August= Whoa

So pretty much August was incredibly crazy. I was up to my eyebrows in paper because Neil and I bought a house!


It's cool and exciting and gave me forehead wrinkles-seriously. I will post pictures of the inside of the house when it looks semi presentable, but until then I'm having a hay-day pinning lots of cute house stuff on pinterest and one day I may even make my pinterest a reality <--I think this calls for a serious Craft Day folks!

August was also a big month because Neil and I got sealed on August 27th at the Draper Temple. It was beautiful and perfect and definitely no forehead wrinkles were developed but maybe some crows feet from my uncontrollable smiling.


What made that day even better was we got to spend it with family, including Neil's parents who flew out for a week to be there.


It was so nice getting to spend time with them and show them around Utah, and to show them our new house.

So pretty much August was crazy, but in a very good way. We were sad to say goodbye to our first apartment together and to living so close to such good friends and family, but we're excited to have our home where we can start our family, and remember friends we're not that far away!

I'm going to go do something housey like...I'm not sure what right now because I'm still learning...

MOAB (it's more than just a bumper sticker)

I had the last week of June off so Neil and I decided we would take a mini vacation like we did during my break last year when we went to Yellowstone. We thought we'd stick with the whole outdoorsy theme so Neil took it upon himself to plan a two day trip to Moab.

It's about 4 hours from our home in Draper so we woke up nice and early on Tuesday...and I mean early.


We got down to Moab before noon and thought we'd start our adventure in...


Arches National Park! There was red rock everywhere and it was so beautiful.


We also so a very large balancing rock which is named "Balancing Rock" how fitting.


We also saw tons of arches (imagine that) and each one was so amazing!


It was over 100 degrees and of course there were no trees anywhere so we had to find our own kind of shade...which mostly consisted of rocks the sun was behind and little caves.


After being out in the heat and sun for hours we went into Moab and got some amazing burgers, fries and shakes at Milts, the oldest restaurant in Moab.


We then went and saw a dinosaur foot imprint and some Indian writings on the red rock.


And then we went back to Arches and watched a beautiful sunset.


We were exhausted and slept like the dead that night and then woke up nice and early to go to Canyonlands National Park the next day.


Canyonlands is obviously known for it's many canyons,


this crazy greenish-blue stuff that might be from salt, or outer space, no one seems to know.


and they even had an arch of their own.

Oh Baby (sweater)

One of my good friends is having a baby girl in July, and instead of making her a baby hat I decided I wanted to try something a little harder, so I made her baby a sweater...and it actually looks like a sweater, I was nervous because for a while it didn't, haha.


I put a little snap on it and I crocheted interchangeable flowers to put on the front of it over the snap.


It was a lot easier then I thought it would be and I'm def going to make this again because it was more challenging and it turned out super cute :)

Pin it!

So the reason I haven't been blogging is because I have a new addiction...Pinterest. If you haven't started Pinning you're missing out-seriously.
I have pretty much pinned the clothes I'm going to buy for the rest of my life




Pinned how I'm going to decorate my future home that is not 700 square feet




Pinned many, many, many cute crafts




And a bunch of yummy food, future baby stuff and so on. I'm going to get back to Pinning, c ya!

Spring Break (I couldn't think of anything creative)

So, have I mentioned that I have the best job ever? Not only do I have amazing coworkers and work with amazing children and families but we also get random and much needed breaks from work-for example, this past week was my spring break. I had dreams of spring cleaning and knitting and being super productive, but instead I was just a bum and I'm okay with that too.

On Monday I worked for a little bit, only like an hour and a half so not bad and then I watched Pride and Prejudice for like the 10th time in the past two weeks...don't judge me, don't you dare judge me (a quote from Pride and Prejudice-not the six hour version).

On Tuesday some of my coworkers and I had a craft day so Brianna and I made these cute wall hangings that were super cheap and easy...mine will look better when I attach the ribbon to them to hang on the wall, but I don't really have anywhere to hang them at the moment, but one day. And we made these cool bracelets that you make by weaving them through your fingers which was way cool.


