There are places I'll remember

We met at the Ivy where I was living for the semester. He walked in the door and I knew... nope.. I had no clue I would marry him haha. But I'm sure glad I did.

Our first kiss was in a potato field! And we are not ashamed. It was windy then, and windy when we took this picture. Always. Windy.  

When we were "dating" he told me to jump through this tire outside of his apartment. So I did. From then on I was known as "circus girl". 

 And then we were sealed in the LDS Rexburg temple! 

 This is the front of our very first apartment in Rexburg. 

 The alley way on the side of the building. Our apartment's windows were right by the fire escape. There would be kids screaming and smoking weed right below so we would yell at them haha. 

 This is the back of Fongs and was right across from our windows. We would smell that pork fried rice all day and ended up going probably once a week if not more. 

Our cute tiny apartment we lived in last. Best place we lived in Rexburg except for those darn spiders. We've confused so many people with where we live because the address is 271 and 1/2. It's like platform 9 3/4. You have to be a wizard to enter within. 

 This is the church building we went to every Sunday. The Primary will always have our hearts! 

We graduated at the same time from BYUI! I with my bachelors and him with his associates.

I'm so happy I was born and grew up in Rexburg. and I am SO happy Paul and I met there. It's a place that will always have our hearts. It's bitter sweet leaving and now living in St. George but so exciting knowing that St. George will hold just as many memories for us! 

This Turned Into a Critter Ramble

I can't believe how fast we got our home put together! It only took us a couple days to clean, unpack, and semi decorate the kitchen and living room. I am loving the open-ness of this place and how white the walls are (I love white walls). Everything is so clean and the breeze coming through the windows is so nice. I've squashed two spiders since living here which is nothing compared to our last place. I haven't seen one hobo here, woohoo! Hobo Spiders that is. I've seen a few real hobos actually. Anyways I consider myself a real spider squasher pro now. As long as they aren't speedy and they don't try to fly in my hair or something.

Speaking of gross crawling things, St. George has these sick, siiiiiiiiiiiiickkkk giant old man bugs. They literally look like old grandpas to me but not the cute kind. I can't squish those because they make this horrible crunchy noise and it triggers my gag reflex. I've found two in the garage and one outside. Paul takes care of those while I shut my eyes and plug my ears. Oh I found the biggest roly poly I've ever seen this morning in the garage too! I didn't squish it but picked it up between two pieces of cardboard and let him go far away from the house. I'm all about saving the cute bugs.

I'm still getting used to the little lizards that run around. I'm scared I'm going to find one in the house one of these days and then who knows what I'll do! Paul works all day so if that happens I will most definitely be calling our nice maintenance guy to come take care of the situation. It's not that I think they will hurt me, I just know that if I try to catch the thing it will get caught in my hair or something and then I'd probably end up smashing it and hurting myself while doing so. Or worse, have it get in my mouth somehow. (Have you seen parent trap? Yeah, I'm not about to go down that route) Better to let someone else with short hair deal with it.

This post was meant to be a little update on everything but just turned into critter ramblings. Which is totally fine, I need to release my critter stress somewhere.

Pioneer Park

Paul and I spent our Sunday afternoon at Pioneer Park and it was so fun! We originally drove up there to take a picture of the Dixie rock but never did because 1. It started raining and 2. We forgot. Totally fine though because the area behind it is amazing and so much fun. When we go back we'll go on a weekday and during the morning because Sunday afternoon was full of kids yelling like tarzan and couples making out. But it was still cool. :)

The only picture I got of Paul! 

On top of the Dixie rock. Is that what they call it here? I don't know. 

It started raining and I was hoping little animals would join me in this tiny cave for shelter! 

So far loving St. George! It's amazing how much it feels like home already. 

Seriously, I couldn't have done it without you. Even through some pretty lame times you both have always managed to make me laugh uncontrollably. You both as well as others in the program have truly been a blessing to me and I am SO thankful for your examples to me. Okay now I'm going to go eat some cheesecake (Liz thanks for always making me crave it) now because I seriously don't know how to deal with not seeing you guys practically every day. COME TO ST. G and see me soon!

We're In!

Soo.. We got the apartment! We honestly can't believe it still. On Tuesday we got the call from our manager and he finally said those sweet, sweet words.. "We're in!" We immediately packed up our car and started our drive to St George haha. We weren't going to take any chances and we needed to sign that contract ASAP. We got there the following morning (Wednesday) and went through the whole contract, signed it, and got our keys! As soon as we figured out all apartment stuff Paul quickly changed and headed to a job interview! He got the job and will be a bookkeeper for a new accounting company! It all feels like a dream because so many great things were happening at once.

 We're taking visitors now that we have three bedrooms! 

Right after Pauls interview.. haha 

We toured Dixie State University where Paul will complete his Bachelors. HE IS DIXIE.

Our view from our front door! Whaaaat! 

We are so grateful for all that we have accomplished over the past crazy months. We know It wasn't possible without our Heavenly Fathers help. The stress has been unbelievable but we know that when something proves to be hard, it usually means you're doing the right thing (Thanks Joel R. for the inspiration). The quote "May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong" by President Thomas S. Monson goes hand in hand with our situation, I think.