Welcome to the Ratliff's!

Thanks to Jay, his last comment scared Taron enough to let me out of the dark long enough so I could welcome everybody to our first new home as newlyweds! =)

This is our front door!

This is our living room! Our friends Liz and Josh gave us our table (which currently has a puzzle on it that we are working on.) Taron was given the piano for helping some of his friends move a few semesters back, we just barely put pictures in the frames above and on the piano so now its our faces in the frames instead of the strangers that come with them (Gail Park gave us the one hanging above the piano and Sophie Mcbroom gave us the clear ones on the piano.) and there is a wooden bookshelf that Todd and Kristen gave us that you can barely see to the right of the piano which we put some books on and our games and they also gave us the TV because it was bigger then the one we had (I'm watching Friends because Taron isn't home. =) The Dvd shelves, tv stand, and curtain we bought with our Wal mart gift cards from our wedding ( thanks everybody!) And that big blob of white on our floor is our couch we made out of extra blankets. So if it wasn't for friends and family giving us things and gift cards all we would have would be a blob of blankets on the floor and a little tv sitting on the floor in the corner. Thank goodness for people looking out for us! =)


This is Taron's box where he practices his ninja skills throwing used gift cards.

And this is our Kitchen! The outside of our fridge is full of decorations from Victoria and Cole and the inside of our fridge...

Is full of...nothing! =) Our shopping trips mostly consist of sandwich stuff, tortillas, milk, and yogurt so our fridge looks kinda sad but don't let that fool you our cubbards are full and we really do get plenty to eat!

Also once our apartment was set up it started to feel like our home and we both decided that it is essential for all homes to have icecream!

Walk through the door at the end of the kitchen and its our bedroom! Our bed has batman on Taron's side and Fairies on myside! Gertie, Bernie, and Simba also share the bed with us (don't worry dad Simba still gets his place on the bed! =) Sorry our closet looks messy I just wanted to show our shoe racks we also bought with our gift cards. Can you guess whose side is whose? =) To the right of our bed next to the white drawers is our tv that was in our living room before Todd and Kristen gave us the bigger one and near the bottom right corner of the foot of our bed is the door to the bathroom. On the door to the bathroom is a cracked dent thats shaped very much like knuckles...curious. I guess previous owners must have a husband or wife with a really bad temper! (don't worry its not from Taron! We haven't been married long enough for that kind of rage to build up yet! ;)

So there ya go this is our home! I get home about 6:30 everyday (if I don't have to stay on campus to finish homework in the Spori computer lab, if so I get home around 8:00 or 9:00.) But the very first thing I do when I get home is tidy up our house and cook dinner so Taron has a nice place to come home too. Its really fun to tidy up and keep my house clean because its mine! Taron gets home around eight and then we eat dinner. by the time we get done with dinner and dishes its probably around nine or nine thirty so we don't really do much during the week but go to school/work, eat dinner then watch TV or work on our puzzle till bed. On the weekends Taron goes to work Saturday morning and I head on campus to get ceramics and graphic design homework done (which I'm supposed to go do now.) Then the rest of our free time we usually spend hanging out with our friends Todd and Kristen (who live next door!) Liz and Josh (my old roommate and husband who feed us a lot), Jason and Angi (who also feed us a lot!), or Amy and Tim. As you can tell we are happy and living large! I made this post extra detailed for all of you who requested better updates!