Meet George.

This is George.

You may call him Mister Fix It

George and his wife, Lucille (you may sigh at how the adorable-ness), are our wonderful landlords. We LOVE George and Lucille and often find ourselves in their living room talking for an hour before we even realize time has passed at all. And we never leave their home without food. We love George and Lucille.

Two adorable things I must share about this couple before I explain the manliness that is pictured above..

1.George is extremely hard of hearing. His hand is constantly attached to the side of his head as if to cone the soundwaves more directly into his ear. Despite the fact that he rarely hears everything you say he smiles and pretends your story is the most pleasant and compelling thing he's ever heard.

2.These two are the King and Queen of flirting! George will tell Lucille how pretty she is almost constantly and tap her foot playfully as we talk. They also call each other Mom and Dad..too cute.

Pictured above is the famous George himself fixing our tub. You see, George is the ultimate handy man. It would take me all day to list off the things he has done and the number of houses just in our neighborhood he has built with his own hands but if you're interested ask husband. Husband knows basically everything there is to know about George and his accomplishments and could talk for hours about "how much of a man" he is :) We've lived in our apartment for 10 months, in that time George has fixed our sink, re-roofed our bathroom, patched up leaks, painted walls and reattached our soap dish in our tub. We've kept him busy, and he loves it ;)

Hubs and I are infinitely grateful for George and Lucille and the love and service they give despite the fact that they are 84 and 87 years old (not joking). They are such a wonderful examples of life-long service and loving your neighbors! Thanks George and Lucille, for teaching us how to grow old together.

I (not so) secretly want to be them when we get to be old and wise.

Seeing them together makes me so grateful to have Kimball for a husband, I can't imagine growing old and flirting with anyone but him.

twenty-two.

I turned twenty-two yesterday!

And it was marvelous :)

thanks to all my loved ones who made it so special!! i love you all so much and appreciate all you have done for me throughout my life.

because i am blessed.

p.s. midway and halloween catch up soon...promise!

not my semester.

okay so it's pretty apparent that i'm struggling with this whole blog and school and work and on and on and on thing. sorry to those of you who actually read but things have been a bit ridunkulous. i love my major, i love my job and i love being busy but i'm sort of not rocking it this semester. i'm not failing any of my classes (of even doing really bad at all actually) but it's just been impossible to feel on top of things. as a result i feel like i'm constantly running around with not only my head but my arms and one leg cut off. luckily i have the most amazing husband ever who somehow knows how to make all of this go away for a moment so i can breath. i hate venting blogs and i have a lot of fun stuff i really need to catch up on here but right now i just need to be human and not just talk about all the good stuff.

i'm so ready to graduate. and yet i hate to say that! i love being here at school and i love learning more and more and i hate to think that a year from now i'll miss it and wish i was able to take fun dance classes and religion courses etc etc. but right now that mentality is far from my brain. you know those days when you stub your toe or someone opens a door on you (just happened) and you kind of just lose it? as if it's like the biggest deal in the world and there is no way you could deal with it right then? yeah. welcome to me for the last month. my poor husband :(

i'm coming to the realization that there truly is no point to this post so i guess in closing i'll just plead with you to tell me i'm normal, not dumb and probably going to be okay..can you do that? thanks.

Halloween Par-Tay!

I love parties.Love love love parties. But I've never thrown one! Kimball and his roommates used to all the time but I would just show up. Well, this year I really wanted to dress up for Halloween but let's face it, we're married and boring and didn't have a legitimate reason. So, what did we do? Made up a reason and threw a party! Not just any party, a costume contest party. Our cute friends came in amazing costumes and made the night so so fun. Here are some pictures..of course :)

top left: chad. top right:ali and nate.

bottom left:jamie and james. bottom right:sarah and chad.

top:sean and jean

bottom:kelly and jacob

top:katherine and paul

left:katelyn and zac right:michelle and jordan

and us? oh, we dressed up.

grecian gods

(i swear we're not vain)

any excuse to wear false eyelashes and

craft together a leaf headdress for Hubs is a good time!

(and thank you mama for making our beautiful costumes!!)

some of our goodies!

some of the games:

costume contest

truth or dare halloween style (soo funny!)

mummy and pumpkin bowling

&

of course toe tags.

I am beyond happy we put this party together!

It was extremely fun to have a reason to dress up and get all of our friends from different areas of our lives all together in one place. We are so blessed to have so many fun friends who make our lives so great! Everyone did such an amazing job on their costumes and were great sports participating in my cheesy games and activities. We may just have to make this a Hicks Family tradition :)

because i am blessed.