Less days till Christmas=More Cold+Snow!

So just to tell you a bit more about our anniversary, we went to Pocatello, ID. (It was actually really fun!) That was where this themed hotel was. I was very impressed with this place. When we checked in we met the owners right away and ironically we both had the same last name! They were very friendly and helpful! Then when we walked in the door to our room there was a note card on our bed welcoming us with our name on the card! How sweet :) Also the bath soaps, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion was all bath and body works. (what woman would complain to that...please tell me) The room was immaculate, very clean indeed. The fish tank was even impressive! Those things are hard to keep clean. Any who, the evening was relaxing and fun. We drove all around looking for a place to eat and got lost, walked into a nice Italian restaurant, sat down, Ian ordered a coke,we choked at the prices, then asked to be excused and walked out! Ha ha. After all, his coke came out in a can! are you kidding me? What kind of nice restaurant gives you a soda in a can for two dollars? Not to mention we didn't really feel like spending $20 a plate for something we didn't know was even going to be good! After sometime we ended at another Italian place, although this place was more like a bar/half restaurant (think laid back) It was surprisingly pretty good!! The atmosphere was kinda fun too! (Probably not the most anticipated anniversary destination, but thoroughly enjoyable!) Okay so moving along...we came back borrowed some movies from the office (for free might i add) then relaxed. I woke up the next morning (early as usual) and plastered the mirror with little love notes in heart shaped stickies before Ian was even conscious. It took him a while to notice...ha ha (figures) but was worth it all the same :) We were able to go out for an amazing breakfast (which was included in the price of our room!) and then we headed off for Lava Hot Springs! WOo WOo!! Ian and I had been there over the summer and LOVED IT! That was my favorite trip all summer (and we had gone on lots of trips) I'm pretty sure it was the cheapest too. Any how, that's where we decided to go for our Anni. So in 11 degree weather (or somewhere close to that) we got in our swimming suits and climbed in the springs :) Ahh.....so nice. One problem....we forgot towels. Oops? (so like us) *eyes rolling* Luckily we stayed in the hot springs long enough we were dying of the heat and were happy to get out into the freezing cold. We high tailed it to the locker rooms and both admitted later those hand dryers came in handy :) ha ha. As we were walking out, an elderly gentlemen informed us they had towels in the office you can rent. Again, Oops...ha ha Oh well, we were saving money we'll say :) It made for another memorable experience!!
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Our Christmas Tree! It probably could have used some trimming...but that's okay! It had lots of character :)








These pics are of our place in Logan. It was covered in snow!



Now for the part I originally was starting this post for (sorry for the long story! ahh...I'm horrible) we are back in Logan, and I must say IT HAS GOTTEN COLD!!! At night sometimes 2 degrees. 2!!! Today we were fortunate enough to have it 11 degrees during the day...it has been lower. Might I also add the streets are covered in snow, as well as the trees, the yards, the cars, everything. The other thing is, it never melts. It just sticks, and sticks more. I am proud for how brave I am becoming in the snow :) I went out shopping today and drove all by myself!! (yay me!!) It was pretty crazy though, I will say. Even Ian said so, and he likes driving in the snow!! I don't mind it all that much though. It makes for a very beautiful scene, and I have just learned to wear my boots and layer my clothes! Also lots and lots of blankets at night. It's kinda nice that way. Not to mention LOTS and LOTS of HOT CHOCOLATE :) Another nice things is all this cold weather has given me the motivation to stay indoors and continue working on my Christmas projects! I have now completed what 7 baskets and 5 aprons?! (go me again!!!) The aprons are really the thing I am most proud of. (the basket are just like working at pirate o's all over again...ha ha) If you know me at all you know I AM HORRIBLE AT SEWING! I don't know how to thread a bobbin...or turn the sewing machine on for that matter. So the fact that I even dared attempt this was pretty amazing. Granted, my mother helped me with the first 3 and even the 4th she supervised. The 5th though, she doesn't even know I made :) hee hee hee. (I'm so sneaky) My whole family knows I have been making them and has been with me every step of the way watching my work unfold, although they will be surprised to see they too have ones that show up in their hands Christmas day, but those are going to be ones they do not recognize!! How exciting!! :) :) The baskets have turned out quite cute I might add. They are all a little different. I think that's what I like best. Each one is special and designed for the person it is going to! Ah...I love when Christmas gifts are so time consuming. I grow to love them!! I am going to be sad when these baskets and sewing projects aren't sitting in my living room anymore for me to admire.... :( But how wonderful will it be to see every one's faces when they receive them!?! I am very excited.

Our 1 Year Anniversary!

