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!!!