My Lovelies

The best thing about being married is waking up to this everyday.

The second best thing was inheriting 2 nieces and 3 nephews.

I am basically obsessed with every one of them.

If only they lived closer.

Love Month

February started out with the passing of Dallin's sweet grandma. She (along with the rest of the Mitchell family) have always made me feel so welcome. We have spent a lot of time recently talking about all of the memories that Dallin has of her, and all that she has taught him. The funeral was inspiring. Dallin's dad talked about how Grandma Barbara will still be taking care of her posterity by watching over all the unborn children. Dallin and I like to think that she is taking good care of our future children. 

My sister-in-law and I went straight from the funeral to California for a week to babysit Dallin's cousin's 3 {ridiculously adorable} children while they went on a cruise. They were so fun. I didn't think that it was possible, but I am even more baby hungry than I was before. I would love to life in California one day... it is beautiful. Plus, we got to have a beach day in February!

I got home just in time for Valentine's day, aka day of Dallin's root canal. So romantic. $1,300 later, Dallin no longer needs to live on Ibuprofen in order to not rip his tooth out. We spent dinner that night with some of our friends. This is my 3rd Valentine's Day with Dallin as my Dallintine. Having a perma-valentine rocks, especially when he spoils me. 

Year 1 

Year 2

Year 3

I am getting used to Henderson and am starting to feel like I have a life here. It is perrrrfect running weather, and I am going to start subbing soon. Dallin is still having an affair with med school-- but he still finds time to hang out with me sometimes :)

Facetiming with my family was just not cutting it, so we made a trip to Salt Lake over the long weekend. It was sososo fun. Right after we got there we went with my entire family to drive by my sister's crushes... with my dad driving. Saturday we went up snowboarding with Maren and Jackie. It was perfect! We wish we could go up more often. We spent the rest of the weekend exploring the new downtown Harmon's (which is SWEET, by the way), playing telestrations, seeing friends, eating Cafe Rio, and getting pedicures. I also found out that Dallin it pretty good at nail painting; it must be the steady hand... maybe he should be a surgeon. Favorite quote of the trip-- mom: "I had a huge crush on my gynecologist, that's why we had Jackie!"

We are currently looking forward to: 

-Elder Outsen coming home in March

-Elder Mitchell coming home in April

-CABO (!!!) for 2 weeks in May

Not really cut out for this thing

This unemployment thing, that is...

I feel like I have always thought, "Oh, what I would do with some more time!" Tell you what... I have a lot of time on my hands these days, and I am pretty sure I have not been doing with it what I had planned. I am used to being real busy, so this whole not-being-real-busy thing is sort of throwing me for a loop. Good news-- 2 interviews next week!

{Other than the unemployed and being a waste of space thing} I love Henderson! I have been spending my days running to cool parks, learning to cook, watching 20/20 episodes, watching Dallin study, and reading.

Lauren and Zane came to visit last weekend! They are my favorite. We took them to Red Rock and Hoover Dam... dam jokes are funny. 

Alsoooooo, Dallin had birthday today! Our budget kept me from spoiling him like I would have liked, but we had a nice weekend anyway. We have more leftover cake than anyone will ever know what to do with. 

Hoover Dam

Red Rock 

Climbing-- I love them

Henderson sunsets are my favorite

Glad this guy was born 27 years ago

Henderson in Review

     It has now been a whole month since I moved to Nevada, but I have only been here for a total of like 8 days. I first got here right in the middle of Dallin's first week of finals as a med student, so I only saw him between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. Luckily I had a lot of visitors. Jackie came for the weekend and helped me move all of my stuff in and decorate for Christmas. My sister-in-law and her cute baby came for a couple of days after she left, then I got to spend 3 days babysitting this cutie.

     Our apartment looked nice and festive because of my grandpa, who made us this awesome tree.

    We drove to Salt Lake the day after Dal took his last final. 

The first night we were there we went to see my favorite friend star in a play at the Draper Theater. 

She stole the show!

We also played games with my family, went to the Outsen family Christmas party,  saw the lights at temple square, went to a sing-a-long at the Delta Center, got to see all of my best friends, went to lunch with my Grandparents, and opened presents.

All of my sisters

Sing-a-long

Lunch with my grandparents

    I was rather dramatic when we left Salt Lake. This past semester was the last time that I would live close to my family for 12 years! 

Guess who took ZERO pictures of Christmas or New Years... whoops.

We had a superb Christmas in St. George. 

We spent our time seeing Santa, visiting Grandma Barbara, eating, skyping with Elder Mitchell and Elder Outsen, and hanging out with Dallin's neices and nephews.

For Christmas, Dallin got me a picture of Christ to hang in our house. I love it.
We went back to Vegas the day after Christmas because I got Dallin tickets to see Jerry Seinfeld live at the Colosseum. He was so funny! The guy that sat next to us asked me if I was embarrassed that Dallin was laughing so loud. We loved Jerry.

 

    We were back to St. George by the next day so that Dallin could watch his dad get surgery on his nose. Dallin thought it was so cool that he thinks he wants to be an ENT doctor now. It changes daily. We spent New Years in Pine Valley with a bunch of our friends.

    Dal headed back to school the next day, while I drove to Denver with Dallin's sister, her 4 kids, and my mother-in-law. We stopped in Salt Lake for a few days on our way there. My sisters had fun babysitting the kids while we visited Dallin's grandma in the hospital. I really lucked out in the in-law department.

On our way to Denver. The drive was MUCH prettier than my usual Salt Lake to Vegas drive.

I got home yesterday. Today is my first day of job hunting... it is intimidating. I am now trying to remember why I was so excited to graduate from college. Dallin is studying his brains out, and I am happy to be here.