18 Months of Marital Bliss

As of yesterday (the 25th), Preston and I have been married 1 1/2 years!! It doesn't sound like much when you think that we'll have a whole eternity together, but it's still pretty cool! Unfortunately the most that we did to celebrate was to sleep in for 1 1/2 hours (which wasn't planned, but seemed like a fitting "celebration" that we could both enjoy). I thought we should eat 1 1/2 burgers or something just for the occasion, but we just had a yummy casserole for dinner instead (which you can't really measure as 1 1/2). So ... there you have it. Yay for us! Yay for marriage! And mostly yay for blissful marriages that make life SO much better than you ever imagined!

Ode to Michelle

So, I went to Michelle's bridal shower last weekend (good job by the way Liz! It was great fun!). It just reminded me of all the good times we had in high school. AND I never see her any more since she's in good ol' Cedar City. So, I just figured I'd post my favorite moments with Michelle along with pictures of her shower ... double duty!

TOP 17 MEMORIES
(why 17? ... I don't know. It was only going to be 10, but there were too many!)

1. "Studying" statistics together

2. Singing in her living room or with other friends

3. Watching 13 going on 30 while eating Razzles ... that was probably more enjoyable for me since that's one of my favorite movies (though Enchanted has recently taken over the #1 favorite), but Michelle was nice enough to do it with me :D

4. Our matching pajama bottoms that had matching rips in them ... kind of creepy cuz it wasn't planned.

5. Taking pictures at every ride we went on at Disneyland

This is definitely not our best one, but it's in front of Indiana Jones.

just a random extra picture from our same trip :)

6. Sitting across from her in Madrigals ... who wouldn't like seeing her beautiful face every day in class?

7. Having 6 classes together senior year

8. Trying to get phase 10 cards to stick to our faces long enough to get a picture.

9. Jumping on the bed at choir tour ... who does that? :)

10. Toilet papering Michelle ... not her house, just her. What can I say? We were weird :)

11. The ultimate April fools prank ... switching houses in the middle of the night (it would have been better had it not been spoiled by one of our seminary teachers who called her parents to tell them so that they could move her car)

12. Seminary council meetings.

13. Thinking we were getting pulled over on our way to a madrigal's performance at the Assembly hall, but having the cop just pass us by. We were even speeding cuz we were late... close one!

14. Visiting Cedar City the day before I got my patriarchal blessing ... needless to say, I had to leave super early to get to Salt Lake by 9 for my blessing. The sad part was that I left my phone in Michelle's room on my way out AND I locked the door behind me ... I don't even remember how that worked out.

15. Sitting on the dark bus on our way home from choir tour while everyone else went to the mall (It was a Sunday).

16. Buying 2 dollar pants at Macey's. I still wear mine!

yes, I tried them on over my pants in the store to see how they looked :)

17. I don't know if this counts as one of my favorite memories because I didn't actually remember it. I just happened to find this picture and it made me smile. We were in our High School's drama closet basically ... really it's a whole basement.

I seriously think that I have pictures of most of these events, but I'm at work right now, so I'll have to add them when I get home. I just decided to check facebook and see if I had any of these pictures on there and found some! But, I'm pretty sure I have more and some better ones, so check back later and I'll see what I can find. It's always fun to think back about memories when you were young and weird. Yes, we were very weird. But, weird is fun and that's what matters!

Anyway, so now we're all grown up and mature (or something like that) and having bridal showers. Here's all those fun pictures :)

Ka and Chloe came! Chloe's getting so big and was so cute ... for some reaon I didn't get her in a picture, but you'll have to take my word for it!

This is the remaining group after the shower had been over for about 20 minutes or so. There were so many people there and it was so great to see everyone!!

So, I really didn't take many pictures, but it was a very well done shower. We watched all the cute parts of movies and had to guess what the movie was and people's names. It was great :)

Promised Pictures

Here are the pictures I promised from Preston's birthday. Are you excited?

