LIfe Lately

1. We went to a Brian Regan show a couple weeks ago for Eric's grandma's birthday. I'd never really heard of the guy, but I was excited and Eric was stoked. I've never see that family laugh so hard in my entire life. It was so fun just to watch them! It was a good show, but I realized that I'm not huge into comedians. Comedians and demolition derbys... just not my thing.

2.  Every time I'm setting the table for a meal for Eric and I, I have to pause and think before I pick out the silverware to use. This is the most random thing, but I quickly learned after we got married that Eric and I have completely opposite utensil preferences! It used to be that I'd set the table with what I thought would be the proper utensil for the meal we were having... and then after the prayer, Eric would get up and switch his out for a different one! So here's the two rules I've learned to live by.
 
Rule #1: If I think that a spoon is the obvious choice for the meal we are having, get Eric a fork. And vice versa. For example: Last night we ate tortellini with a little spaghetti sauce. Obviously a fork would be the utensil of choice for this meal, you've got to stab the little things. WRONG. Eric prefers
his tortellini with a spoon. Literally every single meal we eat, we use opposite utensils. Funny huh?

Rule #2: Utensils are not created equal. We have large utensils and we have slightly smaller utensils. I've never really paid attention before. Eric MUST have the big spoon or the big fork. None of that small utensil business.  It drives him absolutely crazy. I, on the other hand, haven't ever given a second thought to the size of our cutlery. But I'm catching on.

I guess I should have seen this coming. When we were registering for our wedding, Eric didn't have very much opinion on a lot of the things we registered for, but oh my land, he spent his sweet time in the silverware aisle.

String Art Project

3. The second half of this semester has been so relaxing! I'm done with my huge Senior Project and just taking a few fun classes and Eric is done with his huge Dental Admission Test and is working with his Dad a couple of days a week. Our evenings are stress free and the fact that it is starting to get warm outside has opened up our date night possibilities 100 fold.

I had to re finish a lampshade for my interior decorating class

4. Speaking of the warm weather, I went running on Saturday. Well it was more quick shuffling with spurts of jogging intermingled in. But oh man it felt so good! I was so excited to go again on Monday morning (once I get back in the jogging habit, there is no stopping)... but... Rexburg decided to send us a blizzard out of no where. So being outside was out of the question.

 5. Valentines Day!
We had such a great Valentines Day. I'd been giving Eric a hard time the week before V-Day because I told  him he had to top what he did last year. We had only been dating for like 2 weeks when Valentines Day came around last year. I was still mission bound and thought I was dating this boy just for fun, so I wasn't expecting ANYTHING special on V-day. I thought we had a mutual agreement that this was not a serious relationship and in my mind that translated to: Valentine's day is not a big deal for us.

Then February 14th came. Right at 7:44 am (one minute before my alarm goes off) I was awoken to my roommate carrying a plate of warm french toast, eggs, bacon and apples with a heart that said, "Will you be my Valentine <3 Eric". What the?!?   It didn't end there, I came home from class at around 12:30 and found a dozen pink roses on my table. And then we ended the night with a homemade candlelit dinner and watched my favorite Disney movie, Fox and the Hound.  Needless to say, he did pretty good last year.

This year I woke up to breakfast in bed, heart-shaped french toast with strawberries! I wish I had a picture, because it was gorgeous and so delicious! He handed me my plate then went to get his... his plate was filled with all the crusts/scraps  leftover from my heart-shaped french toast. Baha. It looked awful!

We also got to go to a baby appointment on Valentine's day and hear our little girl's heartbeat. There was actually no Doctor in the office (Emergency delivery) so we were in and out in like 8 minutes. It was great.

Eric's parents had left on a cruise, so after our appointment we drove straight to IF to hang out with Madi. We ate pizza and sugar cookies and watched Ender's Game. It was just a good day! 

6. St. Patrick's Day.
So we wore green and we made some delicious Irish Soda Bread! Pretty festive eh?

THIS WEEK

This is the week that Eric and I have both been anticipating/dreading/anxiouslyawaiting/why-did-it-take-so-long-to-get-here?? for several months now.

Needless to say, it's a big week for us.
But let me rewind.

I haven't updated this blog in months. MONTHS I tell you! So why now? Because it's 10:32 pm on a school night and I am home alone in my little Rexburg apartment. I don't want to clean. I don't want to do homework. I didn't even make myself dinner. Two packages of fruit snacks and handful of tortilla chips  later... I'm blogging because I can't think of what else to do!

Eric, on the other hand is spending the night at his parents house in Idaho Falls, leaving me here all alone. The nerve right?! Just kidding. There is a very reasonable explanation.

 He has to wake up bright and early and drive to Pocatello to take the Dental Admission Test. Pretty much the test that determines whether or not he'll be accepted to Dental School (although we all know he's going to rock it). It's kind of a big deal and he's been studying like a mad man for the past month and a half. So to cut his early morning journey in half, he spent the night in IF.  Very logical reasoning, but heck, I should have just skipped school and gone with him. In our six months of marriage, we've never been apart overnight and sleeping in your own apartment all alone is scary! Yes, even in Rexburg, ID.

We're both so excited for this test to be done with. He'll start up his internship with his dad next week, and I'll have a non-stressed out husband for the rest of the semester!

But there's more. I'm graduating this semester!!! The final requirement I needed to fill in order to graduate is my senior project. So for my senior project, I'm putting on quite possibly the largest campus production of the semester. It's the annual BYU-Idaho Slam Dunk Competition.


  It's held every Winter semester, and this year me and another girl are running the whole show by ourselves. So far it's been really fun to plan and prepare for it, but my gosh it takes a lot of phone calls, begging and running around. We've worn ourselves out and are so ready for this event to come and go. It all goes down this Friday night and I couldn't be more excited. I'll have to write a whole post about why I decided to do this for the project and all the sentimentality it holds for me (Eric won the competition last year... we'd only been dating for 5 days when he won, but I was sold after that ;).

Essentially, the two huge stress points of our semester will be over in a matter of days, hours for Eric. Yayayayayyayyayayya! We haven't taken a single picture, gone out, done anything fun all semester simply because we've been so enthralled in these two projects and have been so stinking tired that we haven't wanted to.

So hopefully all that changes and after a weekend recovery, we'll be back to normal!

Wish us luck!

Love, Noelle