Jon graduated! I am so proud of him and all that he has accomplished. He is one of the hardest working men I know and I am pretty darn lucky to be married to him.
Jon definitely made a difference at Brigham Young University Idaho and I am confident that he will continue to make a difference in the world!
With finals and moving and everything that was going on, Jon's dad was nice enough to help us move in. He was planning on just helping us move into our apt. in Salt Lake, but Tuesday morning he decided to make the drive to Rexburg to be there when Jon received the Gordon B. Hinkley Communicator Award (another proud wife moment for me). I cannot tell you how grateful we were to have him there and for all of his help moving into our new apt. Thanks to him we were able to move in and get set up in record time.
Pictures of the new place will come later. :)
Moving to Salt Lake has been very bitter, sweet for Jon and I. Rexburg was pretty good to us over the years (after all, it is where we fell madly in love). Over the past few months we have made some of THE best friends. When you are married it can be hard to find "couple friends" because the wives have to like the wives and husbands have to like the husbands and there are just more needs that need to be met. That probably seems confusing, but if you are married then you know exactly what I mean.
We definitely scored in the "couple friends" area, which is great, but it makes it harder to move to a new place. Luckily we already have like three get-togethers planned.
You might be wondering where the actual graduation pictures are, but there aren't any. Because four days without seeing our friends feels like too long, so we decided to take a trip to Lander, WY instead. Snowmobiling and hanging with cool people totally beats a long graduation ceremony! Garrett's family is from Lander and they were brave enough to house all of us for a couple of days. Such a great family! While we were in Lander, the Irene's prepared a Crab Boil for us. I am not a big sea food person, but this was de-to-the-licious!
This picture doesn't do justice to the whole experience but it does do a good job of describing Tyler's personality. There were a few rules to this Crab Boil and one of them was that we could only use our hands. It was fun to just put our dippings on the table and eat everything with our fingers. I felt like a little kid again! I knew Jon was loving it when I could hear moaning next to me and had to dodge crab shrapnel flying from his side of the table.
On Friday we went snowmobiling! Prepare yourself for a lot of pictures. We had so much fun and I can't help but share it with you!
I know it looks like I'm a pro, but I was really just a snowboard transporter. I had never snowboarded in my life until that day and even then, most of the time I just hung out at the bottom of the hill with Hannah. She makes sitting in the snow fun!
When I finally did try to snow board I was almost instantly hooked. My first "run" (I say "run" because it was probably only a 50 yard ride) I stayed up the whole time and could not stop smiling. Don't make fun of my awkward form. It was first time and no one was there to give me tips.
The second time they took me up to the top of the hill on the snowmobile since climbing up took too much energy. The smile was gone pretty quickly when I face planted. Luckily it was fresh, soft powder so other than a freezing face, I was not in any pain and ready to get up and try again. It was a lot steeper this time and after a few tumbles I was still pretty set on learning how to snowboard. I'm hooked.
It's kind of funny how you can't tell what gender a person is when they are layered in thick, baggy clothing.
I love that our husbands are all such good friends. I just wish that baby Elle was feeling better so that Madeline could have joined us. She is such a great mom and sacrificed a day of snowmobiling with us to stay in Lander and take care of little Elle.
Isn't Jon a hottie? ;)
I know almost two years of marriage doesn't exactly qualify me to be giving marital advice, but if it did, I would strongly advise everyone to find good "couple friends" to hang out with. It makes all the difference in the world to have other people who are in a similar situation as you and who you can laugh with. I can't wait until Jan. 9th when our "couple friends" come visit us in Salt Lake (yes, I am counting down the days!)
I hope everyone is having fun with all of the holiday festivities. Merry Christmas to all!
LOVE THIS!! We miss you already!!
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