David and I went to the library today. David listens to books on his mp3 player while he works out at the cemetery and he wanted a new book because he's just about finished with the one he has now. While we were there, I looked at the book sale they had going on. There were so many books in this little room, I could've stayed in there forever looking through all the titles trying to figure out which ones I wanted! I love reading. It made me a little sad, looking at all those books, because I want a room like that in my house. Of course, our apartment is so small we can barely fit all the stuff we have in it as it is. I told David that I really wished we could have a library. He said we have a pretty good start! (Our bookcase is packed full of books, we might need to get another one soon) I want a room in my house just for books. I don't care if it's a huge room, just one where you can sit and read and enjoy yourself.
It's really frustrating that we are so confined by our financial situation, but I guess that means we'll just enjoy it that much more when we reach that point in life! David and I talk a lot about what kind of house we want eventually. I want a big wrap-around porch so you can put one of those swing-bench things on it and also plenty of space to plant my garden, both vegetable and flower! David wants a second story balcony so we can sit up on it and watch the sun set. And we both want a big library. I really hope that someday we get that house! But I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't get everything we wanted. It's nice to have the dream, though.
We talk a lot about things we want to do and things we want to buy. Some of it is attainable, some of it not so much. But I like thinking about it. Things we could have someday. It's really exciting when we actually get some of those things we talk about! I think that throughout our lives we're going to get those little thrills when we do or get something we've talked about for years. Maybe someday David will even get his horse! I heard a saying once that said "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." I love that! It gives me hope that, although we may not get exactly what we wanted, we'll end up with something great all the same!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Warning...Slightly Graphic Pictures...
Yesterday, David and I were both off at night so we decided it would be fun to make dinner together. I'd been craving pizza for awhile so we decided to do that. I wasn't going to be very expensive and it would be fun to do. So we found a recipe, went grocery shopping, rented a movie, and headed home. Once we got home, we decided to watch the movie even though it was about 2 in the afternoon. It's pretty easy to black out our apartment so we closed the shades, drew the curtain, and were off! About half way through the movie, we took a nap. 3 hours later and we watched the rest of it! It was really nice not to have anything else to do. That's pretty unusual for us.
So after the movie I started making the pizza dough. I let it rise for the time it said, and after that I grabbed David so he could help me stretch out the dough. I told David we had to divide the dough in half so we could make 2 smaller pizza's. He got really excited because it was the perfect chance to use the ulu David's aunt gave us for a wedding present. We don't use it all that often but it's nice when we do use it because it's so sharp. So I turn around while David's cleaning off the ulu with a rag when I hear David yell out. I turn around to see the rag on the floor, the ulu thrown in the sink, and David's hand dripping with blood. While he was cleaning the ulu off, it cut through the rag and right through his finger. Well, not all the way through, but enough to see the fat. So pizza making was put off for a little bit while I drove David to the doctor. We got there 15 minutes before they closed which I was really glad for because it was a lot less expensive to go there than the hospital. Here's a slightly graphic shot I took of the cut while at the doctor:
And David being gross while waiting for the stitches.
He ended up getting 4 stitches. They gave him quite a bit of numbing medication and all night he kept updating me on how much more of his finger he could feel. Since it's his right hand he has more trouble doing things like writing, getting dressed, or washing his hair but the really fun thing is going to be how he is going to play his cello (right where he cut his finger is where he puts most of the pressure while holding his bow) and working out at the cemetery where he shovels dirt and lays down sod. Not too fun...
So after that hour long hiatus, we got back to making the pizza! It was actually really good! Here are a few shots of the night:
So even though we had David's little accident, I think the night turned out pretty good. I'm glad we were able to laugh through pretty much all of it. And I'm also glad the night was ruined and we could still enjoy a good meal together!
So after the movie I started making the pizza dough. I let it rise for the time it said, and after that I grabbed David so he could help me stretch out the dough. I told David we had to divide the dough in half so we could make 2 smaller pizza's. He got really excited because it was the perfect chance to use the ulu David's aunt gave us for a wedding present. We don't use it all that often but it's nice when we do use it because it's so sharp. So I turn around while David's cleaning off the ulu with a rag when I hear David yell out. I turn around to see the rag on the floor, the ulu thrown in the sink, and David's hand dripping with blood. While he was cleaning the ulu off, it cut through the rag and right through his finger. Well, not all the way through, but enough to see the fat. So pizza making was put off for a little bit while I drove David to the doctor. We got there 15 minutes before they closed which I was really glad for because it was a lot less expensive to go there than the hospital. Here's a slightly graphic shot I took of the cut while at the doctor:
And David being gross while waiting for the stitches.
