Rise and Shout

Well, we're smack in the middle of football season. Matt's had a great season so far. He's starting as defensive end. It's been an interesting season, but none-the-less it's a blast to watch Matt play. It's so fun to see another side of him on the field and see that competitive fire and drive light up when he goes on the field. Sometimes I wonder if that's the same guy I'm married to. He told me a couple weeks ago that you have to have a little crazy in you to play defense .... what?! Matt .... crazy .... hahahaha. Pretty sure I was laughing for at least 10 minutes after that ... but he insisted that's the truth. So you can ask Matt about his 'crazy side' next time you see him and see what he says. ha. But I am SO PROUD of him. He's gone through a lot and continues to go through a lot to be where he is today. He is amazing. I'm so incredibly lucky. I love to brag that he's my hubby.

Much of our schedules revolve around football but that's ok ... I guess it's a little more exciting that way. And can I say that I am SOOO excited for the bye week this weekend!! I get to be with Matt ALL weekend ... none of this being by myself Friday and Saturday :) We've got it all booked with fun stuff and we'll be all over the place but it's gonna be a fun one! Happy Halloween!

Anywhoos ... here's a bunch of pictures from the games (courtesy of BYU Photography) in no particular order (and it's very likely that I didn't put some of them with the right game):

*to see the whole slideshows of the games where I got these from click here

See if you can pick him out in all the pics ...

v. Florida State

How awesome is this pic

v. Washington

v. San Diego State

He's right in the middle

v. Air Force

v. Nevada

v. San Diego State again

I looovvee this picture (above) ... how awesome - Matt swatting down a pass

Isn't he just soo cute

Independence Day

We spent July 4th at Wendy's house, Matt's sister, and her kids. I never knew someone could get so excited over spinners and smoke bombs and all the other little fireworks you buy at the stands. It was like watching a little boy at a candy store when we walked into the fireworks tent.

This picture does a pretty good job of showing how happy he was

The little kids loved running through the smoke

National Golf Day

Happy National Golf Day yesterday!! And so to celebrate it ... I thought I'd share some of our golf pictures from this summer.

We've been golfing a lot more than just these 2 times but they were the only times I took pictures ... or that Matt would let me take pictures.

At Hobble Creek:

John and Jake - 2 of my coworkers/friends that invited us to come with them

Matt got a birdie (I think) on this hole below (I wanna say it was his 1st or 2nd ever...but it's been awhile so I'm not sure) and this was his face after-the-fact above ... He really didn't want me to take the picture ... but I did anyways

I just thought this was pretty

"Where did the ball go"

Me having fun in the golf cart as we drove from hole to hole

Jake

I kinda love this picture

At Sleepy Ridge:

This is us going at the very beginning of spring so it was still super cold but we just wanted to go golfing so bad

InCreDibLE

Of course this is late, but it just had to be documented.

It all started after BYU beat Washington at home a couple weeks back. (Sidenote: it was an awesome game to watch and attend) My brother, Michael, came with me to the game and we met up with his roommate and our friend, John, afterwards to give them a ride home. We were all hungry so we decided to go to Denny's.

Little did we know that we were going to be there for over 2 hours.

We hit the last of the game crowd when we arrived but were seated immediately. (After about 20-30 min there weren't very man people there at all.) Our waiter didn't come to our table for 10-15 min ... which we thought was kinda weird but didn't think too much about it. He took our orders and then we only saw him once before he brought us our food .... 1 1/2 hours later ... and it was cold (like it had ready for an hour). Our drinks were never refilled ... even when we asked him to. Michael couldn't even finish his food because he was so thirsty. Another waitress that came on shift ended up cleaning our places and telling our waiter to bring us our checks. Every once in a while, I would see him peer out of the kitchen door, look around at the tables for 2 seconds, and then go back to hiding in the kitchen. It was sooo crazy. We watched several other groups of people walk out without receiving their food but we wanted to be better than that. It actually really bothers me when people do stuff like that, but that's another story. Poor guy ... he was obviously new ... but ... had his parent's never taken him out to dinner before?

