the best

the best=valentines day

valentines day was a while ago, i'm a little behind on this blog, but

it was the best! I have the best husband EVER. He told me he was

planning a little surprise for valentines day so that i wouldn't make

any big purchases or plans. I was so excited! Well, he surprised me

with a little scavenger hunt around our house and it lead to our ihome

where my FAVORITE colbie caillat song was playing (probably the one

playing on your computer right now) and in front of it was a beautiful

rose and 2 tickets to the colbie caillat concert!!! Oh man oh man i was

SOO excited and SO happy. Eric is seriously the best-not because he got

me tickets to my favorite singer, but because of how much love he has

for me. He is too good!

and as for valentines DAY-we got a call that morning to meet with our stake president.

Eric got a new calling-so long ward indexing leaders hello 2nd counselor in the

bishopric! Wow we were surprised :) but it seems to be going great. We

have a wonderful bishop and a great ward and a BEAUTIFUL new church building

(no more meeting on campus!!!!)

Other than these updates life has just stayed very busy. Eric now has a job on campus

at the career/internship office. He works doing the resume critiques and mock interviews!

We are just truckin along and doing GREAT!

it's been a while

Wow it's been a while! Things have been pretty busy in our lives. We finished our first semester at BYU-I in December and we loved it! We are really liking it here. We are in a fabulous ward, have great friends, and live right next to the temple! The semester ended well-we both got a's in our classes, Eric got a scholarship because he is a genius (thanks BYU-I for the $1,000 smackers in our bank account :) After we finished our finals we drove down to American Fork to spend a few days with the Olson crew. We had so much fun with them! We love it when we get to visit. We had a certificate to the anniversary inn for a free night stay in ANY room so on the way to idaho we stopped in salt lake and used our pass. We stayed in a $350 dollar room and it was completely FREE!!! It was a gorgeous room with a view of salt lake and it came with free snacks :) it was really fun. We spent the rest of christmas break with my family. We went skiing a few times and just relaxed and prepared ourselves for the upcoming semester. Our car was loaded down when we were driving back to Rexburg. (Thanks moms and dads for a GREAT christmas) We started school on January 5 and have been studying away since. We did get to go to our friends, Skye and Flechers, sealing and reception last weekend-which was beautiful. School has been going really well-we are both busy and working hard but we are loving our classes. Some great news, i just got a part time job. We have been looking since the beginning of last semester and it has been a difficult run. We are both grateful that we will be having an income again. Other than these catch up things we haven't done much. We can't believe 8 months of marriage is behind us! We both agree that they have been the best 8 months of our lives and we are looking forward to eternity.

HALF A YEAR

where does time go? it has been 6 months from today 

that i promised him forever! Time FLIES! but i can say that it has been the best 

6 months of my life-FOR SURE :) love ya eric!!!

We would just like to say that we are...

SO SO SO excited for the christmas season! 

It's going to be so good to be around family, 

take a short break from school, and celebrate 

a very special time of year.

my poor eric...

eric hasn't been feeling very well for the past couple weeks. we moved in to our apartment in rexburg and it started getting worse. we went to the doctor and they told us it was a virus and that there really wasn't anything to do for it.  well today he was in lots of pain so we went back to the doctor (for the 4th time) and we found out he has mono.  :( i feel so bad! i am hoping and praying he gets better soon!

Fun Trip To Banff

We have been in Canada for a while now and we haven't got to go do or see very much.  This last sunday we planned a trip to Banff National Park (it's pretty much the yellowstone of Canada).  We rode with another technician, our boss, and a girl from the singles branch.  It was a long drive, but it was a lot of fun.  We left early enough to go to the branch in banff and still have time to drive around and see the different things there. It was a fun trip

the entrance to banff

hah, eric forgot his church shoes...

in front of the church we went to in banff...it kind of looked like a cabin on the outside and inside. It was tiny

we didn't know that the other 2 were staying in church for priesthood and relief society, so we had changed and we were waiting outside taking pictures of the flower eric picked for me

This is the Banff Springs Hotel-it was HUGE and it reminded me of a castle

we then drove to the other side, right beneath the hotel to see the falls and eat some lunch

at the falls 

eric HAD to have a picture with this guy... he had a funny name for him, something from Rocky and Bullwinkle i think? i don't remember...

eating some lunch... and trying to figure out the color effect on my camera

The next few pictures are from Lake Louise

This was probably my favorite place we went to

It was a really pretty place

We were waiting for the others to finish taking pictures and such so we started taking some pictures of ourselves...

  This is the "who can do the most forehead wrinkles" picture...i won 

the next few pictures are all from moraine lake

The view from the rock pile Eric climbed

from the top of the rock pile.

The water was SO blue from the glaciers

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