Birthdays and Adpotion!

"It's My Birthday" Scott and I just love How I Met Your Mother!

Yes, it is indeed my birthday today and it has been a pretty relaxed. For Scott it has been the exact opposite. He's had school, work, more school, and now he's at work again. He is in the process of starting a new job (hopefully) and in the last two weeks of his current job. It's a pretty exciting time for him because the new job is at the dental lab right next to our home.

Okay hat was a pretty long tangent so now back to what I was saying earlier. Today I've been able to relax all day except for two short meetings and a yoga final I had to take. With all of this relaxing I took a nap and have had some time to think about my birthday. It is kind of interesting to think about it because yes it is a day for me to celebrate, but I think it is more of a day I should celebrate my birth mom.

I have a unique experience by being adopted and I think that makes me think about her more on my birthday than maybe others think about their mom on their birthday. My birth mom (Natalie) was a senior in high school when she had me. She got pregnant from a boy friend who she had been dating for a couple years and once he found out she was pregnant with me he dumped her. She had everything to lose by choosing to give birth to me. She sacrificed so much for me. She lost her boyfriend who she cared deeply about, lost some friends, was judged by others, and so many other things that I don't even know about. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later- Day Saints (LDS, Mormon) and with that comes the values that we (as members) need to refrain from having sexual relations before we are married. By her not following that value many people I'm sure judged her and her family. Life became very hard for her and it's not like you can hide being pregnant for too long.

I'm sure she was scared to tell her parents and just scared of the fact of being pregnant. I know I would have been. The embarrassment, anxiety, and hateful words from people who were your friends and people you loved would have just killed me. My birth mom did it though. She had the courage to not take the "easy way out" by getting an abortion and not telling anyone about it. She faced her consequence head on and did what was best for her baby, ME. She could have kept me herself and it would have been very difficult on her and she selflessly gave me up for adoption because she knew that she couldn't raise me. I'm not saying that every women should give up her baby for adoption because I have also seen the opposite where someone has kept their baby and it was the best thing she could have done. The baby has changed her life for the better and I am so proud of what she has become and the child she is raising.

I've had a unique situation with being adopted as well because I know my birth mom and talk to at least once every other month if not more. Natalie was even able to come to my wedding, which was incredible! I'm tell you this lady is a SAINT! How do I know her so well though? It's not normal for kids to know their birth mom let alone still talk to them like I do. I know her so well because my mom and my birth mom kept in great contact and talked every year on my birthday. I remember when I was younger always the curious little kid who sits behind the corner listening to their mom or dad talking to someone on the phone. I would sit and listen to them talk. It was like my mom was talking to her best friend. They never skipped a beat! My mom was always laughing and even sometimes would shed a few tears. Listening to their conversations made me more and more curious to talk to this person who gave birth to me.


I'll never forget the first time that I met her (that I could remember at least). I was 16 and so excited and nervous to met her. The first time I saw her I had to do a double take because I couldn't believe how much I looked like her. I mean I really looked like her! I have always been told I look like my mom (the one who raised me), but wow do I look exactly like my birth mom! There is no doubt she was the one who gave birth to me! We were even wearing the same colors when we met! It was crazy! I remember thinking how weird it was that I was actually talking to her face to face. It was funny the little things that we had in common and how we kind of talked the same. It was just fun! The only thing I didn't like about that experience was that she married an Asian man so I won't be able to see what my kids could possibly look like. Haha turns out now though that it may not matter because Hansen's have a very strong gene! ;-) 


I owe Natalie everything! This is not to say though that I don't owe my parents everything as well. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be the person who I am today. They raised me and gave me a reason for being. Natalie just gave me the body I needed in order to live on this earth. My parents are amazing people and they also deserve all of the credit for me to even know Natalie. If it wasn't for them being so open about the adoption, talking with Natalie yearly, and supporting me in my desire to meet her; I would have never been able to know her the way I do today.

