our tiny apartment

yes I know we have been married for over 3 months. But as of yesterday the walls were still mostly bare.

my dear husband tried a new strategy to motivate me..... the ultimatum. "either tell me where to hang this or it goes" ..which I guess after 3+ months is reasonable. So this weekend we have really made some progress on the walls of our tiny apartment.

here is the entry. Andrew's Boppa's grub box is one of our favorite things. It is the perfect little hutch for keys, etc. to keep in the entry. It also reminds Andrew of his grandpa who he was very close to and has a cool history. We also keep the cake topper from our wedding on it as a decoration.

My sister-in-law Marcia gave us this framed picture with quotes all around it for a wedding gift. We love it! she is so creative.

We put this Pickup sign over our door (finally!). It is also a wedding gift from my sister-in-law Malinda! we love this too. it represents our little family...

I made this little pin board out of an old frame and burlap. I love the way it turned out and I poked a couple of pins that I have gotten from lacrosse trips on it for now...

here's our little bookshelf area (but the actual bookshelf needs some help so I left it out of the picture ha ha) I painted some numbers on a collection of glass jars that I filled up with loose ends from around the house. I don't know if I want to keep it that way though. it looks better in real life than in the picture but it is kinda jumbled looking.

i finally erased the menu from our wedding reception that was on this board...and added my own thanksgiving message ha ha.
I'm not satisfied with this picture but this was our major project. This is the wall above our bed that we have hung a collection of frames and yada yada on. It may be a little unfinished but we really like it so far. I will have to get a better picture...maybe I should actually make the bed before i take it?

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Where can you find us next summer?

Andrew interviewed and got offers from Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Deloitte.

they are the 3 biggest accounting firms and each one would have been a good choice. so it was a big

the decision but it has been made.............!

Andrew will start his summer internship with E&Y in June and then will [most likely] start his career with them the following fall.

pretty exciting!

last weekend the weather was gloomy so Andrew and I were inside all day. Well we started to feel really cooped up and we thought of playing racquetball! we rented all the equipment and played at the RB on campus for free.

turns out neither of us actually know the rules to racquetball... but we made up some pretty good ones i think.

the weirdest thing was the door into the court. It was like a little 2 ft. high leprechaun door.

we had to shlump down to enter...

shots of our finesse... ha ha
we played 3 games, Andrew won 2 and I won 1. it got a little heated. there should be little captions with $%&$# 's under the pictures. ha ha. just kidding. it was lots of fun,

andrew and I do get a little competitive though . .

so I meant to post this ...6 days ago. Not too bad. My sister Larken turned 22 last Wednesday! We went to TGIFriday's for dinner with our family and some of her friends. It was so fun, we had LOTS of time to talk (the service wasn't the best that night...Andrew had time to eat his rushed order, leave, play a whole basketball game, and come back before they brought us complimentary desserts to say sorry for the wait time ha ha). I hope she had a good birthday.

Larken and I have always been close. I put together a little collage of pictures from when we were little.

these pictures show the typical childhood reality that larken was always the pretty one and I was the cute one (except during what Andrew likes to call my "Jonathan Taylor Thomas stage" in which i am neither pretty OR cute)... ha ha some things never change. that's okay.

we were always full of shenanigans together. I remember we were so mad when we moved to Utah because it meant we wouldn't get a year to go to high school together. She has always been my best friend and so much fun. your 22nd year will be the most fun and full of gumption and frolicking yet. i'm pretty sure.

we had a sleepover the other night because Andrew is out of town and we watched design shows for about 4 hours.

i'm wearing her shoes as we speak.

aren't sisters the best?

love, meredith

ha ha ha. this is a little creepy looking. Last night Andrew was out of town so 3 of my friends slept over. Somehow we got on the topic of doing that thing on the internet where you upload pictures and see what your baby will look like. so after doing a morph of my face with president obama's (that one was truly ugly) I did one of pictures of Andrew and I. what do you think? I hope our real babies are cuter! ....I would give anything for them to get the dimples from the Pickup side!!

PS. you will still have to wait a year or two to see what the real version of this will look like ha ha!

I have lots of pictures from this last month or two of fall that are in random order . but here they are...

our "haunted ride" on the Heber Creeper with Dan & Christy... so cute and fun!
pumpkin carving in my moose sweatshirt.
Meagan is BACK from Romania!! We carved pumpkins to celebrate.
mine and Andrew's pumpkins. just try to guess who's is who's...
Andrew and one of his best friends--Dan. They are so scared on the haunted train ride ha ha
Me and Dan's wife, Christy.
Andrew and I all bundled up in the freezing cold night.
We went to Tepanyaki for dinner with some friends...
Dave said Andrew was all "fashion-y" tonight. Ha ha! i thought he looked good Dave.

This was so cute. I came in and found Andrew asleep . . . with his arms folded. ha ha. My sweetie.

what do you think? see the similarities? ha ha. I am a parrot and Andrew is an evil sorcerer or something. i need to brush up on my Disney trivia.

Along with our friend Dan & Christy, and Sammi & Brady, we threw a couple's halloween party. It was so much fun!

Aren't Sammi & Brady funny in their Elmo and Big Bird costumes!

me and two of my good friends, Browyn and Tierani.
Larken and I... She made her wonder woman costume! Isn't that crazy (good)!!

I wish I had more pictures of Andrew in his costume. I guess we didn't get enough!