Addictions

I’m starting this blog with a confession. It’s awful. Andrew and I have an addiction. This is not an addiction as menial to a TV series where at least in a few months you get a break till the new season starts. This is a bad one. There's no end. It's only been three weeks and I've already driven Andrew to addiction. Ever heard of nutella? Growing up, Andrew and I always wondered what the big fuss kids had with nutella. Well, last week we found out.
We had received a little jar in a basket from our wedding. Needless to say, that jar is gone and we stocked up at Costco. I think Andrew has had atleast something twice a day with nutella on it and I’ve had at least one. It’s so tasty. He even compared it once to the tree of life. We enjoyed the taste so much, we couldn’t help but share it with those we love. You know something is good when you can compare it to the tree of life.
The first three weeks of marriage are over. Crazy how fast it goes sometimes. It still sometimes doesn't sink in that we are married. Like the other day, I was picking up the living room and Andrew's shoes were in there and I thought to myself, Why did Andrew leave his shoes at my apartment? I wonder what shoes he wore home? Well, of course a second later I shook my head and thought that I was a nut. It just takes some getting use to I guess (not me being a nut, but the fact that I'm married.)
Some of the funny stories of us first moving in: We were storing all of our gifts at Andrew’s parents’ house. While we were in Park City, his parents had brought a few things down along with our bed and dresser. So on our way back to Provo, we stopped by the house and loaded everything we could get into the car.
I wasn’t thinking. I just grabbed bags, no matter what was in them. Really, what I should have been doing is grabbing the bags with the essentials to live. But, nope, didn’t happen.
So as we started to live in our apartment, I realized it’s hard to cook and eat with only one metal spoon and a rice cooker spoon (one of those big white plastic ones). But, that’s what we did. Let me tell you it was very interesting to make stir-fry with frozen chicken without anything else. It was almost just as entertaining to eat with only those utensils. I would have taken a picture of us sitting on the floor with boxes everywhere around us trying to eat like this, but Andrew said he wouldn’t want to remember us in our weaknesses.
And let me tell you, taking a shower without a shower curtain was also a little iffy. We got a beach towel (that luckily was in some of Andrew’s stuff) and hung it over the bar with a clip. Who knows if it helped. Plus the fact we couldn’t get our shower to warm up. (Turns out there’s a little trick…thank you dad.) But that weekend we went back up to South Jordan and got the rest of our stuff so now we are very functional.
These past few weeks Andrew has had his work to do. Between school and assembling all of our new furniture, he has been the man. I think there’s a light at the end though—I don’t think we’ll be buying anything for a while that needs assembly. His next projects just consist of hanging pictures and shelves. Oh he loves those projects  But, it’s coming together and besides a little pick-me-up décor, we are pretty much settled. Just in time for the Coeur d’Alene reception.
This weekend was the first weekend we actually spent in our little apartment. Last weekend my parents and Jeff came down to watch Michael run the Ogden Marathon and to celebrate Mikenzy’s b-day. So we spent the day up there. The previous weekend we spent up at the Jenkins’ for mother’s day/Katie’s call from Boston. Both were very fun. This week will also be our first week at our new ward. Scary. ; / I am sure our neighbors upstairs think we are inactive because we haven’t gone yet, so it’s probably a good thing we don’t have any excuses not to attend our ward that starts at 2:30!
This week we did something very exciting. I got reimbursed by the government for some of the tuition I paid last year. So Andrew and I decided we’d get a deal and go on a little vacation with some of the money we got for a second type of honeymoon. Well, as we got thinking, we had another brilliant idea. We’d spend a little bit of money on a new TV and then go up to Idaho for the week we would have spent on the other vacation. This kind of worked out perfectly as my parents really wanted us to come visit and we really wanted to go up there. So now we actually will have time to do it. Plus, Andrew doesn’t mind having a new TV.  We spent Wednesday night shopping for the TV and went to three stores, and were there for a VERY long time. I feel like a TV expert and Andrew is like a TV master. Let me tell you, it was one of the only times in our whole marriage where Andrew was the one enjoying the shopping and I was the one that really just wanted to buy a dang TV so we could go. But, we came out with a sweet deal for a sweet TV. And if anyone needs advice on TV’s, you know who to call.