Grand Canyon 2

This fall I got to go to the Grand Canyon again with my dear friend Bekah and Mr. Jeremiah Wing. I think that this might become an annual tradition among us. I wouldn't mind!

This year's trip was a little different than last year's though.
A. Because I got to bring Tom, MY HUSBAND, along with us!
B. We decided to camp! Tom and I are always up for camping.

Tom hadn't been to the Grand Canyon since he was 10 years-old, so it was almost like going for the first time for him. He loved it!

Tom was in the process of completing a photography assignment for a Humanities class, and what better place to take beautiful and stunning pictures than the Grand Canyon?!
So I must credit all the excellent landscape photos to him.

We came across the famous Kaibabs again and Tom snuck up real close to get some good shots.

Puppies!

Our dog, Sophie, had a litter of six puppies back in September. They are the most adorable little things! You can't help but be happy when you're around them. I developed a special attachment to one of the males which Colter named "Bread." In my opinion, he is the cutest and the sweetest. If only our apartment let us have pets. . .

State Fair

Ok, I am starting the long process of attempting to catch up on my blogging for the year 2011. Better late than never, right? Did I ever mention that Tom and I went to the Eastern Idaho State Fair again this last year? Well, we did. And once again we had a great time. If only we had more money to spend there. We didn't even have enough money to go on one measly ride. Not one! It's ok though, because we spent that money on my very first ever funnel cake! I was not disappointed; it was so delicious!! We also went to the petting zoo and, of course, our favorite hypnotist show. Oh, and Tom got to sit in his dream car - a 2012 convertible Camaro.

Happy Thanksgiving back

This time of year makes me want to watch You've Got Mail. I just love that movie. Don't you? I must borrow it from my mother and watch it soon. I could probably quote this whole movie to you. Just ask my former roommates about the many late nights we stayed up quoting this and other classic chick flicks. . . good times.

"Rose . . . that is a great name."


Happy Thanksgiving!!

4 months!

Tom and I have been married for 4 months now! Can you believe it? Time has gone by so quickly, but we are loving every minute of married life together. We decided to have a little celebration in honor of four happy months together, and I surprised Tom with a nice little dinner. Just feast your eyes upon this romantic meal that I whipped up for him! (Thanks Pinterest!) We listened to classic love songs and ate this meal by candlelight. And that's about as mushy as I get.

P.S. I may or may not have melted the bottom of my plastic heart-shaped cookie cutters on the pan while making the pancakes. So there may or may not have been melted plastic in them. . . don't tell Tom.

Note to self: next time use metal cookie cutters.

Conference

Once again, we headed down to Utah for General Conference the first weekend of October. It brought back many memories for Tom and I since we got engaged during conference weekend six months prior. We didn't have any tickets this time, and hoped to get in via the standby line. But mostly we traveled down there so that Tom could attend his mission reunion. (Tom served his mission in Johannesburg, South Africa for those of you who didn't know.) It was fun to see some of the people he served with, hear fun stories, and meet some of his companions that he has told me so much about. Here is a picture of Tom with his favorite companion, Seth LeFevre.

My favorite part of the mission reunion was when we all gathered in the chapel and sang the mission song. The song was written by one of the missionaries in the area. It was such a powerful moment when all those men stood and sang in unison. You can tell that they all cherish the time they spent sharing the gospel and serving among the South African people. I know that Tom does.

We were jealous to find out that Seth and his wife had gone back to South Africa to visit last spring. I know Tom would love to take me there, and someday maybe we'll actually have the money to do it. Just maybe.

Here is a picture of us in the standby line. Unfortunately we didn't make it in, so we watched from the old tabernacle on Temple Square.

Overall, it was a great trip. I'm sure we'll be down there again sometime. But maybe we'll wait to go until we have tickets.

Oregon Trip!

Over Labor Day weekend (holy cow, am I really just getting around to posting things that happened two months ago?!) Tom and I traveled to Oregon with the Muenchs for a quick trip to visit his brother Ryan and family. We spent sooo much time in the car, but we had such a good time! Mostly we entertained ourselves by making music videos on Bob's laptop. Oh the joys of technology! I love how well the videos turned out even though they were totally spontaneous.

While in Oregon we got to walk through and explore some caves. We also went bowling, played rock band, and ate yummy food.

As you should be accustomed to by now, I failed at taking pictures. Good thing Bobby took some pictures with my camera, mistakenly thinking it was his mom's. haha

Funny faces at the bowling alley . . . well, at least mine is funny

Tom's niece Nicole. (And I guess she is my niece now too!) She is such a cutie!

She lost her very first tooth while we were there visiting and was so proud!

We stopped for lunch one day at a Dairy Queen in the middle-of-nowhere Oregon and had a huge ice cream cone.

P.S. I got so sick of fast food on this trip.