our new house.

Here is a post loaded with pictures of our little house!!

This is the front door. (Oh and these are obviously 100% unedited)

standing in the front door looking in the house. to the right you have a stair case, right in front you have a large living room. this is the closet before the living room. to the left you have a bathroom/storage room and garage door.

two views of the front closet.

the big living room. our stuff..i know.

the living room going into the kitchen. two little entrances.

view of the kitchen from the front room.

the kitchen.

this is the bathroom that is to the left of the front door. behind us in the garage and the the left of us is...

the storage room which can be a laundry room if we had a washer/dryer...

the garage.

this is the staircase to the right of the front door. it has like 5 stairs, then turns and goes left to a full stair case.

this is in the middle of the staircase looking at the front door. isnt that ledge weird? I don't know what to do with it. anything?

again the front door standing above the landing.

this is the stair case with the landing, the front door is to the right.

linen closet at the top of the stairs. its the first door on the left. the stairs are right next to jon's left foot.

this is a picture of the hallway. at the end of the hallway to the right are the stairs. the first door on the right when you walk upstairs is the guest/craft room.

this is a picture of the guest room door.

guest.

guest.

this door is across the hall from the guest room. storage.

the last door at the end of the hallway on the right is our bedroom.

our bedrooooom.

happy about our closet...

across the hall from our room is our bathroom. SO annoying the mirror doesnt go all the way across the counter!!!! good thing we brought a mirror we took from my dads house when he remodeled!

the bathroom bathroom.

this is the garage from the outside. you can see the bathroom right across.

our new little house!! its a duplex connected to one other house.

i hope you enjoyed!! i will post "during" photos soon! our house is a mess still though...so I'm a bit ashamed to post pictures of it. i will though of course.

we can't alter the blinds ( THEY KNEW I HATED THOSE ) because the houses need to look the same from the outside. We can't alter the lighting either. If we want, we can paint. Preferably a light color so that its easy to cover up later. They paint every time someone moves out. I don't know if I'll spend the time painting. The carpet is pretty new and nice. I think that's about it. I'm going to add drapes to make it not so plain. We did our kitchen Black and White. I knew that the walls would be white and figured the appliances would be, and they are. So we got all black items to put in there. It looks so cute! Unfinished, but I will post pictures. Family, let me know if you want pictures of certain things. I want you to get the full effect. Even though I am sure you'll be here soon........

xoxo.

we're here!!

We got married Tuesday May 11th. Spent a night in SLC, packed up Wednesday.

That night we stayed at the Marriott where we had our reception.

Kalie and Spencer DEMANN came over and we swam and hung out.

Thursday we met my dad and his wife, my aunt and uncle at my house and drove to Mesquite.

We left them in Mesquite and drove to Las Vegas just the two of us. We stayed in an amazing hotel.

Friday we drove to San Diego. We spent Friday and Saturday nights at our friends house in Carlsbad.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday was spent in the hotel on base.

WEDNESDAY WE GOT A HOUSE!

I couldn't be happier.

The Marines came over and helped us move in.

Ever since, we have been unpacking and decorating.

I'm having so much fun decorating my own house.

Jon and I have pretty similar style.

I can go on and on about how much fun I'm having.

I'll show before and during pictures of the unpacking and decorating.

In the meantime, here is a picture of me with my new hair on our new bed in our new house.

Jon is downstairs hanging something up which is why this is a bejumbled hurried mess.

If he knew I was blogging right now....

Engagements.

Taken by Kylie Nixon on December 26, 2009.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

just overwhelmed.

