My life in pictures

Our good friend Trent decided it would be funny to fill in our "grateful" board for us a couple of Sunday's ago. Let's just say he thought he was pretty funny, and when I noticed it two days later I though it was pretty funny too.

My momma made this for us for our one year anniversary! The "H" was the cake topper on our wedding cake! I love shadow boxes, and this was just perfect. A nice little memory of our wedding. I love it!! Thanks Momma!!

Colorado has spiders. Lots of spiders. This nasty little guy made his way into my house. Not okay. Not okay at all. It sucked too (and I think this is the way it goes with all spiders) that you don't really notice it until you walk by, and then it scares the crap out of you! I jumped pretty high, and Dan was laughing. Thank goodness he was home though, so I didn't have to kill it! I was pretty determined to figure out which kind of spider it was too (weird I know) and after consulting his bug sheet, I think it was a wolf spider. Yuck!

Don't mind a picture of the bottom of my foot. I have this pretty legit Red Sox hat that my dad got me at Fenway, and it has an adjustable strap in the back. This particular strap is metal. I stepped on it. It busted my heel open. No joke. I was honestly shocked because number 1: I step on things all the time and pretty much never cut my foot; and number 2: the metal piece is so dull it wouldn't even stick in the wall if I chucked it at the wall. So I was pretty shocked. But luckily it closed up wicked fast and it hasn't gotten infected at all! Woot woot!

Poor Dan! He works so hard all week and every Sunday, without fail, we come home from Church, eat lunch, pick a movie to watch, and he passes out right about 2 pm until at least 4. Me on the other hand, I can't nap. I couldn't resist taking a picture because he just looks so cute, all tired and exhausted (don't mind my doting wife comment just now!).

 This is my fridge. It's flooded with wedding announcements. Well not really flooded, I guess it could be worse, but seriously 8 announcements is a little crazy! I texted this picture to Abbie and just laughed because there are so so many!! We had a good laugh about it. I'm sure there will be a few more added by the end of the summer, but I'm not holding my breath for it.

 I've come to the conclusion that our car rarely has problems during the school year because it only has problems during the summer when we're beating up on it and racking up the miles on it. Last summer, it was an engine mount and the A/C. This summer, it's the alternator. Luckily we have some good friends that had all the tools and after a couple of hours, we had the alternator fixed. Then the car wouldn't start. Great. Really freaking great. At this point I was pretty pissed and just wishing we would've paid the couple hundred bucks to take it in and have it fixed. Well my husband is nothing short of a genius! Thanks to his physics class at EA, he was able to figure out the problem! When they were taking out the old alternator, they hadn't taken off the positive side of the battery so the alternator was sparking. Turns out that that sparking blew out the battery fuse. 3 hrs and $3 later, the car was working again!! Yay for physics classes and for $3 battery fuses.

This is more from the hail storm last week. This was the hail that had gathered on our porch. Dime size. It was crazy!!

Cleaning

So here's my life this summer: work one week, home the next week.
I work close to or over 50 hours every week.
Let's just say that by the time that work week is over, my house is a catastrophic mess.

Today, I cleaned it up. Well the kitchen at least. I finally broke down and got some dishwasher soap. I had Dan go buy some for me, and I forgot how useful the dishwasher is. I had sink loads of dishes and stacked on the counters. Don't judge. But in 1.5 hrs, they were all clean! And while they were washing, I was able to clean all the counters and the floors! Kitchen = CLEAN! SUCCESS!

Now onto the bedroom, which may or may not happen tonight.

Oh...any good dinner recipes, shoot them my way please :] I'm getting bored of the dinner things I've made over the last year and I want to switch it up, especially now while it's just the two of us. We're not picky and we LOVE food!!

You gotta love it

...when your upstairs neighbor's baby is up all night crying. I think he finally called it quits at about 500 this morning. Oh and he's 15 months old. So it was loud.

Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep, and that's not helping much with studying for the test I'm supposed to take today. I'm thinking about just taking it Thursday, paying the $5 late fee (lame right? you don't think I pay enough to be here) and having an extra day to study.

At any rate, I don't think I'll be having children in the next 6 months at least (or like 2 years...because then I'll be graduated from nursing school!!! HOLLA!). I enjoy my sleep entirely too much. The end.

Our first REAL home

So I finally cleaned the whole house when Dan was at work on Saturday and I figured I had better take pictures of it now while it's clean.

So here's a little tour...Enjoy!

The Bedroom.

The Living Room....don't mind the somewhat empty picture frames. I haven't printed any pictures out yet.

Living Room take 2

The bathroom.

The Kitchen!! (I think if it were a tad bigger, Dan and I would never leave it!)

So that's our cute little home that we live in! We love love love it, and our ward! Seriously, we got so lucky and are so incredibly blessed to be here!

The happenin's in Texassss

So let's see...where to start where to start. Well first things first. This is my cute little apartment. Now that it actually has furniture is actually quite cute and I really love it.

This is the living room/dining room area


And this is the bedroom and our cute bedspread!! (I should probably stop calling stuff cute. I just don't think Dan would quite appreciate anything being called cute! Haha).

And seriously my FAVORITE part: the washer and dryer!! In my own apartment!! No more laundromats!

Oh and I like a total nerd took pictures of our very first homecooked meal together!!

Beef stroganoff on a baked potato with peas. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!!

And because I made a resolution to take more pictures, I decided that watching Dan shave was just super funny so I took pictures of him the whole time and tried to repress the laughter so he wouldn't cut himself, but to no avail. I laughed, but he didn't cut himself! Score!!

I think he's pretty much the cutest boy in the entire world!!! And I just love him!

So what I was really going to blog about was that I'm definitely practiced my homemaker/housewife skills today! I have been seriously missing PB&J's for the last couple of weeks that we've been in Texas because I forgot to bring some jam, and I've been so spoiled my whole life with my mom making it homemade that store bought is just nasty to me. So Jaynee, Kristi and I made homemade strawberry jam today! Let me tell you, I cannot wait till it's ready to be eaten because it already tastes good right now, so it will taste even better when it's all set up and delicious!

I'd say it's been a pretty successful day. Dan's coming home early tonight and we're making dinner together!! I'm so excited, if you couldn't tell by the exclamation points. It's date night in. Rented Country Strong to watch afterwards. Definitely excited.

OHHH and one last thing, I sent this picture to my mom and she just laughed. I just can't quite figure out why Dan's not gaining weight when I make him sandwiches like this every day. It actually makes me laugh a lot. Granted he is out walking around all day long, but still. If it was me...I'd be blowing up like a freaking balloon.

Walk me down the middle...let the whole world know you belong to me. <3