Summer 2013

I can't believe it is already August! The summer has flown by. It has been a great first summer as a married couple. My grandparents are on their mission in Arkansas so we have been living in their home for the summer. It has been nice to be able to be close to family and watch over their house. 

I start school online on August 26th at UVU. I am going to finish up my Associates before starting my Bachelors degree. We are excited to get into our new home hopefully in the next couple of weeks. We are excited to make new friends, get involved in our ward, get into our own place, and for the experiences Eric and I will have together.

It has been a fun summer spending time together before we start back up school and work. We have missed Provo so we went down there a lot.  We walked around BYU campus and saw our friends. We also spent time with family and helped people on projects in the neighborhood. The biggest task that we accomplished this summer was getting all 560 wedding thank you notes written and mailed off. Thankfully, I had written all of the ones from my bridal showers early so those ones were already done before the wedding. Eric did all of the ones from the West Virginia reception and I did all the Utah reception ones. It is a good feeling to have all of them done. Thank goodness I have a husband who was willing to help me write them all. 

My mom is great and has made me a scrapbook since the year I was born. In the top of the closet at my parents house there are 20 scrapbooks for each year of my life. They are filled with pictures, programs from dance and piano recitals, and anything else that we want to remember. She was happy that when I got married, I was going to take over my scrapbooks and start doing them for me and my own family. I started one for this year that goes from April 2013-December 2013. I have been working on it and was able to get that all caught up this summer as well. I had all of the wedding pictures from both receptions and our honeymoon pictures developed and got them in the book. When I get into my new home and can get all of my scrapbooking stuff out of the boxes, I will make them all cute. Right now they are just in sheet protectors in the book. That will be a project in the making. It is a fun hobby to scrapbook. I know our children will love to look back on all of our fun memories.  

We also have packed up everything into boxes for when we move into our new home. We were both in apartments before we got married so we had a lot of stuff. We have all of our wedding gifts and we are also taking everything from my parents house that is mine. We have a new couch and kitchen table that we are going to have to move as well. We have packed it all into boxes and are living out of a suitcase until we leave. Thank goodness my mom and sisters are down the street incase I get tired of wearing the same clothes over and over again. I told Eric that I don't even remember half of the stuff that we got for the wedding. It is going to be like Christmas morning opening up all of those boxes. 

One thing this summer that I was so glad we were here for was one of my best friends wedding. Lauren Winberg got married and is now a Tingey. She was so sweet to invite Eric and I to her wedding dinner and it was beautiful. I was so glad that we were able to share their special day with them. I am so glad that Lauren is married. We talk and can totally relate to each other about married life. It is fabulous! They are up in Logan so I miss them but Eric and I are hoping to get together with them before we leave. 

We were also here to celebrate with McCall as she graduated Alta High School and Seminary. We are so proud of her and the women she is becoming. She is headed to BYU Hawaii this Fall. She is going to have a blast at college. We have been shopping a lot for summer clothes for her to take over. She will be leaving September 4th and starting school on the 9th. I can't wait to here about all of her adventures living in Hawaii and playing on the beach everyday. 

Eric and I spent a lot of time with my sisters. They are so fun and since they were out of school, we were able to be with them. Eric and Macie love to play games and Mario together. Macie loved when mom went out of town because Eric would let her play as much Mario as she wanted. We went to the candy shop at the Grand America, rode our beach cruiser bikes around the neighborhood, and we took them to the snow cone shack. 

Eric and I went on some fun dates also. We know that the temple is going to be far away from us when we move, so we attended both the Draper and Salt Lake Temple together this summer. It has been a great summer but we are excited to get settled into our own place. It will be great!