you better not MELT my SISTER!

well, this morning we said goodbye to some of our best friends. Halie & Kendall left to TEXAS today to start their new life at optometry school. Well, Kendall will be at school Halie will be trying to keep busy with work/life/unpacking while he's busy with lenses and other scientific stuff. =] We will miss them and our fun times together. Texas better not melt my sister before I come to visit! I've never been to Texas so it will be pretty exciting to see how big everything is. =] haha love ya sister. You won't read this until your back on the grid in a few days but I will still miss you and we will see you soon! Like when we go on our CRUISE together! (the four of us, not just me and Ben.) =] adios amigos!

we must really love these people.

right now I'm waiting for some bread to rise so i can put it in the oven. It is the most successful batch of bread I have ever made/attempted. I don't have a bread maker, i don't have a kitchen-aid/bosch and i'm not nice enough to let ben help... so, basically i'm pretty excited for these loaves of french bread to turn out amazing. Granted, they take about 45 minutes to cook. So i'm going to have to be up for another hour or so, but that's ok. because they are going to be awesome. (or else!) I will try to post a pic when they come out of the oven and they look divine. All I have to say is that our dinner guests are pretty lucky because I just made them HOME MADE FRENCH BREAD! that's pretty much unheard of these days.. . (well, maybe not in utah, but in the real world it's unheard of). Also, our cajun pasta fresca with cajun chicken and a ronne-style salad (just lots of ingredients) is going to be awesome as well. You can tell we really love these people coming over, right? Well, we do. It's ben's best friend and his girlfriend. we're going to have a great time. Hopefully they like good food. because if they don't i'll feel like a failure and probably never invite them over again. so we'll see. I'll return and report later. (hopefully with pictures) our camera battery doesn't hold a charge so we kinda just turn it on and hope it lasts long enough to snap a picture. that's all for now. sorry this is so long and doesn't have any pictures. i hate posts like this one. and because i hate them so much, here's two pics that i like. the first one is from a google search titled "hecka funny stuff"

and the other is something i miss a lot right now... Sacramento, California.

I apologize for the spelling and poor punctuation/editing... it's 2:34am. what do you expect. =] goodnight (well, in an hour when the delicious bread is done.)

better the next day

for the record...
chicken, spinach, tomato, alfredo pizza is ALWAYS better the next day. Well, for me at least. Come to think of it, pretty much ALL pizza is better the next day. No need to re-heat, just straight cold pizza from the fridge is delicious to me.
that's all for now.

God does not believe in not showering.

When I woke up, I didn't want to shower because I had just straightened my hair the day before. So I didn't. Because I don't have to if I don't want to. and when you just sit at a desk all day, it's not like you sweat or get gross or anything. but apparently God does not believe in not showering, because he sure felt the need to shower tons of huge rain drops on me on my walk home from the bus today. So, now i've kinda showered and my hair is 'sick-nasty' from the rain.

OK OK... i get it! I'll go shower. (again)

This one's for you heidi. (the post, not the shower--that's for my own health)

In modern revelation the Lord has said: “Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord” (D&C 133:5).

-Gordon B. Hinckley, April '07 Conference, "I am Clean"

The bar has been raised. I guess I'd better raise up with it.

great day for soup.

Sometimes I wish I had more to say... I also wish I took more pictures/had a better camera. But for now, I will be happy with my little ghetto camera that my parents paid for 5 years ago. Maybe someday I will buy a new battery for it and it wont die everytime I turn it on. Well, I'm going to make dinner now... maybe some pics will come of our apt. that is finally set up completely and relatively clean since we had dinner with Molly & Rex on Sunday. (YES! it's lasted 3 whole days!) Anyway... great day for soup, don't you think... (yes, you do--it's raining outside). :) adios.

-natalie

during my break

So, here at my new job, I work so much I'm required to take at least a 1/2 hour lunch break. It is because of this break that you are receiving this blog post. So, with 20 minutes left, and a whole cup of noodles to finish, here I go...

Details from the previous post:

As most of you know I will be finishing up my classes this summer and so to accommodate my family and trick a lot of comms students, I decided to walk this past April with my sister (graduating with her MA in Mass Comms). It was so fun and I almost want to do it again in August so I can get better pictures. My favorite one comes from halie's blog..

Next on the list is my new job... I used to be a secretary at the Comms dept. but our Internship Director retired so I was offered the job and accepted! I love it here so far and feel like I am doing good things for the office. My drawers are color coordinated and beautifully labeled (yes, just like my closet at home).

Since we moved, we got a new ward... that's a given. Here is the only pic we have from the actual move... Chris was nice enough to take a gross pic of Ben and I right as we started to load the truck (excuse Chris' finger). Big "THANK YOU" shout-out to Chris, Halie, Kendall, Rob, Jami and Ourselves. It was a quick move and couldn't have been done without these guys and Sam's Club Pizza. :)

that's all for the updates. Any other questions?

As for the up and coming events.. No, we're not getting re-married. Ben's younger brother Dan was brave enough to propose to his girlfriend a few months back and they'll be getting married the first week in June. Hopefully I'll have some pics to show after the event happens.

Also, Katie (Ben's younger sister) is performing in the Stadium of Fire in July. We're excited to go. It's the first time I've been since I was really little. It's going to be great.

and aren't you all excited for our 1-year anniversary??!! I am. I can't believe it's been a whole year (well, almost). not sure what we're doing yet, but hopefully we can save some dinero and go to vegas for a show and some shopping! =] We went to vegas back at the beginning of april and had a blast. More pics to come later. Breaks Over! adios.

as much as you do.

Sorry for the lack of posts for the last 3ish weeks... we've moved and we still don't have internet..

Things that have happened...

Gradumakated.

New job. (both of us)

new ward.

new apt.

fam was in town for 2 weeks (just mom for 1 of those)

gpa is now an empty nester... (again) ;)

Todd's madg alaska adventure has begun -- see magicalalaska.blogspot.com for more details.. COMMENTS are very welcome.

Coming up....

Wedding in June

stadium of fire in july

diploma for natalie in august

1 year anniversary in 3ish months (aug)

school for ben in september.

that's all for now.. sorry i'm not blogging much. I miss it as much as you do.. ;) haha

adios.