Great News

I just got a letter from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, office of the First Presidency, last night. As of October 19th 2010, David and I can plan to get sealed in the Temple on our 1 year anniversary. I was so happy I cried, what great news!!!! I felt the spirit so strong after I realized what the letter said, I just know David and I were meant to be together. After my experience with David at the Temple two weeks ago I am so happy to know that I can start planning to be sealed to him. What a great blessing. Everytime I am with David I understand the importance of marriage and how absolutely great it truly can be if you follow the gospel and you pick the right person.

The New FAD for Fall

Before this weekend David and I were Idahoans. Do you like my handy work? I very skillfully removed all of our personal info so I could post them on the internet :)

Notice how happy David is in his picture, hehe, he had to renew his license in Idaho this June knowing that he would have to do it again when we moved. I guess I would be irritated as well.

Proof that we were from out of town.

I was sad to change our plates. Idaho is our home!

Saying good-bye!

The new FAD for fall? Ohio State plates! And yes I have changed the numbers on our plates so you can't stalk us BUT they do say FAD, the other kinda cool thing is that all the numbers are even which is totally me. I hate odd numbers I'm just weird like that. Along with that weirdness, when I listen to the radio if the volume goes up in numbers I have to have it end in a 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, if it doesn't I will move it until it does. I've tried to get over it but I can't.

Finishing up

May we present our Ohio State license plate.

Then we went to the BMV, no I wrote it write here in Ohio it's not the DMV. Look at our great new tickets to drive.

I'm just relieved that mine FINALLY says my married name that makes my life so much easier!

We got to the BMV on Saturday at 8:30ish am, it opens at 8 and we were done in less than an hour! Not only that but David took his test in that hour too, it was awesome there was hardly any line. After we finished up we decided to get some Big Boy/ Friches. Big Boy is the equalivilant of what used to JB's in Idaho Falls. Tasty stuff.

The Big Boy

David's doing the Big Boy pose

My turn!

Does this Match? and a Mini Project

Before David and I got married lot's of people around us were giving away things. My Grandma was moving and mentioned she would be getting rid of their couch. I IMMEDIATLY let her know that David and I didn't have one and would even be willing to pay for the one she was getting rid of. In the end that is what we got from her as a wedding gift (again THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! We love our new couch). The couch came with it's very own and very nice pillows that match but because I have previously had different furniture, I now have extra decorative couch pillows. The only problem is that David likes to pluck feathers from the pillows that go to the couch, which drives me crazy. So I decided to try out my fancy pillows with the couch. I see people do things like this in magazines all the time but I still feel like when I go out on a limb in decorating it doesn't seem to look as good. That's why I have enlisted you to tell me what you think. Can I mix a patterned couch with patterned pillows?

Now the mini project. When david and I moved we taped a lot of things together, A LOT, like everything. Well I made the mistake of taping this cute little footstool together and this is what happened...

not so cute anymore and it's a little sticky now. This really dissapointed me because it was cheap (about $10) and I use it to put remotes, blankets and some times even emergency cozy socks away right next to the couch.

See. It's a nice little storage cube and footstool. Well this was a problem so I decided to brainstorm what I could do. Ultimately David and I would like to have a BIG leather footstool that stores big blankets and looks kinda like a coffee table but for now all we have is this. So this is my idea

I am going to cover the footstool. The fabric is usually 14.99 a yard but I went in on a day that just happened to be 40% (total luck) and got a yard for 8 bucks. Initially when I was looking at the fabric to cover my mini stool I was trying to justify spending anymore then $10 on something that had only cost me $10 in the first place but this works I can handle an $18 footstool.  

Dinner and a Show

The other day when David and I sat down to dinner we looked out the window and noticed a little boy  walking up and down a railroad tie next door. He was probably about 8 or 1 years old and I assumed he was waiting for his Mother or Father to come out of the house so they could run and errand or something. David and I watched him while we ate, he was talking to himself and using his hands.We ate our whole meal and he still had not left. Then we cleaned up. After we were done cleaning he was still there talking away to nobody and walking up and down the railroad tie, it was pretty funny.

 Talking to no one and pacing, these are not good signs, haha.

It was definitely entertaining, it reminded me of my brothers when they were about that age and after seeing what David was like in his family home videos, I can picture David doing stuff like this when he was little too. Sorry the pictures are so awful but I'm sure you get the point.

Update- Ohio Style

I have been home all week and I haven't hardly posted at all! I was thinking I would try to post on here once a day and obviously that isn't happening. ANYWAYS, things are going pretty darn good for David and me so I am going to write a list of things we have been up to.

