Celebrations!

Last week we celebrated my 23rd birthday!  I know that is young, but to me I feel so old!! I just turned 23 and have almost finished my 2nd year teaching, been married for 2 years, and we just bought our first house. And it doesn't help that my not so little brother anymore just turned 18! 

I've said it before, but I have to say it again... being a teacher is so great! What is better than having 22 kids loving you? My kids are the sweetest (most of the time). They spoiled me this year with treats, gifts, and so many hugs and I often overheard them throughout the day telling eachother to shhhh....it's Mrs. Harding's birthday! We can't be rude to her! :) Maybe I've engraved that into their heads a little too much ha ha.

I am so blessed to have the greatest family, friends, and husband. I couldn't have asked for a better day or better way to start my 23rd year!! My sweet hubby took me to Cafe Rio with our brothers for dinner and surprised me later with my favorite cake: ice cream cake!

He also bought me the best gift! My roomie brought her clarisonic to DC a few weeks ago and had nothing but good things to say about it. I really wanted it so I'm so glad Andrew bought it for me. Seriously girls, if you haven't ever used a clarisonic before it is AMAZING!! Definitely worth the money. My skin has never felt softer than it does after using this. I recommend it to everyone!

Next celebration....on May 10th we finally closed on our house! We were lucky to have lived in such a nice apartment in Provo for 2 years, but it's so great to finally have our own house. We realized we were going to be in Utah for a few more years with our work, so we figured we mine as well start building up equity. 

Packing everything up was awful. I have no idea how we accumulated so much stuff in 2 years! We had to pack everything during the week which is more difficult since we both work. Look at this mess.....our last night in our apartment was spent having a sleepover in the living room since we had already put our bed frame in the Uhaul.

Friday night--first night moving stuff in! Such a long, hard, and messy process. I'm happy to say it doesn't look like that now! We are loving getting everything all moved in and organized.

I'll be putting up pictures of the house soon once we get it all organized and the way we like it. We are so fortunate to have been able to buy such a beautiful and perfect townhouse for us. Everyday we love coming home. Home sweet home!

We also celebrated our 2 year anniversary this week! We celebrated by going to our favorite restaurant Communal....hits the spot every time. Seriously if you go, order a side of Mac n' Cheese....it's the best ever!  It's been the most wonderful 2 years of marriage. We've definitely had some arguments, but the best thing about being married is knowing your spouse's feelings, forgiving one another and treating each other even better than you thought possible.  I feel lucky to have a man who treats me with so much love and kindness. He's been the best thing to happen to me and I'm happy everyday because of him. I'm glad I married such a hard working man and someone who is already doing a great job to provide for our family. Part of my patriarchal blessing says that my husband will provide for me so I will not want, and I'm already seeing that in my life now and am so grateful for all he does to do a great job at work. I absolutely love everything about him! I'm a lucky wife and right now we are just having the time of our lives together!!

a glimpse into my future!!! :)

Life is so good!