New Addition!

I bet all of you think I'm going to say something about this...

Well...

I'm not. Haha fooled ya! It's only been two months guys. ;)

This would be the new addition I'm referring to...

Yes, everyone Tyler bought me a hutch for my birthday, isn't he sweet. I saw that one that Tyanna had posted on her blog and I thought I would look on KSL to see what I could find. I wasn't expecting to find one that I liked...let alone end up with one. But, this one was posted and it was only $100!!! What kind of crazy person would pass up that deal, right? So I jumped on it while I could. I told Tyler about it and that if he was ok with it then that's what he could get me for my birthday (which is Sunday the 17th). We called the guy that was selling it Monday night and made arrangements to go look at it tonight (Thursday). We didn't exactly tell him that we wanted to buy it, just that we wanted to look at it. I called my brother and made arrangements to borrow his truck and we looked at the hutch and in about 5 minutes it was loaded and we were on our way. It's a pretty great birthday present. Thank you, Tyler. You're the best husband in the whole wide world! Love you! :)

PS: That second baby picture I posted is my nephew Dainin when he was born...he's 2 now. :)

Honeymoon pictures!

I know it's been a while but I finally remembered while I was at home that I needed to post these so here are some of them.

This is what our friends did to our car at the reception. We went straight to a car wash.

This is a shot of the blue sky when we were waiting for our shuttle at the airport. It was like this the entire time we were in California.

This is our hotel room in the Paradise Pier Disney Hotel. It was pretty sweet.

This was the view from our hotel room. We were looking over California Adventure from the 7th floor.

Autopia

Tyler and his Lego castle. Look at that happy face! :)

Finding Nemo Submarine

We were sad cuz the Matterhorn broke down...

But then it got fixed. :)

Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. We didn't want to wait in line for a picture with them so I just took one from the side. Sneaky, right? ;)

Just because I had to. Pirates is the BEST!

Blue Bayou restaurant INSIDE the Pirates ride. That's right! It was SO cool!!!

Anyway, I took more pictures than this but I didn't want this to be the longest post of all time so I only picked a few. We had a way good time and it was the best vacation ever! Good times were had by all. :)

Name Change

I haven't changed my name yet but my blog has! Since I am no longer single it's not just MY life anymore it's now OUR life and will be for the rest of eternity. :) So I thought it fitting to change the title of my blog to "This is Our Life" still to the same theme as before, it just includes Tyler now. Niether of us can believe that it's been almost two weeks since we got married. It doesn't feel that much different than before...we're just together all the time now. It's great! I'm thoroughly enjoying the whole thing. =D I fully intend to change my name to Katie Shumway, I'm just waiting on our marriage license to come back...along with a day off so I can go to Ogden to do it so I don't have to wait for them to come to Logan.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know Tyler and I spent our Honeymoon in Disneyland. It was so much fun! I don't have any pictures right now but I posted them all to Facebook so you can look at them there until I get some posted here. We had a blast and the weather in California was darn near perfect! A nice change from the cold, gloomy rain we've been having in Logan for a while. Funny story. One of the days we spent in Disneyland we had a bad luck streak of rides breaking down on us. In one day we had 5 break down. That's right 5. They were and these are in no particular order, Indiana Jones (this one broke down right as we were about to get on so they gave us fast passes that would be valid anytime during that day), Haunted Mansion (this one had issues every time we went on it but once), Space Mountain (this one is one of my favorites we went on it probably 10 times), Matterhorn (another favorite), and Alice in Wonderland. It was crazy! And they all happened around the same time too! We didn't feel too bad about it though cuz we had 4 days in the park and we only stayed till closing once. It was a good time! Oh! Another fun thing that we did was we ate at the Blue Bayou restaurant. It's the one that's INSIDE Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah...awesome, right! It was super tasty too. :) I recommend it if you get the chance. It's a little pricey but worth it. How often do you get to eat inside a ride in Disneyland? It was definitely a highlight.

We also went to Medieval Times one night. That was fun! Tyler had never been before. We were the Green Knight and the bad guy...so we didn't win...our rival the Red Knight won. Darn. It was still fun though. I got a video of some jousting on my camera. Awesome!

A highlight for Tyler was definitely the Lego Store in Downtown Disney. We spent a lot of time in there just looking at stuff. Tyler found a big Lego castle that he really wanted but he didn't want to spend that much on it and he was a little worried about getting it home. I did some persuading and finally talked him into getting it and a few Star Wars Lego keychains. He doesn't regret it at all and we have a nice castle on display in our apartment. As for the keychains...I got C3PO and he got R2D2 and then we threw in Darth Vader cuz the were buy 2 get 1 free. Sweet deal!

