I know, I have really been meaning to start a blog for my family and friends and mostly for our some day kids, but what can I say - life is crazy. Matthew and I are both in school with full time jobs and it can be a mad house somedays. I feel the worst about our poor apartment who takes the grunt of our labors. It is so clean on monday and by friday it is seriously a nightmare. BUT...we are happy and in love and on our way to successful and fun-filled lives together. We love BYU-Idaho, even the snow (most of the time) and I cannot imagine us anywhere else in our lives right now. Everything has worked out here so amazingly that we feel so blessed and dont want to go anywhere for a while. We are in love with our apartment (on clean days), our ward is truly an inspiration to us and shows us how we should be living, school is amazing...and did I mention cheap! We have the pleasure of teaching the Sunbeams together and it has been such an amazing learning experience for us: as a couple, what it takes to teach children, and a little taste of parenthood. Watching Matthew grow into this part-time father figure for our children has made me love him all the more. That is one of the first things he said he loved about me before we started dating, and now I see it in him and he was right. I LOVE that about him.
We met almost 3 years ago while he was on his mission. He served in South Carolina in my area while I was home from college on break before I transferred and came out here to BYU-Idaho. We really did not like each other when we first met, but that soon changed and as soon as I moved out here I started to write him. He came home the day after by 20th birthday and we started dating almost immediately. I went down to Utah for his homecoming and met his whole family which I instantly fell in love with. It was such a change for me since my entire family consists of 4 people and his is a whopping 16 just in his immediate family. We got engaged 8 months later on September 11th of all days and then got married for time and all eternity in the Manti, Utah Temple on November 20, 2010. I am so blessed to have him and his family in my life. I count my blessings for him everyday and feel so lucky to have in-laws that I truly love and care about and feel their love for me as well. It is almost our 2 year anniversary and I see so much more happiness coming our way than ever before. Sometimes I feel like we are just truly getting the hang of this whole marriage thing especially since our entire schedules change every 3 months, almost as quickly as the seasons change here in Idaho, but I know that as we are continually doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord for eachother and making our priorities in order with the gospel and what we need for our families, we are being blessed everyday and growing stronger together and individually. I am so thankful for Matthew and love him so much.
I have recently started a photography business for my entrepreneurship cluster classes and it has been so fun so far. I have no idea what I am doing and very little experience since I have not taken any of my photography classes yet, but I have loved experimenting with courageous people who let me put them in front of my lens. It has been a love/hate relationship with my editing software though. Everything I know, I love, but I also know there is so much I have yet to learn and look forward to figuring out all the fun tips and tricks that are out there to make my photos look professional and beautiful. I think it will be a great skill to have once Matthew and I start having lots of little ones running around as well as something that I really enjoy that I can turn into a career.
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