Well there you have it. My wonderful Sunday. Now I have to begin a new work week and I'm another week closer to starting my senior year at BYU (blah). Too bad everyday can't be like this relaxing, fun, rainy, beautiful, husband-time, Harry Potter Sunday.

100 days. That's how long it has been since I last blogged. One hundred days. That's forever. Like 1/3 of a year. I have missed it. Why did I stop then, you ask? I was B-U-S-Y. I know, I know, I kind of always laugh at those people who think they are too busy for anything in their life. I guess I could have taken a few minutes here and there at some point in these last 100 days to write a quick update on my life. But... I haven't. Although I have always wanted to be, I have never been very good at keeping a journal. And for now, this is my journal. I'm not doing so great on keeping up to date with it. If my future children were to read this they would learn almost nothing about their mom. Besides that I was busy. So, I am going to try harder to keep this up to date. Even if no one else reads it but my sweet husband (Wait, husband? Yep I'm married! I'll get to that in a minute).

If no one knew me outside of this blog they would be shocked to learn all of the things that have changed in these past 100 days. A lot has happened. Let me give the highlights.

I went through the temple!! This truly has been something that I have been looking forward to since I was a little girl. Still to this day when I drive by a temple I sing the primary song "I love to see the temple" And now that I have gone through I can truly say, I am in LOVE with the temple. This picture is a little peak into one of the happiest days of my life.

Speaking of happiest days of my life, this one tops the charts for sure.........

Remember this guy? June 21, 2011. The GREATEST day of my 21 years. The day that I married my sweetheart in the house of the Lord. I am so happy that Matt was worthy and able to take me to the temple so that our love can continue on through the eternities. I love this handsome man oh so much and I am absolutely thrilled to be his wife. Someday I will post some more wedding pics. There are SO MANY though so....we'll see when I have the patience to do it. But the day was perfect and beautiful and my ENTIRE family was able to come from all corners of the country to join in the celebration. Which, if any of you are reading this that meant so so much to me. I couldn't ask for a better family.

Here are some pics of married life so far. Mostly of the honeymoon. We went to San Fran and I loved every piece of it.

As you can see there are a couple of food pics I posted with this. I know it's a little silly but I swear, the second I became a wife I wanted to be so domestic. And I know that the things I've made so far aren't amazing but seriously, before June 21st I was lucky if I could make brownies out of a box and not destroy them. So the pics above are the things that have worked out :)

Well that's it. 100 days in five minutes. Maybe more than 5 minutes. Eh. Oh well.

All is well with the newly established Weilers.

We are happy.

We feel blessed.

We are in love (couldn't ask for more)

And.... Now it's time for bed!

A person without a dream never had a dream come true

Yesterday one of my dreams came true. And let me tell you, it was the greatest feeling I've ever felt! 

For almost as long as I can remember I've wanted to run a marathon. I really don't know where the dream came from. Maybe it was just because I've heard like a million people put that on their bucket lists, or maybe I thought of it all on my own. Either way it's the first dream I can ever remember having. 

My sweet sister Rachel and I have talked about doing one for a long time. We've both done halfs and LOVED them so thought the next step would be a full. We'd started training a couple of times before and stopped part way into the training. But near the end of November we started training for the Salt Lake City Marathon and stuck to the training like it was our job. Seriously though, I can't remember a time before we were training. I even had to stop my wedding plans because I felt like the marathon training took all of my time. I don't mean to sound like it was a bad thing though, I LOVED training for it. I felt closer with my sister and I've never felt stronger. It was awesome.

 So the race itself was good. I'm not going to lie though, it was so dang hard. I felt every emotion during it. I felt joy, anger, sadness, even craziness. There was one time that I was running along and looked on the side of the course and there was this tall skinny woman standing there with long blonde hair and I thought it was Matt with a blonde wig on. When I realized it was a woman I felt really embarrassed. The finish line made it all worth it though. I felt like everyone was cheering just for me and I've never felt my hard work pay off like I felt it yesterday. And to run across the finish line hand in hand with my sister was such an awesome feeling. I love her and I'm so grateful I had her through all of this. Thanks to all of you who gave words of encouragement and showed love for me. I don't mean to get cheesy here but seriously, if you have a dream DO IT! Almost nothing will make you feel better.

