I know, I know..It's about time

So it's taken me a bit to get some pictures up here and loaded onto something. I've actually never done a blog, but I figured it might be the best way to let the masses (whom I know are DYING to know what's going on in Proffittland) in on all the wonderful things I'm doing an experiencing as a newly-wed woman...well, maybe not ALL of the wonderful things, but you'll get plenty, I promise.



Well, let's just start with the obvious: I live in a completely different state, with a boy, in the mountains. It's pretty great, actually...especially the "living with a boy" part. We are pretty low-key, and for me it's the first time in my life that i've been low-key and okay with it. Just to give you an idea of what low-key means, here you go. Our days, thus far, consist of the following:



6:45--said "boy"'s alarm goes off



7:30--boy gets out of bed, to me asking "what do you want for breakfast?" His reply is usually "a muffy"

Time out: a "muffy" is short for "muffin in a cup". A dear friend of mine is a fabulous cook and has a recipe for these amazing bran muffins...only you don't make the muffins. in the morning, you take out the batter, fill half a coffee mug with the batter, stick it in the microwave for a minute, and then you eat it with a spoon with all sorts of good butter and stuff in it. It's so amazing that I no longer buy breakfast food. We eat "muffy" every single morning. And when it runs out and we don't have more supplies on-hand to make more, it's a sad morning.

Time out: I came up with "muffy"...Daniel would not want to be associated with calling something anything cutesy that ends in 'y'.



8:00--Daniel goes off to work. I send him off in my pink robe and fuzzy slippers, and then I either a)go back to sleep or b) eat muffy myself and have a quiet time and then start on the excitement of the day.....



laundry.

dishes.

laundry.

grocery store.

play guitar.

laundry.

read book.

12:30--Daniel comes in for lunch. We have sandwiches or leftovers.

1:30--Daniel goes back to work.



laundry.

talk on the phone if i can get reception when someone calls.

play guitar.

run to town to....get new driver's licence, go to post office, etc.

put Netflix in the mail.

make bed.

find something to do with all the picture frames we got from the wedding.



4:30--go get Daniel at work and we go running into the state park for about an hour.



5:30--what's for dinner?



7:00--we eat dinner. And, mind you, i have become quite the cook. i'm not kidding, either.



Meals we've had:



Basil Chicken with Coconut Curry Sauce

Stuffed Zucchini

Rosemary Chicken Pasta

Mediterranean Cous-Cous Salad with Spiced mini-burgers



and things of that nature. We don't mess around, people.



One of the most fun meals, we had, though, was when Daniel and I made pancakes for dinner and experimented with several different kinds of pancakes:



Symphony Bar pancakes

Strawberry Pancakes

Apple Cinnamon Pancakes

Orange Zest Pancakes

Honey Bunches of Oats Pancakes (not good)

Honey Oat Pancakes (better)



It was so much fun. We were just grabbing things out of the pantry and making pancakes with them. We're going to perfect it one day and then open up a pancake shop and only serve pancakes. They are my favorite food, you know....



So anyways, a little blurb about food for you....food is very important. Apparently it's the way to a man's heart.



As you can tell, we are settling in to married life, only to be unsettled again once summer starts. I"m going to be working with Daniel on the high school summer program he's in charge of. I'm going to be "lead girl" beside Daniel, and we'll each have 2 counselors that we're over, who in turn are over the students. The kids come for 2 weeks, and they spend one week in camp and one week out of camp in the woods in tents (um, yeah. in the woods. in tents.) But i'm really excited about it! I'm going to lead worship for the group (it's called Apostle), and it's going to be really hectic, but really good. Right now I'm just really enjoying being a housewife and learning to cook and having some time to myself during the day. I also really enjoy keeping up the house and making it the way Daniel and I want it (i'll post pictures of the house soon, I promise)



Okay, I just tried to upload some pictures of our trek out west, but one of the perks of living out here is that the Internet is a lil slow, and the pictures won't upload. So, they will come the next time I blog. I hope you read this anyway, because it took me a long time to type it out.



love love love,