Our Little home!

I have had a few people complain that i don't blog enough so I thought it would be a good idea to take a few pictures of our apartment! We both feel so blessed to have found such an amazing apartment. We love it so much and have been able to make it feel more like a home now that we have decorated. I still feel like I have a little tweaking to do but for now I am happy with the results of my first time decorating alone.

And now for your tour!


This is our bedroom which really needs quite a bit of my attention but I still need to find a cheap way to decorate and i have learned that I am drawn to the finer more expensive things for the home. I am determined to one Saturday drag Aaron to all the, apparently cool, thrift stores in salt lake and pick out some cool accessories for the bedroom! who knows maybe some good old fashion yard sales will do the trick.

our dining area slash piano room is my favorite part of our apartment even though its a little crowed for two people. It is so great to be able to get ready in the morning and hear Aaron playing the piano. I love to be able to see him enjoy his favorite things whenever he wants. Its also an added bonus because I can now practice for voice every day.

Our living room. I had a surprisingly difficult time decorating the room. The walls are too big!! but I think I was able to pull it together rather nicely and the best part about this room is that the coffee table and end table were only $30!!! Yeah that right I found something cheap for the house!
My kitchen, oh how I love to create fun new things in here! This is my own little art studio! It may be small but it gets the job done. I still have a ways to go in the decorating department here though. i am trying to give a 50's feel with a hint of yellow. so far no yellow but i have the cool clock to give it the 50's diner feel.

Moving on to Aaron's favorite part. this is our Porch, and in the evenings we will come out and light all the candles and either read or just enjoy the occasional thunder storms. Even though our view is the on ramp to i15 it is still a relaxing place to sit no matter how unfortunate the view.

This is the bed for our new little guest! but I have learned she prefers either my lap or pillow directly next me or Aaron. Since Aaron works at home and I work in Salt Lake they get to spend a lot of time together so she will often choose to be near Aaron over me, but this my fingers get licked less so I don't complain.

The best birthday present ever!!!!! we went to the laundry mat once and I couldn't handle it took too long cost too much and was just all around inconvenient and didn't even dry our clothes. So I received a lovely gift from a lovely husband! Yeah he loves me alright. Don't worry they are used very very used. The bathroom. I spent so much on the shower curtain that I couldn't throw it away and I like it and luckily Aaron thinks its fun so instead of having a calm neutral bathroom it is hot pink, black and white. and you know what i think its pretty down right cool! not to mention we have towels with P's embroidered on them! they were a pretty awesome wedding present!

Well that's our home and I promise I will do a better job keeping up the blog even when I don't have anything good to say! I love you all!

WEDDING!!!!

For those who don't know how amazing Kimmy Conley is then you will for sure know by the time the wedding comes around because it will blow everyones mind! I swear I am not being a snobby bride that thinks her wedding is better than everyones but it will be amazing!!!! And it wont be like any Utah wedding you have ever seen!

There is only one thing that i am doing that every other LDS girl does. We are getting married in the Salt Lake City Temple. I just can't help but want to get married there it is so beautiful and my parents were married there I can't help but feel sentimental.

Pierpont Place is where we are having the reception!!! Its a great venue with just a blank canvas to work with. with every event it looks like a new place I cant wait to see how it looks for mine!

Did I mention the belly dancers? we will be having belly dancers dancing the night away while we have our amazing dinner. For those who have wanted to go to Morocco but couldn't no worries because I am bringing it to you!

The amazing Cedars of Lebanon will be catering our dinner! The food is amazing and you will want to eat there everyday after wards.

The wedding will be amazing and my dress is fabulous! It is going to be the perfect day! Aaron will look handsome and luckily he will be able to get rid of any nerves i will be feeling. He is so amazing I cant wait to have everyone I love meet him!

Sardines, Rivers and Long hikes = happiness

For those who are wondering why Sardine equal happiness its more Cannery Row makes happiness which is where many Sardines were or are still canned. Cannery Row is also A famous book written by Steinbeck. Well to move on with why sardines make me happy it is because recently i had the opportunity to go to Monterey CA with Aaron for a day while we were visiting his family in Auburn. It was such a lovely trip. We were able to walk up and down Cannery Row and walk through some really cool stores. We also were able to go to the Aquarium!!! I love aquariums they are the best things to go see. Aaron was so amazing the whole time! we had so much fun! we saw jellyfish which were Aaron's favorite but the sea horses were my favorite but that is obvious i guess i really am just a horse girl at heart! I will warn you this blog is a little picture heavy and very few words but in my opinion those are the best kind so enjoy!

We had such a great time at the aquarium! although Aaron was eaten by a shark by the time we left! But then he broke out and know has the jaws as a prize!

