The move

"In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find someone that loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood. Ugly, pretty. Handsome, what have you. The right person is still gonna think the sun shines out your ***. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."
"Yeah. Yeah, I think I've found that person."
-Juno

That's how I've been feeling. Through the move, me being both incapacitated and sick, and everything that has gone with it, Becky has been a complete gem. I couldn't ask for a better person to do all of this with. The move was great! We had some people in the ward help, and Drew and Bethany helped a ton. I was (and I think I still am) under doctor's orders to not lift anything over 20 pounds, but what can you do? You gotta get moved. Anyway. The new apartment is great and feels much more like a home than the other place. Now we just have to finish unpacking.

Becky's parents came to visit and we had a great time. They were kind enough to get me some school clothes that don't look like they came from a thrift store. They're much more formal for my coming stages in life. It was very great of them. They also got a keyboard for us so that Becky can play music for the baby :) it was amazing. I love those two.

Anyway, that's about it. I'm exhausted from tons of work (back to school, whoo....) and sick but I'm doing well. Becky is smiling and loving life. And that's what matters.

New shoe

I'm sitting here in our apartment surrounded by boxes and unable to really see anything around me and is got me thinking about how much I am going to miss this place. Yes... I will even miss the blue carpet that was so obtrusive the day we first saw it. But you know, I think that is how it is for everyone when they first leave where they were first married.

Sure, we may be glad for more space or better location or whatever reason anyone is glad to be moving into a new place, but I will always be grateful for the memories we made here and the marriage that grew here.

But, I am looking forward to memories in the new home:
Where we'll bring our baby home for the first time.
Where we'll live next door to family.
Where we will experiment with no cable and have netflicks instead.
Where we will have a washer and dryer in our kitchen.
Where we will decorate a baby's room.

Although this whole summer wasn't planned... from the surprise pregnancy to the new jobs, to the Disneyland trip and Spokane trip in one month... we couldn't have planned a better one.

Thank you Twin Pines #103, it has been a great year.

Marriage Lesson #134

#134

When your husband is driving and a spider crawls across the dashboard infront of you.

Do not squeal and slam your foot into the dash to kill it.

He will freak out, be tense, muscles locked, white knuckle the steering wheel and generally be displeased.

Perfect Day

Yesterday was a perfect day. No way around, over or under it. Perfect.

We both slept in a little bit. I made myself a homemade egg mcmuffin for my birthday breakfast and we headed out the door to see Despicable Me and Andrew and Lissa. We laughed so hard. Every time I looked over at Jameson he was leaning into the seat next to him. It was there I determined that a good movie is one that makes you laugh joyfully, cry tenderly and walk away feeling elated (most of my favs follow this criteria).

On our way home we hit taco bell. We walked in the door and we both bolted for the bathroom. While Jameson took his turn I decided to secretly gather a blanket and turn our meal into a picnic. Cheerfully, Jameson complied. It was perfect picnicing weather. A few clouds, under the shade of two huge trees... bliss.

Then, after an afternoon nap for Jameson and an hour long chat with Jessica, one of my bestest best friends, we started to think about making Blimpies (my birthday dinner choice). I put in Live Free or Dive Hard to cook to. We watched the beginning of it (probably why they burned!).

We got ourselves up and went to the hogie/bbq my visiting teacher invited us to. We got there just as they finished eating. Perfect timing! And we played Kickball! It was so much fun! Jameson's sandal broke the first kick... so he played the whole game barefoot. We won the "toughness" award because we were (he was) in flip flops. I won the winning point :) Happy Birthday to me. Then they told us about movie in the park Mondays! So we ran over to another park and watched the beginning on Penelope. Cute flick.

See? Perfect day. It is hard to believe they are still out there sometimes, but there you have it. I just had one, so it must exist. I hope you have one soon too!

Birthday Lovin'

It is true, I want to be the one to blog about my birthday. Jameson threw an UP party for me :) First I opened presents. I got a ton of Disney movies from my loving siblings-in-law (that includes you Adam) and a "coming soon present" from Jameson. He bought a leather bound journal that is currently in India being made over to look like the "My Adventure Book" from the move UP (does my husband love me or what!) While watching UP he handed out Black Cherry IBC sodas (to make the Elle pins!), my sister-in-law made yummy bean dip and these cinna-white chocolate-pecan popcorn goodness!

After the movie we made the pins with a glue gun and safety pins. Then (in the stand-in paper Adventure books Jameson made us) we took crayons and drew our dream homes and where they'd be, left a page for cloud shape finding (it was rainy and we couldn't do it) and left the rest for future adventures. Jameson then pulled out a funfetti cake (to represent the balloons) along with sprinkles (also balloons) on which he wrote "Adventure is out there".

It was perfect.

Thank you Jameson for being so awesome and giving me the best "after the first year of marriage" birthday ever! It was more than I could have dreamed and I feel so blessed to have a husband that works so hard to give me a special day. You truly do bless every day. I love you :)

In review

It's been over a week. That's a long time. I usually wait until I have something even remotely interesting to write about before I write in this blog, but there are several times like this where it's been so long that I start grasping at straws to try and figure something out. Well, I'm still not sure what to write about, but this cycle must be broken. Today.

It has actually been a long, hard, fantastic week. Last Sunday, Becky and I prepared our lessons for third hour. I'm the elder's quorum secretary and she is the relief society secretary, making once every few months our turn to teach. Well, on the way inside church she tells me a fear of hers: getting ready to teach a lesson and finding out it is someone else's turn. Which made sense when I thought about it...you would feel pretty stupid. Naturally, when she goes inside relief society, guess what? Another teacher. All in all she was grateful as she wasn't feeling the greatest, but it is still entertaining to think about. Lest you think I'm a jerk, she feels the same way.

So my internship is officially over. Done. Complete. I turned in my keys on Friday and I'm not going back. It's a weird feeling, as I've been there five days a week since May, but it's a good feeling too. I'll get some rest now before school starts. Which is awesome. So my capstone course is officially done, and now I just have 45 credits or so left to take! Awesome.

We went to our ward campout on Friday and Saturday and it was great. The weather was beautiful! Not a cloud in sight and I forgot how many stars there are in the sky. We went up to the mountains to camp and it got cold at night which made me even more excited for the fall than I already am. Then we come down here and it's still 85 or 90 or whatever. Sigh. Oh well, it will come soon enough.

We celebrated Becky's birthday yesterday (her birthday is on Monday). I'm sure she'll want to write about it so I'll let her do so. Thank you Jessica and Adam for being kind enough to let us crash your apartment and thank you for the present! I'll get just as much enjoyment from it as Becky will. It was Disney movies to all you people now guessing.

Well, that's kind of been our week. I'm enjoying life. It's hard and tight but full of joy and love, and that's all that matters.