We Have A Blind Puppy

Yes, you feel bad, don't you? The sweet little baby chihuahua we bought cannot see! We took him to the vet for a check-up and his second set of shots and asked the vet about our concern with Benny's sight. Benny had been running into things and wouldn't follow toys or anything with his eyes, but we though maybe he was just unobservant. The vet did a few tests and confirmed that he was not visually responding to anything. I suppose it is a bit funny, because now we know why he uses his paws to feel everything.

We are still waiting on the reply from Thunderbird to hear if Matt got accepted. The anticipation is getting more thick because we have less time to act once we do receive a response. It will be exciting to find out and we sure hope the answer is yes!

My parents moved to Heber last week from Washington state. It was a very long move for them but we got them unpacked and fairly settled in no time at all. Having parents near is always such a comfort and we are extremely happy to have them here with us.

Matt's birthday was on Sunday, June 1st along with Father's Day. He got some awesome gifts (thanks to me ;) ). He finally got the black Air Force 1's he has wanted since he was 13 or something. The sales guy who sold them to me was hilarious. He told me that Air Force 1's are so special that they are in their own hall of fame category of shoes and that he could tell me facts about them for hours. I did not know that people were so passionate about shoes--I thought that kind of obsession was reserved for girls who believe in retail therapy and would rather skip a week's worth of meals for the cause of shopping. Anyway, I made a layered chocolate cake with sprinkles on Saturday and got him a shirt also. On Sunday we went to Heber to celebrate everything and we had a nice dinner and ice cream cake for Matt. He received lovely new scriptures and a movie from the whole family. Overall, I would say it all went over very well.

One more week down

So this week was uneventful until Tuesday when we decided to buy a puppy.  We found him on KSL.com.  He is a teacup chihuahua.  We wanted to name him Pepe, to keep a Mexican theme going with his breed and all but we decided on Benny because of Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez.  Most of you will recognize this name from the famous Sandlot movie, which is my favorite movie all time. I once watched it 20 times in one month.  But he was really shy and sad the first few days.  He still sleeps a lot but every now and then he wakes up and he goes crazy and jumps all over the place.  We like having him around. 

The window washing business was slow this week. It rained everyday this week. Let's hope this week is better.

Go Lakers!

29 Days

Abbey and I have been married for 29 days and it has been absolutely marvelous. We live in this little ghetto apartment but we couldn't be happier. We have practically nothing except a couch our friends bought us at a yard sale, a table from DI which we painted, and an amazing bed, but it's sweet. Today we went to our ward for the second time. We missed the last two weeks because we went to a missionary farewell and then we were in Washington for our Open House. Our ward is needless to say...interesting but we won't say much more than that. We have new callings; Abbey and I are on the activities council, which Abbey thinks is for people that the ward doesn't know what to do with. Washington was awesome. We flew in Friday night after my cousins wedding reception. We stayed with Abbey's friend Molly's parents. They were super friendly and took great care of us. They had an amazing view of the Puget Sound. We had the open house there the next night. My parents and my sister flew into town for the event so we had a lot of fun. The people from Abbey's ward who came to see us were very friendly and generous with their gifts. Some of her friends parents also visited us as well. The next day we went to church and we had a bbq at Abbey's house afterward with her family. Then we flew back to the amazing city of provo. Our daily lives haven't changed all that much. Abbey continues to work for Platinum Security doing payroll and I'm still teaching Spanish at the MTC and washing windows at the side. Its pretty decent money so I might be just doing that instead of the MTC. Yesterday we went golfing with Abbey's brother Tyler and her niece Maty. We played Soldier Hollow up in Midway. The par was 36 for nine holes, i was only 4 over through 5 but ended 14 over par and Abbey ended a whopping 37 over par with a few hand wedge shots along the way. Her round was hopeful when she drove the ball about 180 yards or more off the tee on the 3rd hole but she struggled throughout the day. She did well considering it was only her fourth or fifth time playing. Tonight we went up to Midvale to watch game 2 of the NBA finals with my sister. We had burgers and hot dogs. Tomorrow its back to the grind.

We're Officially Official

We are married! Finally, after the agonizing 1 and a half months of being engaged, we were married on Saturday, May 9th in the SLC Temple. It was wonderful because the sealing was at 3:40 so we had plenty of time to relax and get ready in the morning. After the sealing, we took pictures for about 2 hours and then had a dinner in the JS Building. Everything went smoothly (at least from our end of it) and it was absolutley beautiful!

We honeymooned to Park City for the weekend because Matt had class on Monday. Overall, it was amazing and we love being married!