So today, I want to say thank you to Natalie and everyone who is involved with adoption in one way or another. If you are a birth mom, parents who adopted children, siblings of adopted kids, you are adopted, support adoption, etc THANK YOU! Thank you Natalie!!! You make up a part of who I am today. Your courage and strength to have me at such a young age is something that I am truly grateful for and has made such a big impact on me. I'm so grateful I am able to know you and for your continued support throughout my whole life. I love you!

Memorial Weekend

Why Hello Bloggers/Friends/Random Strangers!!!

I know this is a little late, but Scott and I just had such a fun Memorial Weekend that I couldn't not share what we did.

The Saturday before Memorial Day we went to Lagoon! Lagoon is Utah's little amusement park and it was pretty fun. Growing up in San Diego I would compare Lagoon more to a county fair not an amusement park though. I was pretty spoiled while growing up living in such a wonderful place. Oh how I miss San Diego and Sea World and Disneyland... Anyways, back to Lagoon. Lagoon was really fun to go to, but way too expensive for what it is worth in our opinion. Let's just say I thought it was one of those places you should go to once, but I wouldn't go again. The rides seemed to just go in circles the whole time really quick so by the time you got off the ride you felt like you were on it for 30 seconds and your head just felt like it was spinning. Some people may like that, but I sure don't like that feeling. My favorite ride we went on was the big ferris wheel! Scott HATES heights like with a passion! I was so proud of him for going on it with me. We weren't even half way up and he said "I can tell I'm not going to like this"! haha He was already starting to feel uncomfortable. Funnest part was of course the ride stopped right when we were at the highest point. It has such a pretty view though. :-)

The other cool thing about going to Lagoon was we took the Frontrunner (the train) instead of driving all the way up there. It took about the same time was if we drove (about an hour) and neither one of us had to drive, which was prefect because on the way home we both were exhausted and slept a little bit. Parking at the parks is always so expensive! The Frontrunner only cost us $13.50 roundtrip and I was able to ride for free because of my bus pass (yay!). If we drove up parking itself would have cost us $9.

After our little nap on the Frontrunner on the way home I really wanted to go to the Fun Center to play some games since we have a ton of free tokens to play there. Scott did amazing and easily got over 1,500 tickets! We have been saving up all of our tickets to eventually get one of there really big prizes! I have no idea what we are going to get, but we still have about $75 worth of tokens and already have a little over 6,000 tickets!

Sunday was a great day! I thought all the lessons were great and just what I needed to hear. Perfect! That night we had my brother and sister in law over for dinner and had a great time. We had yummy hamburgers and mashed potatoes. My sister-in-law wasn't feeling to good so that was a bummer, but it was so great seeing them. We played Sorry after dinner and watched Iron Chief. If you haven't watched Iron Chief you should! Scott has got me hooked on that show and Chopped! It is amazing what people can make out of the most random ingredients! I love it!

Monday we went over to the Aegerter's for dinner and again enjoyed some hamburgers. It was delicious as always. We love spending time over at the Aegerter's and especially when we get to enjoy Deb's amazing food!

I need to take more pictures like I used to because it is so fun to look back at all of our pictures from when we were dating. :-) Speaking of when we were dating today has been officially 2 years since we started dating and that would be the first set of sunflowers that he bought me! Crazy! Last night he brought me home some flowers and it was adorable! I love him so much!

What is happening?

I have always heard of senioritis and I'm sure most of you have as well. I seriously have it bad except I'm not a senior... I hope that's not a problem. I feel like I have just been in school for too long without a break. Most summers I have a break from school, but last year I didn't really get a break. For the first half of the summer I was planning my impossible wedding (which I eventually postponed because of how crazy everything was getting and more). Then for the second half of the summer I really was in school taking a Biology class. Add it all together I haven't really had a break from school since August of 2011 and even then that summer I took two classes for the first half of summer. It has just been crazy!!! I need a good break from school and I'm so glad that I get one this summer!

This summer my plan is... WAIT FOR IT.... (for all of you who watch the show "How I Meet Your Mother" you get that little joke. If you haven't watched it yet. Do it!) I'm getting a "real" job! Yes, I Caitlan Anne Hansen am growing up in the world and for the first time in my life I'm getting a job besides the typical babysitting and referee jobs I've had in the past.

