Fortland, Pooregon

I would like to start off by apologizing to those that saw my last blog about my mustache, some people were grossed out. I hope that this blog post will be...better. 

So, because Bethany and I are still in school and working, we get really worn out, so worn out that we feel like we need to take a vacation. A preferable vacation would be Portland, Oregon because that is where all the weird people go, and we are pretty weird.

Unfortunately, vacation right now would not be reasonable, so we did the next best thing that poor married college students would do in the winter time to make it feel like we are on vacation, build a fort in one of our rooms and blow up the air mattress! 

This wasn't the most creative fort but it made Friday night seem a little bit more exciting. The first night we watched Downton Abbey and went to bed. The next day I found myself laying in the fort working on homework. Soon all my time became consumed in the fort. Bethany did not wonder where I was because she knew I disappeared in the fort. Sunday would be the day that we usually take stuff like this down because of school on Monday, but it still didn't come down. Something was magical about this fort. All of a sudden Bethany was telling me how she slept better in the fort because the blanket over our head made it darker. I was beginning to feel that the firm air mattress was more comfortable than our bed. When I did my homework in it, I would do my homework more efficiently. When I would eat,  the food tasted better. Ok the last one was a lie, but we loved this fort so much that we kept it up all week! Perhaps we just needed a week vacation or maybe we got lazy and didn't want to clean up our mess, I mean fort. Or maybe Bethany and I are just extremely weird for being in love with a simple fort, but I think that we can conclude that this fort was our best fort ever and there was something magical about it. Magical enough to be documented in a blog. 

Have a great week and go do something fun! If you have any fun ideas you want to share with us we would love to hear them! 

My Personal Stache

This is my humble story about my mustache or lack thereof. Let us start with the basics and history. I am a 23 year old man. That is about as basic as it gets. When I was in 7th grade I had friends already growing facial hair. I am sure you had some friends as well. I remember thinking they looked funny, but I was reminded not to make fun of them because once I get into high school I would have to shave as well.

High school comes around, still no facial hair. Everybody else  looks cool because they have scruff and of course all the girls like the scruffy look, but not baby faced Shawn. 

Let's fast forward, I am 19 and getting ready to go on a mission for my church. By then, everybody has facial hair. When you go and return from your 2 year mission you are to become a man.  One of the rules of my mission was to shave daily, I broke that rule everyday, because I didn't have facial hair to shave. 21 years old and I return home from my mission and I now shave my peach fuzz maybe once every 2 to 3 weeks. 

In anticipation for my beard and mustache, I do the whole shebang. I get out the shaving cream and lather my face. I then turn on the hot water and place my razor in the running water to get it wet. I then take the razor and proceed to mimic shaving my non-existent facial hair. It has almost become ritualistic, in hopes of one day having a real shaving experience.  

I am often questioned if I am some where in my teens, 14 being the lowest,

My friend and I last year decided that we wanted to do "No Shave November". I agreed to this idea, but luckily we talked about our idea in September so that I could begin a month early. I started October 1, 2013. November came around and my mustache was small. My wife encouraged me not to shave it and keep it till Christmas time because I looked manly. I finally caved due to embarrassment and it's creepy look on me and shaved it on December 30th, 2013

It really wasn't that long, this is what my mustache looked like after growing it out from October 1 to December 30th  at the age of 23 years old.

And yes the left side of my mustache grows in thicker than my right side. (your right, my left)

My wife likes facial hair but I cannot provide her with that, so to all the women who complain that their husband doesn't shave or to the men that complain about having to shave, consider yourselves lucky and be grateful for what you have.  And to my fellow baby faced friends, stay strong!

My Real Life Sleeping Beauty

About a month ago, I read an article that was popping up in my news feed about research that found that women need more sleep than men. You can read it here. After reading it, I thought "that explains EVERYTHING!"

Let me explain. If I were to look through your phone I might find a bunch of selfies taken in your bathroom mirror, or maybe a photo log of what you have had for dinner for the past year in a half. Not mine, my cell phone consists of multiple pictures of my beautiful wife....sleeping in weird places and positions. Here is my all time favorite:

We were on our way to Vegas from Idaho which is about a ten hour drive. After a few hours of driving I thought I would look over to check to see how my wife was doing, and then I saw this. I was expecting the classic, head tilted back with mouth open shot, but as you can see this is much more exciting. Curled up like a baby in a womb, with the seat belt still in place. At least she was wearing her seat belt right?

Keep in mind, if anybody gets their full eight hours of sleep it is Bethany. She is usually in bed bed by 10 or 11pm and up at 6 or 7am. But she is still always falling asleep during the day. Words can be hard to describe this phenomena of Bethany always sleeping, so here are more photos to demonstrate. I hope I don't get in trouble for this. 

SHE NEEDS HER SUN LIGHT

Accidentally woke her up

Because of this photo, one of her nicknames is baby fawn

At least in most of these pictures she is reading or doing some type of homework. I don't know if this is evidence that woman need more sleep or that homework is so boring that it puts people to sleep. Perhaps Duke can do a study on how often people fall asleep working on homework.