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.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, December 11, 2009
My man asked me on a surprise date earlier this week.
He picked me up at 5:30 and took me here:
The Mayan!I had been wanting to go here for so long! He's obviously pretty good at getting hints because every time we passed it I was sure to let him know that I wanted to go there sometime.
So this surprise dinner was the beginning of our date.
We then went here:
SLCto see the lights. It's one of my favorite things to do during Christmas time.
However, we were not able to enjoy it very much because it was SO cold. We literally stopped at every tree we liked, snapped a picture, ran into a few buildings to defrost, and left.
We cannnot wait to be done with finals, take a few weeks off from work, and go HOME! I haven't been home in SO long, and I can't wait to see my family. I hope that everyone enjoys their holiday as much as I know that I will. Merry Christmas!Monday, October 26, 2009
I'm Back.With the Best News Ever.
Hello, all you fellow bloggers. You MAY have thought that I was gone from blogging forever. I haven't blogged in more than a month now, I know. So you may be wondering what momentous event has sparked my return. WELL....
I COULD write about the Cornbelly's maze adventure we had with some friends.
Or me and Luke's day to Park City
Or the festivities we enjoyed on Luke's birthday
Or the late night Sundance ski lift ride we went on with Kev and Kel
Or our pumpkin- carving night with friends from the ward
Or our new obsession with the game "Scene it"
Or the fact that I don't have work for 3 more days.
Or the bridal shower that two lovely girls and I threw for Charlie
Or the delish enchiladas, calzones, and stuffed green bell peppers that I have made recently
Or how I've thought lately about coloring/ styling my hair in some new way (?)
Or how we climbed the Y a while ago b/c I had never done it before, and the whole way up I was wondering why I ever wanted to do it
Or how we went to the Utah Fair a while ago... the first fair I'd ever been to
Or how we bought a new (used) car
Or how good this season's Gossip Girl is
Or how I love the fact that my husband loves that show just as much as I do (he might kill me for revealing that....)
Or my first time to Outback Steakhouse, and how much it exceeded my expectations
Or tons of other things we have been up to lately.
And while these things are all very important things that have gone on recently, and while most of these things are very blog-worthy and I SHOULD have blogged about them early, and while I will blog about them in more detail in just a second, these things are NOT what originally brought me back to this good ol' blog.
THIS IS:
(Please excuse the bareness of the walls and the plainness of the bed. We been so busy decorating other parts of our apartment that we haven't quite gotten to our bedroom yet, so it's still completely bare.)Today we made the best purchase of our entire married life. We bought this incredible BED! The first few months of our marriage we were lucky enough to live in APX's apartments who provided all furniture for us. When we moved to Provo we decided to put buying a bed on the back burner for a few days until we made a few other purchases first. A kitchen table, couch, ottoman, end tables, book case, curtains, and a few other main purchases later (not to mention the multiple months that passed as well) we decided it was at last time to say goodbye to our beloved blow up mattress.
Yes, you read that right. We have been sleeping on an inflatable bed for the past little while. This is embarrassing to reveal. Very. But to tell the truth, we loved it. It was the best blow up mattress ever. Thank you, Wal Mart. It has done us well. To make this sound better if I can, this wasn't just any ordinary blow up bed. It's not like the ones you go camping with. It's legit. You don't have to blow it up with your mouth nor with a separate pump. Instead you plug it into the wall, flip a switch on the back of the bed, and it inflates itself to the desired fullness. I'm not gonna lie... as excited as I am to sleep on our new legit mattress, I am sad to see our good old blow up friend go back into the box after it has served us so well.
Ok, enough about our bed.
Luke and I at the Olympic Park.
At Cornbelly's
The group
There were some pretty amazing pumpkins...
pumpkin carving night with friends from the ward.
boy pic
This year's choice: Volcom stone pumpkin
driving to Luke's soccer game in Lindon
taking the bus from the parking lot to the ski lift
us with kevin and Kelli on me and Kel's surprise date for the boys (Sundance ski lift)
bringing out the ice cream came for Luke's bday
The Y
the view from the Y. For those of you who are wanting to climb the Y for the view, I advise you to look from the comfort of your own car at the parking lot. The view is the same. I was a little bummed about that. But climbing it is a great experience nonetheless
The big yellow slide at the fair
the fair
I thought I'd throw this in just for kicks. this is when our car broke down. we were extreeeeemely sad. duh.But while I dont have much to make up for the previous pic, this boy sure does. He's so cute... even while making this face.
