Here We Are Again!

I have been remiss in my blogging!  We've been in CC for a week and a half, and I haven't written a blog post since!  Though, I must say it's not entirely my fault.  My computer started acting up like right after I got back!  What the hey!? lol  I've been very grateful to my dad over the past week and a half since he has spent a lot of his time trying to help me fix it over long distance.  I think (cross your fingers!) that we've finally gotten it functioning properly again!  Yay!  Thanks, Daddy!

Well, our summer vacation in the resort (as my brother and his wife dubbed my parents' house) has ended.  We were both sad to leave and excited to get back to school and our friends here.  Mom and Daddy took us to the airport Monday morning, and we flew into Vegas.  We stayed the night with family and then drove back to CC!  Peter's dad had paid for Paul (Peter's brother) and his wife Kylee to pick up some groceries for us and leave them in our fridge!  We were so grateful for that.  We got into town around lunch time, so we were hungry and very happy to find food waiting for us!

When we first got back, I felt a little lonely.  It was strange to go from a house full of people to just the two of us again.  I miss my family, and wish I'd had more time to spend with them this summer.  This was the first summer I really had to spend working, and (although I'm grateful for the jobs Peter and I found) I must say I'm not overly fond of that.  Especially when I just want to play and spend time with my mom while she's out of school!  Sheesh! (lol)  However, we've enjoyed being able to visit with our friends here again.  We have already had several game nights with friends and seen many people we missed over the summer!

We went to the apartment of our recently married friends Adam and Carly the second night we were back, and when I saw all their pictures on the wall, I knew Peter and I had to do something!  We lived in our apartment all last semester with nary a decoration hung.  Well, we have changed that, and I'm so excited!

My mom got these cute flower pictures for us at Ikea!

This might have been the first picture Peter hung.

Peter and I made a wedding collage!
We're missing a picture that we left in SC lol

We hung my bridal picture up beside it for a nice wall display!

We went up north last week to go to the wedding reception of one of Peter's high school friends.  We were also happy to keep Peter's dad company since his mom was out of town.  Peter tried to throw together a little high school reunion party Saturday night, but only about 10 people showed up (I should qualify this--he invited like 100 people!  Much bigger than any party I've ever held lol).  We came home Sunday after Sacrament meeting and then were invited to a little game night with some of our friends.  We brought a bunch of hot dogs and buns back down South with us because the buns were going to go bad if they weren't eaten, so we had a cookout Monday night with Paul and Kylie and a group of friends, which was really fun! Then last night, we went to see Love's Labours Lost at the Shakespeare Festival!  Fun and busy!

Tuesday, I attended a meeting for tutors on campus, and upon seeing several of my friends on campus, began to finally feel excited about going back to school!  I'm looking forward to getting back into the routine.  I just ordered my books tonight.  Ready or not, here it comes! :)

March Madness (and no, I don't mean basketball :P)

I made a goal to blog each week, so last week I was looking for things to take pictures of because all posts are better with pictures :)  Well, I was walking across campus when I came across a pen and two calves.  As in baby cows.  I was like what the...? so I asked the people standing around what it was for, and they said it was Aggie's Day (meaning agriculture majors).  Only in Utah!  The cows were pretty cute, though, so I took pictures :)

Saturday, we had a Songs of the Heart social, which was pretty fun.  I took some pictures of it, too, but I probably need to post those on facebook, so I won't put them here.  Peter's parents also came up with the purpose of buying us a couch.  After much searching and deliberation we decided on a futon couch that looks nice and is very comfortable.  In order to make sure it didn't fall off the back of the truck, Peter rode home lounging on our new couch lol.

My Room!

Well, it's complete! Or at least pretty darn close! I painted it right before school started. It was yellow...

(and rather messy)

Once I finished painting it, we added some paint to fix up the bed a little bit, then put it in the room with my new comforter.

We arranged my furniture, but it was still messy, and I had stuff for my walls sitting on my floor for a long time.

Finally, though, we hung my pictures and other wall decorations, as well as buying a full-length mirror to hang on my door.

We put in new shades and a curtain.

We painted this book shelf black and got way cute boxes to put on it!

Kira did most of these pictures--they are black and white with dashes of color! Totally classy!

Dad hung these up for me

Matt and Vanessa gave me their poster frame, and Matt helped me hang it up!

Isn't this switch cover pretty?

I love my black and white room!