Sunday, November 25, 2012

Our Last ND Home Game as Students

Well, its the end of a certain era for us.  We have been there through every single home game for football.  We have endured the heat, the cold, and the rain.  Every single game has been completely worth it.  Here are some pictures that we took from the day.  There are more this game than any other!!  Please forgive me that they are not in order, the computer just loads them that way, nothing I can do about it.


Excited on our way!!


Waiting for the Trumpets for the last time!!


Catching a pass on the field!


Waiting for the big game to begin! Supporting Manti with the flowers!


Sad its all coming to an end


Throwing a pass on the field!


Sealing the season with a kiss!


Blimp... because Zack loves Blimps.  He says you know its big time when there is a blimp


Game faces! In front of the famous tunnel!


Zack Martin with us! 


Zack IN the famous tunnel


Just after the game! 


Waiting for Trumpets again!

Starting the season off right!

Four years ago today, I kissed the lips of the last man I would ever kiss.  As a celebration, I am posting about our first kiss.  Warning: it will be sappy.

Well, to start off, I should make sure that it is known that Zack and I had very different views on our relationship at this point.  Over Thanksgiving break, I told my whole family that I had a man in Utah and that we were pretty serious.  In the mean time, Zack was up in Kaysville going out to his friends weddings.  We had never even kissed, so I don't blame him for taking dates.  In fact, it was my plot to have him go home and go to all those weddings and realize that he loved me and he wanted to be next.

This being said, we hung out pretty much every day just the two of us at his place, and we never even got close enough to kiss. Believe me, I tried.  I didn't lean in and get denied or anything, but I was plenty flirtacious and hinted to him all the time that it was ok.  However, it was to no prevail.  He held strong and didn't kiss me. It killed me.

Then, I knew that he was coming back from break, so I was eagerly watching outside my window for his car to pull up and go into his apartment.  When I saw it, I ran outside and gave him a big hug! (If I could give myself some advice at that point, I would have told myself not to seem so desperate!)  He invited me over to watch the movie Elf, and I gladly accepted!  We got a blanket and watched it with his roommate and his girl at the time.  Under the blanket... wait for it... we held hands.  Yes, I know.  It was a big step.  Well after the movie, we found ourselves all alone on the couch in the front room.  Before I knew it, our lips were locked in a beautiful kiss.  When he pulled away, we both looked at eachother, and I knew it was love.  I cannot tell you how badly I wanted to tell him I loved him right in that moment, but I held it back.  He held my gaze for quite a while, as if he knew what I was thinking, and he was thinking it too.  It is probably in my head, but it felt as though we had made an unspoken promise that we both knew this secret and yet neither of us wanted to tell.  I mean, we hadn't even had our "DTR"  yet, we couldn't love eachother, could we?

Well later on in our relationship, when we were talking about our first kidd, he revealed to me that he did indeed feel that he wanted to say he loved me,  but thought it was just too crazy to be in love so fast.  In deed, it is crazy.  And who knows, maybe it wasn't love just yet.  Maybe it was hormones mixed with hope of a new relationship filled with lots of really great kissing.  That being said, I choose to believe that it was just a little bit of inspiration from our Father in Heaven that we were indeed meant to be.  It still took us a month and a half after this kiss to officially declare our relationship status, but four years ago today, I knew it was the start of something beautiful.  How right I was.  I am on lucky lady!

To celebrate this special anniversary, we will watch Elf tonight and I will hope and pray that I will get a kiss as beautiful as I did four years ago!  And maybe if I'm lucky I might get two kisses.. or maybe even......... three!

It is wonderful and weird and amazing to think about how far our love has come and how dependent we are on eachother. I could not be more grateful for the man that he has become and the love that we share.  Here are some old pictures from those early days of our relationship!

Our first official date! In December

Our first Christmas!  Yes, those are Batman boxers. He loved them. Inside joke.

So in love!

My Birthday dinner 2009!

Our first Valentines Day date. 2009

Monday, November 5, 2012

I had to do it... Politics

Well, with the upcoming election tomorrow, I just had to write a little bit down about my thoughts about politics. I named my post so that anyone who doesn't want to read it doesn't have to.  But here are my thoughts.

This will be my first time voting.  I was only 19 during the last election and honestly care less.  Now I see the problem with that, but then, I honestly just did not care at all.  But with this being my first election, and with a Mormon and a black man running for President, I guess you could say I got curious.  The funny thing is, I REALLY hesitated to give any support to Mitt Romney BECAUSE he is Mormon.  I didn't know anything about Mitt and I just got very nervous that having a Mormon man in the lime light could potentially be really bad for us, especially if he were to pull some idiot moves, which by the way, every President has done.  I just was nervous of what the effects would be for me religiously if he were elected.  This whole mind set of mine did not make my husband too happy.  He is happy that I think for myself, but he is just better, I think at knowing more about what he wants and who each of these men are.  To make a long story short, through much much research and in talking to current Obama fans, people who used to be Obama supporters and now are not, and people who know a lot about Romney, I will cast my vote tomorrow supporting Romney.  Not because he is Mormon, but because, in my humble opinion, he is the man for the job.

That being said, I think it is important for me to say that I think that Obama is a great man who is doing the best with his current knowledge to push our country in the right direction.  I believe that he truly does want the best for our country and is constantly fighting for our good.  I think both men, whether elected or not,will definitely do their best to help our country.  I just happen to agree more with the way Romney is going about it.  I wish that people could disagree more without being so mean or ugly.  And I am saying that about BOTH sides of the ballot.  I have been impressed as well as disappointed by both candidates. 

In the end, I trust God.  It says that on our money, just in case you are wondering.  "In God We Trust".  No matter who gets elected, it is part of a plan made by a loving Heavenly Father who loves us and is molding us for something so much greater than we can imagine now.  We need to do our part to make this country and world to be a better place, and in the end, we just need to trust Him and know that he is taking care of us.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Marriage.

Marriage is a delicate thing. A delicate thing at which, most days, I fail miserably.  A delicate thing at which my husband keeps together for us.  I do not deserve him.  I am moody and get tired rather easily and get headaches and want all of his attention when his attention needs to be elsewhere.  I do my very best to keep up with him,  but by the time I get around to starting laundry or loading or unloading the dishwasher or anything like that, he has beat me to it.  I try to make dinners and the cleanest, neatest wife around, but then I get a little behind, and I feel so overwhelmed.  Who is ALWAYS there to pick up the slack? Zack.  No matter how much he has on his plate, he is there for me and working to make my life better.

I don't want to paint a picture that I am some bad wife or something, because I really do try my very best.  I know that Zack needs me and is grateful for me and everything, I just am so overly grateful for him today that it makes me want to shout it from the roof tops!  I know that I have a TON of work to do in order to be the wife that he deserves, and I definitely try hard, but I am just so grateful for the atonement that makes it possible for me to work up to his level.  I know that he has his own things to work on, but he does too! He works on himself constantly and I am so grateful to have him as a husband.  That is all.