Nine. IX. Nueve. 9.

Wow. I feel like I am so out of touch with my internet self. It seems like so much has happened since I last blogged... I'm not really sure if a lot really has happened, but it sure does feel like it.

Let's do a little catching up shall we?

(And let's hope I can remember all the stuff that happened that made me think "I should blog about this!")

1. First I'll start with my new Church calling! I am the Young Womens Secretary! I love it! The Young Women in this ward are so awesome and the other leaders are amazing. I'm looking forward to getting to know them all better. I loved Young Womens back in the day so I'm excited I get to go back! :)

2. On that same note - Braedon just called to be the Priest Duty to God Specialist! So he is now working with the Young Men! Now we get to be together on combined activities. :) It's pretty sweet living in the basement of your Bishop. ;)

3. Jobs. Bleh. Not the funnest subject, but still needs to be updated. For those of you who don't know, Braedon quit his job a few weeks back. He was coming home super stressed and the company just wasn't treating him well. We prayed about it and felt like it was time for him to leave. So he gave his two weeks. He now is working with me for some people in my ward. I work as an office assistant and he is a roofing inspector (random I know... but hey it's work). It's been fun working together and being able to take lunch together and so forth. But both our jobs are not full term - you can't really do roof inspections when there is snow on the roofs. So we are still both looking for jobs... we've both had a couple of interviews, but nothing really has panned out yet. Here's to hoping we find something soon!

4. Babies. No we are not pregnant. And no we are not trying yet... see number 3 for the main reason. :) Just for those that keep asking.

5. My Birthday! Yup. That's right. I missed blogging about my Birthday! I'm now 22. And my wonderful husband got me an awesome gift! He got me a........... LONGBOARD! :) Observe:

6. Braedon and I love doing stuff outdoors - especially hiking. So we went on a couple of hikes together! One up Millcreek Canyon and one up Big Cottonwood Canyon! Both were beautiful! We love hiking in our fivefingers. :) Desolation Trail is up Millcreek Canyon and was so green! I loved it! The hike up to Lake Blanche was a nice long one, but Taylor and Alex came with us! It was a lot of fun! Observe:

So Green!

Happy Hikers!

Lake Blanch and the Crew!

Peachie-O's!!

So Pretty. :)

The fivefingers. And our dirty legs.

Happy Hikers!

7. Real Soccer! We finally made it out to a game! And what a game to go to! We won, 5 to 0. :) It was pretty sweet. Especially since they handed out free BK Breakfast Sandwiche coupons. Don't worry that we all got about 20 coupons... besides Ben. Who go over 200. :)

Yay for Fivefingers!

The Ry and Tiff!

Loves.

Eeee!

8. For the 4th of July we had a relaxing weekend! It was so nice to not really have any big plans and just spend some time with the familes. First we went out to breakfast with my family at Ruth's Diner:

Mmmm. Ruth's Diner is yummy.

And then later in the day we went over to Braedon's house and sat around at the pool and went to a movie. It was so relaxing.

Nan's is basically amazing.

Braedon and his Mommy!

Chillin in the pool!

9. I was going to stop at nine, but during the course of writing this blog... I have a little update on Item number 3. Braedon got a job. Talk about finding something soon. Yay for blessings! :) Fan-Freaking-Tastic! I love that man. So proud of him!

Nine seems like a good number and I like leaving things on a happy note. So we'll call it quites for today. :)

Loves and Hugs Internet.

:)

It's (not) a Brick. House.

It may not be a brick house, but we love it. :)

I know I have been MIA for awhile, but I'm finally back! And not only am I back, but I'm back with house pictures! You're excited. Admit it. Come on.....*crickets*....

Ahem

Well.

I'm excited.

So let's get started. :)

This is our front door! And yes you are looking

down, we live in a basement apartment. :)

This is what you see from the doorway. Welcome to the Goudie home! :)

To your left we have our big desk. We love our desk.

And to the right is a door! What could it be!?

(You're totally on the edge of your seat, aren't ya!?)

It's our pantry! Yay for food! And notice the built in shelves...

my awesome husband made those so we could have better

food storage and more room. Isn't he handy? :)

Walking further into the house you see out awesome fireplace

and our even awesomer table. :) We love our table. Especially

cause if we need it to be bigger we can add in a leaf and it

becomes a square table! Woot.