I apologize for the length of this post. I figured I had to catch up sometime though.
oh ya... and I'll be sure to let you know if my sleeping improves with our NNNNNEWWWW bed. <3
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
SHOUT OUT
This one's for you, sweetie boy:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
My man is 24 today. Yep... the big 2-4. *What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good mannnn.
*reference to "Whatta Man" by Salt N Pepa
We've celebrated this day by: sleeping in an extra 15 mins this morning, resulting in a 7:30 wake-up time instead of 7:15, going to school (and he's been at work too), later opening up some presents from the wifey (namely me), enjoying a bite to eat, playing at our late-night kickball game, and later having some friends over to eat some ice cream cake. YAY. I sure do hope he's been having a good day. It stinks that we've been apart all day, and especially that neither of us are doing anything fun during that time apart. I wish it was Saturday so we could go out and do something together during the day, and make it more of a celebration, but at least tonight will be fun!
I have a lot of classes that deal with marriage and family, so lately my mind has been on me and Luke even more than before. I've been thinking a lot about how our relationship began and everything that occurred before and after we started dating. Basically, I am the luckiest girl in the world. Everything that has happened between Luke and I has been the biggest blessing, and I couldn't be any happier. I thought today, being his birthday, would be an appropriate time to say that I am the happiest I have ever been. I am so glad Luke stuck with me, and that we started dating, and that we are now happily married, and that I have an amazing, extremely handsome husband who make me laugh, smile, and happy.
PS: If you would also like to feel grateful for the people in your life, all you have to do is go see The Time Traveler's Wife.
Anyways.... a photo update is much needed, so that will be coming up soon!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
My man is 24 today. Yep... the big 2-4. *What a man, what a man, what a man, what a mighty good mannnn.
*reference to "Whatta Man" by Salt N Pepa
We've celebrated this day by: sleeping in an extra 15 mins this morning, resulting in a 7:30 wake-up time instead of 7:15, going to school (and he's been at work too), later opening up some presents from the wifey (namely me), enjoying a bite to eat, playing at our late-night kickball game, and later having some friends over to eat some ice cream cake. YAY. I sure do hope he's been having a good day. It stinks that we've been apart all day, and especially that neither of us are doing anything fun during that time apart. I wish it was Saturday so we could go out and do something together during the day, and make it more of a celebration, but at least tonight will be fun!
I have a lot of classes that deal with marriage and family, so lately my mind has been on me and Luke even more than before. I've been thinking a lot about how our relationship began and everything that occurred before and after we started dating. Basically, I am the luckiest girl in the world. Everything that has happened between Luke and I has been the biggest blessing, and I couldn't be any happier. I thought today, being his birthday, would be an appropriate time to say that I am the happiest I have ever been. I am so glad Luke stuck with me, and that we started dating, and that we are now happily married, and that I have an amazing, extremely handsome husband who make me laugh, smile, and happy.
PS: If you would also like to feel grateful for the people in your life, all you have to do is go see The Time Traveler's Wife.
Anyways.... a photo update is much needed, so that will be coming up soon!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Busy bees
Welllppp... we sure have been busy bees lately. With what, you ask? Well let me tell you:
-School is back up and running so we've moved back to Provo and we're all settled into our apartment. Well.... mostly set up. Actually we still have a long way to go. But we actually have a couch now, so our bed is no longer in our family room. What kind of bed do we have? Please don't ask because that's a little embarrassing. Oh and we now have electricity in our bedrooms. We lived the first three weeks without it. So little by little, our apartment is getting better.
- We went to Vegas for the 3 day weekend last week. Hen and Jared made the trip down from LA also so we all stayed with Luke's parents for a few nights. Talk about fun! We had a FULL lake day complete with jetskis, boating, and tubing.
After the lake we did a little BBQ action and watched BYU cream Oklahoma. What a fun weekend.
- It ended perfectly... an hour and a half away from home on our drive back our car decided to break down. Breaking down in the middle of nowhere at 10pm is always fun. We just loved it. Thank goodness for good friends who came to our rescue and picked us up. What life savers!
-Last weekend we went to the Utah State Fair! It was my first time to a fair, and I loved it. We went down a big yellow slide on potato sacks, watched the bear show and the rodeo, ate funnel cake, drank too much lemonade, and Luke even won me a stuffed animal tiger from one of the games he won! What a man.
