Wedding Pictures!

I'm supposed to be doing homework right now but I'm having a brain cramp and just can't fake it anymore for a while. So I decided I should blog our wedding pictures. It took forever to get them back but overall I'm really happy with them. I'm not going to put them all up just a few favorites. Enjoy :) 

Well this is awkward

I bet everyone remembers it. The first big fight they had with their new husband or wife. To be honest I was hoping it would be a little farther into our marriage before it happens but I'm having an ominous feeling about this coming week.

You see, Waylon and I have different favorite baseball teams. This is a problem that probably doesn't happen to too many couples. My brother for instance chose a wife who didn't know or probably care even the slightest bit about baseball. He therefore get's to dress her up in his favorite team's gear and basically control her thoughts as the pertain to baseball. This is not the case in my poor husband's life. He chose a wife with background information, passion, and a fair amount of knowledge about his favorite sport. Unfortunately I had a favorite team before I met and fell in love with Waylon and I'm just stubborn enough that that is not changing!

We've made it through these last couple years just fine. I cheer for his team when they're playing. He respects and likes my team alright. It honestly hasn't ever been too big of a problem. I guess it's a good thing that our teams are in different leagues so they don't play each other often at all. When we got engaged I started to rack my brain about some unique fun engagement photos for us to take. I wanted something that was so "us." Finally it hit me. Baseball is a massive part of our lives. From Waylon playing in high school, both of us watching all levels of baseball for our whole lives, to Waylon having the opportunity to help coach the Mountain Crest freshmen; it's pretty much a big deal to us. And of course we could have a little fun with it since we each had our own team.

Now I'm not a fan of those people that upload 8 billion engagement, and formal, and wedding day pictures to Facebook but this isn't Facebook and it's not 8 billion. If you hate these pictures, I apologize and invite you to scroll quickly. I think they're fun.

The Results:

Why the sudden worry and nostalgia, You might ask? Well you seen, last night my Red Sox won the American League Championship and the night before that Waylon's Cardinals won the National League Championship. World series here we come... both of us.

I'm so very conflicted, more so than I have been in a very very long time. I mean who doesn't want their team to win but I sure don't want to watch my hubby's team lose. (Rock) Me (Hard place)!! I guess we'll see how this all goes. It's going to be a long dang series that's for sure. The odds of this happening 3 months after we got married who even knows! I sure hope this World Series matchup doesn't happen again for a good while!

-Dani

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