Six Months Down...Eternity to Go

Well, yesterday was our six month wedding anniversary. Some days it feels like the time has flown by and other days it feels like it's already been an eternity :). We're very happy though, and I love being married. Here are a few reasons why...

1. I have a permanent chauffeur.
2. I always have a date on the weekends.
3. I can shave my legs less and sometimes go without makeup.
4. I save tons of money on phone calls and text messages to him.
5. I don’t have to kill spiders or take the garbage out.
6. I don’t get scared at night anymore.
7. I have someone to scratch my back when I need it.
8. I don’t have to worry about my roommate wearing my clothes.
9. I’m becoming enlightened to BYU sports.
10. I don’t have to attend the Singles Ward anymore.

Spring Cleaning

I decided to do a deep clean of our apartment today (Did anyone see Oprah yesterday and today?? It was very motivational for a good Spring Cleaning...). As I was scrubbing everything down I couldn't help but remember what our apartment looked like when we first moved in.

I think the apartment had been vacant for several weeks before we moved in...and I'm not so sure the people that lived in it before us cleaned it before they left..or ever. The blinds were practically brown form all the dirt caked on them. Every corner in every room had a pile-up of cobwebs. Oh, and did I mention that we kept finding HUGE spiders everywhere?! I was almost too afraid to move stuff around for fear that a spider lurked underneath. I had to yell for Toren about every 20 minutes to kill another one (I don't get close to spiders). It was awful.

I didn't take too many pictures of our experience, but I did take two of the toilet. I think they'll give you a good idea of what we were dealing with.

Painful Tragedy

I know all of you have been just sitting on the edges of your seats waiting for us to post something new on our blog. Well, the only excuse I have is that we had a bit of a tragedy in our family a couple weeks ago....

My best friend Amanda gave me a plant for my birthday almost 3 years ago. This plant traveled with me from school, back home, back to school, back home, to my grandpa's house for babysitting, back home, to Utah. It's kind of like a small child and it's been thriving so well, growing about 4 times it's original size.

Well, Toren and I woke up to a beautiful, sunny day a couple weeks ago. I decided it was a great day to clean out the car. I also decided that my Birthday Plant would probably enjoy basking in the sun a bit, so I took it out behind our complex with me.

It was a great day for myself and my Birthday Plant. A few days later, the tragedy of my actions set in when I looked out our back window and saw my Birthday Plant still outside! It had been exposed to freezing nights and forceful winds, and it did not look good.

I brought my Birthday Plant inside and tried to revive it with some water. Over the next few days I continued to water it and hoped for the best. It was to no avail though. The damage had already been done.


Finally Toren took it out to the dumpster while I fought the urge to cry. That Birthday Plant had been with me a long time. I think Toren was secretly relieved that we wouldn't have to carry it with us as we drove to Columbus for the summer.


We're done mourning now, so expect more frequent posts in the future.