He ended up getting 4 stitches. They gave him quite a bit of numbing medication and all night he kept updating me on how much more of his finger he could feel. Since it's his right hand he has more trouble doing things like writing, getting dressed, or washing his hair but the really fun thing is going to be how he is going to play his cello (right where he cut his finger is where he puts most of the pressure while holding his bow) and working out at the cemetery where he shovels dirt and lays down sod. Not too fun...
So after that hour long hiatus, we got back to making the pizza! It was actually really good! Here are a few shots of the night:
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| We were trying to take the picture of ourselves with us and the pizza...so that's why we are laying on the table.... |
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| It tasted pretty good! |
Sunday, May 13, 2012
My Mama
With today being Mothers Day, I thought it would be an excellent time to write a post about my mother. I know this may be a little cliche', but I am pretty sure I have the best mother around! My mom has been there for me through everything. She was there to hear all my silly problems when I was in Middle School, there through all the drama that comes from being in high school, and now she's there to help me with all my homemaking problems. I've learned so much from her. I saw her work hard at various jobs so that our family could make it through the thin times. She taught me piano and was very patient when she knew I didn't practice... Any kind of craft you can think of, she is probably amazing at it! Or at least could figure it out in no time. She taught me to crochet, to paint, to see with an artists eye, helped me with ceramics, taught me how to garden even when you have the most stubborn dirt on the planet. Almost every question I bring to her, she has some sort of answer no matter what the subject matter is. She is so persistent with her education. She has taught me how to love my education. Not just to take classes because that's what it takes to get a degree, but to take classes to learn! She's also taught me how to be willing to try new things. Like taking a bee keeping class, or buying some chickens, going sledding like a little kid (even if no one is watching because you sneaked off on your own), and tromping through graveyards! (not weird, but for family history! Here's her blog if you want to read some interesting stories!)
Last November I got a chance to go on a trip with my mama. I'm so glad I had the chance to do that because now that I'm married I don't get a lot of chances to spend time with just me and her. We went to San Francisco with the school for a class. We went to all sorts of different museums and did so many fun things, I'm so glad I got to go on that trip and do things that we both love! I had so much fun and realize I probably won't be able to do stuff like that after David graduates and after we start having kids, but then I can just have new adventures with my mama! Me and her are so alike. She tends to understand me better than almost anyone else. She usually knows just what to say to make me feel better. She's always been that person I could rely on no matter what. I'm going to miss her a lot when we move next year. But I hope that she'll still want to come see us wherever we are because our door is always open!
I love you, Mama. Happy Mothers Day!
Last November I got a chance to go on a trip with my mama. I'm so glad I had the chance to do that because now that I'm married I don't get a lot of chances to spend time with just me and her. We went to San Francisco with the school for a class. We went to all sorts of different museums and did so many fun things, I'm so glad I got to go on that trip and do things that we both love! I had so much fun and realize I probably won't be able to do stuff like that after David graduates and after we start having kids, but then I can just have new adventures with my mama! Me and her are so alike. She tends to understand me better than almost anyone else. She usually knows just what to say to make me feel better. She's always been that person I could rely on no matter what. I'm going to miss her a lot when we move next year. But I hope that she'll still want to come see us wherever we are because our door is always open!
I love you, Mama. Happy Mothers Day!
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| Explaining to me how the curls on the beard were made. |
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| Being ridic.... |
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| Her favorite painter! Georgia O'Keeffe! |
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| She is an amazing Grandmother! I'm so happy my kids will get to have her in their lives! |
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| My parents. They aren't perfect, but I'm glad I have them! |
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Post-Wedding
Ok, so after we got married, we basically just went on our honeymoon. We didn't have the reception till 3 weeks later and it was on Memorial Day weekend so not many people were able to make it, but it was still wonderful! My mom did such an amazing job! So I have to tell you a few stories of our honeymoon because it was...interesting. The first night we stayed in Butte, Montana at a pretty awesome hotel! It was a super old motel, probably built in the 20's. The ceilings were all very high (which I love because sometimes I get a little claustrophobic), there were huge pillars everywhere (also very cool) and the thing that really tipped the scale was a huge ballroom they had. I wish I would've taken pictures of it! It was beautiful and I told David I wished we had something like that in Rexburg for special events. We both just really liked the feel of it. We were going to go back there for our 1 year anniversary, but we can't really afford it right at the moment. Maybe at the end of the summer!
