Well after that things went along quite nicely...but slow of course. He came home with me for Spring Break. Here we are at my parentals house...(Don't we look so happy and in love?...ahhh) We went to San Francisco and Downtown Sac and the Calaveras Big Trees... Fun stuff
We did other fun stuff in Rexburg too, like go to the Civil Defense Caves...
Then the semester ended and I was going home to California and he was going home to Colorado to work...we were very sad. I cried the whole way home...
So we went our seperate ways for the summer and to be honest lost touch a little bit. Then it was time to go back to school. Horray! So we met back up and we dated some more while I was living at La Jolla and he was living at Breckenridge. We hung out pretty much every day even after we broke up a couple of times. We would break up one day and then be hanging out the next. Healthy right, we were young and dumb I guess? We couldn't stand to be apart, what can I say?
We did some more fun stuff like canoing on the Snake River...
Went to Birthday Parties at MY favorite restaurant in Idaho Falls called...GARCIAS...
Made HORRIBLY disgusting dinners for each other. Ok ok it was only me that made gross dinners...listen to me talking like it's past tense...MAKE gross dinners...Even though this isn't a very good picture, this picture is a momento from one of the most embarassing nights ever. If it happened now I would probably laugh but at the time I was MORTIFIED. It was the night before I was to fly home for our two week long Christmas break so Scot and I were having date night of course and I offered to make him dinner before we went to Idaho Falls to go to a movie. I was all excited to make him dinner so I called my mom and asked her for her Chicken and Rice recipe. It sounded easy enough so I made it, it looked fine and I was pretty much proud of myself. Well Scot gets to my apartment and we sit down to eat and not one but two of us had a hair in our food. MY HAIR because I was trying to get ready for the evening while cooking at the same time. Not a good idea. I wanted to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How gross is that??? So if that wasn't bad enough the chicken wasn't cooked and the rice was still crunch. Who screws up Minute Rice? I had also made an apple crisp for desert but the top wasn't very brown so my roommate said oh just set the oven on broil for a couple minutes and it will be good. So I do that and it is BLACK burnt crispy when I pull it out of the oven. At that point, I had pretty much had it. We took our picture and left. Then I found out that Scot doesn't like broccoli and that chicken mess I made had broccoli crawling in it. It's a wonder he still married me. Ha!
So we got back from Christmas break, had a small lapse in judgment where we decided to go our seperate ways for good, we hadn't spoken for two weeks. Well to this day I believe that Heavenly Father had a plan for us because one weekend I decided I needed to get away so I went to Provo to visit some friends that were going to BYU and I kept getting phone calls from a number I didn't recognize so I just didn't pick it up. It happened all weekend. Well on Sunday afternoon I decided I wanted to go home even though it was a three day weekend and we had planned to stay through Monday. I just needed to go home for some reason. So I went home on Sunday afternoon and when I got home my roommates told me that Scot had called. I didn't believe them, I thought they were just joking around but when I realized they were serious I was like "WHERE'S THE PHONE???" So I called him and he told me that he had broken his back while Skiing that Friday. I was completely in shock. So I rushed over to his apartment and we were inseperable once again from that day on. I drove him to class, took him to the store, ran errands for him. Then he recovered and we did more fun stuff like...
And this pretty little place in Provo...
We spent the summer together in Rexburg. We did stuff like go to Rigby Lake and go on little hikes. Scot came with me to my family reunion in Island Park...
We went back to my house again and went to Six Flags and Downtown Sac and all that good stuff...
He was the pretend stripper at my friend Lisa's bachelorette party...Oh Baby...this is was when I knew I was in love. Mwah. So the story goes that he put on every piece of clothing he owned and after what seemed like 20 minutes of "stripping" he still had plenty of clothes on...
Then I went to his family reunion in Estes Park, CO...
We went to Moose Hockey Games in Jackson Hole. Our Favorite!
Then we went to this awesomely awesome Napoleon Dynamite Festival in Preston, ID. This is Uncle Rico's Van...
In November Scot came home with me for Thanksgiving and he asked my dad if he could marry me. Keep in mind at this point we've been dating for 2 years and 1 month. My dad's response was "it's kind of sudden isn't it?" What a funny guy...
We went on our last trip to Green Canyon Hot Spring...Good Times
Then Scot graduated...are you getting bored yet?
