2012 Update

The new year has snuck up on me and now we are in February. Anyway, there have been a few changes with the new year.

I am now working full time at Bridger and North Pointe Apartments (where we live) as the assistant manager. Tanner is still working part time at SDL (Space Dynamics Lab) as a student engineer. We are both going to school now. Tanner full time, and me, part time. Although it feels like I am doing school work more often than him. I am taking human anatomy, which they say is one of the hardest classes at the university, even though it is only a 2000 level course. I am already getting sick of memorizing little details on the skeleton, and eventually everything on and within he body. If I keep studying like I did for the 1st test, I should be ok, but it is going to be exhausting.

Tanner should be graduating next semester (in December) and don't ask me what we will be doing or where we will be because we have no idea yet. We could stay for him to go to graduate school, or we could go try to find a job somewhere. Which most likely won't be in Utah.

So that is our new year. No major changes. Still living in Logan, attending Utah State University, working, and trying to pay off student loans.

First Real Snow Fall

It snowed on Thursday for the first time here in Logan.  There was about 4 or 5 inches by the time it was over.  Tanner and I decided to go out and have some fun in it.  I still don't have any of my winter clothing from home, so we decided to forget the real clothes and go hot tubbing in the snow.  We had the apartment complex hot tub all to ourselves and the fence around the pool area was covered in snow so it was like we were in our own little winter wonder land.  Tanner decided to put on his big snow boots for the walk over and carry me so I didn't have to freeze my feet.  So I hopped on his back and he carried me all the way over there and we struggled to get the pool door open while he was still holding me.  I love the simple little adventures that we can have together. Tanner posted on facebook, "turns out you can still have awesome fun when you are married"  You sure can, and we did.  I hope we get more chances to enjoy as much as we can in the many months of winter weather to come.  

New Church Callings

Tanner and I have officially been called and set apart (as of yesterday) as ward missionaries.  I'm not really sure what we are supposed to do exactly.  Tanner says it is basically just glorified home teaching.  Anyway, I haven't had a church calling since I left my home ward last May, so this will be something new for sure.

First Couple Date

We finally went on our first couple date since we have been married on Saturday, October 22.  The couples were some old friends of Tanner's from high school; TJ and Ashley Whitley, and John and Stephanie. We went to the church/park by our apartment to eat some pizza and then we went to a little corn maze in South Logan called Little Bear Bottoms.  After getting lost in the corn, we climbed the big stack of hay to jump off onto the matresses. They even had a little maze under the bails of hay! It was so much fun to get together with other people outside of work and school.  After the fun in the field, we brought everyone to our place to drink some hot cocoa and play a good game of clue.  So much fun! Here are a few pictures of the friends jumping.

Tanner and Ashley waiting for their turn in the cold

Quick Facts Set Straight For All

Tanner and I have always wondered when our first date was. We knew our first kiss was because that's easy, Jan 1, 2.011, but we could never narrow anything down to a date before the first.  Well we were so bugged about it that we decided to go back in Tanner's phone records to figure it out.  The mystery is over my friends! First text I ever sent Tanner was actually him just texting himself on my phone to get my number on December 4, only a day or two after we met.  We basically hung out every night not doing anything spectacular except eating cup cakes, or listening to him play guitar, or something of the sort. Our first real date was on Dec 9th when he casually asked me out to lunch and I went with him to Cafe' Rio even though I had just barely eaten right before he asked me! Word to the wise men out there, lunch is the perfect first date. No pressure to have to hold hands or pay a lot for dinner or cuddle or hang out after. It is simple and fun and then you can go back to school or work or wherever you have to be.  I may have been oblivious, but I'm pretty sure now that my husband knew exactly what he was doing! I love him