Our puppy and our house

So we are practically all moved into our house. We still have about 15 boxes completely full of our stuff in the garage, but everything we need to live is now in its place in our house :) We LOVE our house!! It's truly just perfect, with it's front room which serves as a music room and a second living area, which we can use as our t.v./living room. We Love the open layout, truthfully everything just came together. I remember my mom telling me, "Taylor the house that you're meant to have you will." So after all the months of searching we truly got the perfect one. The ward is great, we already fit in and are meeting so many new people and making so many new friends...we just love it :) We spoke in church last Sunday, which I think both of us enjoyed.

This is what we were for Halloween :) Unfortunately I got really sick and we didn't end up going anywhere...but we did dress up and we looked awesome!!

Suka looks a little demonic here, but in real life she's so cute :)

Suka and Michael playing tug-a-war

You know those people that take there dog everywhere and spoil there dog ridiculously and almost replace their dog for a child...ya I think I'm one of those people

Suka again :)

This is on one of our walls, we decided that it was a sign. I intend to put a big wedding photo underneath it, but I have yet to do that.

We love our kitchen. This isn't that great of a picture, but it's a very open kitchen and we replaced all the appliances with black ones and I replaced all the kitchen handles and I think it all works together really well.

(Below) This is our front room :) It has my harp and grand piano and there is still room to move, if this isn't the best house ever...I don't know what is :)

Our Dog :)

Meet Suka, the newest member of our family

Our House!!!

Michael and I have been looking at houses to buy for probably 7 months. We put in quite a few offers, but nothing really seemed to work out for us. In about April we found this house that we both LOVED. It had two living room/family room spaces, which we thought would be perfect. We could use one as our music room and the other as our T.V./fun room. The only problem with the house is that it is a short sale. Short sale is kind of the word that buyers here and they turn around running. Getting involved in a short sale means that you can put in an offer, but you better be ready to never hear back, because the sellers have to accept the offer and then so does the bank. But the bank will be agreeing to lose money when they accept the offer, so it basically takes a LONG time. So we started to put in an offer for a short sale in May, then with some confusion walked away and then we decided to go for it again after they seemed willing to work with us again. We had everything turned in and ready by June 9th. We waited and waited, and nothing really seemed to be being done for it. But about a week and a half ago, Valerie our real estate agent got a call and it was the bank's realtor saying that we could have the house. They countered with more than we had offered, but we decided it was a good deal. So we're going to be closing on it September 29th and we're so excited!!! The inspector is coming out to look at it this weekend, and then we have an FHA inspector coming to look at it sometime next week. And once that happens we just have to wait till September 29th and then it's OURS!! The best part about this house is it's in a great neighborhood, and we stay close to all of our friends and family. It really seems to be working out just perfectly :)

Our life

Michael and I are now living in our own apartment. It's been really great to have our own place. Every single night feels like a date, we spend tons of time together, and I'm loving the fact that neither of us ever have to leave the state where the other is, I'll never take advantage time we get to spend together ever. I think our whole dating/engagement experience taught me that.

School starts on Monday for us and we're excited to get more credits done and get a little closer to graduation :) Currently I'm teaching 21 students piano/vocal lessons and I'm LOVING it!! Michael is working at Insight and is very busy working and going to school full time.

Life is good and everything seems to be going really well for us. Yesterday we were told by the bank that the house we had put an offer on in June could be ours as long as we agreed to a certain amount. We agreed and now we'll probably be moving in about 5-6 weeks. We're very excited that we're finally getting into a house. We've looked at lots of houses and put offers on quite a few also. None really seemed to work out, but we're very, very excited that this one is. This one was always our favorite. Everything seems to work out for a reason and we're really grateful for that.

Our Wedding

May 22nd we got married :) We got married at 10:30 am in the Mesa, AZ temple. Usually in Arizona it is very hot at the end of May but lucky for us it stayed in the low 80's, high 70's and was a little overcast. It ended up being a perfect day for a wedding.

The day turned out perfectl

y. After we got married we had a luncheon at the church. Andrea decorated it adorably and it looked awesome. The food was also so delicious. Kim and other people of Michael's family made lasagna and salad and breadsticks and it was so delicious.

I thought it was so great how many people came to support us that day. Four of my roommates from BYU came down as my bridesmaids. One flew from Seattle and the other 3 drove from Sandy, UT (near Salt Lake). They left early the day before to try to get to Mesa by the early evening. They ended up having really bad car trouble, they destroyed a tire and hubcap by hitting a huge rock. So they didn't end up getting to Arizona till 1 am. But they did get there and I was so grateful to have them there with me.

The reception ended up being so beautiful. The Wrigh

t House where we held it did a great set up job and it ended up turning out so beautiful.