Our Little Life

Since I’m home sick today, I thought I would finally sit down (okay well I’ve been sitting the past 3 days watching Bones re-runs trying to get better) and start the blog I have been wanting to start for months.  I guess I have been waiting for the perfect story or something to get this going, but at this point I feel like I’m holding on to so many stories that I just want to get them down.  I have this thing where I want to remember every single little moment and conversation that I feel like if I let any of it out, I will lose it.  I love those little memories! But the thing is that they are all building together into something beautiful and something larger than I can even grasp all at once, hanging onto just those little things.  So I have to realize that is what the most important part is - now.  

Joshua and I have been married almost 10 months.  Seriously I can’t even believe that - it has gone so fast, and yet I feel like we have been together forever.  I absolutely love being married to that boy. We have had a crazy, beautiful, trying, awesome adventure together so far.  Seriously there are so many words to describe what we have experienced together in the last almost-year.  And every single day I find even more reasons to be grateful to the Lord for giving me this incredible man and this incredible life.  

We rent a cute little apartment behind Joshua’s parents house (so obviously we have great neighbors) and we take up every inch of space that we have.  We like to be cozy, so it’s all good.  In fact, last weekend we found ourselves with an open Saturday and went through every single thing we own - cleaning, organizing, making fun of the stuff we still had (these would include Joshua’s old water polo speedos - I made him keep one to share with our future posterity because it’s just too good).  Now our apartment is literally so perfectly clean that we are afraid to do anything in it.  And we love it!! We have found having a clean house really does help to promote peace and organization in basically every other area in life.  Plus, it’s just really nice to come home to. And we looooove decorating and making our house look awesome together, even if it is only two rooms. 

We are blessed that we are both able to work full-time right now.  I work about a half hour away at Warner Pacific Insurance as a New Business Specialist. We were recently released as Nursery Leaders at church (a calling which we loved - we had the BEST and cutest kids) and now I get to teach the 8 & 9 year old girls in primary.  Joshua works for Bank of America at a corporate office down the street and just recently got a promotion that he worked suuuuper hard for.  He also goes to school full-time at night, is the ward Executive Secretary, and blows me away with how he stays on top of everything and yet still has time to be the best husband in the world.  

That is pretty much the basic frame of our life right now - we get up, work, make dinner, school, maaaaybe throw in an episode of a show on Hulu, read scriptures, and sleep.  We also make time for frozen yogurt, visiting my family in Sacramento, Sunday dinners with Joshua’s family, going to the temple once a month, watching Hulu/Netflix, recording songs together, eating at really cool new restaurants, planning what our future home will look like, lots and lots of laughing, planning and going on fun trips, hanging out with friends, skyping with friends and family, little projects and building cool things, walking around the mall, and just doing whatever we love. 

We have been able to do and experience so much together in the almost-year that we have been married, I literally made a list of everything so that I won’t forget.  I need to be a better journal-writer, I know it!  

Well this is getting longer than I had planned for it to be, but this is our little life.  And I am so grateful.  And happy.