Our first meal in our new place!

There are a lot of firsts I'll be posting about on here, I'm sure! 

So, on Sunday we went to our new ward for the first time and were amazed at all the families with super young children :) it will be so different than our last 10 years in singles wards. 

After church Ryan made pulled pork sandwiches (Costco has amazing pulled pork!), salad, and fresh pineapple. We only have his old gun table and my folding chair for my keyboard, and his office chair. It was cute! Ryan is so awesome to take care of this meal while I'm off at choir all Sunday morning. 

More pictures of our place to come... We are working on getting furniture-- and we will have most of it by Valentines Day! 

Our first pet

Doris, I don't know how you swam your way into our hearts so quickly. I mean, you were only a goldfish but you sure had a cute personality for the week that we owned you. You would perk up at the sound of Ryan's voice, ignore our feeding you pellets, and seem to perpetually hug the side of the tank. And I assume that as soon as I wasn't looking you must have started eating because you had a very healthy digestive system.

But alas, you are gone. We sent you off on the porcelain express tonight and thoughtfully cleaned up your toys. 

Ryan and I would like to take this moment to thank Morgan who was very communicative with us through the process, as we were running errands when Doris took a turn for the worse:

No immediate plans have been made to acquire more aquatic animals. Doris remains our first pet, though it was ever so brief. I will post pictures soon. 

Stud Finder

In Lowe's Hardware today we imagined some of our dreams coming true with various updates to our new condo. Of course many of these remodeling jobs are for VERY far into the future and we don't have money for most of it, but we can dream, right?

I asked Ryan about a countertop in our laundry room that was sagging, and he said that when the counter had been put in, the screws weren't put straight into the studs on the wall. I told Ryan that I was really good with a stud-finder-- I have done several home improvement projects myself over the years on my bedroom and other things. 

Ryan says, "Of course you're good with a stud-finder. You found me!"