Church-
1. David and I gave a talk about two Sundays ago. That was fun I like speaking in sacrament meeting. I think David was a little irritated/ disappointed that I "volunteered" us to speak :) I just wanted to get it over with and move on. BUT because I did volunteer us and David doesn't really like speaking I took up as much time as I could, also he had a BIG test the next day so not a lot of his time went into his talk, which was about 20 min! That is pretty impressive I was proud of me.

2. We are in nursery. For me I was definitely disappointed because I haven't been in any calling BUT primary since I graduated high school so it was frustrating. However I do like it even if sometimes it makes me a little sad because the little guys in there are about Colin's age. I will have a post with some pictures of the cute-ness that goes on in Nursery soon so you will want to watch for that.

3. Next week we get to go to Sunday school and Relief Society/ Priesthood! Jailbreak, lol.

School-
1. David is doing great! Next Monday he will be taking his 4th test already. He got a high pass on his first, honors on his second and a pass on his third. It wasn't what he was hoping for but considering that is the #1 failed test for first years we are grateful that he didn't fail too. He studies lots.

2.  As for me I'm hoping to maybe go in January or some time next year. I really enjoyed the blocks I took last year and hopefully I will be able to get an associates before David finishes medical school.

Cosmetology-
1. I have a job!!
2. I have to retake every test! Uhhhhhhgggggggg, I know I have already complained about this but I'm still really irritated. The plus side is I finally received my permit in the mail yesterday and thankfully they gave me a test date as well. NOVEMBER 3rd, it's coming up FAST but I'm glad. I was afraid they would send me my permit and I would still have to register or do other things to set up a test date.

Now the trick is to figure out a way to practice boards at a local school. If that works out I will be able to get in on the little hints/ tricks to helping me pass the practical. The practical isn't really difficult, Idaho's wasn't either. The things they want you to do are easy BUT it's all the little details they focus on that make it stressful. For instance, you have to sanitize everything before and after. Sounds easy right? Wrong. It honestly becomes overwhelming because you have so many things to focus on. Last time I was so focused on my sanitation that I forgot to blend the bangs of my hair cut.... who forgets the bangs!? In reality I NEVER would have forgotten that but my mind was 100 places at once and I was being timed. My only goal is to pass this test with a better grade than the one I got on Idaho's state test. If I remember I got an 86 something on the practical and a 92 on the written so both of those should be easy to beat.

Home-
1. We love owning our own home! Or rather, we love having a home, because we most definitely have a mortgage so we don't "own" it. We got our mortgage bill the other day ($353) NO one can rent for that and have as nice as a place as we have. We do still have a Condo fee which is $100 a month but that takes care of the yard, snow shoveling, our water bill, and the upkeep on the outside of the building.

2. There have not been anymore upstairs leaky toilet situations, as soon as I say that there will be another one so knock on wood for me. Anyways we are hoping to fix up the bathroom a little this summer (hopefully that will be covered by our upstairs neighbor since it's not really our fault we got leaked on), do some wallpaper removing and painting and some simple little things to make the place feel more like ours. We LOVE it.

That's all the basic updates for now, sorry there aren't any pictures but seeing how my last post was mostly pictures I hope you can forgive me.

It's Autumn time, It's Autumn time

It's Autumn time, it's autumn time, the leaves are falling down, it's autumn time, it's autumn time, it's all around the town! This post is going to be a bunch of pretty fall pictures that I took with David yesterday. The only season I really don't care for is fall. I also don't really like Halloween that much. I can't help it I love summer the most, then winter, spring and last is Autumn. I don't like it when it gets cold, it's like I'm in denial and then when winter gets here I'm like  "Ooo snow! Yippee!" Being in Ohio has changed my mind a little because of all the beautiful tree leaves so here is a taste of Ohio's beautiful fall colors, and some of my handy photo editing; haha, jk I need a better camera if I wanted the pictures to look really good.

our feet

Leaves

 Half yellow half green

 I don't wanna take anymore pictures, can't we go inside!

I love all of the red and green

 us

Half fall half summer. I like how the trees on one side of the road are another color it's super cool.

 Us

 me

more color

less color

 Our street, if you look really close you can see our building on the left.

 Feet in Sepia

tree hugging

Big tree!

 Over exposure, kinda fun

 wow!

For cute! He does this all the time to, no wonder I love him 

kisses

 street sign

 more kisses

our pretty street

 hiding ;)

I love the yellow/ yellow-orange and brown contrast 

<3

 This is all the same tree, I thought the transition was so beautiful

 a good walk

home again