Well, Dan and I went down to Lindon for the holiday weekend and as part of our Christmas presents from Dan's parents they took us cross country skiing. Dan has gone a few times and was very excited about it. I, on the other hand, have only been down hill skiing twice in my life and snowboarding a ton. And let me tell you... cross country skiing is nothing like snowboarding and at least from what I remember not very much like downhill skiing. But it was fun! Matthew got a bright idea to take Wendy up on one of the hard runs her first time. It wasn't bad honestly, I struggled trying to figure out the motion but after a while I got it figured out. And I really did have fun. However, I can tell you that my knees were a little mad at me for part of it because they just didn't like being bent the way they were. But I did find I enjoyed going on the easier trails a lot more. I also did a lot better when I was using the tracks because they force your skis to stay straight, which made my knees a lot happier than when they were being bent in random directions.
I think my favorite part of the whole day was I was going with Karl and Gwen (Dan's parents) on a run while Matthew and Dan went a different direction. And Karl is about as good as I was at this whole cross country skiing deal. Well, he was in front of me and he was using the tracks as well. We started to go downhill at a section of the trail and he was going along quite well and I was following a good distance behind but you pick up pretty good speed considering. Karl loses balance and falls down and is right in the tracks and I'm coming down at a decent speed going "Karl you better move quick or it's going to be a disaster!" Well luckily I got myself slowed down enough and he got out of the way before I got there but it was close. Too bad Karl actually hurt is ribs a little on that fall.
Overall, its been a great weekend! I've loved spending time with Dan's family and its really fun to have a little brother now!
On a completely different note, the first week of school went well. Dan and I seem to both like our classes, which is excited! We also are working on getting into a more set routine which is really nice.
And finally, on another completely different note, a year ago today, Dan and I got married for the first time... playing LIFE. A group of friends got together last year and we started the night out by playing Monopoly, then Pirates Life, and finally Life Twists and Turns. However, LIFE T&T only let's you play with 4 people. Well Dan and I had already played the game before so we decided we would just play together. Little did we realize that we were playing Life and we had the "Stop Get Married" part of the game. We all ended up joking around about how we got married! After that, anytime we played the game Dan and I were a team and only one of us could actually play until we were married then we would play as a married couple and would take turns and everything! So now we will celebrate our first LIFE anniversary, almost two months after we got married in real life.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
New Semester
Welcome to a new semester! It should actually be a pretty good semester! Dan is taking, I think, 15 credits. I am taking 10. I decided Friday to add another class and get rid of a thesis credit! It should be pretty good really.
Today was the start of the new semester! It seems to be going pretty well so far, but I haven't attended my first class yet. It's not for another hour. But I'm really excited for this semester, all of my classes seem really interesting. And the best part, on at least Monday and Wednesday, I have an hour of free time right before class which I hopefully can spend reading for fun! I'm really excited for that! Anyways, just wanted to do a quick update before school and work gets our lives hectic!
To everyone who just started the semester, good luck! To all of you who are already done, way to be!
Today was the start of the new semester! It seems to be going pretty well so far, but I haven't attended my first class yet. It's not for another hour. But I'm really excited for this semester, all of my classes seem really interesting. And the best part, on at least Monday and Wednesday, I have an hour of free time right before class which I hopefully can spend reading for fun! I'm really excited for that! Anyways, just wanted to do a quick update before school and work gets our lives hectic!
To everyone who just started the semester, good luck! To all of you who are already done, way to be!
Monday, January 3, 2011
the beginning of a new beginning
Happy New Year's! Isn't is exciting! We are now on to 2011! It seems so crazy to me. Five years ago I was starting my second semester at college. Last year I was starting my last semester of my undergrad. This year I'm starting my second semester as a grad student, I have a husband, I have wonderful family, and Dan and I have a new car! And things couldn't get better. It amazes me every day when I wake up to realize how far I've come over the last few years since I've been out on my own. I feel like my life is really starting to change and I'm truly becoming a grown up. And it doesn't scare me nearly as much as I thought it would.
