New shoes

After a year of marriage I'm finally learning a thing or two about my husband. A couple days ago he mentioned he needed some normal everyday shoes. I immediately said lets get some! He said no, so today I went to buy him some new shoes. I realized that maybe he had some in mind and asked him and sure enough he did. He put them on tonight and I said "you look so cute with your new shoes" he replied "you haven't seem me dress my best for you!" it was so precious and lovable, especially since I can never get TJ to buy anything for himself I am thoroughly delighted in his new pair of shoes!
More updates on us I'm back in school! I decided to keep on my journey to becoming a Registered Dietitian, I have to take 4 more prerequisites, currently I am taking Organic Chemistry from a Polish man and an Indian man, they are way fun but kind of hard to understand I'm not going to lie. I love it though and I even met a girl my first day who is like my twin and we are going for the same program, I'm excited for the next 3 years!
I miss Colorado! I don't know why but the place you grow up is always home, I miss it dearly. I try really really hard to love Salt Lake I focus on all the good things and I do love it but it's just not the same as home. Sigh . . . . I'll see you in the spring time Colorado!!!

Catching up on life!

Anniversary:
So I was about to head to bed when I remembered you are supposed to get your spouse certain items for your anniversary depending on the year the first year is paper or clocks. Luckily I printed some pictures and found a really cool frame, so I got the paper thing covered. Even more lucky TJ recently lost his watch as well, so I can buy him one of those too, glad I didn't break tradition the first year. Phew!!!

Dreams:
I've been in a really happy phase of my life but for the past 2 nights I've had intense nightmares. Night one consisted of a comet similar to Hailey's comet that was skidding through the atmosphere causing hurricane like effects. Everyone's windows shattered and a strong wind flew in, my thoughts were good thing I'm a poor newly wed and don't own a home because then I would have to replace the windows, second thought pray. So Lily yes my old roommate and mission colleague was there and I start to pray and then it all stopped. It was a much better dream then any action movie I've been to lately and I attribute this dream to the hurricane in Haiti and a heater above our bed. However as I reflect on it now I think of how life can seem like a hurricane, you never know where you are going to land and quite often have no idea how you are where you are but if you have faith and good attitude why worry it's not going to change where you land for the better.

The night after that I dreamed TJ and I were in some enormous old hotel, think like in The Shinning, and no I haven't seen the movie for years, anyway, wolves are chasing us everywhere and we hide for a while in a room and then scout out to find if it is safe only to run into wolves randomly everywhere. I have no idea where this dream came from but as I sat in the temple tonight and thought everything was so clear about life. When I'm going through day to day I find myself being deceived in really amazing ways, and I wonder how it's possible, then I realize that Satan really is pretty smart and has waged war against the souls of those who follow Christ, I know that by faith in Christ we can completely overcome Satan but I've realized those times where I've though "ha Satan, you wish, go ahead and try to tempt me" well I wouldn't recommend it because he's good but anyway that is a dark subject and I'm going to examine my life and see where the wolves are getting in.
Well it's late I should be in bed I'll throw in some fun pictures and a video so that those of you who really just like to look at pictures enjoy. The video is of a day TJ and I went snowshoeing, we snowshoed a couple miles up a gradual incline that I didn't even notice and then I started to get worried because TJ had to be at work in less time than it took us to hike up there but he lied down head first and said lay on top of me and we sled the whole way down, really everyone else was wondering why they hadn't thought of that but that's why I love my TJ. My hat kept slipping over my eyes so sorry if there are some bad shots and this is just a short bit it took us about 20 mins to get down versus an hour and a half to get up. We also got to spend last weekend in St George with one of TJ's best friends and his new wife and a billion other people it was so nice to get out of the gloom and we even spent an entire day outside playing without coats it was a blast. The pictures are from "The Crack" you shimmy through a crack and then climb out of a hole. I just looked at my photos and will also have to include my chimney sweep husband pictures, one day TJ came home looking like this, he was ripping out the chimney of his brothers home, I think it's kind of hot!

Favorite Quotes of Christmas Break

"I have a higher IQ than all of you . . . . COMBINED!!!" -Mike, after the men lost to the women

"I'm not sure if it's the nausea or the sickness that's causing the pregnancy?" -a sister who asked not to be identified at this time on the internet, and no it's not me.

