1 Year Down...

So, this will be kind of a depressing/poor picked on me/wanna slit my wrists type of post. We have been in Logan for a year now and have decided.....we do not fit in here ha. Everyone we meet thinks we're weird for being from small towns and that we like to play sports, fish, hunt, get ready for the day/wear make-up/not wear a polygamist braid, etc. We have a few friends that are normal but our schedules never seem to work with each other so we don't really do much with them.
Moral of the story is, we miss Blanding, Delta and Cedar! I don't think we realized how good we had it in Cedar when we had tons of married friends around us, plus two of Dal's siblings and their spouses and my sister there too. Whenever we get to go home we never want to leave because we know we are coming back up to this hole where everyone likes to mountain bike and ballroom dance for fun.
So now that I'm done venting, just know I miss everyone and we think you all should take turns visiting us up here in the artic! My mom, Russ & Liz, Jenny & Kory, Brandon & Audrey and Mandi & Jordan have all made the trek so I think it's everyone else's turn!

(Side note: in my last post I said how warm its been up here. Turns out that was a lie cause it's freakin freezing now! Matter of fact, I just slipped on the ice carrying a glass bowl of corn. Let's just say, our neighbors now have a snack outside their door in case they get hungry cause it's too freakin cold to clean it up now).

(Postive note: We love our new apartment, and me and Dal have fun up here just by ourselves. We've been renting lots of movies, playing Idiot (card game), going to USU games, playing Friends trivia, playing Mario Kart (which means we're getting better so we're ready to beat the competition, meaning Cheyna and Dustin) and lots of other stuff. We're not all that miserable...well Dal is, his school sucks this semester, sad for him, but I just had to have a poor picked on me session and get it out of my system.

MISS YOU ALL!!!

SLC Night

Last night we went down to one of Dal's friend's reception in Salt Lake kinda spur of the moment. He is from Delta and he married a girl that grew up with Mandi's friend from Taylorsville, so we had friends there from all over the place. We met up with Mandi, Jordan, Robyn, and Tyson at the reception and it was SO fun to see them all. Mandi and I try to meet up pretty often since we don't live very far away but Robyn lives in Cedar so it was so fun to see her again. Derek, Krista, Jake and Kyle showed met up with us at the reception too so we went to dinner with them afterwards. I was so glad Derek's wife Krista came so I wouldn't be the loner girl and I haven't seen her in so dang long, I love that girl. Here's a few pics from the night...

Christmas/Picture Overload

We're back in Logan after being gone for over a week for Christmas in Blanding and Delta. We had so much fun and had a hard time coming back up for school. These pics are so out of order and I didn't get near as many pics in Delta as I would have liked to so I'll have to next time we go when Cory & Jamie have their baby!

Dal rocking Aspen to sleep. Me and Jenny were watching her that day and she HATED us. We took her to Dal and she was happier than ever.

Sim and Kelli at my grams Jimmer party



The Einersons

Everyone watching Jimmer play his first NBA game that the boys insisted they couldn't miss

Cheyn and Bry

Me and grams Carolyn

Dad and Bry


Mom and Bry and the toy they gave her, she LOVES it


Cute Bryir:)


Us Christmas morning before church

I thought when we came back up to Logan it would be freezing but we've had this awesome warm weather and it is greatly appreciated up here in the artic! Ha. Dallan has had this whole week off so he's been doing all sorts of projects while I've been at school. He says he's been bored but he'll miss this boring time when he starts up school next week for the start of his junior year in his engingeering program. School for me is still way fun, ready to be done and start working again, but I'll miss hair school too.

Update

So this is the thing....my camera is busted so no one likes to look at blogs without pics, so I had to wait til I got pics that my mom had taken and the ones from my phone to update again. Lots has happened since my last post, so I'll try to throw it all in here.Me and Sim after her first game

Me and Sagan cheering at State Volleyball. This is the last year of state for us, so sad. We've been coming to state volleyball since my older cousins were playing, then between the 4 of us sisters all playing this is just what we do the last weekend of October. Its usually me, Cheyna and Sagan on the front row, dead center of the student section (yes, we are out of high school, we don't care) cheering for Simone but Cheyna was about to have her baby this year so couldn't come. They ended up taking 2nd but Simone played freakin good and it was still way fun. We were out of control cheering like always and lost our voices for about a week.

I don't know why this pic is so small, but this is the last Utah State football game we went to, so much fun! USU sports are alot better than SUU so we try to go to most of the football and basketball games. The only thing that sucks is you can't sit down for the games because EVERYONE stands, so if you're not looking for a good 3 hours on your feet, prob don't hit up a game!

