One Year Anniversary!!!

For our Anniversary Dustin and I went up to our cabin at Fishlake.  When we got there on Friday there was no snow.  Saturday we woke up to about half a foot. So to make sure we didn't get snowed in we moved the car to a street that gets plowed which thankfully we did because it snowed and snowed and snowed!!! We got between 2 and a half to 3 feet. So much snow! Perfect for sledding :)  We felt like little kids all dressed up in our snow clothes pulling our purple sled all around trying to find great places to sled.

Dustin dies laughing every time he sees this picture because when he is snow skating he gets all into it and looks like he is having fun, but from my body language it looks like I am bored ha.  I am actually having fun but there is definitely a difference in the way we look on the snow skate haha.

The Batman Snuggie Dustin bought me for Christmas :)

Since we moved our car to the street we had to hike everything from the cabin up to the road.  Took forever and was so hard!! This picture shows when we finally got to a road, but before this road we were carrying like 5 bags at a time trekking through snow that was to our waists.  I almost gave up a couple of times ha. 

 Happy Anniversary babe I love you!! Thank you for the best year of my life!

New Years!!

Christmas!!!!

Christmas was perfect this year.  It was our first Christmas married and we could not have asked for a better day.  We slept at the Grahams with the rest of the Graham clan.  I believe there was 19 of us that slept there ha we were all over the place. 

Isn't baby Bodie the cutest baby ever.  Look at that hair!

Natalie and Chris

We had so much fun with the Grahams.  We all got to go to Church together although all the adults were falling asleep in Sacrament meeting because we didn't sleep much! After Church we went to my parents house and we didn't take any pictures!!!! My little brother who is in Lubbock, TX on his mission called us and we got so caught up talking to him that our Christmas didn't necessarily go as planned. But that's okay!! Because we got to talk to him and he is doing so good.  So Mom, Dad, Dustin, and Collin we love you so much.  We are so lucky to have such an amazing family.

Christmas Sweater Party

Every year Dustin's friend Tanner Camp throws a Christmas sweater party.  We look forward to it every year because it is so much fun.  Except we always play this awful game called grievances. It is pretty much a game of public humiliation.  We sit around in a circle and people go around and tell all the things that bug them about anybody in the circle.  I thought it would just be funny but you soon come to realize it turns serious as people really do bring up past arguments.  Like I said AWFUL.

Temple Square

 

Because we were too busy planning our wedding last year we never made it up to Temple Square to see the lights, It made our Christmas feel incomplete so we promised this year we would go up.  What was even better was that we happened to go up on the night of the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert and even though we weren't lucky enough to get tickets they broadcast it in the Tabernacle so we got to watch it. Not as good as live, but still awesome.

Gettysburg

While I was working in Maryland Dustin, Steve, Braxton, and Marissa went to Gettysburg. 

Washington D.C.

National Archives! Where Dustin got in trouble for sneaking pictures of the Bill of Right ha.

Ford's Theater where President Lincoln was assassinated.

National Treasury

Gorgeous Building! Dwight D. Eisenhower offices next to the White House

The White House

Washington Monument

Lincoln Memorial

At the Lincoln Memorial there was an awesome view of the Washington Monument.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Halloween!!!!

I was out of town for our ward Halloween Party so luckily my father-in-law is a bishop of a student married ward so we went to theirs!! 

Lucky for me my husband could not have better parents.  I love Mark and Janeen so much.  We had a blast with them and we are thankful our families live so close so that we get to see them a lot.

Nauvoo

As a last hoorah before Dustin and I came home we went to Nauvoo with Janel and Kyle and their family.  It was an amazing experience.  We had so much fun seeing and learning where the early saints of the church went through so much.  It made the history of the church feel more real and close to us. 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Sox vs. Royals

Dustin and I went to our first major league baseball game when we were in Missouri.  We went with my sister and brother-in-law Janel and Kyle and their 3 kids.  It was a blast!! And I learned all the rules of baseball finally!! I have always heard people say, "top of the 9th" and I had no clue what it meant.  It amazes me how guys know the rules to every sport!! Dustin plays soccer so I figured that would be the only sport he knew backwards and forwards but nope he knows them all!!  

Kansas' Underground Salt Mine

The Salt Museum was amazing!!! It was so huge!!

Since the salt mine is 650 feet underground it is tornado proof, hurricane proof, bomb proof, and safe from almost everything! It also stays at a perfect 68 degrees so after World War II John F. Kennedy turned it into our country's  personal safety deposit box where he kept our nations most important documents.  Then the movie industry started using it to keep the props safe from like every movie ever made since 1920. And now they hold stuff from every state and most countries.  It is very hush hush though even the workers have no clue to the extent of what is stored in the underground vault storage..  But we got to see a few awesome props that were on display.

Yes that is Brad Pitt's shield from Troy

I of course LOVED seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze costume from Batman & Robin.

And George Clooney's Batman suit!

And the snow man from Jack Frost :)