sweet, sweet summertime.

There is nothing better than this. Kissing on a cliff, what a rush. An even bigger rush with the sunset and all the warm rays of summer sunshine crawling all over my skin. This is something I NEVER want to forget.

Aaron is my best friend. I've known him since I was fourteen and he was seventeen. It wasn't until three years later that sparks began to fly. We spent every single summer together, sneaking around and spending every possible second together. We were both young, a little to young for our families and friends to take us serious. So with that we stayed best friends. I remember him promising me that when I was twenty-three and he was twenty-six, if neither of us were married that we would marry each other. Funny, young love at it's best. Or so I thought. That was just the beginning.

December 2008 we moved in to a little two bedroom, 1 bath apartment. I transferred schools and we started our life together. We spent every holiday together, made lots of memories and got our first kitty together. Her name is Lucy. She and trucker are officially best friends.

Summer '09 was full of adventures. Our favorite trip was to Joseph Oregon for a week and a half. We hiked around the mountains, went to Wallowa Lake and even ate kettle corn at Joseph Days.

 But my favorite part of the trip, was this.

It was the most beautiful little spot I've ever seen.

Underneath an old bridge.

Amazing.

December '09. We bought a house.

3 Bedrooms. 2 Bathrooms. Fully fenced yard. 2 car garage. Perfect.

We've spent a lot of time and money fixing things, painting and I did all the decorating. We love it, a lot. Things couldn't be better at this point.

This house, our house- is now a home.

For this past Christmas, Aaron got me a new addition to the family.

Her name is Zada. She is a black lab and I love her to death. Two months before I got her, My dog of thirteen years passed away. And there is no doubt it my mind that Zada is a reincarnation of Mika. Weird I know, but I can just sense it.

:)

So, there ya go. The past year and a half summed up into a few pictures and some sentences.

This summer is going to be the best!

Reason #1- Our garden! The house we moved into has a huge backyard with a TREE, that's it! Aaron built me a raised garden and filled it with top soil. I love, love, LOVE gardening. It has three different boxes. A big one for veggies, one for herbs and one for fruits!

Here it is, nice and....empty? ugh.

Soon, we will start planting. But before we do that we are going to put up a picket fence around it so that T & Z stay out! We are going to gravel the walkways and make it a million times better!

Just wait and see (:

Now if only Idaho would make up it's mind and quit raining every other day.

So this is our life, so far.

Bring it on Summer, we're ready!

p.s. thank you may. for the flowers.