Craziest Summer Ever

So it has been a crazy long time since I have posted. I want to be a better blogger, but I just don’t ever seem to have enough time. So here is an update of Morgan and my summer. We sold pest control this summer in Sacramento, and hated it! The most miserable job I have ever held in my entire life. I hated it! I did enjoy living in Sacramento with the family. We all had a fun time getting to know each other on another level. We did lots of fun things but my favorite was going boating. Morgan and I ended up getting a new car. We went with a white Prius and we love it! So far we have driven over 8,000 miles and averaged over 50MPG. Julie has also been teaching me how to sew. So I can now make a few things so that has been a lot of fun! We adopted the worlds cutest more spoiled puppy. She is a mini Australian Shepherd. She will probably grow to be about 35 pounds. She has been loads of fun. That is an update of the summer.

Our spoiled dog

Since we got back to Utah, we have moved into a new apartment; however we still live in Provo. Morgan and I are both in our last year of school. Morgan will have his Masters in April and I will have my bachelors. Morgan has begun interviewing for full time jobs with the big four accounting firms. He has applied for Dallas and Orange County so we are very excited to see where we will end up. I am just most excited to move out of Utah.

We went camping this weekend for my birthday at Zion National Park. My Grandma, Sisters, husband, mom, and Billy all came. We had a ton of fun. It was so awesome to get to spend time with my family. It has been a very long time since we got to spend that much time together. I also hiked Angels Landing! When I was like seven years old I hiked all the way to the part with the chains, and then I sat down and refused to go on. So my whole family (excluding my mom cause she stayed with me) including my younger sister went on to hike to the top. There was lightning, wind and rain while they hiked it. In fact I guess my sister all most fell of the cliff. The story goes she slipped and was dangling and my dad was holding her just by the arm. People were hiking down discussing the little girl who almost fell off, little did we know that girl was my sister, crazy! Anyways, even though they were crazy to finish the hike I still never lived down the fact that I was the only member who did not finish the hike. So this summer I did redeem myself by finishing the hike, so I felt very accomplished.

My first attempt at Angels Landing

This is the whole family Camping!

Lastly Morgan and I are expecting a new addition to our Family at the end of March. We will find out the gender next month so we are crazy excited about that. We are hoping for a girl, but will be happy with a healthy baby. Life is moving so fast, but It could not be any better. We are so blessed.

I just love this Picture!

Crystal

I Love Valentines Day

Valentine’s Day might just be my new most favorite holiday. I had the best day of my life, and I have the greatest husband in the world! Let me take you all through our fantastic day. So on Saturday night I made Morgan 7 Valentines day cards. They were all different and unique. Within all the cards I included a verse from a song that has impacted our relationship. (The songs were: History in the making, Waiting on a Women, Alright, I Can Love You Like That, She’s Everything, We Danced, and Then) And then I wrote about why that song has been so special to us. So then I woke up early on Valentines Day and left him his first card with some roses and his favorite candy bars on our kitchen table. I then put his 2^nd card on the seat of his car with a rose and some more candy. I then waited patiently for him to leave for BYU. I then followed him to BYU and decorated his car with window stickers, and left him his 3^rd card with another rose and some more candy. Then once he went to work I went to his car again and left him a yummy lunch, card number four, a rose, and more of his favorite candies. From work he went back to BYU and I left him his 5^th card, another rose, more candy, and I put a bunch of balloons on his car. While I was attaching the balloons I accidently locked my keys in his car. HAHA I am a dork, so I was stuck sitting there for 45min until he got out of class. He then came home and made dinner and refused to let me help, so I went home and took a two hour nap…..so nice! Then he surprised me with a candle lit dinner. He made Flamin Young Steaks rapped in bacon….YUM, mashed potatoes, and asparagus. I left him his 6^th note on his chair with another rose. He then surprised me with a bracelet he made me, and some gourmet chocolate dipped strawberries. I then gave him his 7^th note which was the one about the song we danced by Brad Paisley. We turned off the lights, but left the lit candles and danced to all 7 songs. It was the most amazing day of my life! I have the greatest husband in the world. I am sure we wont have a lot of opportunities to go all out like this, so I am glad we took advantage of the opportunity before we have kids and full time jobs.

                There are so many people who do not like Valentines Day. They claim it is a commercialized holiday that was just created to help the card companies make money. They also say that you should express your love on a daily basis and not a yearly basis, and you do not need an annual day to remember to do this. Here is my opinion: They are right the card and flower companies do make a lot of money off of Valentines Day, and they are right when they say you should express your love year around.  However why not have a day devoted to focusing on your relationship each year. It can really be a lot of fun if you get into it. Even if all you do is make dinner together at home it can still be super special. All holidays or significant events are commercialized any more. Let us take a minute to think about Christmas. I think Christmas is one of the most commercialized holidays, however nobody complains about this. You could also claim that people should remember the savior all the time, and we do not need a special day to do this. Ok this is an extreme example, let’s look at the superbowl. This event is also much commercialized but I am pretty sure that people really still get into this event. I am sure several people disagree with everything I just said, but all I am saying is that Valentines Day can be a lot of fun and really special even if u you just do something small.

Hope everyone had a super fun day,

Crystal

Crazy Month

So it has been a long time since I have done a blog posting, and the reason is I have felt like I really have nothing to blog about. I want to say our life has been way uneventful and boring, but that has not really been the case. The last few months have been crazy. I feel like I have not slowed down for even one second, but at the same time it has not really been exciting or fun. We have been slammed with school and work.

I went to Albuquerque for a week for a 4-H training and that was really fun. I however did not like the food at all. I guess New Mexicans have a different way of cooking. The food was really spicy and had odd textures. I had a ton of fun though. I got to hang out with several people that I work with and we had a super fun time. I was gone for 5 days, which is the longest me and Morgan have ever been apart so that was hard. I was really excited to see him when I got back.

This is my last year of school I will finish in December, but it has been a really hard year. I am exhausted and overwhelmed. I cannot wait to take my last day of classes. I think that me and Morgan will be moving to Sacramento for the summer and living at his parents’ house. I am looking forward to that opportunity. I am going to sell pest control while he does his internship, it should be a fun summer, especially since it will be my first break from school in the last 2 years.

Well that is all for now, hope everyone is doing good!

~Crystal