Anniversatines Day!

I was just about to blog and I got a text from from my friend Krystina asking how my anniversatines day was. Valentine's Day was our one year anniversary! When we were engaged and people would ask when we were getting married we would sheepishly answer,"Valentine's Day". Our reason for doing that day was because it was the Saturday on President's day weekend, and we made sure to explain that to everyone so they wouldn't think we were corny. Whenever we would tell anyone there were similar reactions 1) "Awwww how cute", 2) "You won't have to worry about forgetting your anniversary", and 3)"Good thinking Tim, take care of two things with one present".

But since then, I've decided that I love our anniversary day being on valentine's. Stores start selling all of their valentine's goodies in January so it creates this really big exciting build-up to our anniversary. I like to believe that everybody is celebrating for us instead of doing their own thing.

Tim and I started celebrating early, loading up on lots of valentine's chocolates a couple days before. We went out on Saturday night for dinner and a movie. We ended up eating at this place in Salt Lake called The Wild Grape. I wish I had taken pictures of the food because it was so pretty, and delicious. For an appetizer we had a bread, fruit and cheese tasting. It was soooo good. Tim got a bison steak and I had salmon. Anyone who knows me knows that tastey food is the best present you can give me! Speaking of presents, Tim got me this really pretty Mediterranean painting which is HUGE and now on our bedroom wall.I got him a football xbox game! haha. It's what he wanted, okay?! Anyway, we had a great night and we ate some more chocolates on Sunday to celebrate our real anniversary. We have had so much fun being newlyweds and we're excited for the many years ahead of us.

Besides that, Tim's and my life have been about the same. Tim is still working hard and I'm trying to finish school. We have a lot of family coming to visit in about a week and we're excited to see everyone.

I don't like January

I know it's a negative title, but its true--and I think most people will agree with me that January is the longest most unmagical month of the year. I don't even know why I'm writing about it because it's putting me in a bad mood.

I have nothing to do and that is probably contributing to me not liking this time of year. I am taking two Communication classes this semester. I only have class twice a week (on Tuesday and Wednesday night). My work at BYUB has been nonexistent for the past three weeks, but it will pick back up towards the end of this week. I have been trying to find another part time or full time job to cure my idleness.

Tim is still working full time at R.C. Willey. He will be taking some independent study classes this semester so he can keep working. I feel like I look forward all day to his lunch breaks and when he comes home. I have become OCD with our bathroom for some reason, particularly the counter, I wipe it down after every time Tim or I use it...interesting I KNOW! I need a hobby.

I tried to be productive this last Saturday. I spent the day with my sister, Sarah, who let me barrow her sewing machine. I had this vision in my mind of a skirt I thought I could make, and it came out almost as darling as I imagined--which never happens! January miracle.

I made Timothy take a picture when I wore it to church on Sunday.

Notice the careful detail taken haha. This was seriously the easiest thing to make, and I still messed up on it. I used an elastic band for the waist band and somehow thought it would stay stretchy if I sewed fabric to it. I was wrong. I need to add a zipper...until then, Tim will have to help me put it on and take it off over my head :)

We bought a scooter! Tim has wanted one since we got married and I've been resisting. I finally decided it would be a good thing to have. We bought a silver and black phantom...if that means anything to anyone. I would post a picture but I don't want to go out into the cold to take one. But I will post this!

He is my special boy. Not to embarrass him, but he wears this like all the time. Sometimes he will walk into the kitchen wearing it and get something to eat. I had him put it on right before I started writing this post to take a picture and he kept it on for the next 30 minutes while he played football on xbox. I love him.

Holiday Goodies!

It is Monday and Tim and I are so happy that Christmas is this week. When Tim started working at R.C. Willey (back in September) we realized that we would not be able to visit either of our families for Christmas because R.C Willey doesn't believe in Christmas or visiting families. We came to terms with having our first Christmas with just each other and made plans with our good friends Kevin and Krystina (who were also planning on staying in Provo for Christmas) to celebrate Christmas together. This was the plan until K&K told us their parents surprised them with tickets to fly them out to California for Christmas. Tim and I felt bad for ourselves until we realized that Christmas was on a Friday!!! Tim doesn't work on Thursdays and gets off work at 6 on Wednesdays so we will leave Wednesday night, drive to Grandma Carol's house in St. George, then drive to Tim's parents house Thursday morning! It's so perfect, right? We have to leave late Christmas night to drive back to Grandma Carol's so that we can be back in time for Tim to work at 1 pm on Saturday.

When we thought we were going to celebrate Christmas with K&K, I decided I was going to make Christmas as wonderful as possible to distract myself from the lack of family. And to make things wonderful, I cook and eat! So I decided what could be more wonderful than precious Cornish hens?! I went out and bought Cornish hens and they are so cute and tiny! After the change of Christmas plans, we decided to have our special dinner last night (Sunday). I took Rachel Ray's advice and basted the little chickies with balsamic vinegar and orange juice. They were tasty and I wanted to take a picture of them but I forgot with all my other hostess duties! Dessert was Drama. I wanted to make an easy orange flavored angel food cake but by some horrible bad luck, Tim and I checked three grocery stores and couldn't find a single angel food cake mix. In the words of my dear friend Melissa, "Coincidence? I think so." I had already bought several oranges so I wanted to do some sort of orange dessert. I got on Foodnetwork.com and typed in orange chocolate cake and spotted the most glorious cake. I began reading the recipe and I for some awful reason the measurements were set for 150 servings! Holy Cow! I had to divide everything by 8. And it wasn't as simple as it sounds. The measurements were in pounds and ounces. I realized I am totally uneducated when it comes to converting cooking measurements. I spent the next hour on google typing in "cups in pounds", "ounces in cups", "teaspoons in tablespoons". Tim went to bed.

Tim helped me make the cake Sunday morning before church and it was quite a process. Here is a picture of the finished product. It doesn't look quite as glorious as the one on Food Network but I think they used fondant and they're chefs. The cake has two chocolate cake layers with an orange cake layer in the middle. In between the cake there are thin layers of chocolate ganache, and I iced it with an orange butter cream frosting yum. It was super rich!

Dinner was fun and Tim set up our new computer that I had been making him wait to open-it was suppose to be for Christmas! While he was working on that, I watched Iron Chef and dreamed of going to culinary school.

Here We Are

Hello! It is Tim and Kaitlyn's blog! I created this page about 3 months ago, but I didn't think I had anything interesting enough to share with everyone. I still don't have anything super interesting to share but Tim and I want to give this a try atleast for ourselves as a journal.

We have been married for 9 months now and we still like eachother. We live in Provo, Utah in a basement apartment under an elderly couple named Ed and Jean. Ed is in his 90's and is diabetic and Jean is in her late 70's and runs a tight ship. We have been living here since February (when we got married) but we were out east for the summer doing security sales for APX. We had a great time and got to live in Georgia and North Carolina. North Carolina is a magical place.

Since we have been back we have been going to school at BYU and working. Tim is working at R.C. Willey selling furniture and I am working at KBYU filming BYU sports and other events at BYU. I am studying Public Relations and only have 3 classes left til I graduate. Tim is doing microbiology/pre-med.

So that was a very brief history of our married lives and hopefully we will be able to fill this blog with fun memories and stories!