Anniversary

Brenden and I have been together for three years today! 

Just thought you should know.

Happy Halloween!

We realize this is a bit late but Brenden and I wanted to share some of our Halloween adventures.

The Saturday before Halloween we decided to finally cook some of the shrimp my mom brought up when she visited earlier in the month.  It had just been sitting in my freezer waiting for us to have enough time to actually cook a real dinner.  One of my roommates was thoroughly disgusted when she realized Brenden and I had to peel the shrimp (which still had the heads on them!).  She's never had shrimp so she didn't realize it was totally and completely worth it.  Oh the joys of preparing seafood.  We snapped some pictures to share.  And this is how you know Brenden and I are complete weirdos, when we share pictures like this:

We actually took a few others with shrimp brains in the sink but we realized those would probably make people throw up so we decided not to share those.  Who knows?  The above picture may have been enough to make someone sick and our efforts were in vain anyway.

We went to the Ballet West performance of Carmina Burana and the Four Temperaments later that evening.  We didn't enjoy it as much as we'd hoped we would.  Oh well.  It was still an enjoyable evening.

On Halloween, Brenden and I got dressed up:

And we lit a candle we bought back in September for Halloween:

It's a little crazy (and sad) how busy we've been.  But that evening we were able to go to the Courtyard at Jamestown and sing to the residents there with a group of volunteers.  It was incredibly enjoyable and all of the residents really appreciated us being there. 

Anyway, that was our Halloween!  Hope yours was good too!  :)

I Want This

I watched this video in my Adult Development and Aging in the Family class today and knew I had to share it. You can see this couple's enthusiasm for life and each other in this video. I love this so much.

This is one of the things I'm most looking forward to in marrying Brenden: a long, happy marriage with someone I can be goofy with.

A Picture a Day

I just had this fun idea to take a picture every day of mine and Brenden's first year of marriage.  I've been wanting to do this picture a day project for quite awhile now and even started in 2009 but then failed.  Maybe I'll have enough motivation this time because it will actually be more meaningful than just snapping random pictures to document my year.  It will be our first year together!
 
Our wedding day is less than two months away!  This also means this fall semester is quickly coming to a close.  There is so much to do!

This was taken at a session of October General Conference.  This boy is so cute.

 

Hello Friends

Well here's the news!

We took engagement pictures yesterday and it was fun Fun FUN!

Actually it was great. We took some casual-ish pictures in Springfieldvilleland and then went to the hilly forests for a more formal shooting. And then we threw on our amazing sweaters FTW. My sweater bore two rampant moose upon a field of green and Natalie had some lovely snowflakes.

After the photoshoot we were insanely thirsty so we made a stop at Sonic. It was the best Sonic experience ever.

Then we went to a concert in SLC - the Yellowjackets @ the Sheraton. We sat in the front by the speakers and I temporarily lost a little hearing in my right ear. But it was totally worth it. These guys were all monsters. I highly recommend this concert series.

Also Natalie purchased her wedding dress last weekend. We can't post any pictures of that here though, because I'm not supposed to see her in her wedding dress until the day before the wedding when we take pictures. If you'd like to see the dress, email Natalie.

~Brenden