New Job!

Jess was offered a job as a mechanical engineering intern at Utah Kennecott Copper Mine. We are so excited for this exciting opportunity! It all happened really fast, now we are busy finding housing and a job for me :) Jess heard about this internship from a friend, he had an interview friday and they called him up Monday. Let's just say they were very impressed! Of course though, who wouldn't be :) Anyway, congrats Jess!

Best Valentine's Weekend Ever!

This weekend just so happened to the best Valentine's day weekend ever! First of all, the weather was absolutely beautiful! It felt almost like May. I couldn't believe it. So here are the weekend events...

Friday- Jess and I went to a dance put on by our stake. We thought it might be fun to get some free dinner and a little dancing in. When we got there we were shocked at how nice it was all put together. Catered, and it had a DJ. It was totally legit. We had so much fun dancing to some old tunes (you know how church dances are). I even made it through most of the night without getting my feet stepped on ( I say most of the night because ten minutes before we left Jess squished my toes, and I accidently hit a girl in the head with my elbow, and to top things off, she was holding her baby! I felt so bad).

Jess and I made some sugar cookies for FHE. We used our new cookie press we got for christmas (thanks mom!). Come to find out... Sugar cookies don't like to stay in pretty shapes...

This is what happened! Ahhh! it's ok though.. they were still yummy!

Jess is contemplating the mysteries of life, or enjoying the beautiful sunshine!

On one of our hikes Sunday afternoon. We happened to find a random nature park. Pretty cool view.

This was after the dance. We forgot to bring our camera. So no exciting pictures here...

After the dance Jess and I went exploring Logan a little. A couple days before I volunteered at a Relief Society Health Fair and it was up in Cliffside. This is the ritsy part of town and I had to show Jess all the massive houses up there. So we went on an adventure! We also found a cool mountain trail that we want to hike sometime.

Saturday- Jess and I chilled and did homework for most of the day. I went for a run, which felt so nice! Then we went out for pizza to celebrate V-day early. We found a really good pizza place and got breadsticks, pizza and a drink for only ten bucks! Thank you coupons!

Sunday- Still a beautiful day! We had a linger longer at the church, more yummy food :) then Jess and I went for a hike up near cliffside again. We saw two red foxes and tons of deer.. fun fun. We also decided to scope out the huge houses too. We found a castle! Yep... we dubbed it the Logan castle. It's complete with turets and everything. (Wendy, Paul, David, Ryan, Liz, you may have to travel to France or England to see a castle, but we have one right here... yeah, Logan rocks). Unfortunately it was someone's home so we didn't feel like we could take a picture. But it was huge.

Monday- Valentine's Day! Jess bought me some roses and we made cookies and hamburgers and french fries for dinner.

Well... that's all for now. Anyway, I bet you wish you lived in Logan now... it's awesome...

Good News!

Today Jess and I found out he won a scholarship from the Society of American Military Engineers! They told him he is one of three people who won from the Great Basin Area! I am so proud of him! He has worked hard and definitely earned it! Love you Jesse!

Top Ten Things We are Grateful For

Jess and I have been very blessed in our short time together. I think that oftentimes we forget how lucky we are. So we decided to post the top ten things we are grateful for right now.

1. Our Savior

2. Each other

3. Our wonderful families! They support us in everything and we love them all so much, even though they are all so far away.

4. Jimbo, he brings us so much entertainment sometimes. He is hilarious to watch!

5. School-even though it is tough right now, we are grateful for the opportunity to be here at Utah State and to be learning and bettering ourselves.

6. Friends-our friends are what keep us laughing. They also keep us from being so boring!

7. Homemade bread- we have been improving our bread making skills and not to brag or anything, but our bread is... amazing!

8. Grant money! We figure we might as well put them to good use. Seeing as how we will be putting into the system the rest of our lives.

9. Laughter- Seems as if we have been doing a lot of this lately. We are both a little crazy sometimes. As Jess puts it, "We are as crazy as a mongoose on catnip."

10. And last but not least- Our Forever Family! We can't imagine not being with our family for the rest of eternity! We love the temple and family history work. God truly has made a way for us to be together forever.

Christmas Vacation

We brought Jimbo to Mama Terri's house for Christmas. All the little kids loved him! Here is Reece feeding Jimbo "cereal." He hand Jimbo some food and if he wouldn't take it, Reese would put it into his bowl, and say; "cereal bowl!" Reese loved the little "black mouse."

Jess got another hair cut! He had to sit in the tub because our whole apartment is carpet. Doesn't he look good?
Happy Birthday Jess! We invited our friends Dane and Jessica for steak, giant cookie, and homemade ice cream... Yum!

Reese and Ivy were so cute! They were sharing the popcorn bucket. If you asked Reese if you could have some he would stick his hand in the bucket and bring you a couple pieces of sticky popcorn. What a good sharer.

We went sledding on Old Main Hill with our friends Jacob and Ashley Mason. It was a blast! There were tons of people there too. It was an interesting experience since I am so used to sledding in the mountains, with no one else around. City life is still a little weird for me.

Family History is Addicting!

Jess and I got a new calling, we are the Family History Consultants for our ward. We were both really excited for this new and exciting opportunity to learn more about who we are and where we come from. We have been slowly figuring things out. The other day we had some exciting things happen. We may not have found new members of the family, but we have been combining records so that each family is more complete. I never would have thought this would be so rewarding and fun. We love Family History work and we hope more people get excited about it too!