Seven Months Flew By!

Yesterday was Mark and I's seventh month anniversary.  Must say - PRETTY CRAZY!  Time flies by!  I know I really shouldn't gush too much about how much I love this man of mine, but I really do.  He is so incredibly good to me.  He makes me so happy every day.  Here are some things, especially the last month that he has done, that make me love him even more every day.

1 - He always makes sure to come home and sit down on the couch and talk with me.  For a socially deprived person, this is the greatest thing in the world!

2 - Once he's done with school - he comes home!  I feel so blessed that Mark studies at home and not at the library on campus.  It is completely selfish on my part, but I love to have someone else home at night.  I know that this is a rarity in a graduate student - and I truly am grateful to him for it.

3 - Mark is probably one of the most caring and thoughtful men I have ever met.  He is always there to cuddle and talk with me when I need him.  He is the greatest husband a girl could ask for.

I could go on and on about how much I love him.  But I guess I will just end that we are a very happily married seven month and one day couple.  Seven months down - eternity to go!

Family History

Since apparently I am destined to be unemployed here in Denver I have been coming up with lots of ways to keep myself busy.  I am making Christmas stockings.  I think Mark thought I was crazy when I told him what I was doing when I started last month. I think he reminded me how far away Christmas was more than once :)  haha, they are actually turning out pretty darn cute if I do say so myself - a lot more time consuming then I initially thought but I guess for me right now, that's a good thing!

I am also starting to make our wedding scrapbook.  I have never really done the whole scrapbook thing - but I absolutely love them and so want to have them.  However, as much I love the immense creativity I see with other people's with all of the embellishments and ribbons and things of the sort, I am not sure I am quite up to the task.  I am trying to focus my efforts on journal-ing and the pictures.  It looks pretty simple, but I think I am okay with it.  Maybe once I get a little bit more done I will post some pictures of the pages.  My goal is to never get more that a year behind in our family scrapbook.  By the end of December I want to have the wedding scrapbook DONE!  Next year, I will work on the 2011 scrapbook.  We will see how the goal goes - I am optimistic. 

However, what has BY FAR kept me the most busy is doing family history work.  That has essentially become my full time job.  I spend hours and hours doing it.  In fact, I am pretty sure it is safe to say, the entire time Mark is at school I am on the computer researching.  What has been even MORE fun is that Mark has gotten really into it as well.  He obviously doesn't have as much time to do it as I - he's got that whole school thing going on at the moment :) - but he seems to really enjoy doing it as well.  In fact about a month ago when I first showed him how to look up things and add it onto our Personal Ancestry File and such, he stayed up till four in the morning looking up stuff.  He was bursting to show me all that he found when we got up the next morning.  It is so much fun to have this work to do together. 

We are actually planning on making a book.  We want to have someplace to put all of our research and stories and pictures and journals that we have found about our families.  We want to have something that we can pass along to our little kiddos someday.  It is so much fun to find out so many new things each day.  The one we are really excited about right now is yesterday, I found out that one of my grandpas way back when - was an adviser to the Prophet Joseph Smith.  He is listed in the Doctrine of Covenants four times.  I was VERY excited to say the least yesterday!  I learned that although he was not a perfect man - he was a good man.  Anyway, it is a wonderful thing to find out the legacy that was made before you and to try and continue that on in your own life.

Right now, I guess I am just trying to find my "purpose."  I don't really feel like I am getting any closer.  Just trying to not get discouraged but how un-exciting my life is right now I guess.  A job I interviewed for last week that was IDEAL - absolutely perfect - I got e-mailed yesterday from the principal telling me that they are not sure they can afford to hire me with the budget because they now have to hire another teacher.  Rarr...kind of discouraging.  Oh well, I just keep hoping that something will work out.  I guess for right now, maybe family history is what I am supposed to be doing.  So off I go - more research to do! :) 

Our Day in Golden

This Labor Day we decided we'd better stay close-ish to home (only one day off plus Mark had a test on Tuesday) so I looked up a couple of possibilities and we decided we would spend our day in Golden.  We woke up early on Monday morning and drove about an hour to Golden Gate State Park.  It's a beautiful area just about a half hour drive from Golden.  

They have twelve trails that all look pretty awesome but we decided this go around we would do the "Buffalo Trail."  It was a beautiful day to go hiking but we were a little sad to not see any exciting wildlife (the day before on the trail we went on people had seen a mountain lion and a moose).  But we still had fun!

At the end of our hike were these old historical buildings - some were holding up a little better than others :)

This was called the Tallman Ranch and it was nestled here by this little lake by a Swedish family in the 1870's.  Their family stayed here until the 1950's - pretty crazy.  A beautiful place to be though. 

After our hike we went and ate lunch at Panorama Point.  It was beautiful - perfect day.  

After we were done eating we changed our clothes and drove back down to Golden.  It's a nice little town on the west side of Denver.  We decided we would go to the Colorado Railroad Museum that is there.  I have quickly learned that the railroad is a BIG deal here is Colorado and they have a really neat museum here.  They have made all of these replicas of different trains and the whole countryside with them plus have some other interesting stuff inside.  

This replica was ENORMOUS!  So cool how detailed it was!

Outside of the museum they have a bunch of trains that you can look at and inside.  It was neat to see how this form of transportation looked like inside and try and imagine traveling like that.  

These HUGE trains cleared away the snow on the tracks - they were absolutely MASSIVE!

 

Overall it was a really great day.  We are excited to be here and see these new sights here in the Denver area. 

BYU Football

I think I can pretty confidently say that Mark's favorite time of the year has come and he is one happy little boy.  FOOTBALL SEASON!  And more specifically - BYU FOOTBALL SEASON!  I'll tell you what - I thought my family were die-hard fans, we are nothing compared to the Bernings.  THEY LOVE IT!  And it is quite fun actually.  And I am totally fine with being a BYU fan - until they play the Aggies of course (which by the way, we did pretty darn good on Saturday!). 

But to commemorate this fun new beginning of BYU football, Mark and I decided to make "Y" shaped sugar cookies.  We had fun making and decorating for the big event.  We are SO happy that BYU was able to win on Saturday against Ole Miss (14-13).  I am learning so much about the world of sports.  WOOT WOOT!