The last couple weekends...

Eleven days ago Cameron and Kelsey got engaged! We got to attend an engagement party (where Nick made the dessert!) that was such a blast! We cheered for the cute couple, listened to their engagement story, and played a game called "pop the question". So so fun! Nick has been dreaming about their wedding for weeks - he says it's the second best wedding he's ever been to.


The soon to be Jack's!



Jared, Dani, Nick and I trying to take an awkward picture at the party...


Last week was Homecoming week - luckily it was also Mitch's and Tyler's fall break, so my family came to visit for the weekend. They came on Thursday and took us out to eat at Lupita's where we heard the best birthday song ever!!! Friday Mitch and my mom went to a Senior Expo at SUU and got a glimpse at campus while the boys went to play golf in St. George. Mitch spent Friday night with Nick and I - he napped while we went to a Presidential Ambassador Reunion - then we all ate cheesecake, watched some Homecoming fireworks, and went to see "The Social Network". We thought about taking Mitch to True T-Bird Night, but because he was running a 5K the next morning we decided to bypass it.


Nick and I at the PA Reunion


Mitch did so awesome at the 5K!!! He ran cross country for a few years in high school and has stayed in super good shape for soccer. He booked it!

Here's a picture of a few of us with our friends before the race (Mitch even saw a kid from UREA)



Here he is before...



And after!


After the race, we ate french toast, chatted, and rested. We went to watch the Homecoming parade (which was a first for all of us) and we got a lot of free stuff because we were holding our friend's baby. Mitch even got a t-shirt in his size and everything! It was fun!


Us at the parade-


After the parade, we went to St. George to meet up with my parents and Ty. We all went to eat at Texas Roadhouse and had lots of fun! We went to the Tuacahn Saturday night and I somehow didn't take any pictures!!! Sunday the fam came to our ward - then traveled home in the slightly rainy weather. We had such a fun weekend! I'm so glad we were able to spend some time with family :) so fun!

Back to another week of school and work!

Nick and I are going to start working on our Halloween costumes this week... anticipate something cool...

This Week

Nick and I have been busy busy busy! We made a goal to have our "thank you" cards from our wedding finished by our two month anniversary... AND WE DID IT!!! We worked really hard on them... Here's a stack of them we did in 1 day! I kid you not... we worked really really hard!


Here's the stack!


Here's what our cute thank you postcards look like!

I almost burned the apartment complex down yesterday trying to make a yummy dessert for some of our friends who are getting engaged tonight. No more meringue's here! Anyway, I shed some tears... (it's funny now)... and today when I came home from work my sweet husband had these waiting for me!!!



He is so stinkin' cute! I feel so lucky to be married to Nick - I don't know how I got so lucky but he is seriously so sweet to me and he always helps me fix problems without making them worse (like last night... after the disaster happened he put on the oven mits, carried the smoking dessert outside and disposed of it... then told me he likes the smell of smoke so he's so glad I could burn the dessert! What a sweetheart!) Anyway, I love Nick so much! He really is the best thing that ever happened to me!

Nick's been playing on a co-ed softball league this fall and they found out last night they are the league champs!!! Here's a pic of the happy team after a huge win (21-8)


That's all for now... I'll have more coming soon though 'cause it's the weekend! We have a lot of fun planned :)

Authentic Chinese

Nick and I are both taking Chinese classes this semester. Hou Qikun is spending a year at SUU teaching beginning and advanced Chinese classes. He invited Nick's class (the advanced class) over to eat some "Hot Pot" last week. Wife's were invited, so I got to go too! They used an electric skillet and heated up a watery liquid in it - then they basically just threw in whatever they wanted! Tofu, mushrooms, cabbage, spam, chicken etc and you just use your chop sticks to pick out whatever you want to eat. It was super spicey, but actually quite yummy.

We all used chop sticks... that was the only hard part!


Kelsey Brown, Hou Laoshi, and me


Kelsey, Nick, and me

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.

Camping Part 2

Last weekend we ventured up to Ephraim to camp with Nick's parents and Bree. 

It was a beautiful weekend! We went fourwheeling on Saturday and it was so fun! 

We drove down to a pretty little lake and enjoyed some lunch. 

We ate tons of good food, went shooting, made dough buddies, watched Date Night, and slept in as much as possible (For Nick and I that's about 8:30...)!

On our way home there was a smokey little fire that led us on a detour on Highway 20. 

We drove past Big Rock Candy Mountain, Marysvale, Circleville... a cute little scenic route that, even though it took an extra hour, we really enjoyed!

Wedding Photos!

We got our wedding photos a couple weeks ago and have had so much fun looking through them. 

We even put a few up in our apartment already. 

 It takes much too long to upload these pictures (they're WAY high res ;) ) 

but I wanted to put a few up. Enjoy!

My side of the family :)

And Nick's side!

 

And a group shot with our friends!

A Loaded Weekend

Nick and I had such a fun Labor Day weekend! We celebrated a birthday AND an anniversary by giving ourselves a day off from school and work... kind of :)

We headed out to Roosevelt to enjoy a relaxing long weekend with my family. It was so nice to just relax for a couple days! My birthday was on Saturday - we celebrated by sleeping in, lounging in our pj's, basking in the sun at Flaming Gorge, eating at cafe rio, chatting, and opening some wonderful gifts! I loved it! And it feels good to be able to say I'm "23" now.

Flaming Gorge








Sunday Nick's parents came to visit. We ate some delicious BBQ food, then our families watched us open more wedding gifts... Holy smokes - we got so many wedding gifts and our families watched us open dang near all of them! We played The Great Dalmuti for a while, ate more cake, looked at wedding pictures, and just kind of hung out! It was great :)

Monday we relaxed and just enjoyed hanging out together. Nick and I headed back to Cedar that afternoon and finally made it just after 8:00. When we got home I went to use Nick's keys to get into our apartment and he didn't have an apartment key on his key ring. "Nick, where's your apartment key?" "Oh... it's not there? It must have fallen off." As I'm searching through my purse I stop to say "Well, you better get a better key ring so your key doesn't just fall off! It would be bad if it fell off sometime and we were locked out." I then opened the door and SURPRISE!!!! A ton of our friends had been waiting for us IN our apartment (he really DIDN'T lose his key!). Nick planned a surprise party for my birthday!!! We celebrated by eating a delicious Mario Party cake Dani made as well as some left over hot dogs from our SLC reception! What a blast :) Nick has this way of just surprising me all the time. I'm not sure how he does it... but he somehow always pulls it off without me suspecting anything (like... when we got engaged for example!). Anyway, he's the best! And what sweet friends we have to come over and make the surprise party happen!