I am scared out of my mind to actually get a "real" job. I've never had one before so this whole process is so new to me. I haven't ever gone in for a job interview, but I have gone into interviews for leadership positions for school so I'm hoping that they will be similar. Either way though it still doesn't calm my nerves that much. However, the exciting (yet very terrifying) part to this process is the jobs that I'm looking for are actually what I want to be doing in my life.

I am an Outdoor Recreation major and I love it! More to come about that later though.

Exactly 1 Year Ago Part 3

Okay before you read this make sure to read Part 1 and Part 2. Here is the final post of our engagement enjoy!


Last I wrote about how Sarah was taking me to her old apartment to pick up something she left there, which just so happen to be the place Scott and I meet...

As we went inside I saw two yellow happy birthday ballons on the table and wondered who birthday it was until one of the girls who lived there looked at me and said I think those are for you. My heart stopped and then started to feel like pounding out of my body as I walked over to the table to find an envelope with a number one on it. I then got so made because of course when I was most upset at him it had to be the time when he was proposing to me! I couldn't believe it and just was in shock! He told me his was at work that little tricky liar was mainly what I was thinking at the moment and I just couldn't speak! I got all giddy as most girls I think do and was actually mad that he was proposing then because of how upset I was. Lame I know, but it is the honest truth.  No matter how I was feeling though off we went on a scavenger hunt I would never forget.  

Scott and I had just been talking about our first date a few days earlier and how much fun that was. We went to Sammy's which is this amazing place in Provo where they make the best shakes I have ever had in my life! They put ice cream and a piece of actual pie or a cupcake or cheesecake with real fruit in it! For instance if you order something like a pumpkin pie shake they actually put in a slice of pumpkin pie in your shake! Amazing? YES! Well on our first date I think I ordered the carrot cupcake shake or something like that I don't even remember now exactly what I got. Anyways so I ordered and was so confused as to how my shake and Sarah's was going to be paid because Sarah wasn't grabbing grabbing her wallet. The lady at the register at first of course was waiting for us to pay until Sarah mentioned if she had an envelope. The lady got really excited and handed me my second envelope. Inside was Scott's credit card! What the heck?! Who gives their credit card to a complete stranger! He had actually just given it to her about 10-15 minutes before we got there so it wasn't as big of a risk! I paid with that and put his credit card in my pocket so I wouldn't lose it. 

Side story for you all to understand why he put before he canceled it this time. We meet and started dating each other all within 24 hours! Well a week after that we went out to dinner and Scott left his credit card at the register on accident. The person who was working it gave it to me so I thought it would be funny to see how long until Scott realized it was missing. After dinner went to a friends birthday party and I totally forgot it was in my pocket until after he dropped me off. I figured I could just give it to him once I got home and it wouldn't be a big deal. Well it turned out to be because while I was gone Scott needed to use it and called everyone except for me to try to find it. I called him once I got home and he didn't answer so I sent him a text asking him if he was missing anything. He texted me back saying please tell me you don't have my credit card... Well that poor stressed out man had just called to cancel it (that would be why he didn't answer). I felt awful and he was going to mexico the next week and had to go without a credit card. It was a mess! 

Anyways, back to the proposal story. On our two month anniversary we went to a place called Color Me Mine. It is a place where you can pick out something to paint and then after you are finished painting it you give it to them to fire blast and pick it up a few days after. Remember how we had just done that? Well he sent me there to go pick up the plate and inside the bag with the plate was envelope number three. I looked at the plate and didn't see anything different so I was confused. Sarah told me to look at the front of the plate again and didn't think anything of it because the handwriting looked like my cursive. She laughed and told me to look closer at it and then the lightbulb went off! On the front of the plate was the date!!! Here is the picture of the plate: 

As soon as I read the clue I knew exactly where we were supposed to go because on our second date we went to a look out point right by the "Y" mountain in Provo. Scott told me how he never gets cold and since I was freezing he gave it to me to wear and I loved it! He had planned out this very cute date and we danced, but then he started to get so cold that he was shaking. All I could do was laugh because he had just told me how he never gets cold and he was being so stubborn about not taking his jacket back. 

