Adjusting to being a housewife

So I must admit, the first week moving into our apartment, I avoided at all costs having to start planning meals. I knew the day it started, it would never end. Until I die. It just sounds so awful! I most definitely have enjoyed relying on my mother to feed me and then doing meal plans with my roommies. (Thank you by the way Mom for your cooking over the years!)

I finally succumbed as Jed wasn't about to make dinner (he...lacks skills in the kitchen...), and it actually has not been bad! I've never eaten so healthy in my life. My mother is just such a good cook and such a good baker and so she's constantly making new things, especially new desserts, all of which are good. Then living with roommates, at least once a week some roommate is making a delicious dessert, and you can't pass up free food! (I'm trying to learn that yes, you can pass up free food when you're trying to eat healthy. It may be painful at first, but I guess I'll learn.) So now I do all the shopping for my apartment and I can buy lots of fruits and veggies and avoid the fattening stuff.

So in the past several weeks, I have been very pleased with what I have made and the easiness of planning meals. First dinner I made was chimichangas! I know, not very healthy, but I was super excited they worked! Here's a picture:



I'm also rather proud of the other things I've made. I made Sopapilla Cheesecake (delicious and easy mixture of a Mexican doughnut and cheesecake) and cream puffs! I never realized how simple cream puffs were.

So, all in all, I'm quite enjoying cooking everyday! I just love spending time making a nice dinner because for one thing, I enjoy eating it, but for another thing, I just feel so happy when Jed can't contain how delicious he thinks it is. I also love having an apartment where there are only two people to mess it up after I clean, and Jed is a pretty neat person, so I just love it!

My one wish: a dishwasher.

Our New Apartment!

August 4th we drove a wonderful 11 hours from California to Provo, UT, and that night we moved all of our stuff into our apartment! It was great because I think 4 men (and one woman) helped us move all of our stuff, and so the Uhaul was unpacked in no time! Then we had to unpack and organize.... My goal was to have it done by the next Friday, which thankfully it was (a goal I actually succeeded in doing!) and so now, another week later, I finally have gotten around to taking pictures so that those of you that frequent our blog every so often can see what it looks like!

So, here is the front of our apartment, and since the top of the door is rather boring, I thought I'd show you the welcome mat we chose out (because I think I love it):



Then you walk in and see our cute and very cozy living room/family room:



And here is the wall decoration I'm rather proud of (made it with scrapbook paper!) and our cute little rug:



And then of course our entertainment center. Just about everything you see in this picture was a wedding gift (excluding the tissue box, greenery, and electronics. TV was provided by gift cards):



Alright now we move on to the kitchen...



As you may notice, our oven is a cute little thing that I'm still trying to figure out (it seems to cook the outsides quite nicely and ignore the middles of my dishes. Am I supposed to leave it in longer or crank up the heat? I just don't know.)



So you may not care to see this, but one of the best parts of this apartment is all the storage! You'll see later more storage, but off of the kitchen is the water heater closet and it has shelves and shelves of storage! It was such a relief not to have to fit all of my kitchen things and my food in the few cupboards in the kitchen. So here's my blessed pantry:



To the hallway! We have a bookshelf and a few of Jed's pictures... (he has a ton!)



So here is the hallway. On the left side of the hall, to the right of the bookshelf is the door to our bathroom, straight ahead is the door to our bedroom, and then on the right is the door to our second bedroom and also a little closet.



Here's the bathroom.



Our bedroom (dresser is to the right, huge closet is to the left)



Then here is our second bedroom which may also be called our office:





We have a big closet just like the one in our bedroom on one wall, but then on the same wall as the piano we have our storage closet/garage. We are sooo happy we have it because without it, guess what we'd do with all the stuff you see in it? Really we have no idea:



And last, just for fun, here's our balcony. (The door to get to it is right by the front door and the recliner.)The big mass you see is our couch that won't fit in our apartment which we covered so as to protect it (obviously but thought I'd mention it).



So there's our apartment! So far, we love it. I think we both would agree our one problem with it is the fact that we don't have more seating for having people over. But other than that, it is perfect and we plan to be here probably until we graduate!

Our Excursion to San Francisco

To start, I must explain that last December, Jed and I went to San Francisco, but barely made a dent into what we wanted to do. So, on Friday, we went back! This time we went with another couple, Jordan and Kelsey.

After a morning of trying to buy a used car, we finally made it to San Francisco, no thanks to a GPS that seems to be frazzled every time it gets near San Francisco. Our first stop was lunch at Catch Isle, a restaurant in the San Francisco Center mall, where we ate delicious fish and chips.



(A seagull attacked us as we were taking a picture)



Next we went to Pier 39. First stop: Lefty's, the store that sells left-handed things for ridiculous prices. While we didn't buy anything, we certainly enjoyed seeing the odd pens that were supposedly for left handed people.



After that we went to the aquarium! Super fun. The jelly fish were probably my favorite, and Jed's were the bat rays and skate rays. It was a neat experience to walk through the tunnels and have the fish over your head or the shark swim right next to you. It was also neat when we got to the tide pools where you could touch the animals. After gearing myself up, I touched a skate ray, a tiger shark, a sea cucumber, and a star fish. Way cool. We also enjoyed seeing the random animals, like the chinchillas and the hedge hog.







Our next excursion (after a fiasco of someone stealing our already paid for parking ticket) was to the Golden Gate bridge where the temperature seemed 10 degrees cooler and the wind had picked up. We took some pictures of the cloud covered bridge and headed for dinner.



Ike's Place was the perfect end to our day. They had the most delicious sandwiches I have ever tasted in my entire life. No joke. I got a sandwich that had chicken, honey mustard, honey, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, BBQ, pepper jack cheese, Swiss cheese, and Gouda cheese. Heaven in a sandwich. The goodness didn't end there, though. Happy hour is from 6-9 and during those hours you get a free drink and a free bag of chips. Add onto that a free caramel apple sucker, and it was complete. Wow wow wow. Sorry, I just simply loved it. I highly recommend you to go there next time you're in this city.






So that was our day in San Francisco. Besides the adventure of driving, it is a really cool city with great places to visit. Our next visit for sure will involve Golden Gate Park, Nob Hill, and some museums. But now, our next adventure is coming this week: Moving to our first apartment!

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