Guess what today is. If you guessed Tyler’s birthday, you’re right. So far, all we’ve done is gone grocery shopping so he’s having a pretty uneventful birthday. My day was a little more dramatic, as I tried to bake Tyler his favorite type of pie and was so frustrated with the pie crust, which I had to redo at least five times, that I ended up having a temper tantrum like a two-year old and throwing myself on the ground. Guess I’ll be buying pie crust from now on. There was also a huge thunder storm. It was big, and so sudden. First it was just dark, and in minutes it started pouring and thundering. It was like the tropical storm we got caught in while we were in Maui, only this one wasn’t tropical. But Tyler loved it, it doesn’t rain here enough for him.

In other news, we have moved into our new apartment and I began student teaching! So our week looked like this: Monday we got home from Moab. Tuesday we moved into our apartment. Wednesday I started student teaching. It’s been pretty crazy. Student teaching is scary and takes so much work, but I already love it. I don’t want to say too much on the internet, because I hear all sorts of horror stories of people blabbing about work online and ending up in huge amounts of trouble, so I’ll just say this. I love student teaching and the people I work with are great, and the students are amazing.

Our apartment is old and falling apart (nothing new there) but it’s bigger than our old apartment and it has a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, and washer and dryer hookups. I didn’t realize how convenient it is to have a dishwasher until I had one, and the garbage disposal is so nice too. But the washer and dryer are the real amazing things. We got a set for really cheap off KSL, and it is the best. I can do laundry whenever I want! I don’t have to worry about other people dumping my clothes out or about needing clean clothes and not being able to use the washing machine for a week. I can do the laundry in the kitchen. Need I say more? The other really cool thing about our apartment is the stove/oven. It’s a gas stove, and the first time I used it, Tyler offered to show me how to turn it on. I brushed him off, because come on. I’m a grown woman, I can turn on a stove. But then it turns out I actually didn’t know how to turn on the stove. I feel so legit whenever I cook though, because I’m literally cooking on a fire. On a fire. It’s crazy! It’s like camping every day! (Although, unfortunately the stove always burns my marshmallows).

Those are the cool things about our apartment. I probably shouldn’t dwell on the not so cool things of our apartment, but I think it’s kind of funny. Like how the lock on the bathroom door is on the outside. But the bathroom door doesn’t shut anyways even if you wanted to lock it. And there’s a big dirt ring in the backyard where the previous renters road 4-wheelers in circles. There was a bucket of diseased water under the kitchen sink that I had to wash out, and it was disgusting. The water was brown and filled with scum and it was so gross. But overall it’s pretty nice.

Anyways that’s it for now. Happy birthday to Tyler, the most amazing husband in the world!

 This picture is actually from his birthday two years ago. Time flies, yes?