Keep on keeping on

I started this post a little unsure of what I feel like trying to say. I'm tired lately, not in a sleepy way in a completely drained and exhausted way. I love my life, I love married life. It's just a lot more work than what I realized. I figured I'd be pretty prepared to keep a house in order having lived on my own for 2 years. I mean I knew how to do laundry, how to cook and clean decently well. But it's more than that when you're taking care of two of you. The planning is probably the hardest for me. I tend to want to fly by the seat of my pants and it's a little bit harder two do with 2 schedules, 2 opinions and what not. I'll tell you one thing though, getting married sure has made me appreciate my momma a lot more. I'm struggling handling work, school, and home stuff, and I don't even have the mom aspect to deal with yet. I don't know how she has done it for the last 20 some odd years. I'm so impressed. I'm also so very conscious of what a great husband I snagged. Waylon is seriously the best, he's so helpful with everything and patient with me when I inevitably screw up a bunch. Keep on keeping on is a more accurate title than I even realized. I love my hectic tiring crazy beautiful life. I would never change a thing about it. Sometimes you just have to remember to keep going and everything will work out how it's supposed to.

Much love,
Dan

Little bit of Autumn Catch-up

I don't remember what I last mentioned on here.... well here comes a mass download. I guess I've pretty much missed the whole month of September.

September is our birthday marathon month. We had about 10 and a couple that were repeats on the same day! We had the chance to go down to Salt Lake for Waylon's cousin's birthday and then make it back in time to do cake and Ice Cream for Miles' 11th (It's crazy scary that he's that old already, it freaks me out a little bit.)

We got to baby sit Perri for a weekend while my parent's went to Yellowstone to hear the elk bugle.

We watched lots and lots of football and baseball. I'm loving the baseball, football not quite as much.

We worked, and schooled. Thankfully we're a little more than a third of the way done with this semester.

"We" crafted. Ok, I crafted. Waylon shopped with me for supplies and then played video games while I was crafting

That's all that comes to mind tonight. I hope you're all enjoying your fall. Our's has been fantastic and full of pumpkin wonderfullness. 

-D

Sunday Night Sadness

Sunday's are fantastic. I love going to church, spending time with family, napping, and good food. I do however, have different feelings entirely toward Sunday-nights :( Sending my hubby back to work is the worst. I hate nights without him. That being said we are so grateful for him having such a good job that I feel bad whining too much. I'm so blessed to have such an amazing guy who works so hard to provide for our little family. He really is the best and I couldn't dream up anyone better. Hopefully these graveyard shifts won't last forever. I can't wait for the day that my husband is no longer nocturnal ;)

Another Week in the Books

I'm not quite sure how but Labor Day seems to have this magical way of taking me from mourning the end of summer to being thrilled about the impending fall weather. I don't know how it does it but I'm pretty jazzed about autumn and all that goes with it.

Our Labor day was.... eventful. Waylon is an absolute sweetheart and agreed to go and help my dad with the dutch oven dinner early on Monday morning. I woke up about an hour after he left to a bunch of messages telling me I need to bring him an extra pair of pants..... and dry tennis shoes..... and extra socks. Turns out while I was snoozing Waylon, my dad, and all the other guys had been squishing through the rain and soggy grass, pretty much dealing with some absolutely miserable conditions. I packed up the extra outfit, and set out to meet my mom to pick up the rolls... 42 Dozen rolls. It was still pouring, and wrestling that many bags of hot rolls into the car created quite the spectacle for onlookers. Once we finally made it out to Wellsville, rolls in tote, the weather started to let up. The dinner went off well besides the small torrential down-pour in the middle of the sham battle, luckily we were under a massive tent.

The rest of the week went by pretty uneventfully. Saturday was our annual trip to the State Fair down in Salt Lake. Waylon's family goes every year around the time of his mom's birthday. Waylon has 2 requirements each year: 1. A new wallet. We go see the same cute little wallet guy every year, the wallet does it's job but never lasts longer than a year. 2. Ford's Beef Jerky, this is Waylon's favorite tent at the fair. I'm not a huge jerky fan but even I like this stuff, it's pretty great. When we took off from the fair we headed to Tooele to try to catch Per's last game of the day. Her team played against a couple of college teams on Saturday. Unfortunately we got to Tooele about 10 minutes after a huge rain and thunderstorm so we didn't get to watch her.

This week is pretty uneventful for us. I'm just looking forward to the weekend when I get to spend more time with my cute hubby. I thought I liked weekends before but my love for them has jumped to a whole new level being married to a graveyard worker.

Yesterday I caved to my exciting anticipation of fall and dove into my autumn recipes. I made pumpkin muffins with a cream cheese filling, they were actually pretty good. I love pumpkin everything and Waylon is so sweet about humoring me with all my new recipes. Anyone else have any absolutely magical fall recipes that I shouldn't live without?

