Father's Day Weekend!

Friday we went to a rodeo! A RODEO! In June?! I know, I thought it was a litte early too.  We decided it would be fun to take Allie and Jordan with us and spend a little bit of time with them.  Some of those cowboys are freaking IN-SANE! One of the bull riders who was getting ready to ride, I swear to you about died.  He was in the shoot and all at once you hear a bang and look to find that this cowboy is being pulled off the bull and the bull is being pushed into the next shoot.  CRAZY! Also, concessions were SO cheap!! Popcorn was like 50 cents.  A hamburger was like $2.00.  A HAMBURGER! They even had Gossners Milk.  Rootbeer is my favorite J

Saturday we were planning on waking up and going to Golden Coral for breakfast.  I woke up at about six and was like “OH! I have an hour to sleep in” yeah no.  I slept til 8:45.. Devin is so sweet for not waking me up, however I was a little mad that he didn’t!  We both wanted to go there and didn’t get to.  So we decided to go into town anyways and find Father’s Day gifts.  We went to 8 stores.  Smiths, the mall, Shopko, Lowes, north Walmart, Home Depot, back to Smiths and then to the South Walmart.  But we finally found stuff for our dads.  YAY!  We bought this super cool cook book for us.  All about grilling because, well…we love grilling.  They are FABULOUS!  We also bought TIKI TORCHES!! They are so cute and fun and they were so awesome.  We set them up with a blanket in the middle of them and played board games for a little bit Saturday night.  They are so pretty.  I am absolutely in love with them. 

Father’s Day was really great! We had lots of good food and lots of fun memories with our families.  Hope everyone else enjoyed their day too!

Life in México--part 1

July 27, 2011 my awesome family moved to Queretaro, Mexico.  Wait. What? Yes I know.  It was my senior year in highschool and I packed it up and moved with my family to Mexico.  Not New Mexico.  The old one.  ;)

People always ask me if that was awful moving my senior year. My answer? Naw.  I didn’t enjoy Mt. Crest.  I didn’t really have my “best friend” that I would hang out with.  In fact, I’d call Lindsie every day during lunch and talk to her while she watched Mickey Mouse Club House.  It would be fun.  I would graduate down there.  I would learn Spanish.  I would get a “new start” at making friends and making these awesome adventures.

                                                          our back yard in Mexico

Boy was I in for a surprise!  We arrived in Mexico on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 between 8 & 9 PM.  Oh did we look silly! 7 Americans, one poodle, 7-8 suitcases and 14 carry-on’s. (2 per person) You can only imagine what we looked like trying to get through security. (Also know that this was the first time that Allie, Kendal, Jason, Lindsie and I had ever been on a plane..let alone going through security..) They opened every one of our suitcases and went through them, they went through our carry-on’s, and poor Tallie! (our escapoo) She was looked over for like a half an hour! Our real estate lady, Nalleli, met us at the airport.  This is where we were introduced to the “kiss”.  The kiss is how they greet people.  When you are saying hello, you put your cheek with theirs and make a kiss sound.  Again, imagine our poor faces.  We were being violated! Ha just kidding.  But it was definitely weird!  After my mom, dad and Nalleli figured our car situation out, my dad and I drove to Walmart while Nalleli took my mom and siblings to our house.  Dad and I were on a bed hunt.  We bought 7 air mattresses. (the extra small ones on accident too..) It was so weird.  I walked into Walmart and people were staring at me like they’ve never seen a white girl before.  Granted, I am extra white, but still!  I felt so small.  I couldn’t read a single thing in the store and the prices were high! A mattress was $150.00 pesos. (roughly $15.00 USD) It was just so different.  I have never been the minority before && I didn’t like it.

                                                       eating tacos, July 27, 2011. 11:30 PM..ish

When we got back to our house in Jurica, Nalleli, my mom and the kids where there, but there was no light.  Elsa (who was another agent of some sort) was there trying to help us get the lights on.  We got the lights on and realized that we were starving! We hadn’t eaten since grandmas house that morning.  (we spent the night in Brigham with Grandma Karen because we had to be up so early.) Nalleli took us to Juriquilla were we experienced our first midnight, street tacos.  Legit, authentic tacos.  Oh they were so good! Nalleli told us that they put lime on everything, which is 110% true! It took me a while to get used to lime, I had put some on my tacos that night and my tummy didn’t exactly agree with them.  Again, people stared.  There sat 7 Americans with their dog, eating tacos, speaking English, at 1 AM.  When we left the taco place (which btw was one of our most FAVORITE places to eat throughout our stay there) we had to stop and get some toilet paper from some random store on the way home.  We got home, filled the air mattresses and went to sleep.  What a long, exhausting day. 

