Oh won't you be my neighbor?

For the last few weeks, Derek and I have been FLOORED with how awesome life is.  Here are some great parts about life lately...

1.  We live in the best location in the world.  We're in a cute little neighborhood in the tree streets so it's super close to campus.  Not only that, but we're across the street from the elementary school.  When I walk to school, sometimes we get to join forces with the 3rd graders.  My favorite sight has been a little boy (probably first grade) messing with his jelled-up hair as he walked to make sure it looked perfect.  Precious.  Little kids surround us on this street and they're always up to something fun outside.

Pretty neighborhood!!

2.  Along a similar vein, we have wonderful neighbors.  It's been so fun to come home from school or clinical and chat it up with the ladies on the street and meet their kids.  They are so good to us, too.  The other day Derek and I were working on his grandma's tree (oh!  We live in her basement, by the way) because a bunch of branches fell down in that crazy rain/hail storm.  A man from a couple houses away walked down and, in seeing our meager saw, let us borrow his.  We didn't even know the man but he was so good to us!  Neighbors are the greatest.

3.  Our ward has a garden!  Talk about the best idea ever.   Each week for FHE, a few families in our married student ward sign up to volunteer an hour in the garden. Of course too much is going to grow for just a few people to eat, so anyone in the ward is welcome to it.  It's a few houses up from us so the other night we walked up.  This is what we got:

 FOR FREEEEE!!!

And then we made salsa out of it. :)
[Plus some vinegar, cilantro, salt, other peppers, garlic etc.]

Okay, I know the video is stupid, but it's kind of awesome too, right?  This ninja chop thing is amazing!  Derek told me to see if I can upload it in slow motion.  Hahaha




*Insert a week in here*  We went back a few days after for FHE and learned how to harvest sunflower seeds and then got to take food home.  Not only did we get lots of good stuff  but we were also given some flowers to take home!!!

Okay, ignore the clock still in its package. We're still deciding where things are going to belong :)

One final funny thing--

4.  We have awesome towels.  Super soft, super pretty, gotta love them.  But I'm so glad we wash them separately.  Here's what our lint filter had in it after the wash:

When Derek took this picture he texted me the image with the caption "Somebody shaved Elmo."

Hooray for lint filters.  Double hooray for cleaning them out.

Welp, that's it for now folks!