Reader's Digest

So here is the short version of everything that has happened and the funny memories in our lives recently...some things will be expanded on in later posts.

Matt's first day of work at Emergency Essentials was yesterday!!

Yay for taking lunch breaks together every day!

I love our water filter!

My bro. Jimmy is engaged! Congrats!

We bought an inversion table in an effort to fix my back ... hopefully

School is over

We didn't do nearly as well as we would have liked to

Australia party with my fam (the movie mate)

Christy hiding behind the couch ... Here is some Australian _____ candy!

We started our indoor garden on Monday... I'm super excited about it

And we have a beautiful orchid that keeps blooming and it brings me joy

We spent General Conference weekend in Salt Lake ... fancy dinner at Vienna Bistro ... night in a cheap hotel ... watched conference in our hotel and spent the day window shopping ... priesthood with my fam

I love being married

Matt's wallet has been lost for about 2 or 3 weeks now (don't worry ... we know it's somewhere in our apt because we havne't had any weird charges with our credit card)

Last weekend was spent in cold but fun St. George ... Thanks Wendy and Lyle!

It's not Zion's, it's Zion National Park (I learned that one last weekend)

Matt loves our scooter

My first time golfing ever ... and Matt's first time since his mission ... 'Unbelievable' 'Just a 5'

Playing racquetball at BYU with hobbit doors

No school til September!!!

Full time ... no full time? That is the question

We are very blessed

Trying to finish thank you's and get all the addresses

Coloring easter eggs and decorating sugar cookies (pictures to come)

Lots of goals and to-dos

BBQs

Our grocery bill is the size of a 4 person family .... not joking

Our vehicles have cost us over $700 in repairs and registration the last 2 months... ugh (bye bye savings)

I love the sun

If you want a king mattress ... it's yours - just come and get it

Matt finished our wall of pictures ... I love it (picture to come)

Harry Potter marathon

Football workouts/weight lifting 4 times a week at 7 am

The little boy downstairs knocking/pounding on door for 30 min everyday wanting to play wii ... "Open the door...if you're in there, open the door!....if you're not..............oh hmm"

Work = busy

My supervisor had her baby ... which means I am officially the supervisor and figuring out how to do everything I don't know on my own

Monsters v. Aliens in 3-D (p.s. it's expensive to see a movie 3-D)

11 for $10 ... I was proud of our bargaining skills on this grocery trip

Raises are happy

My hubby is awesome

We've been married for longer than 9 months ... thank heavens we didn't have a honeymoon babt :)

Life is Good

Many more posts and pictures to come!

We're Done

School is Over!!! We are both so happy to be done with school. Neither of us did as well as we would have liked to and our finals didn't quite go according to plan but either way, it's over. We just got back from a fun cold weekend in St. George and it's back to work. 

I've got tons of blogging to do and we've got tons of goals and projects planned for the next couple months. So there's lots to do and lots of blogging to look forward to. Matt starts work at Emergency Essentials with me and lots of fun times. Can you tell I'm so happy to be done with school for now and get on with everything Matt and I have wanted to do for forever now? Stay tuned....there's much more to come!

Almost Done

Classes are over, and finals begin Friday. We're NEARLY there!I don't think I have ever been so excited for school to be over with. I really enjoyed a couple of my classes but also had to deal with one super frustrating and annoying teacher that I'm going to be thrilled about never having to see her again. We just have to make it through to next Wednesday and our summer plans can start!!!!!!

I've got lots of catching up to do on here - clear back from December!

Matt and I have a good long list of goals and plans for things we want to do this summer. (I'll post it one of these days). This will be our first summer together married...obviously. We're both going to be working at good ol' Emergency Essentials and will be able to come home from work and just enjoy our evenings together and not have to worry about school! Oh boy I can't wait!

Easter Thought

This thought was shared in Relief Society and I really liked it so I thought I would share it here. I don't remember it word for word but it's about the folded facial napkin in Christ's tomb at the time of his resurrection.

The neatly folded napkin is recognized by Mary Magdalene and then by John and then again by Simon Peter so actually walks into the tomb. All the other bedding sheets were tossed aside but the facial napkin was nicely folded where he had laid. What is the napkins significance?

In order to understand the significance you must know the relationship between the master and the servant with Hebrews at that time. The servant would set the table for dinner exactly as the Master wanted it to be. Then, after the Master came for dinner, the servant would wait patiently to the side out of the way and wait for the Master to finish. When the master finished, he would crumble his napkin and throw it on the table. The servant would immediately clear the table at the sight of the Master's crumbled napkin. However, if the Master stood up but folded his napkin it meant I'm coming back. This was the message Christ gave to the apostles when they came into the tomb and saw the neatly folded napkin. I'm coming back.

It's also the message to all of us that He's coming back. A promise of the second coming.

Happy Easter.

Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy

Burnt and Broke

I just broke my 2nd glass cup since we've been married and practically ruined one of our pots by burning peas. I guess I'm becoming a true wife. Matt is finishing the rest of dinner. :(

Another Long Update

I've got the sick so it looks like I might actually get some blogging in. Here's another catch up on what's going on...

FOOTBALL BANQUET

Was about a week and a half ago. It's kinda like football's mini version of the Oscars. 2 huge projection screens, 2 smaller tvs all showing the guy speaking as well as showing highlights of each player that is awarded something. Seniors wear tuxes and the whole shibang. It was at the Marriott - pretty good food and it was fun to see some of the friends we/I haven't seen in awhile. But....very long.

FOOTBALL

Spring Ball has officially started and Matt's got the bumps and bruises to show it. This means more practicing and full on practicing too. He gets tougher and stronger every day.

HOME LIFE

Like I said earlier, I'm a sickling today but Matt has been a true sweetheart. He did all the dishes (there was a ton) and did all the laundy including folding most of it and let me rest. The kids from downstairs come up and played Wii for about 3 hours...Matt is a lot more patient than I am and is so cute to watch play with kids. The kids are way funny to watch and play with but definitely have their dose of craziness in them. I concluded that I definitely need a couple more years for my patience to get better before we have kids of our own.

We also decided it was time to rearrange the furniture a week ago....so we did. We didn't do a whole lot cause we don't have a lot of room to do anything but we did what we could and I love the little bit of change it did for our living room.

We got a water filter and it is absolutely wonderful! I love it!

SCOOTER

The cat's out of the bag - we have a scooter! A 2003 Yamaha Zuma. We've had it for a few weeks now and Matt has loved it. We got a good deal on it and with its efficiency we calculated that it would pay for itself in a year with the money we save on gas. We've only had to pay about $2 to fill it up....that lasts 2 weeks! And it makes parking at BYU 200 times easier and faster.

GIRLS NIGHT

Last Friday I went with 4 girlies from high school for a reunion of all our good times together. Thanks Stephanie for takin pictures. Here's what came of it:

First stop: Dinner at the Pizza Factory

Stephanie, Lauren, Paula

Alyssa and Me

Back at Stephanie's house:

I think I laughed so hard I was almost crying when I saw this picture again.

It was so much fun if you couldn't tell from all the pictures.

Well I think that about does it for now atleast. We've got some fun stuff coming up in the future...hopefully this sickness will go away fast. I've been itching for a vacation but that probably won't come for awhile now that we found out the truck is going to cost us $400 to even pass safety. Anyways, that was just a random thought. Hopefully I'll be better and post more often. Toodles.