Anyways .... for such a crazy, unusual, horrible restaurant experience with our food .... it was the most ideal group of people it could have happened to. We were laughing pretty much the whole time. Mike and John are 2 of the funniest people I know ... put them together ... plus Matt ... and there's no way of not laughing so hard your crying. We made light of the situation and time passed by with the game of "3 things", making paper airplanes out of the placemats, finger people acts, and so on. The 2 hours passed by fairly quickly for how starving and thirsty we were. We couldn't imagine if this had happened to a couple on their first date .... it would probably be the worst first date experience ever.

So ... moral of the story is this:

Go to IHOP

And ... I'm extremely grateful for good friends and especially friends that me laugh so hard I cry.

I really hope this doesn't come across as being mean ... we just all thought it was such an unusual, crazy, incredible experience ... I just had to write it down for memories

Blogging

I've been shamefully bad at blogging this summer and then some. And now fall is basically here and I have no idea how time went by so fast. I seriously write blog posts in my head while I'm at work and wandering around our apt cleaning and cooking but I never get around to actually typing them and uploading the pictures ... and after trying to remember my mind posts after so long, I get sick of them and don't even want to blog them anymore. Story of my life.

So ... I'm going to try and be better. We'll see how long this lasts.

Matt and I had lots of fun of the summer...we were hardly ever home. It didn't even feel like summer most of the time ... I was (and am) still working 9-6 everyday and stuck inside at my desk while the sun was shining outside, but Matt got to be at work with me every afternoon once his morning weightlifting was done. We tried to engulf summer in the few hours we had after getting home from work after 6 so we went to lots of movies and restaurants and baseball games and golfing and anything else that involved being together but not at our place (which is kinda funny cause we LOVE our new condo ... it's the best).

And now .... FOOTBALL has started! 2 games down already! It felt so surreal being at the first home game and watching Matt playing with the sun beating down on my face. It just doesn't feel like it's September. It's Matt's junior year on the team and in case you haven't gotten the memo - he's a new number - #41! I'm still getting used to it and it's weird to see another player wearing 57 - I feel like he shouldn't be allowed to wear it cause it was Matt's number. ha. I've got pics to put up of all of Matt's bruises that have been covering his body these days.

And school has of course started. Weird. Matt's going full-time and I'm part-time taking classes online with Independent Study. Like I said ... it should not be September yet.

I'm FINALLY 21! Not that it really means anything cool when you're a mormon .... now I can drink and gamble and smoke .... OH WAIT ... I don't and wouldn't do any of those things anyways. Oh shucks. I'll go drop $20 in a slot machine in Vegas next time we're down just because I can.

I'll try to be back quickly to post all the hundreds of pictures we've taken this summer and actually update on what's really been going on in our lives. Who knows though ... it may end up Thanksgiving or Christmas and anyone of you reading this will know just about what you know now....ha....sucker. Just kidding ... thank you for reading and being genuinely interested in our lives. :)

2 YEARS

2 Years ago July 25th this happened:

So ... this is how we celebrated such a momentous occasion ...

Started off with breakfast here:

And then ...

Can you tell we're excited to be here:

After a long day of twists and turns and ups and downs and g-forces this way and that .... we crashed in this awesome hotel:

And woke up the next morning to go here:

And then went to see this awesomeness:

And then went to eat this wonderfulness:

And then back to the hotel

We had a blast with our quick little getaway celebrating our last 2 wonderful years together. I've come to realize the hand of God in our lives so much more on a daily basis and in the whole of our lives. There have and will continue to be things happen in our lives where we need each other. God brought us together for so many reasons and we've needed each other in so many ways and for so many reasons. I'm so lucky to have Matt for my hubby. Thanks for making these last 2 years the best of my life! Love you!

Transmodification Central

Our bedroom makeover is COMPLETE! And we are loving it ... only problem is it makes me want to redo our other rooms. We had tons of fun shopping around for everything and picking out just what we wanted. I'm so lucky Matt likes to do all that sorts of stuff of shopping and decorating with me.

So here's the BEFORE picture again -

And Transformation!

The panels/curtains are different tracks on the ceiling so we can move the panels however we want and make different patterns or open them all up and let the sun shine through

I do still want to put up some more pictures of us but I'm planning on repainting some frames we already have so that may take some time. But all in all .... I'm quite proud of how it turned out and it's such a peaceful room now.