Our FIRST Anniversary!

I can't believe it's been a year already! We wanted to do something fun for our anniversary and we ended up getting a sweet deal to stay at the Shilo Inn downtown SLC. Ooooh, big city! Nothing like the Kamas Inn here in the sticks. Anyway, we stayed over Saturday night and Sunday night. They had free breakfast, indoor pool (pretty dumpy), cable, a fridge, a microwave, and all of the $1.50 bottles of water you could drink, sprawled across your room.
The highlight of the weekend was actually going to church at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We were hoping it would be the same ward that the prophet attends, but his was later in the day. Bummer. We'd probably run into Miss Strassburg. This ward was fascinating. They had a few young families that all sat in the back, and all the rich old people sat in the front. Clear segregation. Even the 2 lines of deacons: one old, one young. The speakers sounded as if they had come straight out of speaking in conference. The musical number was a soprano from MoTab singing an Italian Christmas carol... in Italian. Needless to say, we were very impressed with the downtown wards.
Later that night, we went and saw the lights at Temple Square. Same old routine with the talking nativity and thousands of people. Those sister missionaries had their work cut out for them.
We had a pretty fun anniversary. I know we won't be able to be so frivolous in the future, but it's nice to able to do this while we can.




They had these floating balls on the reflecting pond that looked really cool. I can't believe this picture even turned out!

What else do Temple Square sister missionaries do? They make excellent photographers. I think that's about ALL they do.

We posed after sacrament meeting in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building lobby!

Let it snow!

I've decided that I still need to keep up with the blog even though I don't have any cool pictures to post. It is finally December and the snow is falling! I'm back at Deer Valley for a while, because my other job at DCM got cut WAY back. I'll probably spend one day a week working on stuff for next summer, but that's all. Bevan and I are just discovering the joys of budgeting with a smaller income.

It's nice being outside again. I forgot how much I missed skiing, especially when ski patrol just opened up some new terrain for the season. I'm meeting all kinds of new friends and catching up with old ones. I bought a new tube of sunscreen and I'm stocking up on toe warmers (best things ever invented!)

Bevan and I are reaching our first anniversary and we both can't believe how fast the time has gone. Seems like yesterday we were planning for the wedding. They say that the first year of marriage is the hardest, but if that's true... then I'd love to see the next 60! It's been so much fun having somebody to hang out with all the time. Road trip buddy, hiking buddy, ski buddy, and carpool buddy. I know that we haven't even been seriously tried yet in our marriage, but we're just enjoying the good times while they last. Long live the newlyweds!