So just like every other blog out there in the nation, we had to have a post dedicated to the Season 10 American Idol finale. Talls and I have been following the show all season long. His favorite was Casey Abrams and mine was Scotty McCreery (who won by the way). When they were down to the top 9 contestants, Talls and I both made lists of the order in how we thought contestants were going to get kicked off. We decided that whoever guessed the most right, would have to take the loser out on a date. We both predicted three correctly... I predicted Jacob Lusk, Lauren Alaina, and Scotty McCreery. He predicted Casey Abrams, Scotty McCreery and someone else I can't recall. Thus, it came down to a coin toss. I picked the losing side of tails and therefore am obligated to take him out tonight... details coming later on that.
We also made another little bet concerning the show. Like I said, Scotty has always been my favorite but I was a little weary that he would actually win despite all of the teenage girls in America who are in love with him. When we got down to the top 5, Neil kept on insisting that Scotty was going to win and with my defiant spirit, I kept disagreeing with him saying it was going to be James or Haley instead. So when we got down to Lauren and Scotty as the top 2, we made another bet. He said that Scotty was going to win and just to spite him, I said that Lauren was going to take it all. If he was right, I had to take an institute class with him next semester of his choice no questions asked. If I was right, he was going to have to make me dinner for a week. Well as I mentioned, Scotty won and the institute class is TBD. And now that our Idol adventures are over, we can actually have a life again... until next January at least.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Entry 2: House Fights Back
I know I know... Such an epic title right? That's because this is an epic post! So Talls and I are currently living in a rental house half a block from campus. We love it to death because its a top floor... not a basement..., its super colorful, and its location is practically perfect for us. However, it has one flaw. One major flaw. The electricity is haunted by some evil ghost that apparently doesn't want us living there. Seriously... Lights go on and off all the time, our dryer is super tempermental, and our heater likes to shut itself off. This weekend was especially interesting as it took us an hour to cook some fish sticks and heat up leftover alfredo and as for our hot water? Nonexistant! So yes... our house is fighting back. Not sure what we did, but it must have been absolutely dreadful for a punishment like this. We may have to surrender in defeat and move... But that would definitely be a sad day.
The rest of our weekend was interesting as well. A word of advice for you young love sick puppies wanting to jump straight into marriage... tread carefully. Make sure you are 110% in love with the one you marry or else you won't make it very far. It's rough... and its only been a week. I don't regret it one bit though and I love Talls more and more with every passing day. My brother-in-law Casey and I had a great talk yesterday in which he said, "You know you love someone when they make you so mad you just have to walk away and yet they are the only one you want to talk to about it." So completely true.
Our two major adventures of the weekend were a temple trip and celebrating Talls' uncle Mark's birthday. The temple was fabulous even though we argued for about an hour about actually going inside. We eventually did though and we went through to do sealings for the dead. For those who aren't familiar with the LDS church, a sealing is the marriage ceremony for our church. We are married and sealed to our spouses in the temple so that if we remain true to our covenants, we can live with our families forever. We return to the temple often to do those same ordinances for those who have passed on without an opportunity to do them for themselves so that they too can be with their families forever. Anyways... we were in a sealing session with a couple who was probably 20 years older than us and they were just awesome. They gave us advice that we desperately needed to hear and the spirit there was definitely strong, calming, and peaceful.
Our second adventure was going to his Uncle Mark's 50th birthday party yesterday. It was a huge gathering put on by his uncle Evan who is pretty much one of the biggest softies ever. There was more food than you could fit on your plate and all of it was delicious beyond belief! Evan also has an amazing back yard with a nice playground set for the kids to play on and it was fun to push them on the swings. Talls loves kids and so being there playing with them made him so happy he was floating on cloud 20 the entire time. It was fabulous :) Kids are adorable, but we are definitely going to wait a while before we have some of our own...
The rest of our weekend was interesting as well. A word of advice for you young love sick puppies wanting to jump straight into marriage... tread carefully. Make sure you are 110% in love with the one you marry or else you won't make it very far. It's rough... and its only been a week. I don't regret it one bit though and I love Talls more and more with every passing day. My brother-in-law Casey and I had a great talk yesterday in which he said, "You know you love someone when they make you so mad you just have to walk away and yet they are the only one you want to talk to about it." So completely true.