Dan and I have been talking about some of our goals for the next while and what we are going to accomplish. I think its important to share your goals with other people so they can help you achieve them. So here goes:
-Get in better shape. (Which includes getting lower BMIs for both of us.) We are already putting good use to our Wii Fit but we're gonna step it up.
-Do better in school this semester. Not that we did that bad last semester, but I know both of us could have done better than we did.
-Finish reading the Book of Mormon together. We're really close so we just need to finish it!
-Read the New Testament together.
-Pay off our new car ASAP! :-)
There are a few more but those are the most important ones right now. Now to make my blog a little more interesting than a bunch of words, I'll add some pictures!
Dan and I have been talking about some of our goals for the next while and what we are going to accomplish. I think its important to share your goals with other people so they can help you achieve them. So here goes:
-Get in better shape. (Which includes getting lower BMIs for both of us.) We are already putting good use to our Wii Fit but we're gonna step it up.
-Do better in school this semester. Not that we did that bad last semester, but I know both of us could have done better than we did.
-Finish reading the Book of Mormon together. We're really close so we just need to finish it!
-Read the New Testament together.
-Pay off our new car ASAP! :-)
There are a few more but those are the most important ones right now. Now to make my blog a little more interesting than a bunch of words, I'll add some pictures!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
Merry (Late) Christmas!
It was a wonderful time! Dan and I got to go to Rupert for Christmas this year and it was a lot of fun. We got to make gingerbread houses from scratch, sugar cookies, play awesome games like telestrations, and just have fun with family.
We had so much fun helping with Christmas fun. I think one of my favorite things that we did was make the gingerbread houses and the cookies. Hannah, our cute little niece, was such a helper! She helped me roll it out, cut out cookie shapes, and anything we would let her do! It was really cute. We also helped her and Carson decorate sugar cookies for Santa. I sure hope Santa likes a LOT of sprinkles! :-D But it was fun.
On Christmas morning, my favorite part, was waking up to Dan! That was one of the best presents ever! But something really exciting was what we got for Christmas! We got books! And lots of them! We got books from Dan's parents, and books from each other. And we even got books from my parents, sort of. "Santa" got us both our own Kindle for Christmas which means we got even more books for Christmas. (If anyone knows of any great accessories for Kindles let us know!) Dan also got seasons two and three of Big Bang Theory, one of our FAVORITE TV shows! And also the game Qwirkle! I got an awesome murder mystery dinner game, which we are excited to use sometime, and some color changing fingernail polish from Del Sol which I'm SO excited to use! (Little did Kathryn know that I used some of the color changing polish on Dan this spring! hehe)
Other exciting news... WE BOUGHT A CAR!!!! Dan and I have officially bought our first car together! We have been having car problems lately and had been seriously considering buying a car. Well, we did! We bought a 2010 Pontiac G6 in Black! We're very excited and thankful to be able to do that right now.
Anyways, I hope you all have had a fabulous holiday and that the new year brings you lots of joy and fun!
It was a wonderful time! Dan and I got to go to Rupert for Christmas this year and it was a lot of fun. We got to make gingerbread houses from scratch, sugar cookies, play awesome games like telestrations, and just have fun with family.
We had so much fun helping with Christmas fun. I think one of my favorite things that we did was make the gingerbread houses and the cookies. Hannah, our cute little niece, was such a helper! She helped me roll it out, cut out cookie shapes, and anything we would let her do! It was really cute. We also helped her and Carson decorate sugar cookies for Santa. I sure hope Santa likes a LOT of sprinkles! :-D But it was fun.
On Christmas morning, my favorite part, was waking up to Dan! That was one of the best presents ever! But something really exciting was what we got for Christmas! We got books! And lots of them! We got books from Dan's parents, and books from each other. And we even got books from my parents, sort of. "Santa" got us both our own Kindle for Christmas which means we got even more books for Christmas. (If anyone knows of any great accessories for Kindles let us know!) Dan also got seasons two and three of Big Bang Theory, one of our FAVORITE TV shows! And also the game Qwirkle! I got an awesome murder mystery dinner game, which we are excited to use sometime, and some color changing fingernail polish from Del Sol which I'm SO excited to use! (Little did Kathryn know that I used some of the color changing polish on Dan this spring! hehe)
Other exciting news... WE BOUGHT A CAR!!!! Dan and I have officially bought our first car together! We have been having car problems lately and had been seriously considering buying a car. Well, we did! We bought a 2010 Pontiac G6 in Black! We're very excited and thankful to be able to do that right now.