And this is the reason Cheyna couldn't come to state...how cute is she! Bryir Palmer was born Nov. 9th and is the first grandkid on my side. She is so chubby and just freakin cute! It's so weird to see Cheyna and Gar with a baby, but so fun. Yesterday I came down to Blanding because I couldn't wait until Christmas to see her. I sat and held her forever and she is just so good and makes the funniest faces. I love that little girl! I really do have the 4 cutest nieces in the whole world and excited to have a nephew in Feb!

As for update on our life, same ol' thing. Dal couldn't come down to state or to Blanding with me because he has school and work constantly. He is doing way good in his classes and he really likes his job. He just bought a truck so he's been wanting to go out in the mountains but of course we live in Antartica and it's snowing already! He'll just have to wait til spring I guess. As for me, I'm finishing up hair school right now and am so excited to be DONE! School has been way fun but I'm excited to just be in a salon. I have met some awesome people and have the best clients.

This is the latest ombre hair I did on my sister in law, she has wanted it for forever so we finally did it, it looks so good on her!

We are moving to a new apartment in a few weeks which we're excited about, our neighbors above us are probably the smelliest people I've ever lived around, but we're sad about not being neighbors to the Ashton's anymore. We've been hanging out with a few married couples from town and our ward so things have gotten a lot better up there, we actually are really starting to like it! Only taken us a year ha. Come visit everyone!:)

I'm Back!

Yes, we're alive....I've just pretty much had no desire (or time) to update this dang thing, so this will be a pretty quick update! Dal just started another semester after doing summer semester and is liking school more now because all of his classes deal right with engineering so they're interesting for him I guess. I'm still in hair school and loving it, other than the fact that I'm like one of the oldest girls there because everyone else is like 12 I swear. We both work for USU at the TSC which is nice because we get to see each other every night and our schedules are really good. We have two neices or a neice and a nephew on the way! Cheyna is preg and due in November with a little girl and Jamie is preg, we don't know what she's having yet but we are so excited to have two more little kids to obsess about:)

This summer we were super busy but here are just a few pics

Dal driving the boat at Lake Powell

I had to throw in this pic of Shayne because she literally couldn't turn her head all week down at the lake because of her life jacket ha, it was way funny but I'm pretty sure she was miserable:(

So me and Dal stopped at Temple Square one night before a Bee's game and I ran into Bri Holiday!

One of my BFF's Mandi Kae and Jordan came up to the game with us! It was so good to see them, it had been way too long.

Uhhhh....

Well, I have a TON to post about but we don't have internet at our house anymore so I don't get to get on much anymore:(. When I do I usually go up to USU to get on and forget my camera to ever blog, so that is my explanation for this lame-o post again. So on my soon to be post get ready for:

*Trip to Vegas: Logan's wedding, Dal's spring break, 1 year anniversary
*Look back at our 1st year being married!
*Must-hear about hair school clients so far
*Maybe an update on what's been keeping me busy while Dal is working (TV shows, painting furniture, and my new pet:)

Stay tuned!

Pros and Cons

Sorry, still not doing any better on taking pictures, but I'll get to that when life calms down a bit...hopefully:) We've been in Logan for about a month now and found a lot of things we like, and a bunch we dont.

Cons:
*Its FAREEZING!!!! (ALL THE TIME!!!) There was one day that it hit 31 degrees and I went running outside instead of inside and it felt like summer! That's how cold it is up here ha.
*We live in a basement apartment and the upstairs neighbor tends to cook some nasty smellin crap up there....not our favorite smell.
*I don't get to sleep in anymore. I go to school at 8 Tuesday-Saturday, church at 9 on Sundays and I take Dal to school at 7 on Mondays.
*We are SO far from our families.
*There is constantly ice on the inside of our windows, yes you read the right, the inside.


Pros:
*Dal and I have gotten to spend tons of time together because after school we don't have any other responsibilities yet.
*The Utah State basketball games are INSANE and SO FUN! The crowd is actually pretty brutal to the visitors but its freakin funny!
*There is an indoor track/fitness center that we can go to close to our house which we LOVE. They have track, fitness center, spin room, rock climing room, pool tables, indoor tennis and basketball courts, so it keeps us busy!
*Dal is loving USU and getting used to his bigger classes.
*I of course am LOVING hair school more than I thought I would. I have met some way fun girls there and the days fly by.
*Our apartment is tons bigger than our Cedar apt.
*Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, Texas Roadhouse and the mall are all on the street we live on.

So overall, I guess life is good:) We're surviving it up here, but we still would like some visitors! Every Saturday if you come into my school I can do FREE services on ya so give me a call if you're up here and I'll get you in!

Here is a pic from the first USU basketball game we went to. Dal told me I had to have a USU shirt so I went and got a flaming pink one, which was of course, the cutest on there. I got to the game and pretty much every single person in the arena was in blue and I stuck out like a sore thumb ha. Thats ok, pink is still better than blue!