Hands--Down Favorite

I love this movie.  It has always been and always will be my favorite Disney movie.  Maybe it's Belle's brains and sass, her father's eyes when he puts on his inventor goggles, Gaston's incredibly thick neck and the swell cleft in his chin, or possibly the Wardrobe as she so gracefully dives on the intruders.  And who can forget the heartwarming snowball fight and first dance? Siiiiigh.

Disney finally let it out of the vault and put it on DVD and I've mentioned it at least three times now hoping Ryan will pick up on it *hint hint*  Needless to say I was THRILLED when my friend Ali texted me today wanting to watch it.  The best part? It was still on VHS.  Welcome back, childhood. :)

My long lost hubby

Holy smokes, I haven't posted a picture of Ryan since he started school!
And for good reason, we haven't taken any.  I also realized that I STILL haven't taken any
pictures of our friends = no proof that we actually have friends.  Fail.
Well, feast your eyes upon the existence of Ryan and our friend Mitch!

I know, I know, he kinda looks like a creeper since he doesn't have our matching shirts or blond hair,
but we DID invite him.  Cross my heart!

While we're talking about failure, let's look at a few more pictures from the Duke Football game, shall we?

This is their entire marching band.  I realize that it's not a huge university,
but I think my high school band was bigger! Jordan would be so disappointed.

 

Next up... do you see anything wrong with the colors in this picture?

I can't really give just Mitch and Ryan crap for being on their phones because I was too (until it died), as was another friend, Erika (though imaginary at the moment due to the lack of photo).  We really did try to cheer on the Blue Devils, but when the final score is 62-13... 

 

Oh, Duke football.  I guess that's what we get when we have athletes who study things like:

Public Policy Studies

Biological Anthropology & Anatomy

Evolutionary Anthropology

Why yes, I did go home and start scanning through the roster to see their majors.
Don't judge.

For the Beauty of the Earth

Okay, okay. Maybe this wasn't the beauty you were expecting. Scroll a little further down for that. I do think these critters are so amazing, though! They spray our apartments for bugs and must do a good job because we have at least 6 petrified giants outside our front door. This first bad boy, however, is still alive. :)

Sigh... isn't this just so beautiful and inviting?
I am so spoiled to have this in my backyard. I can't wait until it starts changing color!
Sadly...If I had my way, Ryan and I would spend evenings lounging in our hammock...
and yes, that is our pool lounger. And yes, it is still warm enough to use it - sorry Nebraska!

It keeps coming...

Yeah, so like I said... I have gobs of free time. This week I made a quilt top out of my high school t-shirts and now I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to quilt it (machine, hand, tie?).
Then I decided to revamp my yellow pillowcase with a little feminine touch.

And I had fun making a flyer for our ward BBQ.
Next week I start the job hunt back over seeing as how things didn't go as well as I'd hoped the first time around. Anyone want to pay me for all the fun things I've been doing? :)

Wedding Album

I finally figured out how to use Adobe InDesign (a FABULOUS graphics design tool) and have started making our wedding album. Oh happy day!!!

We LOVE our Maintenance Man!

Our maintenance man is named Matt. We like him a lot. In fact, we've even thought about inviting him and his wife over for dinner and games some night. It's really good that we have this great relationship because we were able to grab him when we discovered this yesterday:
A leak in the pipe coming out of our water heater! EEK - wet towels and sheets! But, we caught it quickly and it was fixed in no time and now our carpet is flowing like water as the fans dry it out.

In better news, we finally printed our wedding pictures and filled our frames which have had strangers in them for the past few weeks. :)

Photoshop

Here's another way I'm passing my time...

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