Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall!

I can't believe it's the middle of September already. I especially can't believe we're now in the fall season when I still feel like it should be summer. But I'm loving the 70-85 degree weather and watching all the trees turn orange!

Geoff and I haven't done anything out of the ordinary lately. We've been working non-stop it seems like. We did go to the Draper Temple for the first time last week which was a special experience for both of us. And afterwards we went with a couple in our ward to Leatherby's. I've been wanting to go there for a while since I've heard about how good their ice cream is. We were surprised that it's a sit down restaurant, not just a Baskin Robbins type of setup. But while browsing through the menu, I saw that they had play dough ice cream, which is my favorite ice cream ever! I thought I could only get it at Farr's, so I was in heaven after I found that out. I got the small, thinking it would be one scoop of ice cream. But no... it was 3 giant scoops! I had to take it home because I couldn't finish it. They told me next time if I just want one scoop to get the kid size. Who knew!

Geoff and I also are officially on our own cell phone plan with AT&T and have Utah cell phone numbers! I was eager for us to get on our own plan, but once we left AT&T I started worrying if we had made the right choice. I'm such a frugal person and felt selfish for getting iPhone 5s's when we could have maybe gotten other phones so our monthly bill would be lower. But Geoff reassured me we would be fine and it's not like we'll go broke. It's just part of growing up! We love our new phones, it's been a nice change from us having iPhone 4s's for a while (Geoff's only had his 4s for a year, but I had mine for three years!)

Yesterday was the first day of classes for BYU-Idaho, which means it was the first day back to school for Geoff! We were planning on him transferring to UVU, since it's pretty close to where we live, but looking through UVU's classes we found out only his English classes would transfer, and he would basically have to start college all over again! Definitely not cool. So since he is almost halfway to earning a Bachelor's degree at BYU-Idaho, we figured he should continue taking online classes. He's taking a full load of classes this semester, so we felt he should only work part-time so he has time to focus on school. It will be an adjustment for sure, but it will pay off in the end once he earns a Bachelor's degree, most likely in Computer Information Technology!

I have an awesome husband who lets me take
"First Day of School" photos of him, even
 though he will be going to school and
doing his homework all at home!

Apartment Tour - Geoff and I's First Place Together

I'm finally getting around to taking pictures of Geoff and I's apartment! We live in my cousin's basement of their house. Although for a couple months we were dealing with a really bad spider problem (literally killing 3-4 big spiders a day and finding numerous dead ones) and I had constant nightmares of spiders crawling all over me like every other night (my cousins took down their ivy bushes, and I swear all the spiders that lived in the ivy decided to move in with us!), now that we've sprayed and set traps, we're only killing a couple of small ones every week. So I feel more comfortable and not so freaked out! Spiders are my biggest fear, and I'm grateful for a husband who has dealt with 99.9% of the spiders since I'm too scared to, even though he's not too fond of spiders himself! But all in all, we love living here and being right in between both of our jobs.

Not shown in these pictures is the laundry/storage room across from the bathroom, a cute little nook/storage closet in our living room, and also the garage outside where some of our stuff is stored and Geoff parks his car. I'm glad we have plenty of storage space here!

Living Room.

I'm in love with this bookshelf next to our kitchen!

The Kitchen.

Favorite decoration in the kitchen.

Front door, with the living room on one side and the
kitchen on the other. I apologize for the funky-looking lighting!
It doesn't look like that in real life.

Bathroom.

Bedroom.

Closet in the bedroom.

Love this saying hanging above our bed!