For some reason as we were driving over there I just had this feel that he was going to propose there. I just knew he was going to and the more I thought about it the more nervous I got. I had so many emotions in me while we were driving. I was still upset about how he waited so long to propose (lame I know) I was still in shock and I was extremely excited all at the same time! 

As soon as we pulled up we saw a table set up with a chair and some weird blanket and tool box on top of the table. I seemed to be confused a lot during this whole adventure because yet again I found myself confused looking at this random pile of stuff until I found this: Scott's handwriting is hard to read so basically it says to put the DVD in his laptop (which was wrapped in the blanket) and to put the blanket over me and the computer so I could see the screen better. Yup I knew he was going to propose there and was kind of scared he was going to scare me haha. Well I watched the movie and it was adorable! He got a ton of pictures from while we were dating and made a slideshow with them with the song "Marry Me" by Train. At the very end the last picture said "For your last clue turn around"! I did and there was my amazing man just standing there. I saw him and then covered my eyes again. I couldn't believe it was actually happening. I opened them again went over and gave him a huge hug. Then the big down on one knee, ring box open, ring inside, and the marry me question finally came. I said no of course since I was so made and told him to do all of it again on a different day. I'm just kidding I said yes and it was wonderful! Here are some more pictures of during that time.

Scott coming down from his hiding place.

Me under the blanket.

Right after he proposed! 

I got the ring! He actually had it custom made because I had always said how I want a ring just like my CTR right that I used to wear all the time. This ring in exactly like it except for the pretty diamond  which I love more than the CTR anyways. This ring means so much more to me since Scott is the one who designed it and put so much work into it! I just love him so much!

After that we went out to dinner, he got me beautiful sunflowers, and went back to his apartment to realize his backpack with his laptop and the dvd weren't there. We got back in the car and Scott zoomed up the mountain, but his backpack was no where to be found! It was freezing and dark outside and the wind was blowing like crazy! I couldn't handle the cold anymore so I got back into the car and just prayed that someone found it and would call. Right after I said the prayer Scott came to the car and told me someone just called him saying they had his backpack! It was a miracle! Turns out it was a cute old couple who were very nice! We told them how we just got engaged and they were so happy for us and got the backpack back. We started to drive away and then stopped to say a little prayer. Scott said it and that was the point where I started to cry! It hit right during that simple prayer of us saying thank you to our Heavenly Father that we were engaged and that from then on we were a true team starting our journey together! 

That would be our VERY detailed proposal story from start to finish! If you have read all three of these post you are awesome and such a trooper! My main reason for writing it in such detail is so that way I had it written down for our family to remember and hopefully one day for our children to read. I hope you enjoyed it as well though. 

Exactly 1 Year ago... Part 2

First of all in order to completely understand this post please read Part One first. :-)

Okay so I had just finished saying how much I couldn't stand waiting to get engaged and how much I hated coming back to school and having to tell everyone I'm still not engaged. It was so dumb and to be honest I was getting really ticked that I wasn't engaged yet. It had been three weeks since Scott told me that he had called and got permission from my dad and we still weren't engaged. I had spring break in two weeks and I did not want to go home and try planning our wedding without being engaged and having a ring on my finger. That meant we only had one weekend left that he could do something before I left since I was leaving the week after that to go home.

The whole week I was going crazy trying to think of how he was going to propose to me. During that week I also got Scott's ring in the mail and was beginning to consider proposing to him. Yeah I was really upset and sick of waiting. Scott and I constantly can laugh about that now... On top of all of that he had to work on Saturday night, which I was fine with before because I thought for sure by then we would be engaged. He was a security guard for BYU and worked the basketball and football games, which meant he had to be there a few hours before the game started, during in the game, and then a few hours after the game. Basically whenever he worked I usually didn't go up to see him or I did and tried to plan things with other people. However, when he told me that I got even more TICKED and that was the last line so I told him I wasn't going to come anymore.

