Valentines Day Surprise!

This year was our first Valentines Day together as a married couple. Needless to say I was very curious to see what Taylor had in the plans. He isn't the most romantic guy in the world, but I am also not really a chocolate and flowers kind of girl. I was going to be happy as long as he just planned something, and boy did he plan something. Taylor had a presentation that he had to leave early in the morning for and then I had class at 11 am. Taylor left and Nan and I were just hanging out at the apartment ( she came to visit the day before). There was a knock on the door at 10 and it was a girl holding a puppy asking for Taylor. Nan luckily knew what was going on and invited her in. Turns out Taylor rented a puppy for the morning before I had class. Taylor was home yet so me and Nan kept the puppy company ( and may have had to clean up one or two puppy accidents) Taylor came home not to long after and brought our friends James and Mitch to play with the puppy with us. It was a blast and a very creative surprise, not to mention it made us realize maybe we aren't ready for a puppy quite yet!

Ski Season

Winter Semester 2013 marks our very last winter in Utah. To fully take advantage of the beautiful mountains and countless ski resorts in our backyard we have spent a lot of time skiing this winter. Taylor goes up to Snowbird with his friends at least once a week and I have been going up to Sundance once a week for classes. I decided since Taylor loves skiing so much and as much as I wanted to learn, lessons from him were not going to cut it. We went to our separate resorts on separate days so I could improve my skills and so he could keep his sanity while I learned.

My ski class taking on the back mountain on our last day together!

Now that I am done with lessons, we have gone night skiing together a couple times so he could check out my knew skills. Thanks to my awesome teacher Robbi, skiing together is actually fun now! No tears of frustration or giving up and walking down the mountain on the side of my ski's.

Our first ski trip together post ski-lessons. Night skiing at Sundance! 

We will see if I am still saying that after Taylor takes me back up to snowbird with him, but as for now we have had a successful season. Once winter ends and all the snow is gone we are suddenly going to have so much time on our hands during the weekends without all these trips up the mountain!

Date Night: Scheels (and IKEA)

Despite our date being spent entirely at retail stores it wasn't actually for the purpose of buying anything at all. We had fun exploring and picking out things we like at IKEA that we have no purpose for and would never buy. As for Scheels that place was full of all sorts of entertainment that kept us busy for hours! The best part is we escaped all this with only two purchases : new hoodies (we couldn't help ourselves, they were on sale!) and of course, some Swedish meatballs from the IKEA cafeteria!

My personal favorite was the full-sized ferris wheel inside Scheels. Taylor's favorite was trying to swing the seat on the ferris wheel back and forth to scare me.

Preparing for Minnesota: Ice Skating Lessons

Taylor decided about two months ago that he really wanted to go ice skating and last week we finally made it happen. Turns out you can ice skate for $2 on Tuesday mornings and we conveniently don't have classes then. We bundled up and made our way to the ice arena and as soon as my skates touched the ice I realized that I had no idea how to ice skate. I can count the number of times I have put on ice skates on one hand and it sure showed. To add to the shame, I was getting lapped by one of the senior citizens on the ice.

Taylor did great though, he was a natural. I on the other hand tend to imagine all the possible ways I could hurt myself and paralyze myself with fear.

After about 30 minutes of coaxing Taylor got me to let go of the wall and his hand and move my feet. I caught on a bit and was able to do entire laps without grasping onto the wall in terror but I sure have a lot of practicing to do before I can skate like a true Minnesotan.

Happy Yogurt Day!

Fun fact: Yogurtland gives out free fro-yo every year on Feb. 4. You best believe Taylor and I go in with a strategic plan to get as much yogurt and toppings to balance into that little bowl in order to take advantage of this once a year event. Poor college students? Meh, not so much. But on principle we must get as much free yogurt as possible.