Autumn

Fall is in full bloom! (or the opposite I guess..) And even though I kinda dread this time of year because it means that summer is over, I figured I better just start embracing it because it's going to come every year whether I like it or not! (on a side note I think this will be my favorite time of year when I'm older because then fall doesn't equal going back to school and freezing my butt off on campus.)

Today I came home from work and had some delicious potato soup from Old Towne Grill and cuddled with Preston because I won't get to do that for a few days since he is leaving for New York City tonight. I also turned on my little heater at my BYU office, and I wore a scarf! So I guess you could say I'm feeling pretty fallish today.

I had a wonderful weekend watching conference and taking some Scobee family pictures up in the canyon with the changing leaves. These are some pictures I snapped before getting in the car to leave after getting our pictures taken.

Me and Kristine (my sister in law)

 

 

The little girls

Emma, my sister

Addisyn, my niece

Driving down from the American Fork Canyon

Engagement Anniversary

Yesterday was our anniversary of getting engaged! 2 Years ago my wonderful, beautiful husband proposed to me and made me the luckiest girl in the world. He surprised me by having my friend, Lauren, call and invite us up to dinner at the Zermatt in Midway. I was so excited, especially because she said to dress up and I love dressing up a little bit! haha So we get up there and he keeps driving past the Zermatt and of course I'm like "Turn there! Turn there!" having a fit that he's driving past it. He gave me a little letter to read  that was very romantic and I knew right then and there that this was the night! (I kind of already guessed that ahead of time though.. I just knew somehow)

He kept driving up into the hills above Midway to a clearing that had a beautiful view of the Heber/Midway valley. He always knows what I love! Once we were there he opened up the back of the car and had a nice picnic basket with food and chocolate covered strawberries (courtesy of his mom and sister) and he also had... A Ring!!!! It was the most beautiful ring I'd ever seen and he got down on his knee and asked me to marry him and I said yes! After that we went to my house and to Lauren's house to announce our engagement. My mom has some pictures from the night but I never got them from her so here are a few from Lauren's house:

It was an amazing night, and I just remember feeling so completely happy that I was marrying this man. He has been the perfect husband and I don't know what I would do without him. Thanks for everything honey and thanks for planning the perfect proposal for me!

Still absolutely love my ring! (ignore my yucky winter hands!)

The past month or so

It's been a while since I've blogged so I thought I would do a little update/what's been going on with us blog post. Nothing too exciting, in fact, it probably won't be exciting at all haha we've just been really busy since school started back up!

We got home from Sun Valley and went back to school like the next week. I am currently taking a full schedule at school in the advertising program (only 1.5 more semesters!!), working on campus doing billing work, and working at the Old Towne Grill. It's been a bit crazy, I mostly work during the day and then have night classes, but sometimes I have class during the day and it's a whole lot of running around between jobs and classes. Also I got called to be the relief society secretary this last summer so that's been keeping me busy too.

I feel like this is turning into a "poor me I'm so busy blog entry" which isn't what I meant to do, so enough about that. I'm really not as busy as I sound, I think everything works out just fine if you don't do homework haha ...which leads me to my next thought.. I have been watching Anne of Green Gables (like the 6 discs that are 2 hours long each) these past two weeks and if you haven't watched them in a while you are missing out! I love that movie/girl with all my might! I even find myself talking like her and like Marilla... Preston doesn't like it when I do that :)

About Preston, he has been working hard on his school work and been doing lots of networking to get an internship this summer. He's been going out to New York and meeting with banks and that's been going really well for him. He's actually going to New York again this next week to meet with people. He's a real hard worker. I don't think I could ever be as dedicated to studying as he is.

He still makes time to do fun things with me though. This last week he took me up to Park City to stay at a nice hotel and go to dinner and shop. It was so beautiful up there with all the leaves changing color, and it was a really fun getaway.

I know this blog post is a little bit all over the place, but I wanted to say that I have been making dinners for almost two weeks in a row!! This is a HUGE accomplishment for me because I don't think I've ever made dinner this often! Sometimes you just get fed up with eating frozen lasagnas, frozen pizzas, frozen everythings and decide that you are going to put to use those 500 recipes you've pinned on Pinterest and that's what I've done and it feels so good! I'm also going to throw in here that I went to the farmer's market that they are having on Wednesdays on Center street last night and got a whole box of wonderful produce. It was the highlight of my week!!

What else has been going on.... well I missed my birth control pill two days in a row and got my hormones all messed up. I was a complete bear for about two weeks, bless little Preston's soul for putting up with me ;) I think I'm doing ok now, although I don't handle stress very well ever. Also we have Scobee family pictures this Saturday and I'll have to post those on here when we get them back, hopefully they turn out well!

