A Date ... And Not The Edible Variety

Just a heads-up for those who haven't asked recently. Kevin and I have decided on Jan. 2nd for our wedding date. Good luck getting here. :) And you better be here!

I Think the Video Says it All!

So, here's some pictures of my beautiful engagement ring!



I know, it's super pretty right?!! I love it!

The End of a Nightmare

What?!! I am so not being overly dramatic in my title. It really was a nightmare. But I finally got my entertainment center sanded. These are my two new rules for sanding. First, don't just use the sandpaper that came with your sander. Go out and buy stripping sandpaper ... like 10 pakages of it. It works about 3 times faster than the stuff that came with your sander. Second, surfaces that face up are easy to sand surfaces that face down are hard to sand, but if you turn your entertainment center on its side or its top everything becomes a surface that faces up. And yes I only learned these rules 4 days ago when I was almost finished.

Anyway, here is the finished product. And by finished I mean just the sanding and I still have to stain and finish it.



Oh, and just in case you forgot what it looked liked originally, I stood up a cupboard door in front to remind you. Ok, fine I'm not done sanding yet, but I got the big part done. Come on!

Ginormous Update

Ok, so work got a little busy there for the last few weeks so I slacked on my blogging. But I did store up all the fun events that I wanted to blog about. These are the three I remember.

I take my car back to the dealership I bought it from to get my oil changed, a) because they have this deal where if I do I get free tires (which I did a few months ago) and b) because it gives me a good exuse to go to Spokane every three months. Anyway a few weekends ago Kevin and I went to Spokane to get my car serviced and just play around. We went to the mall and were walking aroung and he offered to treat me to a mani/pedi. I know, he's super! I had never had a mani or a pedi before so I agreed. It was super nice. I took pictures of my toes and fingers for all to see.

Toes:



As a side note, I started out the trip wearing cute pink mary jane's but realized it has to be a sin to cover up toes after a pedicure so I had to go to the shoe store and buy some new flip-flops. It was such a hard sacrifice.

Fingers:



So that was a fun new experience for me. By the way the manicure lasted about 4 days, but the pedicure lasted ... well ... until 2 days ago when I started gardening (see below).

Next, since Monday was Memorial day, Kevin had a day off work. So he and I decided to go down to Twin Falls and visit his family. His parents have a "cabin" by a river near Hagerman. So we all hung out there for the weekend. Here's a synopsis of the weekend: watch a movie, sleep, watch another movie, eat, watch another movie, sleep, go to bed and sleep some more, wake up, eat breakfast, watch a movie, sleep, ... I think you get the point. Anyway, it was super relaxing and a nice way to unwind after school is out. I hate to say it but I suck at taking pictures so I don't have any pictures to post of that. I'm sorry. I'm working on channneling my inner Tish.

Now, this week. The odd things outside my apartment that somewhat resembled flower gardens finally got to me.



You thought I was joking, didn't you?

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday cleaning them out (there is one on either side of my door). It was a lot of work! But I got it done. This is what they look like now.



You can't really see it but I left a rosebush in there. I hope it survives. It was barely alive because it was being choked out by all the grass and weeds. Oh, and as a side note, every muscle in my body has been aching since then.

That's all my updates for now. I will try and keep up better now that it's summer.

AAAAAARGH!

No time to post.
A week and a half left of school.
Super busy.

Believe it or Not

So I have a few things to catch up on.

First, 2 weeks ago Kevin and I went to the Emerald City Comicon. For those of you who don't speak geek that is the comic book convention that is in Seattle. It was my first comicon. It was super fun. I met an amazing artist, looked in lots of fun booths and saw a lot of super geeks dressed up in costumes (Kevin and I are so dressing up next time we go). We took lots of pictures and I'll refer you to Kevin's blog to see them. I'll just post a picture of the prints and comic books we bought from the amazing artist. Her name is Camilla d'Errico.

She also drew some quick sketches on the backs of our comics.

Second, and this is the "believe it or not" part, yesterday Kevin and I celebrated our one-year dating aniversary. I know, I couldn't believe it either! We went to Lewiston . We walked around downtown and shoped in some of the little shops, which was fun because I haven't actually been through downtown. Then we went out to dinner and a movie. First we ate at Red Lobster. I got wood-grilled salmon with rice and brocolli, oh and by the way Red Lobster serves the best brocolli ever. Kevin ordered steak and lobster, which is his favorite ever. We went and watched Dragonball Evolution, which I think just goest to show we are the perfect geek couple because we both wanted to see it. It was good. Overall it was the best one-year dating aniversary I have ever celebrated. These are the flowers that Kevin bought me, cuz he's so great!

Filler Post

It's been a while since I've posted (I did promise one a week), so I'm writting this filler post for now.
I discovered a great song through Rock Band and I thought I'd share. It is Afterlife by Avenged Sevenfold. If you watch this just take special notice when they show close-ups of the drummer or lead guitarist. They are freaking amazing!