The year in review...

Of course we need some kind of New Year's post.  And why not?  This has been an extremely eventful year:

January

Devin took me snowboarding for the first time

and

we celebrated my grandma's 95th birthday!

February

We went to the Jane Austen preference "ball".   And, I got accepted to the Early Childhood Education program at BYU :)

March

We took Moab trip #1, so I could run my half marathon!

April (what didn't happen in April?)

Devin turned 25!

To celebrate, we went to the Hubble Space Craft 3D movie in Salt Lake, went bowling for the first time together,

and reminisced our first date of frozen yogurt...where Devin asked me to marry him!

He got a fiance for his birthday :) 

(Sorry, Devin things he looks rediculous in this picture, but if being excited makes you look rediculous, then it has to stay)

Later that month...

Devin graduated from BYU in Communications!  This also meant he had to say goodbye to working at the Student Activities Board with me. :(

May

Devin hopped on a plane to come visit me in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania, to make the 8 weeks of being apart not so hard.  

I took Devin to the beach (above), Rita's Water Ice...

Gave him his first exposure to the Amish...

 and to Philly (below) where we got our first parking ticket :(

June

Devin took a trip to France with his dad on business as his translator.

This is Devin at La Seine (above) and at the palace of King Louis XVI (below)

July

I finally joined him in the West and experienced my first time at the Snake River where his family often goes boating in the summer.

He hurt his knee, which became something to be careful of throughout the remainder of the year.

But thankfully, he was able to ride the banana boat :)

August

We spent about an entire week painting and fixing up our new apartment so that it'd be ready to come home to after our wedding.

Before and mid kitchen pictures

After of our room

We got married in the Bountiful Temple on August 14!

Then we took off on our honeymoon to Cocoa Beach, FL

and Disney World!

September

I started my first semester of the Early Childhood Education Program survived hiking Mt Timpanogas, which was actually Devin's 3rd and best time hiking it!

Since September we've been pretty good at blogging, so there's probably not any pictures you haven't seen, but in October we celebrated my 21st birthday, which is when we fell in love with Mimi's Cafe :)  For Halloween, we watched Arachnaphobia with our neighbors who share the same basement...we thought it would help us get over our fear of the spiders in our apartment. 

In November we did a lot of camping and became experts at tin foil dinners, not to mention our second trip of the year to Moab!  We also spent Thanksgiving in Denver, CO which was perfect timing because we were in dire need of getting out of Provo for a little bit.  Great time with family, great vacation!

December we took advantage of the small amount of space we had to decorate and how close we are to Salt Lake City to see the lights at temple square.  We also went to the Christmas Carol service at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.  This video is of a song that Devin and I loved, except we heard it being sung by a choir mostly full of young children and it was so angelic, not to mention the amazing acoustics of the cathedral.  We will hopefully be going back there again next year. 

We had a great Christmas in Idaho with Devin's family, having dinner and reinacting the Christmas story with cousins on Christmas Eve, presents :), sewing with the girls, going shooting, playing Wacky 6's, boggle, bananagrams, etc. and just spending time with family and NOT worrying about school/work. 

Our favorite movies of 2010:
Toy Story 3, Inception, Date Night, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Salt

 Not a whole lot more to tell except that we have grown to love our new ward, Devin continually got monthly bonuses for top performance at work and was made "room" leader with a pay raise.  I got straight A's fall semester and we only expect things to get better :)

We discovered that Devin, although he is not a student, can use BYU facilities for free, since he is my spouse.  So, as part of a New Year's resolution to be more active, we are excited to go to the gym and play tennis together on a regular basis! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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What we've been up to!

Well, this is all very long overdue but here is what we've been up to the past couple months, starting with most recent:
OCTOBER
Devin and I were a black and white TV for Halloween :)  We had a ward party where we got to give candy to some kids in the ward who were doing their first trick-or-treating and then we did a photo scavenger hunt to find spooky, halloween-y things. 