That was pretty much the saddest day of my life. I was left alone not only by my boyfriend but also by my bestest friend and roommate. How lonely was I?? So I filled my time with sewing, watching T.V., scrapbooking, hanging out with friends and going to school. In February I went to Salt Lake to see Scot because he was there for a family event. He told me to bring a nice dress to wear to our reservation at "The Roof" (this is the restaurant on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building). So I did. We had a fantastic dinner and after dinner we walked over to the lookout windows that look over Downtown Salt Lake and Scot proposed. I said yes of course, grabbed the ring and we went on a little carriage ride through downtown. Cute!!! (This actually wasn't the original plan for our proposal because his original plan was aborted due to fog in Salt Lake but it still turned out perfectly! I will just say this, we were supposed to already be engaged when we went to dinner at The Roof)
I know what you are all thinking...FINALLY...Well you should have been me... This whole process took 2 1/2 years!!!! I should get a big gold star for patience!
We were married on May 14, 2005 and it was the best decision I ever made! We just celebrated our 3rd anniversary and I hope to celebrate MANY MANY more!!
Love you Scot...Even though you're slow...it was worth it!!
and walked around and took a drive and then it was finally time for our tour. So we met up with our group and the tour guide and let's face it he was long past retirement so I was thinking, How hard could this be? So he is telling us about this and that and about a little old ladder and a place where you have to crawl through a hole. I was kind of half paying attention to be honest and not thinking much of it. So now before I go further I want you to see the footwear I was wearing and mind you before we left on this trip I asked Scot if I would be OK in these kind of shoes and he says to me "Oh ya, you will be fine, it is all really nicely paved, you don't need to worry about it." Great! This is my kind of place...
So we get to walking down this path with some steps and it's pretty steep let me tell you but that is nothing compared to what I am about to encounter. Soon before me is a GINORMOUS ladder on the side of a steep cliff. Ya not appealing. I kind of looked at Scot like, is this a joke? There is no way in heck they can have people and CHILDREN climb that ladder. I am deathly afraid of heights so this was not good. Here is what I saw...
Pretty much, I wanted to cry and I was not exactly excited about wearing those shoes on that scary ladder... So here I am trying to look happy as my turn gets closer and closer...
These places are just so amazing. Amazing that they are still here after all of these hundreds of years and that they are still mostly intact for us to enjoy and learn more about. These were very resourceful and ingenious people and we are so lucky to have learned more about this culture and to see where they lived and how they used natural elements to survive!
Here we are waiting to go Cliff House (and I am just HOPING there will be no more ladders!)
Cliff Palace did have some ladders but NOTHING like Balcony House. These were just small ladders that I could handle. Here is a picture of Cliff Palace from above where we walked down from...
These Camel Backs or Packs or whatever you call them pretty much saved our tails on this little day trip. It was very hot and water was essential so these really helped us through the day. I would HIGHLY recommend these!
After Mesa Verde we drove all the way to Page Arizona and stayed the night there. We got in fairly late so we didn't really do a whole lot that night. On Thursday we got up early and went and found a swim beach at Lake Powell and spent the day there and had a blast. We would love to rent a house boat there someday. It would be so much fun. The water was so nice and clear and we just had a great day...
After spending a few hours on the water in our floating lounge chairs we decided to give our pasty white skin a rest and we went to lunch and then went back to our hotel room and took a nap. Then we got ready and went to dinner at a nice steak house in town and walked around a couple of the shops. Before going back to the hotel we decided to go back to the lake and enjoy the sunset...
After our fantastic day at Lake Powell we drove to Cedar City on Friday for my family reunion. I was lamo and didn't take any pictures while we were there but I would love to post a few so if my ever so kind mother would like to email me the pictures she took that would be fantastic (hint, hint)...anyway one of the days we went to Bryce Canyon and that was a really fun day. Here are some pictures from that...
We had such a great trip. It was EXTREMELY difficult to come home, it always is after a great vacation, but it was nice to get away and rejuvinate and see my family. We love you guys and we miss you already!!!
*Side note: My mom and I are such dedicated Twilight fans we actually went to Wal Mart on Friday at midnight to get the 4th book in the series so yes, we actually stood in line with all the teeny boppers at midnight at the Wal Mart in Cedar City to get Breaking Dawn and I just have to say...IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT.
