Good News Minute

So every week in Relief Society before the lesson is started it is always asked if anyone has any good news from the prior week to share with everyone. My good news minute to share with all of you is the following: For the last couple of months our CD with our wedding pictures has been lost. I still can't even begin to imagine where it could be and I know we've had it since we moved into this place. Anyway, I have torn the house apart up and down multiple times looking for the CD. I kept thinking I needed to call Shutterbugz Photography to see how much it would cost for me to get a new copy but I kept putting that off because I was certain that they would charge a lot and I didn't want to pay for something that I knew I already had. Well I finally bit the bullet and just called them. Now for the good news... It was free. The dude said that they charge nothing for a new copy! I called at about 10:00 a.m. and by 1:00 p.m. I had my new copy of all of our wedding day pictures! I was so happy. Anyway, so now I have added a bunch of pictures to our anniversary post from July if anyone has any interest in scrolling down to check them out :)

MEMORIES

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory (or more) that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you

It's a girl!

Well we have a new addition to our family and her name is Miss Eleanor Rose Harrison. I know I know, what respectful adults who don't even have kids get a pet hamster? Honestly we're asking ourselves that too but we love her!














Eleanor kind of looks like a rat, but not as creepy and she doesn't have a gross rat tail.

She has her own bike. She is supposed to get inside the big wheel and roll all around but she doesn't seem to love the bike just yet. We'll keep trying and see if she warms up to it.


*UPDATE*
Right after my Eleanor post we went to Bear Lake for the weekend (which I still need to blog about) and we left Eleanor home all alone. Well when we got home on Sunday evening Eleanor was not in her cage! We searched all over for her and were sure she was dead and we wouldn't find her until she started stinking or something. The good news is that we found her behind some boxes in the back of the pantry and she was just fine. We then decided she needed a friend so she wouldn't try to run away again so we got another hamster (I know, what's wrong with us?). I will try to post pictures of Mary Todd sometime soon. Let's just say calling them friends would be a huge stretch of the word "friend". Eleanor is a serious bully and we have had to save Mary Todd from getting beat up many times.

One year, going on forever...

Sunday was mine and Taylor's one year anniversary. We left Blanding on Saturday and headed to Manti where we stayed at the Manti House Inn B&B, which is right next to the beautiful Manti temple where we got married!




















We ate dinner at the bed and breakfast and had some amazing chocolate fondue with lots of delicious treats to dip in it. We then went for a little walk up around the temple. It was so cool to be there with Taylor one year later.

















The next morning we slept in, had breakfast and watched Hitch (yeah, real romantic I know). Then we headed for Park City. We spent the afternoon shopping, which is always great! Then we went to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. All I can say is that it definitely lived up to my high expectations! My food was sooooo good and Taylor really liked his too. After dinner we had to come home and back to the real world.

I am so thankful for my life with Taylor. He is the best husband in the world! He has made me laugh every day that I've known him. He is so thoughtful and I literally want to be with him every minute of every day. The last year has been the happiest and funnest year of my life. I look forward to many many more years like the last.

4th of July

Well last week was the 4th of July, which is one of my favorite holidays of the year. Blanding is the BEST place to be on the 4th! I had been talking it up ever since I met Taylor; we didn't go down last year because we were getting married in two days, so this was his first Blanding 4th. I warned him that he wouldn't get much sleep for a couple of days. We drove down after work on Wednesday. Thursday we spent the day with my family. We first went to baby hour at the pool with Marilyn, Noelle, Trent, Maxon, Oakley, Addi and Logan. It was lots of fun. Then we went up to our cabin on Blue Mountain with the whole family and ate lunch and four-wheeled around. As soon as we got back to town we had to go to the baseball fields for the beginning of Midnight Madness (overnight softball tournament). We had gotten a team together with some family and friends of ours. Luckily we got out soon enough that we were in bed before midnight, but it was a LOT of fun playing and next year we're hoping to win a game or two. The next morning, which was the 4th, we got up bright and early and headed down to the park. Taylor ran the annual 5k with some of my family members. Neither of us really know why he agreed to run but he did so well! I was so proud of him and I think he was glad he had done it. Then we had breakfast at the park and headed home to shower and get ready for the parade. The parade was the same as always, great and awful at the same time. Then it was carnival time. We pretty much just stood in line for Phillipino food for the longest time only to reach the front as soon as they ran out of most of their food. We did get some delicious kabobs so the wait wasn't completely worthless. We walked around and saw a bunch of my friends and caught up with a million people. Then we headed home for nap time. After resting we went to the boxing matches at the high school. They were enjoyable as usual. That evening we went to the melodrama because I figured I wouldn't be able to say I had given Taylor an authentic Blanding 4th of July experience without the melodrama. It was interesting of course. Then we headed down to the park for live music by "Crossroads" the band and then the best fireworks around. We were dead tired by the time the day ended but we had tons of fun! We loved spending time with my family and seeing so many friends I hadn't seen in a while. We forgot our camera so this post will have to remain pictureless for now.

Our house

When I found out in January that I had to go to NYC for a couple of months Taylor and I were already under contract to buy a new townhouse. Luckily we had a really good real estate agent (my best big bro) who helped to make the process easy for us, even from the other side of the country. We ended up doing the closing from our apartment in NY, so when we came home we had a new place to live that we were seeing finished for the first time (it was new construction and Jeremy did the walk-through for us).

This is our kitchen, which is SO much better than our old kitchen at our apartment. The door you can see goes out onto our first deck. Upstairs is deck #2 outside of our bedroom. Why would any two people such as us need two decks you might ask? We're not sure, but we've got em. I am loving the space and the openness of our new home.





We have loved living here and pretending to be grown-ups who own our own place.













This is our guest/game room. As you can see we have got double-shot basketball set up in there. We have yet to set up our dart board and air hockey table. I took this picture from the top bunk of the bunk beds so if any of you ever want to stay with us this is what you have to look forward to :)

Bees game

We went to the Bees game on Saturday with Cassie, Noelle, Trent, Maxon, Devan, Christofer and Radley. It was HOT and muggy at the game! The Bees won very easily and the game was real fun.