A year has come and gone already! Can you believe it? They say the first year is the hardest and easiest. I don't know that ours was either. haha. We definately are two very different people who had to work out little details now and again. We are also very compatible and LOVE having fun. Most days our relationship was all about dancing to some song we just made up, or laughing at our silly nicknames for each other. Other days we had "serious" talks about money, goals, conflicts, and other normal "life" stuff. Looking back though, it has simply been WONDERFUL. I remember very special moments that bring me to tears and ones that make me wanna laugh till I cry! The first moment where it all began when he proposed at Timpanogos Cave after our hike up. We were on a tour with 9 other people and had made it to the "dark" room where they turn out all the lights and show you the crystals on the wall. The tour guide began telling us the purpose of crystals and their significance while pointing them out on the ceiling with his laser pointer. Suddley he illuminates something small in his hands....it's glowing bright red making it the sole provider of light in the dark cave. I focus in and realize it is a RING! Then just at that same moment a small light comes on lighting directly onto Ian...? He is on his knee! Ian gives his speech and asks me to marry him in front of the tour guide and all the other people on the tour! It was so romantic! I was completely shocked! I never even saw it coming! It was the happiest day of my life...besides the wedding of course :) I had never been so excited. I remember skipping down the trail all the way back to the car and beaming all through my math class a half hour later. I couldn't stop looking at my ring finger! This glittering shiny thing sitting on my hand! It's kinda like when you get your nails done for the very first time...you can't stop looking at them....you look at them when you drive, when you write, when you even read a magazine! Well having a ring is the same thing....It's entrancing! Our wedding day was just as magical. I remember going to sleep that night was just like going to bed as a kid on christmas eve. You know you are tired and you know you are going to want the energy to play all day and not be tired, not to mention the sooner you fall asleep the sooner christmas will come! Going to bed that night was the same. It seemed that the day would never come and I couldn't believe we were finally a day away! It seemed forever before I could fall asleep and I wanted so bad to just wake up and have it be here. Once it finally arrived it was hard to even believe it was our wedding day! I distictly remember being in the bride's room at the temple and being overwhelmed by the beauty of it and how unreal it seemed. I tried to savor every moment of it. I sat at the vanity looked in the mirrors and noticed my dress hanging on the wall. The lights....the feeling....it was breathtaking. Even more so, I remember the matron coming in and calling ian my "husband." It was like "oh yeah he's not my fiance anymore!" "we are MARRIED!" Then even more she called me "Sis. Fisher!" I couldn't help but smile :) I was no longer sis. bosch the name I had grown accustomed to my whole life was no longer my last name. It was strange to think, but empowering at the same time. It was a sense of accomplishment. I had made a decision to be proud of my whole life. I had made my family proud. I had acquired the love of a man most worthy of such love and I too had fallen deep in love with him. All selfishness had been placed aside and now commitments and sacrifices were being made all with this new last name. What a feeling!! I remember how happy I was to see all of my family there to support us, my friends, and all those people that had been apart of my life growing up. We were so privledged to have so many people at our reception as well. I was so surprised to have such a turn out at such a difficult time of year. It was a very special day, and with all the planning and stressing beforehand I'm just happy we made it all the way through! All the details I was so concerned about before seem so minor now. Life so far has been full of surprises and filled with lots of last minute changes! I have enjoyed our time together though and am so excited to celebrate one year with my husband!! For our anniversary we are going to be going to The Black Swan Inn (it's similar to Anniversary Inn) and staying in their Pirate's Suite complete with cannon faucet, barrell shower head, and hook curtain holders! In the room there is an aquarium and ship wrecked hole in the wall :) Our bed is a captians wheel and the carpet is full of jewels! We are very excited to spend sometime away again and in a fun hotel! Our honeymoon in San Diego was absolutely WONDERFUL! The place was on a tropical paradise secluded in its own little oasis. The lanscaping even included lighted tiki torches throughout the resort! It was simply enchanting :) So this year we are hoping for another magical trip :)

Little Baby Meir Cat

Latest in the Ian and Crystal world is a lovely addition of a 6 week old kitten named meira (mee-ra) She is the most adorable thing I think I have ever seen. I picked her up the night before Thanksgiving and she just stole my heart at first sight. We have only had her four days since but she keeps getting cuter and bigger! by the day. It's really quite surprising how apart of the family she feels to us already. It's like having a child! I worry day and night about her. When I leave to run errands or do anything all I can think about is her and hurry as fast as I can to make it home to be by her side again. Ian is just as parent like. He is very protective of her and we both freak out if we suddenly can't find her. I wouldn't doubt it if she has already started to catch on to our obsessiveness. For instance, she is not fully litter trained yet, being that she is so young, so in the middle of the night we hear her meow and find that she has had an "accident" on a pair of Ian's gym shorts. Frantically, we try to clean her up and show her where she is really supposed to go "potty" and so on and so forth. Then we decide the best thing would be to confine her to a small area where her litter box is in close sight. So we baracade our laundry room up with large boxes and our wakeboard in hopes to lock her in. Well, not long after we climb into bed and start to dose off again we hear her making her high pitched meow again, but oddly it sounds closer than her prison space. Ian decides a few minutes later to check on her just to make sure she's ok. Well low and behold the little rat got out!!! She was cockily jumping from couch to couch parading around having the time of her life, when she was supposed to be in punishment! For the longest time we couldn't even figure out how this little thing had managed to escape from these huge obsticles!! In the end we can think of no other solution but to climb in her little "prison" with her and sleep on the floor in hopes to keep her there and closely monitor her possible accidents during the night. What a sight that must have been. Two grown adults curled up in a small laundry room with a tiny baby kitten all night long....haha. The best part is we repeated the same routine last night only adding one more room into the mix to give us extra space to sleep. It's seemed to work well though. She hasn't had an accident since and has proven to be very well trained so far. She now will go by herself without any hesitation. Although, I still feel I need to walk her by every now and again just to remind her in case she gets carried away in her playing and runs into another "accident" again. All in all its been a wonderful and eventful past four days and we love this cat more than anything in the world. This kitten has brought one more thing to our attention though, we definately DO NOT want to have kids right now. haha. If a KITTEN brings this much worry, takes this much time, attention, and energy; then we don't even want to think about what a child would bring on us, yet. I think it's going to be another couple of years for that leap.