Shooting

This weekend we took a much needed break from life. So, we drove a whole hour south to St. George to see Brandon and Courtni! Even before we bought my new gun, we had wanted to go shooting for a while, so that's where we went! We had so much fun, I managed to even hit the target a few times!

The boys getting the guns and the target ready.

 

 

Poor Savannah, she wanted to get down and play, but there was glass all over the ground, so she had to stay in the back of the truck. But she was pretty good overall, cute girl!

Brandon and Courtni, our bestest friends ever!

Savy didn't want to look at the camera...

Gentry with Savannah 

Thanks for such a fun weekend, babe! You're the best!

Impulse Buyers

Gentry and I have a problem... we love to impulse buy. Truly, it's an addiction. Here's our latest buy:

This little thing is all mine, baby! I'm sitting in class, and all of a sudden I get a text from Gentry saying, "Can I buy you a gun?" What?!? Completely random, but he knows I've been wanting one. So after class I met him at the pawn shop, and decided that it was worth getting!
It was only after that Gentry confessed to me that he will only impulse buy on things he knows I want as well!
So again, he finds another way to spoil me rotten... I'm so lucky!

New Toy!

As you can see, we've got a new toy to play with, and thus far, we are loving it!

Both Gentry and I loved our Nissan Titan; seriously, loved. But, it was giving us issues, and the gas mileage was horrible, so a few weeks ago we had started looking at trucks around Cedar to see what there was. On Monday we found this little beauty, traded in the Titan, and bought it!

Ward BBQ

If you'd read my other posts, we were planning tirelessly for our ward party. We made the sign-ups, bought the food, and we went for it. It turned out rather well, I thought. I only got a few photos from the whole thing, and they were at the beginning while we were still cooking food, but at least we got a few!

 My father-in-law, Gentry, and our activity committee members working over the food. 

The dutch ovens baking in the fire pit. 

Our committee members, the Banks, brought their little puppy to help out, and he ended up providing us with non-stop entertainment!

I'm so glad this went off so well, and we hope everyone enjoyed themselves!

Our lives

It's safe to say we stay pretty busy, what with school, work, extra athletic training time (me) and outside school assignments (him). But we have been attempting to continue doing other things besides, and still try to see each other once in a while!

1. Church. We just got a new calling, we're now the Activities Committee Chairpersons. Right now we've been planning a big ward barbeque as an opening social, and I think it's going to turn out great! We're even lucky enough that my father-in-law, Wayne, is going to come down and make his famous fried doughnuts! I can't wait! Besides that, we've been going to stake activity meetings, and been planning some big events, like a huge tailgate party for the stake before the first home SUU football game. Sadly I'll be doing athletic training, and Gentry will be at work, so we can't actually go to the event, but it's been fun to plan.

2. Work. We've truly been blessed, because at the beginning of the school year, I had no idea how many hours of commitment the athletic training program was going to require. With that type of schedule, it was pretty impractical to try and work a work schedule in with it. So we looked over our finances and decided that I would quit, and we'd have to be tight with our money. But fortunately my employer was willing to work with me and I could work a couple shifts a week so I didn't have to quit. It's not a whole lot, but it ties the ends together, and I'm so grateful for it. 

3. Institute. Silly me, I had the thought that people stopped going to institute after they got married. Wrong! Our young married stake has several special classes just for married students, and we-or maybe I- decided we were going to take one. So now we are enrolled in Building an Eternal Marriage, and while I've been to the class once by myself, and we missed this last week, I can still feel the importance of the class and how it will help us as a couple.

4. Athletic Training. This mostly just deals with me, but it's a big enough part of our lives that it ought to be mentioned. In short... I love athletic training! While I've been very go-getter about all my studies, I'd never found something that I just knew I wanted to do. Well I finally found it! Athletic training is so great, it involves all of the things I've always wanted to do in a career, and puts it all together. True, it is a lot of work, and it involves a lot of extra hours in the training room, but every day makes it a little more worth it!