Anyway, I think that's all the fun stuff of recent events. I'll post pictures later don't you fret. ;)

You'd think I was getting married or something...

We're down to a WEEK! That's right 7 days! One week from today I will be Mrs Katie Shumway! =D So excited! Can't wait.

 It's going to be a great day! An exciting week is ahead of me. First up temple tomorrow! :) Good times. Life is so super wonderful!

Finals

I thought this week would never come. This semester has been one of the longest of my life. (I woner why that is? It's not like I'm getting married at the end of it or anything...) I'm now to the point that I don't even really care anymore, I just want to be done and have a nice long break. Unfortunately I still have 3 finals to take. First up will be Stats tomorrow...if the rest of the tests in this class have been an indicator of how this one will go...FAIL! At least I'll get it out of the way first, right? I've been trying to study for it so I can attempt to do well, but like I said, zero motivation. Next is Business English at 7:30 Wednesday morning! This one will be easy. My lowest test score in that class is like 88% or something like that. Easy peasey. I probably won't study much for that one, I haven't studied for any other test either, it's my easy A class for the semester. ;) Last but not least is Accounting (*grumble*) I struggle with this class. It's easy when the teacher explains it and I get it while I'm in class but by the time I get home and try to remember things and do the homework on my own I forget everything and end up missing something and doing it wrong. It's very frustrating. Thankfully this is the last accounting class I will ever have to take (YES!!!) Hopefully with some solid studying I can do well enough to pull a C. That would be great! Ooh then there's my Econ class, this one makes me happy! Final = optional. It was going to be mandatory until about the beginning of April and then my professor held it to a vote to make the final optional. Of course we're going to vote that way. Finals are terrible! Ok it is open book/open note so it would be a piece of cake anyway but I decided that if I had at least a B- when he finalized grades then I wasn't going to worry about the final and focus on doing well on the others (especially Stats and Accounting) and I'm getting a B. Yay! So that's one less final I have to take this week. Great news!

On another note, Tyler and I got the keys to our apartment yesterday! It was super exciting! We have a home! I can't wait to start moving stuff in there and get settled. There are a few things we'll need to clean a bit but that's ok. I'm so excited to start a new life with Tyler in a couple weeks. I love him so much, he's the best guy ever!

Announcement!

In case anyone hadn't noticed yet...I'M GETTING MARRIED EXACTLY 1 MONTH FROM TODAY!!!!!




I just might a little bit excited about it. Only a little though. It's hardly worth noticing, really. ;) JK!!! I'm super excited! I can't wait! I remember when me and Tyler first got engaged I thought May 19th was FOR-EVER away and now it's almost here! GAH!!! School is almost done, I can't wait...I'm so done it's not even funny and, OF COURSE, the semester is now moving slower than frozen molasses running uphill. One more week of classes and then finals and I'm DONE! I think I can make it. I have my Temple Reccommend Interview on May 3rd and I go through on the 13th (yes, I realize it's Friday the 13th...I did it on purpose. MUAHAHAHA) that will be exciting. Then a week after that is the anticipated ocassion of MARRIAGE! Life is so super great and so super busy. I'm excited for everything but at the same time I kind of just want everything to be done at the same time. That might only be because there's the week we're spending in Disneyland after we get married that has also got me very excited. =D 

It should be a good time.

Only...

5 weeks, or a month and 6 days, or 36 days, or .1 years...however you want to look at it, that's how much time I have left before me and Tyler GET MARRIED!!! I'm so excited I can't even tell you! It's gonna be just great! Our announcements are in the process of being printed so that's done. I have temples reserved for both my Endowments and the actual ceremony. I'll go through the Bountiful Temple exactly a month from today. That's cool, right! Life is so great! Wedding plans are pretty much done. I'm doing Bridals next weekend and I have my family Bridal Shower. More stuff, YES!!! It's a grocery shower this time (as is Aardema family tradition) so hopefully I won't have to stock my shelves too much more after that and I might even get some good receipes to start my own little book or something. I'm not good at experimenting in the kitchen like Tyler is, I need recipes to follow. :) Another exciting thing, we FINALLY have a place to live! It's down around 500 S 300 W. I'm not for sure about the exact address but it's that general area. It's a nice place. I'm happy we found something, now I can stop stressing about it. ;) Now all we really have to do is finish the semester and wait for May 19 to get here. I hope it goes by fast!