Surprise!

Today when I got home from work I had a great surprise waiting for me :-) Today is one year from the day Nick & I first said I love you (he has all of the dates saved on his phone so we can remember). On the outside of our front door was a note that he wrote that said "leave thevacuuming to me :)" And then I unlocked the door and walked in. He had cut up little words everywhere with a bouquet of flowers sitting in the middle of it. The pieces of paper were in the living room, kitchen and a few made their way into the hallway and bedroom entrance. He put numbers on the back of each piece of paper for me to put them in order. It was a little note! I loved it! It was great and I had been thinking of getting some flowers for spring too actually. I love my husband! We are very glad to have each other.

Here is a picture after I was able to put all of the pieces of paper in order, and also one of just the bouquet in my favorite vase from our wedding decor.

Summer Fever

I've got summer fever.

I am so excited for it to be summer. We will miss our first place and are a bit sad that we never got to enjoy our yard since the whole time we've lived here it's been snowing. We were planning on doing a garden in the back and also were excited to see it get all fixed up with sod and such. Our apricot tree would've been nice to get fruit from too, although there are quite a few bees that love it too.

BUT, to have a break from work and get outside more often (with sun!) will be delightful, especially in our new place with air conditioning, no mold or peeling paint, closing cupboards with space to stand things upright (I will take a picture of our cupboard with cleaning supplies and stage an attempted cereal box before we leave), and most importantly, a dishwasher! I can't wait to move there in one month and two days! It will be grand indeed.

This is a picture I took on our honeymoon last year when we went on a hike. I really love it and it's been my computer background for a little while. It just makes me feel like summer.

Spring cleaning & other changes

So for those of you who don't already know, Nick got into Business school at BYU so we will be in Provo at least another 18 months. He will most likely graduate December 2012 which is not too far away!

We had been thinking we wanted to find another place to live starting in May for a while, but this past week we put the plan into action and when I saw the ad I knew "this is the place!" So we went and looked at it, got an application, then after I filled it out while he was driving I dropped him off to take a test and then drove back to the place to turn it in. We set up a time to meet with the landlord two days later and voila! A new place starting May 15th/16th. It has everything we were looking for and we are very stoked.

The day we saw this ad (Monday) we put an ad up for our place and we already have 3 people very interested - one who filled out the application yesterday and emailed it back to us and we are pretty sure they'll get it.

It's been a great Spring time and in light of us having to show our place it motivated us to clean up our spare room. It is organized for the first time since we've been here and now it'll all be shipped out in just a few short weeks again. However, this time when we move I'll be starting summer vacation from my job instead of starting it so I will probably have it all organized a lot sooner.

Also in other news I finally finally finished this looming project from work. The yearbook. I took (nearly) all of the pictures (minus the professional ones), did the layout, backgrounds, typed in names, & bylines, etc etc etc for the entire yearbook all by myself in about 4 months in my spare time. I am pretty proud of myself. Although last night was an odd Friday night spending about 3 and a half hours doing work at home finalizing the stuff (it was the deadline...) and then watching Vertigo with Nick. It was a huge relief to finally finish it though. One less thing to stress me out at work!