I have fallen in love with Boise.

What are the odds that my husband and I would go to lunch at the exact same place and time as one of my exes.

I think all my exes should leave the same town as me. Haha gosh.

You know what's great about evenings with Chris?

We  spend them doing our favorite things - reading together (LOVE that), watching our favorite shows together (Arrested Development all over again right now), cooking and eating together (yay kitchen aid!), and generally just doing whatever we want.

I love that. There's no homework in the way. We just do what we want together. Gah I love it :) 

Adjustments

Being married is pretty great but, I dunno, it's almost not different. Aside from sleeping in the same bed (still an adjustment), the new form of expressing our love (oh yeah), and being the only two in this apartment, it really isn't that different.

Maybe it's cuz Chris and I dated for so long before marriage and were SO open and real with each other (I'm talking fighting, farting, crying, weird eating habits, and the whole ten yards of things that some couples with short dating periods may not have been exposed to).........

Or maybe it's cuz we established good patterns of married people earlier on in our dating career (we read scriptures together, prayed together, spent time away from each other on a regular basis {functional married couples DO have alone time contradictory to teenage belief}, got to know each other's families, etc, etc from nearly the start of our relationship).........

Or maybe still it's just because everyone feels this way once they're married.....

Whatever the reason may be, and although marriage and living together has been an adjustment, living with Chris hasn't been very different. It feels like a natural extension of our previous pre-marital relationship.

Moving in and combining all of our stuff was a challenge (the pack-rat married the least object-sentimental woman he knew.. It's been fun) and I haven't enjoyed his messes nor he my anal cleanliness. And we've had our fair share of heated discussions over how we treat one another (our love languages don't match up and that has proved more difficult now that it's just the two of us).

But ya know

It just feels like real life.

And ain't real life grand??

Mi familia came through Provo and got to visit us and see our feakin cute apartment.

I'm obsessed.

And then mom took these funny awkward pictures of us

It 'twas such delightful fun! I love my fam. Especially for short periods of time. ;)

LOOK AT THAT FACE

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I lub dat face. Ow ow!!

Our apartment is unbearably hot despite it's facing north south. Uggghhh it shall be a long summer.

Classic wedding day pic