PORTLAND

We are moving, pretty crazy, to Portland.  Jared got into OHSU for dental school.  Yay!! for our future.

So far this is what people have told me about Portland

• It's very liberal
• There is a lot of marijuana
• There are a ton of farmers markets
• People pick up after their dogs (gross)
• It is close to where Goonies was filmed 
• They recycle

Basically it will be amazing.  And after weeks of searching and calling we found an apartment.  It is close to school and close to our budget.  Other sweet amenities include a pool (which I'm sure we will use on all those sunny days) and a communal herb garden.  Also we get a little plot of land to garden on which I'm really excited about.  And the people that lived in the apt before were there for 10 years, meaning they put in all new carpet, counters and fixtures for when we move in.  Kinda nice to know your carpet will not give you a weird disease. 

So far the excitement of moving is in the forefront of all other thoughts....like the fact that I need to find a job and they don't have my teaching degree in their public schools or that Jared will be in school and MIA for the next four years.  Oh.....and that whole student loan things.  

Eh....it will all work out.  And we are pretty excited to jump in and start.

Nerd

That's right.  This man is.a.stud.  And what do studs do? They spend thousands of dollars and hours over a span of fours years, including who knows how many dollars in ice cream, to get this sa-weet piece of paper. Oh and let's not forget the amazing perks of being an alumni?.....right, sort of?? 

Di-no-saur (like Dynamite...get it?)

We went to the Dinosaur Museum.  By "we" I mean my sister-in law and the niece and nephew.  It was pretty amazing. BYU has a ton of free stuff to see and this is one of them.  That's right, it was free to see....well, dinosaurs, I don't really remember exactly what they were except that one was a giant sloth.  BE JEALOUS. Melissa, I know you really are jealous so disregard the joke.

They are pretty cute right? I mean seriously, such good looking fossils. (I'm totally going to be one of those parents who make lame jokes.  And by lame I mean awesome, awesome jokes).

We have to wake up when?!!!

We went ice fishing and it was AWESOME.  I have been wanting to do this forever and finally the Brother-in law let us tag along with his dad.  It was me, Jared, Jared's brother and brother-in-law and the BIL's dad. It was fun, and we all had success.  Unless you count the fact that the glasses you see me wearing below eventually went back to the fishes when I leaned forward and dropped them in the ice fishing hole.  If you count that, then it was an epic fail...epic, epic fail.

I would like to give a shout out to my dad for buying the sweet mad bomber, rabbit fur lined hat.  Touche dad....touche. 

So I was cleaning up and found the camera, looked through the photos and decided I loved all of these. They are from Christmas break, we went to Logandale (best place on earth). It was awesome but I did notice I need to take more photos of myself.

We saw a peacock. I've always heard them growing up but have never really spotted one. It was on the side of the rode. Seriously, best place on earth with wild peacocks!!

I pushed him off the bed.

Jared made me (and fam) pancakes on my birthday. Love him. He also woke up early everyday and hung out with my mom -theotherearlybird- and for this he is truly the best.

He forgot his church clothes thus having to barrow my little brothers. Personally I find the skiny jeans attractive (and the face hair). He thought different.

And finally the grande finale of bunny busting. Jared was a virgin in this realm and was satisfied with his first bunny (first ever kill too I do believe). IT-WAS-FREEZING! Look how red his face is ha. We cooked it up and ate some and by some I mean a super super small piece because it kinda creeped me out. Good times.

Alright we are in our own, new, apartment. Well...new to us I'm pretty sure he said it was built in the 70's (might have made that up). So...it's super weird to hear my own voice and I feel a little embarrassed. You know, that feeling when you are watching something and you feel bad for the person because they look like an idiot and it makes you feel uncomfortable. I feel that when I watch this but I am getting over my pride because I want be prideful about our apartment. I love it.

We got Married. Cool