another fun weekend.

the weekend after valentine's day was a fun one for both jon and i. he decided to go camping with wes and jeno while i held down the fort. 

i spent the weekend:

staring at my cat.

eating healthy. (this is seriously healthy for me)

 and getting lost. 

katie and i did the black mountain hike. neither of us are hikers and we got confused more than once, but we made it to the top of the mountain and saw the most amazing view of san diego, mexico, and all the way up to orange county! she is a good friend. we've had our ups and downs, but the bond we formed while our guys were deployed got us through all of that. i'm already getting sentimental about who i am going to have to say goodbye to. ugh!

meanwhile, jon was doing this:

 and trying to tip his truck:

 the biggest part of the weekend was running my first 10k!!!!

my horse trainer and i ran it together. she runs half marathons all the time, so she inspired me to do this.
(we have a 5k in a couple weeks with jon as well!)

i did better than i thought and am happy about my constant pace. my goal was to finish it in 1:15 and never walk and i achieved both goals. it was so much fun and it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. all the training paid off!

 check me out! i look much cuter running now than i did five years ago. i have some work to do, maybe starting with some headphones that stay in my ears and don't scream at people as i run by. 

 after my 10k, we attended our second wedding (ever!). it was really nice! they had it at the juniper serra museum (the bride is an art historian). it was really interesting. the cocktail hour even included sparkling cider so that jon and i didn't feel left out while jeno double fisted glasses of wine. 

 

 

 we call this series "drunk jon". jeno and i were laughing really hard, but jon was not. if jon drank, this might be what he would look like doing it. 

 the best part of the wedding for me were the toasts; there were a few really good ones. the bride's older sister gave a toast and started talking about kyle (the groom who used to work with jeno and jon in the MC). she said that when paige first started dating him he was a hot bad boy, then he started to clean up and now he's just hot. she went on and on about how hot he was until the crowd and her sisters started cheering and making fun of her. this caused her to finish her toast with "okay, you guys ruined it. have a nice life." so hilarious!

 i saw this on pinterest the night we got back from the wedding and it was so perfect. we ate wayyyy too much chips and salsa at the wedding. the waitresses kept refilling our baskets and we all ate so much we got sick. 

as previously mentioned, the j's share our passion for food, so the next day we went to fudd's. they love fuddrucker's just a smidge more than we do, but we can never turn down a burger. 

lynn and jeno named their little one after jon. when she found out she was having a boy, they knew they wanted to name him trevor but didn't have a middle name. for months, jon would refer to him as trevor jon as a joke. they surprised us when he was born by giving him Trevor Jon as his official name. very cute!

the best part about seeing the j's is all the laughter that ensues, the worst part about seeing the j's is saying goodbye to them. fortunately, we have st. george to look forward to the second week of april!!!!

if you need me...

i'll be spending the weekend with this guy...

along with our bests...

at the happiest place on earth.
(following pictures taken during our trip in september 2012)

(you know, i may be off soda, but that chocolate-cherry coke is lookin mighhtty fine...)

and for your enjoyment, a silly video:

goodbye first house: living room.

our living room is the most 'finished' room in the house. it has come along way since summer 2011 and even more so since summer 2010. i can't believe how empty our house was and how small that little plant is on my desk! it is the same plant that is sitting next to the tv now.

our original brown sofa was the first piece of furniture we bought as a married couple. jon bought it for us actually and i never really liked it. looking back at it though, i kind of miss it....

i think we bought it for $350 from his friend who was getting out of the military. two years later, we sold it for $250, and bought this vintage blue sofa for $150. haha, a day in the life of the hagerman's. 

the painting above the sofa is one that my uncle don did. he said that he, my mom, and my grandma were sitting on their porch in sugar house in 1976 when a little girl went by. don had intentions to paint a picture of their house, but when he saw the little girl he asked her if she'd like a portrait done of her. she said yes and he said she sat still for a solid 45 minutes while he worked. when he was finished, he showed her the finished product. she liked it, but didn't look long. she said that her mother was waiting for her! it's a quirky little painting, but i love having it and remembering that cute story. 

see how good my plants are doing! i recently repotted them and am praying they make it through the move alright....

