Nesting- making our house our home

I've been in our new place for about 2 months now, so it's probably about time I share it with you. :)

Here are some of the pictures of turning our house into our home. 

All the walls were painted and the home was cleaned, thank you all for your hard work!

just shy of 3 months.

Hey all,

I am sorry to say, but it's been 3 months since I've posted last. 3 months. Which is mostly like 4 months, since really I didn't post in November.

On the bright side, I haven't had time to blog because my Real Estate career has taken off. On the down side, I definitely miss blogging.

So lets see if we can keep this short and sweet. Here are the 1st two months I missed.

November 

Thanksgiving day at the Monsons

Sibling love

Thanksgiving evening with the Johnsons

December

The best gift given at the White elephant exchange- this creepy doll from my Grandfather

Cousins :)

we be crazy

those are some great people

the love of my life. 

Twinnies

Sibling love

Hey ladies!

Our gingerbread house in the competition against Natasha and Nolan

Tell me youre not impressed

Ecoute de la musica

Went and saw Mark play with his band [Tractor Pull Divas] this past weekend. So much fun :)

natasha, so pretty

tell me you dont love her

oh hey, its me

Cool things and not so cool things

Cool things:

Getting to come into work late = sleep in.
being Natasha's "domestic partner" for her work bowling activity = time with Natasha + free bowling.

Troy was there too, duh. [he works for the same company]

Funfetti Cake my brother made
An upcoming engagement shoot for my friend Rebekah
Watching The Office pretty much 24/7
My jewel degree dangle that came in the mail- thanks Lindsay!
These pictures

Not so Cool Things:

The worst burn of my life- oven door closed on my arm a little

 only 2 days out. I'm soooo excited I'll get to deal with this at Bass Lake. heal faster!

yeah, thats the blister juice. hope you don't have a weak tummy!

Still not really knowing what to do with my life
Not having a frame yet for my new bed

All in all, pretty fantastic day

summer

6 months in the making

My graduation party has been on my mind for quite some time. And I have continuously had little thoughts floating in my head for the big day. It was exactly what I was hoping for!

The theme was a vintagy-adult carnival, and I got my graduation announcement ideas from vistaprint.com (whom I LOVE).

 picture booth

 bucket later fulled with rubber ducks that had drinks written on their bottoms

 I stamped the background myself 

 made the cake. I love fondant

 popcorn machine- $7 thrift store. great find mom!

 fruit bowl with ferris wheel backdrop

 my mom made these cute little centerpieces with different college activities I was involved in

Brandon (and his tip jar he put on the bar), Kayla, and the aforementioned ducks

3 of the 4 :)

 we go wayyy back

 Some of my favorite dance factory dancers

 Kier (looking beautifully preggo) and Anson

 Some of the Allens!

 that would be me

 Kier, Anson, and I

 Marsha and I (she was an original founder of the 1954 ADPi colonization at UA- to the left of her, a colonizer of the 2008 chapter at UA)

 Mom and I (soooooo mad this came out fuzzy)

 Dustin and I, obvi

 Grandfather and Miss Craig (now Mrs. Harvey- my kindergarten and first grade teacher)

 George was in town and surprised me!

 sisterly love

 Me, opening a grad gift (which turned out to be my nanas wedding ring). pictures after its resized

 Mrs. Harvey and I

 some of the ladies

 this is a picture of stripes. not pictured, nicki. 

 woo!

 haha

 not really sure

 party alphie

 Amanda and Tony

 Gabby stepped in a cactus

A gift from my parents- isn't that a cool way to display your grad gear?

This was a night I won't soon forget and I am so grateful I had so many wonderful people there to celebrate it with me!

celebrate good times, come on!