10 things we miss about Dallas

We were only there for a summer, but it was pretty easy to come up with these.

10 - shopping at every outlet mall + tj maxx/ Marshall's/ Ross trips
9 - super Walmart
8 - warm/hot + crazy weather (thunderstorms, hailstorms, floods, etc)
7 - an abundance of Dr Pepper everywhere
6 - happy people who say "god bless"
5 - freeways with signs painted ON the road
4 - cheap neighborhood pools (!) (really gonna miss this one next summer)
3 - grimaldi's + chick-fil-a + cigarz
2 - free sodas at work
1 - WHITE ROCK LAKE + running every night

10 things we miss about Provo

Maybe they are not YOUR top 10 but these are ours:

10 • married student wards
9 • byu cookies and cream milk + red cream soda
8 • cheap bowling + cheaper everything
7 • Mormons our age + Mormons who don't have kids
6 • real mountains (and camping)
5 • a temple down the street
4 • mountain west burrito + cafe rio
3 • super walmarts + ANY store open past midnight
2 • watching byu sports live in person
1 - hanging out with friends

Overstock fail.

I wrote this really long story out but I'll shorten it because we all know pictures > words:

Graduation + moving + new job = we can buy real furniture!

2 chairs are cheaper than 1 couch or loveseat, and fit better in an apartment.

Overstock has good deals sometimes.

Buy 2 chairs thinking that even if the color in the picture online is different, we'll still be okay.

Have chairs delivered: NOT THE SAME COLOR. At all. Chair 1 is lighter than chair 2.

Decide to return one chair, have THIRD chair delivered before chair 2 is picked up.

CHAIR THREE IS ANOTHER THIRD COLOR.

Shake head and roll eyes at overstock's foolishness.

Whatever. Close enough. Give up and keep chairs 1 and 3.

Take cell phone pics and share even though you have a dslr........

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My sweet, sweet husband planned ahead and had my present ready a couple weeks before my birthday. Then while dealing with the whole chair situation, I ruined my own surprise -- I got a telephoto lens!! It is so great. I keep waiting for the weather to FINALLY clear up so I can go outside and really use it instead of just messing around in the apartment.

I actually was bummed I ruined the surprise. I know, I know - kind of childish, but who doesn't like surprises?!

But hey, no better way to ring in being a quarter of a century old than eating delicious Thai food and ruining your own birthday present.

Blizzard Charlotte (aka winter storm nemo)

This is a month late, but in February we got hit by a pretty impressive blizzard. All the weather channels were predicting Massachusetts would get the brunt of it but Connecticut got a surprisingly large amount of snow. We kind of did our own measurements and I think at our house we averaged around 26 inches. But after the snow plows threw all the street snow to the side, it was definitely a huge amount of snow.

And of course CT was highly unprepared to deal with this much snow. Luckily David was able to work from home until the buses started running again. Our complex basically dug ourselves out enough to get our cars out to the road. David and I walked half a mile down the plowed empty streets to buy ourselves some snow shovels that we might not need again. We shall see.

I don't know what order these pictures will upload but one is our street when it just barely started to snow. One is our parking lot - our sad, snowed in parking lot. One is David measuring the snowdrift outside our front door right after we woke up. The other is the back entry way.