School and Other Happenings

We think we've got it all figured out for the semester. Thank goodness. With moving and everything the week after school started it was a pretty stressful couple of weeks, but know everything seems to be slowing down into a predictable routine, which we REALLY like. We love our new place, we just keep losing things it's so big! We have no idea where the checkbook, my calculator and my graduation application are. (I really need to find that last one...)

Chase has been great to drop me off and pick me up from school and work everyday so I don't have to ride the bus with all the crazy people. (No offense to anyone who rides the bus, but you for sure meet some interesting people on there!) It's been working out really well for both our schedules.

Chase is liking most of his classes this semester and now gets to study in what we affectionately call "The Man Cave" (the 2nd bedroom). He was nice though to give up half of the space and set up my sewing machine and other girly stuff in there too. :)

I like my classes really well too for the most part. I didn't realize that one I was taking was the senior capstone class, so that's turned out to be a little busier than I thought, but not too bad.

I had to have an emergency root canal this last week. Lortab is amazing. Enough said.

I'm trying to find fabric that I like to make some curtains for our living room. I'm trying to find some sort of slate/navy blue... but no luck quite yet. I did get some made for the laundry room though!

Chase's family came up on Saturday to celebrate my birthday by taking me out to Texas Roadhouse. Really good! Although they have the MOST embarrassing birthday ritual I have ever endured at a restaurant. It involved riding a saddle on a platform in the middle of the isle where everyone and their dog in the restaurant can see how red your face is. It was a dang good thing I got ice cream out of the deal!

My family came on Sunday and brought me dinner which was amazing! And my parents got me an ice cream maker! There is nothing quite so good as homemade ice cream at a family birthday party.

Chase's dad also made me some bookshelves for my birthday so our bookshelf hunt is over. We're having a fun time staining and finishing them. Pictures to come when they're all done! I'm quite impressed with how good Chase has made them look.

We got new callings in our new ward as ward missionaries. We have no idea what we're supposed to do but it sounds fun!

Next week we're headed to Salt Lake for Conference. I am really excited since I've never been to a live session! We were lucky enough to get tickets this time.

Well that pretty much sums up what we've been up to! Thanks for reading!

Gotta Love a Sale!

Where I can get cheap stuff to make things like this:



I love fall!

This is what I do when I'm bored at work....

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

I can expand my vocabulary and contribute to the greater good all at the same time! I thought it was kind of cool.

Bookshelf Hunt

Does anyone know where to find cheap bookshelves? Or have any they'd like to get rid of? We've tried looking at DI with no luck, I guess bookshelves are a pretty hot item since there never seems to be any.

No Place Like Home

We made it! After months of looking we are finally all moved in! Thanks to all of our family we were able to move three days earlier than we were planning on so we didn't have to miss school and work. It feels weird actually having the space to spread out!











And if you'll notice this last picture of the closet, that is my most favorite part. Notice how our clothes, and only our clothes, fit nicely into it!

It's interesting now that we have lived in four different apartments since we've been married how quickly each one feels like home. Chase made the comment that it doesn't really matter where we live, as long as we make it ours and have each other, that's where home will always be.

I'm DONE!

It's official. My internship is done and over with. I turned in my report on Friday and the evaluation was done today. It was good experience, and definitely an eye-opener, but it feels good to be one major step closer to graduation. :)

Summer in Review

I'm kind of sad this is the last official day of summer break. But also kind of relieved. Here's what we did all summer:

6 Trips to Idaho
4 Trips to Kaysville
Ben and Christie's Wedding
Chance and Syndney's Wedding
Old Friend from elementary school's Wedding
Old Friend from Single's ward Wedding
Girl's Weekend with the Family to make a quilt
Grandparent's 50th anniversary
Family Pictures
Anniversary Trip to Park City
School shopping trip to Park City
Family Vacation to St. George
Found a new apartment
Moved 5 couples
Painted a house
Started Packing
Dad's Birthday
Mom's Birthday
Sister's Birthday
Nephew's Birthday
Chase's Birthday
Girl's trip to Tai Pan
Fireworks in Idaho Falls AND Logan
Got a new calling as RS Secretary
Started and finished an internship
Got a job promotion
Kept "Hotel Christensen" in business
Went through one major and one minor truck repair
Planted tomatoes and watched them die
Started sewing for business (kind of)
Made wedding invitation/video
Re-finished an oak table
Applied for graduation (YAY!)

That's it; I'm done with summer, bring on the school!