Now that got Scott upset and he was determined to get me up there. He even told me that if I wasn't going to drive up he was going to drive down and pick me up. haha That man was on a mission! My roommates were pretty tricky too and I think somehow helped him get me to drive up there for the weekend. I had also promised Sarah that while Scott was working we would hang out so that kind of helped me go up as well. Thursday came and it was time for me to pack and I got major butterflies and couldn't stop shaking and being excited. Every weekend I got that way, but I knew this was his last chance and it HAD to be the weekend. I turned even more girlly and tried to figure out what to wear. I had to look cute when we got engaged after all right?

Okay so we got up there and Friday we just hung out and didn't do anything special I think... OH WAIT except for... Yeah nothing special happened at all unless you call me getting even more upset at him special. We still weren't engaged and that was the only day he could propose since he had work the next day and I knew Scott wasn't going to propose on a Sunday. I was so mad when he dropped me off that I told him I was going to go home. I saw him and tomorrow was pointless to stay since he had to work and I knew I wasn't going to get engaged... haha looking back I feel like a jerk because of how upset I was for not getting engaged to this amazing man even though I knew it would happen eventually. At times I'm not patient at all.

Okay so Saturday we woke up and Scott came over right away to get me so we could spend as much time together before he had to go to work. Time went by way too quickly and it was time for him to leave for work. I WAS NOT HAPPY as he walked me back to Sarah's apartment. I was so upset and just ready to leave. I felt bad for Sarah because I was upset and didn't know if I was going to be able to have fun playing mini golf with her with how I was feeling. Luckily when we got there she wasn't ready to go yet because she was finishing taking a shower since she had just played a soccer game that went a little later than she thought so I was able to try to control my emotions a bit.

Once Sarah is ready to go she asked me if it was okay if we picked something up she left in her old apartment before we headed out. Of course I said it was okay and I loved that apartment anyways since it was where Scott and I first meet.


This is a picture of Sarah when we first meet. I had just made those bracelets for her since she really liked mine I decided to make some for her before she left on her cool trip she took that summer to Uganda.

Okay this is evil, but I need to write a part three on a different post because this one is getting too long too! Part 3 soon...

Exactly 1 Year Ago... Part 1

Hey all!

Today is a very special day for my husband and I because exactly a year ago is when he popped the big question... Yup that big one that most people say yes to and then it changes their lives forever and the pretty lady gets some bling to put on her left hand ring finger!

This is the picture of my bling. That my wonderful husband decided to show everyone except for me of course before he actually proposed to me. 

I've decided since today is such a fun lovey dovey day of my past it is time to write down how he proposed to me and that whole process. I think I wrote one right after we got engaged, but I have no clue where it is and so I want to write it again... so brace yourself for a very long and fun post of Scott and Caitlan VERY dragged out proposal. (You'll understand why I say dragged out soon enough). 

Here we go! Scott and I had been dating for about 6 months until he came home to "officially" meet my family during Christmas break. He had already meet my dad kind of, but this was his first time meeting my mom and coming home with me. Everyone knew that it was the "meet the parents before I propose to her" type of thing so that was no shocker. However, my parents did tell me a couple weeks before Scott came to not have him ask them for permission to marry me when he was there. I thought that was way funny, but also I think it made it nice because Scott and all of us were able to relax a little more. 

Okay now fast forward a month and it is the end of January. Scott's sister (Laurie) was getting married so naturally we drove down to Vegas (where Scott's family is from and where she got married). We took two of Laurie's friends down with us since they also wanted to be there for the wedding. It was fun driving down with them, but I also love car trips with Scott so we could just talk about our random stuff and with other people in the car sometimes that can get weird. We waited till they fell asleep and then we were able to talk and then when they woke up we would talk with them and then when they feel back asleep we would talk, you get the point. One of the times when they fell asleep Scott said something along the lines of Caitlan I have a secret to tell you. I got excited and had no clue what he was going to say. Well that is when he began to tell me about how he had asked my dad for permission that week. I was shocked considering Scott parents and family still didn't know we were seriously talking about it. Side note: Scott is a sweetheart and didn't want to tell them because he didn't want to take any of the attention off of his sister and her big wedding. He decided he would tell them after her wedding and I told him that he needed to tell them before we got engaged* 

