BEST valentine's day EVER! :)

Ok, so keeping a secret from your husband is a hard thing to do. Especially when it is something that you are really excited for. Like a Lady Antebellum concert. I almost bought tickets to this concert back in October or November but then I decided not to because I am really bad at buying tickets. I usually like to wait until the last minute so we get really bad seats and have to pay more for them. It makes the most sense right? I am just so bad at deciding. I mean, what if we had other plans that conflicted? I don't know what I was thinking because it  was for Valentine's day and what could be better than seeing Lady Antebellum? (maybe being where we would have been if we had bought the tickets earlier but oh well...) Plus the smithtix site is so hard when you are indecisive like me because it gives you time limits for each page so you have to buy the tickets in like 3 minutes or less. What is with that? Anyways, I finally manned up and bought the tickets and boy, am I glad I did!

We made "tentative" plans for Valentine's day that mostly just included going to The Pie in Salt Lake. You see, I needed a reason to get Mike to Salt Lake without him knowing my real reason. The Pie is only in Salt Lake AND we had never been there and we'd been wanting to go. He gave me a little trouble with going all the way to Salt Lake just for dinner but I reminded him that it's Valentine's day so we should do something special. So anyways, we had made plans for what to do after Salt Lake although I knew that none of them would happen (which is sad because one of them involved an angel food cake with strawberries on top being made for me). Our plan was to leave Provo right after class at 4 and go to the Pie and then "come home." But at 10:30 AM our plans changed a little bit.. this handsome little fella came into the world and we decided we better make it a priority to see him and the happy new parents before we leave.

Little baby Dallin

Also, I need to mention that when we got home from school before we went to see Dallin I was surprised with a clean house that Mike had come home during work to clean for me while I was gone. I was so happy! It was the best Valentine's day present ever! He also got me new shoes because mine have like 5 holes in them and he got me some pretty earrings. What a great guy :)

So we got to Salt Lake at about 6:15 and we parked outside The Pie and I said "ok here's the thing. We don't have time to go to The Pie because our real event starts at 7" Mike was confused but when I told him we were going to see Lady Antebellum at the Energy Solutions Arena he was really excited. We drove around looking for a Burger King, got our fancy meal, found free parking (yes!) and ate our burgers as we walked fast to the concert. We came in a few minutes after Thompson Square started, our seats were at the very top, we were sitting next to an awkward old couple on a date, but it. was. awesome!

Thompson Square

Are you gonna kiss me or not? This is when he gave her flowers for Valentine's Day :)

Darius Rucker! I didn't get very many good pictures of him (or anyone for that matter)

I thought it was strange that he was just wearing a normal old screen print tee and a hat and jeans. I guess it is a country concert! haha

After Darius Rucker sang they opened up the stage and a bunch of people got to go into the "inner circle"

Lady A!!!

hello world. This was one of the best parts of the whole concert

They all came out and sang one song together

Dancing away with my heart. This is how far away our seats were haha

We couldn't even see their full faces on the big screens haha

The concert was amazing and it was the best Valentine's day I've ever had! <3

Accident free for 365 days!

Today marks one year since this incident. I still cannot believe that this happened and I still am scared to cross in crosswalks. I actually feel much safer darting across the road when there are no cars in sight (aka jaywalking... shhh). But we sure did learn a lot from this incident and we grew a lot as a couple. His knee is still not as strong as it was before the accident and he still has to wear a brace whenever he does sports but I consider us very blessed that that is all we have to worry about.

Mike wants to celebrate by going to Sonic for dinner like we did last year. I said that he should have used crutches all day but he didn't like that idea very much so Sonic it is. Here is Mikey today. Still just as cute as ever :)

Other things as of late... Michael and his babershop chorus travelled to Tucson, AZ to sing in the Barbershop Harmony Society Midwinter Youth Chorus Festival (sheesh long name...). They worked really hard and they did well :) Here are some pictures I took using the print screen option on my computer while I was watching the webcast at home. 

More big news.. Michael got a new calling this week. Can anyone guess what it is?

Yep, that's right. Back to the single's life! We are really excited to serve in this ward and get to know all the ward members. Plus, we meet in the testing center and who wouldn't want to spend more time in there?

I love Christmas!

I haven't blogged in a while and I definitely haven't keep up with my 30 days of blogging challenge... Two more days of finals and I'll be back I promise. well.. maybe. But for now I just wanted to share this beautiful message with all of you :)

"It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes or bags! Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."

-How the Grinch Stole Christmas

May we all remember the true reason of Christmas this year. May we serve our friends, our neighbors and even those we may not like. May we remember those that need us most. Even if Santa can't make it to your house this year, Jesus Christ will always be there :)

Merry Christmas everyone! (in a weekish of course..)

Day 15 - Something I don't leave the house without.

Well there are a lot of things that I don't leave the house without.. my phone, my iPod, my keys, my clothes...

Those things are all boring though. One thing that I always try to do before I leave the house is pray and read my scriptures.

 I find that my day goes a lot better when I do. Even if I forget one of my other essentials :)

Day 14 - A TV show I'm currently addicted to.

This one is easy peasy.

This show is so funny. If you haven't watched it ever I recommend it. So I just wasted spent a lot of time watching clips trying to pick one out so you could experience the greatness but I couldn't pick just one and I have a lot to do so just take my advice and watch it :)

Day 13 - The meaning behind my blog name.

Well this is a toughy..

Don't look too deep into it. It pretty much just means what it says. I named it "Michael and Aleisha" because that's who it's about!! I am not creative in that aspect.. But I did make my picture in photoshop because I liked that picture and I thought the graffiti looked cool.. That's about all I got.

Sorry guys. Not a very exciting post for today.

Day 12: Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play.

This probably isn't the best indicator of my music choices because I hardly ever listen to my iPod AND when I got my iPod touch I had to downsize from 80 GB to 32 GB and share that with apps and whatnot so I really never did get around to putting too much music on. But I guess I did put most of my favs so here it goes.

1. Jump Then Fall - Taylor Swift (so far, so good)
2. We'll Bring the World His Truth - The RM soundtrack (not sure why that's on there... haha)
3. Let Him Heal Your Heart - From EFY but don't know the artist
4. Deeper Still - Jericho Road
5. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Glee Cast
6. Every Single Tear - Jericho Road
7. Help Me Remember - Rascal Flatts
8. Easy - Rascal Flatts
9. It's Not Supposed to Go Like That - Rascal Flatts (not sure what's going on here...)
10. Everything to Win - EFY

So let's just say that I would have probably skipped songs 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10 had I actually been listening (unless it was Sunday of course. or if I was in the mood for churchy songs) .. but oh well.

Welp, I must go study now.