Firsts

I, Heather, had never been to a REAL concert before.
I describe a "REAL concert" as one where you actually know the artist's music, or even just know who the artist is.
Lucky for me, Nick scored tickets for us to the sold out David Archuleta concert in Cedar City.
When we told our friends we were going to David Archuleta's concert, they laughed....
probably because they knew we were going to be surrounded by hundreds of screaming girls.
Regardless of the screamers around us, we had a blast!!!
And we weren't the only ones our age there :)


Now I can cross "REAL concert" off my bucket list. Thanks Nick!!!

absence....

I have not been a good blogger lately - my biggest reason for having a blog is that this is a type of journal for us. I have never been good at keeping a journal, and it helps to be have pictures with a post.

The last few weeks have been CRAZY! Nick is trying to stay afloat with his schoolwork and I have been traveling for work. We haven't seen much of each other these past two weeks, so our upcoming Thanksgiving break is much needed!

When I came back from spending 3 days in Salt Lake last week, this was waiting for me :)

More Halloween :)

Although we didn't end up dressing up this year, we did do a few really fun things for Halloween.

First, we volunteered to "chaperone" (not let anyone through a certain door) at the Howl last week! We were in a very quiet area so we didn't see much of what was happening at the party...

We did play quite a few hands of Uno though!

Under the Sea!

My parents gave us tickets to go to the Tuacahn's Little Mermaid for my birthday and we went last night! WE LOVED IT!!! The costumes were SO cute and the whole thing was amazing. We had excellent seats and we had so much fun. It was so good, we'd go again in a heartbeat!

One Week!

We can't believe that summer will be over in 1 week! All the students are returning to Cedar City and classes start in just 8 short days. This week we'll need to enjoy every minute we can!

Last week Nick took me to the driving range as a surprise! We had SO much fun. I haven't golfed much in 8 years, so it was quite the surprise that I could still hit okay. Nick has never really golfed and he did awesome! We'll make a few more trips to the course to practice a few more things before we go play a round.

Nothing too exciting has been going on.... once we get Mitch moved in today the real fun will begin :)

Here's to our last week of summer!

Harry Potter!

We went with some friends to see Harry Potter a couple weeks ago -

Neither Nick or I have been valiant readers so we weren't sure what to expect...
Surprisingly we were able to follow the story line just fine!
Now maybe we'll have to read the books...

Summer Weather.... FINALLY!

Today was such a beautiful day! We couldn't pass up a scooter ride!

We decided to make a date out of it and we got our favorite meal:

A Cafe Rio pork salad with extra meat, shredded lettuce, no cilantro, and only a few chips. We love these so much we waited in line 45 minutes to get it.

We took our salad to a man made lake in Cedar that we had never been to. People fish, swim, and just plain hang out here. Tonight definitely won't be our last time going there this summer!

Brian Regan

Nick and I scored 14th row tickets to Brian Regan last Friday when he came to SUU. WE LOVED IT! He was ALL OVER the place with his famous ADD walk and his jokes too - his funny mannerisms and facial expressions make everything he says 10 times more funny! Our faces hurt afterward from smiling so much :)

Sweethearts!

Our married stake held a Sweethearts dance Friday. I wasn't sure if we were going to go because we had a few things going on, but I found out it was a date when I came home on Tuesday!

Here's what I found.....





Nick is so funny! Cute, slightly cheesy, but super fun! So, just like in high school, if you get asked to a dance you have to answer your date back!





The fish that was swimming in our sink relocated to our bamboo for a couple days. He started to swim a little slow, so we decided to release him so we wouldn't have to know if he died or not.


(The red valance in this photo is one of my most recent and FAVORITE crafts I've made.)

We did get pictures taken at the dance (we won't get them for a couple weeks though). Here are a few from our camera!

New Years Pictures ;)

My great friend Kalli rescued us on New Years.... we brought the camera, but it didn't have a memory card in it!! Thank goodness Kalli had hers! And thank goodness she was so great to get us some pictures :)


twenty-eleven



Our group with a hilarious magician.... his magic show was one of our favorite parts!



We almost froze.... but we were having so much fun that it didn't matter! We'll never question what to do on New Years again, that's for sure!

Christmas Break!

School is out for Chrismas! Nick gets a WHOLE MONTH off school! How awesome is that?! We're semi-glued to Cedar because I don't get as long of a break as Nick... but that's okay :) We're still finding fun things to do!

Last weekend we went to an Alumni tailgate party before a men's basketball game. Lucky us, Santa made it too! We got a picture with him and with some of our friends too -




Some of our friends from our ward, Trevor and Cassie, are so good at making cakes! They make wedding cakes, birthday cakes, and cool novelty party cakes too! We've been talkng about making a cake with them for a few weeks, and we decided to get together yesterday to make an ornament cake! The actual cake was baked in a pyrex bowl - we put fondant on it (which we won't eat.... we just wanted to see how it worked!) and we just experimentd with a few things - like edible glitter and a cool fondant cutter.