Happy September All!!!

-Dani   

Back to School

It's about as official as it can get. I'm an Aggie. I had such a range of emotions going into my first day of classes at USU; Excited, Nervous, Anxious, Grumpy, and Sleepy. Ok I realize I started listing dwarves there at the end but it's accurate. It didn't help that I'd been sleeping in WAY longer than I am proud of the week leading up to classes. My schedule isn't exactly what I was hoping for, transferring forced me to fill a few more generals than what I had already finished at The U. I also have a really long break on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I was super bugged about that until I realized that it gives me a window to come home and shower after my Dynamic Fitness class. All in all it's an adjustment switching schools, a bigger one than I anticipated in many ways. I've found pros and cons to the switch but the fact that I'm now married to my sweetie and living about 10 minutes from my family gives USU the win hands down. 

The biggest downside to school starting is the time it takes away from spending with Waylon. On Tuesday and Thursday I have to leave before Waylon gets home from work. If I work either of those days I don't make it home until 9:00 and he has to be back at work by 9:30. So that part is a major bummer but we're toughing it out. We're really hopeful of him being able to move to a day shift soon but will survive if it takes a little longer. 

I'm probably more thankful for Labor Day than I've ever been in my life for 3 reasons. 1) I need to catch up on some sleep big time this weekend and the extra day is majorly helpful. 2) I'm ashamed to say that my Dynamic Fitness, and Jogging classes have totally kicked my butt. Going from little/no exercise to a full out work out 5 days a week was one of the worst ideas I've ever had! I have been walking like a stomping toddler for the last 3 days. I'm happy to say my legs felt way better this morning. I've made it to the tolerable, even slightly enjoyable, dull post work-out ache. 3) Labor Day is the bomb! We spend our Labor Day in Wellsville at the Founders Day celebration. It's a whole couple of days filled with family, good food, and tons of laughs. The last few years my family has been helping to put on the traditional Dutch oven dinner as a fundraiser for the Mountain Crest Girls Softball team. It's a ton of work and my parents are my heroes for doing it but its also a lot of fun. We start tomorrow night by husking about 400 ears of corn at my grandma's house and it just builds from there.  So if you don't have plans for Monday come on out to Wellsville for the parade, sham-battle, dinner, carnival style booths and lots more. 

Hope all you students had a good first week back!

Lots of love

Dan 

1 more week!!

I feel like I'm counting down the hours until the end of the world, while really I'm just counting down the days until school starts again. I wish I was better at school, I really do. I wish I liked it more but I just don't. I hate all the pointless hoops that professors take such joy in making students jump through. I hate spending a small fortune every single semester. It's just not my thing. So I guess I should be wanting this to start soon so it can be over soon but I'm totally dreading it. I'd rather stay home and hang out with my cute husband all day. Granted, when I do that neither of us make any money!

This week was slow but great! I worked a bunch of hours but on Wednesday we got to go over to my Dad's house for his 48th Birthday and for Bailey to open her mission call. She's going to be serving in the Columbia, South Carolina mission and we're so very excited for her.

We did get to spend all of Friday together which was I so thankful for. We went to the temple, did some golfing, and went to a BBQ with some friends to visit with a close family friend that was in from out of town. All and all it was a fantastic night.

This morning we were up early and at a company softball tournament for Waylon's work. It was pretty fun. They only played two games but it was lots of fun for Waylon to play ball with his brother Dustin and our friend Brady.

We don't have lots of plans for this week. We're just going to kind of play it buy ear and hopefully spend as much time together as possible before we wind up on totally opposite sleep schedules for the next 4 months or so!

Everyone enjoy your last week of summer!!

Married Bliss!

Well it happened! I never thought July 27th was going to get here but it did. It came and went and honestly I can easily say it was the best day of my life. We are absolutely loving married life. Our Honeymoon in Jackson Hole was perfect regardless of the rain that came down every day. And now I absolutely love getting to see my adorable husband every single day even if it just for 5 minutes in passing on our way to and from work.

I redid the blog a little bit because it's not just me any more. Hopefully I can stay on top of it and keep this little thing updated with the tales of our adventures over the years.

We're just trying to squeeze out the last little bit of summer that we can before I have to go back to school and life gets really really busy again. Don't get me wrong we're a little bit hectically busy right now, it's kinda tricky to juggle one of us being nocturnal and the other one not. However, it's fantastic. The chaos and unpredictability is what makes it exciting and wonderful.

Waylon's been swamped at work lately so we're pretty excited to go over to my grandma's cabin in Bear Lake with my family this Saturday and spend the night before we head to my cousin Kayden's mission homecoming Sunday morning. I'm pretty excited to see that kid after 2 years serving the lord.

Hope all is well with all of you. Have a fantastic week :) Enjoy the rest of your summer!
-Dan