Leo

This is Leo. He is my new best friend, biggest nuisance and the newest family member of the Davis home. Sadly this is the best picture I have of him right now, I'm the worst at taking pictures.

Leo is now about 13 weeks old. He has a super mellow and incredibly stubborn personality. He is a super fast learner. Faster than I've seen any other dog. He learned sit within the first few days we had him. He's only had 3 accidents in the house! I mean wow. I was expecting to basically have no carpet at the end of the house training, but he learned really quickly that outside is where it's at! Thank goodness.

He has yet to sleep through the night, and although he now doesn't have to pee in the middle of the night, he gets lonely, so he needs to be reassured that we are still there in the room with him before he can fall asleep again. It's sort of adorable when you think about it, but at 2 a.m. it's not at all.

He loves running with me, and the park is our regular morning spot. He sort of eggs you on to go faster because he looks at me and then picks up his speed. He doesn't have as much endurance yet, but it's getting bigger and bigger every day.

He is just the sweetest when it comes to naps, he loves to cuddle and be near you.

He is growing so fast! The harness in this picture is already too small for him, and he's only been with us 3 weeks. It's crazy how fast they grow. I like that he's getting bigger and getting a little more independence, but I also really love this sweet puppy stage.

His mild temper is awesome, because he almost never barks. He doesn't get crazy hyper, and he loves to just chill. I mean, he's a puppy so he has to get his wiggles out, but he's a very laid back dog, and it's been awesome

Leo is my new baby, and he's almost been a sort of birth control in a way. Taking care of another animal is a lot of work and it takes a lot out of you, and I know that a human would be so much more work. But he is good practice to test out patience as parents.

I'll try to get better pictures of him as he is growing so fast, but like I said, I forget.

Sniff Sniff Cough

Been sick the past couple of days, and I'm hoping that it goes away soon because Will and I will be in Yellowstone starting tomorrow for a little over a week

It's been pretty miserable around here, but I've watched all 8 Harry Potter movies, so there's a plus. Since I've been listening to the audio books of Harry Potter the past few weeks, I thought it would be fun to watch the movies. Wrong. It only made the sick me more sick and upset as more and more awesome things were left out of the movies. Let's just say the twins and Neville don't get nearly enough credit.

Will's always funny when I'm sick because I'm not sure he always believes me. This boy is never ever sick, so I can see why he has a hard time understanding where I'm coming from. He's always like "just go on with your day and you'll forget you're sick" haha. Sometimes that works, other times I end up falling asleep at my desk at work. You win some you lose some. At least he got me a smoothie last night.

Being sick is so so boring, and in the summer it's worse because I could be doing way more fun things than just laying here. Hopefully all this sleeping is just a speedy recovery.

On a not so boring note Will and I went to Lagoon last Saturday and it was a blast. Their new ride Cannibal was easily the best roller coaster I've ever been on at any theme park. I vote all of you go now.

I'm not sure if I've talked about this on here before but one of my best friends in high school is seriously dating my most serious boyfriend in high school. I think it's adorable that they are together but it took her months to tell me, which was sad. At this point, if there's a wedding, I'm not so sure that I will be invited.

Have an awesome weekend friends. I will be having a blast with my family in Yellowstone. Mostly because my big sister took a week away from her fancy law school life to come hang with us. I can't even wait.

3 years of sort of wisdom

It's been a long time since I've posted, but since my marriage just hit 3 years I figured I'd post some bits of things that I've learned about life after being married for 3 whole years (it feels like forever and no time at all at once)

-Living with a boy can get frustrating. They are messy, sometimes gross and big. He takes up bed space sometimes, leaves socks EVERYWHERE, and always seems to have dirty dishes in his office. When we were living in apartments this really bothered me, I think because they were small spaces and I had a big need to keep them clean. But now that we are in a house, they still bother me, just not nearly as much as they used to. Now I feel like our house looks lived in, and that we are comfortable around each other in ways that we don't mind cleaning up after the other (I'm not Mr. Clean by any means)

-Date night time is more important than I thought it would be. We are so busy with out grown up lives that I didn't realize how much time we don't spend with each other some weeks. I know I don't have a lot of room to talk because it is just the two of us, but we always seem to get so busy. I love the night when we go to a movie, or play a game, go on a drive, anything really where we set aside time to be together. It really brings the down weeks up and I always forget how much of a life force my husband is. He has the most amazing energy and I love being around him and breathing that in.

-It's really ok to not have it all together. When I was engaged I assumed that being married would automatically make me super responsible, put together and like, a real adult. I was so wrong. I'm learning now that it's ok to screw up, as I do often. It makes it better being married because he always supports me, but all in all I'm learning that it really is ok if I need to act like a kid sometimes. I'm only 22

-IT'S OK THAT I'M NOT PREGNANT- If I had a dime for every person that asked why I don't have kids yet... ugh.  Just because I've been married over a year doesn't mean that I automatically start popping out babies. It just doesn't. I'm only 22. I'm not mature and I'm still quite a bit selfish. I want to raise my kids in a stable home with a stable mother and I am not stable. I want to be done with school, and live my life just a little before I settle down. I have nothing against those that have babies quickly. Babies are wonderful and I am excited to be a mom someday. I just know that for me it's a someday not today.

-Because I love babies but not massive responsibility I am getting a puppy. Pictures will come in August when I get to take him home. I am nothing short of ecstatic.

-The gospel is important for an individual. When I got married I assumed that I would sort of mesh my testimony with my husband and we would be one with God together. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to learn that a testimony is needed for me and me alone. That my relationship with God is just as important if not more so than my relationship with my husband. So to me it's been a hard and wonderful learning experience.

-Marriage is hard and wonderful all at the same time. I love my husband a whole lot and feel really lucky to be with him every day.

