8 questions

1. Describe the FIRST childhood memory that pops into your head upon reading this.

When I was about 7 I had a friend named Jessica Mix and she came over to my house to spend the night. It was summer so we were playing outside, we were pretending like we were Indians (ie- some kind of native with all that gathering leaves and acting like we were eating them and wearing clothes like Disney's Pocahontas etc) and we decided to make up our own language. Haha but really it was just English all jumbled, like for white man I think we decided to call him "flower" so we would act like we were in the village and then yell out "flower! Flower!" when we saw the white man, it was fun. We thought it was so cool! I guess that's what happens when you have an obsession with Pocahontas, haha, ahh... good times.

2. What was the worst date you have ever been on?

It was my junior Valentines dance. I asked a guy I thought I got along with and he acted like I loved him and would dance with other girls. He was just a brat the whole time, and for months afterwards. Stupid boys.

3. If you had to choose between a little shack made out of cardboard (we'll say this one is about 8'X8' and about 8' high), but it was built on the beach close to the incoming tides (so good luck with that) and only enough food around to eat 2 coconuts per day as well as open ulcers all over your body brought on by simple scrapes, or a really nice house but not enough money to pay for it ever and have debt collectors hounding you 24/7 and embarrassing you by chastising you in public until you paid your bills that you would never be able to pay in a million years, plus you signed a contract saying you wouldn't sell/move out of the house for another 5 years, what would you choose and why?

I would choose the big house. I want to have a big family so even though I would be going through a lot of garbage with bill collectors at least they would be comfortable. Also I've had one physical trial in my life and I hated it I couldn't do ulcers... uuuck!

4. Name something you thought you'd never do/have to do but did.

Get divorced, and give a baby up for adoption, it still boggles my mind!

5. If you could be anywhere right now where would it be and who would you be with?

With David in bed watching Eureka, or really anywhere as long as he was with me <3 
6. What is one food/meal you take pride in cooking really really well?

Hmmm I'm really not sure on this one, I don't have a lot of specific meals that I cook. It's usually just chicken or a form of protien with a vegetable for dinner.

7. For the married folk, thinking back on your wedding, what would you change and why? For the non-married folk, what is one absolute necessity for your wedding day (besides the spouse and the temple/location)?

I wish my paperwork would have gone through and David and I could have been married in the temple. It's frustrating that it was paperwork that changed our plans. Other than that eVeRyThInG was perfect.... ahhh good times.

8. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

Before I cut my hair at least 1 and 1/2 hours, since I cut it, I can do it in about 45 min. That right there proves that a good hair cut can cut your time in half!

I'll tag 8 people later :)

Flowers

 When I originally picked daffodil's as my wedding flowers, I did it to be unique, fun, and different, but the more I read about them the more I realized how completly perfect they were for me as my wedding flowers. Here are some things I learned about daffodils, then you can tell me whether it was fate that brought me to them (hehe). I highlighted the words that stoodout/ applied to me and David.

*The daffodil is the March birth flower. Daffodils have the flower meaning of rebirth, respect, regard and unrequited love. The daffodil is one of the first flowers of spring, therefore it is a symbol of rebirth. 

*The daffodil is the emblem of Wales and is worn on St David's Day (David!). For spring flowers the daffodil is one of the best bulbs to plant. As the daffodil is one of the first flowers of spring, it has the flower meaning of hope.

*Yellow is the color of joy, it stimulates creative and intellectual energy. It brings clarity to decision-making and improves concentration.

*Men usually think of yellow as a childish color, but everyone sees it as the color of gold, sun and energy. (David didn't think so he thought they were cool, like Alice in Wonderland, and went on to call them the fun trumpet-y ones)

*Yellow combines well with nearly every other color. It has a wide range of tints, bright yellow is by far the easiest color to see - yellow symbolizes summer, warmth and vitality.

*Yellow, as with most light colors, blooms earliest, so is naturally associated with spring. spring boquets frequently feature yellow and white tulips.

*Yellow daffodils symbolize unrequited love, a yellow rose stands for friendship.

*Smiling faces comes to the picture when you spot a bouquet of bright daffodils the color yellow evokes feelings of joy and lightheartedness. Also a symbol of friendship, a bouquet bursting with yellow blooms sends a message of new beginnings and happiness.

Sorry if this was boring, I just thought it was so interesting how well daffodils fit me and David!

