Oh Kids...

I just got home from my first YWs activity. My favorite part of the night.

"Wait, you're the new leader?! I thought I didn't know you because you went to the OTHER middle school!!!"

Two Months of Kitchen Duty

Matt and I realized shortly after we got married that we had no pots or pans. I stressed out a little bit about this, but when we moved into our apartment, someone had left a nice little pot in the oven. Matt was pretty excited and decided it was a blessing enabling us to actually eat something besides raw fruits and vegetables. It took me a little longer and many washes later to decide it was sanitary enough to use, but I eventually caved in due to necessity.

Well, yesterday was officially two months of marriage. Two months and many meals later, I've been shocked at how easy it is to cook with one little pot and an electric fryer. It's kind of amazing to think of all the things that have happened and probably most to think about how long it seems to us, when in reality, two months isn't any time at all.

Anyway, it took us longer than it should have, but we are now the proud owners a beautiful set of stainless pots and pans. Oh boy are they pretty. I'm kind of sad to use them because I want them to stay as pretty as they are! As weird as it is, I also think I'm going to be kind of sad to not pull out my electric fryer, it became quite normal to figure out how to turn everything into a one-pot meal because you had no other choice...

We also quickly realized we had no sharp knives. I was skeptical about using butter knives to chop vegetables, potatoes, cheese and meat, but you'd be amazed at the things those little dull babies can do. I am also excited to announce that the other day, I ordered an excellent set of knives complete with kitchen scissors. Not going to lie, I'm pretty excited and hope they get here soon!

I almost have a "real" kitchen! Wahoo!

My Bad...

So I was very excited to finally finish up all of the wedding Thank You cards a couple of weeks ago. It was something that I worked on every night (almost) faithfully since getting married. I'm not going to lie, when I finished up, I felt like celebrating.

Well, we've gotten a few more gifts since then, and I pulled my box of cards out again tonight for the new ones, and what did I see? A huge stack of cards that I wrote, addressed, stamped and then apparently left sitting in the box. Oops! Good thing I wrote all of those so long ago...

There's a Girl on the Boy's Side!

After Matt and I got married, we moved into a very nice condo, which is actually in the same complex as we lived while we were single (below one and across the hall from Matt's old place, and yes, it is a single's people place). The place came up for sale due to foreclosure, and his parents decided it would be a good investment. Well, we needed a place to stay and since it would be essentially impossible to fill 4 spots mid semester, we decided the smartest thing would be to have us move into it until the end of August.

I was a little bit weary of moving in where we lived before and being the only married people, but they are great apartments, it is about 1 minute away from both my office and Matt's school, and it just made sense, so I had no problem agreeing to it.

I'm happy to report, that it has been even less awkward than I originally anticipated. The location, as mentioned is perfect, and it has the best parking situation in Provo. We've had a couple of doorbell ditches, but things are good. It is a little wierd though, living on the boy's side. I am definitely the only girl on this side of the parking lot. Yesterday, our neighbor even made the comment, "I can smell your air freshener outside! It's great having a girl over on our side!" Every morning when I leave for work, I can't help but timidly poke my head out and look both ways before running out to the car. Even though I know everyone knows we're married, I still wonder what they think seeing a girl run out every morning.