Friends at Last

No gloves!

"Holding" him. And enjoying it.

And playing/torturing. He thought I was just taking a picture, but I got it on film. This seriously cracks me up every time. Beware, though, the tune is catchy.

Foood

It's been another relatively unproductive week. We did, however, do a lot of eating. I started the week off with brownies for my Relief Society lesson and banana bread for game night, and John made some haystacks for dinner with my mom and sister. We didn't take pictures of dinner, but my sister took some of us on the couch afterward.

I think it looks like he's trying to suck my brain out.

Monday we went ice skating for fhe

And I made chicken pot pie. If there was any doubt of John's love for me, it was dispelled by this meal.

(It was really hot...and John's not extremely patient when it comes to food)

Tuesday John made fried rice, my favorite.

And green beans, of course.

He doesn't mess around when it comes to leftovers.

Unfortunately, we eat a lot and the rice was gone by Thursday. So John made tacos.

We're still going strong on those :)

Another Weekend

I feel it's only fair to update John's family whenever I see mine, and my mom's coming over today so I thought I'd write about what we've been up to.

We got a new rug to help cover/protect the wood floor.

We took the wood paneling off of the walls in the blue room. You never know what surprises are waiting for you. Turns out it's a blue/orange/teal room.

Safeway was selling cereal for $1.50/box, so we loaded up. We're set for the winter.

John spent some more time on the fireplace drywall while I was at work.

I just asked John if we did anything fun this weekend that I could write about and he said, "we went to Target..." Sorry there's nothing more exciting to report.

Bubba

Halloween Week

Another productive week.
My mom came over to help assemble invitations. That's about 250 of them. Fun times.

We brought over my books. I'm an English major.

My mom got us a bookcase to match the one John already had, so now my books have a home.

We went trunk-or-treating as Hogwarts students at the Dry Creek ward.

John worked long and hard to cover this fireplace. The best part was bringing home the 8 ft long dry wall panels home in my little Rav4.

Here's the completed project. Much nicer. Also, no injuries this time. Well, there was one small metal puncture in John's hand. He refuses to wear his work gloves unless he's petting my cat.

I tried to make a polka dot pumpkin like one I saw on someone's blog. It didn't turn out like hers, but it did glow very brightly.

We made some carrot cupcakes. They are supposed to be mummies. We took them over to Brian and Annie's, where there was a crazy party going on.

We went to Costco, then John made dinner: ravioli, asparagus, and green beans. The green beans were really squeaky, so we seared them in the asparaus pan. Great choice. The butter sort of carmelized and they were verrry tasty.

John's roommate, Josh, put new strings on his guitar.

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One lady asked me if my pumpkin had the chicken pox. I guess it matched John's pumpkin, which looked like it had the flu.

De-seventies Project

Hello, this is Becky. I've never blogged before, but I've been studying up. There were so many updates today I figured we'd better do one, too, as to not be shamed.
As we have no cute kids, recent vacations, or blogworthy meals, I figured we'd just show some house improvements. Hopefully the first of many.

We began by removing any and all wood paneling in the living room.

Also, I surprised John with a new sliding glass door. He almost noticed on his own.

We ripped out the carpet. The previous tenant may have died on this very spot. (see the stains? Sick.)

It was a long process.

We had one casualty (a splinter).
Note the amazing wallpaper in the bathroom.

And one fatality.

But overall, it's definitely an improvement.

Wedding Colors

This particular blog entry will probably not be all that interesting to any male readers, so consider yourself warned. You can stop reading now, and I won't be offended. For the female reader, I'm posting pictures that have inspired the choice of colors for the wedding on December 12th. The colors are dark orange and yellow, for a fall kind of vibe. Light blue/aqua/teal is kind of an accent color. I hope this is helpful for anyone who desires to be clothed in accordance with the color scheme.

I realize that I may not be able to answer all questions about this topic, but if there are questions I can't answer, I'll forward them to Becky.

Engaged!

Alright, here is yet another post. You've all heard by now that I'm engaged. Here are some pictures of Becky and I. Some of you have already met her, and many of you will soon. She is great, and fits in well with the family in my opinion. :)

I've tried to put these pictures in chronological order. They are from various adventures that have taken place over the course of the summer.

The first big adventure we did was going to Eagle Lake with the family. This was a very fun trip, and a chance for Becky to meet some of the family. It was also a chance for the family to learn that Becky has a bicycle. Way to go mom. ;)

This is me roasting a delicious hot dog at Eagle Lake. I finally convinced Becky to have a bite.

This was my first trip to Salinas. We visited the John Steinbeck museum. I've never read any books by him, but I became educated on some of his works. A couple of Becky's English major friends were also there. I was definitely the uncultured one in the group.

One of the things we enjoy doing together is eating. And one of the things we like to eat most is ice cream. Here were are on one of our trips to Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco. It is VERY delicious. My favorite is the Very Berry Sundae.

Here we are out on a pier in San Francisco, before heading to Ghirardelli

Oh deliciousness!

One of our favorite trips of the summer was a trip to Disneyland and Club 33. I hadn't been to Disneyland in years, I think since 2004. Space was closed for upgrading at that time, so I was very excited to go on Space Mountain. We went more than once. Maybe a few times. For those not in the know, Club 33 is a restaurant not open to the public, that inside the Disneyland park. It's very fancy, like eating dinner in the dining room of a cruise ship. Dinner was delicious! And it was fun getting to go where most people don't get to. I'll try to post another blog later that describes more of our Disneyland adventure.

First ride we went on!

Club 33 has a dress code, so we dressed up a little. Here we are after dinner.

Last ride of the night!

Labor Day weekend we went to Camp Ritchie. It's an event put on by the Young Single Adult ward that is a 3 night coed camping trip. We have church services in the lodge on Sunday. It's a beautiful place in the Sierras owned by the church where many stakes hold Girls Camp throughout the summer.

Nathan Rogers brought a sail boat and we went sailing on the lake at Camp Ritchie.

The weekend before we got engaged, we took a trip to Monterey. While there we went to the Aquarium, ate lunch at a seafood place on cannery row, did the 17 mile drive, and then had ice cream at the Ghirardelli Ice Cream shop on cannery row.

Tidal pool tunnel at the aquarium

On the beach along the 17 mile drive

Waiting for ice cream at Ghirardelli

Finally, on the 18th of September, I asked Becky to marry me. Fortunately for me, she said yes! I proposed on top of Bald Mountain, which is a short drive and hike in the Almaden Hills. At the peak you can overlook the entire city of San Jose. It was very pretty. We could see all the city lights below and stars above in the night sky.