Home

These are the long awaited pictures of our house.

 Entrance way

 View from the entrance, kitchen on the right.

 A sink full of CLEAN dishes! Yay for clean dishes!

 View of the Kitchen

 Cupboard above the microwave. Sorry I just had to post it, it took a while to organize it just right.

 Our cute little table. The clock, flowers and big picture will be set up differently one of these days but I love how it looks right now, even if I'm not crazy about the green floor and countertops.

 First thing you see when you come into the livivng room from the kitchen. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Jerry! We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our couch, it's one of the best pieces of furniture we have. Also I love the corner hutch, did I mention it was left by the previous owners... oopsy, got to love some free furniture.

 Thank you mom for the chairs :D

 Entertainment, hurray for Netflix!

 My last disaster area... it's almost done.

 Our little study area and the armoire that holds all of our extra bedding, haha and whatever else we can stuff in it.

View from down the hall.

Our cute little bathroom

Teeny leeetle sink, haha David has to lean down about two feet just to wash his hands!

Last but not least- the bedroom

The green is for Kathy! Just so you know we got the quilt from Target :)

Dressers

Our closet. Just yesterday I went through and color organized my clothes, it's been driving me crazy having them hang in no order! I've been colorizing my clothes since about 5th grade. It is a random thing I do and when we moved I thought maybe I would stop but NOPE, I was going nuts (haha as if I wasn't already right?) The end hope you liked it.

PINGREE, ID!

I bought these yesterday morning at Wal*mart, I was so excited I couldn't help but share with all of you.

 Way to go Ida-ho! It was like a little piece of home here in Ohio

I'm sure they will be the best potatoes ever

So Sweet

This is picture proof that David helps me do dishes (often!). I am so thankful for him, it's nice to know that after I've cooked, set the table or put together lunches, someone else will help with the dishes. We no longer have our Saturdays together because I'm at work but I'm always so happy when I come home and he has cleaned something. I never knew keeping a house spotless could be so easy, it turns out if both of us do a little, things stay that way! (to some that may be shocking)

Also last Saturday David helped me by hacking his way through the towers of boxes in the 2nd bedroom. This is what it looked like when he was done. I kind of wish I had a before and after, but only kind of haha because the before was awful. I'm embarrassed that these pictures are an improvement.

 walking into the room

walking out (the door is on the right)

Haha sadly this room is easily twice as clean as it was before. Go David, you are awesome. I love having a husband that is so easy to brag about :)

Hurray!!

Big Bang Theory is back!!!!

A day in the life

Wake up- 7:00 am, if we work out it's between 5:30 and 6 am so David can get finish before class starts at 8 am.
8:00 am- I go home to clean up the house a little and shower.
9:20 or 9:30- I head to work.
About 12:00- lunch, I get to call David :D
6:00ish- I get to leave work!!
6:30- make dinner :) yum
7:30- we finish dinner and start cleaning up.
8:00- we watch Eureka
9:00- teeth brushing, scripture reading, and prayers
9:30/ 10:00- bedtime
Beep beep beep
5:45 am next day... Repeat
Unless I have to close then I come home and the house doesn't get cleaned and David has to fend for himself at dinner :( I hate closing.

Post to post

This is a post to say, I really need to blog again soon! Technically we now have internet BUT we had to order a modem, thank goodness we get to pick it up today. Basically this is a post to tell you I'll keep you posted haha, get it post to post? Ahem, anyways till later.

Hamiltucky

Labor Day weekend was great! The drive South is about 20 miles less than the drive from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake, but it felt shorter, maybe because there was more to look at then just Mountains and desert? The down side is the speed limit is usually only 55-65 mph + traffic + roadwork= about the same time. I do have one thing to say though and that is people here drive soooo fast! Hah it’s almost like Utah, only I wouldn’t say the people here drive quite that fast. I averaged about 70- 80 mph depending on what pack of cars I followed, it was great my speeding took a whole 20 min off our trip. When we got there we had some Skyline!!!!

More pictures of us peeking over Skyline menus, sorry I just can't help my excitment.

Everyone says Gold Star is better but I just can't get enough Skyline!

Gold Star and Skyline are the chili equivalents of McDonalds and Burger King, they are very simular, BUT if you ask me Skyline has that little extra spice and "I'm Lovin' it" 

It's Skyline time!

