MARCHing through springtime

What a great month this was! The month of March was a really great one to be sure, and we did so much that we forgot about what we did until we looked at our photos that we took. We had spring break, Taylor came to visit, we went hiking, and we're preparing for graduation soon. Not in that order mind you, that's just the things that came to our minds in that order.

 First of all Taylor came to visit us and get more acquainted with his new sister-in-law. It was great having him over and spending time with him. Stuart has four younger brothers so it's hard to get everyone together to do something.We took him out to Sizzler and got steaks and everything.

While Taylor was here, we took him on a tour of campus. We walk this campus every day and yet our feet hurt a lot more this time! We aren't true Aggies, but we are Aggie blue.

So for spring break we did the most exciting thing we could think of doing, going to Idaho state and checking out their speech pathology program... Yeah it was a bust. BUT we did have some fun touring campus and we even ran into this huge institute building on campus that was pretty nice to walk through and everything. We know Daily's mom would love it if we took a picture of it so here it is.

 We took another photo at the University sign here just to prove that we went there.

In compliance with our official "church-nerdiness" we visited two temples on our trip: the Rexburg Temple and the Idaho Falls temple. Fun fact: Daily always dreamt of being married in the Idaho Falls temple.

We ended our trip through Idaho and came back in time for the graduation fair that was going on on campus the week after spring break. Stuart got his cap and gown and received a little something extra, a medal from the college of Humanities and Social Sciences. It's pretty cool and you can see him holding it up here along with his cap.

We were definitely blessed to rest up during spring break. Now that we are back in school everything is going so fast and we're lucky to keep up. The end is in sight, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

Gracious scavenging

This week we went on a picture scavenger hunt in order to find things that we are grateful for.  We went to Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond because they were right next to each other and they were nicer retail stores than Walmart. Smaller too, which became a bit of a problem when the employees started noticing that we were going from one end of the store to the other with no obvious intentions of purchasing a thing. We got a big list of things we needed to look for, nothing really specific, so we had to be creative with our choices of things to be thankful for.

Something in color- Easter decorations

 Something in nature- the ocean

 In the city- clocks

 In the park-benches (we spent a lot of time sitting on park benches when we were dating. Grateful for those special memories!)

 Something that is soft- it's a blanket, they're nice and soft.

 Something Hard- It was supposed to be a piano, but we couldn't find one, so we went with headphones, that have music in them.

 Something in my closet- This is supposed to be representative of my temple bag.

 With Texture- Stuart's face before it's shaved.

 In my Kitchen- Food, the picture on that box.

 In the Weather- Sunshine!

 In Black and White- A suit.

 In the workforce- Secretaries

 With words on it- Stuart liked it because it's how he feels about Daily.

 That Entertains Me- The movie Frozen

 That is Unique to me- Stuart is getting his diploma very soon!

 In the Retail Industry- All of the random things that keep Daily entertained in the grocery store. 

 In my neighborhood- trees and flowers (We are so anxious for Spring!)

 That keeps me warm- Stuart keeps Daily warm.

 That makes me cough... I mean, laugh- Puppies

 In regards to the holidays- lights, the twinkling kind that look like stars, although an Ihome will do for a scavenger hunt. 

 In the month of November- Football 

 That makes my life easier- Kitchen aid

 That reminds me of friends- Grilling

 That is indicative of my city- We live in Utah... remind me again why we live in Utah? I guess we had to meet somehow...

 Represents my country- Hamburgers

 In your house- a mop

 Gets me from here to there- Our feet!

Keeps me healthy and strong- Brownie brittle, for mental health. 

What a great date, and with a fun treat of frozen yogurt afterwards, life was complete. 

Valentine's Week

We really enjoyed Valentine's this year. With it being our first Valentine's as a married couple, we made it nice and special by celebrating the whole week. There were little treats throughout the week and fun activities to do together. One of our activities was to go to Cold stone creamery. What a treat!

 We celebrated actual Valentine's day by going to the temple together. It was a very special experience that we had.  It is always a very spiritual time that we have and we wouldn't trade it for anything. We've decided to make it another one of our Valentine traditions.

 So we went to go see the 5 Browns in concert on Valentine's Day! It was so amazing and we loved every second of it.  Stuart loved the opening numbers of the Planets by Gustav Holst.  Not all of it was there, just Mars, Neptune, and Jupiter, the three best ones in Stuart's opinion.  He also liked "Toccatina" by Nikolai Kapustin. It was about using every finger you had on the piano and going at the speed of light as well, it was very very fast. Daily enjoyed "Clair de Lune" and "Noturn in C Minor". (She printed off the music this morning... we'll see if it actually gets into her repertoire).

You know you're an adult when you plan your trip around buying gas and food for the trip. Brigham City had cheap gas, and we stopped off to grab a soda and candy bar on the way home. After a wonderful dinner at Sonic's (this wasn't the original plan, but Winger's was packed), we were pretty sure our bodies would hate us anyways, so we "spoiled" ourselves. It was worth it.

