...the holy war...

#4: Attend the BYU vs Utah Football Game

We seem to be doing fairly well with crossing off items from our make memories list! It was a great game...well for the U. Mattie was a bit bummed that his school got crushed. Plus I don't think it helped that we were sitting in mostly a Utah fan section next to a mom of one of the Utah players. Go Utes!

...dale family reunion...

Over Labor Day weekend we had the opportunity to go to Kenny's (Matt's uncle) family's cabin just outside of Sigurd, Utah for a little family reunion. It was a nice relaxing couple of days filled with fishing, four-wheeling, food, and fun! Thanks MaRecia and Kenny for having us!! Here are some picture from the weekend...

Also, we were able to cross off #3: Catch a Fish :)

Mattie caught his first and then I caught mine later up the river. We were soooo happy and excited! Can you tell by our faces?

It was the easiest fishing we have ever done! All we had to do was drop our line in the river and in only moments we had fish biting! Plus Kenny taught us the secret of catching fish in the river :) Thanks again Kenny!

...dear brian mcknight...

Dear Brian McKnight,

Please come back to Orem, Utah because it was fabulous and my husband missed you.

Sincerely,

Sachiyo

Brian McKnight came to the scera shell the last weekend in August! He was phenomenal! I attended this awesome event with a handful of the frousins and because Mattie was driving home from Alabama we gave his ticket to our friend Konrad who we work with. Matt and him joke that he fits better in the frousin picture than he would. Ha ha the funny thing is, it's true. Konrad is on the very left of the top row...thoughts?

...and so it begins...

Matt is still in Birmingham, AL for another week and an half or so but we are finally starting our blog! Yay! It's about time. There is a lot that has happened in the last 10 or so months and instead of trying to catch up, we are just going to give y'all a brief synopsis of what has happened and hopefully move forward from there :)

Matt has been gone since the middle of April doing summer sales for Vivint (the company we both work for) which is a Home Automation and Security company. He is doing well and working hard. He initially started off in Raleigh, NC and then after a couple months moved to Birmingham. I was fortunate enough to be able to go and visit him once every three weeks (thanks Vivint for being so amazing!) so the summer has not been as horrendous as you may think. When Mattie (that's what I call him) is home he'll attend BYU where he is looking to apply to the Information System program there.

I have been working like crazy all summer. I still am training and developing the technical support department at Vivint, which fortunately has kept me extremely busy while Matt has been gone. School starts tomorrow! I attend the University of Utah and will hopefully graduate within the year with a degree in Human Development and Family Studies.

Other than the assiduous summer, life is consistently busy. I thought for some reason that after we were married, life would "slow down." Much to my dismay, it didn't. Fortunately we have learned to manage. We work lots. We laugh lots. We play lots. And then we do it all over again :) Thank goodness we have each other!

The picture is one of the last times I went out to visit Matt. More to come when he gets home!

Also, we are making a list of things that we can do from September 2011 to March 2012. If you have any suggestions feel free to send them our way!