For some of our fun adventures we went on two hikes! i was able to get a few pictures they were both so much fun! The beginning of hike number one! I was so excited for the first time ever i was actually dressed properly for a hike!Aaron's sister Barbara was so nice and took us on a hike that she has been on a few time with the younger boys. out of the two hikes this was by far my favorite.

we passed a mini water fall! well really it was just run off from the snow but it felt so good! and it was pretty!

yay to waterfalls! they are so beautiful. anytime a hike results in a waterfall it is definitely worth any pain i might feel the nest day. Yay to the cool things that on can find on a hike! i love taking pictures! this blue belly lizard was awesome it stayed in this protective stance for a good five minutes.the hike was beautiful and we hound all kinds of fun stuff. yeah the lizard was fun but these flowers grown on the rocks and they were so interesting. They felt like cactus just without the needles.

The second hike we went on was Steven's trail! it was such a lovely day. i didn't get very many pictures but i was able to get a few. so enjoy! Aaron thought it would be a good idea for him to climb up the waterfall all the way to the top! i was a little nervous he would fall but he was safe the whole time.The hike was so pretty! at part of the hike we passes a water fall! Aaron and i climbed up to get our picture taken in it.Dallon, Ammon and Aaron all jumped in the river at the bottom of Stevens trail but Dallon was by far the most enthusiastic about it! he did a countdown and everything! he is such a cutie and love those boys.

next it was Ammon. the water was freezing cold I don't know how they did it!

The boys finally got Aaron to go in but he wasn't nearly as brave as the other two! he didn't want to get his hair wet! but we finally convinced him to put his head under! But the worst part was when he gave me a hug he was so cold i am so happy i didn't jump in! Its the end!!! I am a new and improved hiking girl!

I love to go to California and the great part about it all is that I am able to get to know Aaron's family a little more every time i visit. Aaron has been able to get to know my family so well and has to be around them so often. I almost feel like we are cheating in a way. I had such a great time with his family. Barbara was so much fun to be with, it was the first time I ever got to spend time with her and all the younger boys are all so different from the first time I met them.

We always make so many memories when ever we go to California and we love being able to go back!!! Hopefully one day we will be able to own a ranch in Loomis like we both want to do! It would be so fun and it is such a great town! Sorry to all my southern California friends but Northern California is so much better and because i grew up in Southern California i am aloud to say which is better and my friends northern is so much better.

We had such a great time on the trip! I hope you all enjoyed the pictures as much as i enjoyed taking them!

THE RING!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this post is long over due especally since aaron and I have been engaged since february abd we are getting married next month! YAY! but of course i have to post it anyways because it is the most amazing ring ever!!!!The picture doesnt nearly do it justice because the flash hides all the beautiful design on the side but these were the best two pictures I could get!

Its a ruby!!! I always wanted a colored stone for my wedding ring and I got it! Isn't Aaron the best in the whole world!

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SCHOOL, SCHOOL, SCHOOL!!! and NEWS NEWS NEWS

Ugh, I feel like the semester will never end! I am so tired and so ready for my summer to come. Luckily i have a million things to keep my mind occupied to make the semester end quickly, NOT! everything on my mind makes it go slower! All i can think about is our wedding. last time it wasn't this hard. I constantly have other things on my mind making school impossible to concentrate on and on top of it all i am going to be competing with horses all summer. i think the semester should end this second! Oh man it didn't happen i guess i have to wait until the end of April.

Well for the new information i have regarding me and Aaron, we have been apartment hunting for so long and it has been driving me crazy! My mom told me that if i don't take fancy then she will give her away to a new family and i wasn't going to stand for that and Aaron felt bad for me so he said that Fancy will live with us! Awesome! So we have been trying to find a pet friendly complex and that is not easy my friends not easy at all. There is no where in Provo that allows dogs and byu approved housing is so expensive to live in so that isn't an option. So we ditched Provo and went to look in Orem near UVU. We looked at so many apartments but one was a run down tiny apartment for 850 a month for 1 bed 1 bath! how ridiculous! so we kept looking but we had almost given up on the idea to find housing that would allow a dog it seemed impossible and we thought if we ever found a place then there was no way we would ever be able to afford it so instead we decided to drive around Oren to try and find a complex that we were unable to find on line. And guess what we drove past a beautiful complex where real families live, and very few students! We went to talk to the manager and she gave us a list of prices and you will never guess what they allowed, ok well maybe you can guess they allow pets under 30lbs luckily Fancy only ways 2lbs! And they had a two bed one bath for 740 a month! we took a tour of the apartment and I fell in love! it was beautiful and it was huge! there was a dining area and a living room and the main bedroom can fit my queen size bed plus all my bedroom furniture! the living room can fit real living room furniture and it has room for more than one couch. This apartment is a wonderland! it is so beautiful and it has a balcony right next to the Dining room! Its a dream come true. the kitchen had counters for me to work on and there was a dishwasher! I think i am in love.
So i called a few days later to see if anything had opened since the last time we came in a a top floor apartment with VAULTED ceilings had just opened and would be available for move in 30 days after we sign the lease! so we went to get all the paper work needed to apply for the apartment and scrapped up enough money for the deposit and the application fees. Which unfortunately made a large dent in both of our checking accounts but we both decided it was well worth it! We have recently been informed that we are basically approved and all we need to bring in are pay stubs for proof of income! I am so excited to move in and decorate however i want! I hope they will let me paint! I am hoping we will have the lease signed by the end of the week. Keep you fingers crossed for us!