Very soon we'll be writing in the family letter that Stuart's family has been doing ever since 1979. Not that he wrote in it back then, it was done by his mother's parents and they have insisted that all grandchildren had to start writing in it once they got married.  Well that time has come.

We can't wait to write again blogging more about our adventures.

182.5 days later

Well what do you know?  Six months have gone by since we've been married!  Can you believe it?  We can.  Do we really believe it? Maybe. It's just been such an amazing adventure that keeps on getting better as time goes on.  And we don't see it stopping any time soon either.  Here's to an extra eternity in the future.

Our actual six month anniversary... (monthiversary?)... was on a Sunday, so we opted to celebrate it a couple of days early by going to the Beehive grill. We've been hearing the "buzz" about it for a while. It's a local favorite, located on Main street. Then again, everything in Logan is on Main street.

You'd think we would get tired of each other. Our schedules are such, as students, that we get to see each other multiple times throughout the day. We even get to take an institute class together. But, every time we're together, it's special. We love those time we just get to sit and talk about nothing in particular or really nothing at all. 

Daily got a french dip sandwich and Stuart got to taste it the next day as he was trying to figure out what to eat for lunch.  It was amazing.  Along with the meals we got, there were fries too.  As for Stuart's meal, he got prime rib, which was a little dry.  But the root beer barbecue sauce that came with it was divine.  And by the way... did you know that the Beehive grill has its own craft root beer?  We do now, and it was amazing as well.  We recommend getting it whenever you may go there next.

In conjunction with the dinner, Daily had been working on a special present. 435 jelly beans for the 435 days that we had known one another.

It all seems so fast, and yet there are so many memories that have happened in the last year and few months. These last few months, especially, have been chalked-full of special memories that we won't forget. Even if we get too old to remember, we've written a bunch of them down... just in case.

6 months

Date night at the Bluebird

This week we finally went to the Bluebird! We pass this restaurant often, and the enchantment finally got to us. It's a little soda and ice cream parlor, along with candies and a restaurant. You see, we had a date planned for Saturday- ice skating. However, something just feels wrong about being a newlywed couple and not doing  something on Friday night.

The week was overall a very uneventful one, mostly filled with schoolwork and work work.  Things got better as the weekend arrived and we decided to do something.  We were going to see the Antics comedy show, but we found out a few hours before we left that they had cancelled their show.  So we sat staring at the wall for a few minutes as we realized that we didn't know what to do with our night.  That's when we decided to go over to the blue bird restaurant over on main street.  It was a late night already (8pm) and we had already eaten dinner.  So we decided to go over there and get some soda and ice cream. Of course, it makes sense to eat ice cream when it is literally freezing outside... we are turning into true Utahans!

When we arrived at the restaurant we got to sit down on bar stools, and watch as the waitress prepared the ice cream and soda orders.

Stuart ordered a Vanilla Cream Soda and Daily got a chocolate sundae. We knew we would pay for this later... our digestive systems don't like it when we eat past seven. The perks of getting older.

The way they prepared the Vanilla Cream Soda was interesting.  They took some regular run of the mill Sprite and added vanilla syrup and heavy whipping cream.  It was fantastic! Stuart could have gone with another cup if he wasn't already full of ice cream.  Daily loved her sundae and could barely finish it, it was so big!

It looks like we found another gem of a restaurant to share in Logan. This city is finally growing on us. Of course, falling in love here is probably one reason why we like it here so much. There are lots of good memories here in Logan and we are excited to see what fun places we can find in the next year!

Restaurant critique: Indian Oven

While this blog will be used for many things pertaining to our relationship, one of the types of blog posts will be about our experience as various restaurants. We have always loved eating out together and always love looking for new places.

This week we went to the Indian Oven in downtown Logan. We had been eyeing this place for quite some time and we finally got around to going there just last night.  Our original plan was to go to the Logan temple for an endowment session, but when we got there we found out the temple was closed.  So we went driving around town after changing out of our church clothes.  When we got hungry enough, and cold enough (it was really cold), we went to the Indian Oven to get some good food.

There was this really sweet older lady there to serve us. She seemed to be related to the restaurant owners, and had a slight accent that was adorable. Half way through our meal, she was replaced by a very cheerful blonde woman. The service was great. The best part though was being there together.

Now on to the food that was served to us. Stuart got the shrimp curry and Daily got the Chicken Aloo. The shrimp was great, it was jumbo shrimp that was in a sweet curry sauce that was just about right.  We were given a bowl of rice to put on our plates and then douse it with the curry or aloo.  The chicken aloo had potatoes in with the sauce that made it so much better. On top of all of this, the long-grain rice they gave us was so soft and perfect. We also got garlic flatbread (Naan Bread) that was just plain amazing.  It was cooked in a clay oven, so it had to be good.

Initially, we were worried that there wouldn't be enough food for the two of us. Being used to 'merican-sized portions, the smaller serving sizes at this restaurant made us uneasy. However, when paired with the rice and reasonably-priced appetizer and drinks, we were stuffed.

Don't fear though, we still managed to head for doughnuts, spudnuts to be exact. But that's a review for another time.

Rating: 9/10