i got those knobs from anthropology. the red clock is the clock that used to hang in my grandma's bedroom right across from her when she sat in bed. the eagle globe and anchor is the marine symbol that my dad carved and painted for jon while he was deployed and gave it to him on the fourth of july in 2011. 

my instagram pictures made it to coffee table books. it's fun because sometimes my visitors find pictures of themselves in there!

our nate berkus tortoise shell is one of our favorite household items. for a long time after we moved in, we could not figure out what to hang on our walls besides pictures and my eyes were so bored when i'd look around the room. we love this funny little thing. 

we got that little Dalarna horse when we were in Solvang in November for Veteran's day. jon found that little shot glass that he bought from sweden while he lived there with the same little horse on it. he gave me the canvas print for our two year anniversary (cotton)! and we proudly have his associates degree displayed that he obtained in october.

here is one last photo for your viewing pleasure:

jon and alex in sweden with the dalarna horse in october 2008 after jon had finished his two year mission.

goodbye first house: entryway/half bath

we are getting ready to say goodbye to our first home together. we are so sad! it is surprising to me that we have spent all of our time married in the marine corps in one house. it is pretty typical for young marine couples to move around in the first few years. we are happy to have stayed in one place, it's made the house feel really homey. 

this mirror was a gift from john and kat. it was black, but i painted it maroon to match the rug.

we are lucky and have a really big laundry room. i will spare you the detailed photos; it is basically just a storage room for items we don't know what to do with! 

my in laws came to visit just a month after we'd moved into our house. they were taking me to a job interview when we saw a washer and dryer on the side of the road just a street over from us on base. i told them that i wanted them! the first month we were here, jon would get up really early on saturday or sunday mornings and take our laundry to the barracks and do them there for free. we had to get to my interview, so we didn't stop and look at the washer and dryer. when they picked me up, they told me they had a surprise for me. after they dropped me off for my interview, they came back to check out the items on the side of the road, but only the dryer was left! they brought it to our place immediately and hooked it all up. it totally worked!! that afternoon, they took us to the appliance store on base and bought us a washer to go with it. it was a really nice surprise and just one little example of how nice my FIL is. 

across from the bathroom (the door on the right) is the door to the one car garage (on the left, not pictured). 

the american flag hook was a DI find and is where jon hangs his cover almost every day. 

the rug is from homegoods. 

this is one of my favorite things in the house. it is a canvas print of the draper temple, where we got married. my dad gave it to me (jon and i) for christmas in 2010. it was our first married christmas, but jon was deployed to afghanistan at the time. it was a sweet reminder that although my spouse was thousands of miles away and sometimes it didn't feel like it, i was indeed a married woman and that no matter was happened, we were sealed for time and all eternity.

the picture of Christ was a wedding gift to Jon and I from his mom and the first thing we hung up when we moved in.

valentine's day, 2013.

i got valentine's day off so that jon could have my undivided attention. he's been working at an internship three days a week and he gets home two hours earlier than when he works with the marine corps. it's been awesome! that meant that we had all afternoon and evening to spend with each other! i made him a silly little card, and he got me a card and....ferrero rocher chocolates. i have never had my own package of those but i am obsessed with them and have just one left.....

can you believe this little thing!!! we went to a mall in escondito that is really nice and happens to have a pet store. we meandered in there and found this chihuahua/yorkie mix. she was so cute and shivery. 

i was taking picture after picture because none of them depicted how truly tiny that little doggie was. jon was holding her like this and she did not want him to let her go.

we went out to eat at macaroni grill. mei gave us a $35 gift card for christmas. that's more than we usually spend when we go out to dinner (tightwads), it was great! we ordered goat cheese filled peppadew peppers and mac and cheese bites with some sort of dip for appetizers. it makes my mouth water to looks at these pictures. they were different, but quite delicious. we shared an entree (usually a good way to go, it saves on money and you don't have a ton of food left over); i can't remember what it was because it wasn't that good. i've been off soda since september, but we ordered an italian soda anyway since it was a special occasion and it was very worth it.

i'm a good artist, huh? this is jon and i on our wedding day, haha!

happy belated v day, from me to you!