And on the right is our kitchen!

This is our fridge. We like to write on it. And have other

people write messages on it too. :)

Further on our left is the free china hutch that we got from

someone in Braedon's Parents ward. They were just going to DI it.

We gladly excepted it for free. :)

Next we come to our family room. You'll notice our one (lonely)

red love-seat. The other red couch is still on it's way -

it got back ordered apparently.

But luckily we have Braedon's futon. :)

Walking further you come to another door!

(yes I realize I'm making this tour of our small apartment

a lot longer then it needs to be...)

It's our exercise/random storage room! There is an air

hockey table chillin there from the owners up stairs that

we are thinking we might hook up!

Then turning right you see a hall!

Walking down the hall and looking to your right you come

to two doors! Let's start with the door on the right!

It's our bathroom!

Oh hi!

(Excuse the dirty mirror. :S)

Turning around you see the separate entrance between

our bathroom and bedroom. But we aren't going to enter

the bedroom that way. Back to the hall!

And enter the room on the left! Our bedroom!

This is our giant bed from Braedon's old room. We love it.

For many reasons. ;)

And here is our closet. I'm not sure what we would do

with out this huge closet... we have too many clothes.

And no, I am not the one that takes up the majority of the closet...

that would be Braedon. :)

Speaking of Braedon! Look who I found! :)

Anywho, exiting our room you see two things. First

on the right you see the divider that separates our

home from the stairs.

And on the left you see our storage closest. Nice and full. :)

And there you have it! The tour you have all been waiting for! I hope you enjoyed it. I know that me and Braedon enjoy our house. :) Sorry it has taken me so long to finally put these pictures up!

Anywho.

I'm hoping to catch up on some blogging - so until then.

Love and hugs.

:)

Q and A

This blog is dedicated to some of those well-meant-but-throughly-annoying questions that everyone seems to be asking lately*.

Question: "So, are you enjoying being married!?"
Sarcastic Answer In My Head: "Nope. Hate it. We've decided it's not for us... thanks for bringing it up. "
Answer Really Said: "Yes, we are enjoying it very much. It's been great." (insert annoyed fake smile here)

Q: "So do you still love him?" (insert dorky smile because person thinks they are ever so clever here)

S: "No... oh my gosh why didn't anyone prepare me for this! I mean... I loved him while we dated. And I even loved him so much to not date anyone for two years... but now that we can have sex and not have to say goodbye to each other I am in agony. Who knew love could die so fast."

A: "Yes! Very much so. More then ever." (insert annoyed fake smile here)

Q: "Who does the cooking!?"**

S: "No one. We don't eat. Cause I'm incompetent and Braedon is lazy. We figure we can last at least a month on purely candy and spices that were given to us as presents."

A: "We usually cook together, we both enjoy cooking." (insert annoyed fake smile here)

Q: "So do you like sex?"***

S: "Nope. Hate it. Don't understand what the big hubbub is about pleasing each other... and being close to one another. Psh. Sex. Overrated."

A: "Heh, of course. " (insert really annoyed fake and slightly awkward smile here)

Hopefully that helped clear things up. :)

It's been a little crazy here the past week or so, but hopefully I'll have some time this weekend to do some blog catch up. But just know that things are going good!

Oh.

And just to make you want to come back for my next post - we finally got one of our couches (the other got back ordered... it will be awhile till it gets here. La sigh.) and our table! We love them. So be looking forward to some pictures of our apartment coming soon. :) (Your excited. Admit it.)

*If you have asked one of these questions, don't take this blog personal... You know I love you. :)

**Why on earth do so many people feel this is so important? Why do you care so much who cooks in my family?

***This question usually bugs even more because it's by someone that has had sex. Are you really asking me if I like it? Really?

Catch Up

It feels like it's been so long since I last posted, and there is a lot to cover so let's get started eh? I can already tell this is gonna be a long one.

First. Name Change:
Did you notice the name change!? Kinda weird. Kinda fun. I love it. Though I will say, going through the actual process of changing your name on all important documents is rather annoying.

