Our Wedding

       

                             

 

The end.

it's monday.

We had such a week last week. Can I just say?

Tanner took a job in Orem. AND OH MY GOODNESS. I/we am/are so excited to move to a place where there a things to do and places to eat (and a Nordstrom), and where we are close to our families (FOOD!). We have been very blessed with our current apartment but let's just be honest for a sec. It's disgusting and I hate it:) At first it was so exciting... but then the crickets and black widows and sticky cabinets and secondhand smoke and gross stains everywhere, and weird smells, and police visits to our neighbors... Ya, it got old.

BUT we have had good times. Wonderful tamales from Mexican neighbors really top that list off. We are very blessed to be moving into a REAL apartment soon and the wait is killing me. I seriously stay up at night dreaming about not being afraid of our bathroom floor and imagining decorating our new "house."

Complaints aside.

Tanner is so excited to be done with school. He has worked his butt off this semester with finance and capstone classes. He studies so much (currently doing so). I am way excited for him to start his new job- it is doing something he enjoys, I am also excited to see him wear grown up clothes. (HE IS TOO.)

ME? I am transferring to UVU. Can't believe I am publicly announcing that. ACK. Haha. Since we are living in Orem it seems like the best option- although I am considering the U. When we live in Orem I will be driving to Brigham City once a week to teach Ballet and Modern at Classical Youth Ballet. I can't ever seem to cut those ballet ties!!

Now we just need to get through school and not get too antsy to move-- BECAUSE we are going to Highland for an entire week for Thanksgiving.

liberry time.

Tanner and I spend a lot of time at the liberry these days- not because we like the liberry really, mostly because we are trying are hardest not to flunk our classes. It's fine though. Tanner has been working his but off trying to find a job. He is six weeks to graduation! Woo hoo!! Unfortunately we have no idea where we are going to end up!
Truthfully though, I am not worried. And while I know Tanner is, I also know that we will be okay, and that something will come along eventually. It's hard to complain and worry about spending time in the berry or looking for a job, because we are together, which is truly a blessing.

So hey the berry. We have been here all day today. (Minus lunch and dinner {{bruschetta and pomegranate yummmmm}}) Tanner has been working hard and I have been studying accounting. All day. Days like this make us so excited for the holidays- and for weekends- and for graduating.

What else is new? Tanner and I got to help in the nursery yesterday. It's way funny how much T loves 2ish years old (in the most non pedophile way I am pretty sure). He loved playing shake the wiggles out and pushing the chairs around like they are trains. T always thinks that nursery should be our calling. I don't think he realizes that I am not as amused by these things as him! Just kidding! It was a blast. Kids are so funny, especially at that age. We had so much fun laughing at all the weird things they were doing. We also may have developed a favorite child in our short time in nursery. Which as a teacher I know is dangerous territory- but seriously this child was baby GQ. Because our church is backwards- T & I both had trouble sitting through sacrament meeting after running around with two year olds for two hours.

Last night we went over to our friends house and had dinner with them and played games. It was a lot of fun! We get really bored on Sundays, so I kid you not it was a gift from heaven to have them invite us over. When we get home we finished SEASON FOUR of Prison Break. We lead such fulfilling lives!

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST! Someone's car window was smashed in in our CLASSY CLASSY apartment parking lot and some of their belongings were stolen. Way exciting. Way glad it wasn't our car. But feeling way sorry for that person.

fall time in pictures

We had a fabulous weekend. Came home, went to NORDYS, carved pumpkins, went to cornbelly's, made caramel apples, and ate at Zuppa's (our fave) with Griffin and Caitlin. Pictures now.

Our spiderman, angry bird, and dancer. 

catch us if you can & house pictures

I can't believe it has been a month since we last posted. Actually, I can - it has been a very busy semester. We are doing well though and are so happy.We are adjusting to being married. It's nice to have things feel normal and not weird- like sharing a bed with someone. We have been super busy (and pretty stressed) much of the time with school. But love being to go to our little home to de-stress.
    On the weekends we enjoy going to the temple together, spending time with friends & family,  watching Prison Break, and COOKING. Oh my goodness, cooking. We both love to cook and enjoy making up recipes as well as using some favorites from JOY, and the Our Best Bites cook book my Mum "gave" us.
Some fun things we have done lately in LIST format because lists make things more interesting:
>>> temple trips
>>> camping at bear lake with family
>>> haunted corn maze
>>> walks up Logan canyon, such a stunning fall this year
>>> cooking
>>> going to awkward ward parties
>>> seeing cheap movies at the dollar theater

We are also excited to spend the weekend before Halloween with our families. We have been brainstorming what our costumes should be, & by my request really want to MATCH. Because we are married. Makes sense. I have been asking my various ballet classes what they think we should be. So here are some contenders coming from them.