1. Breakfast .. crepes with bananas, lemon filling and syrup

2. The birthday boy getting ready for his special day

3. Getting ready to open his birthday present after breakfast ... what could it be?

4. An iPOD TOUCH!! Just what he wanted :)

5. I didn't get a picture, but Dan and I decorated Preston's seminary office the night before, so Preston got that surprise before the next one. That's right ... I'm just the best little wife. Or something like that :)

6. The decorations at home for the surprise party.

7. The cake Kim so kindly made for the party.

8. Preston conducting his "Happy Birthday" song ... what a silly goof.

9. P-man blowing out all 24 candles ... just wait 'til next year when there's 25! Then we'll see if he can get them all :D

10. The group after pretty much everyone left :) I didn't think about it before. But, Thanks to everyone who showed up! It meant a lot to Preston!

11. An awesome picture of us throwing balloons. HAHA. Makes me laugh every time!

12. A normal, way cute, picture of the group with me in it instead of Dan (who so kindly took the great picture for us!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESTON!!

24

This is our 24th post!! It also happens to be the day that Preston turns 24 :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESTON!! It's been a great day already. We had crepes this morning for breakfast, I gave him his birthday present (an iTouch), and he walked in to a decorated office at seminary. It's not over yet. . . Tonight when we get home from class, we'll have a little surprise party. See, we don't get out of class until 8, so everyone will already be there waiting to surprise him :) It was really last minute ... like, I decided to do it 2 days ago :) But, so far, there will be 15 people there for sure, so that's not bad. I have pictures too, but I gotta hurry to class, so I'm going to add those later. Then I can tell you how the surprise went! And YES, I am posting about a surprise party for Preston before it happens. Don't worry ... I'm 99.9% sure that he won't get on and see this post ... he never does :)

The Interview

We had our interview last with the human resource brother. If you remember from a previous post, that's pretty much the last step for us until we find out about the job. I thought you'd all be waiting in suspense to hear how it went. Well ... ok ... maybe not, but hopefully you're at least interested.

So, there's no way of knowing if it "went well" because we were pretty much just talking. Brother Ringer (I think?) asked us both 3 main questions. He told us there was no right or wrong answers, which is true because they were all soul searching questions. And there was a lot of searching :) The questions were, approximately: 1) What is your biggest accomplishment, 2) what do you do best, 3) and what is you biggest goal in life? Why don't you think for minute how you would answer those questions?? There are just way too many directions you could go, so which do you choose?? Well, I'm not really going to tell you our answers. Lame, I know. But, I will tell you that I got to answer all of them first ... I was secretly hoping that Preston would go first and inspire some great insight in me, but unfortunately it didn't work out quite like that. I think that we both had good answers though. That's all you need to know.

Besides the 3 questions, he just talked to us about where our family lives, if we would be willing to live in Idaho, Utah or Arizona (the three main places) and if we preferred rural or urban places. So, we've put our two cents in now and we just have to wait and see if we get a job offer or not. The only thing that gave us any idea of what he was thinking about us was when he told us a couple of times that we would be a great addition because we're very talented (Preston with his singing and piano and me with my singing and harp). Although, the hiring freeze really makes it difficult to know. Just keep praying for us and we'll see what happens. Whatever direction our life takes, at least we'll be together, right?

Baby Ka

Liz, Preston and I got to go see Ka's little baby about a week ago. Liz wanted to call her "baby Ka" instead of Chloe ... thus the title. Anyway, she was so little!! And SO cute! I just had to share the pictures because I love little babies and Chloe is one cute baby!

Us with the babe

Liz with the babe

The proud parents without their babe

The group with the babe

Next Step ... Job?

So, Preston found out on Friday that we're going to have someone from the human resources come over to our house and interview us on Wednesday night. Scary! They come over to see your home and meet us as a family. This is the last step before getting offered a job through CES!! So, wish us luck :) Of course, we still won't find out if there's a job opening for Preston until April or May, but it's still nice to know that we've made it this far! Unfortunately, we can't expect too much because we found out last Tuesday that there is a hiring freeze so they don't know how many openings there are going to be. The way they put it was that there is a freeze, but there WILL be some thawings .... There definitely won't be as many as usual, but there is hope. And we're hoping!