Here's a few phone pictures of my life lately:

Hiked Bridal Veil Falls

Made made this cute silly putty word in church for me

Ruby River steaks!

This piece of glass was in my foot for about 3 weeks!! I finally saw a corner of it glisten in the light and pulled it out of my foot! Guess that's what I get for working at a bar.. not really but kinda

Laid grass in my parents yard all Saturday! We were pretty proud of it!

 

The group of sweaty workers getting lunch after laying grass

Not a great picture, but the trees are amazing in the canyon!

A salad and Anne of Green Gables every night while Prest studies, it's a gooood life!

Sun Valley

I've really been wanting to blog about our Sun Valley trip, but we got back and jumped right into school, so it's been pretty busy. So now it's time to relive the memories of two weeks ago when life was simple and relaxing, and the only choices I ever had to make were what delicious meal on the menu to get and what activity sounded fun that day.

We started our 6 hour trip up to Sun Valley, Idaho with a stop at Maddox. If you've never heard of it you need to go! It is a restaurant in Brigham City that has the type of food you eat for a gourmet Sunday dinner. I loved it. And so does everyone else apparently because there was a line at the door to get in right when it opened at 11:00 on a weekday. And when we ate there on the return trip it was a complete zoo.

Here's me and Prest eating at Maddox :)

The whole drive up there I couldn't believe we were heading somewhere green and beautiful that is known for its skiing when all I could see out the window were fields, fields, fields. BUT it definitely is beautiful! And I have pictures to prove it!

  While we were there, we did lots of fun things like...

Went to some yummy restaurants. 

Out to breakfast

The whole crew at dinner downtown

Went bowling at the Sun Valley Lodge:

Old school way of keeping score

He won.. of course

We love bowling

Preston's dad thought it was perfectly normal to wear these around

Played tennis and swam:

Played with cute Sophie (brady & teresa's baby):

He'll be such a cute dad :)

Rented bicycles to ride around on.. Preston and I got stuck with the tandem:

Turned out pretty good for me though :)

 Went shopping downtown:

Just one of those things that you have to take a picture with

I guess Cass wasn't loving all the "elderly" clothing stores.

And got ice cream...

Home of the 1st ski lift

Preston's parents

And played Games at night at the condo:

We also went ice skating, the boys golfed, and we hung out at the condo a lot. It was a fun get away before school started. Thank you to Linda and Scott who took us all!! 

We love Sun Valley!

Almost Here

I am just so excited that I want to shout out the window, but after reading my Ellen Degeneres book last night, she clearly pointed out to me that in the 21st century, when we feel like shouting something to the world, we simply put it on facebook or twitter for all the world to see. So... since I'm not a big facebooker and definitely not a tweeter, I am putting it on my blog!

MY HUSBAND IS COMING HOME IN 3 DAYS!!!

The countdown has begun! Well actually it began the moment he left because every night when we talk we say "well only ___ many weeks/days left. But it's such a realistic countdown now. By this weekend he will be back home with me and I couldn't be happier!!

I've really missed that boy. When I took him to the airport after he came up for 4th of July, I couldn't believe how depressed I felt. When I had to be home by myself for a week the first time, I was perfectly fine. I had a wedding and I saw my friends, and time passed so fast. But for some reason, the morning I took him to the airport after he came back for a visit, I just couldn't even stand the thought of being alone for a whole month and I just cried the whole way home. Pathetic, I know. (Part of the reason is that I get choked up about anything and everything, so it's partly just my overactive hormones). But anyways, just saying... it's been hard not seeing him for so long.

It got even harder last week when the internet he was using stopped working so he couldn't skype with me anymore. Haha oh and when he was using that internet and skyping with me, there was like a 3 minute delay in the video so his facial expressions and movements were way off, it was pretty funny sometimes.

Truth is I'm pretty proud of myself. I can now enter my apartment alone at night without being absolutely terrified, go to church by myself and sit in a crowd of (what seems like) hundreds of newlyweds and be fine with it, eat somewhat healthy and go to the gym without being told to by my husband, and keep a clean, tidy house all by myself.
.......ok so the last one was a joke. I'll never be able to keep a clean house by myself. I maybe picked it up twice in a month...??
But the rest of those are true! Mostly I'm just really glad that I have turned into quite a brave woman over the past month. I just don't even let myself think scary thoughts at night, and then I'm usually fine.

Which brings me to my next point, I haven't said anything about my husband being out of town on my blog the whole time because of blog stalkers/killers. I'm sure they're out there. BUT, I decided I'm probably ok since my blog's not like... well you know. Let's put it this way- I have 12 followers.

Moral of the story is I'm beyond excited to have my husband back. Can't wait!

Melts my heart

You better believe there'll be lots of these when he gets home :)