The Windy City

Well guys, this summer is going to be another one for the books.

 Chad and I both took a job as techs for a security company, and all I am going to say is, thank the heavens we will not be selling pest control again. 

This summer shouldn't be too bad, because like I said we will just be installing the alarms, and will be able to see A LOT more of each other than we did last summer.

 I just hope I don't rewire someone's house, because I don't know too much about drills and alarms, and wires. So basically all of it. But don't worry I will be trained until I could do it in my sleep.

 Oh and we will be living in Chicago, Illinois.

 How freaking cool is that?! I am stoked! Chad and I both have a bad case of the travel bug so any opportunity we get to move somewhere new, we jump right on board (unless it's selling pest control). If you can't tell we didn't have the best experience with selling pest control. 

If it wasn't for the most beautiful place in Virginia that we lived I think we would have gone crazy. And the fact that we were 30 minutes from D.C. and 4 hours from New York made it bearable. 

I just have a lot more confidence in how great this summer will be because

 1. Obviously I'll be with the most handsome man alive, 

 2. I will be in Chicago, and I love big cities WOO!

and

3. We will not have to sell anything!

We will be going out there with, I think 5 other couples, so we are going to try to rent out a mansion to all live in together for the summer, and when I say mansion, I mean it.

 These houses we are looking at are MASSIVE! So, that will be so great.

 Hopefully we all get along really well. 

So Chad got glasses.

 If you know me you know I love glasses, and wish I wore them.

 And I secretly love nerds, so it all works out. Also wouldn't you agree he looks like Clark Kent? Yeah he is a hottie!

Other than that things have been pretty low key around the Hamilton house.

 We have just been doing a lot of homework, and Chad is working at Sammy's here in Rexburg. Which is not good, because we get half off their food.

 Guys, their food is so good!  And I'm going to get fat!

I know this was like a month ago, but Valentines Day is in my top 3 favorite holidays.

 Mainly because I love, love, and because I never have to spend it alone again!

 That, my friends, is a great feeling. Chad and I were actually driving to Utah on Valentines day, but we celebrated it Saturday night. He bought me the prettiest roses, and my favorite treats. I of course bought him hot cheetoes, and a bajillion chocolate kisses and put them in his shoes, backpack, car, and what ever else I thought he was going to be using that day. 

Things are really great, the church is true, and I love Chad. 

Good & Bad

Okay I have some good news, and some bad news.

I will tell you the bad news first. I lost my wedding ring.

 I know, I only cried for 5 hours straight it. I am absolutely heart broken.

 This is what happened.

 I was at work (dental office) and I had forgotten to take off my ring before work so I just put it in my scrubs pocket, along with my mask and gloves.

 Throughout my shift I empty my pockets in the garbage so I don't have too much in there. 

Later that night, and the end of my shift I reach in my pocket to grab my ring to put back on my finger and it wasn't there.

 My worst nightmare had some true and I went straight to panic mode.

 I went through every trash can in that office at least 5 times, and I could not find it anywhere.

 I had no idea what to do.

 I lost all hope and just went and got into my car, called my mom, and just cried on the phone to her. She calmed me down and helped me remember that at least I still had Chad,

 and that rings are only a symbol, it wasn't what was most important in our marriage.

Which reminded me,

 I have to tell Chad that I lost my wedding ring!

 

I sent him a text  saying, "I have bad news." 

And knowing Chad when he reads that he is expecting the absolute

 worst thing that could ever happen.

He called after he got off work and said, "What?! Are you okay? What's the bad news?"

I just told him I would tell him when he got home. 

He rushed through the door and said really loud,

 "I don't care if you are pregnant!" 

I looked up at him and just laughed!  Then I started crying again and told him I lost my wedding ring. He looked relieved and came over to cuddle me and said, 

"oh phew, I thought it was something bad."

I felt pretty lucky right then to know that he didn't care that had 

lost my ring he was just worried about me. Which really helped me forget about loosing my ring

 for a few minutes.

Okay I bet you are wondering what the good news is, well luckily we had insurance on my ring. So they helped us get a new  ring, and I feel like I just got engaged again

 because I can't stop looking at it. 

Also, I still have my wedding band, which is so good!

 But It still breaks my heart that I lost my ring.

Moral of the story, make sure you have insurance on your ring.

Fansisco, That's Fun

Well I should be studying right now,

 but I'm doing what I do best, procrastinate. I thought that writing a blog post would be a good enough excuse to stop reading my math book.

I just wanted to take a minute to say how thankful I am for my life, and the opportunities I have had. Never in a million years did I think I would have gotten married a year after high school, and moved to Virginia, then to the coldest place on planet earth, Rexburg, Idaho. 

BYU-I was the last place I ever wanted to go to school,

 but now I don't want to leave in about a year.

