One month down... Forever to go!

This blog post is a little bit over due, seeing as how our one month anniversary was almost two weeks ago, but at least I'm getting to it now.  Our first month as a married couple has been wonderful and we've been able to have a lot of fun together and enjoy being married.  It's been a lot of fun getting our apartment in order and making it our own.  We've both been really busy so we haven't been able to go out a whole lot, but we have had a few fun outings.  We're really looking forward to our ski trip this weekend!
For our first month's anniversary we decided to take a break from the work we had to do and go to a BYU basketball game.  They've been doing very well this year and it was nice to finally make it to one of their games.

We then came home and enjoyed some Martinelli's sparkling cider.  We received it as a gift and were very grateful to have it so we could celebrate.

The next night we went to a recruiting event with KPMG and there was a nametag waiting for me with my new name!  I'm so excited to be a Zinn (but I am still proud to be a Parker)!!

We stretched out the anniversary activities by going to the temple and having dinner at Olive Garden (thanks Uncle Mike for the gift card!) on Friday night.  We're excited to have been married for a whole month (now a month and a half) and can't wait to spend eternity together!

home sweet home

The past couple weeks have been fun as we've been making our new place feel more like home.  We still some work to do but we wanted to give ya the before and after pictures of what we've done!  So, here they are!

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Now you have all been on a tour of our new home!  Now you just have to come see it in real life!  Stop by anytime :)

-Grant and Katie Zinn  :)

I LOVE my husband!

I got way too spoiled over the break!  I was used to not spending much time with Grant last semester, but after spending two straight weeks with him, it's been hard to go back!

The first shock was coming back from our honeymoon and transitioning from spending every second of the day with him to having him work 3 shifts in one day while I was at home by myself.  I don't know if I've ever felt so lonely!  Not to mention it's a lot more scary being alone in this apartment than I expected.  I made sure there was music going all day so I didn't notice how alone I was.  I was able to get a lot of things done though, so that was good.  And the best part was that in the middle of Grant's second shift the doorbell rang and there was a girl there to deliver flowers!!  Grant ordered them before our wedding and planned for them to arrive Monday, knowing I would be home alone.  It made my day!!  

Grant didn't work as much the rest of the week as he did the first day back so I was still able to spend a lot of time with him.  We've done lots of shopping and spent about half of our gift cards and wedding money so far!  We even splurged and got ourselves a kinect :). Our apartment is coming together bit by bit.  Our bathroom and kitchen are pretty much complete, but we're waiting on a few furniture items and accents to complete the other rooms.  We're getting there.  I won't go into what a NIGHTMARE it has been trying to get our couches re-upholstered, but that battle should be over Friday if everything goes according to plan.  I never really realized how important couches were to me until I've had to spend a few weeks without them.

Our open house is this Saturday so we're just hoping we're able to get things together by then.  We're excited to see all of our friends and entertain at our new home!

Grant and I are both back into the swing of things.  I started teaching again on Monday and Grant went back to school yesterday.  His new group of missionaries arrived today so he's still been on a modified work schedule.  I don't know what I'm going to do when he goes back to working every night again next week!  The apartment will be even more scary when it's dark out :/