9.9 & 9.11

We've been Married 9 months

Sept 9 we "celebrated" our 9 month anniversary

Kelly surprised me at work with flowers, a card and some purfume.

He also took my ring to be cleaned my ring gets so gross from work

On Sept 11, one year ago Kelly proposed to me.

So we went up near the Bountiful Temple where he proposed and went on a walk

We just might make it to our 1 year anniversery. :]

Weird how it goes by fast but slow at the same time.



Physics

This semester at school Kelly is taking physics and let's just say it takes up a good amount of his time.
He spends a most nights doing home work for an hour or two, or more.
 I've never been good at math so I get completely lost hearing him just talk about his class.
This is what he looks like most nights



Lately, to keep myself busy I've been trying to figure out what to do with all these peaches.
So I froze a lot and have been experimenting with the rest.
Tonight I made a really simply cobbler recipe that we both liked. 


see the recipe here
I made a few changes but overall for how simple it was it was great.

Nights when I'm not experimenting in the kitchen I try and be productive by
doing things like

• • Going running and telling myself one day ill enjoy it (never, I seriously hate it)
  • Looking up flights and travel plans for all the amazing vacations I dream about...I just try not to think about Kelly's 6 years of school left, one day having kids, buying a house eventually or any thing that costs a large amount of money while looking at all these flights.
  • Looking up new hair color trends and figuring out which of my sisters will be the guinea pig... which they love. 
  • Thinking of other things I can do with these peaches....suggestions?
  • Catching up on laundry, which may or may not include restarting the dryer 3 times to delay the fact that ill have to fold and put away it all. Sometimes folding clothes seems so pointless..but just sometimes.

Remember when...

We got our wedding video back a little while ago but I had a hard time figuring out how to upload, I guess I'm not too savvy with computers(especially Kelly's Mac)

I tried to put them in the order they go in.

On our DVD they all play together but of course uploading them I could only get them in sections.

Lake Powell

The past few summers I have taken a week and gone to Lake Powell with a few friends.

Last summer this trip didn't happen. Everyone was busy with work and a other summer activities and I was busy dating Kelly.

This year it worked out and we got to spend 6 days in the heat and sun, boating  every day.

I was extra excited because this was Kelly's first time to Lake Powell. His family never really went boating so I'm determined to get him into boating. Its one of my favorite things of summer.

tube wars: Kelly & me vs Tug & Tina

Hersh

Wake surfing, one of my favorite things

Our super cute high shorts to protect our legs tubing

driving home

Indian ruins

I love this picture

As far as make up school goes that is getting put on hold for now, Maybe until next spring when weddings get crazy again. Instead were thinking of doing something else with money.

Something inspired by these two quotes

Back to school?

For the last little while I've been thinking about going back to school and doing some continuing education in make up artistry.

We don't have a make up artist at salon I work at right now so we have to being a make up artist in for all the summer brides and bridal packages we do. At times it can be a bit hard finding someone to come in for a bride. Scheduling usually goes like this.
Bride calls wanting to schedule a day and time for hair and make up for bridals or the wedding day.

We schedule the hair no problem.
, explain we have to contact the Make  up artist, see if it will work for them and call the bride back to confirm.

Call one or more make up artists trying to find someone that can for the precise window of time..which can be hard and time consuming.

Then call the bride, confirm everything and were set for their big day.
It would be so much easier to have a in salon make up artist, and it's for this reason that I began to seriously think about going back to school.

Although the actual schooling isn't long length wise it would have me working then going to school  for a total of 12 to 13 hours per day. It's also expensive, but the tuition does include makeup and brushes which is nice. August has been an expensive month so maybe that's why I'm so hesitant.. especially having a bill from May, that i kind if forgot about,just barely show up.

I guess I have some thinking and budgeting to do.

We Moved..

...and then we moved back

at the beginning of summer Kelly and I started looking for a new place to live. Something closer to his school and my work. One of the first places we looked at seemed perfect, it was a basement apartment in Sugarhouse, about 10 to 15 mins away from everywhere we needed to be. It had a little yard and even a doggy door for Hershey. 

It seemed great. we went to an open house to view the place and talked to the girl currently living there who said she loved living there and there were no problems. We filled out an application and a few days later got in touch with the owner and we were all set to move in. 

We were both so excited to have a fresh start and have a place of our own ( we had been living in my dads house  where I have lived since I was a junior in high school) it never really felt like our own.

The day we got the keys we went to do some light cleaning to get everything nice and ready to move. I knew the place would be cleaned previous to us moving in  but there were just a few things i wanted to do for my own peace of mind.

so we walk down stairs and were greeted with these

Tons and Tons of them everywhere, crawling on the floor and flying around. It was sick.

and that began the start of my hate for the place..but i knew Kelly was really excited to live in Salt Lake so I tried to just forget about it.

We walked around the place to take inventory of any damage from the previous tenants and start to notice they cleaned nothing. The carpets were stained and dirty, the doors and walls had dirt and smudges and the toilet still had pee all over it. It was really discouraging to walk into our new home and be so grossed out and dissappointed.

We vacuumed the bugs called the landlord who had a cleaning service come and take care of the place and we didn't go back for 3 days. 

We came back with high hopes, we walk in and there are more bugs everywhere, we watch them crawl up from the floors. we spent the next 3 days taking a few hours everyday to try and clean and stop the bugs as well as scrub the bathroom tile grout which was black but should have been white.That was fun.

Everyday when I left I would try and be positive and excited for a new start but everytime we came back I was so sad and discouraged to be moving into this gross place. The day we started moving our stuff in my sister Ciec came to help me finish the nasty tile grout. I was really upset and sad to be leaving our nice house in centerville to come to this bug infested place. While we were cleaning more bugs came up through the floor, we could hear the upstairs people talking and having conversations we really didnt want to hear and I just couldnt do it. I broke down outside to Kelly telling him how much I hated this place and  how hard I tried to like it because I knew he was so excited to live in Salt Lake. We had a good deep conversation.. all while a drug bust happened across the street. 

He was really understanding and we decided to ask my dad if we could move back into his second home back  to our quiet neighborhood, nice backyard and bug free home. So were back and happy and have been having fun re doing our house and decorating to make it feel new and ours and im certainly happy to be back to having wonderful neighbors.

Red Rock Wake Park

 

 

Last weekend Red Rock Wake Park in St George had their grand opening and first competition. It was so much fun to take a little weekend and go down there. Kelly and I rode down with my dad and Michelle. It was fun to spend time with them and spend the weekend in the sun. I love summer so much, I spend the rest of the year looking forward to summer and playing out in the hot sun.

I didn't take too many pictures unfortunately but I took a few of the competition. 

This is my favorite picture

Hopefully Ill be heading there a few more times this summer and fall...maybe I'll even get good enough to do those jumps and rails...ok probably not but its still fun to watch!

Here is a sweet little video of the competition 

Red Rock Wakeboard comp

EXPERIENCE THE CABLE!