   I love this town and the feeling I have here.

I just love this gospel, and all of the knowledge that comes with it. I love how I have to opportunity to feel the spirit while I am at school everyday.

 It is such a blessing.

I also love all of the little things in my life. Like when my visiting teaching companion brings us a plate full of goodies just because. Or when we get together with our neighbors and have a movie night.

I absolutely love all of the tradition that Chad and I will get to start with our own family!

 For example, tonight we watched Elf (the greatest Christmas movie ever) and wrapped all of our Christmas presents.

Usually I have my own tradition

 that I post an elf quote on Facebook

 everyday of December before Christmas, but I decided to change it up, 

and just quote the entire movie while we were watching it.

 Chad got frustrated because he just wanted me to watch, but I couldn't help it.

 I have only seen that movie 700000 times. It was so fun to giggle,

 and wrap all of the presents together.

 Although it was like herding wild cats to get Chad to enjoy wrapping the presents.

 He finally decided to make one of the presents impossible to open by using duck tape.

 Sorry Jill and Adam, at least it will be fun to open.

He keeps me sane on crazy days like today.

 I can count on him making me laugh, and always knowing what to say. Whether its trying to make me nervous about giving a potential talk in church (when I don't actually have to), 

or telling me that he loves me.

 I love Chad with my whole entire heart and I am so very thankful 

for what a HUGE sweetheart he is. 

Eskimos in Rexburg

Once again I am sorry for being the worst blogger ever. School and work has been taking up a lot of my time, but I love it! Being back in school has been great, I enjoy all of my classes and my teachers are so great! I am still getting use to calling all of my teachers brother or sister. Even praying before class gets started is different but I love it. It welcomes the spirit to be with us at all times. BYU-I is just such a great University. Everyone here is so friendly and just more than willing to help you with anything. It's wonderful!

So, lately Chad and I have only seen each other in the evenings because he works everyday right after class. But on Wednesday a miracle happened and we got to spend some what of the day together, and even HAD to cuddle to stay warm.

 Around 6:30 Wednesday morning the power went out from Blackfoot alllllll the way to Rexburg. All of Rexburg's power was out and that meant all the classes were cancelled!! Wahoo! The only thing was that no power means no heating, no heating means our apartment was ice cold. We put all of our food that was in the freezer in a cooler and put it outside so it would stay frozen, given that is was -9 degrees outside. 

 We made a pile of all the blankets we had in out house and put that pile on top of us on the couch. It was so cold! It finally got way too cold for us and we decided to go get lunch and mooch off some restaurant's warm heated building. It was nice to sleep in and cuddle to stay warm.

 Proof that is was -9 degrees outside

Look how cute he is with his hot chocolate 

I asked him to take a picture of me with mine, so he took a video.

 

 Then he took 17 of me drinking my hot chocolate

 

So I just gave up.

 Then both of us went to work, which by the way I love my job. I am working at a dental office in Idaho Falls. 

It is so great! All of the assistants, and doctors are fantastic and so friendly! The only down side is that is it a long commute and during the winter months in eastern Idaho, when it snows oh man does it snow. It also snows so fast that the slow plowers can clear the roads fast enough so it just ices over. It can make for a prettttty scary drive. 

Chad and I finally got our cute little apartment put together and even bought a Christmas tree! It's not much but its enough. It fits our home well. 

I love our cute little home, its so cozy and welcoming. 

A couple of weekends ago we made caramel apples. Which were delicious by the way.

As for Thanksgiving, I loved going to spend time with our families. I am so thankful for them and all that they do for us. Family is so important and it is hard living in a different state as them, but it just makes me realize even more how much they do, and how much we need them in our lives.

 

My cute hubby

 

My dad who came up to Rexburg to visit us.

All of the nieces and nephews from Chad's side of the family, and Grandpa Hamilton.

 

Waaaaay over due

Okay to start off this blog post I am going to apologize for how long it is going to be.

 We have been SOO busy the past month and a half. So I am going to do a short summary of what the last part of living in D.C. was like and what our new adventure in Rexburg, Idaho is like, enjoy! 

Chad and I were both so sick of working. 

The last month in D.C consisted of us going to New York, going to the zoo, Phillip Phillips John Mayer concert and visiting the gorgeous Temple of Washington D.C. 

New York was incredible! I absolutely love the city feel! Makes me want to live there someday, but Chad thinks I'm crazy. While driving in New York City (yes we drove in the city) we saw some pretty interesting people, along with the craziest drivers. I now know why people ride bikes. I have also been numbed to the sound of car horns, it was just a constant noise. But I am so glad we made the trip! 

Look who we found!! I love this brother of mine

These boys rock!

