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.

Jamaicans really aren't that nice.

For our honeymoon we went to Jamaica. We had a great time. All though we hate red eye flights and sleeping in airports, and having all of our classes get dropped while we are out of the country. Other than all of those crappy things though, we had a blast. We were too scared to leave the resort because everyone told us Jamaica was sketchy, even the adventurous brother. So we laid in the pool and on the beach, inhaled virgin pina coladas, went kayaking, read (people magazine counts as reading right?) and ate ourselves sick. 

We got a little carried away with the self timer. Baha, but what were supposed to do the night the whole resort got on a bus and went to margherittaville? 

 Glorified ho-ho's.

Wata.

We are MARRIED!

It was been pretty hectic lately. IN SUCH GOOD WAYS though. We got back from Jamaica Thursday evening, opened presents late that night (too fun), packed and returned some repeat presents Friday and went to Anike's FABULOUS luau concert Friday night.

Saturday we moved into our "new" apartment in Logan.

First of all. We have no air conditioning, so we're losing a lot of water weight. Which is good, right?

We were not able to get a fan until Monday (best purchase ever btw) SO to remedy our heat dilemma Tanner had the genius idea of sleeping with ice in our bed. Which SAVED US I swear! Felt kind of silly but it did the job.

School is good. These pictures are in no particular order. It's like a game ok? Guess the order.

Carina and I enjoying the FAB bridal shower Ainsley threw for me. Fun.

Tents going up the day before the wedding!

This is my I love moving day face. And outfit. HAWT.

With Sisters in law (that sounds so weird...) At said bridal shower.

Tanner birthday! I am still learning not to cover up the flash when I take pics on the fancy new camera: which explains the faux vignette look of this photo.

Ice. For our bed.

GQ

Our healthy diet. Pizza, candy, gatorade. (pre grocery trip)

Tanner is a chef. I need to post this recipe. Pickle looking things are not pickles. So stop thinking this looks gross. TO DIE FOR. (Especially after a 2 and a half hour accounting class)

Our new favorite past time is laying in front of the fan and watching DOUG. Also- our favorite part of doug is doug's super hero alter ego QUAIL MAN.

Tthe table. All set and stuff. Tanner reuphulstered those chairs. TOTALLY cost $4.00 plus the cost of fabric. I am not going to tell you that because it is a much less impressive deal.
Ok, so we have TONS of pictures.

Also while I am on this pic kick... here is a honeymooning pics. We had a blast in Jamaica.

Our wedding planner and a good family friend Leslie, did an amazing job on the wedding. Such a perfect day. Her Sis posted a few pics of some pre reception decor goodness. Check it out here.

Moving Day

So today we are moving to our new place in Logan. We are pretty excited about it. Like Jessie said, we have been given lots of wonderful things from our parents and are super lucky. We are so blessed because of the parents that we do have. They both make so many sacrifices for us and have worked so hard on this wedding that we just don't know how we could ever thank them. Obviously a blog post isn't enough but we want them (both sets) to know how much we (both Jessie and I) are grateful for them. They do so much for us, and we love you both. Thank you!