getting so close!

Brandon and I are officially registered for our LAST semester of college! WAHOOOO! We are beyond excited to finally be done. I am taking 10 credits and Brandon is taking 12 and come December we will be college graduates! We are so excited to see where life is going to take us. If I have it my way we will move somewhere much warmer than Rexburg. Today when we left the house it was 35 degrees outside. Keep in mind, it is June. That should not be happening. I am just so glad that we will be done with Rexburg in 6 months and we don't ever have to live here again!

We can't wait for December!

Apartment Fever!

I don't know if its because I'm married or what, but I absolutely hate living in an apartment! We live on the bottom floor below a family that has 2 kids. It makes it really hard for me and Brandon to do homework and to just relax. So because we are having apartment fever (mostly me) I watch HGTV all the time! You name the show and I've probably seen it. Needless to say I am getting some great ideas for our future home. I can't wait until we get settled in a place where we can actually buy a house! I'm sure I get on Brandon's nerves because I tell him that almost daily! But we only have to put up with the noise for another 6 months and then we will be leaving Rexburg and onto our next adventure.

I am actually watching House Hunters right now. (I know, I'm pretty lame!)

Brandon and I are about half-way through the semester. It hasn't been too bad of a semester so far, but I am still so ready for it to be over. I have really bad senioritis. We get to register for our last semester of college next Monday. We are so excited that we are almost done! It seems a little surreal how close we are. Brandon needs to find an internship for the Winter semester. Hopefully he will find one that he likes and they like him so we can get settled in a place fairly quickly. But only time will tell. I just hope we end up somewhere that is much much bigger than Rexburg, ID. :)

Life Update

I knew I was going to be horrible at keeping up with this thing, but I didn't think I would be this bad! Well let me update you on what we've been up to.

April:
- We went down to Utah for Brandon's brother Dennis' wedding at the beginning of April. It was really nice to get away from Rexburg even if it was just for a few days. While we were down there we got to see my sister Kamilla for a few hours. I am so glad we were able to see her since we won't see her until July now!
- I turned 22 on April 12th! Brandon spoiled me by getting me the first season of Modern Family and Just Dance. He decorated the apartment and made me a homemade cookie cake (my favorite) and he cooked steak for dinner! We were also able to Skype with my family on my birthday which I just loved! I miss them so much.
- I finished my tax internship on April 16th. It was a really good experience and I definitely learned a lot. I am so glad it is over though. I absolutely hated driving to Idaho Falls everyday and we did not like how much we were spending on gas either.
- We started a new semester on the 17th. This is mine and Brandon's second to last semester and we are so happy to be almost done! I am taking 15 credits and Brandon is taking 12. We are both working 20 hours a week at our on-campus jobs. We are so lucky to have jobs that revolve around our school schedule. It is so nice!

May:
- My baby sister Jessa turned 17! I can't believe she is almost graduated from high school. Where did the time go? Pretty soon my parents will have an empty nest. I wonder what they are going to do? :)
- Brandon's fast grad was approved! It is now official that we will both be graduating together in December! I can't wait for that day to come so we can move on to another chapter of our lives! :)
- We purchased plane tickets to visit my family in South Carolina for 2 weeks in July/August! I am so incredibly excited for our trip! I miss my family and my hometown so much! I have been out west for way too long.

I can't wait to see this again!

Besides school and work, we don't have a lot going on. The weather is starting to warm up, finally. We actually took out our fan from storage just the other day. I am so glad the weather is getting warmer, but I know I will start complaining since we live in an apartment with no air conditioning :(

We have been blissfully married for almost 9 months now! I can't believe how fast time is passing. Pretty soon we will be planning our anniversary!

Well that's it for now. Sorry that we aren't too exciting. Maybe I'll have more stories to tell once the weather stays warm!

I love my Mom!!!!

Yesterday was my Mom's birthday! She turned 29 (again!) My Mom is the best person I know. She has always been there for me and I can't thank her enough for that. I wish we lived closer to my family, but for now we are stuck in this icy tundra! We have had such great times together as a family! This picture pretty much sums up our Italy trip. I'd cuddle up with these people any day of the week!

We are planning a trip to South Carolina for the end of July and I can't wait! I miss my family so much and I wish I was there right now. I love you Mom! You are so awesome and you are going to be a wonderful grandmother one day!

On an unrelated note, Brandon and I have been married for 6 months! What a great 6 months it has been. Sometimes I look back on our wedding day and it feels forever ago, and other times it feels like it was just yesterday. I am so thankful for a temple marriage and for everyone that encouraged me to seek out a temple marriage. It has been the best decision of my life!

2012 Resolutions

I know that January is pretty much over, but I need to put my resolutions in writing that way I actually stick to them.

1. Work out! If you know me than you know that I say this all the time and never do it! I always have a good excuse. Going to school full time, working part time, and being a new wife is very busy. But right now I am off-track and only working so I need to actually stick to it this time!

2. Cook more. I am not a very good cook and I am very impatient when it comes to food (my husband is too). We need to be better at cooking and not getting a quick meal. It will save us a lot of money and I will get more practice!

3. Take more pictures. I am the worst at taking pictures of special occasions. Case in point, I have no pictures from Thanksgiving or Christmas. I want to try and get better at this so when we start having kids they will actually have baby pictures. :)

4. Grow closer with our families. It is so hard being able to talk to my family because of the time difference. By the time I am off work it is late on the East coast. And if you know my mom, you know she goes to bed really really early :).

We are so excited for this year! We will both graduate from BYU-I this December and we cannot wait for that. It will be so nice to be done and to both have our degrees. We don't know where we will end up but we know that it will be great!

We hope that 2012 will be an amazing year for everyone!

1 Year Engagement Anniversary

Yesterday was the anniversary of when Brandon asked me to become his wife. I am so lucky that he chose me to spend eternity with. It was a little weird thinking about how different things are from a year ago. Being married is a very different from being single up here at BYU-I.

The biggest thing I love about being married is not having to deal with roommates anymore! It is so great being able to have control over who comes over. It is awesome! Being married is so much better than being single. I am so blessed to be married to my best friend.

Here is the story of how he did it:

Well I was off-track last Winter and I was taking my last GE class on campus. It was FA 100 and I had to go to all sorts of different performances to fulfill the requirements. I went to this foreign French film to fulfill my first requirement for the class. It was really long and really confusing (since it was in French). It was snowing a lot once the show ended and the roads were starting to get pretty bad. I headed over to Brandon's apartment after the show ended. Brandon asked me if I wanted to walk to the gas station to get hot cocoa (we did this the first night we met). We were walking by the park (the place we first met) and I was just talking about the movie I just suffered through. I started walking ahead of Brandon and he stopped, turned me around, and pulled the ring out of his pocket. He told me that I was his best friend and that he loved me. He asked me if I would do him the honor of being his wife. I very excitedly said yes! It is history ever since :)

To celebrate our engagement anniversary we went to the gas station and got hot chocolate like we did the first night we met. It was very low key but I loved every second of it. I am so grateful for these almost 5 months of marriage.