Going Golfing!

Saturday Marshall and I drove to Provo to snag John and Mindy for an afternoon of golf. I have been working at Thanksgiving Point for over a year now and I thought it was time we took advantage of my employee discount and checked out the golf course. Marshall was pretty excited since he hasn't had much time for golf this summer and Fall is fast approaching.

John and Marshall on the practice green.

Marshall all set to go, waiting patiently for the Starter to give us the "OK".

John's first swing!

Landed here!

Marshall's second ball (He was trying to make John feel better about his)! Those are deer droppings nearby in case you were curious!

John and Marshall regrouping.

We would like to take a moment to remember the snake that tragically lost it's life to Mindy behind the wheel of a golf cart.

The course was beautiful and John and Marshall did pretty well despite a rough start. In case it wasn't clear earlier, I did not golf. I provided emotional support and the discount. We had a great time but only made it nine holes before we had to feed our hungry tummies. We spent the rest of the night eating mix-in shakes from JCW and watching The Office. All in all a pretty good Saturday night if I do say so myself!

Point me in the direction of Albuquerque!

Last week I visited some of my favorite people in the Land of Enchantment!

The main purpose of my trip was to celebrate another wonderful year in the life of Kelley, but while I was there I also managed to visit some other close friends as well as eat a healthy portion of green chili every day! Here are a few pictures from my trip.

This was Kelley's Birthday dinner, Tuesday night. We went to this delicious Italian restaurant in Uptown called Bravo. It was tons of fun to meet some of her friends from Law school and her ward.

The Sunday before, we spent the afternoon with Kelley's family. We had a yummy dinner of steak and potatoes, sang and she opened presents.

The day before that, we spent the afternoon getting massages and pedicures followed by some delicious Dion's subs.

And the night before that, we had a fantastic dinner of authentic New Mexican food in Old Town Albuquerque with some of Kelley's girlfriends.

Yep, that's pretty much how it goes. It's hard not to eat the whole time I am in town when I am not sure when I will get the chance to come back.

Here are some pictures from our Sunday afternoon drive to see the temple.

This is not a great picture of us but it was the only one where we got some of the temple in the background. There weren't any people around to take a wider shot.

For some reason we couldn't capture the sunset in a regular photo, but we discovered it showed up pretty well in the reflection of the front doors.

On Tuesday morning I had a chance to officially visit the beautiful Albuquerque Temple! It was a wonderful morning filled with the spirit. It was my first time visiting that temple and I was blessed to get to spend a portion of my time there with Hazel Hartman a close family friend. When I walked in and saw her, I immediately felt an overwhelming feeling of love and happiness. My experiences in the temple that morning will definitely always be memories I will keep close to my heart.

After the temple we met up with Joe and had lunch. I even managed to get some green chili on my hamburger!

I had a wonderful time in New Mexico and can't wait to go back!

What's that smell?

When we first started our blog we thought we would go back over the last year and hit some highlights in back posts, however, this one was too funny to wait to share.

We recently celebrated our one year anniversary. Because we had a trip to Texas to visit my family planned for the time of our exact anniversary, Marshall surprised me with a weekend away just before. We knew we wouldn't be able to take our wedding cake with us and partake on the day as is tradition, so we decided to hold off until we returned home and take our chances on jinxing ourselves. We have been home for just over a month now and still haven't gotten to the cake.

On a completely unrelated subject, (or so we thought), our kitchen has been smelling a little ripe lately. This is totally unacceptable. So Marshall took out the trash and washed out the can with bleach and we tossed some expired leftovers from the fridge and ran the garbage disposal with soap. A few days later the kitchen is still a little stale. This is not OK with me so after another thorough sweep of the fridge and a few candles I was starting to get frustrated. Marshall came home last night and pointed out that our mystery smell was strangely similar to the mystery taste of our ice. A little back story... Not too long after we moved in we noticed our ice had a musty taste and smell. We assumed it was due to a bad waterline to our refridgerator or a lack of filter and didn't think much of it. We don't use ice much anyway so nothing to worry about.

So after Marshall made the observation I immediately took to cleaning out the freezer. And here is the punchline you all have been waiting for, (and probably already figured out).....

Hey, there is our cake we still haven't gotten to!

And there is the source of our stinky woes. Turns out you are supposed to store just the cake, not the fresh flower topper. Fresh flowers in a freezer for a year makes stinky kitchen and dirty ice!



We would like to thank Brittanie for her delicious pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and Ziploc for their well designed freezer bags that beautifully preserved them for us to use as our plan "b". We hope the serious departure from tradition doesn't affect our marriage too much. However, we know for sure 2 good things have come of this. One- our kitchen no longer smells. And two-I now have some advice to share with new brides regarding the storage of the top tier of their wedding cake!

Our First Meal

Now that we are officially bloggers, I thought I would try to catch up on the last year starting with about a week before we got married when we moved into our first apartment.

This was our first meal in our first apartment! Cafe Rio, it had to be something memorable. We ate on moving boxes in the kitchen because we had not yet purchased furniture. Loey was taking the picture. She was a trooper and made two trips out to Utah in the time that we were engaged. She helped us move in and get settled and helped me keep my sanity!Marshall put together our first piece of furniture in our empty apartment. Any guesses as to what it was?

Tada! We soon realized we were going to need another one to accommodate our vast library, but still haven't gotten around to buying it over a year later.