wk 12.

I am slacking.

these are starting to get posted on tuesdays....wednesdays...thursdays...ahh.

but here is this weeks photo. 

thought i should have my man in it. this might be the last one he can be in for awhile.

this was actually taken sunday.

after church, we decided to go down to old town, san diego.

they were having a spicey fiesta!!

jon got to try tons of different salsas and jams, he loves spicey things.

then we just walked around and enjoyed each other.

maybe bought some authentic mexican vanilla (yummm).

then we decided we'd go to sea world. 

we went on our favorite ride, then walked and looked around and talked. it was such a fun night, i love him.

news.

jon got a call yesterday.

every time his phone rings, my stomach drops.

see, he is on 24 hour call now.

they could tell him they are leaving and they'd be gone within a day.

it is quite frightening, but i know that he is going so it can't be too much of a shock.

and whenever he finally leaves, that means i can start counting down until he comes home.

i counted out 217 junior mints yesterday and put them in a glass container.

thats 7 months if every month has 31 days. so it gives me leeway.

i will eat a junior mint every day that he is gone.

its actually comforting, because the glass container is already half empty.

it really doesn't look like that many junior mints...

mmmm stale candy:)

well, the call was telling him that he is no longer going to Camp Dwyer.

it kind of freaked me out.

what we 'knew' about camp dwyer-

-it has wi-fi, laundromats, and cans. 

(not sure EXACTLY what a can is...all i know is that it is NOT a measly tent)

-jon would have been at the same camp as two of his good friends from school, one of his buddies from the shop here, and would have been in good contact with kenny, his best friend from high school.

now jon is going to a brittish camp with 9 other marines, and he will be the only generator mechanic.

he will be sleeping in a tent. 

internet? who knows.

its rough getting such news when we have guests. we don't have any alone time to talk about it, and i don't want to sound freaked out in front of his little brother. 

its hard not to bicker in such tense circumstances. so we did.

and when i stormed up to our room, jon followed me and annoyed me until i laughed. he is such a tool.

this was me trying to pout. i love him.

and a little family photo.

me kissing the cat, jon eating it.

typical.

restaurants. pt 2.

ever since we moved here, we've been getting emails from Living Social and Groupon.

As of now, Living Social doesn't have any deals in SLC, but they do have deals in other cities.

Groupon recently added SLC onto their list of cities! Which is awesome.

i LOVE the deals they put up, and usually we buy one about once a week. 

Oppera Cafe was the first one we bought. 

$10 for $25 dollars worth of food. You betcha. 

it was soo cute and fun!

we sat on the outside patio, right next to a busy street and across from a live theater.

my handsome man. always texting...

we ordered an appetizer, a meal and dessert and shared all three.

jon usually eats anything. but he did not like the bruschetta. 

i thought it was yum. 

it was a very cute place, pretty reasonably priced. 

check those websites out and see if they have your city, it is SO worth it, 

i promise.

wk 11.

jon and i talked and laughed from the time he got home from work until we got in bed. we hardly used our computers or phones.

we danced and hugged in the kitchen after making dinner. 

then we made cake balls.

life was good today.

new house pictures.

i am so excited!!

a couple months ago, I asked my dear friend Jake to make a painting for us to hang in our kitchen.

he is so talented. 

i have a painting of his from a few years ago (wow, its been that long??) that i still need to hang in my office upstairs. here it is.

i know its hanging crooked and my bedroom is awful. this was my bedroom in queens, ny before my interior design degree was obtained, but look how cute that painting is!!

and and and....here is the new painting!

oh, i'm so happy with how it turned out. he does amazing work, and he's so unique.

the little heart on the upper right hand is a lil poem in the shape of a heart.

it says-

"In life's constant struggle between balance, peace, and equilibrium, love should and will always stand out from all the commotion as something that you can always rely on for peace. Sompthing you can always know to be there for you."

Yes, it says sompthing. i love it! and i love the man who made it.

he got married yesterday and i'm so happy for them. their invitation was AMAZING.

i'm so sad i couldn't make it to their wedding, and i wish them the best. 

this is how it looks from the back door. 

i love how it looks.

here is an updated photo of our kitchen bookshelf.

my uncle made the bookshelf for us with his bare hands.

it is so beautiful.

my cousin Camie made the bowls on the bottom shelf.

i am just realizing how talented my friends and family are...

i'm so grateful to have a piece of everyone in our little home. 

(creepy?)

on our three month anniversary, jon came home early and surprised me with this aloe vera plant.

he was going to bring me flowers, then he read this post that i had written that morning, and decided to get me a plant.

i am so glad he did, the plant brings much needed life into the room, and it serves a purpose!

the pitcher in the middle was given to us by my gf joyce. she is on a mission right now and I miss her dearly.

the antique box on the right, i'm so happy about it.

when jon and i were in las vegas last weekend, jon took me to the "Antique Mall Of America".

we were there for at least an hour. he enjoyed looking at everything there as much as i did. i didn't think that we would leave with anything, until we found that box.

it was $20 on a 50% off shelf.  

moving on to the living room.

i'm stuck in a rut.

i think i'm going to paint that side table the blue from the pictures. 

i got it from my dads last weekend. it had been left out on the porch for a year.

the stain is cracking off and it is just begging to be painted. maybe it will bring some interest into the room.

also, we NEED a new lamp. if anyone has any ideas for one, let me know. this one was given to us by the people who sold us the sofa. we need a light in there. it's nice to have, its just not visually pleasing.

and our little office.

not much has changed with this. i'm looking for a shelf to put both of our laptops on, so that they don't have to be stacked on top of each other. 

i've been looking for awhile and can't find anything i like. 

let me know if you have any suggestions...

so there is our little house!

it's slowly but surely coming together. i'm so happy that i decided to stay here while jon is gone. (we will see if that changes)

it would break my heart to leave the house and have to pack everything up. 

and yes, i'm still accepting visitors while he is gone:)

Where the Hell is Matt?

this is such a cute video. 

its like 'where's waldo?' trying to find his smiling face in the crowds. 

www.wherethehellismatt.com

wk 10.

the last couple weeks have been crazy. bear didn't come home before we left for texas.

we flew there tuesday night. we had such a ball! that'll be another post.

we came home saturday night around 10 pm. still no bear.

we decided that on sunday morning, we were going to drive to utah in the morning and surprise our family.

sunday, we woke up at 5 am and left at 6 so that we could be home by sunday dinner at 530.

it was so much fun seeing the family and surprising Camille. she is the sweetest.

the next morning we went to the pound to look at kitties.

well....we left with one.

we wanted to name her after something that would remind us of home.

so we named her Rumbi.

its a bit soon to get a kitty after bear left. we're both so sad about him being gone. 

the point of getting a cat was to keep me company while jon is away. i wanted him to spend time with a new kitty too, so that he didn't just come home to a cat he doesn't know. 

we still want bear to come home. 

and this new little kitty is so so so sweet.
p.s. those specks on my jeans? yeah. its snot from rumbi sneezing. she was sick when we got her, so we're in the process of nursing her back to life. we are good parents.