[year two.]

This past Sunday, our first anniversary, I made a sad realization: I did a horrible job of chronicling everything that we did and taking pictures. I am going to put more effort into year two. thus, this blog was born!


It was a fun, hard, joyous, year! I started (and am about to finish) the leveling program at U of M for Communicative Science and Disorders. What this means is I basically took all the undergraduate requirements for the program in one year. Now, I will be able to apply for grad school in Speech and Language Pathology and have (most) all the requirements completed. I LOVED this program, and I met some absolutely wonderful people in the past year. I am really excited about being in this field forever :) I'm taking this year off of school and desperately looking for a job. Missoula is a the single most difficult place to find a job! But I trust one will come along; God has always provided when I needed it most.


Jonny has continued to work for the same company; his 4 year anniversary of working for WGM group in next month! I can't imagine working somewhere 4 years, haha! He just saves the world, one engineering job at a time. Upon getting a membership at the Y, he has rediscovered his love of swimming (I always did think swimmers were attractive). He just got his "study guide" --a.k.a. 1000 page book-- for his Professional Engineer exam. He sits for it in October and and I imagine he will spend the next 4 months studying. He is nervous, but I know he is gonna do just fine!


And for the past year, Dipper has remained the cutest, most troublesome, sweetest little puppy. She is loving having me home this summer, but she is definitely Jonny's girl! Either way, she's so cute.

Last week was super fun at our house with Jonny's 26 birthday and our 1st anniversary! (Also my first "finals" week of summer classes; we won't remember that part, though.)

For Jonny's birthday, we ate.... ALOT. I made him cinnamon roll waffles for breakfast. Later that evening, we went to a swanky restaurant in Missoula called the Silk Road. He got maple bacon beignets and was the happiest man alive. I got a Tipu's chai infused chocolate mousse cake. All I gotta say is: yum! We went out to eat a couple nights later at no other than the Mustard Seed. I am not responsible for my table manners there, it is easily our favorite meal in the universe.

Saturday, we went to see our friends Grant and Meagan get married. It was such a sweet, fun, gorgeous wedding! We had so much fun! We danced, and ate, and danced, and danced, and danced.

Fun, as evidenced by all the men (and the pastor!) boogie-ing big time.

After the wedding, Jonny and I drove to Spokane. We stayed Saturday night and spent the whole day Sunday in the city. (Spokane is my closest hope around Missoula to feeling like I am in a "big city" for a little while!) We ate breakfast at Madeleines, a wonderful French Cafe downtown. Then I picked out my bridesmaids dress for Taren's wedding in November! For the rest of the day we shopped, walked around the riverside park, and saw an IMAX movie. We finished with dinner at Spaghetti Factory, where we had our rehearsal dinner in Nashville. OF course, after a 3 hour drive home, we got out the cake and wine and tried to remember what happened a year ago! 

This poor cake endured a terrible 2,000mile ride in the mail. It was much prettier on our wedding day. However, it was just as delicious as it was 6-24-11. Awesome? Gross? IDK.

Twas a great weekend, and coming back to the real world (work for Jonny, neuroanatomy for me) was not very easy!