When I asked for a bib the lady looked at me like "uhhh ok" haha it was great!

Moving on...

Grandpa Joe, Me, Grandma Coates

We stayed with my great grandma Coates and my Grandpa Joe (who now lives with her). I got to spend a good part of Saturday with her. Grandma, David and I went to lunch as Frisch’s (Big Boy), which Grandma loves, then when we came back David went and studied while I talked with Grandma. Other than not being able to hear very well she is sitll so sharp! It really is amazing, I’m so glad that she is still around. One funny thing was she couldn't seem to remember David's name at first and so she was calling him Jack, haha it was cute because she said "He don't look like a David to me, sometimes I just call people what I think they oughta be" such a funny little old lady.

Grandpa Joe, David, Grandma Coates

Haha it's so funny to see David next to her, she's just such a petite little lady.

On Sunday we went to visit my Grandma Snyder AKA Grandma Pink, it’s been her nickname for years and years. David has since decided to call her Grandma light red, haha he thinks he is so funny. Grandma Pink's family was having a get together at her brother's house. We told my Grandma and everyone about Grandma Coates calling David Jack, so they started to call him Jack. I don't really think David liked it haha but it was fun for one afternoon.

Waiting for food

Aunt Dede and Uncle Rick. Technically they are my great aunt and Uncle but I have a hard time remembering that. It's probably because my actual aunt and uncle are the same age as most of my cousins on my Dad's side so I think of them more like cousins. My Mom's side of the famly is a little bit younger then my Dad's.

David, Grandma, Me

Me, Aunt Dede and Grandma Pink

Us

Grandma Pink

Us!

Kisses!!

Haha David got some too! I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting that.

Movin' In

NOTHING is better then an EMPTY storage unit

Moving in took two truck loads, the truck we rented to move with was the same size as the one we drove across country in but we didn’t have 3-4 days to tightly pack everything in it. We had our friends help us hurry and load as much as we could into the U-haul last Thursday then Friday David and I loaded the last little bit and we were in! Haha after all that waiting to sleep in our own beds it was sad because Friday evening we started our journey south to visit my Mama’s family for Labor day.

This is our kitchen the door to come into the house is behind the wall the refrigerator is on (left).

This is the cabinet the sellers left, kah-ching! This is in the corner of our kitchen. Basically it's where I was standing to take the previous picture.

This is our little porch on the right side of the kitchen (across the room from that cabinet). David and I are excited for a big rainstorm so we can watch it out this window!

This is the outside of the condo. We are right in the middle so the bottom porch is ours. It would kind of suck to be on ground level because your porch is all sad and under ground.

This is the street our condo is on, you can see the building on the left.

Hobos & Bums

That’s David and I. We are going on being married for 2 months in 2 days and until next Tuesday comes around we will not have slept in the same bed for more then 7 days in a row. I’m pretty excited about that, sleeping in our own bed has been heavenly. On another subject our car that we so thoroughly cleaned out before moving is no longer sparkling clean. At least now all the garbage, extra clothes, shoes, snack foods, papers from school/ medical/ legal things are in the house. It was starting to look pretty bad. This was the day we moved so the car had a few extra things in it…. just a few. A car is not made to live in and this is proof.

Back seat

and some junk in our trunk.

Blog Changes

In order to keep my privacy level up and not have to make my blog private, I have started to follow all of you bloggers anonymously. Hopefully you all noticed I changed the address of my blog and I also changed my email address (you can get both on facebook).  Honestly I'm feeling pretty accomplished right now. I totally revamped my entire blogger admin/ authorship without loosing any posts! I didn't even think that would be possible the only thing I had to really change was how many times my profile was viewed I was all the way to 1600+ something, the changes took it back to zero (hurry everybody look at my profile 100 times haha I only need 16 people to do that jkk) and said I've only been blogging since 2010. Oh well I can live with that because I'm feeling pretty sneaky too haha. I'm hoping to make it a little more difficult for those I don't want to read my blog to get access to it. I realize that only going private will truly fix that but recently I have received more comments that weren't exactly nice, they weren't really "mean" either just unwanted. Anyways things are going well and we will most likely be in our house by late Thursday or early Friday!

This is our friends little girl, isn't she adorable? She has an older sister but big sister didn't want to let me a take a picture of her, regardless she too is a cutie. How lucky are we to have such great new friends?!