13-18 year olds: seemed very uninterested and didn't give me an answer
10-12 year olds: black swan & ?
8-9 year olds: salt & pepper
4-6 year olds: broccoli and dip

As you can see 4-6 year olds are funny, and everyone else needs to think outside the box a little more am I right? I love teaching these kids though- it can be such a challenge but I am learning so much.

So-- here are pictures to balance out all of the boring WORDS from this post.

Our house. This wall is a shrine to us- mainly because we don't own any other framed pictures.

Bear Lake

Pizza Night

T being crafty.

Bedroom

To DIE FOR artichoke dip.

Two boys being immature at bear lake. 

Fall has been so good to us. We are excited for Tanner to graduate and to see what the future brings.

purists and other tidbits.

Confession time. Tanner and I are purists. Don't get me wrong, we eat meat and shower and stuff. We just don't have the internet or TV, ok we have A TV. 2 actually, but we don't get any channels. WOW our life is so hard, is it not? Really I haven't noticed the TV thing at all, and the internet addiction is coming along quite nicely. Much fewer withdrawals and nightmares as of late.

Seriously though. I love it. Number one. We read a lot. I am reading "Peace Like A River" and oh good heavens I LOVE IT. So good. I am going to turn around and read it again just because I love it so much. I have never done this but seriously there are so many little things I feel like I haven't picked up on and it is written so eloquently that it's like candy. Read it.

Good news is though: we are getting an antenna tonight so we can watch Modern Family and Cougar Town. We are all sorts of excited about this.

Classes are going well for both of us. Somehow I ended up in two distance ed classes which means freaky weirdos, but it's cool because I am married now, which makes me sort of weird too, no? Tanner doesn't appreciate the weird people as much as I do. Today in the business building 4 guys decided to take over his table and have an accounting study group. Right there. At his table. THAT HE HAD FIRST. Bad words may or may not have been said. Use your imagination. I feel bad for him.

We are so happy and enjoying settling into our new life. I have some fun recipes to post- caramel, sweet and sour meatballs, and lovely homemade pizza/spaghetti sauce. Yay!

3 weeks and 2 and a half days.

At the reception. Picture by Jacob Buckner.

Ok. So if that doesn't constitute an old married couple, I don't even know what does. We are 98% enjoying school. 2% not because we don't have internet at home which is probably really great for my pinterest/hulu/netflix/facebook/blog addiction. But also not good for homework you know?

It has been a fun few weeks though and it's nice to finally feel like we are getting settled in. I teach ballet on Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays, and take the ballet class at Utah State on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Point of this story is that I am always always sore. But hey! Skinny too, so that's good.

Tanner is doing lots and lots of advanced Senior homework and projects that blow my mind, THUS I don't inquire too much about these things.

Even though it has only been 3 and a half weeks since the wedding I feel like it's been forever. I don't want to forget that day, and I keep wishing I would have just soaked in the little details better and enjoyed it more fully. I guess I will have to do what married people do on their blogs now- relive my wedding day on my blog!

The night before our wedding was nutty. I loved having our home full of family bustling around getting ready for the wedding. I was FREAKING out that our kid video still wasn't done. Also, just to give me one more nice panic attack before the wedding, I realized that my temple recommend was missing. Turns out I left it in the temple bag that I took back to the distribution center the day before. Everyone assured me that it would be fine. Still left me a little nervous though:) After I had calmed down and my Dad gave me one last Father's blessing and then ambushed me and stuffed sleeping pills down my throat (legally..?) and sent me to bed. In the back of my memory there is a dazed phone call to Tanner because I was tripping on sleeping pills and thought that that would be funny to call him and demonstrate how funny I felt I was. HAWT! Thankfully as I semi slept Jake and Tanner took care of all things video. This because they are angels.

The morning of our wedding was a sweet time for me. I scheduled our wedding for noon because, I was totally not waking up at the crack of dawn that day. (not that I slept anyway). My sister braided my hair that morning and Wes kept sticking Mary and Kevin (his lizards) all over me. Like I said, it was a sweet time.

I don't want to forget the way I felt in the temple, surrounded by the people we love. The peace that I felt during those relatively few moments that day while we were in the temple brought a smile to my face that whole day. (and still) I am so glad to have been able to be sealed to my sweetheart in that holy place. On the not so adorable side, I remember lots of tears and lots of runny noseyness. Did not feel like a beautiful bride in the least bit covered in snot baha! NASTY. I was happy though what can I say. After the ceremony I felt such peace. I don't remember anything the sealer said. At all. But I remember the feeling, and it can't compare to anything I have ever experienced before.

J.