Thursday, May 5, 2011

Year One

Our first year of marriage has flown by! But not without some great memories, challenging trials, and huge decisions...

June = We spent our honeymoon in San Diego. A Padres vs. Cardinals baseball game, Old Town, San Diego Temple, Sea World, and Huntington Beach created our first memorable vacation together. We loved every minute of it!



July & August = For the summer we lived in my sister-in-law's basement where she teaches preschool. Heath was never board with all the toys around and I loved my frequent visits from my best buds Brie and Easton. Those visits meant evenmore after I was stuck in bed for six weeks after double knee surgery. It wasn't my first choice to spend my summer crippled with fat black and blue knees, but I became so grateful for the amazing bodies our H eavenly Father has blessed us with and the incredible medical technology we have access to.



September & October =We moved back to Logan to finish our final year of school! No True Blooded Aggie could have asked for a better start to their senior year than by beating BYU in football. Who would have thought?! We had a great apartment- with a huge park for a front yard and two blocks from campus.
November & December = Birthdays, Weddings, and our first Christmas filled these months. Heath turned 24 (which he says sounds so old... I wonder what he'll say when he's 34.) I sent him on a huge scavenger hunt all around Logan to our favorite places. When he got home I surprised him with a candle-lit pizza dinner. I think I had more fun with it than he did:) On Nov 6th Katie and Trent got hitched. Katie was drop dead gorgeous! and Im s o happy Trent can keep Heath humble with our bowling and ping pong matches.

January-March = After starting our last semester we decided we were sick of the miserable Logan winter so we took off on a cruise to Ensanada, Mexico with the Hammonds and Heath's parents! It was the first time I've celebrated my birthday in 80 degree weather and the first time Heath put on weight since we've been married. I thought the ship was going to run out of shrimp cocktails because of him. After returning we were back to internships and student-teaching. Heath taught two Spanish classes and one ESL class at Mtn Crest HS and I worked in the counseling center at a junior high in Richmond.


April = Spring break came just in time before we went crazy with papers and more papers and lesson plans. We loaded up our little civic and headed to Arches National Park and Goblin Valley. The arches were amazing as always, Heath experienced his second slot canyon hike, and we tried playing hide n' seek among the goblins.