November

Well hello December, I didn't see you sneaking in on me. But here you are.. almost halfway over and I don't even know where November went.

I hope someone else feels the same way about November because I literally have no idea where it went. It came and went so quickly, but it was filled with a lot of wonderful things.

Logan was busy with school and still working at Olive Garden. Right now he is taking some generals and prerequisites for a bachelors in health administration. I am so proud of him and how hard he has worked. Some days when he gets home from school I am so excited and it's about all I can do to let him sit down to do more homework. I'm always ready for some fun adventures with my hubby, but I know his education is important!

I had a lot of photo shoots with seniors, families, and weddings that kept me busy. I had two weddings to shoot and besides those being my favorite things to shoot, having Logan come with me and shoot them with me makes them even better and more special to me. He is right there by my side giving me confidence and helping every step of the way.

After shooting at the temple

 The first wedding we did, was one of Logan's good friends from high school and she was marrying someone I knew from Shelley (Rigby/Shelley marriages are pretty great). We had the opportunity to go be there for their sealing. I have still yet to make it through a sealing without crying. The feeling that is in the temple during a sealing ceremony is so beautiful. As I have sat and watched and listened to other sealings, I am taken back to February 23, 2013 as I knelt across from my best friend and we were sealed together. Sometimes I sit in awe of the life that I have with him. He's wonderful, but I will save some lovey-dovey things for a post that I have been writing in my head for 3.5 months now that I will be writing in the next few days.

Sorry, I got a little distracted... Along with those photo shoots and weddings, I had the opportunity to go down and second shoot a wedding at the Salt Lake temple with another photographer. It was awesome. I learned so much and am grateful for the chance I had to do that.

Logan wasn't able to go down to Salt Lake with me so my mom went down with me and I'm so grateful that she did. It was fun to spend time just chatting with her and being silly. I have been blessed with a great mom; she is always willing to help me!

And yes, I pose all the time now. Just ask Logan, I'm always practicing couple poses in the mirror!

For our wedding I grew my hair out so I could have it up, but it was an agonizing process. When I cut my hair short after my junior year of high school, I loved it and never really grew it out again until our wedding. After the wedding I chopped it back into the a-line and decided to start growing it out again. Why you ask, I ask myself that all the time. It was a love hate relationship because I could put my hair into a ponytail, but I just don't like my hair long. So finally after debating it out in my mind and with Logan's encouragement, I whacked off my hair. Even shorter this time. And the verdict...

I LOVE it! Now I'm just dreaming of cutting it shorter. It's tempting, very tempting!

For Thanksgiving, we spent the day with the Peterson family with all of Logan's family. It was fun to have everyone there and to have his nieces (Rachael and Davis, too) come back from Arizona for a few days. They got here on Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) and we met up with them at the mall to help some of them get clothes for family pictures. We snuck up on his nieces and it was the most hilarious thing ever. They were riding one of the mall rides that sucks quarters out of every parents wallet and we came up on both sides of the ice cream truck to give them a good fright. Leighton was on my side and she screamed, while Logan scared Finley to the point of almost crying before breaking into a big laugh. Those girls love their Lo, Lo. Fin really is so cute. She would come to me and want to be picked up just so she could ask me, "Where Lo Lo?"
For the feast on Thanksgiving, I made a raspberry pretzel salad and my Grandma Clark's hot fudge. And yes, to me it is the best hot fudge around. She makes it better than me, but I sure enjoyed it! It was really fun to be wifey and bring things to the dinner. I am looking forward to many more big dinners that I get to help with and be part of!
On Thanksgiving we took family pictures in the afternoon before stuffing out bellies full and it turned out AMAZING! I am so happy with our color choices and our location and everything about them! It was awesome. Here's a little peak at them until I do a full post with lots of them.

 Aren't they the cutest?!

 And I just plain love this of us

You know, I wasn't a huge fan of the fact that all the stores opened at like 6:00 on Thanksgiving for the Black Friday shopping. Hello, it wasn't even Friday!! Anyways, Emily (my sis-in-law) and I decided to go shopping around 11 hoping that it wouldn't be super crazy anymore. It wasn't and we just looked around at the mall, Target and Michaels. Michaels had some good deals on some decorations I wanted so I got stuff there and of course Target was amazing. I can't go into that store with buying at least 2 things from the dollar section and whatever else great I find. That night was no different. But hey, at least it was all cheap! :)

Well, other than that, I got a calling as the secretary in the primary presidency. I am counting my blessings that the week before I was sustained was the primary program and I did not have the stress of that. But I am excited to be part of this presidency and to get to know these kids. We have 10 kids in primary and two nurseries.

November was a month full of gratitude and I am so thankful for my family, the gospel, and Logan. I really would not be the person I am today without them!

Be looking forward to my next post. Now that I've told you about it, I have to do it. I have had some things on my mind since September and I have still yet to blog about them. Let's hope that in the past 3.5 months I have come up with something makes sense and means something.