Zions, coming soon!

For the rest of the week, My hubby and I will be in Zions national park camping. Pray for good weather! we will take a lot of pictures :)

Six months

Yesterday Nathaniel and I celebrated the six month mark of our marriage. It is amazing to consider how much has happened in such a short time. I fall more and more in love with my husband everyday and I can not even attempt to imagine what life would be like without him. This week has been great as we had our last classes on Tuesday... now just a couple more finals! Last night we attended BYU's version of Passover put on by Dr. Victor Ludlow. It was truly an evening to remember. A lot of great food and fun and a good amount of learning.(although after 4 glasses of grape juice and 2 of water I was about ready to explode and they didn't even start feeding us until 9:00!)
Little Adam (the one in my belly) has found a new position that he likes just fine, sitting squarely on top of my bladder. Seriously I have to go to the ladies room about ten times a day when before two was the norm! Oh the joys. It is fun trying to guess his personality by how he acts at different times and in different positions. I have been trying hard to do a lot better with my health, such as drinking more water, being more active, and eating less sweets, I'm still working on it but it is good to feel that I have a little more energy. My sisters are really helping me out and we are all motivating each other to be fit and active. Thanks sisters!
After passover Nathaniel and I just laid in bed and talked, who knows how long, we both fell asleep in mid sentence. It is times like these that I feel so grateful for everything the Lord has given me. I feel so blessed and often undeserving of my blessings. I don't want to take any of it for granted, not a second. Life is truly beautiful and it is the simple things that often matter most. Thank you sweetheart for continuing to love me, more and more. You are my hero!

Welcome Spring er... sort of!

The last couple of weeks Nathaniel and I have been crazy busy with school and with being together on the weekends (usually doing school work). We just have a couple days of classes left and then finals! Two weeks ago for our date night we went to Home Depot, used our gift card and got some tools. In my Religion In The Home class I was assigned to make a religious item that will have any kind of prominence in the home. For those of you who are family, you will recognize the story "The Last Straw". I want this to be a special tradition in my family during Christmas time so my Project was to make a manger.




We planned, measured, marked, sawed, sanded, stained, dried, screwed in the pieces,measured sawed and sanded some more, copied, tied and in the end tada! It was a really fun project






After the bulk of the work we decided that our creative juices were not all used up so we made some homemade pizza (thanks Debra). It was the best pizza Nathaniel had ever tasted (he said) and it was also his first time making homemade pizza. We had a great time and will likely do it again!




Easter was wonderful. We spent Saturday of conference weekend at my parents house, and then we spent the night at Nathaniel's Cousins house. Uncle Kevin and Aunt Vicky were so nice and fed us such great food that we didn't want to leave. They even made sure the Easter bunny left something for us:)

I love this time of year and I love being with family. I especially love being with my husband. The time we share together is truly cherished. Even though the weather is only now starting to warm up and look like spring, it is a great reminder of the renewal of our Heavenly Fathers love for all of us.