Fall is here.

We turned our heater on today.

It will probably stay on until June.

I am so excited for the fall and the upcoming holidays.
We are excited to start developing our own family traditions.
And decorating our house.

My Mom always go all out when it comes to this time of year
and decorating.
I wish I had a picture of all of her decorations.
I hope to someday be decorate like she does.
It always made all the difference during the holidays.

rearranging.

We decided to do some rearranging Sunday.

Please ignore the wreath.

Its a work in progress.

And a pain to hang up. 

Here is what it looked like before. 

over the weekend. and week.

Benji's mom and brother 

came into town to visit us this past week.

Last Saturday we spent the day in Jackson Hole

with them.

As we were wandering around we went into this store

that was closing and had everything 80% off. 

Benji found these red leather pants.

That of course he had to try on.

Then this past weekend we all went down to Utah

for General Conference and to see my sister and her family.

We hadn't seen my sister and her family since February.

I loved being with them.

I wish we had gotten to spend more time together. 

Our view from our seats in the Conference center. 

Happy 19th.

I hope you had a good day.

I know I sure did.

this picture was taken before we were in love.

Dec. 2009

Actually, this is the first picture taken together. ever.

At the end of the semester I wanted to get a picture with Benji

but I wasn't sure how to approach it.

I told one of my roommates I wanted a picture and she simply said just ask him and take a picture.

For some reason I was still really nervous about it.

But I finally asked him. He said no.

And he kept avoiding it.

I told you he was a party pooper.

But then finally right before we left for the semester I had a roommate take some.

But this was before he ever played with my hair at night to fall asleep.

Before he ever saw the truly silly and goofy side of me.

Before we took a ton of pictures in this same pose.
Even with my hand awkwardly stabbing his stomach.
Before he realized I am an anal clean freak.
Before he taught me to embrace different kinds of people, and things.
Before we ever had a disagreement and then came to understand each other.
Before we had all of our inside jokes between each other.
Before we realized, we are very much different from each other
and it doesn't really matter.
Before so many things, that have made us today.
So glad that we are a "we".
So glad we are more than just husband and wife,
but we are best friends.

Weekend Recap.

Friday night was date night.

Johnny Carino's for dinner.

And Colombiana later.

Saturday was exploring day.

For my birthday last year Benji and I went to see two waterfalls

north of Rexburg, called Mesa Falls.

While we were there we went on a little walk

had a picnic and craved our initials in a tree.

Earlier, this week we had the idea to go back to find

our tree to see what the craving looked like.

Last year.                                                                                                          On Saturday.

First Day of School.

Today is the first day of school.

For Benji.

It still feels weird being out of school.

Saturday, after we went exploring we stopped in

Rexburg and saw some of Benji's friends.

We went to the apartment complex that I lived in for 3 years.

It felt interesting to be back there 

and see so many people moving in and remember all the times I moved in. 

Benji wouldn't let me take a picture as he was leaving for school.

Like you used to do in elementary school.

He is a party pooper.

Here is one Cassie took for us.