Been a long time

It's been forever since I've gotten on here! A lot has happened, obviously, but I can't really write about it right now because I'm at work so I'll just summarize. We found a spec home we liked in a neighborhood in Buckeye, and have been moved in for a little over a month now. It's been really exciting and we've been really busy putting our things away and stuff like that. We're both still working. Shane's sister Kim is getting married in less than a month. Shane's brother and his wife just bought a house, too, and are moving in next month, so we'll probably be busy for a while. I'll write more later!

Bored at home

What is his name? Shane

How long have you been together? As of tomorrow we will have been married 10 months.

How long did you date? Um, not very long.

How old is he? 22 and a half!

Who eats more? Shane, for sure! He'll eat dinner, then a sandwich, then some cereal...

Who said I love you first? Me. We were sitting on the bench outside his parents' house when I said, "I think I love you..."

Who is taller? Shane. He's almost a whole foot taller.

Who can sing better? I'm not sure either of us are very good...don't tell him I said that, though!

Who is smarter? Shane has a lot of common sense but I'm book smart. So it depends on the situation.

Who does the laundry? I do. But if he needs his uniforms washed after I've already done the rest of our laundry he'll do it. He helps me fold clothes sometimes, too.

Who pays the bills? Shane earns most of the money, but I'm the one who gets the checks in the mail...

Who sleeps on the right side? I do.

Who mows the lawn? Uh, what lawn?

Who cooks dinner? Hahaha...me, when it comes out right!

Who drives? Shane.

Who is more stubborn? Me, hands down. I've been trying not to be, though. It's not worth it most of the time.

Who kissed who first? He kissed me. It was perfect and funny at the same time. I'll never forget it!

Who asked who out first? I don't know. I just kinda showed up at his house the day he got home from his mission, but he called me the next day and asked me if I wanted to hang out some more. So I guess Shane did.

Who proposed? Shane. It was more like "Hey, here's your ring" but that was my fault because I knew he had the ring and I just wanted to see it, and once I saw it I just wanted to try it on, and once I tried it on I didn't want to take it off!

Who has more friends? Most of our friends are "our" friends.

Who is more sensitive? Me.

Who has more siblings? Shane.

Who wears the pants? Shane, but I definitely have a say in every decision we make.

Small update

I haven't updated in a while because nothing's really happened. Shane's doing good, work is work but he's staying safe and is his usual goofy self. :) I decided to drop out of my billing and coding program. It was a hard decision because I was very close to (as in, four months away from) graduating but I really, really didn't like the whole sitting-at-a-cubicle-typing-all-day thing. I honestly thought I could work on a computer and enjoy myself (I can play on MySpace and BlogSpot for hours!), but apparently not. However, I did find a dental assisting program at Phoenix College that I'm going to switch to. They use all the same classes that I've already taken (medical terminology, etc.) so I feel better knowing that everything I've accomplished so far will transfer. I just have to take Anatomy and Phisiology which I start August 28. So yeah, that's all I have to say about that.

My sister-in-law Kim and her boyfriend Ryan are now officially engaged! Their wedding is going to be November 7, in the Mesa Temple. Kim, Paige, her mom and I had an awesome girl's day a couple of weeks ago. We hung out in Mesa most of the day, trying on wedding dresses. It made me want to do my whole wedding all over again! Sometimes I miss being engaged, haha. It was so exciting! Anyway, she found the perfect dress and she's going to look so beautiful in it! And here's her ring. I made her take a picture of it because it's huge!

Congrats to her! Also, on Friday I was able to attend my first sealing (in which I was NOT the nervous bride)! Shane's cousin Nicole got married and I'm so thankful that we were invited to the ceremony. It was beautiful. Shane was able to go, too, even though he had to work later that day.

That's pretty much been it for the past few weeks! Shane was sick, now I'm sick, but other than that everything else is great!

