The Weekend Dan Became Old

This weekend was Dan's birthday and boy is he old. He turned the big 2-6. I really do love these two-ish months that I get to be married to a much older man. 

When I asked Dan what he wanted to do for his birthday he promptly responded, watch football, and watch football he did. 

Friday Dan went golfing with friends and that night, I took him out to dinner at Pizzeria 712, a delish local pizza place. Then it was on to the Chocolate where we went wild and got a piece of cake to go with our usual cazookie. Every good nights ends with a cazookie in my mind. 

Saturday morning Dan got to golf again. My parents got him a round of golf for his Bday, so he went with Jason and Dan Itri. They had a blast. After the golf was completed for the weekend, football watching commenced. Saturday was full of games. We went over to Dan and Kelsey's that night for the BYU game, homemade pizza, and a surprise golf course cupcake cake for Dan. Kelsey helped me make the cake and we had a lot of fun doing it.

This picture accurately describes our lives during football season...

Sunday, Dan's actual Bday, we went to church and watched football. We had friends over for dinner and more cupcakes. 

It was a weekend full of Golf, Football, and cupcakes. In Dan's world...perfection. 

I sure am grateful for my Dan and love celebrating another year of his life. He has accomplished an awful lot the past year, and has also faced trials with incredible faith. I am excited to spend year 26 with him!

Down on the Farm

Dan's Oma's birthday was a couple of weekends ago so we decided to make the drive to Idaho Falls with Nick and Kendall to visit her and help her celebrate the big 89!

Side note: Oma thought she was turning 88 until Aunt Sherry pointed out to her that she was in fact turning 89. To this she said, "Wow, that year sure flew by." Oma has some of the BEST one liners. 

Dan's uncle and aunt live in Aberdeen, just about 45 miles away from Idaho Falls, so we stayed with them. They have a farm so us city folk had a grand ole time getting down on the farm.

We DUG OUR OWN POTATOES (Kendall and I could NOT get over how cool that was), shot skeet (everyone else actually shot skeet, I shot AT skeet), and even ate some elk sausage. We are bonafide farm people now. I know I was converted. I mean, who wouldn't be with this view?

This little farm kitty followed us around everywhere, I loved it

We spent all day Saturday in Idaho Falls with Oma. She had no idea we were coming so it was fun to surprise her. We went to Olive Garden for her birthday lunch, surprised her with a cake and a rousing round of Happy Birthday, went on a walk, ate dinner with her dinner cards she has won at various games around the retirement home, and played an extremely competitive two hour game of dominoes. It was a really great day.

We also couldn't miss a chance to hit up Scotty's the local drive-in in Idaho Falls and the old stomping grounds of a teenage Carol Gould. They have delicious fries and shakes and we loved imaging Carol hanging out there with her friends.

We had a great weekend with Oma, Uncle Terry, Aunt Sherry, Sarah, and Jill. It is great to be around family and we had a blast!

Labor Day Hike

On Labor Day we decided to use our day off to appreciate some of Utah's beauty. We are only here a little while longer and still feel like there are several things we need to do before we leave. 

A hike to Stewart falls in Provo Canyon was on our list, so we packed our lunch and off we went! Dan and Kelsey decided to join us and it was a great time!

Can I just say that Utah is truly a beautiful place? Especially in the early stages of Fall....I die over the leaves changing.

We seriously live here!

Back to P-Town...again

Well, this is the third time Dan and I have moved back to Provo since we have been married. I won't even go into what number it is for me coming back total. I must say it feels good to be back. Provo seems to be our home base as a couple. We met, dated, and spent our first 4 months of married life here. We are comfortable here. 

We moved our stuff into our apartment last Saturday. We are living on campus and have no A/C which has been a bit rough. To say we have been hot would be an understatement, but we are troopers. In a few short weeks Fall will be in full swing and the days of  not wanting to cook dinner because the thought of turning the oven on makes you want to vomit and sweating in bed while trying to sleep will be a far distant memory...hopefully. 

We also do not have cable. We didn't have it for the summer in NYC also and I have grown to actually love the fact that our TV is never on. We have spent so much more time talking and doing other things together. I now see the huge distraction that the TV was in our lives. We have been going on more walks and spending a lot of time on the Provo Temple grounds. 

I do feel bad for Dan and his football however. Luckily we have great friends who let us crash their house to watch the games. 

We watched the first games of the season over at Dan and Kelsey's on Thursday. It just happened to be a back to back games with Carolina playing in the first game and BYU playing in the second, PERFECT! Both of our teams won so that was great. We cooked up a meal of sliders, mozzarella sticks, spinach and artichoke dip, fruit (b/c we are healthy like that), and dessert. It was so fun to be back with our friends. 

The Gould and Itri boys chowing down before the game!

Other than that School is back in and I am back at work. Life has gone back to normal. December is right around the corner and I smell a lot of changes for us then.