Anniversary #2

Wow! 2 years already! This month was our 2nd anniversary and I can hardly believe it. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun! We have accomplished a lot in the past year and have had a lot of fun adventures while doing it!

First was that we bought our house! Yay! We moved in on Halloween and spent the next 2 months fixing it up and basically completely re-doing the upstairs. We're talking paint, carpet, deep cleaning, and new trim. But it was so worth it, we love where we live and it was well worth the wait.

I graduated from college. Woo Hoo! and Brandon started college the same semester I finished...which was a little stressful but we made it work.

We each hit a milestone birthday. Brandon turned 25 and I turned 20!

We went boating a lot this summer and had some really fun times.

We went to Moab.

We got a rat, and said goodbye to our fishy friend who has been with us since the very beginning.

We kept up our tradition of getting a foot long corn dog at the State Fair!

It has been an amazing year. I'm more in love with Brandon every day and I wouldn't give up the life we have together for anything. Happy anniversary to my best friend for eternity!
P.S. I will be adding pictures on Saturday...but I wanted to get this up when it was still September! :)

Nina the rat!

Meet our new hood rat! We got Nina just before the fourth of July and we love her! She is adorable and has some of the quirkiest habbits. I think Brandon and I attract odd pets. I mean Missy is way cute but she is such a goofball and now Nina is the same way! It's okay because that just means they fit in perfectly with us. :)

London. Paris. Moab!

So maybe some day we'll get to visit those first two places, but we can now say that we have been to Moab! And it was so much fun! So this vacation was like clear back in June...but we've been so busy since then that I'm just now getting around to telling you all about it. We went for a combined graduation trip for Nathan and I and we visited Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. It is so pretty down there, it just made me love Utah even more. We had such a blast seeing everything, there are some really amazing and beautiful landscapes down there. Here are some of my favorite pictures. Brandon and I made sure we go a picture in front of every arch we hiked too, some of them were a pretty big accomplishment! Enjoy!

September!

September is my very most favorite month for a lot of reasons. September is the beginning of autumn, which is my favorite time of year. I love seeing all of the changes going on in the world and I love the weather cooling down. Have you noticed that everything smells different in autumn? And there are a lot of wonderful sounds too, everything from crunching leaves to rain drops on the window. It's a happy time of year. Another reason is that September is when I got to marry my best friend in the most wonderful place on earth. That is used a lot when talking about Disneyland, but having been to both places I beg to differ. There is nowhere happier or more amazing to be then in the temple. These are some pictures I took when we went to Temple Square for date night this summer. (they have the most awesome concerts in the Brigham Young park across the street from Temple Square during the summer months.) Also here is the quote of the month, I really like this one!

"Act as if it were impossible to fail." -Dorothea Brande

I think that's really good advice and something I'm going to remember. If it were impossible to fail, I think I would try a lot of things I've been nervous to do. How many opportunities do we miss out on in life because we're afraid of failure. This reminds me of how important it is to put yourself out there and be brave. That way you know you won't have any regrets as you're living life.

I hope you have all had a fun summer! There will be a lot of post following this one to make up for everything I've been saying will get posted and never does :)