new pictures coming soon

so i've been trying for the past week to upload pics of konrad from jessie and gavin's wedding (the most recent pics i have of him... i know, i've been lazy!) but i'm having problems. so this is just an update to say: i'm working on it. i really just need to get austin on it and he'd have it figured out in no time! i'll see what i can do. :)

what's new . . .

i'm one cookin' ma ma! ha ha ok, so i've always enjoyed cooking (when i took the time to do it) and i love good food (who doesn't, right?). i don't know what happened, but about a month ago when cassie invited me to her food recipe blog, i suddenly wanted to be cooking delicious dinners all the time and i haven't stopped since! i don't have many recipes of my own, so every night we have something different, that we've never tried before and most of the time it's amazing! there have been a few recipes ruled out though, because austin or i didn't like it, which is all good. i don't want to be cooking food we won't eat! i used to find cooking a drag, and now i look forward to making dinner every night! i've even planned out all the dinners for this month on my google calendar. what can i say? when i get into something i really like, i go for it! . . . and perhaps take it to a somewhat "nerdy" level, but hey, that' s just the way i am. :)

so i was hoping to be able to return to school this january, but there just isn't enough time in the day for austin and i to both be working part time and going to school. so i might take some classes in the summers, at least until austin's done with school and then i can go during the regular semesters too. anyways, the reason i brought the subject up is . . . i've decided to NOT be an english major anymore! i've always loved photography but i never considered graduating in it, until recently. so as soon as i can go back, i'll be working on graduating with a degree in photography! i'm really excited. i actually CAN'T WAIT to go back to school!

Happy Halloween!

better late then never, right? anyways, konrad's gotta be the cutest little dinosaur EVER! austin and i dressed up to coordinate with him. we were jurrasic park "co-geneticists" ;) take a look . . .

SARIE'S MARRIED!

yay! so happy for you sarie! you're beautiful and gorgeous and you look so happy! love you! hope you had a great time on your honey moon!!

had to get the girls together :) ... definitely the short one of the group. didn't realize just how much shorter i was till i saw this pic. i look so little!

they're trying to be "sara fun-size." sorry girls... it just doesn't work for you ;)

happy birthday to . . .

ME! ha ha i've been sick for the past week and when yesterday was the worst day ever... i sounded like a smoker, my head was in a fog, i couldn't stop coughing, and i was exhausted. konrad and austin have both been sick too. they're better now, for the most part. and so am i! i got my antibiotics yesterday and when i woke up this morning i couldn't believe how much better i felt! ...despite not sleeping so great last night because of all my coughing. so happy birthday to me: i'm feeling tons better! and to complete my birthday-day, austin took me to park city for some long-over-due (in my opinion) shopping. i've been waiting to get new clothes for when i was back to my old skinniness. and while i'm still about 5 or 6 lbs away, i'm pretty darn close, so it's all good. :) park city was beautiful and i got some fun jeans, shirts, and even a pair of shoes -- all great deals! we were going to go to the utah state fair and see boys 2 men in concert, but the strong winds, oncoming rain, and ridiculous traffic dissuaded us from that plan. so we came back, got our boy, and now we're just chillin' at home. don't want to be so worn out i start to get sick all over again. ;)

ok, seriously, it's been forever since austin i were together in a pic BY OURSELVES (love you konrad). and it's been forever since i thought a pic of us turned out cute :D

love you aust!

AWWW! it's raining! we got a little wet running from store to store up in park city.

gotta love the silly faces

and my final present of the night: TWO rainbows

talkin' on the phone

first of all... how cute is he?!?! we play outside every morning before lunch and today while we were outside, konrad talked to dadders on the phone. so cute. he chatted it up! the most i've ever heard him say on the phone. usually he just listens to the other person, but today he just couldn't say enough. so adorable! can't wait till we understand everything he's trying to tell us. :)

newly painted rooms

finally painted the living room and kitchen! we live in a basement apartment so the dark colors that were in there before made the place so gloomy. so we've livened it up with fun bright colors. hopefully i'll have time to get the bedrooms done before winter starts. right now they're not worth photographing. :)

my cute table and red chairs. this painting's cool too - it has all the colors of my kitchen in it

the top cupboards used to be an old, yellowed white, and the bottom cupboards used to be an ugly periwinkle blue (the paint was all chipped too). so don't judge the architecture (this basement was built in the 1920s) . . . just enjoy the fun colors. i really like the green, yellow, and red all together.

and this is our fun living room! it used to have brown and tan walls . . . so we made three walls white, and then one accent wall orange. it's very "austin and sara." ;)

this is sort of random . . . i just really like my little reading corner :D