Anyways, I hope you all have had a fabulous holiday and that the new year brings you lots of joy and fun!
Friday, November 26, 2010
The First Week
Married life is AWESOME!!
Just saying...
But anyways, our wedding was fantastic! It really couldn't have been any better! (well, I'm sure some of our loved ones that couldn't make it would have made it better but we totally understand!) The weather was perfect! It was overcast, and around 45-50 degrees outside! (Which was a little chilly for some people, but being in a wedding dress, it was perfect for me!) But our ceremony was great too! The sealer was fantastic, and ironically, he is in our stake leadership in our new ward! We had a run in with him before the wedding when we were trying to find a place for the luncheon. But the wedding was great! The luncheon afterward was amazing too! A bunch of Dan's family all made different soups and we had a soup bar. I had the clam chowder and it was DELICIOUS! But there was also a chicken noodle, a corn chowder, a sausage and lentil soup, a split pea soup, taco soup, and a bean soup. From what I hear, they were all delicious too! After the luncheon, Dan and I went and stayed at the Anniversary Inn in Logan in the Bridal Suite. When we were there, we watched The Prestige and ate fresh popcorn, we went on a walk through Merlin Olsen park and jumped in the piles of leaves throughout the walk, and we fell asleep in front of the fireplace in our room. It was such a great place to stay! We even got breakfast delivered to our door! It was a yogurt parfait and a strudel for each of us. It was really rich but very good. The Anniversary Inn did a fantastic job and I would totally recommend it to anyone!
On Saturday, we drove up to Rupert for our reception. We left only a half an hour later than we meant to, however, when we were driving, we got stuck in a mountain pass for an extra half hour making us a full hour late. But while we were running around trying to get everything together for the reception and get ready, we still had plenty of time to get everything done. The church was decorated beautifully! It was amazing! And we got the photobooth set up and it was just everything I was wanting it to be! It worked out SOO well! The food was great too! We had mini grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, popcorn chicken and shrimp, meatballs, and buffalo chicken. We got to try everything before people started showing up and it was great! We also had a cupcake buffet with eight different flavors of cupcakes. I, sadly, didn't get to try any of the cupcakes there but there were a few left over so we got one of almost every flavor.
The reception went really well. And we even got to have a dance! Our first dance was great, especially the part where Dan dipped me, I stepped on my dress and fell. (It apparently looked kind of like he dropped me, but he didn't at all, I just couldn't get back up because I was standing on my own dress.) But we got up with style and it was very us and very fun! The dancing was great too. We had some issues with the sound system but the DJ worked it out as best he could and it worked out fine! We had a fantastic time at our reception! It was a lot of fun and I couldn't have wished for a better time.
We stayed the night at the Fairfield Inn in Burley, which we had a hard time finding because of the fog. But we were so exhausted we pretty much laid down and fell immediately asleep. In the morning, we woke up and went out to my parents house to open presents. Everyone was VERY kind to us and are really helping us start out our new life together. We ended up staying the night in Rupert instead of driving back to Logan that night because of the weather. We watched the new Robin Hood with my parents and ate popcorn and licorice.
The next morning, we got up casually, packed up the car and drove to Logan. We must have left at the perfect time because we didn't have to deal with the storms that other people had. We spent most of Monday and all of Tuesday in our apartment watching movies, eating food, and trying to organize our house.
Wednesday, we went down to the Merkley's house for Thanksgiving. We've been playing games and spending time with family and sadly, working on homework some. Dan has a big project due Monday after Thanksgiving that he's been working on for part of the semester. And this morning, I convinced Dan that he wanted to get up to go Black Friday shopping! We started at Target and we actually got most of the things we were wanting. We even got our Christmas present from Santa today! Tonight, we are going to a play as a family, and in the morning to Harry Potter 7 part 1! And tomorrow night is our Open House for Lindon! It should be fantastic too! Overall, I have enjoyed being the newest member of the Merkley clan! I'm very thankful to have such a wonderful husband, family, and new family.
