Some Stats

Currently- Watching my 10-page paper (that I finished 5 min ago) come fresh off the printer

Time- 2:48 in the a.m.

Alarm set for- 6:30, also in the a.m.

Eating- a cookie... yep, at 3 in the morning
Loving- the fall colors on Wasatch Drive
Days until I see Dallin- 8
Listening to- The Hairspray soundtrack

Number of papers to write this weekend- 3

Weeks left until I move to Henderson (and graduate!)- 7 1/2

Liquids consumed today- 4 Diet Cokes
Daydreaming about- Sleep

Off to bed now.

Kiss me thru the phone

Had a hot date tonight.

My family is funny

"I used to like President Obama... now I am not so sure because he keeps coming on the TV during Desperate houswives!"

-Jackie 

"What does a 'Q' look like again? Sometimes I get it confused with 'J'. Wait... do you spell 'majestic' with a Q?

-Mom

"I need to find a job for the summer. I just don't want to work with food. or people. or have it involve any type of cleaning. and I don't want to work nights or weekends or really early. OH, and I don't want it to be boring."

-Maren

"I kind of want to throw all of the Kardashians off of a cliff."

-Dad

"Maren, you don't even need to bother watching conference...
you are already doomed."
-Mom

"You guys can't fool me, I know that rats don't exist... I don't believe in unicorns or rhinos either."
-Maren

1 year later

Dallin and I have been married for a whole year!

Does this mean that we are no longer newlyweds?

Things I have learned in the past year...

-Cooking doesn't necessarily run in the family

-"Prepared yellow mustard" is actually just regular mustard

-Applying to med school is a full time job for like 4 months

-It is possible to live for 5 days on $30

-We love lake Powell

-We also love Detroit, but for different reasons

-I am not that nice when I am hungry

-The only time that Dallin gets grumpy is when the Utes lose

-The avenues are not like Sandy... if you leave things visibly in your car, it WILL get broken into

-The Mitchells do not mess around when it comes to Disneyland

-Praying every night together does wonders for a marriage
-It is not always smart to mimic what the people on 'The Biggest Loser',
especially when they are doing handstands against the wall and you forget to put your hands down

-Dallin is still nice to me when I crash his car

-Our missionaries (Elder Outsen & Elder Mitchell) are rockstars

-Dallin's friends somehow never get sick of nicklemania-
me on the other hand...
-Living in a really old house causes it to flood more often

-Dallin likes to practice his accents ALL of the time...

he is currently working on his Indian one
-The army is cool

-Bon Jovi still rocks

-President Monson is a prophet of God

(that was more reiterated, not learned)

-Dallin can and will function on 3 of 4 hours of sleep per night for 5 days the week before a test
-There are some interesting people at the laundromat

-Having your wife as the ward choir directer gives you an automatic calling into the ward choir :)

-Even if I train for a half-marathon twice as much as Dal,
he will still beat me by a half hour

-Skydiving is awesome

-Las Vegas isn't that far

-Dallin could be entertained for weeks by only his Ipad

-End of Harry Potter=sad day

-22 credit hours + internship + 25 hour work week
 leaves little room for free time

-Being in med school also leaves little room for free time

-It is possible to watch an entire season of a TV show in one night...

namely 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Prison Break, and The Big Bang Theory

-We have 2 awesome awesome awesome families

-Living with your husband is 80058ejfn395 times better
 than not living with your husband
-Dallin is a sweetheart

First year of marriage in pictures...

And how did we celebrate?

By eating year old wedding cake,

Getting flowers(and a new digital camera!) from Dal,

and going the happiest place on earth!