Second. The Wedding:
So. I'm married now. :) I love it. Everything went perfectly for the wedding. The dinner the night before went smoothly and the little program Braedon's mom put together was really cute. Then there was the day of. The ceremony went great - I couldn't stop smiling (just ask anyone). It was so amazing to have family and close friends there! I loved seeing everyone's faces when we first walked in. Then when we got outside the weather stayed super nice for us. It was overcast, which made it so we weren't all sorts of squinty for pictures, plus we had some really cool looking clouds in the background. Awesome. The reception went really well too! I didn't actually get any ice cream but I heard it was good! And the cheesecake that my sisters and brother-in-law made was fantastic. So glad we went with cheesecake rather then just regular cake. Hmmm. Delish. Mine and Braedon's dance went well enough - our music stopped half way through for some reason so we had to start over (it's all those pesky ghosts that follow me around), and it was a little difficult with my train, but I don't care I had fun dancing with him. :) All in all we were both really happy with how things turned out.

Third. Amazing People:

I want to give a little extra shout out to all those that helped make things go so perfectly. First, my mommy. She seriously is the master planner. She made things so easy and I was never worried once that something wouldn't work out that she had planned. I love my mom and I'm so glad to have her! Second, the rest of the family. Thank you all for helping scoop ice cream, make sure toppings were filled, get gifts from people, and all the other countless little things that needed doing that somehow got done. Thank you thank you thank you! Thirdly, Kelci. Can I just say that I had the best Maid of Honor ever? Cause I did. I just love that girl - especially when I call her a few hours before the reception because I forgot to buy a garder and she was totally there to get one for me. She basically rocks all around. Fourth, all our friends and family. It was so fun to see everyone and see there love and support. I really appreciate all those that came out to see us! We love you all! Thank you so much!

Fourth. The Honeymoon:
Braedon and I went to St. George and we loved it. It was so nice to not have an ajenda - to get up when we want, leave the hotel when we want, do anything when we want. It was perfect. We did some hiking, some lounging by the pool, some "lounging" in the hotel, went and say Iron Man 2 and also Robin Hood (loved), got some frozen yogurt, ate out, got some massages, sat out and read by the lake, and did some more hiking. It really was the perfect week - so nice to be with each other and not have to worry about anything else for a few days. :)

Fifth. Coming home:

When we walked into our apartment and saw all the gifts I was pretty amazed. Wow. People are nice. :) Sadly we weren't able to open them till the next day when we were having the parents over for dinner. It was fun to open them all - especially the cards. Holy Hannah we got a lot of gift cards/cash/checks. Again - people are so nice! We have already gone shopping for the essentials we needed and those gift cards came in handy. Again thank you for all those that have shown us so much love and support.

Sixth. Being Home:

Since the wedding me and Braedon will pariodicaly look at each other and say something to the effect of "we're married!" in the hopes that maybe saying it this time will make it set in. I guess we were expecting some big type of change to happen once we were officially husband and wife, but it just feels so natural. It's just another step in our long and wonderful relationship. My friend Marchaan once told me, after she got married, that marriage felt like one big giant sleepover with your best friend and I can't think of a better way to describe it. We love being able to see each other every day, having our own place, and just building a new life together. It's been a little crazy getting everything into place - I feel somewhat like a pack mule with all the packing, unpacking, carting things back to the car to return, carrying new things from the car to unload, up and down, up and down. Whew. But I think we are finally just about settled. Our couches and table still haven't arrived, but hopefully they will get here within the next week or so. Until then we at least have some bar stools and a futon that work just nicely.

Seventh. Back to Life.

Now that the honeymoon is over, Braedon is back to work and I'm back to searching for work. I had an interview today that went really well, but I found out it's only for a part time job... so we'll see what happens. But besides that I haven't really received much (any) word yet. Hopefully my endless amount of applications over the past few weeks will start to kick in soon cause I'm getting a little antsy. Don't get me wrong, the time off has actually been a little bit of a blessing. There is so much stuff that has to be done that it's nice that one of us has the time off to take care of it. I was also able to relax a bit, read, run (in my fantastic new Vibram shoes that I loooooove) and so forth, but I'm just ready to start working again.. Anything would be nice (preferably with benefits).

I'll leave it at that for now.

Love and hugs.