Daniel, I love you!
Just saying...
But anyways, our wedding was fantastic! It really couldn't have been any better! (well, I'm sure some of our loved ones that couldn't make it would have made it better but we totally understand!) The weather was perfect! It was overcast, and around 45-50 degrees outside! (Which was a little chilly for some people, but being in a wedding dress, it was perfect for me!) But our ceremony was great too! The sealer was fantastic, and ironically, he is in our stake leadership in our new ward! We had a run in with him before the wedding when we were trying to find a place for the luncheon. But the wedding was great! The luncheon afterward was amazing too! A bunch of Dan's family all made different soups and we had a soup bar. I had the clam chowder and it was DELICIOUS! But there was also a chicken noodle, a corn chowder, a sausage and lentil soup, a split pea soup, taco soup, and a bean soup. From what I hear, they were all delicious too! After the luncheon, Dan and I went and stayed at the Anniversary Inn in Logan in the Bridal Suite. When we were there, we watched The Prestige and ate fresh popcorn, we went on a walk through Merlin Olsen park and jumped in the piles of leaves throughout the walk, and we fell asleep in front of the fireplace in our room. It was such a great place to stay! We even got breakfast delivered to our door! It was a yogurt parfait and a strudel for each of us. It was really rich but very good. The Anniversary Inn did a fantastic job and I would totally recommend it to anyone!
On Saturday, we drove up to Rupert for our reception. We left only a half an hour later than we meant to, however, when we were driving, we got stuck in a mountain pass for an extra half hour making us a full hour late. But while we were running around trying to get everything together for the reception and get ready, we still had plenty of time to get everything done. The church was decorated beautifully! It was amazing! And we got the photobooth set up and it was just everything I was wanting it to be! It worked out SOO well! The food was great too! We had mini grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, popcorn chicken and shrimp, meatballs, and buffalo chicken. We got to try everything before people started showing up and it was great! We also had a cupcake buffet with eight different flavors of cupcakes. I, sadly, didn't get to try any of the cupcakes there but there were a few left over so we got one of almost every flavor.
The reception went really well. And we even got to have a dance! Our first dance was great, especially the part where Dan dipped me, I stepped on my dress and fell. (It apparently looked kind of like he dropped me, but he didn't at all, I just couldn't get back up because I was standing on my own dress.) But we got up with style and it was very us and very fun! The dancing was great too. We had some issues with the sound system but the DJ worked it out as best he could and it worked out fine! We had a fantastic time at our reception! It was a lot of fun and I couldn't have wished for a better time.
We stayed the night at the Fairfield Inn in Burley, which we had a hard time finding because of the fog. But we were so exhausted we pretty much laid down and fell immediately asleep. In the morning, we woke up and went out to my parents house to open presents. Everyone was VERY kind to us and are really helping us start out our new life together. We ended up staying the night in Rupert instead of driving back to Logan that night because of the weather. We watched the new Robin Hood with my parents and ate popcorn and licorice.
The next morning, we got up casually, packed up the car and drove to Logan. We must have left at the perfect time because we didn't have to deal with the storms that other people had. We spent most of Monday and all of Tuesday in our apartment watching movies, eating food, and trying to organize our house.
Wednesday, we went down to the Merkley's house for Thanksgiving. We've been playing games and spending time with family and sadly, working on homework some. Dan has a big project due Monday after Thanksgiving that he's been working on for part of the semester. And this morning, I convinced Dan that he wanted to get up to go Black Friday shopping! We started at Target and we actually got most of the things we were wanting. We even got our Christmas present from Santa today! Tonight, we are going to a play as a family, and in the morning to Harry Potter 7 part 1! And tomorrow night is our Open House for Lindon! It should be fantastic too! Overall, I have enjoyed being the newest member of the Merkley clan! I'm very thankful to have such a wonderful husband, family, and new family.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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