Our lives are pretty boring for the most part, but we still find time to get out and enjoy ourselves. Last night we went on a date, went and got some amazing Mexican, and then went and saw The Words. If nothing else, I got to spend some time with my sweet husband, whom I love dearly, more and more each day, even when he teases me mercilessly! He's my forever, and is everything I have ever wanted, and more than I deserve. I'm literally in love with my best friend, and it makes life so much better!

Weekend in Delta

So the weekend before school started, Gentry and I wanted to do something to officially end our summer. He had wanted to go up to the Delta high school football game, so we decided to go up with Brandon and Courtni, and then go horseback riding and boating too! Wouldn't you know it, I didn't take the camera with me anywhere but riding, but I still managed to get a few good pictures.

Brandon, Courtni, and Savy riding the horse

My hubby being the cute cowboy 

Savannah loved playing on the farm!

Hoo-rah for summer! Ours was pretty much the best!

Honeymoonin' in Vegas!

I'd never been to Vegas before (I know, shocker) but we went for a week the Saturday after we were married for our honeymoon. It was so much fun! Sadly, almost all of the few pictures I took were all at the pool, and I didn't get any of Vegas itself.

Our awesome hotel

My cute hubby... poor boy, he ended up getting so sunburned!

We had wanted to go to the Vegas temple, but wouldn't you know it, it was closed the week we were there for cleaning. So we decided to drive to it anyway and sit on the grounds for a while. 

After we'd got completely sick of each other (just kidding!) we invited our friends, Brandon and Courtni to come see a show with us the last few days we were there. It was so much fun to have them there with us!

The first week of marriage... completely and utterly awesome!

Finally!

Okay, so I'm a slacker. We've been married for over two months now, and I'm just barely getting around to updating on our life. Oh well, better late than never.

The past two months have been... unreal. I can't believe that so much time has past already, it seems like no time has past at all since Gentry and I were sealed. But at the same time, it feels like we've been married forever. I'll try my best to recap everything that's happened.

The week of our wedding was crazy. Nuts. Insane. We had so many last minute details we had to do, we were running around like crazy, and still trying to finish up our last few shifts of work. We left Wednesday for Delta, but not before going down to St. George for Gentry's tux and the flowers. Once in Delta Gentry's family was amazing, they helped out with everything from food to decorations, anything we needed, it was done. Thursday was our first reception in Lehi, it was a long day getting ready and finishing everything before we could enjoy the evening. So many friends and family came to support us, you could feel the love from every single person.

My best friend, Courtni, was our photographer for the next couple days. She was so awesome!

Our cake was incredible. So incredible, in fact, that we didn't eat a piece of it. We decided that we wanted the cake for both receptions, so we asked Gentry's sister-in-law, Jessi, to make the whole things fake, and we just cut a cupcake on the side. I have to say, that was one good cupcake!

While we had decided we didn't want to smash cake in each others faces, Gentry still managed to get some frosting on my dress. At least he was nice enough to clean it up!

Finally, Friday came. The day we were going to be sealed for eternity. We drove up to Manti together early, and it was so wonderful to just get to talk with Gentry about what was going to happen and our life. Because although we practically hadn't separated for the past six months, the term "we" took on a whole new meaning that day. Our sealing was incredible, I can't even describe it. It was hard to not be emotional through the whole thing because of how strong the Spirit felt.

After taking tons of pictures, we started the long drive back to Delta for our luncheon. My mother-in-law did a great job on the food, it tasted amazing! Gentry's dad sang us a song, as is tradition for every one of his sons. And then Gentry gave me a wonderful surprise: he sang for me too! He sang "She Thinks She Needs Me", and he had no idea how much that song meant to me. Needless to say, I got very teary-eyed.

Final task: our last reception. Everyone was pretty tired, but we were able to get through the rest of the festivities. We danced our first dance to our song "This Kind of Love" by Josh Turner.

In short, our wedding was amazing. I couldn't have asked for anything better, and I most certainly couldn't have asked for a better man to be married to. I love him more than I know how to say, and eternity might just be long enough to spend with him!