Time passes so quickly.

This week has gone by so fast.

Highlights Checklist:

-A's in all my classes at midterm: CHECK!

-Birthday party in IF for Ryan and Chase: CHECK!

-Chase finishes his first full week working for Med Source: CHECK!

-Chase gets a refresher session at Aeropostale so he can work there too: CHECK!

-We bought meat other than chicken (meaning steak): CHECK! and YUM.

-We did a WINCO run, and now have enough groceries to last us at least a month!: CHECK!

-Our sink is leaking: CHECK! :(

-Chase has two huge scabs on his face!: CHECK!

-The scabs are a result of a little off-roading accident!: CHECK!

-We went to the ice caves with Brandon, Robyn, Travis, and Lindsey: CHECK!

-The adventures at the ice caves resulted of the off-roading accident!: CHECK! and whoops.

-We have no curfew now, but stayed out for the first time past midnight this week!: CHECK!

-Reading Frankenstein for my art and culture class, and think it's amazing: CHECK!

-Took a giant anatomy lab test, where i had to know blood vessels, anatomy of the heart, and anatomy of the ear and eye.: CHECK!

- Making the steak we bought!: CHECK! (I found a recipe on foodnetwork.com for grilled steak with a bacon balsamic glaze and it was so GOOD! It was a really unique flavor combination!)

I think that's about it. This weekend, Chase and I are looking forward to seeing Jamie and Nicole tomorrow here in Rexburg, possibly seeing a movie for our date tonight, going to the temple tomorrow with Sarah and Eric, taking a Middle East test (and getting an A! (hopefully)), going to the art gallery at the Spori, studying ALOT for my test this week, helping Lindsey and Shawn and the kids with family pictures and picnicing with them, and who knows what else!

Chase and I have been blessed very much, especially lately. Chase was able to get a job and Medsource of course, but then was able to get on at Aero. (... which also means some excellent discounts! This is especially good for Christmas, so we can get inexpensive presents.) We have this home where we get dirt cheap rent, we get to see Chase's family here in 2 weeks, go to the temple with TJ, and see Jake play ball. I have been doing well in school, we have solid meals everyday, and things i have been studying have just been awesome. I mean.. could life get any better really? We have had the opportunity to learn that we receive these blessings from living the way that we are suppose to, and continually trying to do better. We've come up with a little system on our white board calendar. We have prayer, scripture study, temple, and journal writing on there. We only get prayer points if we do morning and night. We have to go to the temple at least once a week, and write in our journals at least on Sunday. (we haven't been as good on the journal part! ha) But depending on how well we do, measures how good of a date we get that Friday! It's been awesome to track our progress and also be able to realize how much more smoothly life goes, and how much more patient and loving we are. The gospel is so true, and it changes our lives every day.

Lately, we have also been somewhat obsessed on dreams of our future home. (Or at least someday having a living room.. haha). We've even been devising some plans to make our little apartment even better! We want to paint the wall that goes around our bed area, and it may sound crazy, but we want to do it an almost purple color. It's a almost plum color. But it's mostly a brown with purple undertones. It sounds crazy, but it's actually a really cool color! Anyway... but we have also been obsessed with deciding what art we want in our home, whether it be religious or not. It's been so fun, and maybe i'll post some pictures of the ones we love. But, just the other night i drew out what i want our future living room to look like haha. We love our little apartment, and this stage of our life, but we are so excited for the future and everything that entails.

But anyway, that's a little bit of what life has been like lately! It just keeps getting better!

This one is pretty intense, but Chase and I love it.

And this one is awesome. Very sublime.