things we've been doing

Here's a bulleted list of things we've been doing and pictures that need to go somewhere!

+ This picture is from a month ago, but it makes me laugh so I had to post it. Just me and my homegirls. 

+ Nathan's busy season is starting to pickup at work. He's super busy, but he just go to hire a full-time assistant, so he should be taking a lot of the load of Nathan's shoulders. We sure are proud of how hard he works while also being in school full time. His company is moving offices, just a few blocks away, and he took Sadie and I there on a walk the other day. He will have a big wing of the building all for his branch of the company. Yay!

+ We have some pretty awesome family members. On Madelyn's birthday, the Robisons set us this gorgeous bouquet of flowers!! They also took my favorite boys out to do a balloon release for her. It meant so much to us!!

+ Autumn and Greyson also sent us a present on Maddie's birthday. They are the king and queen of random presents, and we always get excited when they say then send us things. They didn't disappoint! This is an original painting. It's pretty awesome.

 + Lady is still having a hard time from me leaving her for a whole week when I went to California and Arizona. She's been extra clingy. 

 + Sadie has been extra face-smashy lately. She is obsessed with our faces. She loves to hit our faces, grab our noses, show her hands in our mouths, and pull our hair. It's a good thing we like her so much.

+ Last Sunday morning. Just one of my favorite pictures! Love my sleepy bums.

+ We've made HUGE progress on our yard!!!! We are so excited! Friday afternoon, Nathan, our landlord, and our bishop laid 8 thousand pounds of sod! They did the front yard, the backyard, and our side-yard. We love it!!!! The picture is of some of our side-yard. It looks smaller than it actually is. It's a really good sized space and we can't wait until the sod takes and we can play on it! We are going to put a railing up around our stairwell, and Nathan and our landlord are going to rebuild that shed back there to make it nicer and it will be for our use, which will be great. We want to have some garden boxes and Nathan reaaaally wants a small bbq. Our landlord's have a swing set in their part of the yard with a baby swing for us, so that's fun. We are just really excited to have a yard after living in apartments our entire marriage. And all our single years too!

+ Since Nathan took off work early to lay sod on Friday, he also decided to take us to lunch! Sadie loves french fries. It's a problem, but it's also so cute and I can't say no!

 + Friday night was our ward's "passport around the world" party. We have a lot of people from other countries in our ward and neighborhood, so we set up 3 stations: Hawaii, Mexico, and the Philippines. The YW/YM were in charge of the Philippines! For mutual we cooked all the food, decorated our booth, and some of the girls learned a special dance from our very own Filipino! Our youth are the bomb. Our whole ward is the bomb! It was so fun Friday night to eat awesome food, visit, and watch our youth run the booth and be awesome. 

Our resident Filipino.

The "bug-eyed ward babies" as they are called. Sadie, one day you can marry little Theo Dance. That's totally okay with me.

+ Lady loves that Sadie goes to bed early now, but this is how she stares at us if we aren't giving her enough attention.

+ Nathan just started his spring semester. He will take a break from June to August, then start back up again in September! He is loving school. It's definitely hard. I think a lot of people assume online school is a joke, but this is not the case, haha. He works for hours every night and is learning so much and building an awesome portfolio of work. He is working with his classmates and networking with his teachers and professionals. He loves that he can actually work on what he loves.

+ I am still working for Nathan's company as the travel agent lady. I like it. I am kind of a hyper-organized person and the lady who did the travel before me was kind of a mess. Nathan and I have streamlined the process. There's all kinds of spreadsheets and very organized folders. Haha, it's stupid how much I enjoy this kind of stuff.

+ Life is good around here!