I began to freak out because I got all nervous that he had the ring in his pocket and was about to propose there or something. He didn't thank goodness, but I was still super nervous about the whole situation of knowing he had talk with my dad. We were driving down to his sister's wedding where I would be meeting ALL of Scott's family and none of them know what Scott had done and I needed to keep it all a secret! Wow talk about nerve racking. The funniest/weirdest part was watching them take family pictures and thinking to myself I am going to be in that family. I wonder if they knew we were getting engaged very soon if I would be in these pictures. The whole time we were there stuff like that was going through my head like crazy!!! 

After the wedding we drove back up to Utah (where we live right now and are going to school) and had to say goodbye for the weekend as I drove back down to Ephraim (where I was going to school at Snow College and Scott stayed in Provo (where he was going to school at BYU). The whole time I was driving I was freaking out more because Scott basically just told me that he could propose to me at anytime now. So I was thinking it was going to be either this next weekend or the weekend after that! Yeah total freaking out. I got back to my apartment and immediately told my roommates and they started to get excited too as most apartments full of girls would. 

The next weekend came and I was able to go up north to surprise Scott since one of my friends was driving up to the Provo area. He was really surprised and kind of thrown off/really excited! After an hour of being there Scott told me how his brother had invited him to go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and I got super upset because that is one of my favorite places to go and he was going to go without me and not reschedule! So my roommate and I started to head out for dinner and Scott went his separate way. Come to find out now he was actually going to pick up my ring right then from the guy who made it! He was able to plan a later time to pick it up from him and was able to come eat dinner with us. He was sly and told me how he was able to reschedule with his brother. I was now one happy girl to be able to spend more time with Scott! The weekend came and went too quickly and again I had to leave without a ring. I wasn't too upset to go back not engaged since I surprised him. 

The next week I had to give a talk at church so Scott came down for the weekend and I though for sure with it being close to Valentine's Day he was going to propose. The topic I was given for my talk too was on love. It was super funny because I was starting to get impatient waiting for Scott to propose and may or may not have called him out on it during my talk. He didn't even really hear that though because I guess he was showing my roommates the picture of my ring and telling them the day he was planning on proposing to me! How rude right?!!! That weekend came and went and still I wasn't engaged! 

The week after that I knew I was going to get engaged. It was three weeks now since he told me he had asked my dad for permission and I was ready to get engaged. That weekend he came and picked me up in the morning from the Sarah's apartment and brought me a bouquet of sunflowers! Sarah is one of my really great friend's who also introduced Scott and I to each other which makes her an eternal friend of ours! Later that day went to Color Me Mine, one of our favorite places. It is this really cool place where you pick out something to paint (we choose a plate) and then you paint it and give it back to them. They fire blast it and then in the next few days it is all ready for you to go pick up. I totally recommend it. While we are painting it and deciding what to do Scott gets this great idea to put our names on the back and the date we had already planned on getting married. Okay how obvious is this right?! He brought me my favorite flower in the morning, now putting our wedding date and Caitlan & Scott Hansen on the back, and now I'm waiting for him to get down on one knee... That didn't happen and I was SHOCKED!!!

After I don't even remember what we did because I was kind of upset and still not engaged. That weekend came and went and still driving home to Ephraim not engaged. Worst of all every time I came back my roommates and everyone else would always ask are you engaged yet? I hated telling them no since everyone was just waiting for it to happen. 

Okay this post is getting really long so I'm going to say To Be Continued and start writing the rest in a different post. Why? I'm not sure, but I'm going to... There is actually three parts click here for Part 2.

Catch-Up Post

Lately I was thinking about how bored I get since Scott has to work all the time, but how much I love spending time with him when he is actually home. Here are a few things we have been up to since the beginning of the year.

