ONE YEAR.

This last year has been NOTHING like I expected it to be after getting married. It has been BETTER. Way better. Everyone always told us (they only told us this because Tyson likes to ask everyone we come in contact with questions and advice about marriage and families and babies and so forth) that the first year is the worst year. Its the hardest year. But they also said you never know its the worst year until you've got past it and are able to look back. Well..I must be in the inbetween stage. Because I cant remember a day where I thought "This is really hard" or "I hope it gets better" because it is better, its the best! Now dont get me wrong, we dont live this perfect life with the perfect marriage. Going from having your own space and your own life one day to sharing EVERYTHING with another person the next day is kind of hard. There have been many days where there are many tears (Mostly from me...okay only from me) for no reason at all and tyson gives me the same look each time that says 1.I dont understand why you are crying, nothing happened..you were just laughing 5 minutes ago. 2. I want to help you feel better but I dont know what to do or say so I will just rub your back instead. 3. You are crazy. 4. I am so confused, so I am going to let you have your space until you are done because this makes me uncomfortable. (Sorry i've turned into a crazy emotional wife tyson.) 

We have learned we both are messy people. There is no better word for it. ONE OF US (not saying who) might be a little more messy than the other one but what can you do. Bad combination.

We both hate to cook. So a lot of the time it results in us snacking on whatever we can find, which usually isnt anything good or healthy until we are sick and hate ourselves for it. 

We need a bigger bed. Thats all I have to say about that one. 

We know exactly what to do to push eachother over the edge. I've recently learned that Tyson doesnt like to get scared. At all. (Warning people) I learned this on accident a couple weeks ago when I was trying to be funny and scare him when he got out of the bathroom, and OH it worked. He didnt think it was as funny as i did. I have done it multiple times since then. The same thing. You'd think he would learn. :)

 Marriage is a funny thing, you're literally combining two people who are completely different in every way possible together. But somehow it works. And its wonderful. 

We celebrated our 1 year this last weekend and it was PERFECT. We went up to scottsdale and stayed at the Talking Stick Resort. We got an amazing room with beautiful views. 

The first night we checked in there was a thunder and lightening storm and we could see the whole thing from our bed. It was crazy outside! We forgot to close all the curtains that night so at 5:30 am the sun woke us up but it was a pleasant surprise. It was such a pretty view and the best sunrise ive ever seen! 

We decided to go to the pool that afternoon and okay first thing to know is they have 2 pools. 1 for the cool young people, and one for the kids/old people/I dont even know who else. So obviously we are cool and young so we went and it was packed, there was not one chair open to lay on and we were surrounded by hundreds of single drunk people. We soon realized that we are lame and belong in the other pool... We hung out there for a few hours and the entertainment there was a nice friendly pelican who decided to join everyone for a swim. We didnt think it was that big of a deal until like 50 managers and security people were showing up trying to capture it because they think it escaped from the zoo or the reservoir..apparently they arent native here. Anyways..we never will know what happened to that poor bird because I was too thirsty to wait and watch outside for it any longer.

We spent the rest of the day relaxing and eating at the casinos buffet they had downstairs. That night another thunder and lightening storm rolled in right in our view and it was perfect. 

I couldnt have asked for a better weekend or a better husband. :)

"Would it be bad if I told you I loved you?"

This story is one I want to remember forever.

It was almost exactly a year ago today. I had just met Tyson a few months back and already liked him a little too much...he had just quit his job because he was planning on moving to Logan in the next couple weeks for school and karter invited him to work at a fair with him for a couple days to make some extra money. The fair was up in Tacoma (so only a few hours away from Vancouver) and I'm pretty sure it was only 3 days. Well...3 days too long for me.

My best friend Melanie was dating karter and we decided to drive up to Tacoma the first night and surprise them at the fair. We planned it so we would get there at the end of the night and then they would be able to leave with us.

We got to the fair and had to sneak in the back because we were not going to pay 10 dollars to get in when the fair was closing in 10 minutes..

We found them and Tyson was working at a baseball booth..they hadn't seen us yet but I looked at him and that was the moment I KNEW I wanted to marry him. We hadn't seriously talked about marriage yet, just joking around mostly about our perfect future we would have together and all the fun things we would do. I hadn't had that strong of a feeling before about him and to KNOW we were supposed to get married. I can't explain the feeling when I saw him that night but I'm sure other married couples can relate to me when they knew they were going to marry their husband/wife. It's pretty crazy.

So later that night the four of us went to Denny's for something to eat, I think because that was the only thing open. Before we went in Tyson and I were sitting out in the parking lot talking. I can't remember how the conversation let up to this but he told me that the last time he had gone to the temple he had seen us there together :) I can't remember how I reacted but I'm pretty sure I was freaking out (in my head of course) because of what I had felt earlier that night and then he tells me that! We had only known eachother a couple months! We couldn't already know we wanted to be married? Right....? Wrong. We were right.

Later that night we all sat in a scary parking lot close to the ghetto motel they were staying at, talking and laughing.

Tyson and I went outside with some blankets and sat on the sidewalk and talked some more. It was there when he asked me "Would it be bad if I told you I loved you?" It was perfect. Everything was perfect. I didn't care that we were in the middle of the ghetto with drug deals going on around us, or gun shots that I swear I heard to this day. Or that it was 3 in the morning and he could have been so tired he didn't know what he was saying. It was still perfect.

I'm so thankful that we are married now and have been for almost 9 wonderful months. Im amazed how much we have learned from eachother and how much we have grown. I'm so happy that I still get just as excited to see him each night after a long day of work. I don't know if this is how marriage feels forever, but I'm going to do my best each day to make sure it does. :)

Life lately. :)

When I started this blog a while ago, I thought that I would be the kind of person who writes stuff in it a couple times a week and had all these cool stories to share. 

Well, that obviously didn't happen. I keep forgetting to post stuff on here..so here are some pictures from what we've been doing these last couple months:)

A while back we went hiking in Phoenix. After that day we decided we both really liked it and wanted to make this a regular thing, we've still never gone back...BUT we will.

Over thanksgiving break we went to Utah and stayed with Tyson's family and sadly didn't take any pictures BUT on our drive home we stopped at the Hoover Dam in Vegas. We always drive by it (because we drive to Vegas more then most people should ever have to) but never stop. So this time we did!

That's me down there.

On our way back to the car we rode in the elevator with polygamists. Real ones. And I was trying to take a picture for proof but Tyson said I was being rude. (It's not like they would ever know) so here is my attempt. We were 'taking a picture of ourselves' and they were in the background. Sadly we turned out a little better then they did, but they are back there.

We went up to Vegas the weekend before Christmas and spent time with Tyson's family. We went to the Boise St game there and it was FREEZING, even during the day but it was super fun!

So Tyson worked for UPS for a couple weeks and this was his SUPER CUTE OUTFIT :)

Our little Christmas tree and Christmas Eve PJ's from Tyson's parents :)

Tyson and his new gun that he loves so much because now instead of keeping JUST a hammer by the bed for protection, we have a gun now too:)

Mesa Temple lights:)

So Christmas morning I had a little surprise for Tyson..we had already opened up all of our presents and I told him I had one last one for him to open. It was a pregnancy test that Monica (who is pregnant) had peed on the night before. So I wrapped it up and had him open it. His reaction was priceless. I only lasted about a minute before I told him it was a joke, but it was worth it! Just in case that wasn't clear to someone I'M NOT PREGNANT. :)

Oakley and Raleigh with diapers on their heads. They wanted to be Pilgrims...hahaha.

That's all.