June 2011

Well, I'm a little late getting this up, and I don't even have all the pictures, but I figured I'd move ahead anyhow.  Let's see...first off, we went to Chicago again and got some pictures this time.  We met our friends Dave and Abby Tensmeyer there and had a great time.

Outside the Field Museum.  We learned about whales, horses, and totem poles.

We liked this view a lot.

Navy Pier (not that cool, at least when it's swarming with people...)

In Millenium Park...

And here's the whole gang.

Our other big event of June was going to Arizona for Gavin's farewell.  What a time we had, complete with jet skiing, dropping Gav off at the airport, seeing my dad's current work project, and just hanging out with the fam.  10 days of home sweet home.  I'm grateful for my flexible husband and family. Also, pictures forthcoming....

And here's the pictures.  The whole family after his farewell, at the airport and him waving goodbye.

He loved the group hug...

Also, here's Jason and I in our pharmaceutical attire in the facility my dad designed.  I'm glad I don't have to wear this everyday. Not attractive!  But still fun.

Working the softgel machine.

Awesome shoe cover/booties.

May 2011

April showers bring May flowers.  Well, this is the first springtime of my whole life where I really felt that to be true.  Utah has flowers, but Iowa was bursting!  I loved it.  We had a good time with spring baseball at the university.  Someone in our ward plays on the team so I could get in for free and Jas used his student id card.  Not a bad deal.

We also got to visit my cousin Tiffany and her family in Waverly and had a blast.  Such fun kids!  Also, one Sunday evening, the day of the tornado warning, Jason comes to me in the kitchen and says, "Hey Whit, you wanna do something hilarious? And fun?"  "Of course!" I responded.  He proceeded to come up with something on the spot, because he hadn't actually thought of anything and this is what it was:  "Let's eat ice cream...with knives!"  Oh boy!  Here's us doing it.  So fun and so hilarious.

At the end of the month, I got to go to Utah for Allison's wedding. A nice reason to go see the fam too!  Too bad Jas couldn't come :(  Allison looked beautiful.  I'm so happy for her.

Here is my adorable niece, Ember.  I just had to share.  I could just eat her up!

April 2011

Wow, another one gone.  Time flies when you are having fun, and basically any time I'm with Jason, I'm having fun.  You know what that equals? Me having a blast!  Anyhow, April was a good month kicked off by General Conference. We LOVED General Conference.  The next weekend included lots of babysitting combined with a birthday celebration of sorts...for me. Meet the Gleason children.  Also, note that each has their own flavor of ice cream.  These children are...special!

I made a chocolate chip cookie pie, which was super easy and quite delicious.  As great as the Gleason children are, I'll be honest, it wasn't my ideal way to spend my birthday.  Fortunately, Adam and Kristin invited us to meet up with them in Chicago the following weekend.  We had a fantastic time and were happy to be able to be around some family.  It was quite rainy and cold the whole day we were together, but we got to experience the Magnificent Mile, Gino's East deep dish pizza, and the Sky Deck.  You wanna know what else?  We don't have a single good picture!  We accidentally left our camera in the car which was in 24 hour parking and we weren't nearby.  Needless to say, this is what I got on our way back home leaving Chicago.

Ha! Oh well...Guess that just means we'll have to go back.  Last, but not least, we celebrated Easter.  I cooked Easter dinner for just the two of us.  Ham, roasted fingerling potatoes and asparagus, and lemon meringue pie.  I'll admit, it was pretty good.  Here's us with the pie, using our awesome leaf pie server for the first time.  You like how we match?

Hmmm, I'm just now realizing that two main events of April revolved around pie.  Ah well, who doesn't like pie?!

PS - This is what we are gonna tell our children the Easter Bunny looks like so they won't want to believe in him...

March 2011

Holy cow March flew by!  Here's a couple of things we did this month....

First of all, we had an 80's themed date night, complete with side ponytail and off the shoulder (covered shoulder of course) sweatshirt.  We "dressed up" in bright clothing and went on a search for some arcade games and pizza.  We couldn't find any arcade games but as you can see here, we found some pizza.  We ate this while watching Back to the Future.  What's more 80's than that?  Okay, so maybe Star Wars is more 80's, but we watched that very recently.  It was a great date.

Next, we got to go to the Nauvoo temple.  It took us a little less than 2 hours to get there and due to some confusion on babysitting facilities, our ward temple day turned out to consist of Jason and I.  But, we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless.  What a beautiful temple. And we had a sunny day to top it off.  Next time it will be warm enough to eat our lunches outside instead of in the car.

We're excited to go again and see the temple during different seasons, well I am at least :)

February 2011

February was a wonderful month.  I found a job, we had our first married Valentine's day, and also Jason turned 25 years old!!  Wowee.  We had a small party, just close family, to celebrate...ha!  Jason wanted chocolate chip cookies for dessert so that's what he got.  Plus a few small gifts and homemade pizza.  One thing learned from February...don't use margarine when baking cookies, even if the label says "Great for baking!"  Butter is better...times a million.

Jason's gifts were some Reese's Peanut Butter cups and Almond Joy...his favs!  Logic, Statistics, and Mathematics of the Brief Insight Series.  And some shirts, one long-sleeve and one short-sleeve.  Jason wasn't sure he wanted to wait for them to be wrapped, but he decided it was a fun thing to open them.

One last thing for February...a few days later I had to work late so Jas took the bus home.  Here's the story in one picture.  Ripped pants from taking the short cut through the golf course from the bus stop :) I'm just glad the fence didn't rip any farther!

January 2011

We moved to Iowa and had a fabulous time finding places for wedding gifts in our apartment and spending Target gift cards.  Here we are with each of our favorite gifts (not purchased by ourselves).  Mine is the beautiful KitchenAid mixer and Jason's is the drill.  Awesome.

December 2010

After 3 years of getting to now each other we got hitched on the 21st of December and had a wonderfully wintery wedding.