3 years isn't a lot. But I feel like I'm at a point where I can ooze wisdom onto all of you because now I clearly know more than you.

Lazy Perfect Saturdays

Today Will and I had quite a few errands to run, but we did it in the most slow and slothful ways. We watched extreme couponing, Mad Men, went to Wal-mart, Costco, Target, Wingers, Wal-mart again and the Payson Temple. I wasn't able to figure out how to get tickets to go in to the open house, but we drove past it and it was so beautiful. The amount of detail on that temple is amazing and wonderful.

It was also rainy all day long. From 8 am to currently, nothing but rain. It was awesome. Driving down to Payson we took back roads that took us past farms, windmills, mountains etc. I think that I take Utah for granted a lot of the time, but on days like today I get reminded of just how beautiful it really is. I just love it. The clouds were so low and all the grass was extra green. It was amazing. I love city life but I think that I will always like nature more. There's just something majestic about it all. Especially my Utah mountains.

We also cleaned out the other 2 rooms in our house, so now we are officially moved in. Cue party poppers and drinks. My brother is coming to live with us tomorrow for at least a week, potentially the summer, so we figured it would be best if he had a room. Meh.

It's been a pretty lazy summer so far, but boy am I enjoying it.

Empowerment

So I checked out for a while, but none of you can be mad because I was working on final papers and exams. Which I nailed by the way in case you were wondering.

Since I came out of my finals week cave, Summer has begun and it's been wonderful. I made a one stop shop to my parents book library and picked up lots of junk. Teen fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, adventures, it's all so exciting. I plan on reducing my brain cells this summer, and these books will do the trick.

I went on a hike yesterday, it was over six miles, mostly uphill the whole way, and tons of fun. My friend that I went with is a total fitness nut so she was skipping the whole way as I was panting and resting. Psh. Fitness people. I forgot how much I love being outside. It's fantastic. I welcome the warm weather this year.

I chopped all of my hair off. Almost 8 inches of it. I've never had my hair this short and I totally love it. My thick coarse awful mane of hair is gone and it feels freeing almost. No more heavy mess on my head giving me headaches.

This morning was a landmark for me. I cooked a fried egg without breaking the yolk. What an accomplishment! Cooking correctly, accomplishing something that you have practiced so many times is a great feeling. Who knew that cooking would give you that feeling. I usually got that from a jump shot, free throw, double play, etc. I've started cooking more than I normally do, and I'm starting to enjoy it more than I thought it would. Looks like I'm growing up.

Here is the view from my hike. And this was only half way up. 

Weekend Updated

So, as much as it breaks my heart to tell you this, I still don't have my new car. The dealership said it would come Tuesday last week, then they said Tuesday of this upcoming week, and now they are saying Friday of this upcoming week. Boo. Well, on Thursday when Will and I were told of all this new information, I flipped a basket on the dealership because I had just sold my car under the impression that my new car would already be here. They apologized and had us drive up there and they gave me a rental. I'm not paying for it, so that's nice. But it is a Dodge Dart and it's tiny and slow. At least it gets me from point a to point b and I'm only paying for gas. The cheap gas.

My grandparents are in town so we've been spending time with them. Yesterday we went to the driving range, Thursday we went to the movies, Friday we went to dinner and played a lot of board games. Today I think it will be more board games. Will especially likes when they are in town because the boys play a lot of golf. woohoo.

I didn't hate the driving range as much as I thought I would, and I didn't suck too bad either. So the plan is that next time the boys go golfing I will tag along and if I enjoy it I will get a cheap set of clubs so that I can play with Will more. I mean, we live less than a 3 minute walk to the golf course.

Saturday I also spent time with some friends. One of my friends is on the verge of divorce, and her family is all the way on the east coast, so she doesn't have a whole lot of people on her side at this point. I am a firm believer that treats, movies, and girlfriends can cure just about anything. Even if it's crying and talking things out. I'm glad we were there for her, but she's got a long road ahead, and I and another best friend of mine plan to be there for her the whole way through. I can't imagine what she's going through...

On that note, cheers to a sunny, beautiful weekend. And cheers to one more week of classes and a couple finals.

Sold

This morning we sold my car. My cute little 2003 Saturn. It's been a great car and I actually loved it. It only needed two repairs in the 3 years that we owned it, and it still has less than 108,000 miles on it. She didn't do so great on the highway, which is why we decided that it was time for a new car. Makes sense right? We want to turn Will's car into strictly a commuter car, so we don't have to repair that one as much, and it'll be nice to have a new car that we can depend on.

^^doesn't it just scream, "I'm dependable"?

Yesterday I got a call from some random guy with the same name as my husband. He wanted to meet up so that he could take a look at the car. He sounded really nice on the phone, but I've watched Criminal Minds so I knew better than to meet him alone. Will and I met him at the park near our house in the freezing cold wind. He liked what he saw and asked to drive it over to his mechanic to get a quick inspection. After he drove off Will and I went home waiting for him to call so we could meet back up. He called me after the inspection and offered to buy it right then. What a relief. He wanted a couple hundred off because the AC didn't work, but we had no problem with that, seeing as we asked a certain amount but had planned to actually get $500 or more less than what we asked. So a couple hundred was amazing for us. Will took care of the actual transaction this morning, and we are now a one car family. It's kind of exciting.

The new car we purchased is still being shipped out to us, so hopefully it will be here by Tuesday at the latest. Cross your fingers for us.

I've never owned a car less than 10 years old, so I am over the moon about getting our new car. Plus it's a jeep so it will be crazy fun to drive.

Selling cars is stressful, and dealing with potential buyers is even more stressful, but at least it's over. I should probably take down my ad now. haha.

Happy almost Friday