 (Instead of calling herself a princess, she calls herself a vitamin because she has princess vitamins, haha)

Here are two examples of our scavenger hunt:  getting a stranger to let you wrap them in toilet paper, and...

 something that is supposed to be scary that isn't.  I think my costume qualified for "something that isn't supposed to be scary but IS"

We also loved the little laterns that Marissa made and decided to make use of our own old mason jars:

I love Halloween, there were just so many things to do that we didn't quite get to but going to a haunted house was on our list and we happened to find one in Provo for $1 - a house of 6 guys transformed their house into a spookhouse with lots of people on duty for the scare and they were fantastic! Well worth a buck, even Devin got really spooked in one part where they had Sumara from The Ring walking creepily toward us!

I got to celebrate my birthday a little early when Devin's family came down and visited the weekend before Halloween.  They drove us up the Alpine Loop and good thing we did because there was snow up there just a couple days later and I'm sure all the beautiful colors dissappeared.

 Check out those sweet vegetables!! (above)

 Thank you to all the Harpers who contributed to this awesome list :)  Made my day!

 Devin's made me German pancakes for breakfast on my birthday even though he had to be at work at 8am!

 He got me the Harry Potter 6 dvd set, just in time to watch before the 7th comes out, and Elf, which he gave me when his parents came and said I couldn't watch it until it at least snowed because it's a Christmas movie...and then in snowed on my birthday so of course that was my first request :) He also got me a hiking pack so we can go on some fun trips together.  Big thanks to the Harpers for coming to spend time and celebrate with us!  I'm so excited to bring back the rusty sewing skills and put them to work! :)

 Devin knows how much I love pumpkin, so he busted out a birthday pumpkin pie while I was at my night class!  He's a great cook :) 

Earlier in the month we decided to make some caramel apples and take them up the canyon to eat and enjoy the pretty fall colors. 

 Sadly I let the caramel melt too long and they were hard as a rock but it was still a sweet treat and the scenery was beautiful.

SEPTEMBER

Well, as you all know, BYU hasn't been doing so hot this year but we are still faithful and have enjoyed having some great seats at the games!  Hopefully they'll only get better from here...

Hiking seemed to be the thing to do in September.  We took a hike up to Donut Falls in Big Cottonwood Canyon and then made a trip to the Utah State Fair where we saw lots of rednecks, a cow statue made of butter, and a sea lion show!

P.S. Snickers is our favorite hiking snack hands down.

 We also got to hike Mt. Timpanogos the first weekend in September with a bunch of Devin's friends.  We started at 11:00 p.m. and finally got to the top at about 6:45, just in time for sunrise.  Of course, we stopped at a little shelter on the way up for about 2 hours and tried to sleep but it was so cold.  The sunrise was completely worth it - I realized what compelled Devin to hike such a thing for a 3rd time. 

AUGUST

"We're goin' to the temple and we're gunna get ma-a-arried..."

We got married on Saturday, August 14th in the Bountiful UT temple.  Beautiful weather, wonderful company, great day :)  Here are some of our favorite photographs, perhaps with more to come - taken by Devin's wonderful sister.  http://www.photographybymarissa.com/

Then we took our honeymoon travels to Cocoa Beach, FL and Disney World!!

                                    We went to Ron Jon's Surf Shop and got paddle ball, so fun!

 Devin and I enjoyed some king crab from the "Lobster Shanty" where we ate out on this beach dock with a beautiful view

This grocery store gave us everything we needed, including a good laugh when we drove by and Devin thought it was called something else...

       Mini golf where we got eaten alive by mosquitos, but it's okay because mini golf on the coast is the best!

Complimentary breakfast...with Goofy!

                                          Only rained once...thank goodness for the ponchos :)

                                                                THIS was awesome

Tree of Life

                We just happened to be taking this right when they were finishing a stage show at the castle :)



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