Our two major adventures of the weekend were a temple trip and celebrating Talls' uncle Mark's birthday. The temple was fabulous even though we argued for about an hour about actually going inside. We eventually did though and we went through to do sealings for the dead. For those who aren't familiar with the LDS church, a sealing is the marriage ceremony for our church. We are married and sealed to our spouses in the temple so that if we remain true to our covenants, we can live with our families forever. We return to the temple often to do those same ordinances for those who have passed on without an opportunity to do them for themselves so that they too can be with their families forever. Anyways... we were in a sealing session with a couple who was probably 20 years older than us and they were just awesome. They gave us advice that we desperately needed to hear and the spirit there was definitely strong, calming, and peaceful.
Our second adventure was going to his Uncle Mark's 50th birthday party yesterday. It was a huge gathering put on by his uncle Evan who is pretty much one of the biggest softies ever. There was more food than you could fit on your plate and all of it was delicious beyond belief! Evan also has an amazing back yard with a nice playground set for the kids to play on and it was fun to push them on the swings. Talls loves kids and so being there playing with them made him so happy he was floating on cloud 20 the entire time. It was fabulous :) Kids are adorable, but we are definitely going to wait a while before we have some of our own...
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Beginning
The beginning. Such a logical place to start right? I thought so too... So, by way of introductions, I am Smalls or Cassity and my husband is Talls or Neil. Don't ask how we got our nicknames because it's still a bit of a mystery... We got married on May 14th, 2011 and I have anxiously been awaiting the opportunity to start a blog to follow the adventures of our married life so here goes nothing...
I met Talls through our institute choir class Fall semester of 2010. At first I thought he was a creepy choir nerd and I didn't really want to have anything to do with him, but one night, the week before finals, he trapped me in the computer lab and lured me in with a granola bar. We spent that night together laughing and just having a great time getting to know each other and from that day on, there has never been anyone else for either of us.
Both my husband and I are currently students. I am majoring in accounting and he is in IS. We both have two years of starving studentdom to go and are sincerely looking forward to all of it. Together we love hiking, music, watching movies, and just plain being together. He also loves tennis and ceramics while I am into the whole artsy reading, dancing, singing stuff.
Anyways... nuff about us. First adventure to get to = the honeymoon. For our honeymoon we took an extended weekend vacation to Salt Lake City. We spent most of our time milling about temple square and eating good meals at The Roof, Olive Garden, and Cracker Barrel. We also went on a hike to Ensign Peak and watched the movie Soul Surfer at the Gateway complex. If you ask Talls what his favorite part of our vacay was, he would be sweet and just say getting to know me better because apparently I'm funny, sweet, and righteous 24/7, not just when I'm at my best. My favorite part was definitely our date Tuesday night which was the Olive Garden, Ensign Peak, and Soul Surfer simply because we rarely go out on dates... we usually just stay in so a change was mighty nice.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end and so today is our first day back to real life after our weekend of wedding bliss. However, at least we are back to real married life :) There is nothing better than a built in heater when the one in your house goes out... if you know what I mean ;)
I met Talls through our institute choir class Fall semester of 2010. At first I thought he was a creepy choir nerd and I didn't really want to have anything to do with him, but one night, the week before finals, he trapped me in the computer lab and lured me in with a granola bar. We spent that night together laughing and just having a great time getting to know each other and from that day on, there has never been anyone else for either of us.
Both my husband and I are currently students. I am majoring in accounting and he is in IS. We both have two years of starving studentdom to go and are sincerely looking forward to all of it. Together we love hiking, music, watching movies, and just plain being together. He also loves tennis and ceramics while I am into the whole artsy reading, dancing, singing stuff.
Anyways... nuff about us. First adventure to get to = the honeymoon. For our honeymoon we took an extended weekend vacation to Salt Lake City. We spent most of our time milling about temple square and eating good meals at The Roof, Olive Garden, and Cracker Barrel. We also went on a hike to Ensign Peak and watched the movie Soul Surfer at the Gateway complex. If you ask Talls what his favorite part of our vacay was, he would be sweet and just say getting to know me better because apparently I'm funny, sweet, and righteous 24/7, not just when I'm at my best. My favorite part was definitely our date Tuesday night which was the Olive Garden, Ensign Peak, and Soul Surfer simply because we rarely go out on dates... we usually just stay in so a change was mighty nice.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end and so today is our first day back to real life after our weekend of wedding bliss. However, at least we are back to real married life :) There is nothing better than a built in heater when the one in your house goes out... if you know what I mean ;)
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