Happy New Years!

It's 2012! wow time flies, Jason and I did a month by month review of last year and basically every month something life changing or exciting happened. It was by far my most eventful year to date.

•  January: 1/8/11 Elder Wouden returned home from his mission 
• Coincidentally-- We shared our first kiss after two years this night also!!
• February: 2/14/11 Jason shocked me with the best proposal I have ever heard of; of course i'm biased though! It was a day full of surprises including the ring, but after my initial shock I uttered a definite YES!!!
• March: okay it was big for me! I found my dream dress!! I knew I wanted to marry Jason and so for months I would look on the internet and just make folders of things I liked and this one dress was on there because it was simply perfect. I happened to stumble across the exact same dress at The Perfect Dress: Coincidence? I think not! 
• May: It was my birthday which comes every year but Jason made it so special and set up with a guy in his ward to take me flying, I even got to fly the plane for a bit, it was sooo much fun! He spoils me so much! 
• June: 

• 6/9/11, I went through the temple for my first time. I was so nervous. I was not sure what to expect and just decided to not sleep and question oh everything in my life. No worries, It was the most right thing I could ever do in my life and having Jason there watching me the whole time and there to hug me at the end made me feel at such peace with everything. The temple is such a blessing.
•  6/17/11, Married for time and all eternity. Most beautiful day that whole weekend. We were surrounded by so many people that we love and had the most perfect day at the temple and also at the reception!!
• July: We had a long honeymoon and so we got to spend the first part still in Aruba, New York and Las Vegas. Of course NYC and LV were lay overs but they were extended so we got to spend time in each city enjoying it
• August: Started school, I began Level 2 of the teaching program and Jason began pursuing computer science. He is so good at all of that stuff, like writing code; I don't get it, but he does! 
• October: We went surfing for the first time! The Bruce's invited us and it was so much fun! Surfing is way hard, but we had a good time!

And then we began the holidays which were just busy busy busy.. but so fun! We ended the year with a fun party at The Perschon's house, a couple in our ward and played their kinect and some pretty funny games! It has been a great year and we had a blast bringing it in with some new friends! Thanks everyone for supporting us all year in all of our fun adventures and for the new friends we have and are still making! This year can only get better... right?  

Christmas

Wow, I didn't realize how much time could escape you on a blog if you didn't keep up with it. We wanted to start out blogging for the couple type journal aspect, but obviously that has been put on the back burner. Anyways, HAPPY NEW YEARS! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas season and had fun with family and making new traditions and holding to others. Jason and I had an amazing first Christmas. Jason's Birthday was over the break also and so we were lucky enough to get the chance to go to midway and spend a night away for that and also we said for our sixth month anniversary. We made it SIX whole months, and we even still love each other. I think we could say after this holiday season we grew even closer together; crazy how that happens when you thought you loved one another so much anyways. This Christmas we were busy juggling around families and making sure to spend some time at each household, it makes it hard because I have two wonderful sets of parents and he has his family, so he went from one family to three! It was a hectic day but Santa treated us both very well and we feel so spoiled for all of the fun things we got from everyone and are so happy everyone loved the presents that we purchased for them!  We just are so grateful for the season we had to celebrate this time of year and feel way lucky that Jason's work schedule worked out that he got almost a full week off of work!!! It was a miracle but awesome! We had so much fun just going to family parties, hanging out with the family and eating wayyyyy too much delicious food.

First Christmas day together, after church!

 Jason modeling his new jeans, he wanted new jeans so badly!! check him out ... actually don't! haha

 I love all of my new clothes too, nothing better than a new outfit!

 Sibling day out, Cabelas! Scary bears, actually the moose!

Oh man, MORE SUGAR! we were getting kind of treated out and boxes of chocolates kind of scare me because well i'm pretty picky as it it; so i don't like biting into something that I have no idea what it is, so here is how we ate it. Looks yummy huh? We each picked one and broke a piece off, tasted it and would hand it over to the other if it was good, if not it went into the box.... basically they all ended in the box because oh man you think just one bit isn't so bad.. but a box of like 20 add up way fast! Time for some serious new years resolutions!