A fun thing we did in January was make our first snowman together! I loved it because we woke up one Saturday and Scott told me to quickly get ready. I didn't know why until he told me to wear warm clothes because we were going to go play in the snow! We had been talking about doing that for awhile and finally were able to do it. After we got some pizza and watched a movie. It was a great day!

Scott made this while we were waiting in the doctor's office a couple of weeks ago trying to figure out what was wrong with me. It just turned out to be a little virus so nothing too serious. Unfortunately, it was the weekend we were supposed to go on the annual 5k run in St. George which my in-laws do every year. Everyone who ran this year got above 5th place in their age division! We were really excited for all of them.

This Valentine's day was kind of hard since it was our first as a married couple and I couldn't see him at all! School and work consumed him so I wasn't able to see him till he got home (a little after midnight). Yes, it was sad but he for sure made up for it when he got home. He brought me home chocolates after work that were half off since it was Feb 15th. I married a smart man! 

The milk is what I gave Scott and the cookies I made because I was bored.

A few weeks ago we bought a brand new surround sound stereo system and this is the box that it came in. I had a lot of fun playing in the box while Scott was playing, I mean setting it all up. I helped set it up while he was at work.

We decided to "test it out" while we watched The Guardian since Scott hadn't seen it before and it is a fantastic movie! We also watched our favorite tv show, Psych! They had a slumber party on Friday where they played a few episodes from 1-7am. We got really excited about it and brought our bed into the front and tried staying up for it all. I'm pretty sure we only lasted till 3... I was surprised we lasted even that long!

Now it is President's day weekend and Scott doesn't have work! Wahoo! Well he did on Friday and Saturday night, but he got off early on Saturday so we were able to go to Trafalga and play some arcade games. It has been nice to go there with our Pass of All Passes. We love ours and use them often to play mini golf especially. Anyways, our plans for the rest of the day are to go to Wreck It Ralph since we still haven't seen it and possibly go to Texas Roadhouse. :-) This possibly could be our celebration for Valentine's day. 

The Year of 2012

I think we've had a pretty crazy, exciting, fun and beyond life changing year! This is what we've done in a nutshell in 2012:

January: Started out the New Year in San Diego and Caitlan ran the traditional 5k with the Hansen's for the first time.

February: We got engaged!!!

March: Started the madness of wedding planning. 

April: Caitlan got her Associates Degree from Snow College and Scott decided to go to AmeriTech in the fall to get his training to become a Dental Lab Technician (He wants to eventually own his own lab).  

May: Caitlan moved back to Provo and Scott started a second job at Vivint.

June: Caitlan had a bridal shower and then postponed our wedding (Now that was a crazy month!) 

July: Caitlan started a summer semester at UVU and went on my first camping trip with the Hansen's. Scott still was working hard working at the Museum on BYU's campus and at Vivint.

August: Choose the official wedding date, started my first "real" semester at UVU, moved about 3 different times and starting planning our wedding on my own with some help from amazing friends! 

September: Moved to our first married apartment

(No pictures yet, but will get some soon)

October: Caitlan went through the temple for the first time and got sealed (finally) in San Diego and spent our honeymoon in the most amazing resort part of the Wynn hotel in Vegas! 

 

(This was our view from our room!)

November: Had our open house in Vegas, Caitlan spent her first Thanksgiving with the Scott's family and went Black Friday Shopping for the first time (we got the best deals including Caitlan's first smartphone).

  

(The men working on the deep fried turkey. It was the first time Caitlan had it and she really liked it)

December: Celebrated both of our birthdays (were only a week apart) as newly-weds, Caitlan passed all of her classes with all of the crazy drama that was happening in her life throughout the semester (a pure miracle!), bought tickets for a cruise in the Western Caribbean for our "official" honeymoon, Caitlan had her first Christmas with the Hansen's and got really sick, and Caitlan went to Denise and Evan's sealing (wahoo Caitlan's first sealing she went to besides my our own!) while Scott had to work (He was able to go to their luncheon and reception though.

It was a pure miracle getting all of that done! We've been so blessed this year and have seen Christ hand in so many different ways! We cannot wait to see what adventures are ahead in our new life together! Bring on 2013!!!