Feels like home to me

I am happy to say that my duplex is finally feeling like my home! After two days of hard work, Ben & I finally have the kitchen and living room all decorated now (thanks to the help of our great interior decorator, my mom). Yesterday my mom and I tackled the kitchen while Ben took our laundry to his parent's house. When he came home he was so impressed not only because it was so cute, but because he could see the counter and the floor again because that morning they were filled with wedding presents. I did the kitchen red and black because those are my favorite colors (I'm going to have to post some pictures on my facebook of my duplex because pictures explain everything better). The perfect ending to the day was having my parents over for dinner in our duplex and even better my mom cooked the dinner and I got the credit. Dinner wasn't quite ready when my dad came over so him and Ben went around and talked to all our neighbors. The people next to us are moving and my dad talked to them about buying their little shed so they don't have to move it and they said they would think about it but if we wanted their dryer and bookcase we could have them because they didn't want to pay to have them moved. What a great deal! Now we just have to keep our eye on KSL for a washer. Today Ben, my mom, and I drove all the way up to Ogden just for a collage frame for my living room because the two local Joannes were sold out and to have one shipped to the store could take 4-6 weeks and I wanted my room done today! Ben was so funny hanging the frames, he found my cowboy hat and was wearing it while he was working saying he was a "strong southern gentleman just looking to help out some pretty ladies". (I'm going to have to get him his own hat because he looked so handsome and he was a better help with it on too!) He is always making me laugh, I love it! Well I have to go finish my homework and I think my husband probably wants to go to bed he is falling asleep on the couch :D

Spending time with Mickey

Ben's writing this:

Anyone who knows us can so see us running around Disney World all day like a couple of kids. I would goof off and Chels would take pictures and record everything. After enjoying the best of each park we'd have an easy little dinner and crash into each other (literally, like headbutting, kicking and punching) trying to figure out sleeping arrangements. ;) I spent my fall break with my best friend in this whole wide world.

Speaking of bumping heads, Chels just told me that it was only Our Story that she wanted to be concise, but that this needs to have a great many detail. However, I like that first paragraph.

We had an awkward, Chels described it as "weird", night after the wedding. Early the next morning we were up and on our way to her parents' house for our ride to the airport. We about did a barrel roll on the plane on our trip there with pilot Captain Jack. Jumped in our dead rental car, yelled at the dude and got a different car. Chels' marvelous littl g mack daddy whack (gps) got us everywhere down over there. She made me go and do everything for her on my own so people looked at me like I was crazy when I said I was just married and no one was around me. We had another awkward night hitting heads, once again literally, her ring catching on my facial hair and ripping painful chunks out, and woke up all through the night wondering how I ended up on the opposite side of the bed with beatings. Animal and Magic Kingdom were great immersions into the week of fun. Epcot was tech fun. Hollywood Studios was the greastest by far, with Fantasmic and the Aerosmith limo ride roller coaster that blasted you at a billion mph into a dark oblivion that jerked you into a loopydyloop and cranked you into a cork screw making you scream the whole way through. LOVED IT!!!

Chels is editting. (I didn't change anything because if that is how he wants everyone to think it went I'll let him)

Our Story

It started with a spilled strawberry shake from Arby's in the Lexus on Ben's khakis. Caught your attention?

Well we worked together at Gardner Mill Warehouse (actually Ben didn't do much working it was more walking around showing off and unicycling in gorilla suits) but anyways, we dated from Feb. 2007 to now. Before Ben's mission we had tons of fun memories ranging from high school dances to Rascal Flatts to sneaking out together (sorry Mom & Dad) to "reading scriptures" together. Ben served a mission in the Mexico City South mission from Feb. 2008- Dec. 2009. He had to come home a little early due to a medical condition that I will not discuss here for his sake. I went to SUU while he was gone and enjoyed the college life including all the late night "studying" to some interesting dates. Anyways, he came home, sparks flew, and well the rest is a fairytale ending! We were married Oct. 8, 2010 in the Draper Temple and spent the next week in the happiest place on earth, Disney World! (I think our Disney World adventures deserve their own post so this wraps this one up!)