Five Years Together

On September 22, five years ago I married my eternal companion and best friend. We've been through a lot together, and a lot has changed in the last five years. Our family has grown, and we're getting settled in the Utah area.  Life is overall is looking pretty good.

Since we recently bought our home, Brandon and I decided to not do gifts for each other this year.  I still wanted to do something, so I decided to make him s'more themed foods.  I made some indoor s'more treats.

We had those the night before and throughout the day.  Since our anniversary was on a Saturday I was able to make him breakfast.  I found a recipe for s'more waffles.  They were delicious.

Brandon's parents came into town that weekend to see Amanda's BFA show (which was awesome!) so they got to spend some time with their grand-baby. That let us do some stuff around the house that needed to get done. Yay for marking more stuff off the list.  It was really great having Brandon's dad here to help him around the house.

That took up most of our afternoon, but we were able to go out to eat together.  It may not have been the most romantic anniversary, but I loved it all the same. Five years down, many many more to go.

I went looking for a picture of Brandon and I together, but couldn't find anything recent, so I decided to put in a cute picture of Kayla playing with her birthday present from her great-grandparents.  She hasn't quite figured out how to push the vacuum, but she likes the buttons!

Our House: The Project List

It has been one week since Brandon and I have become official home owners.  We signed the papers Aug 30th, the day before the deadline.  Talk about cutting it close!  Since then, we've steadily been making a long list of projects that we need/want for the house and yard.  Brandon's got the grass nearly resurrected.  Just in time for it to hibernate for the winter. :)  And I've been working on the inside of the house.  I think almost everything has its place except for a couple boxes and all the pictures.  Those, of course, go last.  I've put some up just for the sake of keeping them out of Kayla's reach.  I was doing just that to a set of orchid canvas pictures.  There were nails in the kitchen walls so I put them there.  And as I was looking I decided I really liked them there.  I really liked the colors, so I'm going to use them for the walls in the kitchen.  I'm so excited to finally figure out what I'm going to paint in there!  It's been bugging me for a while.  I don't know when we'll paint everything yet; it's on the lower end of the project list.

   

The biggest project that's happening soon is the driveway.  For those who have seen our driveway, you know it's a bit of a mess.  It's mostly gravel with some spots of random cement. We're having a friend from our old ward come in and fix it up.  By the end, we should have a nice long cement driveway with a patio.  Brandon's super excited, and I'll be glad to finally put my car in the garage.

All in all, life's staying pretty busy, but we're happy.  Brandon has a lot of projects lined up, and I'm always busy trying to keep up with Kayla.  She's loving the space in the new house.  Her favorite thing to do is to push stuff around the wood floor.  So cute! 

Here's a picture of Kayla helping Daddy put frost spray paint on the bathroom window.  She got up there ALL by herself! Silly Girl.

Brandon got a video of Kayla helping me weed the garden. She's such a big help!

By the end of the day, we were pretty tired. Kayla was happy throwing dirt and getting into everything, but she was a trooper, a dirty trooper.

So I think our yard is slowly coming together.  Hopefully by doing all this hard work now, we'll be that much more ahead next summer.