So, I may or may not be taking a bit of a break from blogging. if you couldnt tell.

i have been SO busy with planning our wedding, trying to finish my last semester in the interior design program and GRADUATE, trying to balance my 35 hours a week at work plus my 6+ hours at my internship and trying to figure out how i'm going to move all of my stuff in an organized manner. we decided how we are going to ship our stuff. a storage thing is going to be dropped off in front of our house the day of the wedding (ugh). and the day after the wedding, we are putting all of our furniture and big items and anything else into the storage unit. the next day, the unit is going to be picked up and driven to california without us.

so we're going to pack my car full of anything that we will need for a week. and thursday we're driving to las vegas, spending a night, then friday driving to california. hopefully friday we can put our name on the housing list. if not, then monday. and hopefully it only takes a few days to get a house. we can get the items from the storage thing any time between wednesday may 19th and monday may 24th... in the meantime, we will be sleeping in a hotel. hopefully we have a house by monday or we'll have to put everything in storage until we get one.

umm. do you see why i am stressed?

so i think i'll blog post wedding when we are in the hotel since that might be the only time we'll ever have internet again. baha. jk. kind of.

this is lyndsi and i in my fathers car. she threw me a bachelorette party last weekend and gary was out of town. why not drive his mercedes convertible?

oh after throwing a fit, people finally decided to help me figure out the invitations and envelopes. what a RELIEF to have them all done. biggest hassle of the wedding by far.

i know this picture is blurry but it shows my dress well. at my family bridal shower, they made a dress and bouquet out of tissue paper. isnt it a pretty dress!! what i would wear if i wasn't morm for sure.

my gf kalie made my bouquet for my bridals. 100% impressed. i'll post my bridals after the wedding, i think you will be impressed with Kylie's work! She is so cute!

this is what the flowers looked like pre bouquet. gosh i have talented friends.

okay these are my two loved ones trying on their wedding outfits.

yes. they are the cutest little babies in the world.

thats all.

see you after the wedding.

in 17 days.

wish me luck

:):)!!

i'm alive.

Oh, it's been so long.

let me show you some pictures of when I went to visit Jon in March.

after having a bit of a break down, jon took me on this rollercoaster. its on the beach.

well...basically.

me at mission beach.

i got to see my two lovers! Lindsay is my cousin who lives in La Jolla (no more than 15 minutes from us) and amanda boo, hello. amanda came down and we shopppppped and laughhhedddd and had a good time togetherrrrr....etc.

i dont know when this picture was taken but i just wanted to post it. i feel like it displays our love of technology and shopping.

we went to a circus randomly. we were hanging out with jon's good friend from high school. he's a marine and stationed at camp pendleton. his gf was there and we drove to get yogurt and passes a circus. we knew we needed to go. well it was 100% sketchy. and not entertaining. jon dropped items from my purse under the bleachers and had to hop a fence to get "my" (kalie's) hair clip that i never use. and yes i did get that gum stuck on the bottom of my shoe.

this is me in little italy. we love, love that place. 

another treat.

guess i better get baking while my dad lets me use his money to do it!!

that won't be the case for long.

so, i made these Brownie Candy Cups last night.

i bought carmel to put on top of them.

i don't like carmel so i haven't put any on yet,

but i took some to work and they were a hit!!

so yum and easy.

i even ate one for breakfast.

i am disgusting.

big news.

yes, we got some fun news on our anniversary (fancy that).

Jon got called into his superiors office.

what did his superior tell him?

"We need people to go to Afghanistan. We'll be leaving any time between August and December of this year."

i cried for a good half hour, put on jon's dog tags and went on with my day.

so while Jon is __,___ miles away doing-

this

this

this

and hopefully lots of this.;

I will hopefully be

eating myself silly

spending lots of time with cousins all over the US

staying a proud and supportive wife

daddy's little girl again!

beaching with visitors (thats YOU)

loving my innocent little one(s) who don't give me the sympathetic eye

making girlfriends

and R and R-ing the sh.. out of those 7 months.

and whenever he leaves, for however long,

i'm telling you that instead of becoming

depressed,

bitter,

and angry,

i'm going to try to become

prouder

more grateful for our time spent together,

and stronger.

so bring on the briefing,

the extra bonus pay with scary names,

and the 80 hour work weeks.

because it may all start with a goodbye, but will end with a hello.

BAM.