Day 2

Today we walked from our apartment into the heart of the city then up to Mont Martre. Before we left we finally went to a grocery store to buy some food.
in the heart of the city we saw:
Luxembourg gardens and palace, the pantheon and a church next to it that was built in the 1400s (the original church was built in 510. then we went to NOtre Dame where we had our first LDS missionary sighting. Cade was giggling for a while because it was some of the missionaries' first day "they don't know what they're in for" a quote from cade. We went to the church and saw many more missionaries just hanging out. I thought they were supposed to be preaching. oh well. we went to a few fab stores and then headed to Sacre Coeur up on Mont Martre. Then we ended it all by hitting the Moulin Rouge.
We rode the metro home because we were so tired of walking all day long. When we got home we took a couple hour nap from 8-about930. Then Cade made us some fabulous tortillas and we had burritos.

Day 1

We made it. It was long and there were a few situations, but we made it. Today (started at 1:30 am UT time) we got to the airport, spent hours there trying to figure out our housing, went to the agency, and finally made it to the apartment. After we got here we took a 4 hour nap and then hit the town. We walked around for a long time and I am soo tired.

We're Off!!

Tomorrow morning at 7:15 we will start our summer. We are really excited and a little nervous. peace out america. See you in 2011!! Paris here we come

California!

Last week we went to californiar with my sister Mer and her "friend" It was so awesome!!! Great friends and GREAT times. We drove on Monday, went to Disney Land on Tuesday (happiest place on earth), beach Wednesday and drove home on Thursday. I love Disney Land. I love the beach. It was such an awesome vaca. We stayed at Cade's law school friends house, it was so nice of the Inouye's to let us stay. We rode bikes from their house to the beach it was soooo fun. We drove home Thursday so we could make it to my cousin Holly's wedding. I can't believe that little girl is a married woman. We are leaving for Paris in one week. I am nervous out of my gourd.

College Graduate

I think that the title explains it all. I graduated with my bachelors on Friday. It was so exciting!! I started at USU back in '06, got married in '07, finished my generals at USU so I took a semester off, Cade graduated from USU in 08 and got accepted to BYU law that fall, I started UVU (had to transfer to follow the husband) in summer '08 and graduated in the Spring of 2010. My life has been such a great adventure. I sure miss the Aggies. In my mind I'll always be a Utah State Aggie, but I guess wolverines aren't the worst. I made it my whole UVU career without going to one UVU event. oops. I'm nervous to go to France, but it's a good thing we're going because now that I'm done with school I don't know what to do. I'm thinking of going to more school just because it feels so weird to be done.

Also, Cade turned 25. We went out to dinner with my UVU bffs to celebrate, well more of a celebration for us than for cade. all the spouses think we are absolutely insane. I love Kierst, Jill, and Mickelle. I made Cade a cake that kierst showed me. It looked a little sloppy, but still pretty cool. As for my summer, I don't get dressed most days and I love it! Some pictures for your viewing pleasure. . . .

My Table Project

Ok, this has been my project that I've been working on for a little while. We bought a drop-leaf table for $25, and it was in decent condition. As you can see from the top two pics, there were some white, heat marks, and also some damage to one edge of the table. So the first thing I did, was applied a finish remover, and let it sit/react for a few minutes. Then you scrape off the finish, and I had to do that a second time to get off what I missed the first time. After getting the finish off, I filled in the damaged areas with some wood filler (no picture of me doing this). Then, I sanded the whole thing with 100 grit then 220 grit sand paper. After sanding, I stained the table top, since we wanted it a little darker than the natural color of the wood, and we went with English Chestnut. After staining, I put on the semi-gloss protective finish. After the first coat, I lightly sanded it down with 220 grit, then applied a second coat. I was nervous that I was ruining the whole thing when I was sanding off that first coat, but I think that it ended up pretty good. There's a couple finished pictures at the end, and the final pic shows the edge where the damage was. You can still see some discoloration, but at least there aren't chunks out of the wood. So this has been a fun project, and someday I may have to try refinishing the legs and the rest of the table.

it's coming.......

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I am graduating this friday. I hope I pass all my classes. My studying wasn't exactly up to par. But hey. and a special thanks to Jon for creating this announcement thing. FAB. http://www.starturl.com/jonbstudios