Hehe.

Sometimes I find gray hairs hiding on Gary's head. I used to pull them out as soon as I spotted them but I've stopped. Gary will just end up being a hunky salt and pepper man! You know, mature and refined. :)

Recent Happenings

At the beginning of the month Gary and I splurged and bought a carpet cleaner from Costco. We had a coupon and we'd been
wanting
needing to clean our carpet bad! Real bad. There was no guessing what the popular routes were in our house. I'm not going to lie, we were starting to be able to see some trails. I don't think it really hit me how dirty our carpet was until we actually started to use the cleaner. Don't get me wrong, we clean and vacuum all the time. But our carpet probably hadn't been really deep cleaned in who knows how long. So it was nice to finally get it cleaned and have it be pretty again... well as pretty as it can be when you have green carpet. The joys of renting, right?

This past weekend we went out and helped my parents with their roof on their patio. And by we I mean Gary because I didn't climb past the fourth or fifth rung on the ladder. I just took pictures and played with Asher since Andy also was helping on the roof. We also did some fireworks for the 24th out there which was fun!


It's funny because every time I've gone home I have wanted to find all my old barbies and get them out and reminisce. Well this time I actually did it. I found them and I couldn't believe how many I had! Seriously. You won't believe it either.

Yes, that's right. 33!!! When my mom saw this she said, "If I would have known you had that many I would have stopped buying them for you!" I seriously can't believe I had this many. I thought it was so funny. Oh, and please excuse some of my barbies and their manners.... ahem, at least they have somewhat built in undies on. When I was pulling them all out I threw a naked barbie and a naked ken in the same spot and Andy informed me that it didn't look quite right. Haha! I quickly separated them.

When we got home from our trip we were greeted by the most unpleasant surprise. I was putting some of our stuff away and I saw this huge swarm of baby spiders all over my sewing machine and my sewing table. I freaked! We stayed up forever spraying and cleaning. It seems like since then we've been finding more spiders all over. Last night we even saw a spider kill another spider and start to wrap it up. It was gross... in a cool sort of way. I thought we should let the assassin spider live and help us out some more, but that thought only lasted about a nano-second. I'm tempted to bomb our house. But I guess we'll see.

And in other news, Gary made the Dean's List! He just got the letter. I am so proud of him! He's so smart. I also got my hair cut. Again. This time I went even shorter and got an a-line.

New Spice

Have you seen those hilarious Old Spice commercials? Well be sure to watch {this}! Then watch the remake they did for the Harold B. Lee Library. It is seriously so fantastic and I've been giggling ever since I watched it.

Then if you watch {this} you can see some other things they used from the original commericals to do the remake. But if you don't care about that... you should just watch them because they are all so funny! Like {this} one and {this} one.

Just a thoughtful Thursday

So, I have been totally lame about posting lately. I always have tons of homework. I really can't wait until summer school is over. Gary is taking tons of classes this summer and he is doing really well. I get jealous a lot because I'm only taking one class and I can barely keep up. I haven't been the perfect little ray of sunshine this summer because of all the stress that I'm dealing with. The combination of school and work and everything else have just made me a basket case. However, it's comforting to think that this time next year both Gary and I will be finished! Life will still be busy and have it stressful moments, but we won't have homework! So I can't wait. People always say the stress never ends and that things will still be hard after school, but seriously not having to bring everything home with you at the end of day will be so amazing. A life with no essays or tests sounds pretty good to me.

Gary sometimes tells me that sometimes he wishes I wasn't in school because I get so stressed and down. Sometimes I wish I wasn't in it either, but the light at the end of the tunnel is so close that there is no way I'm backing down now. In fact, I've had a lot of people ask me if I really want to even do school... probably because I compalin so much. I really should learn to not be such a little rain cloud. Haha. :P But the truth is, I really do like being in school. It's hard and challenging, probably a little too challenging sometimes thanks to BYU, but I know it will be worth it. And I really love what I study. I've learned so much that I really feel will help our family. It's been so great to learn such amazing things and also be able to put a gospel spin on everything. So that's one thing I know I wouldn't have been able to get anywhere else besides BYU. I'm not very career driven and even though I would love to get a job in my field, the only thing I've ever wanted to do is be a mom. I remember when I was little and my little baby dolls were just everything to me. I remember putting them to bed and even checking them in the middle of the night. I think that is the most important job of all and I can't wait for it. And besides, I will always have a degree to fall back on if anything were to ever happen.

Anyway, I'm probably just rambling. It's just something I've been thinking about lately. I'm so grateful that Gary is doing so well in school and I am so excited to see where life will take us after graduation. It's scary thinking about the unknown but I know we'll be taken care of. And I really can't wait for the next stage in our life. But in the meantime, I should probably get back to my reading...