Five Things I Love About You

We have only been married for a short time. Yes. In this time, we have found things that we never knew before. As did most of you. Here are five of mine, and five of Troy's. We still love each other though. We just like rubbing them in.

Five things I love about Troy:

1- never puts groceries all the way away. He will pull them out of the grocery bags, place them on a different cupboard, but never, never do they go in the correct places.

2- he is a blanket hogger. He claims that he is in fact a "sheet hogger." I do not appreciate this, because in fact he leaves me more than enough of the top sheet. He steals the blanket part, and leaves me the sheet. It's like eating all the marshmallows out of Marshmallow Mateys, and leaving me the crusty brown anchor parts.

3- I love that Troy does the dishes. Love it, because I hate them. However, he tends to splash. A lot. All over the cupboards, and he doesn't really seem to mind, so nothing ever gets wiped up after. One too many of my things have found his little leftover puddles. But, at least I didn't have to do the dishes.

4- he forgets where things are. It's actually quite entertaining. I will ask him to get me something, and say that something is in the thing in our closet. Thing = the only non-clothing, non-shoe item in our closet, which holds a lot of junk. He will go into three different rooms searching for this such "thing" (even though I refer to it daily) it's hilarious to watch.

5- like the dishes puddles, Troy tends to leave little piles of things all over the house. I will walk from our room to the living room, and find that Troy has managed to round up a bunch of unknown receipts and garbage and stick them on shelves. After eliminating this said pile, I will walk back into the bedroom to find yet another on the dresser. It's like a magic trick. The never ending supply of receipts and junk in his pockets. It's amazing.

Five things I love about Whit:

Ok, these are in no particular order, just as I remember them.

1- first, in my defense to Whits #4, she has things throughout the apartment in the weirdest places. how is one expected to remember where everything goes?

2- Whit has a new obsession with crafts. Maybe she always has, but I never saw it in our year of pre-married life. Anyway, when we moved in she had these projects in her mind, and everything else gets put on hold until we got it done, including making multiple trips to Hobby Lobby/Wal-Mart/Michaels or whatever else kind of craft store Logan has to offer. But, she is good at what she does, and I have learned to like the craft stores, they are full of the weirdest things, its great. (Code 7 to register 3, code 7!!)

3-If you walk into our apartment, you will never find any door to any room/bathroom/closet that is open. This was extremely hard to get used to at first because I could care less about whether or not any doors are open. At first I almost would run right into the door because I was expecting it to be open. And nothing can be done until the door is indeed shut, even if I'm in bed. But I'm used to it now.

4- Late night ice cream runs to Cold Stone, or Twizl Berry (a self-service frozen yogurt place we are in love with) while we are in the middle of watching a movie, or the latest episode of any of our TV series that we get addicted to (currently in the middle of 24 season 1 fyi) in frigid Logan weather nonetheless. But I have discovered all the good ice cream combinations from this.

5- I go to wear some of my clothes, whether it be a pair of shorts, or sweats, or a t-shirt and I turn to find that the reason I can't find them is because Whit is already wearing them, or she has put them in her drawers and claimed them as her own. (She is wearing them now.)

MTV Cribs

All week long I have battling with MTV Cribs. They are just dying to come out and see our awesome apartment, but we frankly just don't have the time. We settled on the agreement that I would post pictures in our blog. :]

Kitchen: complete with an awesome oven from the seventies,

cushion-y chairs for our table, and the washer and dryer. :]

Living Room (TV wall): That is the giant thing Troy bought. I decorated it.

Notice, the large space on the wall. We're waiting for wedding pictures. :]

Living Room (Opposite the TV wall): This couch stays with the apartment, but we love it.

We also love the bookshelf, and that we are intellectual enough to have stuff on it! :]

Bathroom: I love the bathroom. It's very white and clean. Except, they got a new toilet

and you can't fit the TP in the holder because the toilet is larger than the one originally

installed. Just FYI.

Bedroom: I also enjoy this room. It appropriately states who sleeps in this bed on the wall

in large block letters, and is ever adorably adorned with

beautiful bedding thanks to Becky. :]

Exterior: This is what it looks like on the outside. 216 Chestnut Lane. :]

Chapter One: Wedded Bliss

We're hitched. :] We can officially start our story. The wedding went so well. It was cold and windy and miserable, but everything went perfectly. The night before, not so perfect. But I'm not going to discuss how my dress didn't fit because I'm on the pill, and my chest grew, or how the flower shop got us all the wrong colored boy flowers. The night before did not go well. But like everyone said, the day of I didn't care. :] We got married in the Draper Temple and it was beautiful! It was so great to be there with Troy. We got to spend some time in the Celestial room before we actually got sealed, and it was gorgeous. So great to be there with him. I was so happy to see everyone at the sealing. We were afraid that Becky's sister Nancy and her husband weren't going to make it because they were snowed in down south, but when I walked in they were the first people we saw and I was so happy. Our sealing was beautiful. It was so great to be there with everyone, especially Troy. It was hot though. I was sweating like crazy. It was gross because me and Troy were holding hands, and both of our hands kept getting all sweaty. He wasn't picking up on my hidden cues to wipe our hands off. :] We went to take pictures outside from there and froze our butts off! I'm glad I had my awesome yellow boots to protect me. So worth it. :] The Temple had access to the Stake Center across the street so we were able to go over and take pictures there. After when we went back to change, I was concerned at what we were going to do for an hour before the lunch started. My mom had the covered. She lost my locker key. So, I was stuck in the Bride's room in a robe, with no access to my clothes because they had no master. We killed that hour or so there, no worries about being bored, and then Carol found the key in my mom's coat. (My dad put it there without us knowing.) We went to the lunch and had a delicious meal provided by Thanksgiving Point. After lunch our parents and us shared a few words, and both the dads cried but nobody else did. It was great. :] We had our reception, and everything was beautiful thanks to all the hard work my parents did, especially my mom. The decorations were perfect and it was exactly what I imagined it to be. I was so grateful. Funny tidbit: Annie and McKayla were taking presents for us at the door, and I noticed they were piling all the loose cards on one chair. Instead of having them sitting there, I asked the girls to bring all the cards to me or Troy. Well, they began bringing us cards and low and behold a few minutes later I turned around to check on them and realized that they were pulling the cards off of all the presents. Not just the free cards, but the gifts that came with cards were now nameless. I quickly stopped them, apologized and explained what I meant. Luckily, I didn't care and it was only a few of the gifts. :] All went well, and in the end, we had a very happy bride and groom. :]

So we have moved into our new place!

It is an adorable apartment in a fourplex on the ever appropriate Chestnut Lane. We love it. :]

I did a grade A-crafty job getting it all decorated up and ready for us to live happily ever after in. We did the whole honeymoon bit, and had a great time. It was fun being able to just take a week or so off and do nothing together.

We have also started school, which isn't so great. Ha. I think we should have taken an entire semester off, but I never get my way. :]

We are both still working, and that is going well. It's different being home and being that "mom" role almost, where I actually have to plan to feed Troy when he comes home from work, and make sure the dishes get done. There are no roommates to pawn these chores off onto now. :] This is our first chapter of life, and trying to figure out where we are going to go from here. :]