Hughes News: Busybodies.

Okay, okay. I know I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I got distracted with homework and Mario Kart and Ice Skating. Gimme a break!

Anyways, it has been quite chilly here in Provo. Personally, I'm ready for T-shirt weather again! Despite my inability to keep my toes and fingers warm, Christopher seems to be fairing well, other than stealing all the blankets at night and possibly catching the mutated version of my cold. Thank goodness we have blankets a plenty, including the new additions from Christopher's grandparents, Larry and Kim. They gave us an embroidered quilt as a wedding present and then stopped by to give me a "slanket" to keep warm. Kim made it herself for a daughter who I guess never took it, but it's a blanket with sleeves, so essentially a snuggie. IT IS THE WARMEST MOST COMFY THING EVER. I love it. Larry and Kim have been really great, taking us out to lunch at Texas Roadhouse and making it clear that we are ALWAYS welcome to stop by their house. I think we'll take them up on that :)

Another event in the Hughes apartment has to do with our Betta fish, Jean Valjean. Yes, that's his real name. I'm obsessed. Christopher brought him home from Wal-Mart one day after a customer tried to return him. It's company policy to flush fish that are returned in case they have some disease or something wrong with them that will hurt the other fish. So Christopher asked his boss if he could take the fish instead. And that's how we got our little rescue fish.

When we left for Christmas, we didn't have anyone to take care of him. Sadly, we thought he died over the break.
Surprisingly, he didn't.
My old roommate Ashleigh called me at like midnight all excited to tell us that THE FISH WAS STILL ALIVE. She then made jokes about how he's our "love fish" and stayed alive because of the strength of our love. Haha. We were ecstatic that our little rescue fish made it through the break. However, now he is sick and has this thing called fin rot. It rotted away his whole right fin so now he's more like Finding Nemo than Jean Valjean. We are treating him with aquarium salt and he seems to be getting better. Yay Jean Valjean!

By far, however, the most exciting thing that happened this week was that we got a microwave.
Yes, yes, I know. We live terribly exciting lives.
We had to use the rest of our Target giftcards to purchase this little beauty, so we are now OFFICIALLY poorer-than-dirt newlyweds. We literally had eaten everything in our fridge before we went to the store to buy more. We're pinching pennies for rent. It's fun.

We're totally loving married life. We still manage to be social practically for free! Since last posting, we've gone to see the Ice Castles in Midway, Onesie Wednesday at Sammy's in Provo, and Ice Skating at Seven Peaks Ice Arena. As well as countless Mario parties with the gang.

I'm realizing this blog post is getting long, so I'll finish up real quick. Christopher and I love our ward, it's so fun to be in a family ward again! We don't have callings yet, but the bishop knows who we are, and the Relief Society has already marked me down in the books as a baker. They asked me to teach a little bit of baking advice at the next Relief Society activity which is February 6th. My next blog post will probably show off all the info I shared with them for bragging purposes.

One last thing, we're also planning a wedding open house for February 7th at the lounge here in our apartment complex. This will hopefully make it easier for our Utah friends who couldn't make it to the wedding to come see us and our cute little apartment. It'll be fun.