its procrastination week...

Ashley read about it in her new agenda....Joel said that he'd celebrate next week....

This week has been crawling by. I'm excited about tomorrow because I don't have any classes!!!! woooo!!! AND.....tomorrow Joel and I will have been married for two months!!!! It's hard to believe that it has already been two months...and they've been perfect!

So the worknight at Paper Pals was amazing and fun! I haven't had the chance to actually scrapbook in so long, and I absolutely loved it. I'm going to try to do at least two layouts a week, and maybe someday I'll finish the wedding album!

love

The first week of school is over...kinda hard to believe!! I feel much better about my classes though. I'm going to get through it just fine. I actually like my statics class and had fun with the homework!!! Physics class might present some challenges...mainly because the teacher is very hard to understand/listen to. Good thing I have a physics major husband, though!!

I went to Ashley's house this week for dinner...omg it was delicious!!! She made grilled salmon!!!!!! It was my first salmon experience...and now I'm hooked! The engaged couple came over last night for dinner and we had calzones that I made. I just love having people over for dinner (especially ashley and brad)!!!!

So Joel and I were grocery shopping earlier this week and about half way through I was all of a sudden filled with this extreme happiness and completeness. I was just like, I am with the one person that God wants to me to be with for the rest of my life. I have found him and he is perfect. We are a family. My entire life I have been praying for some sort of release from the broken home and family I group up in, and look what I have!!! tee hee!!! I just get so giddy and happy thinking about it!!

OH!! I must show my spoils of the Red Barn Extravaganza!! I love it all!!
cute little book shelves and a medicine cabinet for the bathroom!! I just love the measuring tape edges!!!
and I got a big window pane for two dollars!!! It will soon be the top of our coffee table!!! Oh!! and I got a cute white shelf for the scrapbooking room!

Speaking of scrapbooking....employee worknight!!! I am so excited!! I can't wait!! I'm going to print pictures today! I think I'm going to start the wedding album!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or maybe the bachelorette party! Oh so much to scrapbook, so little time (and spare money, in my case)!

friday

Ashley, Brad and I (Joel's working) are going to the Red Barn sale today. I am so excited! I really hope that we find some good stuff. We can't stay for very long because we have to work...but I'm just excited that we get to go!!

AND....I can take pictures with my digital camera!!!!!! Ashley got a new one from her grandpa....and she gave me her old one!!!! Seriously...she is the best ever. I carry it with me wherever I go....I just want to take so many pictures!

The last couple of days have been absolutely crazy. Good crazy. I am so happy for Ashley and Brad, and school starts soon, and we now have a Bed, Bath, and Beyond AND Old Navy in this great town of Moscow.

My dad's birthday is this weekend. Normally, we don't really do all that much...I usually rack my brain trying to figure out what to get him and just end up getting him a bag of peanut M&Ms (his fav). We have never really gotten along all that well, but after the wedding things have changed a little. Every time Joel and I go to Post Falls they load us up with fresh veggies from their huge garden, a cooler full of meat from their farm animals, and tons of offers to go through the shop to see if there is anything that we might need. So this year I've decided to do kind of a joint birthday gift for my parents (their birthdays are 10 days apart) and get a big frame and put a whole bunch of pictures of us from the wedding. There are so many good ones of my sister and her son, my mom and me at the salon, AND there is even a picture of my Dad laughing with my mom. Seriously, this is the only picture I have seen of my dad actually "for real" smiling in a picture. I think I might make that one a 8x10! I don't think my photographer realized what he accomplished!!

BOOKS!!!

So now is the time for Joel and I to start buying books because school starts in 11 days!!!! I'm not really looking forward to the actual purchasing part....but I am looking forward to the reading part, especially my chemistry book.


and my engineering book!!

I just hope that I can do well in these classes....and understand stuff too. That would be nice.

I'm going to Post Falls on Tuesday for an orthodontist appointment. I really love going to Post Falls because my in-laws are there. They seriously are the best family I have ever had and I am so blessed to be a part of their family. And Post Falls is quick drive from The Gap....the most amazing store ever. School starting in 11 days means that I get to go shopping. For paper, notebooks, pens, folders, paper clips, and lots of clothes. AND what makes it even better is that Ashley gets to come!!

So I finished my layout for Paper Pals. I don't have a digital camera...or any camera for that matter so I can't take a picture of it. But its in the store. Its not really my style....I don't really know what happened. Maybe I was just nervous to have everyone looking at it...judging. lol.

And I finished my window pane art. I painted! I mixed my own paint to get just the color of red that I wanted and I painted! Granted, I only painted swirls...but I painted!! It was just so fun and exhilarating I didn't want to stop. And Joel hung it up in our kitchen! If only I had a camera to take a picture.....(i keep hoping that maybe Joel will read this and get me one for Christmas....but then again....he does hear me everyday talking about getting a camera; I think he gets the point.)



oh, and Ashley comes in 5 days!!!!!! OMG!!!

AAARRGGGHHHH

I WANT A DIGITAL CAMERA SOOOO BADLY!!!

weekend

I went to another wedding this weekend. It was nice. It still is so surreal to see my friends get married. It still is so surreal that I am married!

Joel and I are looking for a church now. While sitting with my new mom this Sunday we realized that we really miss having a church to go to. Hopefully we can find one that Brad and Ashley like too so we all can go together like a happy family!!!

I am so incredibly happy and excited for them to be down here and for school to start!

Well...I'm just waiting for wedding pictures to come back so I can start scrapbooking. I miss scrapbooking so incredibly much. I just haven't had the time to do anything like that lately, but now that our house is in somewhat of an order, I'm going to be able to start again. I just need pictures!!! The hard part is going to be dividing my time because I'm making my brother and sister-in-law's wedding scrapbook too.......hopefully they will be patient with me!

just one more thing

hmmmm my first blog. I fear this will become an addiction.

I just got married about a month ago to a completely wonderful and amazing guy named Joel.
I really like to make to him dinner and clean our house.


We both are really excited to go back to school. We discovered that we both really like learning things.

My best friend is Ashley Peak, and she is the most amazing person ever. I totally admire her intelligence, faith, humor, wit, and pretty much everything about her.

I work at a scrapbooking store called Paper Pals. I love it there!!

I suppose that's it for now.