                                                                        at the airport

                                                       Grandma Karen and Allie

I woke up to Jason and Lindsie jumping on my air mattress, telling me to come and look at my bedroom.  Since I was the oldest, I got my own room.  It was on the other side of the house, away from the other bedrooms.  I was in the maids quarters. Clearly my room was already the coolest.  I remember walking through the house just amazed.  It was so beautiful.  4 bedrooms.  4 ½ bath.  Beautiful yard.  Walking outside and looking down our street was so cool.  Everything was in bloom and it smelled amazing.  We didn’t have any food.  We didn’t have a fridge yet, so dad took Allie and I to McDonalds to get food for everyone.  The first time I had a Big Mac was at the McDonalds in Mexico.  We got lost on our way home, but thankfully my dad got us back! We went to the store to try and find the things that we needed since we wouldn’t have our stuff that we shipped from home, for 3 months.  We bought a fridge, and we bought some food.  Our first week was hectic, but awesome. All I remember thinking is: I could really learn to love this place. 

(Pictures below)

                                                                       inside our house

                                                                    inside our house

                                                                stairs to my bedroom

                                                                    dining room area

                                                                       street sign

                                                                     our "garage"

                                                                    house number

                                                                         kitchen

                                                                 outside looking in

                                                           mom and dads room

                                                                back door

                                                         my window-going to roof

                                                                before take off

                                                                   other side of kitchen

                                                                      front doors

 

Moto Vu :)

This weekend was such a blast! (06/06/14-06/08/14)  Devin spent Thursday and Friday at the Missionary Training Camp that the Wellsville and Mendon Stake do every year.  He did it last year and has loved it both years!! He loves helping all of these kids understand the reason that they are serving the Lord for 2 years.  Besides, he’s so great with them, and they love him.  How could he not have fun?  After his training camp on Friday, he picked me up from home and we went to Moto Vu. (The outside movie theater in Ogden)  We stopped by Carl’s Jr.  I LOVE their Teriyaki burger. Oh my heck, it is SO good.  We took our food to the drive in and ate it there.  Dev found a new game to play on our phones while we were waiting for it to get dark.  It’s called Farm Heroes Saga.  It’s VERY similar to Candy Crush.  Only it’s with vegetables and they have cute smiling faces on them too.  It’s rather addicting and Devin even likes it! He doesn’t get into those kinds of games very much, but he really enjoys this one!

Edge of Tomorrow is such a great movie.  I would definitely go and see it again.  I won’t tell you anything about it cause I think you should go and see it.  However, Godzilla.  BORING! I watched the first half hour of it and then I fell asleep.  I slept for a good hour of it but then I got so freaking cold that I just kinda laid there snuggled up to Devin to try and keep warm.  Didn’t really interest me or Devin.  But since Devin is such a sweetheart, he waited until the movie was over to leave because he didn’t want to be rude to the other viewers.  Me? I would have left during it.  It was that bad.  We got home at about 2:40 AM.  After brushing our teeth and getting ready for bed, it was a little after 3 that we both finally fell asleep.   Saturday was such a drag! We didn’t get out of bed until 9.. Our get up and go..got up and left. We cleaned the house a little bit.. ate a little bit..did this and that but before I knew it was 1! Where did my day go??  Grandpa Don had asked us if we could go put some of the sandbags in the pasture to kind of stop the water from overflowing..while on our way down there Devin found a calf! Bad thing about it? It’s black. With a white face.  What??? All our cows are red angus.  Not black.  (one of the bulls from the guy who owns the other part of Dry Lake, got onto our side while they were in heat and well…you know.) Its kind of a funny looking calf.  But cute nonetheless

Church was good.  I was still so tired from Friday night that my feet drug all day long.  I’m the music leader for primary.  We are learning I Love to See the Temple in American Sign Language.  It’s really cool that these kids have the opportunity to learn that!  Lunch was great.  Chicken roll ups.  Oh they are soo good! I completely understand why they are one of Devins favorite meals.  They’re DELICIOUS!  We made Dutch Oven Potatoes for my family and they were fabulous.  As always.  Over all we had a really fun weekend! Can’t wait for next weekend!!

