Tate Family Update

Well at least I'm consistent with how often I update this blog...looks like I'm on a record of once a month. Awesome. Well very exciting things have been happening around the Tate house...most important thing first:
We invested in 5 boxes of girl scout cookies. Best investment I've ever made. I'm surprised they lasted us a whole week.

I was once again reassured that thin mints are still by far the best.

Jared ran in the Rex Lee 10K race. It was his first race and he did pretty darn good. He finished in about 52 minutes.

This was him before the race. He was pretty excited about wearing his number. And this was him after the race...

Slight exaggeration? I think yes.
We were also able to babysit our stinkin cute nephew, Matix, a few weeks ago. That kid is a stud-muffin even though he puked all over our couch. However, in his defense his parents did warn us about his spit up. We still love him anyway.

We have been obsessed with this show:



Most nights consist of us watching a couple episodes. I'm just excited because it's the first tv serious Jared has gotten hooked on. My attempt at Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl just didn't interest him very much. Don't ask me why.

College basketball is over and as much as I absolutely love having ESPN on my TV 24-7 for an entire month I'm happy to have my husband back.

And last but not least I turned the big 22 this past week and Jared sure did spoil me. He woke up early in the morning to make me breakfast. I would like to note that Jared was pretty proud of himself for waking up in the 5:00 hour...it was 5:55 but still 5:00 hour none-the-less...gotta give him props on that. He wrote me lots of love notes and stuck them by our table for me to read while eating my omelet and grapefruit. Then we both had to work all day...not so fun. But then we decided to drive up to Sandy to go to Sweet Tomatoes..my favorite place to eat. We had a lovely gentleman there that taught us the secret to success...well rather he taught Jared. "A man can never be happy and right at the same time." What a wise man. We then visited my grandpa who is the cutest old man I know. We came home and Jared had gotten me a very sweet card and very nice perfume which I love.

March Madness

I was kindly reminded about this lovely month when practically the first words out of my husband's mouth this morning after he woke up was:
Jared: Today's the day
Me: What do you mean today's the day?
Jared: The greatest day of the year....The first day of March Madness

Time to say goodbye to my husband for the next few weeks. This is how much Jared loves march madness. He usually can't sit in front of the TV for more than an hour at a time. I, on the other hand, can unfortunately watch TV all day if I wanted to. I got home from class and asked Jared if he wanted to go with me to get girl scout cookies at Smith's (which they weren't there!) and he said, "Yah. I've been sitting on the couch for the past 5 hours so it might be good to get out of the house for a little while." I found it rather impressive that he actually sat there for 5 hours. But it just shows how much he truly loves it. I'll give him his March if he gives me my Fall for football. It's a good compromise.

Oh and on a side note...We filled out brackets at my work and I have to say that I totally suck. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that I have the same amount of points as LeBron James does. He and I can suck together.

Sunday Dinner

Last Sunday I wanted to make a nicer dinner than usual. Our good friend was coming over and I wanted to make something other than the usual spaghetti or better yet frosted mini wheat's for dinner. So I decided to make this...

It was a lemon/garlic chicken and pasta that I found on pinterest. We made a nice green salad and corn to go with it. Oh and we also made garlic bread...

Yummy right? Other than the black bread, it was actually a pretty tasty dinner. I highly suggest it and it is SUPER easy to make.

Debt Free

Thank you to our tax returns this year, Jared and I were able to pay off the rest of our student loans and man it sure feels good. I actually took a picture of us paying it off and then decided it's probably not smart to put our account information online for all to see. We decided to use half of our tax return to be serious with and half of it to go toward a vacation this summer for our anniversary. And now that we are debt free I don't feel guilty what so over going on a nice vacation. We are thinking a cruise but we are just waiting for a good deal. Anyone have any good ideas for finding good vacation deals? I need all the secrets. If all else fails we'll probably just go to the airport and tell them to send us out on the next flight available and we'll see where we end up!