The next night was....different. We drove up to Coeur d'Alene and tried to find what we thought was going to be a good hotel. A little back story on that. We didn't have a lot of money to spend on our honeymoon so we were looking up all sorts of hotels and most of them were out of our price range. Then we found one that was in our price range and it got really good reviews. We even looked at a few different sites to make sure it was a good deal. Everyone on there said it was a fantastic place to stay! So we booked it. Fast forward to a few weeks later when we pulled up to the place, and even on the outside it looked fine. Then we step inside. The first thing we noticed was the wall of smoke that hit our faces. They had a smoking floor and a non-smoking floor, but the smoking floor just happened to be underneath the non-smoking floor so all the smoke just came up anyways.
You could tell everything was just super run-down. And that people that stayed there just trashed everything. The front desk attendant wasn't the nicest, but eventually we found our luxurious honeymoon suite! Right across the hall from the construction guys that were living there while finishing a job. These guys liked to get drunk every night and come back to the hotel trying to make as much noise as they could. Yay!
We tried to make the best of our situation and just have fun. We drove around a lot and looked at all the huge houses around the lake (one of our favorite things to do is just go on drives), we went on a nature hike in our flip-flops (not the funnest...) and then we walked around the mall there. That was when we found the 2 coolest stores ever! The first one had all sorts of weird, cool things. I remember my mom telling me that her aunt (?) wanted to open a store that sold all sort of little trinkets and the store would be called "Marvelous Junk". That's basically what this store was! While we were there I bought my grandma a little bottle of fairy dust for her birthday. It was fun! The second store was the coolest toy store. There were all these wooden toys that made lots of noise and the bathroom had glow in the dark stars on the ceiling! We had a lot of fun playing in there.
I had my birthday while we were up there and David did a very good job about making it fun! He took me to IHOP (which I had only been there once before) and then later that night we had the best meal I'd ever eaten. We went to a little, locally owned Greek restaurant. We ordered lamb and some type of ravioli dish. We were both in heaven! I'm normally not one to get all excited about salads, but it was the best salad I'd ever eaten. We even bought a container of the dressing so we could have it at home! My birthday is on Cinco De Mayo, and there is actually quite a big population of Hispanics up there. While we were at dinner, the only parking place we could find was in front of this hispanic club celebrating Cinco De Mayo. When we parked, there were a bunch of guys standing on the sidewalk standing next to our car drinking and smoking. They looked a little...rough around the edges and I honestly thought we would come back with our car keyed or something like that. But nothing happened and it all went fine!
So there were a few things that happened at the hotel that we still laugh at. The first one is a lady that was ALWAYS sitting outside the door that led to the parking lot. Every time she saw us she would ask us if we wanted a smoke or if we wanted to go with her to the casino that night. We politely refused, but she kept asking. Then there was the time we were getting back to the hotel. We were sitting in the car when I look over and some guy is standing outside the passenger door, and I couldn't see what he was doing, but some sort of fur or cloth or something fuzzy kept falling at his feet. I turned to David and asked "Is he skinning an animal? In his car? In the parking lot?"... which to this day I'm about 80% sure he was. Then the last night we were there, I thought my life was going to end. We got to our room at about 8pm. An hour or so later, we hear the guys across from us getting back. There were a few girls with them because I could hear them laughing. As the minutes went by, we could hear their voices getting louder and louder until the guys were yelling at each other, the girls were screaming, and David and I were praying no one would pull a gun. A fist fight started, more screaming, and we hid in the bed, still praying no one would pull a gun. We could hear the cops show up and they were all talking and yelling for an hour or so after that. And then we came home! Yay! Needless to say it was exciting!
Life's pretty good now and we're just hoping that we can always look back on awkward times like that and just laugh about it. Here's looking to many more years to come!
The next night was....different. We drove up to Coeur d'Alene and tried to find what we thought was going to be a good hotel. A little back story on that. We didn't have a lot of money to spend on our honeymoon so we were looking up all sorts of hotels and most of them were out of our price range. Then we found one that was in our price range and it got really good reviews. We even looked at a few different sites to make sure it was a good deal. Everyone on there said it was a fantastic place to stay! So we booked it. Fast forward to a few weeks later when we pulled up to the place, and even on the outside it looked fine. Then we step inside. The first thing we noticed was the wall of smoke that hit our faces. They had a smoking floor and a non-smoking floor, but the smoking floor just happened to be underneath the non-smoking floor so all the smoke just came up anyways.
You could tell everything was just super run-down. And that people that stayed there just trashed everything. The front desk attendant wasn't the nicest, but eventually we found our luxurious honeymoon suite! Right across the hall from the construction guys that were living there while finishing a job. These guys liked to get drunk every night and come back to the hotel trying to make as much noise as they could. Yay!
