I just heard Luke say, "This is like the real military!!" and "Where'd you go? I'm so lost without you, baby" and then began singing "I'm all out of love. I'm so lost without you" to Nate while playing Modern Warfare. Haha. I love listening in to them while they play. They have absolutely no idea what they're saying because they're so focused. So funny.

The Place We Call Home.

This post is mainly for my sister, and any other bloggers who may be interested in the apartment Luke and I call "home".


We'll start with the kitchen:

That door is our back door and leads to the parking lot.






This is the other side of the kitchen going into the family room. The wall on the right is my "holiday wall" and obviously I haven't really done much for with Valentine's Day yet. But I DID make that heart wreath.

Family room:

Other side of the family room from the couch:
(On the right is our front door )


Office:



Bathroom:
(Okay so our bathroom isnt' really that great and it was hard to get a picture of the whole thing, so I just took a pic of the toilet to show the pom pom flower balls I made :) )
And... our bedroom is still pretty bare, so I thought I'd just show the newer additions. Thank you, IKEA for providing us with a great dresser. And thank you, Tai Pan for having a $130 mirror on sale for $35 :)

And here's a picture frame I made that is going in our bathroom as soon as I find a pic to go in it. I thought it'd be weird to have pictures of me and Luke in our bathroom so I'm trying to think of something else I can put in it....?



Anyways.. that's a tour of our little place. We love it. It's been fun decorating and experimenting on our first place. In fact, Luke had a surprise date for me the other day when I came home from work. He took me out to lunch and then we went shopping for things around the house. I love that he loves it just as much as I do. We both cannot wait, though, to have our own HOUSE that we can do absolutely anything with (basically PAINT!)

A brief overview of our lives:
-We had SUCH a fun Christmas break, and were able to visit both our families.
-We were able to be at Baby Kai's blessing.
-I went snowboarding for the first time. It was an interesting experience. I struggled even getting UP the bunny slope (I couldn't even hold on to the rope that takes you up the hill), my dad broke his collar bone within the first 20 minutes of our first run and had to walk the whole way down the mountain. I was scared to death and had Luke hold my waist the whole way down. Mason hurt his knee, and we lost Emerson. I must say that I'm glad I went and actually gave it a try. For all you snowboarders out there: I admire you so much. Snowboarding's hard.
-We had our annual hockey game in our cul-de-sac
-Us kids made our annual Christmas video and were able to add Jared and Luke into the great fun.
-We had a 2nd Christmas at the Stephensons. They were very generous and we got some fun things from them.

-We spent our first New Years together as a married couple at the Stephenson's playing games and watching the ball drop. We had a lot of fun!

-The Stephensons came up to Provo for a day. Most of them went snowboarding while Mom, me, and Tori had a girls' day and played games, watched movies and ANTM marathon all day.

Now we're back in school. I LOVE my classes. I'm finally getting into stuff that I enjoy.
Luke likes his classes and is now a TA for one of them.
We're both busy busy as always, but we're loving it.
One thing that we're enjoying is being hooked on ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.
Thank goodness for some friends of ours who lent us the first season. We've watched most of it already.

And one last thing: I miss the beach, and I miss being tan, hence the background change to palm trees even though it's the middle of winter.