Our Home

I love our house. And I am so glad we have it. I have loved figuring out how we're going to make our house a home. I love big bold design. Vertical black and white curtains? Yes please, Jake agreed. We will them one day! Anyways. Here's all the stuff I have been loving lately!

Kill ME!

Kill me, I love this room. Can I redesign everything?

I could hear the birds!

Today was my first day of finals. I had to turn in my brand application project and had an art history test. The art history test sucks because it's a lot of memorization. It's also an essay test where you literally just spill everything you know about the question. I think today mine came to a total of like 8 handwritten pages. However, I knew that as soon as I finished the test it would be the beginning of my summer! And honestly in the middle of the test I could hear the birds chirping in my ear, singing, summer baby, summer!

Ohh and speaking of birds, maybe that chirping came from my new feather hair extensions!

I ordered them off of Etsy and installed them myself. I am loving them. They're neutral colors so nothing crazy but they are a lot of fun. 

Also, we know summer is coming around because we're starting to see golf balls in our yard. I am really worried about the quality of golf this year because today, I found a ball in our front yard! What happened to the good old days when people could actually hit the ball where they wanted.

To take the good with the bad I also took a picture of my lovely tulips growing in my front garden. 

I hope you enjoy the happiness these bring as much as I do!

That's all for now. Have a fantastic weekend!

Popcorn Popping!

Aww. So much going on right now. School is coming to an end and I just finished my last day of classes for the semester. Besides my one processing class this summer life is going to be a breeze.
The effects of the stress of school have taken form in the shape of a red dot square in the middle of my forehead. They say beauty is symmetry, if this is true than this would be the most beautiful dot anyone has seen.

Jake started road biking. He told me he was going to and I honestly was not convinced. But he got his bike back on Wednesday and sure enough he's been biking! The whole 2 days he's had since! What a rock star. Overcoming my doubting glares when he told me he spent money on biking stuff was not an easy task, but he did it.

Umm what else?

This is one of my dream  rooms. I would love to have this in my house. Except the vases no the mantel. I would find something else for that. I wonder if I can get Jake to agree. Oh and that ceiling fan, that doesn't work for me either. 

And Just for fun look at this!

it was an add for Monster that said. "In the wrong job?" GENIUS. 

Stupid Brilliant people...

Hanging on!

I haven't updated this in a while. I apologize. Things have been soo good but soo busy. We are both so excited for summer we could die! This month has been a fun one. We've been married for 4 months now and I am pretty sure we still love each other... so we're golden. This month we attended Jakes missionary reunion. It was fun to go however, we mostly just hung out with the Hunsaker's and the Thornock's who live down by us anyways.

It was our good buddy Berks birthday this last week and we went to Salt Lake to eat at a place that I can't think of the name right now. And that was fun. 

Jakes made a ton of progress with his health and can bend his wrists further than I have ever seen him do before. I have been trying to fatten him up. However, I have not had much luck. I have been trying to expand my cooking to gluten free dairy free. Here is some of what I have made...

Nachos. These are Jakes favorite. He would eat them every day if I let him. However, I don't like to eat them that much so he has to go without quite a bit. I don't know how he's not a little fatty. This plate that he eats by himself has a pound of turkey burger on it and about the same in cheese. Hence why I don't join in most of the time. 

This, if you couldn't tell, is alfredo sauce. Jake always said as soon as he is better again he is going to eat a ton of chicken alfredo. Since I feel bad that he can't eat whatever he want I figured out how to make it and adhere to his diet. It was actually pretty delightful considering! 

These were one of my favorites. Jake begged for Nachos one day and I just couldn't get myself to do it again. So using gluten free flour mix I made a cheese biscuit type thing and we dipped it in sugar free dairy free queso. Wahoo! 

School is going well. I am almost done for the semester and I am clinging to the little bit of sanity I have left. I may have let some things slip recently but it needs to happen sometimes to keep someone surviving. 

Here is a glimpse of a fun project I am working on at school. 

It's in it's very rough stages but you get the general idea. I have been loving this whole motion graphics thing and want to keep learning it, however my class for it is almost done.

This summer I am taking a processing class. I have never done anything like it so it will be interesting to see what it involves and how well I do. Other than that our life is going to be pretty easy going this summer.

Oh and I almost forgot! My little brother Mason is submitting his paperwork for his mission. I will miss him so much but hey, one less person to hog Monroes attention.

Here is the photo of the handsome fella! Couldn't love him more!

Anyways, I'll try and update more but here is what we've been up to for now!