Wednesday, Michelle and I met up with one of my favorite professors from BYU-Idaho, Jillisa Cranmer, and we showed her where we work and talked about school and life and our jobs and how Kids On The Move does different Early Intervention stuff and it was just awesome to see her and hang out! I then did a little more work accidentally and I did laundry, FUN!

On Thursday I woke up and wanted an egg sandwich and then realized the eggs I bought on Monday were not in my fridge and that I had left them at Walmart...dang it! I did some straightening up because we were having company Friday-Saturday-it was nice to have a clean house for a day but it's a wreck once again-funny how that works, huh?

Friday I did a little more straightening up and I went back to the grocery store and got more eggs and remembered to bring them home with me...along with some other goodies. I watched "Australia" twice and Neil and I decided we were going to adopt an aboriginal child one day. We met our good friends, Don and Kelsi with their two month old baby, Jackson, and Tia and Merrick, Randall, Melissa and Rachelle at In-N-Out Burger for dinner where we ran into Neil's uncle Ted (what are the chances?).



After a yummy burger and animal style fries Tia, Merrick, Don, Kelsi and baby Jackson came to our house where we met maximum occupancy and played some games...well one game-THE GREAT DALMUTI! After many hugs we said goodbye to Tia and Merrick, but Don, Kelsi and baby Jackson spent the night-and did I mention we live in a studio apartment so four adults and a two month old baby in one room. But Jackson slept like a champ and it was a good learning experience for Neil and I.

On Saturday we had a slow morning and then went to Cabela's and had to say our goodbyes to the Frybergers. And next week I have to say hello to a full week of work...which includes an all day training on Monday, so lets just say that this past week spoiled me beyond belief.

It's Been A While...

I haven't posted in a while but don't you worry I have a really good excuse...*drum roll please*...nothing has really happened hence there has been no reason for me to blog.

This year has been pretty uneventful so far, but in a good way. Neil and I have great jobs and since our jobs are like 3 miles apart we get to drive to work together most days which has been really nice! It's also helpful because we're saving up money to hopefully buy a house this year. We are doing a lot of research about the whole house buying process and I have been on thenest a lot looking at various houses around where we want to move. I like this house...


And Neil likes this one...(because it has a three car garage and Neil wants lots of cars, haha)


I have been reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and I finally talked Neil into reading the Harry Potter books so we have been reading those together...and I forgot how much I loved the books so I'm looking forward to reading all of them (again).

I have also been making this cute little guy...


It's an owl...he's not finished yet...I still have to add his eyes and beak (obviously) but I think he's turned out pretty cute so far so I'm excited to see the end result.

The weather has been kinda crazy...it snows like every other week but then will get up to 40/50 degrees and be nice out. So pretty much the weather has been teasing me and has been making me want summer to be here now. But on those beautiful days Neil and I have been able to enjoy beautiful sunsets and a few full moons.


Hm...so I guess things have been happening around the Wheeler residence other then me sitting around being a bum, haha.

Home For The Holidays

As most of you know Neil and I went back to Virginia for Christmas and it was amazing. We got to stay there for two full weeks and our time there consisted of us...


spending time with my family,



spending time with Neil's family,


going down to North Carolina to visit our good friends Sloop and Mrs. Sloop,


sledding in Virginia snow (the kind that sends everyone to the grocery store to get milk, bread and eggs and gets church canceled and everything),


eating a bunch of delicious food that cannot be found in Utah (Bojangles, Minute Market Hot Dogs, my Grandma's home cooking, Cook Out, etc.),


making a bunch of unattractive faces...for some reason,


making ginger bread houses...which was surprisingly difficult,


and taking family pictures!


Oh yeah, and Neil and I had our first anniversary while we were there so we hung out at his parent's house in our pj's eating Japanese food with yumyum sauce and being gushy and telling each other how much we love each other.

So in short our trip was amazing and we can't wait to go visit again! And we wouldn't mind if our family in Virginia would come out and visit us in Utah too, hint hint, haha.