Not bad for a first round cake!


We tried to spice up our Christmas gifts by putting small ornaments on our gifts. Probably my favorite dollar store find this season!


Tonight we had an ugly sweater party with some friends. We also did a "wedding gift you can't return and don't want" gift exchange game. It was fun! Here are our couple shots...

Halloween!

We were able to do lots of fun things this year for Halloween. Last weekend, Nick's parents were in St. George for BYU Softball games so Nick and I went down to hang out for the weekend. While there, we went to a Haunted Corn Maze. It was set up really cute - they had a graveyard, crazy bus (that you actually had to get on and walk through!), and lots of other cute "scary" things. Lots of little kids were the ones scaring us, so it was really cute when an 8 year old jumped out and said "BOO!".

Last week Nick bought us pumpkins and planned a date for us to carve pumpkins. I don't think eiher of us had carved a pumpkin in years, so it was fun! Nick's is the scary ghost, and my pumpkin was the skeleten and cat.





Friday we had our friends over for a little Halloween party! Everyone dressed up and we all enjoyed ourselves. We ate fun Halloween food, played Halloween Bingo, and just plain hung out!


Playing BINGO!

Here are our cute little Bingo prizes... I got the idea here: http://thedahlingdatingdivas.blogspot.com/2010/10/some-mummy-loves-you.html


Here's a group shot... all of us crammed into our small living room :)


We mutually decided that the Blake's (Kirk, Kelli, and cute Kyden) won the best costume award!

The Potters!

Scott and Kalli Brueck dressed up as "work-out partners"... Scott stuffed his clothes with pillows and looked pretty legit. He could even hold the bowl of candy corn on his "extra shelf" with no hands!


Jared and Dani Wenn dressed up as a "Doctor... and Gypsy". It was funny to watch Dani take off her jewelry before we watched a movie. It was everywhere ;)


Nick did lots of research on what we should dress up as... we decided on "Ipod Ear Buds" and made our costumes ourselves!


Saturday night we went to the Tuacahn to see Thriller. Nick and I went 5 years ago as friends, last year as we were starting to date, and this year married! (I also went the two years that Nick was gone on his mission - once with my family and once with roommates) We wore our Ipod Ear Bud costumes to the show (don't worry... we didn't wear our heads during it!). We were lucky enough to be picked by a Zombie for the costume contest... and we actually were in the top 4 that won a prize! We have free tickets to go to the Tuacahn next year! We were super excited :) Here are a few pictures from the Tuacahn. We saw so many of our friends there - it has become our little tradition to go on Halloween night each year!




One last thing... Nick works with Trevor McGlochlin and his wife Monica was an ambassador with us our Freshman year of college. We love hanging out with the McGlochlin's! The other day when the boys were at work, Nick told Trevor they should come with us to the Tuacahn. Trevor called and got seats as close to us as they could and was planning to surprise Monica. I almost spilled the surprise (I need to be told when things are a secret), but she still didn't know where we were going. They met us before we headed to the Tuacahn and I snapped this picture - they were so creepy! But so funny...


I also snapped this one of them at the Tuacahn! Now tell me that isn't creepy!

Lately...

It's a lot harder to stay up on blogging than I thought!!!

The last couple weeks we've had a lot of fun - Nick and I try to go on dates a couple times a month. They are pretty low key dates... but we like to go out together to have some "planned fun". We went out to eat at the Pizza Factory then goofed around and took some funny pictures a couple weeks ago. We tried to hold the moon, but it was a lot harder than we imagined. Plus we couldn't manage to get good lighting... we had fun though!









Nick is like ET!


Last Saturday we went to St. George with Dani and Jared. We went so we could go to the temple, but we didn't call in advance and the last session was at 11:20 (because of the Relief Society session of conference). We barely missed it... but we had fun checking out all the newly married couples, taking pictures, and watching the video in the visitor's center about families.



"We're Married!"




Last Saturday night we went to an SUU Bingo Night. The prizes were so-so (Jared won some ramen noodles) but we had a blast! Hopefully they have another one sometime. If not we may have to hold our own Bingo Night!!!



A few last updates:
Nick and Jared took cool pictures doing handstands on upper campus -



We found this cool cat mug at Ross and gave it to our friend Sam...


We went to Bountiful Baskets this morning! Look at this load of food we got for $15!!! Probably our favorite way to grocery shop!



"We met him!" will probably be one of the most common phrases Nick and I say this weekend. The week before we got married we ran into President Monson in Mr. Mac and had a nice handshake and a friendly conversation with him. We're excited to listen to Conference together and learn how we can be better!



That's about all for now! More to come in the next few days.