I'm a bad blogger

And I don't even have pictures.

Since last I wrote (in JUNE!), a lot has happened, naturally.

B moved to California, and we've spent several weekends together. It's so nice that he's only a few hours away. We still don't see each other as much as we want to, and it's about to drop in frequency again, but we'll live. We'd see each other more, but he works 6 days a week, about 13 hours a day. Some days he's so tired when he gets home we get about 10 minutes on the phone before he's falling asleep.

BUT, we have managed to set a date! October 21, 2011, in the Portland Oregon LDS temple. We'll have a reception in Salem (B's hometown) the next day, and an open house in RC (my hometown) the next weekend. I've bought my dress, we're working on all the other details surrounding wedding prep. I have fantastic ideas (in my head, at least) and hopefully some of them actually work out. I can't wait to marry B and I can't wait to be his wife.

B and I have also got an apartment! We're moving back to the grand old Rexburg Idaho. B's going to continue his education at BYUI (he'll start classes in the winter semester), and I'm going to be working. Hopefully at a job that will pay our bills without making me want to kill. I'm moving in September 1st, B will join me about November 1st, as my HUSBAND! Husband is such beautiful word. I have a feeling we're going to be sleeping on the floor for a while (at least I will) and eating off the top of boxes, but we'll live. It's romantic to be poor when you're newlyweds...right? Our apartment is a little bit more a month than I wanted to spend, but really only about $25, and we have our very own washer and dryer that comes with, so hopefully we'll save that much by not having to go to the laundramat. And oh how nice it will be to not have to manuever the ice and snow of winter with a laundry basket. We're in a fairly central location, just a few blocks from campus, and a few blocks from my favorite grocery store, AND about one block from the hospital, which B seems to think is a plus. We have two bedrooms, a bathroom (naturally), a good-sized kitchen (hooray! a kitchen that's MINE) and we'll be in the basement(ish), so we'll stay warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. That's the theory at least.

Pictures to follow...eventually.