our most wonderful weekend!

We had the best weekend ever!!! Friday night was our hot date night. Since we like to start out every date with a service project (you know soup kitchens, hospital volunteering, etc. :) we made cupcakes for a lady who is sick. Dave knows their family. We used our ultra cute cupcake tree we got for our wedding!!

Just one pictures didn't do the tower justice!



Then we borrowed THEIR ROLLAR BLADES!!! This was just the beginning of an ultra awesome weekend!

We rollared (that's slang for rollar bladed) to the movie theatre and into it! We watched The Time Travelers Wife. We laughed, we cried. It was really an emotional rollar coaster but we liked it and felt so much closer after it. If you've seen it, you know what i'm talking about.


After we headed to Snoasis, a yummy snowcone place here. We used to go there when we were dating. That's where Dave introduced me to icecream in your snowcone and I've been hooked ever since.

On our way back we took a tour of Rexburg and saw some of the sites.

On Saturday, we went to our ward activity. It was apple picking!


We made our own apple juice. Strong man Dave was often at the wheel.

Then I helped out when all his strength was gone.

And muscled us to the end product of delicious, homemade apple juice!!

We finished the apple adventures on Sunday when we made two delicious apple pies!

On Monday, the rollar blading adventures continued! We had to make a run to the store so we used our resources and bladed there. To respect Broulim's we took them off and pushed them in the shopping cart.

Proof.

Dave thought we had taken a few too many pictures.

But our posterity will appreciate this :)

School started once again on the 10th! It was a great day of fun, new friends, and MATCHING OUTFITS! Dave and I unintentionally matched in our yellow shirts and jeans. We are taking an Eternal Marriage class and were running a tiny bit late to it. We burst into the room, totally winded (obviously because we have yet to adjust to the high altitude) and are standing in front of a bunch of other married students but the ONLY ones that match. I was quite proud of us distinguishing our relationship for the whole campus to see.

Dave and I have been lucky enough to find a couple classes we can take together, our marriage class being one and INTRO TO LATIN DANCING is the other! We are both so extremely excited! Dave has got hips like jello and moves like you've NEVER seen so obviously the class is a little intimidated. But, I think soon they'll come to see we really are just two people who love dancing.

Among our schooling adventures, we took on canning!! The day after school started, we thought we would make rhubarb jam using an ancient family recipe. Having never attempted this in either of our lives we are extremely proud of our tasty results.

Other than those little adventures (and the occassional frisbee throwing session) our lives have been seeing a lot of the library and the everyday activites you would expect from college students. (However, yesterday we somehow spent our life savings on a salad at the school cafeteria. You had to pay per ounce so I think they must have lead in the dressing or something. And it's not like we eat on campus ever but we were starving and waiting for a service activites meeting to start... GIVE US A BREAK!)

We live at 277 1/2.

I’m not sure where I’ve been all my life, but apparently you can live at “a half.” Where in Vegas we lived at names and whole numbers, now in Rexburg, Idaho we live at halves of numbers and single letters (i.e. E., S., etc.). A little less unique, yes, but still we LOVE IT! Dave and I officially moved in to our quaint little basement apartment of a red brick home.

The ceiling is a whole 6 ½ feet tall. I’ve never been able to touch a ceiling before so this is an exciting first for me. Luckily, Dave is only 5’ 11 ¾ “so he has plenty of growing room in this place. For some reason, you step up into the shower a good 6” which creates a weird problem for Dave whose hair grazes the ceiling.

There are five lovely windows on one side of the house which lets in light to the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. Our living room on the other hand is tucked in the back of the house with no windows and has an oddly placed light switch on the far end of the room. A little bit of a different set up but we are very grateful for the large storage closet on one wall of the living room. It doubles as Dave’s clothing closet since the one in our room is much too tiny for the both of us. :) (The tiny closet is pictured below.)

This is the tiny closet. Notice that you can see both sides of it (the beginning AND end at the same time). But optimistic Dave says, "Hey, at least it's a walk in closet."

Apart from than the lack of light in the living room and the oh so “petitely” sized ceiling, our apartment is the loveliest first apartment a newly married couple could ever ask for and we are so thrilled with it!

Bring Your Wife to Work Day!

Although not an official holiday (yet), my sweet husband decided to take me up on my “Bring Your Wife to Work” suggestion! I think this has been one of my best suggestions yet. Dave and I got to hang out, work together, work on our teambuilding skills, and he motivated his workers to work hard and try to move up to his job one day and get a babe like me :)

Dave has been working with his brother this summer building custom homes. They have been working on one particular house quite a bit to finish it before we leave (because Dave is the big head honcho supervisor!!). We left at 6:30 am and drove to this house. Upon arriving I met Pedro and Miguel who only speak Spanish. They conversed with Dave for a few minutes, some of the time being about me. It was pretty obvious because they would be talking, then look at me and laugh. Actually that happened a few more times during the day because almost all of the workers spoke only Spanish with Dave. However, for the most part I was very discrete. The only thing that really threw them off was that I was a girl on the site. If we had been in Mexico I think I would have blended right in. One man told Dave I looked Latino and I’m sure he wasn’t the only one thinking that. I’ve been blessed with an extremely versatile ethnic look.

I spent most of my day just kind of shadowing Dave but I did do the very important job of putting tape where touch ups were needed and putting screws in places. Dave offered me to the pool guy to help him put some valve things in, but I think the offer was forgotten when the man saw me and started asking if it Dave had brought his girlfriend to work. He was flabbergasted when he found out we were married but adjusted quickly to the idea and started asking us if we had any children. He gave his blessing “in that regard” and said they would be really beautiful.

It was a fun day of laughter, learning, and a lot of sweatiness but we loved it! I now know how to build a house and I'd say that makes the day a success.