We tried to make the best of our situation and just have fun. We drove around a lot and looked at all the huge houses around the lake (one of our favorite things to do is just go on drives), we went on a nature hike in our flip-flops (not the funnest...) and then we walked around the mall there. That was when we found the 2 coolest stores ever! The first one had all sorts of weird, cool things. I remember my mom telling me that her aunt (?) wanted to open a store that sold all sort of little trinkets and the store would be called "Marvelous Junk". That's basically what this store was! While we were there I bought my grandma a little bottle of fairy dust for her birthday. It was fun! The second store was the coolest toy store. There were all these wooden toys that made lots of noise and the bathroom had glow in the dark stars on the ceiling! We had a lot of fun playing in there.
I had my birthday while we were up there and David did a very good job about making it fun! He took me to IHOP (which I had only been there once before) and then later that night we had the best meal I'd ever eaten. We went to a little, locally owned Greek restaurant. We ordered lamb and some type of ravioli dish. We were both in heaven! I'm normally not one to get all excited about salads, but it was the best salad I'd ever eaten. We even bought a container of the dressing so we could have it at home! My birthday is on Cinco De Mayo, and there is actually quite a big population of Hispanics up there. While we were at dinner, the only parking place we could find was in front of this hispanic club celebrating Cinco De Mayo. When we parked, there were a bunch of guys standing on the sidewalk standing next to our car drinking and smoking. They looked a little...rough around the edges and I honestly thought we would come back with our car keyed or something like that. But nothing happened and it all went fine!
So there were a few things that happened at the hotel that we still laugh at. The first one is a lady that was ALWAYS sitting outside the door that led to the parking lot. Every time she saw us she would ask us if we wanted a smoke or if we wanted to go with her to the casino that night. We politely refused, but she kept asking. Then there was the time we were getting back to the hotel. We were sitting in the car when I look over and some guy is standing outside the passenger door, and I couldn't see what he was doing, but some sort of fur or cloth or something fuzzy kept falling at his feet. I turned to David and asked "Is he skinning an animal? In his car? In the parking lot?"... which to this day I'm about 80% sure he was. Then the last night we were there, I thought my life was going to end. We got to our room at about 8pm. An hour or so later, we hear the guys across from us getting back. There were a few girls with them because I could hear them laughing. As the minutes went by, we could hear their voices getting louder and louder until the guys were yelling at each other, the girls were screaming, and David and I were praying no one would pull a gun. A fist fight started, more screaming, and we hid in the bed, still praying no one would pull a gun. We could hear the cops show up and they were all talking and yelling for an hour or so after that. And then we came home! Yay! Needless to say it was exciting!
Life's pretty good now and we're just hoping that we can always look back on awkward times like that and just laugh about it. Here's looking to many more years to come!
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| Props for our Photo Booth! |
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| The Photo Booth! It was a lot of fun! |
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| Paul, Alyssa, and Paul's mom really helped us out that night. |
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| Thank you so much for coming! |
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| I really loved my cake. |
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| I got you, Babe. |
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
1 Year, Baby!!!
Joni's going to be mad because I posted right after her and that makes me the favorite, but I really have been meaning to post this all week. I just have some extra motivation now! Sorry Joni. But you're going to Hawaii so I don't really feel that bad.
So I posted about our pre-dating experience, and our dating/engagement, so now comes the big day! After school got out in April, David moved into our apartment because he didn't have anywhere else to stay and we couldn't find an apartment that would be open in May (because the semester ended and began in April so that's when everyone was moving in and out). We were so excited to move into our apartment! Something that would be ours and we wouldn't have to have a chaperone everywhere we went! That was until we started moving in. We moved in in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day, so everyone else was busy with school, work, etc. So David and I pretty much moved all of our junk (and we had A LOT) up 3 flights of stairs! I thought I was going to die after that day. My arms were so tired and I didn't think I could get my legs up any more stairs. I have the stamina now because I climb up and down those stairs all day, but not then. My parents did let us use their Explorer so we wouldn't have to make as many trips to and from our other apartments, but it was still a big hassle. I'm not looking forward to moving out...but maybe since you guys have some notice...you can all mark your calenders now!
