Weekend Adventures

So, it was a good weekend. Very good. It started off earlier in the week in that the husband has a job! I'm very happy for him. It's only part-time (28 hours) for the moment, but we have high hopes that he'll be able to pick up more hours and plus it gives him time to work on his class and write and stuff. But anyway Friday night we had an awesome date night. We used our Christmas present from Matt's cousin McKell (thanks) and went out to dinner at this cool little cafe in town. Yummy chicken fried steak that I actually enjoyed, which was really good. Then my husband finally took me swimming, which I've been wanting to do since we got married and we've never gone. Obviously no pictures of that, no one wants to see very white winter bodies in swimming suits. But it feels so good to be in the water and Matt taught me how to swim better and I was proud because I swam the whole length of the pool without touching down, possibly for the first time in my life.

So then Saturday we had fun. On Thursday we bought a little end table from DI. It looked like this:

The lighting is not great, but when we finished painting the table looks like this:

I'm still going to antique it by sanding the edges, but I wanted to share our project and I might not ever do it if i wait. I also thought the drop cloth we used looked very neat and artistic. Matt didn't agree with me, but I had to share it.

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know that we're all moved in, but I actually took pictures of the move so it seemed like a waste to let them just sit there with nothing to do except watch the popular pictures get blogged and make new friends. Sorry, had an afterschool charlie brown special moment there.

Anyway, this was the result of our move. Yes, it is in deed a room full of our stuff. My old bedroom got packed (as you can see) with almost everything we owned while we waited for movers to make room in the house for us to take over. Luckily most of our furniture sat in a kind uncle's garage so we didn't have to worry about it.

So my wife didn't want me to show a picture of her on moving day, so here's a mildly entertaining popular picture of my old roommate Abe being attacked by three Werewolves. Anyway, the movers came and were just the happiest elves you'd ever meet in a truck stop. They were really cool and moved all my mom's stuff into their truck PDQ. I think that means Pretty Darn Quick, but I better google it and make sure it's not a viral plague somewhere. Ok, thanks for enduring the randomness!

Wow, its been too long!

So, I haven't blogged for a very long time. I've been a little preoccupied I guess. Or I just don't have an excuse. Its sort of like writing in my journal has been my whole life, I go through streaks. While Matt and I were dating I kept a journal all the time, we got married and I did ok, and it just gradually went downhill. The good news is, I think that soon I will be on the upswing and blog a whole bunch.

So the holiday's were good and they won't get more of a mention than that. Matt graduated (sort of almost, but I consider him graduated. Just got to finish that last class honey :) and it was a lot of fun for me as the wife. I'm really proud of him.

And then our big news is we've now moved from the frozen north, just a little farther south to Brigham City. Matt has pictures from the move, which he might feel inclined to share sometime. His parents got a job out in Sacramento and have made the big move out there, in the meantime we are living in their house. Its really nice to have a lot of space, we just have to be careful not to fill it. The house is nice and we're both really enjoying it. Its also been nice being closer to family again. Matt's brother lives just across town and my sisters are only a half hour away. So we're taking advantage of that.

I've started working at the local elementary school, and I love it. I'm a paraprofessional, which is a fancy word for an aid who teaches a lot, in a resource class. The kids are awesome and I'm having a blast. Big shoes to fill though. I actually am replacing my mother-in-law who is one of the nicest people ever, and then indirectly it was actually my aunt who had my exact job about a year and a half ago. I really like my job. Then I'm also starting to teach piano, and its been a long time since I've had very many students, and quite a while since I taught at all and I LOVE teaching piano. I'm sure to it will make good stories which I hope to post here.

So there, I caught up. Next post I won't be lazy and I'll add pictures of the new house. But I have to decorate it at least a little first. It feels good to have finally done this.