Married Life

Okay, so you know how you can easily fall behind in your journal writing. Well that has definitely happened with me. I have now been married for four months (almost) and Cassie and I have been having the time of our lives. Being poor married college students has been fun and all but it sure would be nice to have a job. With Cassie working and going to school I feel like I have been sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for a job opportunity. I have interviews every now and then but nothing serious has ever turned up. I have been having some fun over at a friend of mine whose name is Eldon. I bought an old truck from him and I have torn it all down to the frame and I am going to sandblast it and put it back together. It has really helped to pass the time and it will give us a better working vehicle since our blue Gwen is giving us trouble. Cassie and I have been readying ourselves for the Christmas season. Christmas is almost upon us and we got a free Christmas tree one day outside our door! We have no clue who it was from, it just said to the S. family, Merry Christmas. We were so excited. We have lights up in our apartment now and we are going to spend our first Christmas with her parents. It should be lots-o-fun! Her family has some great traditions that will be exciting to participate in. For Thanksgiving we were going to try to go to my moms in CA. but that was unable to work out so we did it with her family in Utah. It was a nice big group. I don't have any pics though. Cassie and I have been having a great time together and being married is so exciting. I have someone to visit and share my life with and we get to talk about everything together. We try to go to the Temple regularly and we have read scriptures together every night. I appreciate all of the qualities that she has and I know that she has made me a better person.

This is a picture of the spot where I asked Cassie to be my girlfriend back in March. I thought this would be a great spot with the scripture quote on the wall and everything. I know that I included it into my question, but I don't remember exactly how it went. I think it is the girls who are supposed to remember all this stuff. I was so nervous asking her though because she has never had a boyfriend before. Somehow she managed to send out the signals that she was not interested in anyone until I came along. I still don't know how I slipped in under the radar, but I am glad. This was a Friday (asking her to e my girlfriend), and two Wednesday's before this I asked Cassie is she would like to go bowling with me. I did it at 11:30 at night and she didn't have her glasses on because she was getting ready for bed, and I tell her that it was because she couldn't see me to well that she said yes.

Here is a photo of my Cassie, my wife to be. We are now down to 48 days left. It turns out that from the day that I asked Cassie to marry me and the date that we decided we would be sealed in the temple was exactly 100 days. How cool is that. Cassie made us a countdown calendar and we were both excited when we learned that. It just makes for an interesting tid-bit to share about our engagement period. I am so excited to have this women with me in the House of The Lord. We are both LDS members and we both look forward to being together for time and all eternity. We ordered our wedding announcements on Thursday and we put some fun lines in there about that. Hopefully I can post one when we get them in.

This was taken minutes before I asked Cassie to marry me. She still had no idea and I was so nervous. We made a fire and cooked smores. Well at least that is what we were supposed to do, but it turned out to be that Cassie had fun with marshmallows and I was just trying to keep the fire going and film in the camera. Despite the wind the night turned out just right. The moon was out and glinting off the water and there was a nice big fire and I had Cassie in my arms.

Here we are on May 7th a few hours before I asked Cassie to marry me for time and all eternity. What a day it was. We went to the sand dunes that day and it was so windy. We had sand everywhere, but I was trying to bide some time till nightfall so I could take her hand. We were hiking R mountain here and watching the sunset. It is so nice to hold her close.

Day 49

Today day 49 came and went. It has been a long day because I have been sick. Cassie and I tried to make the best of the day yesterday but I was under the weather then too. We did get to go to the sand dunes and run around there and Cassie got some great reminders bitten into her back. Hahaha We watched Get Smart and had some good laughs and just hung out with each other since I have been a little drained of energy. Today was Friday and I usually get to spend the night at her house, but with my being sick I decided it best that I stay home and not get her family sick. I took an Exam instead and went to work. I missed classes because I was still sleeping in the morning during that time. I sure do miss her on the days when we can't see each other. I hope tomorrow I can see her if I am feeling up to it. We were thinking about watching Wolverine in the cheap theatre. I just want to have her close to hold during this time. She can't pamper me to much right now, but 49 days are all that is left until that is lifted.

Day 50

I am giving this a try. Something that I may look to in the future to remember the days past and the good times we've had.