Becoming Adults...

Ending the AgGie chapter of our lives was an exciting, but sad day for us. We loved attending school at USU, made great friends, and had a too many fun memories to count- motorcycle rides up Logan Canyon, Aggie ice cream dates, games with the Reach's mattress sledding down Old Main with the Oldroyd's, Intramurals, camp fires with the Schmidt's and Prettyman's, and of course Aggie Basketball games! Logan will always be our favorite place. Graduating together made the event twice as memorable.

Graduation clearly wasn't enough excitement for us. The Monday following the big event, while packing up to move, we find our I was pregnant!!! We were overwhelmed with pure joy and unbelief at the same time. Not only was it time to step into the "real" world, but time for us to become parents. Getting a bachelors degree was a great accomplishment and something I knew Heavenly Father was pleased with, but knowing I would be a mother in 9 months felt like a much more important step in my life.

As summer began, so did our many many applications for teaching jobs for Heath. He interviewed with Evanston, WY, Park City High School, and Hillcrest High School. One Friday two more middle schools called to set up interviews, but less than an hour later Hillcrest HS called Heath and offered him the job, on condition he would be the assistant baseball coach. We had a couple of hours to decide. Talk about sincere praying and fast decision making. We felt really good about it, so we accepted the job.

It was a testimony to me that Heavenly Father had his hand it the matter. I know it was no coincidence. Its tough for first year teachers to get jobs with the current budget cuts etc. The principles he interviewed with knew one of his professors who wrote him an excellent letter of recommendation, and thought very highly of her. The school also needed a baseball coach. Things seemed to fit right into place. I'm so grateful for the direction we can receive from a loving Father. I know we will be relying on it daily in the coming years.

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.

The Beginning...

I couldn't think of a better first post than the pictures that captured the joy and happiness of our wedding day. Heath and I were married May 26, 2010 in the Salt Lake Temple. What an amazing day spent with family and friends! I've been reading "Covenant Hearts" by Bruce C. Hafen and I love what he says about weddings and wedding pictures,

"In the gospel’s good news, those wedding photos really do contain a taste of eternity, because they somehow capture and keep alive the joy and vision of the wedding day."

The happy Mr. & Mrs. Bleazard

Our dear Family & Friends...
Thanks for celebrating with us!

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"The joy of human love gives us hope and purpose. The fountainhead of human love flows from a marriage between hearts knit together by covenants. It makes us want to live better. It makes us long for the day when we will take the hands that have held ours and enter our Father’s presence together. We can sense a brief glimpse of that day when we taste love’s deepest stirrings and God’s Spirit brushes across our hearts. The promise of living together in love, both here and beyond time is worth waiting for, worth trying and crying for, through all the days of life."




Here's our Journey to Forever...