-We've started our intramural kickball team. I know... who knew there was such a thing? I sure didn't until we enrolled. Luke is on 5 other intramurals, which keep him busy. I have found a new love for tennis. We played last night with Kevin and Kelli, and had a lot of fun. I want to play more.
- We occupy our nights with our shows (or rather MY shows): SYTYCD, ANTM, GG, and WIPEOUT which we love.
bassssically thats just about it. Busy busy busy. But loving it :)
PS: How cute is my husband?
Prettttty dang.
-School is back up and running so we've moved back to Provo and we're all settled into our apartment. Well.... mostly set up. Actually we still have a long way to go. But we actually have a couch now, so our bed is no longer in our family room. What kind of bed do we have? Please don't ask because that's a little embarrassing. Oh and we now have electricity in our bedrooms. We lived the first three weeks without it. So little by little, our apartment is getting better.
- We went to Vegas for the 3 day weekend last week. Hen and Jared made the trip down from LA also so we all stayed with Luke's parents for a few nights. Talk about fun! We had a FULL lake day complete with jetskis, boating, and tubing.
After the lake we did a little BBQ action and watched BYU cream Oklahoma. What a fun weekend.
- It ended perfectly... an hour and a half away from home on our drive back our car decided to break down. Breaking down in the middle of nowhere at 10pm is always fun. We just loved it. Thank goodness for good friends who came to our rescue and picked us up. What life savers!
-Last weekend we went to the Utah State Fair! It was my first time to a fair, and I loved it. We went down a big yellow slide on potato sacks, watched the bear show and the rodeo, ate funnel cake, drank too much lemonade, and Luke even won me a stuffed animal tiger from one of the games he won! What a man.
-We've started our intramural kickball team. I know... who knew there was such a thing? I sure didn't until we enrolled. Luke is on 5 other intramurals, which keep him busy. I have found a new love for tennis. We played last night with Kevin and Kelli, and had a lot of fun. I want to play more.
- We occupy our nights with our shows (or rather MY shows): SYTYCD, ANTM, GG, and WIPEOUT which we love.
bassssically thats just about it. Busy busy busy. But loving it :)
PS: How cute is my husband?
Prettttty dang.
Friday, August 14, 2009
1) Last Day of Work!= TODAY!
2) Magic Mt!= TOMORROW
3) Fres-yes!= TOMORROW NIGHT
4) Vegas!= MONDAY
5) Provo!= TUESDAY
6) ONE WHOLE WEEK OF AN ACTUAL SUMMER!= NEXT WEEK
I cannot wait! I never thought I would see the day that I would be counting down to get back to Fresno. But that day has actually come, and I only have one more day to count. We'll only be there for a day, but I wanted to see my family one last time before Luke and I head off to school, b/c I won't see them again until Christmas!
And I surprise myself every summer when I find that I can't wait to get back to Provo. Everyone's always so anxious to get out of that place by the end of Winter semester (mostly to escape from the dreadful weather), yet I've always found myself anxious to get back. This year will be especially exciting b/c WE'RE MARRIED! That entails:
-married ward
-married friends
-married housing
-married... just about everything.
We're excited for everything that's ahead, but especially excited for the next week or so! Bring on the fun! and a full week of no work for either of us! Summer has begun!
2) Magic Mt!= TOMORROW
3) Fres-yes!= TOMORROW NIGHT
4) Vegas!= MONDAY
5) Provo!= TUESDAY
6) ONE WHOLE WEEK OF AN ACTUAL SUMMER!= NEXT WEEK
I cannot wait! I never thought I would see the day that I would be counting down to get back to Fresno. But that day has actually come, and I only have one more day to count. We'll only be there for a day, but I wanted to see my family one last time before Luke and I head off to school, b/c I won't see them again until Christmas!
And I surprise myself every summer when I find that I can't wait to get back to Provo. Everyone's always so anxious to get out of that place by the end of Winter semester (mostly to escape from the dreadful weather), yet I've always found myself anxious to get back. This year will be especially exciting b/c WE'RE MARRIED! That entails:
-married ward
-married friends
-married housing
-married... just about everything.
We're excited for everything that's ahead, but especially excited for the next week or so! Bring on the fun! and a full week of no work for either of us! Summer has begun!
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