The day before the wedding, most people say they start freaking out and there's so much to do...I didn't really feel that. We had to plan stuff out, sure, but it was pretty calm. I was just so happy to finally be married! The day of the wedding I got up at about 8, had some breakfast, went and got my hair done, and went home to get everything ready for the temple. I made my way up there and had my mom and sisters help me into my dress. I was excited, but not too stressed! That's because I didn't know what was going on with the groom. David was supposed to go down to Rigby to pick up our flowers right when they opened at 9. He went down there, told them he was there to pick up the flowers, and all he got was a blank stare. The lady thought the wedding was the next day! David started getting a little worried and called my mom who said for them NOT to tell me, a decision I agree with to this day. The lady said they would hurry and get the flowers ready and deliver them to the temple for us. The flowers were there after the sealing (to David's suprise and delight!) and all was well! And I really loved my flowers. I thought they were gorgeous.
During the ceremony, you always hear about the bride starting to cry and the man is just smiling and happy. I probably started to cry, but David was entertaining my family with his dancing feet! I guess during the whole thing, his feet were bouncing up and down fairly vigorously. They all said they wanted to get a video of it! I wish they would have because then I could have seen it!
That day was amazing. My brother made a special trip up from New Mexico and missed his own graduation from his Masters program so that he could be at both mine and my sisters wedding. It really meant a lot to me to have my whole family there in the sealing room. And it was also a special sealing because David's grandpa performed the sealing for us.
The weather outside wasn't ideal...just ask Joy! It was a typical Idaho day with huge wind gusts! I like the second picture because that was the one picture David wasn't hold my veil down, and you can see what happened!
After this we went to our luncheon in the Manwaring Center. It was super awkward walking through there in my wedding dress, but the food was amazing! And after that we left for our honeymoon! Which is a completely new story that I will tell next time. I know I probably should've posted this tomorrow, but I don't really want to be writing up this huge long post then, I want to enjoy the day! Here are a few picture of day.
So I posted about our pre-dating experience, and our dating/engagement, so now comes the big day! After school got out in April, David moved into our apartment because he didn't have anywhere else to stay and we couldn't find an apartment that would be open in May (because the semester ended and began in April so that's when everyone was moving in and out). We were so excited to move into our apartment! Something that would be ours and we wouldn't have to have a chaperone everywhere we went! That was until we started moving in. We moved in in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day, so everyone else was busy with school, work, etc. So David and I pretty much moved all of our junk (and we had A LOT) up 3 flights of stairs! I thought I was going to die after that day. My arms were so tired and I didn't think I could get my legs up any more stairs. I have the stamina now because I climb up and down those stairs all day, but not then. My parents did let us use their Explorer so we wouldn't have to make as many trips to and from our other apartments, but it was still a big hassle. I'm not looking forward to moving out...but maybe since you guys have some notice...you can all mark your calenders now!
The day before the wedding, most people say they start freaking out and there's so much to do...I didn't really feel that. We had to plan stuff out, sure, but it was pretty calm. I was just so happy to finally be married! The day of the wedding I got up at about 8, had some breakfast, went and got my hair done, and went home to get everything ready for the temple. I made my way up there and had my mom and sisters help me into my dress. I was excited, but not too stressed! That's because I didn't know what was going on with the groom. David was supposed to go down to Rigby to pick up our flowers right when they opened at 9. He went down there, told them he was there to pick up the flowers, and all he got was a blank stare. The lady thought the wedding was the next day! David started getting a little worried and called my mom who said for them NOT to tell me, a decision I agree with to this day. The lady said they would hurry and get the flowers ready and deliver them to the temple for us. The flowers were there after the sealing (to David's suprise and delight!) and all was well! And I really loved my flowers. I thought they were gorgeous.
During the ceremony, you always hear about the bride starting to cry and the man is just smiling and happy. I probably started to cry, but David was entertaining my family with his dancing feet! I guess during the whole thing, his feet were bouncing up and down fairly vigorously. They all said they wanted to get a video of it! I wish they would have because then I could have seen it!
That day was amazing. My brother made a special trip up from New Mexico and missed his own graduation from his Masters program so that he could be at both mine and my sisters wedding. It really meant a lot to me to have my whole family there in the sealing room. And it was also a special sealing because David's grandpa performed the sealing for us.
The weather outside wasn't ideal...just ask Joy! It was a typical Idaho day with huge wind gusts! I like the second picture because that was the one picture David wasn't hold my veil down, and you can see what happened!
After this we went to our luncheon in the Manwaring Center. It was super awkward walking through there in my wedding dress, but the food was amazing! And after that we left for our honeymoon! Which is a completely new story that I will tell next time. I know I probably should've posted this tomorrow, but I don't really want to be writing up this huge long post then, I want to enjoy the day! Here are a few picture of day.
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| My family! (minus Chade...) Nathan and Zach were a lot happier at Joni's wedding. But I'm so happy they all could make it! |
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| David's Familia! We sure did miss the rest of you! |
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