Exhausted!! But loving our new home

So Dave and I are officially home owners and can say that we are west siders (West Jordan that is :). After closing on our house on October 9th, we were so excited to actually be contributing to the economy and building equity. We couldn't actually go in until this last friday so last week we were so anxious to just get in and start working on our house. So on Friday we got the keys and took our first walk through the house without all the owners furniture. The owner of the house owns an antique business, selling antiques that is, and his house looked amazing decorated with all his antiques. However, with antiques he had to match a lot of colors, or not match, so every wall was painted and usually every wall was a different color. Here is a little sampling:

This is actually the master bedroom, don't worry this weekend we were able to swiftly make it a very neutral tan/brown color that we now love and will not get a headache from.

This is our front room that is not painted yet, also notice the color of the hallway. Weird colors.

Dave and I were so excited to paint our first wall, so we had to document it. I know, we are a little strange, just so excited to be home owners and to paint our own home and not somebody else's.

I'm a little excited, but you can see the brown color in the back, it looks much better.

Saturday night Dave and I came home exhausted, we had no idea it would be so much work. Yes, all you home owners laughing, we know. We wanted to thank Michelle, Valerie, James, Amanda, and the Lowthers for coming over and helping, we owe you guys big time for spending your busy Saturday helping us paint and clean. We REALLY appreciated your help!! So now that we are exhausted we are starting another week of hopefully getting the house painted so we can move in. Our big moving day is this Saturday and we could REALLY use any help we can get moving our big furniture and the dreaded piano. Hooray for building equity!!!

Help With A Name

Hi everyone (or all eight people who follow our blog), we need your help with figuring out what to name our dog. There is a poll that closes right before we get her at the end of the month. If you have a name and it isn't listed on the side, put a comment. Who knows you could be the person who can say "I named the Kelly's dog." I personally think it would be a badge of honor to have (who knows if we can't think of kid names when we start our family - you may be the person who comes up with that name as well.)

our new puppy (in one month) :)

Dave and I are so excited to be getting a puppy!! We both are dog people and have wanted a dog since before we were married. Dave almost got one but where he lived he couldn't have a dog and his mom said no when he asked if she would keep it at her house. So here is our new puppy. We do not have a name for her yet so please put any suggestions in the comments. She is a Sheltie/Beagle mix. She was born September 2nd and we get to pick her up at the end of October, right after we move into our new house. Yes we are crazy but we already love her. We found her on KSL because the owners were pre-selling the four puppies in order to sell them while they were still young. Dave and I are so in love with her already and can't wait for her to join our family :)

2 year anniversary

Each anniversary gets better and better being married to Dave. We had an amazing anniversary and we didn't even go anywhere. We decided to just stay around home and save the money we would have spent on a fun trip, on our house that we are hopefully closing on next friday (cross your fingers and pray for us). So our anniversary was on a Sunday and we were kind of disappointed but it actually turned out great because we had a whole weekend anniversary instead of just one day. So Friday started out with me coming home to a beautiful bouquet of costco roses, and the Biggest Loser exercise CD's. Dave heard me mention them a few days before and I said I wanted them for my birthday. This year for presents Dave got a new drill to work on our house and I got, in February, the wedding band for my wedding ring, which is gorgeous. So after smelling the roses we got dressed up and went to "The Roof" for dinner. Dave had been there but I hadn't and I was so excited. It was romantic, fun and really good food. Afterwards we came home and watched a movie and relaxed. Dave and I love watching movies together and enjoy it even more now that Dave is graduated and we have no guilty moving watching. :) On saturday morning we got up and went hiking up Cottonwood Canyon. We hiked the Mill B North trail and it was beautiful. One of the things that Dave and I love about our anniversary is that it is in a month that we don't have anything to celebrate. September has no holiday and we don't have any birthdays. The other thing we love is that the leaves are always changing during our anniversay so wherever we go on our anniversary we get to see the leaves changing. Last year we drove our new little subie home from Arizona and saw the leaves changing down by Brian Head, which was one of my favorite vacations of all time. So here are a few pictures of the leaves changing and us hiking. Dave and I were the only ones on the trail and we just sat up on top for a while and talked. We both love that we both enjoy hiking and camping, most people wouldn't go hiking on their anniversary, but that's what I love about Dave. That night Dave humored his BYU fan of a wife and we went to the BYU/Colorado State game. Luckily we won or else I would have been sad the rest of the weekend. We wrapped up our anniversary on Sunday by having the most amazing meal, cooked by my sweetie. We had roast, garlic mashed potatoes, and for dessert, Trifle. After dinner we watched our home made movie of our wedding and then our picture wedding video. We had so much fun remembering the day and how fun it was to marry, for each of us, our best friend. Dave and I can't believe it has been two years since we got married, and we love that each year gets better and better. So enjoy a few pictures from our anniversary weekend. I love you cutie!!