Next thing we know February is long gone and we are in the summer-like month of March! We had a lot of fun in the last month and I figured I better blog about the highlights!
First, Valentine's Day, which was amazing! It was our first Valentine's Day married which is obviously special. Plus it was our six month anniversary just two days before! Sadly, we had school on Valentine's Day, but we made the best of it.
I slaved at a Relief Society activity in orde to cut out 43 hearts and write reason why I loved Nate. And when I say slaved, it really was fun. Then I woke up at 4:30 in the morning and spent an hour hanging the hearts from the ceiling. It was so fun to watch Nate read all of them when he woke up. Then we ate breakfast together and were off to school!
Then it turned out that Nate had skipped his afternoon class to prepare this delicious candlelit meal for us. He made Baked Chicken Alla Milanese and it was absolutely amazingggg. It was so fun because he came to pick me up from school and then had me wait outside while he lit all the candles and set the table.
Once we had eaten, we exchanged gifts. We gave each other each a budget of 25 dollars to get each other something fun. Nate got me these super cure salt and pepper shakers. I had been talking to him about getting some just about the whole time we have been married. So I am sure part of the reason he choose these was so I would no longer be able to talk about getting some. But they are so perfect and I am so proud of his ability to choose cute salt and pepper shakers! It is quite the valuable, hidden talent :).
I got Nate "Buddy's Baddest" CD, which if you haven't checked him out you should, and racquetball balls. We play racquetball pretty often and we only had one old, slow ball, so I decided I would get him some new ones. I chose green ones, because green is his favorite color. I was so excited because Nate loves racquetball and green. However, it turns out that the colors are related to their speed and green is the slowest of the slow on the speed/ color scale. So we will probably end up purchasing more racquetballs haha.
In closing, it was a lovely night to remember!
The next big adventure was going to Solider Hollow! It was the coolest thing we have done in a while! Plus we got a Groupon so it was two for one, total bonus. They have a tubing hill you can go down and then they have a system set up for towing you up the hill again. Basically endless fun and no work. We loved it because you could hold on to each other's intertubes and go down together. We got going super fast, spun around, and even caught a little air once!
After sliding down the hill at near-sonic speeds, we would tow our tubes back to the lift line. Because the tubes were equipped with a towing rope and handle, they made for excellent demonstrators of the fictional physical force: centrifugal (i.e. Nate enjoyed swinging his tube in circles). Once as we were walking back to the line, I was fortunate to learn about this 'fictional' force through experience, as Nate's tube swiftly swiped my feet from underneath me. Don't worry, I wasn't hurt, just laughing. All in all, it was a blast!! Then we finished off the night with a little BBQ from a restaurant that had just opened two months ago. It was delicious and we plan to return.
We also found this cool barn on the way to Soldier Hollow and decided to take a picture. I thought it turned out pretty cool!
