What a Guy

Since I am in between jobs and school I decided to give my self a project. Cleaning, re-organizing and moving the entire apartment around. Charles was great, he jumped right on in and helped me move everything.(Only teasing me a few times when I didnt like the set up and we moved it again) We started with moving the furniture in our room and living room around. That took a whole day because one we moved something I had to vacuum where it was and go through anything that was in it and de-junk. Then we super cleaned the kitchen and bathroom. We moved the fridge and stove out and to scrub behind (I dont think that the people who lived here before ever did that, there was some foriegn food objects that were pretty old. gross!) Charles was awesome! Cleaning is definitely not his favorite thing to do but each time he finished something he moved right along to the next task. I loved working with him! I am so lucky to have married such an amazing guy!
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I just found out that Charles like to eat bbq chips with cottage cheese. How strange.


So, I've decided to branch out on my cooking skills. They had whole chickens on sale the other day and I bought one. The problem is that I haven't the foggiest idea on what to do with it. There are some interesting recipes in the cookbook but seeing as I had a fabulous response with the calzone recipe hunt I thought I would throw this out there. Anyone with a really good recipe, shoot it my way! :)

Almost, but not quite

This has been the first time since being married that Charles and I haven't been together. It feels like forever. I don't know how you all do it when your husband leaves for a month or longer. Especially with kids. Luckily my sister Sarah has been pretty nice to me about it, calling me and making sure that I am ok. Her husband is in the Navy which means he is gone a lot longer than 5 days. So the time is almost up but before I get to leave and fly to California to be with family I still have lots to do. Can I get it all done before then? I hope so. Work has been crazy. Really crazy, I probably wont even get to enjoy vacation because I will be on the phone trying to fix housing problems. Oh well, only a few weeks left and then I am done! Besides, the job does have perks. I had the wonderful opportunity to eat lunch with these gentleman last week.




Elder Anderson's wife was present as well. It was awesome to meet them. We had a delicious lunch and great conversation. It is an experience I will never forget.

A little Bit of Life

With the craziness of summer there hasn't been much time for blogging. Here is a snapshot of what we have been up to...

The last day of the semester turned out to be a celebration for all of us. AFY was over so I was finally done working 60 hour weeks! Charles and Jacob had finished school and gotten some impressive grades! I decided that I wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse (pretty much my favorite restaurant, have you ever had their rolls and cinnamon honey butter?? YUM) Sarah and Jason picked him up the next day. It was sad to say goodbye, I am going to miss having family so close. (I am holding out hope that Cleo will decide to come here when she graduates!)






I applied to be the Head Resident of an on campus dorm. This basically means that I would be in charge of making sure the dorm functioned properly for 100+ girls. We would be live on campus in a two bedroom apartment, rent and utilities are paid with a $550 stipend every month. It would be a great blessing if we get the job. We had an interview a little while ago. Charles had decided when school got out that he was going to grow his hair as long as he could. I had decided to let him have fun with it but much to his dismay I drew the line and cut it for the interview.




The final Product, you would think cutting hair was torture.



We celebrated Charles birthday early since he was in California for the real deal. For dinner we had my uncle and cousins over. Later that evening we played a rousing game of Settlers. Since it was his birthday I let Charles win. :)



This is the absolutely amazing cake I made for Charles, very tasty!



Before Charles left I had a day off, we decided to go see some of the wonders of Idaho.







It was the perfect day, not to hot and sunny! We went to Mesa Falls and Hariman State Park. Idaho is definitely beautiful in its own way.

Summer has been wonderful despite all of the interesting changes that come with pregnancy and our busy schedules. We are just enjoying life!