Dads birthday & work dinner!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!! (06/04/1970) Yes. My dad is now 44. FORTY FOUR! He is SOO old! ;) haha just kidding dad.  But I would just like to wish him a very happy birthday and I am so grateful to have a dad like him.  He supports me in everything I do. (mostly..) He is so sweet and caring and funny and he's usually always right..  I swear I am like the only 20 year old (&& married none the less!) that still kisses her dad before she leaves his house.  Feliz Cumpleaños! Te amo con TODO mi Corazon <3   

Last night (June 4^th) Devin and I went to my first dinner with my new job.  I absolutely love the girls that I work with.  My boss, Tracey, is fabulous.  She is so great! We went to Elements.  Have you ever been there?! HOLY TOLITO! GORGEOUS! Oh it was so much fun.  We sat outside in the patio in the back corner. Back corner? I know what you’re thinking.  You got stuck in the back corner.. haha no way! That was the most beautiful spot I think I have ever eaten at.  The trees were behind us, you could hear the little river (that sounded amazing..!) it was in the shade and very comfortable.  The cutest thing I think I saw was the ducks! There were a bunch of ducks with their ducklings just walking around our table.  We’d feed them bread and watch them fight for it. Oh they were so darn cute!

The reason that we were at Elements was because we were celebrating accomplishments that some of these girls have made.  The years and hard work that they’ve put in to our job.  They were so excited and so happy to be there.  They deserved it!  Lynette was celebrating 15 years, Tiffany 7, and Lisa and Ashlee were celebrating 5.  That is so awesome.  These girls are so much fun to be around and we had so much fun just talking, getting to know each other better, and just enjoying each other’s company. 

ABOUT US!

So I thought I would try and give this blogging thing a try.  Not that I know a whole lot about it, but I figured, what the heck? How bad could it be? Any help would be much appreciated ;)

I’m going to use this more of like a journal.  But that’s open to the world. If people read it, great! If not, I don’t mind J  I want to keep track of Devin and I’s new journey that we’ve started together and I think this would be one of the most fun ways to do so.  I love typing, why not put it to use?

I figured the most appropriate thing to write about first, would be about Devin and I.  I mean, that's the name of the blog right? The Fabricius'.  Devin and I met on March 10, 2013.  Depending on which one of us you ask, our stories on how we met are a little different.  I say Facebook, he says a mutual friend.  Actual truth? A little bit of both.  I had commented on one of my friends pictures of her and her boyfriend. Devin saw my comment and asked this friend (Annie Maughan) how well she knew me.  She said very well and she then texted me asking me if she could give this friend of hers my number.  Naturally I asked her what this friends name was.  She replied: Devin Fabricius.  How in the heck do you say that last name?! What do I do next? I Facebook stalk him of course.  Super cute.  Heck yes he can have my number! Annie told me that she had given him my number. I waited ALL day for him to text me! No text came..bummer! Later that night as I was moving a car (the one time that I didn’t have my phone attached to my hip) Devin calls. My mother answered.. weird? He kinda thought so.  Talking to him on the phone, I was already so impressed! This kid just CALLED me. CALLED! No way that happens anymore. He was so polite and invited me to go to the singles ward with him that following day.  Of course I said yes! How could I not? 

Devin picked me up at 10:35 sharp! Not a minute late.  I was so nervous I was shaking in the recliner! I remember opening the door and just instantly fell inlove. (you’ll think I’m crazy, but I told my mom when we got home from church that I was going to marry that boy!) I just loved his eyes.  && that smile he gave me? HOLY COW!! He opened every door we entered, he helped me in his truck, and he was so polite!! We went to church and it was SO hard to focus! All I wanted to do was talk! I wanted to know everything I could about this handsome man.  Church came to an end and I was so hoping that he didn’t want to stay for the linger-longer. It was a whole meal! (I mean.. no offense single people, but that’s a little over the top.. don’t ya think?) He didn’t want to stay either.  In fact, he was thinking the same thing.  WHEW! We talked the whole way home.  I was so sad when he dropped me off.  All I wanted to do was sit and talk and talk and talk! Good thing we made plans to hang out later that week.  But we’ll save that story for later.  I’ll have to write about those in sections.  As for now, bedtime is calling my name!