It's been a long week of school. We're finally starting to get the hang of things - Ben getting used to all the homework he has, and me getting used to Ben having to do homework pretty much all day. At least we only have one day to go shopping for dinner stuff for the week, so I have everything ready ahead of time - that definitely helps out with all the busy-ness. We went to a BYU Festival thing last night. It was pretty fun, excluding all of the typical BYU kids there. I realize why I can't stand about 75% of the student population when I go to things like that. But it was still fun. We went with Trent, Camilla, Tyler and Kiley. It's always nice to hang out with friends. We got our faces painted, and Ben decided I should have scars going down my face, which of course had everyone looking at me. My favorite thing - oh wait. Well, things outside of school are going good. Sent in my acceptance letter to the Utah College of Dental Hygiene this week. I start there in May. It'll be nice to be going to school for something that I want. Ben changed his job time from 10:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. I don't have to go to sleep alone anymore, so that's nice. (Not that I'm a big scaredy cat or anything...) Haha! Well, I'm already excited for Thanksgiving break, even though it's 2 months away. Maybe we should have some visitors from California in the meantime. Hint Hint. Well, lets hope this week will go by a lot quicker than last!

Camping!

On Friday, we went camping with Trent and Camilla and Jaxson. It was pretty fun, even though we got rained on, and couldn't really get a good fire going. Don't worry though, we were able to get our dinner cooked so we had some food to eat. (Although we weren't able to make good s'mores, but it's all good.) Here are some pictures.


The boys trying to get the tents situated. It started pouring as we were trying to put them up.

Playing with the fire after it went out. Despite the rain and lack of fire, some of the coals stayed lit all night.

Trent, Camilla and Jaxson in their tent. Due to the rain, we had to stay inside and play cards instead of sitting around the fire. It was really comfortable..oh wait..


Before we went to bed, I made Ben take some pictures with me.


After about 4, he gave me this face, so we stopped. Haha!

The view on the drive home. It was gorgeous.

Week-Day Date

This past week, Ben and I went to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. It was a pretty cool museum - the best part was the dinosaurs of course. It's been awesome to be able to do things during the week, since Ben works at night now. Love it!


As you can tell, Ben was really excited to be in pictures for me...


This was this wall of different animal heads where it listed all the animals and let you match them with the ones hanging. It was pretty sweet - of course Ben had to kick all the little kids out and look at all of them.


This huge turtle reminded me of Tortey and how I totally ruined him. So sad, but I'm glad he wasn't this big!


One of the last things we saw was this huge shark. Yikes!

Catch up time. Even though we're both way busy with school and work, we still find some time to do fun stuff. We went to a rodeo a few weeks ago..







Then we had a chance to snap a picture before we went to a wedding..



Lastly, just thought I'd throw in a picture of what I woke up to one morning...

Isn't he cute? =]

So, we got our wedding pictures back, so I thought I'd post a few. I absolutely love them, so I can't wait to get them printed and up in our apartment. The wedding fun never ends! =]



We went to the Santa Monica pier after the temple and took pictures there. They turned out great!



Bridesmaids

Groomsmen

Parents

Nieces & Nephews =]

Our photographer did an awesome job! I love them all! And there are plenty more awesome pictures! =]]

Here are a few pictures from our cruise. The first is Ben & I waiting for the elevator on the cruise ship. Then it's Ben & I on Half Moon Kay, waiting to start our stingray adventure. And Ben is standing on our balcony with Grand Turk Island in the background. The best pictures we took were on our disposable cameras, which we have yet to develop. We have some pretty sweet pictures from when we were swimming with the stingrays and scuba diving. And down below are some pictures that Kaylie took when we were back in California after the cruise. Don't you love the kids with their scary faces?

Here it is!

So, I was told we needed to get a blog, so here it is! I guess that's the married thing to do. So, we have officially been married for 19 days, haha! After the wedding in California and the cruise in the Caribbean, we are back in Provo - SO great. Luckily, we're not in school now, but with work and putting the apartment together, we stay pretty busy. Well, the wedding was amazing. Haven't gotten our pictures yet, but will put some up once we get some. Thanks to everyone who came and took part in our day! It really was perfect! And our cruise was awesome. Having absolutely nothing to worry about was, by far, the best part. We went swimming with stingrays (not my fav, but Ben really liked it) and went on a catamaran/snorkel adventure. The weather was perfect, and you can't really beat "all you can eat" ice cream all week. It was great! Once I actually put the pictures on my computer, I'll put some up. Well, right now things are kind of boring. We're solely focused on putting things away. We're both pretty obsessed with organization, so until we're finished, I don't think either of us can fully relax. We'll get there soon though. We're excited to have a place of our own, and to have each other. We're pretty lucky ( Ben more so than I, but it's pretty close =] ). Well, I'll put some pictures up ASAP so you can see how cute we are!