Camping is our favorite

I told Kevin when we were driving out here that we needed to jump into doing fun things to help us transition smoothly. So we spent our first weekend in Wisconsin doing our favorite thing; camping. It was a short camping trip and it was so great. We got our camp set up, spent two hours trying to get our fire going so we could cook dinner, roasted some s’mores and went to bed. We woke up really early (there are no mountains to block the sunrise), hung out around camp and played some games then cleaned up and found a few trails to “hike.” Everything is flat here so it’s more like going on a nature walk in the woods but it was still fun and very pretty.

It was so nice to just spend some time together and reflect on our first week in this new place and talk about our future here. We love camping because we usually spend it just talking and talking about anything and everything. I love being married to my best friend. We never run out of things to talk about. We’re pretty lucky!

Easter 2015

So far in our marriage we have not been super good at doing holiday tradition things. We are sincerely hoping that the addition of a baby in our household will motivate us to create in the near future! That being said, we had a lovely Easter this year. We managed to spend about 5 minutes dyeing Easter eggs after Priesthood session on Saturday, and we spent most of Sunday at my grandma’s house, eating an amazing Easter dinner, hanging out with family and watching the rest of General Conference.

As always, at this time of year, I feel so grateful for the Atonement of the Savior, and that because of Him and the Lord’s plan of happiness, I can be with my little family forever. It was especially fun to realize that next year at this time we’ll have a 6 month old baby! Life is a truly wonderful thing.

Social functioning

 

I can’t decide if Kevin and I are similar to parents with newborns or to an elderly couple. Either way, we have to leave social functions super early on Friday nights to make our 8:00 bedtime. This became a problem when our Stake Valentines Dance started at 7:30. But the real problem was that we thought it started at 6:30. After a half hour of wandering the halls, expressing irritation that the dance wasn’t even set up yet, we realized that we were an hour early. It’s fine.

The good news is that we got all a little bit gussied up and went dancing last night and it was great. Even though we left after less than an hour of dancing.

The other good news is that we are getting really good at taking pictures with our self-timer.

The good news for you is that I chose only 5 out of the 90 pictures that we took before leaving for the dance. We are disasters, and we like it that way. :)

Moab and Arches

This past weekend Kevin and I ditched this town and headed to Moab. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot about each other in ways we hadn't yet discovered (I think it's safe to say that I will be the one who drives the canyons from now on). 

My mom and some aunts and uncles were there for the Red Rock Relay so we spent a little bit of time with them (thanks again for all the dinners mom!) and then Saturday we spent the whole day just the two of us in Arches National Park. We seriously had a blast. We hiked delicate arch, had a picnic, explored the devil's gate area and drove to all the scenic outlooks. We hiked a total of 14 miles which was insanity since we haven't hiked at all since last summer. Let's just say, we reached a point were we didn't even get out of the car to take pictures because our feet were in agonizing pain. But it was absolutely worth it! We already can't wait til our next trip together! 

Weekends are our favorite

After starting our weekend off so great (see the last post), we continued to have a great time. For date night on Friday we went to Trafalga to finally use our pass of all passes there. We played an intense game of mini golf and tired ourselves out. We planned on having a little movie night together but...we ended up falling asleep around 9.
Saturday was a fabulous day as well. We had a great workout and did homework for a lot of the day, then got to spend some time with our good friends Kristen and John and their two adorable boys. We had a yummy dinner with them and then watched their boys while they went to the temple for Kristen's brother's endowment. Then we tried (and failed) to make soft pretzels for them and had to settle for ice cream, cookies and great conversation. We sure love our friends!

it can't get any better

Friday is date night.
We start out our date nights after class with a trip to the temple.
Yesterday we got there at 4:00, right in time to see my darling Grandma leaving her shift at the Provo Temple. My Grandma has been serving at the temple for years and her testimony of it has always strengthened mine.

When we were already sitting in the session, my best friend Ashley and her husband walked in! She sat behind me. It reminded me of the day a month an a half ago when I went through the temple for the first time. The way things worked out, Ashley got to sit right next to me. I love that girl.

The moral of this story is that we really really love the temple.
We are so thankful that we were married in the temple so we can be together forever. It really is such an amazing blessing.
What an amazing place!
And isn't it just gorgeous?

Happy weekend my friends! I hope yours started off as wonderfully as ours did. :)

Married weekends

I've lived in Utah my whole life but I do not remember it ever being as cold as it's been the past few weeks! This weekend we absolutely froze and the only thing we seemed to be able to do was stay in bed and make homemade pizza. Seriously, Friday night I fell asleep at like 9:30 and Saturday at like 10. And we made homemade pizza on Friday and on Sunday!
It was so worth it. Yay for being lame married people! We did suffer through the cold to get to campus on Saturday where we stayed in the library for EIGHT HOURS. I'm serious. Kevin did such hard work and it was awesome, and I did some work which was good and then watched Downton Abbey and The Biggest Loser online which was fantastic.
We really do love our weekends as a married couple. We love getting to spend so much time together, and staying all cozy in our warm bed, and being silly. Kevin and I are really good friends which is something I love about our relationship. We just have so much fun together, no matter what we are doing. I love him. :)
Now enjoy some fabulous pictures!

This is how I combat the bitter cold (thank you Kristen and John)

Such delicious pizza

It was so cold that Kevin had to scrape ice off of the inside of the car. No fun.