I didn't think that I would end up having anything to blog about so soon. I shouldn't have underestimated Ben I guess. He has been working on making me a key chain for about a week or so now. He grabbed a wrong letter from his mom's though so it has been on hold. He remembered to grab the letter yesterday so he finished it.

It says Ben (Heart) Emry if you can't read it. He also used our wedding colors around it. the key loop is even purple.  He spent ten minutes melting the end then scrapping off any burnt spots. He decided it was finally "good enough" when it really was perfect. He is so cute. He came up with the idea all on his own. It turned out great. I can't wait for someone to comment on it now so I can tell them my husband made it for me!

Speaking of things people have made for me.... Ben and I went over to his parents house a couple weeks ago when the women were working on a really cute craft. I am not very good at cutesy crafts but they convinced me I needed to do one. I painted my blocks then we didn't have the letters done yet so I had to finish it later. After a couple weeks of my blocks sitting at Cindy's she decided she would help me out and finish it for me.

  She did such a great job! I love them. Our apartment is starting to look like Im a good crafty wife thanks to people helping me out. They make me want to be better.

My opportunity to be better came this week also when I was asked to make month signs for the tables at our ward Relief Society birthday party. I was trying to work on them but just kept getting frustrated because I am terrible at coming up with cute ideas! It was slightly stressful because it's Relief Society, it had to be cute and matching. My mom brought out some paper for me and helped give me some ideas of a direction to go. She pretty much told me what I should do and I came up with the idea of using the cricut to cut out the letters.

These are the finished project. I am actually pretty pleased with myself. I think they turned out pretty good. They were super easy, the paper is the only reason they are cute, and my mom came up with the idea, so I can't really take any credit. I am still proud though.

This one was my favorite. I was biased and picked my favorite paper for my birthday month. I am supposed to make a center piece for one of the tables too. Mom also gave me the idea to make a cookie bouquet. I am excited. I haven't made one in forever, and they are really cute. I will have to post a picture after I make it. Thanks to my mom my ward relief society sisters will think I am as cutesy crafty as a Mormon girl should be.

Ben has now been working at his new job for about 2 weeks now. He gets his new work clothes soon and I will post some pictures because it sounds like he looks pretty handsome in his hardhat, earmuffs, and safety glasses driving the golf cart around work. I told him I needed to get a picture of that. Anyway, he got his first pay check this week and the amazing man bought me a new vacuum! I am so excited! We only had a vacuum thanks to his brother David and Randi giving us one. It worked pretty decent but not that great and Ben spoils me. I guess this is my present since he got a new tv. He should hope I use the vacuum as much as he uses the tv and wii!

 After the first couple pictures he started posing for me.

I am excited to use it. He actually just finished putting it all together. He even took the time to pull the stickers off and get all the sticky off. I have the most amazing husband! I am going to go try it out!

I decided I needed to start blogging all the funny things Ben does. He keeps us very entertained with all the funny things he does. I have been trying really hard to take pictures of them so I could show everyone else.

He broke me in quickly the week after we were married by always sculpting his shaving cream to show me the beards he is going to grow for real. He has stopped doing this except for when he has plenty of time to kill. He makes sure I get to see them before he shaves them off though.

This was our gourmet breakfast for our first couple days of being in our apartment. We brought back Krispy Kremes from Utah and only took the time to stop and grab milk on the way back into town late. The only cups we had were the fake champagne glasses I got with sparkling cider for my bridal shower so that's what we used. We like to class up our donuts and milk.

 

Ben was excited when he found the apron I got for my bridal shower. It says "My little black apron" and has pearls around the neck. You can't see it great in the picture. He went and put on a pink shirt special just for the picture.

I made Ben buy a helmet before he could ride his bike to work. He was all excited to buy all his bike gear. He bought a helmet, speedometer, and lights for his bike. He thought it would be funny to come out wearing it like he already wrecked. He hasn't ridden his bike since he bought the helmet. I must have ruined the thrill of the risk for him.

We inherited this old tv from Ben's sister Nikki who was nice enough to let us have it.

It was ginormous and extremely heavy. It took both of us to move it and it made our tv stand we bought bow a little scarily. Ben decided that it would not do and that we needed to buy a new tv with our tax rebate.

Here is our new tv. We hooked it up to the surround sound system his sister Roxie gave us. We broke it in with a movie Matney gave us for Christmas. It took a while to get the surround sound working right but it worked great after Ben played with it for a while. Just getting a new tv wasn't enough for Ben though. We had to make a party of it. So our bed was moved from here....

 to here. Ben said it was more like a sleepover that way.

We do enjoy our new tv and luckily after a couple days of camping on the living room floor I convinced him our bed needed to move back. Ben's parents gave us a couch that now suffices to watch movies on so we don't have to have "sleepovers" every time we watch a movie.

Ben also loves playing video games on our tv with his Sega and new Wii. When we first got the Wii all he did was play Mario. Luckily he has slowed down a bit, but I still was able to sneak this picture of him playing Sonic the other day. I thought he looked like a little kid sitting on his legs right up to the tv playing his game. He makes me smile.

After being married for one month Ben brought me home this rose from work. It sat on the table in a cup for a couple days before we bought a vase for it.

Then one week later, Ben brought me home these roses for Valentines day complete with vase, monkey, and a bow. They are super flowers because one month later they still look good and are even starting to grow new leaves.

After Ben took the monkey off the flowers he decided the pink bow around its neck was dumb so he took it off. I jokingly said I liked the bow so Ben went to work to tie it back on.... I thought. After a couple minutes Ben brought me back the monkey looking like this...

He said the tie was much more manly and cool for the monkey. I agreed and now he sits on my nightstand. Ben is so creative, the tie looks really good.

That sums up all the cute/funny things that have happened that I have remembered to get a picture of lately. I'm sure there have been plenty more that happened when we weren't around the camera. Life has been fun and interesting!