First day of school!

Thanks to my mother, I'm continuing the tradition of first-day-of-school pictures. Even if we were late, we'd be outside in the chill California air getting photos with our new school outfits. This year was no exception--except that we weren't late and are too poor for new outfits.

Here's Kyle:



and Katie:




Yay school!

a year ago in a picture...

So this isn't exactly from a year ago but it's close enough.

Feeding the ducks at EG Park.


One year later, ward camping trip and hike to a waterfall.


Boy, we look older.

Dear Husband,

I wish you had a Facebook so I could stalk you. Happy two months :)

Love, your Wife

Happy anniversary of our first kiss!

Kyle played hookie from work today so we could spend some quality time together. I didn't realize how much I missed him until today. It was a strange realization because we spend lots of time together, but usually we're with other couples or shopping or making dinner or watching a movie, so there's not much chance to just hug.

We walked to the library to pick up Hitch and lots of Muppet movies, then we changed into swimsuits to go swimming.

Unfortunately the pool was closed (these are our sad faces),

so we went home and watched The Point and ate food while I worked on thank you cards. We also watched Muppets from Space and played on the piano together. Finally, our day ended with a walk. I like hookie days :)

Love and Nerf guns

Today was the silliest day Kyle and I have had in a long time. We slept in this morning to recover from late night party-ing, had a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast, and jarred pears (our favorite), and then he started playing piano while I cleaned up breakfast.

Soon thereafter, I grabbed both the nerf guns we got as wedding gifts (thanks Jeremy and Keri!) and the fight began! After pelting him with suction cups, I gave him his gun to even out the fight. He barricaded himself in the living room and I huddled behind the bathroom sink. I don't even know how long we shot at each other, but I definitely had the giggles for most of it. It was fantastic and I decidedly won!

Then a walk to the library to pick up a movie, back home for lunch (ham and cheese sandwiches on yummy italian bread I made yesterday) and movie watching before heading to campus to usher for a dance recital. Then back home for Munchkin and pizza making with T&K that night. Whoo! What a day!

Our first time ushering as a married couple :)

Munchkin!

The pizza was fantastic!

I blog WAY too much about food

I found this yummy recipe when I was perusing Google images of chocolate dipped ice cream. I really want to try it and make it non-vegan. But let's be honest, I'm just looking forward to the sprinkles :)

Yesterday was a really good day. I finally got a good night's rest, thanks to pulling the mattress into the living room where the ac unit is, but unfortunately Kyle still didn't sleep well :\ (He told me last night was better. Maybe he's just getting so exhausted his body can't stand staying awake anymore) Anyway, we picked up our thank you cards (I may be slacking on appreciating wedding gifts but these cards look great!), and on our way home it started raining. Like huge marble-sized drops of rain. It continued to rain off and on all day along with some thunder and lightning.

After Kyle left for work, I got a phone call. The day before yesterday, I interviewed for a job. I wanted this job sooo badly, not only to keep me busy on days (like everyday) that I have nothing to do, but to bring in some extra money to put butter on the table after Kyle's bread-winning. It was also the perfect job because I love being a secretary and I told them so in the interview. I found it funny the girl interviewing me shared a common interest in filing (one of my favorite tasks!). I thought it strange they would call so soon after the interview, so I thought I had been eliminated from the applicant pool. But being that this was a good day, you can guess what they said...I GOT THE JOB!!! yayayay!!! I start Tuesday!

I made an awesome red sauce for our pasta dinner. It was slightly sweet but not sugary sweet. Soooo good! The lightning was really loud and scary so instead of watching a murder mystery, we watched Ever After. I love that movie! And during it, a couple from the ward came over to invite us to dinner tonight. We have friends! Since it was rainy and cool all day, we moved the mattress back into the bedroom to appreciate the cool breeze.

It was raining this morning but now the sun has come out, and it is a beautiful day. And I have a job!