Might as well get one of us as well

He's a cutie

Then we went to the empire state building

82 floors later...

We left Saturday morning, and we tried to hurry home because we had the Phillip Phillips, John Mayer concert that night. Holy cow that was such a good concert. Well except for the random girls trying to party dance to John Mayer music. That was interesting. Anywho, we had fun, and had a good last weekend in D.C.

We thought we should take a cuter picture

We are procrastinators. We had meant to go to the temple many different times during the summer but with his work hours and the traffic in D.C. it was about impossible. We finally had the opportunity to go. It is such a gorgeous place. Just being on the grounds I felt so peaceful.

Then we headed to the Zoo. We saw and met a lot of interesting people. We didn't see many animals though. Thats okay though, we were together with friends being weird.

The next day (Tuesday) Chad thought he better go knock a few more doors to make some money. That night the office called us and told us we had to be out of our apartment by morning. 

"WHAT?!" that was what went through my head.

 I thought it was going to be impossible to pack everything up and move to a new apartment by morning. But we did it.

 We also decided that we were going to leave a day earlier because there was no point to unpack everything to just pack it back up. So that Thursday we left at 6:00 a.m. 

We arrived home Friday at about 11:30 p.m. 3200 miles in 2 days. I never wanted to be in a car again. But Chad made it fun, and calmed me down when I got road rage and made wrong turns to add another hour onto our drive. He is the greatest (:

Here is a picture of the sunset on our drive. 

We made it back just in time to attend one of my very best friends' wedding!

 Jamie Jensen, now Roberts, looked absolutely gorgeous! I am so happy for her! I am also so happy I got to see some of my friends! 

We stayed in Utah for about a week until we started another journey up to Rexburg, Idaho. This is the door of our new apartment. 

I would post pictures of the inside of our apartment but its kind of a mess, and not quite put together yet.

These right here are the gems Mattie and I found at D.I.

Side note: Mattie and Chris live RIGHT next door to us. Like if we were to both open our doors we could just stare at each other. It is so fantastic because we all get along so well and its like we are on a big fun double date everyday! 

This is a picture in the middle of our workout

Mattie and Kelly make me get up everyday to workout. 

Rexburg is home away from home.

  I love love love it here and am so grateful I have the amazing friends and especially my amazing husband that puts up with me and all of my moods.

 I love life right now. 

I just don't think it could get any better.

Live and Learn right?

Well today has been one to remember.

For about 2 weeks we have had this weird smell, it was like a cat pee smell, in our apartment. 

We could not, for the life of us figure out what it was, or get rid of it. 

We started seeing a lot of fruit flies, and Chad says "they only show up when there is a sanitation issue."

 I didn't believe him, because I clean a lot so its not like our apartment was dirty.

 Until today after church when chad opened the pantry door and pulled out our treat basket

 (yes we have a basket full of candy)

 and low and behold there were 2 bags of potatoes that we had bought the first week we got here. 

That was about 4 months ago, and we only used them once. They were green and goopy.

 IT SMELLED SOO BAD! 

We could not even handle it. Chad was gagging and I grabbed some towels we could wrap around our faces to clean up the mess.  I got the Clorox wipes, and paper towels and Chad grabbed the toilet bowl cleaner.

 After not being able to breath for about 15 mins we got it all cleaned up. Pheww.

 Defnintely not going to let that happen again.

Once that was taken care of we went to pick up Eugene (one of our friends) and went to the Air and Space Museum in Herndon, VA. It was so much fun!

I had no idea there were so many different kinds of planes.

 And I had no idea Chad knew everything there ever was to know about planes. I knew he wanted to be a pilot, BUT he is color blind so he can't. Wah wah.

Anyways. We had a lot of fun!

We asked Eugene to get a picture of us

And so he took a picture of himself

And this one

He is a goofball, but he did finally get one of us

and I got some modeling pics of them

Okay and I don't know what they were trying to do in this one.

But as you can see today was a hoot, and a total success.

Adventurous Together

I'm sitting here trying to figure out what to do this blog post on and I can't narrow it down to one thing. 

 I'm thinking about how excited I am for our future and what it holds for us.

I am so excited for kids. I shouldn't be baby hungry and I said I wouldn't be but I think there is just a baby switch that turns on in your brain once you get married, that triggers the baby hungriness.

BUT, before we have kids we have made it a goal to try and do as much traveling as possible. 

Yesterday I told Chad that I want to move to Australia and live on the beach.

 He said "Yeah lets do it I have an old mission companion that lives there and works as a fisherman. I'll message him and we can start saving."

I know we are poor but we can make it happen if we really want to. 

Both of us have decided we would rather spend our money on experiences and memories rather than nice things. 

So why not right?

So today I am just thankful for adventure, and my best friend that is right there with me (: