Our New Addition!

We have officially added a new addition to our family!....

a doggy!

We got her from the Davis County Animal Shelter on January 14. She's about 1 year old and close to 15 lbs total.

We started looking for a dog around Christmas time but didn't find any dogs that we both agreed on. When we started looking again, she was the first dog we saw and we fell in love instantly.

At the shelter she had the name "Treasure" but we renamed her "Posey..."

...After this guy. For any of you who know Mark, you know he's a HUGE San Francisco Giants fan. So... we named her after the Giants catcher (and NL Rookie of the Year) Buster Posey. Mark was hoping to get a boy dog so we could name him Buster, but we're so glad we ended up getting Posey!

Halloween!

Halloween in was one of my favorite holidays growing up, but unfortunately it doesn't really do anything for Mark. We didn't really have anything really planned this year, but we did have a little bit of fun.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the corn maze at Thanksgiving Point with Jeff and Dakota and Logan and Cami. It was really fun, and it was nice to get out and do something fun as married couples.

For Halloween I actually got Mark to dress up TWICE! We went to our ward's Trunk or Treat on Friday night since we teach the sunbeams and thought it would be fun to hand out candy. However, it didn't really end up being a "Trunk or Treat" afterall because they didn't even hand out candy like we thought they were going to. When we got home I finally decided to carve our pumpkin. I was hoping Mark would carve a pumpkin with me, but he didn't want to, and decided to go to bed while I was carving the pumpkin. I'm not the best at it, but I am definitely proud of my work!

Then on Saturday I got him to come to Walgreens to take a picture together in costume. I think it turned out pretty cute although he was trying to grab my butt.

James and Alecia came to hang out with us after I got off of work too. We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse then went back to our apartment to watch the World Series (of course...) and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. (We had 4! haha) After we were done watching sports we played a board game and by then were super tired and ready for bed.

On Halloween we went to church (exhausting!.. especially since all of the kids were probably loaded with candy!) Afterwards my parents and my grandma came over and we had pulled pork sandwiches. Then Mark and I watched the Giants game and went to bed!

Although Halloween wasn't what I was used to this year, it was kind of nice to just stay home and relax. (Even watching baseball!) I think it will be so much more fun after we have kids, and get to do all of that fun stuff again, but hopefully that won't be for a couple more years! :)

Mr. and Mrs.

Mark and I finally got hitched on July 31st. There's no turning back now! (says Mark) I can't believe it's been 2 months already! It's taken me almost a month to finish writing this blog post...
The day went by so fast I could hardly take it all in! We got married at 9:00 in the morning, so I had to wake up at 4:30 to get ready. I couldn't sleep because I was so excited and ended up only getting around 3 hours of sleep anyway.

It was so busy inside the temple I was glad we were there pretty early. The temple workers all kept trying to give me stuff that wasn't mine, and they even lost my dress bag afterwards! I can only imagine how hard it is to keep all of the brides straight!

Everything was so surreal; I couldn't believe that our wedding day came so fast!

After we were done taking pictures we went to the chapel where our reception was going to be held, and had a luncheon. It was pretty tasty and it was nice that we were able to socialize with everyone that decided to come.

After the luncheon, Mark had this "brilliant" idea to go the Maverik and see if the clerk would give us a free drink. (Imagine--me in my wedding dress, trying to hold it up off the sticky floors, and Mark in his tux--walking into the gas station to get a fountain drink.) Jeff came along in his tux, too, to supervise and document the event.

Our reception was from 6-9, and it was a blast! But by the time it was finally over, I felt like a zombie! I was so ready to just get out of there.. Mark took FOREVER to change out of his tux and I ended up having to wait even longer before we could leave.

I'm glad that we were able to celebrate our big day with all of our friends and family... I'm so excited for the many years to come.

Here are some of our favorite wedding pictures:

I wish I could share more with you, but there are just so many that I love!

Our First Place

This past week has been so busy I just feel like passing out on the couch! The good news is that I can now officially pass out on my own couch. Mark and I have started to move in to our apartment this week and it is so exciting--I can't wait to get all settled in!

Our apartment is in North Salt Lake which will be nice for Mark's early morning commute to Salt Lake City. Now he can wake up at 4:45 instead of 4:15!

Here's brief look at the outside..

We picked up our sectional on Tuesday which I was looking forward to all week--It actually looks live we have a living room now! When we picked we didn't realize that they gave us two pieces that didn't fit together. Luckily Mark and my brother-in-law Kodie realized this before they got both of the pieces up to our third-floor apartment. But it's so nice to finally have it!


We also went to Big Lots beforehand and bought some storage cabinets for all of our books and DVDs. (Mark had a ton!) Mark and I made a pretty good team putting the first one together. It was a little confusing and took FOREVER, but we managed to come up with a finished product.(picture coming soon!)

Here's a better look at the rest of the place:

Our Bedroom
Guest Bedroom
Kitchen
Guest Bathroom
Our Bathroom
Outside Deck
I know there's a lot of pictures in this post, but I am just so excited for our own place. I can't wait for you all to come and visit!