New wish list item...

David and I went to the Logan Fair last night (SO much fun) and saw these pictures in a booth there. We fell in love with them instantly. The big sizes were 50% off and so were selling for only $140 dollars. Unfortunately, we don't really have that much money to be throwing around right now, but I thought I would share my new #1 item on my wishlist!


David and I are also avid Aggie Fans, and Old Main is our favorite building... ever probably. I would LOVE to have a large print of this picture in my house as well. They look so incredible. (Even more beautiful in person, I promise.)


The company that makes these incredible pieces of art is called Framed Legacy. Their website is www.framedlegacy.com. Go check them out. Go into their gallery and look at the frames they use for their pictures. They are incredible (For some reason, the frame didn't come over when I copied the pictures.

I love the style of these pictures and my dream is to someday own one of them. :) (It's a good thing that I only brought 10 dollars in cash to the fair, or else David and I may have left with a very large souvenir!

A Saturday of Roofing

Last weekend we went down to my Grandma's house to help re-roof it with my family. It was really a ton of fun. I know that you probably think I am lying because you might think that roofing cannot be fun and the August heat, however, it was great. Shantel and I enjoyed being in the sun and working hard, most especially we enjoyed working with my family and serving my Grandma. I just want to share two awesome things about the day. Well....maybe three. First we drank a lot of gatorades. My sister Wendy came bringing them up to us and we drank at least 50 between 10 of us.

However, the first thing I really wanted to tell you about is my Dad and how amazing he is. He is the hardest worker I have ever known. He has been working the last couple weeks to get the roof ready so we could shingle it on Saturday. However, when they tore off the shingles they found that they had to replace all of the plywood. He had not planned on that but he got up at 5:30 AM for a week to get it done. Unfortunately the day before we were going to shingle the roof he sprained his ankle while working on the roof. Most people would just take the weekend off but not my Dad. He wanted to get the project done and would finish it no matter what. He could not really walk so Shantel got him a chair (only after being told she was not liable if he rolled off the roof) and he sat on it on top of the roof giving us directions. However, he had to move around to show us certain things and make sure some of the more technical parts were done correctly. I love my Dad and admire how hard he works.

That brings me to my second thing, my wife Shantel is amazing. She is such a hard worker. She spent the entire day up on the roof working just like the rest of us. It was so much fun to be up there working with her. The best part though is that she is the one who did all the most difficult work. The most technical work was around the chimney and valley. Well my Dad needed someone that could do the labor if he told them how to do it. So my Dad spent a good part of the morning giving her directions and she did all the cutting, placing and nailing of shingles. She was amazing and I am grateful for her.

Really my whole family was awesome. My brothers Jeff, Bruce and Mike worked super hard with me. My sister Amy also was on the roof the whole day working just as hard as everyone else. My sister Wendy kept the drinks coming and my mom got the food and made us lunch. Melissa would have helped I'm sure except she is very much pregnant, but she came over anyway just to be part of the fun. It was a real family project.

Here is my Dad sitting on his chair atop the roof.

Here is my Dad, he could not resist getting up and working despite the fact he could barely walk.


And...best for last. My beautiful wife working hard cutting some shingles to fit the "hip" of the roof. She was so awesome. She even looks so beautiful when she is working and sweating on the roof.

Two Month Anniversary...

Yesterday was August 5th. That means that exactly two months from yesterday David and I got married! It has been an amazing two months. We have had many adventures, eaten lots of good food, spend lots of time with family and thoroughly enjoyed being married. (I realize that those of you who have been married longer than two months may think it is silly to celebrate such a short time of being together. But every day is so wonderful that I feel like I should have a celebration EVERY day. That isn't really possible, so we chose to make yesterday a special day.)
We had such a good day. I wanted to show David how much he means to me, so I woke up early in the morning and surprised him with breakfast in bed. I would have loved to spend the day together and not go to work, but we still had to go to work. However, on the way home we did pick up a pizza and came home to a delicious dinner. We had a list of things we needed to get accomplished and did everything on our list! One of the things on our list included me cutting Davids hair for the time all by myself! It turned out so well! (See pictures below.)

One thing that has been so fun about being married is finding the little quirks in our relationship. I am so grateful for a husband who finds my quirks endearing instead of annoying. Here are just some of the quirks in our relationship that make our life together SO FUN:

1. We each have our own tube of toothpaste, because neither of us likes the others Brand choice.

2. I love cold pizza for breakfast (or any meal for that matter) and David can't stand the thought of it. (Although, every time I am eating it I still offer some to him!)

3. I like to eat most things in a bowl, David prefers to use a plate. (For foods like spaghetti, salad, potato supreme etc...)

4. David would eat potatoes with every meal if he had the chance. I, however, would be a happy camper if I could eat some form of pasta every day for the rest of my life.

5. I am a morning person, and David is a night owl.

I love the things that make our relationship unique. I also love the things we have in common, like our love of otter pops, popcorn and board/card games. I love that we both love to watch movies that we have never seen before even if they are silly little kid movies (City of Ember for example). I love that we can spend hours walking around the grocery store just enjoying being together.

Here are just a few pictures from our "2-month anniversary celebration." Take note of the amazing job I did cutting Davids hair!

The very delicious and very large pizza we bought for dinner.


Davids hair, before. (So wonderful and long!)


Nervous to let me cut his hair without parental supervision. (His dad taught me how to once, back in December. I am proud to say I remembered everything perfectly.)

Post haircut. Such a handsome guy!


Side view. Look at what a good job I did. :) Be proud.

ps. Be excited for the upcoming post about re-roofing Davids Grandmas house! Both David and I have a lot to say about it!