"I was right there beside him all summer long..."

I can't believe that summer is coming to an end! On Monday we will start our final semester at BYU. Todd has already applied for December graduation and he will be taking 15 credit hours and working this semester. I'm signed up for 20 credits (yikes!) including my internship at Utah County Health Department which will leave me with a couple online classes to finish before I officially graduate in April! We will both walk in April for graduation...so cute, I know! Haha, but seriously I cannot wait until we are graduated and some money can finally come rolling in. That is...until Todd goes to grad school which will probably be sometime next year. It has been a little bit stressfull with both of us going to school full time...all the time...but we have been able to take classes together every semester since we have been engaged including History, Humanities, D&C, New Testament, Accounting, Flexibility, English, and we will be taking Marketing Management this fall at 8 in the morning! I have the best study partner ever.

So I have a feeling that with both of us being so busy and with Todd's calling we are not going to see each other very much this semester! But we have done a lot of fun things this summer. We got to go to Priest Lake this year and spend time with my family! It rained every single day but it was still so fun just being with everybody. My least favorite part of the trip was riding in the car for 24+ hours in the backseat between my nephew Max and my sweatheart. Max liked bossing me around the whole trip..."Chris, get my waterbottle, get my shoes, get my color books, can I have a treat?" and so on. But Aaron and Todd made it bearable by reading the 6th Harry Potter book to us. After we got home from the lake we were invited to spend a day at Bear Lake with some of Todd's cousins which was so fun. Tomorrow is Todd's birthday and our last hurrah of summer! Mmmm...Tucanos here we come!!

Fiddle Chick

Recently I have been thinking that I really need to start practicing the fiddle again. I know, I'm a geek but its my hobby. This picture was taken over two and a half years ago when I was in a celtic ensemble at BYU for a semester. It was so much fun! I just think that my life is better when music is a part of it. I have had so many special memories playing music. I'm also going to try and convince Todd to learn an instrument because I think he would really enjoy it. I dug up these videos from forever ago...they aren't the best quality or anything but its just fun to remember when I was apart of the ensemble. And I guess our name was "Corn Beef and Cabbage"? I can't remember but that is a really silly name...oh well. The videos were taken by someone's dad so I'm not the center of attention or anything. I love celtic music! Now I just need to practice and get really good so that I can teach lessons someday. :-) The last clip is an awesome song called David's Jig by Natalie MacMaster. She is my hero.

Lately

So here are some random pictures we have taken lately. I guess the biggest news from us is that we moved to Orem and we love it. Now we are within 1 minutes drive from Hauni and Aaron and Max AND we have air conditioning. Its amazing.

Max snuggling with Sealy and watching Baby Einstein at our new place

Preston and Alisha just moved out of Orem! Sad day. We will miss them! Doesn't Preston look official in his new gear?

Christianne, Alisha, and Clara

We were also able to attend Todd's mission reunion last week. Todd loves his mission president and he was really excited for me to meet him.

Washington Trip and Will goes into the MTC

Near the end of June we were able to take a short trip to Washington to watch Will give his farewell talk. It was great to be with family and it was a neat experience to be there during his setting apart. He is now Elder Casper and is serving in North Carolina! He already seems like a different person. It is really fun to read all of his letters. We miss having him in Utah!

We did a session at the Salt Lake temple the day before he went into the MTC.

Will with Max in front of the MTC

Dropping him off!! See ya in two years Elder Casper! If you want to read his letters, check out eldercasper.blogspot.com.

Anniversary and Marathon

We celebrated our first anniversary on June 12. I can't believe it has already been over a year since we got married. Todd got me some beautiful flowers and surprised me with a picture book of our wedding day. He also took me out to a fancy dinner at The Roof on temple square. So romantic and fun! We loved eating there. It would have been perfect if we did not have to wake up at 3:50 a.m. the next morning to get ready to...

run a marathon! Yes, a MARATHON as in 26.2 miles. Todd and I started running in February to prepare for the Utah Valley Marathon. Hauni and Will also ran and we had a great time doing our long runs every saturday. Well...we all crossed the finish line and that is what matters. We were in pretty bad shape the next couple days! We couldn't move because we were so sore. It was a great experience though. Meg even made a trip to Utah to cheer us on. I don't think Todd or I will ever run that far again.

At Temple square on our anniversary

Wahoo! We did it! I loved training with you guys.

I'm so proud of my hubby! He did so great!

Brett and Amy's Wedding

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from our trip to California for Brett's wedding in May! It was so much fun spending time with the Holbrook family. Congrats Brett and Amy!

Eating lunch after Amy's endowment session. So good!!

The beautiful couple leaving the temple

Awww...

The Holbrook family!

The girlies

At the luncheon

Beautiful reception with beautiful view!

Dancing :-)