11 Months!!!

Yesterday, Faiver and I celebrated our 11th month as a married couple. I cannot believe we are so close to a year of marriage; it has gone by so fast! Since this anniversary fell on a Tuesday, we just spent a simple evening together: after a day of work and class, I came home to make dinner and have everything ready for when Faiver got done with work. I made dinner and arranged the table to be "fancy". I picked him up from work and we drove home to a wonderful yet simple dinner. Faiver opened his present I got for him and we ate together. I had to do some visiting teaching, but then we passed the rest of the night with each other. It was really nice. I love this man so much!!

Our fancy dinner table


Opening his present


Books for his coins

Wells Fargo

My wonderful husband has been looking for a good job for quite some time. He took a job a Brick Oven, a local restaurant, but it was not giving him very many hours and he was getting bored with it. We bank at Wells Fargo and one of the bankers there told him he should apply for a position there. He filled out an online application and promptly heard back from them. After a long group interview in Salt Lake and another interview in one of the branches, he was offered the job! He is now working as a bank teller in the Provo Towne Center branch. He is their Spanish specialist and is loving it. It makes me happy to see him so happy with his job. It's a great opportunity for him.

Happy Day of Love

This year I wanted to do something special for my husband for Valentine's Day. He always does sweet things for special occasions...and sometimes on regular days too...so I wanted to do something unexpected. We decided to celebrate this special day on Saturday since Valentine's day fell on a Sunday this year. It was great to be with my husband and celebrate our love.

presents from me! balloons and a BIG box

Temple bag...much needed

A love monkey! The heart says "Wild about you"

I heart-attacked the door :)

Of course, he still did some stuff for me. We went out to a movie and then dinner with some friends. He also got me these beautiful gifts:

Lilies...my favorites!!

Best shirt ever!!

Happy Valentine's Day, honey. I adore you and love you so much!

Is a Green Card really green?

The answer to that question is No!! How do I know this? Because my wonderful husband FINALLY received his Green Card in the mail today. We are so happy!! We had our appointment on January 21 and now he has the actual card saying he is a permanent resident of the US!! *Insert huge sigh of relief*

Ready to open that letter!!

(The back of the card-the only part that is green)

The Good Things in Life

Yesterday, my husband and I celebrated being married for 9 months!! I can't believe that it has been nine months...I feel like it has gone by so fast, but when I look back on all that has happened, it seems incredible. I am so glad to always have this wonderful man by my side. We had a pretty normal day, but we had some fun at night by going ice skating. It had been a while since we'd gone ice skating. I fell back into it really easily, but it took Faiver a little longer :) I absolutely LOVE ice skating!! I'm not super good at it, but I could stay there doing it for hours. When he was tired of it and wanted to go home, I asked if I could just do 5 more laps around the rink!! :) It was so much fun and super romantic. Yes, we held hands as we skated.

This is from 2008 when we went for his birthday

Something funny happened today in Primary at church. We both teach in Primary, but Faiver teaches the 9-year-olds and I teach the 5-year-olds. In my class today, we were talking about following Jesus instead of following Satan. We were saying how we don't want to follow Satan. Reid raised his hand and said, "Yeah but we don't want to follow Obama either because he wants to take everyone's money." It was so funny!! Working with little kids is always interesting :)

Language Teaching

Every Sunday, Faiver and I have dinner with my brother and sister-in-law. We have fun catching up and practicing our Spanish together. Yesterday, Faiver tried to teach Toby some new words. (For those who don't know, Toby is our nephew and he'll turn 2 this week.) He says some words pretty well if we just have him repeat them. Anyway, Faiver sat him on the table in front of him and said words in Spanish while Toby repeated them. He did pretty well with most of them, although he's not so good with the "c" sound. Faiver tried to get him to say "comida" and Toby kept saying "pizza"!! Well, at least they're related ideas :) He's a cute kid and watching my husband with him warms my heart!

What a cutie!!

Resident!!!!

Thursday January 21, 2010 is a day that will always be remembered by my husband and me. We went to Murray in the morning for the most important interview of our lives: his interview to become a permanent resident of the United States. I was so nervous but we had everything we needed, so I tried to be confident. We arrived in Murray an hour early so we decided to eat breakfast since we couldn't go to the Immigration office yet. -Funny side note: We were on our way to McDonald's and Faiver turned left at a light but just made a U-turn. Right after that, a cop pulled behind him. Luckily, we weren't stopped although it was a funny start to our morning!- After that, we went to the office and checked in with security. We waited only about 10 minutes before getting called back. The immigration officer led us back to his office and had us stand so he could "swear us in". That was the first time I've ever done that!! Then he asked us for tons of documentation to show that we were really married and in a legitimate relationship. After 15 tense minutes, he informed us that he could now be a permanent resident. We were so happy!! He'll receive his green card in about 10 days. He is official!!

We told our parents and then went about the day as usual. We went to celebrate at Chef's Table in Orem. I have heard that it is so good so I wanted to try it. It was really fancy! There was a guy playing the piano, the front-lady took my coat and gave me a number, the table had a candle and a rose on it...it was really nice. The food was good too. For dessert, Faiver had German Chocolate cake, for the first time, and I had Creme Brulee. It was yummy!!
I'm so glad that everything went well and that I could enjoy this wonderful time with my husband.