Living with the Long's

Most people kind of grimace when I tell them that Nelson and I are sharing the house this summer with his parents and two younger siblings, here are my thoughts on the subject.

My in-laws are incredibly kind.  I come home from work and Amy has cooked dinner.  I am starving on campus and they bring me food from Panda Express.  Lance installs a new little door so that we have our own space separated from the rest of the house (so in order to be alone we don't have to go all the way into our bedroom).  I can't stress the food enough, Amy is ALWAYS cooking up something delicious, and it is so nice to be eating so well (I know Nelson especially appreciates it!  I just get too tired most days to really try to cook...).  Since we have our new beautiful puppy dog Beatrice they help watch her and take her out to go potty when we are away.  They are really a blessing in our lives right now and we appreciate them so much!

I wouldn't say a summer living with your in-laws is best for most young couples, but I think we have a nice exception on our hands.  [=

Summer Reading!

When I was a kid my parents made me participate in the summer reading program at the Provo Library. You had to read a certain number of books and if you reached the required number, you got a free t-shirt. I love getting free t-shirts! But, now that I am an old person, I don't get to participate in that program but I do my own summer reading program and it is fantastic.

During the semester it is difficult for me to find the time to read a book for fun because I know that if I do start reading a book, I will forget about the million other things I am supposed to do. Whenever there is a holiday break or if I am not taking classes during the summer, I read as many books as I can. I have been out of school for a week and I have read two books. Rosalia has probably read 20 something books in the past month or so of a lesser quality. I like to open up her books and read them to her out loud while I use sexy voices and act the scenes out. She doesn't enjoy my acting as much as I do. :) Anyways, here are the books I have read so far:

and 

I just started reading this.

Beatrice

 Rosalia has wanted a puppy for a long time. Even when we were dating, we would look at dog books together and cute pups for sale on the interwebs (as Rosalia calls it). Rosalia had told me that we needed to get a puppy or a baby. I finally agreed that it would be fun to get a puppy- my decision having nothing to do with me not wanting a baby.  I like babies. Anyways, here are some pictures of our beautiful pup Beatrice.

This is right after we bought our little labradoodle (or Poobador) on May 27. She was the runt of the litter and extremely shy and quiet. She is now a feisty 9 week old pup.

Initially, we took puppy everywhere. She was so little and sleepy ancuddle. This is Beatrice in Rosalia's purse while we did some shopping at Macey's. We actually put her in the produce scale and she weighed in at just under five pounds.

After a few days of discussing names, we decided she was a Beatrice. We went to Petsmart and made it official with a cute little name tag.

Beatrice loves to cuddle (unless she is on one of her puppy energy rampages). 

Our neighbor gave Beatrice a nice moose to chew on. She loves it!

Beatrice loves playing outside and is a very curious little pup.

She likes to run around in the sprinklers and attack them.

This is Beatrice playing with our friend's dog Peaches. Peaches is faster than Beatrice, but Beatrice is stronger. This picture was taken a couple weeks ago and now I think Beatrice is just as fast as Peaches and  bigger too. 

We take Beatrice with us in the car.

Beatrice and Rosalia cuddling outside on a blanket.

Beatrice likes to lay on the grass and think about puppy stuffs.

She also loves to chew on anything!