Fire

Yesterday Shane ran to IGA really quick to get some stuff for dinner. He was gone for like, 5 minutes before he called me and told me that he was seeing a lot of smoke in the sky. I turned the TV to Channel 10 News and sure enough, there was a fire! It was a brush fire so it wasn't near any houses or businesses, but it was huge! It wasn't very far away so after dinner we jumped in the car and found a safe spot to check it out. By the way, I was dumb enough to leave without my camera so I had to use my phone. :C



This picture was taken at PIR. I felt kind of silly jut sitting there, but after a while a couple of other cars pulled up and people got out to take pictures. So we weren't alone!

We drove closer and stopped on a bridge, where a bunch of other cars were already parked, and took this video:

The last thing I saw on the news last night after we got home was that 25 homes were being evacuated just as a precaution because the wind was starting to pick up. There was smoke in the sky today but it's not as bad as last night. Hopefully they can put it out soon!

I'm a bad blogger

I haven't written in forever! A million things have happened since the last time I got on here. I turned 20 on the 12th and it was great, thanks to my awesome family and friends. We had a BBQ at my mom's on 10th, went to SunSplash with Loren and Kylie on the 11th, had dinner with them at Cici's Pizza (they had mac n cheese pizza! We will defintely be going back), and then my co-workers surprised me on Thursday with cake. We all went to Chili's after work that day, and Kim went with us. It was so much fun and they are all so hilarious. The people sitting around us were laughing!

Shane got me P.S. I Love You and said that if I am ever mean to him in this life, he's going to torture me by writing me letters after he dies. How sweet is that. ;-) Seriously, I love that movie and am happy to own it!

The past couple of weeks have been good. Just working, going to school and getting the apartment clean and organized. We've been using my parents' pool on our days off. It's nice just to relax. Also, today was our first day teaching the CTR 7 class (we used to be in Nursery). Those kids have a TON of energy but they're so much fun and they say the funniest things. I love getting to go to Opening Exercises and Singing Time and all that because I didn't do that as a kid, so it's pretty cool.

Sorry I don't have any new pictures. I take my camera everywhere but I hardly ever use it, I'm so bad. I'll try to take some soon.

Work in progress

So I found some things today at work and decided to try them at home. It's a bad picture. I don't know how many times I've crawled up there trying to fix that greenery (it still doesn't look right) and I think I took the picture too close because you can only see half of the plate. You can see it perfectly from the front door and living room which is all that matters, right? :) The cabinets go all the way down the wall, and will have some more greenery and a white sign that says "HOME." So yeah, it's a work in progress for sure.

Home sweet home

Tuesday we moved out of Shane's parents'...and back into our old apartment! That's right, the exact same one we lived in before. Pretty cool, I think. Here's Shane letting us in for the first time in six months:



It's small but cozy. Having lived here before, I'm aware of the limited cabinet space, which I pretty much filled with all our wedding gifts (we finally opened them!!). I invested in a 5-tier shelving unit for food. Originally, it was supposed to fit in our laundry room since we decided to live without a washer/dryer...BUT the ground was too unlevel. I guess it'll just stay where it is until my step-dad fixes our kitchen table. Then it will probably go back into the laundry room, where we'll either fix the shelves so they're straight or just stick a phone book or something under one of the legs:

My beautiful Monet that I can't wait to hang up:

We're getting a black end table to go between those couches, and possibly a new lamp:

And the most beautiful decoration of all...EMPTY BOXES! :)

The move went great. We had a lot of help from both sides of the family and at the end of the day on Wednesday we tried to show our appreciation by hosting a pizza party at Peter Piper Pizza! It was fun to get everyone together and hang out and EAT! Now it's my goal to get everything put away and organized by the end of the week. The clothes and shoes are pretty much the only things left, but I'm kind of stuck because I can't get the shoe rack I bought to stay together! I got it today while Shane was at work so maybe he can try when he gets home. I hope it works, though, because I can't stand just throwing my shoes in the bottom of the closet and having to dig for a pair every day.

I'll post more pictures as we hang up pictures and all that stuff. A giant thank you to everyone who helped!!