TJ in his sleep: (kissing noise)
Liz awake and laughing: "what was that?"
TJ awake now: "what was that"
an hour later
TJ in his sleep :"Cool" (pause)
Liz wide awake: "what?"
TJ "there are more babies born on 21st South than 20th East"
Liz: "really?" (laughing)
5 mins. later
TJ's awake
Liz: "do you know what you just said?"
TJ: "ya"
Liz: "really"
TJ: "ya Chyelin's parents live on 21st South, aw man I'm tired"

Saturday

With about 30 free minutes of my Saturday, I look at my to do list that takes about a page and decided my blog needs some love and everything else. . . well it's not going to get done in 30 minutes especially with Saturday traffic in Salt Lake. I could clean a little but my mom will be here Tuesday and she might need something to do, just kidding, (but no one cleans as good as mom and honestly she usually does it anyway). Before I got married she stayed with me and I came home to her scrubbing the floor with a toothbrush, maybe I imagined the toothbrush but I didn't have a mop yet so it must have been a sponge or something.
Yea for moms and for having one day besides the Sabbath day off a week that happens to also be everyone's day off in a metropolitan area! We hit our year anniversary tomorrow and I still have not made enlargements, that was my goal, oh well, I don't even know where a decent photo place is and if I were to find one it would a) probably be closed or b) take more than 3o minutes to get to and back. I think we should arrange Salt Lake into six zones like on my mission at Temple Square and all have different preparation days. Reasons I'm in favor:
1. less traffic congestion
2. when I go to a store I won't have to wait in line for ever, wasting even more of my free day
3. less people would have to work weekends
4. the stores will remain more organized throughout the week causing less manpower to reorganize them (also when I'm trying to find TJ a size Large sweater I won't have to dig under and through piles of clothes) see good for the store and for the customer
Reason's I'm opposed:
1. I actually like being off when "normal" people are so that we can all get together for events
2. I like the feeling of community, because I actually see people on Saturday's, I hardly see people in Salt Lake, mostly just cars!
3. It just wouldn't be a weekend anymore
4. I like two days off in a row where I am able to completely space out work and forget that I even work there till Sunday night or Monday morning when the alarm goes off
My final conclusion is that everyone except my friends and family should be subjected to the new zoning laws immediately for my convenience. Now I'm just feeling selfish, ah well.

Book Club demanded that we be something scary for Halloween something I've never done before so I went for a witch. TJ chose to be a scarecrow to kind of match. At work one of my coworker's daughter asked me if I was the witch from Sleeping Beauty and I said "yes the one with the apple" she looked at me confused and I realized later on because that was the witch in Snow White whoops anyways, we stopped by with the nieces and nephews for a family hot dog BBQ at Jeff's and then headed to a party at one of my friends Rachel's. Rachel and I picked out the same wedding ring, except they added more diamonds to theirs. We have the same dress only mine in Ivory and her's and white and recently we learned we have the same camera. All of these things were chosen before we became friends. Somehow I neglected to get a picture of us. One of the highlights was TJ playing Rock Band for the first time. He aced everything the first try. One of his natural talents who knew? Up top is Vanessa and I we were roommates when I first moved out here everyone thinks we are sisters even when I went to look at the house the other two roommates said I reminded them of her. So there we are the Spaniard and the Greek somehow that European blood crossed into something similar.

TJ's brother Brian and his wife Julie had a Clue Murder Mystery night at their home it was such a blast! TJ and I went as the White's the picture is compliments of my lovely sister-in-law, Caitlin. The killer turned out to be the very pregnant Miss Laura Scarlet, who knew.

Where to start, so I've had my TJ back for a week today it's been wonderful!!! Halloween week was a blast as well. All the parties and caramel corn were fabulous, the week kicked off with our book club Frankenstein Halloween party. I did not really enjoy reading Frankenstein but the ladies in my book group helped me see a lot of good in it and learn lessons like take responsibility for your mistakes early on as well as there is good and evil to everyone and the older we get the more mistakes we have made but we have to learn to overcome mistakes with beauty or something like that. The main thing that caused me to not like the book (stop reading now if you plan on reading the book) was when Frankenstein's life long love Elizabeth gets killed on their wedding night. Who leaves their bride alone on their wedding night!!!??? Anyway there was a lot of flowery language as well that I found my self dazing out during. But the book is quite an accomplishment by the 19 year old Mary Shelly and she came from an absolutely amazing background, her mother and father were both writers, her mother was one of the original feminists and her father a politician as well as she hung out with other authors such as Lord Byron. I love my book club group they are some of my favorite ladies great examples of down-to-earth but very enlightened and intelligent women who are all around amazing women who have impacted my life in different ways.