our life lately with pictures!

disclaimer: every single one of these pictures is from a phone because well i never carry my actual camera around with me...and why would i want to. it was a present when i turned 16 (maybe 17) and frankly farm boy's phone and even my iphone take better photos than my 6 year old camera does.

i'm trying to get better with taking pictures though, and even told myself that if it becomes a habit then i won't feel bad about buying a nice "real" camera in the future.

these are the homemade doughnuts farm boy and i made on halloween. i was skeptical if they would even turn out decent tasting, but boy was i wrong. they were amazing, especially right after they were fried and dipped in glaze! we've already decided that homemade doughnuts and apple cider will be our halloween tradition from now on! they were actually quite easy to make and so good and well worth the work you put in for them!

 

before making doughnuts (and chilli) for halloween night, we made a quick trip out utah state university's south farm and checked on the pig barn for one of farm boy's classes this semester. and of course we couldn't resist a few photo opportunities with the cute piglets!

this was farm boy's halloween date.

farm boy cleaning out the pens, so i could put fresh bedding in for the moms and babies.

piglets keeping warm in a big pile under their heat lamp.

and when the piglets get cold they like to cuddle together in the feeder...weirdos.

and one big momma who i like to believe is smiling for the camera. 

and now i realize i am way of out of order with these pictures, but we will ignore that. these are all from my the surprise date night farm boy spoiled me with after giving me flowers during work wednesday. we hit up one of my all time favorites, texas roadhouse, and as you can tell farm boy isn't a fan of pictures (that's why i just take pictures when he isn't looking usually). 

so i asked farm boy to take the above picture (which he did great with), and then he proceeds to move the camera a bunch and act like a crazy photographer...enjoy the random blurry pictures he captured.

not really sure what was going on during this picture, but i'm guessing it's his "i'm trying to eat and don't care about pictures for your blog kind of face."

we enjoyed our weekend in idaho with farm boy's family to do a little early birthday celebration for his father. and we decided to make a fun dairy cruising trip out of our saturday. we headed to a little nearby town called winder and checked out a 325 head holstein dairy owned by one of farm boy's relative. and then with all my cow excitement i decided we need to go help feed the calves at his uncles dairy right down the road from his parents' house. i was beyond excited!

it reminded me of when i was younger and had to feed the countless baby calves we had on my family dairy in indiana. i hated it when i was little, but now i would give anything to have cow interaction more often.

since his family only milks holsteins i was even more excited when i finally got to meet their new red calf heifer. it sure isn't a jersey but hey it's something different and i love her!

farm boy even put this up on facebook yesterday with the caption "I think cows make her happier than I do!" and i'm afraid to say that in that moment it's somewhat true! i miss being around cows so much!

and to finish off our weekend, we woke up sunday morning to a beautiful blanket of snow. i'm still in shock it can be time for snow already! 

fridays are always the best

i think about everyone in this universe will agree with the title of this post because we all know fridays really are the best. in the swainston household friday night means one thing...date night. date night always includes dinner out, and on the really lucky date nights we go to a movie, or some other entertainment. farm boy and i are pretty simple though and love food so eating out together is our usual date night routine. so we hit up cafe sabor in logan this past friday (which we had never been to together), and then headed home to watch a movie and relax...about thirty minutes in though i looked over and found this...

yep, this is farm boy dead asleep at 7 o clock on friday night. we had quite the friday night, didn't we?

he is probably going to kill me when he sees this. he was so deep in sleep he never even noticed me get out of bed to take pictures, go to the bathroom, and bake cookies. yeah, i was so bored just watching tv that i decided to bake some of the halloween chocolate chip cookie dough i had leftover from the night before.

(i have to give you a little background though. you see farm boy has been working his tail off with early morning work everyday, class and homework all day long, and then on top of that he is working extra hard on job hunting for when he graduates in may. this past week included a lot of everything, especially future job opportunities, so i was not surprised one bit when he was fast asleep...he deserved the break after working so hard and non stop all week long.)

don't worry though i wasn't alone all night long. he woke up around 9 and was rested and ready to go. at that point i was getting really tired, but stayed awake long enough to watch half of the movie, o brother where art thou. i hadn't seen that movie in so long and farm boy had never seen it so it was quite entertaining to see his reactions to all the different scenarios that play out for the main characters throughout the film. he was quite disturbed with the gangsta bank robber shooting up some cattle along the road.

don't worry though it's not all crazy bank robbers, so check out my favorite scene from the movie which includes the signature song, "i am a man of constant sorrow". and next time you're in the market for a movie to watch, check it out.

flowers on a cold winter day

sometimes when you're walking towards your bosses office to turn in your time card for the week, you see your husband.

and sometimes you ask him what he is doing and he gets all weird and awkward, and just tells you that one of your boss has your car keys (because you forget them in the car that morning), and he proceeds to walk away and not really say much else.

and then sometimes you walk in the bosses office to grab your keys and see this huge vase of flowers sitting there, with a lovely little card with your name on it, and you get that little school girl feeling in your heart and can't stop smiling because you are reminded yet again that you got the best husband a girl could ask for.

farm boy does sneaky things like this every once in awhile and i am still completely surprised every time. and what girl wouldn't be. i mean look at those flowers. once i picked my jaw up off the ground from shock, i got to carry these across a small corner of campus back to my office with a huge smile on my face, and realized this cold dreary autumn day in cache valley just got a whole lot brighter and happier. 

and not only did i get a surprise of flowers and a sweet note, but that sweet note included a dinner date tonight of my choosing (and dessert as well, and we all know how much i LOVE dessert), and even after dating slash being married to my handsome farm boy for over two years i am beyond excited for an impromptu date with him tonight.