Everybody shout HOORAY

because we're back in PROVO!!!


Am I excited? Yes. Only just slightly. But really...a lot. Josh and I spent the summer in the Carolinas. We spent the first half in North Carolina working and the second half in South Carolina living with Josh's family cleaning for their cleaning company. It was a long couple of months. We are incredibly grateful to the entire Titus family for everything! They really helped us out and provided us with work :) which = money! (always a plus) 


But now...we are back where we belong. Provo! Let me just preface this exciting post with this. Josh and I both agree that we don't want to raise our family here. Nothing against anyone who does, it's just not for us. But after a long summer away from our beautiful little apartment, the wonderfully non-humid weather and the breath-taking mountains we are so grateful to be home. Josh and I have been incredibly blessed to be able to live in one place our entire marriage. We love our little apartment and plan to stay here until we leave Provo (unless we get pregnant in which case we would need something a little bigger) but since that isn't in the plans for a while, we are here to stay! :) 


The last 4 days have consisted of unpacking and getting things in order for school (books, tuition, josh's flight school, etc.). Just now am I sitting down in a (nearly) completely unpacked house! And all it took was to get Josh out of the house for a few hours :) Just kidding. He has been a HUGE help this week. But we often work better when we're alone. We just get distracted too easy around each other. 


Unpacking always (which is just now because this is really my first time moving...) makes me want to redecorate. I loved our apartment just the way it is but when we started moving things back in we decided to do a few new things. 


First and most importantly, we cleaned. We spent the entire day on Monday scrubbing everything. It was quite the feat but we did it! 
Second, we decided on some better organizational ideas. Our closet is large but quite narrow so we are in the process of finding the best way to organize it. We have picked out a few things at Target that we think will work. 
Third, we lined all our kitchen drawers and cupboards. I'm not sure why this didn't happen when we first moved in. Probably because we were so busy being newlyweds and didn't care that our cupboards were bright green ugly leaves like this...

 But now they look like this...

Fourth, We decided we have too much stuff so Josh has started getting into Amazon. He has posted tons of things on there. We are also keeping more stuff in the basement since there is tons of storage room down there.
Lastly, there has been some rearranging and redecorating. Today I went to Wal*mart to look at fake flowers (inspired by my sister and her fake flower arrangements[see them here and here). Unfortunately their flowers were a little out of my price range but I seen some flowers outside of the Dollar Tree so I hit that place up next. Usually their flowers are cheap but I actually found some really cute ones! I was super excited. And with some spanish moss I think my arrangement turned out cute! :) What do you think?

So now we are finally all moved in and our friend's stuff is all moved out :) We are excited and ready to back in the swing of things (aka school).