Right before the race started

I think this pic is so cute. Just snugglin right after our run

We crossed the finish line hand in hand with matching glee tees

Me and Rae with dad and Lynell

Me with Matt and his mom, Dodi

Right after we finished. I'm embarrassed that I look pale as a ghost. I guess that's what I get for running 26.2 miles though

listen well to conversation

Before I start, I have a love/hate relationship with April Fools day. I love how my dad gets so into it and it's so exciting to see what new pranks he'll come up with every year.  Some of his pranks include carameled onions, setting off the fire alarm, vinegar in water bottles... yeah. He's hilarious. So this morning my little sister woke me up and made me go upstairs with her just in case he did something scary. Well, we found this in the bathroom....

In case you can't tell, he took out the lightbulbs and replaced them with green scary ones and had a man hanging there. It was scary and hilarious.


Anyways, it hasn't been that long since I blogged but it feels like it. 

Here's my life this last month.....

I turned 21
met my baby nephew, Eli
ran twenty miles with my sis Rach
took a chill pill and calmed down with wedding plans so I can enjoy being engaged to my best friend
chaperoned prom with Matt which was fun and reminded me of being at prom with him 3 years ago
went to the lady gaga concert... I know, she's crazy.
been missing all of my family like crazy :(
work work work
studying and praying I'll pass my statistics class
getting really really excited to go to the temple (side note, I had a HORRIBLE dream about the temple. It started wonderful with me and my entire family and my Matt in the temple and I was so happy. Then I found out the church was still practicing polygamy and my dad and brothers both had a hidden secret wife. It was awful)
loving the warm weather that we've experienced the last 2 days
never ending feelings of gratitude for my Heavenly Father for the blessings I have

Happy April everyone! Hope it's a good month. And enjoy the upcoming general conference!!

(here are a couple of pics from the last month)

I need a second to breath

My life seems to be going a million miles a minute right now. Everything has been so crazy busy lately I feel a little overwhelmed. Being engaged is actually a lot of fun but I had no idea how much has to go into planning a wedding. I have this perfect wedding in my head but it's just a matter of actually executing it and getting it all done. And besides all of that, I get so stressed when I think about life after the wedding. Insurance, bills, being an actual adult. Scary stuff. Now if wedding planning was all I had to worry about I wouldn't be TOO overwhelmed. But I still have school and work and trying to spend time with Matt that isn't all about wedding planning because I know it's not his favorite. Then I don't want to lose my other relationships like my friendships and my time that I spend with my family. Also, Rachel and I have been running like mad women. We've gotten up to 14 miles!! Which surprisingly wasn't so bad. Some people might think that's crazy but I'm actually really grateful for Rachel for keeping me running because when I run consistently I feel like I have some sort of control over my life and it relives a lot of my stress. I'm not writing this post as a way to complain. I'm actually happier than I have ever been. But it's sometimes just nice to write and write about anything that's going on in my life. I know that all you who ever read my blog would laugh at me because I know your lives are a whole lot crazier than mine. I mean I don't have kids to worry about. I don't have to support a husband through medical school or go to law school or work with crazy people at a dentists office. I'm not pregnant or holding a bunch of church callings or taking care of a brand new baby. In fact now that I'm writing all of those things that could make my life THAT much more crazy I'm pretty grateful for the amount of crazy that I have now. But still, my life feels pretty crazy.

On a side note, have any of you ever played just dance 2 on the wii? If not, I would HIGHLY recommend it. I'm not big on video games but lately I've found myself wanting to do nothing but just dance all day and all night. I've even had a dream or two about it.

Through all of the craziness I am very grateful for the consistent things I can always count on. The love and support from a wonderful family and fiance and the guidance, love, and support from my dear Heavenly Father and Savior. I've really got nothing to complain about.