Gotta Love the Married Life!

So Alex and I have now had our first valentines together and it was fun :) I had never before had a boyfriend on Valentines Day so I was a little more than excited for this one. He bought me my favorite meal (Chik-Fil-A spicy deluxe chicken burger) and some sparkling apple juice with candles haha some candies and other goodies... and I surprised him with a white and milk chocolate fondue and a scavenger hunt for coupons! We then sported our Aggie pride and went to the basketball game and later enjoyed a movie night together in our apartment :)



But besides a great valentines, we have been integrated into a game night group with friends from our young student married ward! It has been really fun to have people to hangout with who are in the same stage of life and don't have kids yet so they are available to go out and play haha Last week we hiked up to a cave in Green Canyon and had a winter campfire. We roasted starbursts which is something that I have never heard of and was a delightful surprise! They are so good! But we loved being in the cave as Alex and I have never been up there, we're still rookies when it comes to Logan's outdoor wonders.

Utah is great as there is so much to do! A couple weekends ago we had the privilege to go to The Utah Jazz game!! That was pretty fun and we both enjoyed that. Vivint paid for us to go and for Alex's recruits as well, so he was a bit stressed about keeping them entertained and kinda left me to do my own thing but I was at a Jazz game and enjoyed it none the less :)

We have also been going up to Lava hot springs a lot, I love them as they are the closest thing to a hot tub. I miss the one back home... I have been dying to get into one since we went snowboarding last weekend at Sundance. Alex's mission president invited everyone out to go skiing and paid for us all plus a private lunch... It was gorgeous outside and was amazing to be up on the top of a mountain and be able to overlook the others. It really makes you appreciate where you live, I love seeing the mountains everyday :)
But the day had its challenges as it was only my third time snowboarding! It was really fun though, I learned how to carve the last time I went so at least I can do that. But I cant just go straight down the hill which is a problem. I am really slow and don't do well with crowded hills haha But Alex was very impressed so that made me feel good. He would always go down a ways and then wait and tell me how well I was doing haha I knew he was probably just saying that to make me feel good but even so, I didn't discourage him from saying it ;) Then to say thanks for being so patient with me, I ended my day earlier than him so he could do a couple runs at his own speed which I'm sure he appreciated haha.

But other than that, school has still been keeping us crazy busy. Alex has started going to lectures from big time business men and women and so I started going with him to occupy my time as well and they have turned out to be really interesting. And then after the lectures we go to the gym together. Alex says that he will teach me how to play soccer and we will just kick the ball around, but what he really means is that we can go and play in a GAME with all his soccer friends!! what a trickster! But there is no way! I don't know the rules and I haven't developed a good touch yet. So if he wants the ball shooting around all over the place then ya sure, I'm the girl for that. So I just end up playing basketball while he goes and plays his game haha

But anyways, life continues to become more and more busy, but it has been way fun, and married life just keeps getting better. But I still don't really feel like I'm married, I feel exactly the same as when we were dating but just better haha But I figure thats probably a good way to feel :)

I Love You More Than Yesterday But Less Than Tomorrow.

So everyday just keeps getting better and I now feel like we have settled into a pretty good routine. Mondays we have our own FHE with specific jobs in which we rotate every week. One person prepares the message and the other makes desert! This past monday was Alex's turn and I thought it was pretty cute/funny so I had to share. He made this wonderful pudding pie with an oreo crust, and in case you cant make out what the little oreos say ( because I  couldnt either), it says A <3 K haha What a romantic ;) 

So lately Alex and I have been driving up the canyon and exploring the river and mountains which is always fun, and just focusing hard on school! I just got through my first round of exams and Alex is just going through them now, so goodluck to him!
The rest of the week is pretty mundane, except that the basketball team I play on is very entertaining. I am probably the top player on my team which shows how much we suck! So that's not as fun but its good excersize and its still basketball so its good. I'm more aggresive than ever which is a scary thought for anyone who has ever played with or against me haha Oh and Alex went and bought a desk that mounts to the wall, a lounging chair which he is in 24/7 now, and a DVD rack. All very exciting things which contribute to turning our little apartment into a home :)

So just a little emabarrasing story to end this post. Alex's sister, cousin, two aunts and uncle are doing a challenge to go to every temple in Utah in a certain amount of months ( I cant remember how many) and so this past week was the Logan temple. So we decided we were going to join them, but that morning I could not find my reccomend and being as emotional as I have been lately, started balling and decided there was nothing that could be done and I just couldnt go. But Alex being the determined and caring guy he is, decided that we would go to the temple anyways to see if there was anything they could do. So we went and told the front worker the deal, and he went looking for the Temple President. Well it was already ten minutes till the session was to start, and then five minutes till the session rolled around and the Temple President had just come to address my issue. By this time I had just told Alex to go in and if I made it then that would be awesome but if not then I would see them after. Well the President looks me up and says im good to go, but there is only 3 minutes till the session starts. I tell him my family is in that session and so he runs me to the change room, gets a lady to help me get dressed, it takes 1 minute to get me out of the change room and he escorts me to the ordinance room, litterally speed walking/jogging through the temple!! He opens the door, stops the session just to let me in!!! I was two minutes late and oh my heck was it ever embarrassing. The entire session I was balling, not only because I was embarrased but because I couldnt beleive how amazing the Temple President was in helping me out. I was so overwhelmed with the love of my Heavenly Father and of the temple workers. So this is a love/hate experience. But made me realize how important the temple is and how much it meant to me that I be there. I loved it because of course the entire time I am saying sorry to all these people helping me out and every one of them just keeps telling me how happy they are that I am there. LOVE IT!
And all Alex could say about it was how weird he felt being in there alone and how happy he was when I came running in there haha I love him so much, whenever im upset he'll tell me that he loves me more than yesterday but less than tomorrow. That everyday he seems to love me more.