Bryan & Brittney Austin

Day 9: Something you are proud of in the past few days

This one is pretty easy. Bryan would have to be something/someone I am proud of from the past few days. He has been so helpful lately it has been great. Daisy was sick on Friday thru the weekend. She kept having terrible accidents in her kennel and needing cleaning of some not so nice messes. Bryan was always helpful and ready to take on the mess. Also Bryan has done everything that he needs to do as well to go to school. Bryan will be going to school in the fall to pursue a dream of a police officer. I know that he did the electrician thing for a while and he did really like it but it does not seem to fit Bryan. In talking with Bryan's mom and grandmother Bryan has always wanted to be either a firefighter or police officer and I can just see him being either. He is so personable and easy to talk to and gets along with strangers so well. He has always been considerate of my stresses as well and this last weekend he really tried hard to calm my stress with a surprise of coming with me to Logan for a job interview that I had on Friday instead of leaving early to go with his dad camping. He then made sure that we had a date at our special place in Ogden, B'Occia D'Italia a great little hole in the way restaurant that Bryan, my parents, and I found by accident over a year ago when going to the Ogden Rodeo. It has the best house salad dressing and great service with good pastas and pizzas. He made sure that we went and saw Apes:The Rise of Planet of the Apes this weekend as well. It was so much fun and it was a movie that I think I more wanted to see than him, but he made sure we saw it. I am a Planet of the Apes fan, more the first original and the remake with Mark Wahlberg a while ago. I am so proud of my hubby and how hard he works for us. He works overtime to help with finances, he works hard around the house with chores and things that need to be fixed, and he always treats me so well. He has taken on so much with trying to go to school this fall and I am so proud of him. He has done it all on his own and has shown a lot of drive to go to school and better himself. Go BRYAN!

Day 8: Short Term Goal for this Month and Why

Short term goal for this month is to get ready and be ready to start school in the fall. Including mentally ready. I start school at Utah State University in Logan for schooling for Pre-Vet program. I think this is going to be the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I love being at home with my husband and puppies and kitties. I am not going to be able to do this nearly as much as before. I cannot stay in Salt Lake for schooling any more and I need to go to there during the week and come home on weekends. I still need a lot of things for school it seems like but a lot of them I cannot even get until the first week of class. Books that are going to cost me still another $300 and I have already gotten three of them that I need and those tipped the wallet at $254, about $150 cheaper than it should have been. Thank you Rich, my cousin, who told me that Amazon.com sells college books because it saved some good money for sure.

Day 7: A Picture of Someone/Something That has the Biggest Impact on You

Of course it is going to be my hubby that has such a huge impact on my life. He is such a good person and I love him so much. He has helped me to become a stronger person filled with love and dedication. He has taught me patience through the constant testing of my patience but to better understand and look at both sides of any situation. He has taught me to laugh more. I know that sounds impossible but he makes me smile and laugh more than anyone I have ever met. He has taught me more compassion. He will not admit it but he is so sweet still opening my door for me, doing what I ask with little kick back, always asking what I need, always saying I love you, doing sweet things for me for no reason other than he loves me, trying to surprise me with time together, and taking great care of me when I am sick. I try to make sure to keep up with his sweetness but it is no easy task. He is always looking for things for us to do together and something that only him and I can do and make something our thing. There are a couple food places that only we go to and do not go there with other people. We have walks late at night just so we can talk and get out of the house and spend time together. We started that every weekend when Bryan gets home from work at 11:30 pm we will go for a 2-3 hour walk through the streets of Magna. We have even got into walking really long distances. We walked all the way from our home on 8000 West to the Maverick Center one day for the rodeo. We love camping together, do house and yard work together, we love doing everything together. We have so much fun together and I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with the most wonderful man in the world.

Day 6: Favorite Super Hero and Why

That is right. I am a closet Captain America fan. I have always loved Captain America. He is just so kick a**. He is buff, good looking, strong, and he stands for something bigger than any other super hero. He is not some vigilante hiding in the shadows, he is out there and everyone knows who he is. He protects and saves not for the glory but the duty that comes with being a super hero. I love his shield and how he wields it to be successful in his fights. Also he represents a form of military which makes me feel like he is part of a system that should be more admired and respected. He is a military hero in his own way he just wears different colors than the other military men he works with. Also, I could totally see Bryan as a Captain America. I would love to see him in a Captain America outfit. Yummy...

Day 5: Somewhere you have been to

A couple years ago, Bryan and I had the great opportunity to go on a cruise with our mom and dad to the Caribbean. When we went the first couple days we got to spend in New Orleans being that is where we took off out of. It was such a blast to get to spend the time with Bryan and get to see Bourbon Street and all of New Orleans. It was full of so much history and culture and we were lucky enough to be there during Mardi Gras and it was a little wild as well. I love the fact that we have been lucky enough to be able to make such trips. There are many who will never really get to go on a cruise or travel to many places and it is great that we get to take advantage of such fun and entertaining opportunities.

Sorry, but Day 3 will have to wait until I can find a picture of us with our friends. The ones I thought I had are not there anymore and I need to find them before being able to post them. So we will continue on with post day 4:

Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn't have

To chose just one habit is kind of hard. It seems like I have a few that I really hate that I do but do not have the drive to change them. If I have to chose just one, it would be I wait until the last possible moment to fill my car with gas. I have ran out of gas more than once in my life and had to walk to a gas station or have someone come help me. It is a habit that I know drives Bryan absolutely nuts. I always wait until too that he will be in my car because he is such a sweety he always pumps the gas for me when he is there to. I love Bryan for all the sweet things he does and that is definitely a habit I wish I did not do.