Feeling 22!

Life has continued to be wonderful and great! We celebrated Hayley's 22nd birthday this weekend and celebrated at Cafe Rio (of course!) and with new bikes! Our summer plans now include bike rides with our stylish helmets.

A new temple is about to be dedicated in Utah! A temple is different than a church building where we hold our weekly worship services. There are currently 145 temples in the world where members of the Church are married and make sacred covenants with God. The next temple to be built is in Payson, and we went to the open house last week. It was a beautiful building, built to the glory and honor of God! The stained glass was gorgeous and we loved hearing the expressions of the little children who were walking through, many seeing the inside of the temple for the first time. (During the open house, everybody may go through and see the interior).

And for those interested, our peas are growing! But those poor tomatoes....

The First Month

Spring. New Life. Green. We are grateful that we got married in the time of year when new life comes forth and new beginnings are seen from the trees to the ground to the animals. Beginning a new family together has been full of adventures and here are some of them:

Planting peas and wild flowers for family night! (The flowers popped up the other day; still waiting on the peas!)

Learning to balance commuting and school and work has led to some creative ways of eating! We love our crock pot, and even brought it to campus one day to cook our chicken while we went to class and work (don't tell!).

It was fun to go to Salt Lake for conference and enjoy the spring weather and uplifting messages and music. We even met some new friends from England who live in Canada, and they get the photo credit here :)

We love life and it's been even better being together!