1 Whole Year!!

We knew we were missing something when I posted last time. As of the 24th of August, we've been married a whole year!!! We can't decide if it's gone by quickly or felt like a lifetime, but either way, it's been wonderful. For our anniversary, we went to Salt Lake and made a whole day of spending time together. Nate was brilliant and made a reservation for the two of us a spa for a 1+ hour massage. (I love nice, long massages!) After that we walked around the mall for a bit and we each got a nice new pair of work shoes and I got a new skirt. After we'd walked around the outdoor mall, we went out to a yummy Italian restaurant then a fun movie. On Sunday, our actual anniversary, we spent our afternoon just chilling as we enjoyed a light dinner and some cheesecake (since our topper is long gone). It was a lovely weekend!

Finally Slowing Down

Here is the fire picture I promised, only it's not a picture.

It was so close to our house!

Even more has happened since the last time we've said anything. The most exciting thing is NATE GOT A JOB!!!!!!! The job hunt is over! Nate is now a full time working man at Utah Career College. They are opening up a new campus in Orem and he will be registering all the new students along with lots of other things since they don't have all of their people hired yet. He started on Monday, August 25th. It's kinda strange for us both to get up and all dressed up for work in the morning.

The next most exciting thing that's happened is that Nate officially graduated on the 14th and 15th of this month. His whole family was able to come out including Grandma Talbert and Aunt Judy! (Cami, we missed you! But that's ok.) We had fun touring Provo and attending graduation festivities.

As a graduation present, Nate got a grill! That's where he made a yummy graduation dinner of steak kabobs, grilled veggies, and hot dogs! It was pretty gosh darn yummy!

Our first meal cooked on the grill.
This was actually a couple weeks before graduation.

Before then we went to a family reunion up in Idaho and were able to go to the Twin Falls Temple open house. It was really nice to see so many Dixon family members all in one spot again. I don't think that's happened in a LONG time!

I love them!
(Thanks for the picture Mark!)

Now that the summer is coming to a close, our lives are settling back down. Summer was busy, but it was a really good one.

Busy, busy, busy!!!

It has been well over a month since we've made any posts, but man have we been busy! Since our last post we have packed, driven to Idaho for a weekend family reunion, I turned another year older, we moved, unpacked, survived a forest fire, and Nate officially graduated from BYU! Seeing as how I've been sitting here a while and we don't have anything comfy to sit on in the tv/computer/everything else room just yet, I might tackle pictures and such one event at at time.

We'll start with the packing and moving. We got the keys to our new place on July 23rd and started moving in that very next day. We didn't get all moved in until August 2nd, but it was nice to move stuff in slowly and unpack as we went. Now we're down to a maybe 6 boxes. Not to shabby, if I might say so myself!

The night before our major move to Payson (August 1st) we came to our new home, only to see a huge fire up on the mountain by our house! When we first got there it actually wasn't too bad, at least for us. It was big, but under control and a few miles from our house. We went and watched until we decided that we had lots to do and just needed to go unload the car. Well, by the time the car was unloaded, the wind had picked up and pushed the fire in our direction. It got kinda close to our house. We weren't too worried about it taking out our house, but it was only about half a mile away and quickly reaching some homes. Many people in our ward were evacuated. The local fire fighters were amazing that night! They really worked hard and for long hours to save so many homes. Thanks to them, and I am sure some divine intervention, all homes were spared. It's amazing to see where the fire went and how close it came to some homes. You can see where the fire went around some homes and an orchard, only to go through abandoned lots that had homes on each side. The only structure that was claimed was an old shed that was about to be torn down. That really was amazing!

I'll have to finish up later and I'll make sure to upload a bunch of pictures from the last month. Eventually I'll get all caught up!

We're Moving!!!

So, we're moving. Not as far as we thought we'd be moving, but we're still really excited! We found a town home down in Payson. It has 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 bathrooms, and almost triple the space we have right now! The offer was just accepted yesterday, so assuming everything goes through, we should have a new set of keys by the end of the month!

Cute little bay window!

I think the floors and the trim work are 2 of my favorite parts!

Ceiling fans are great!


I love the floors!


Granite counters, a nice fridge, and a mini double oven!


The half bath


The falcons stuff was not a selling factor (despite popular belief) nor were they asked for as part of the offer.


The back bedroom


The lovely upstairs bathroom!

There is also a small back yard with lots of open space behind and in front there is a brand new baseball complex, so we won't be having anything built over there. We are VERY excited! Anybody feel like helping with a move?

Happy 4th of July!

This weekend was rather busy, but pretty fun! My entire family came down for the weekend! On the 4th we didn't do the typical 4th of July stuff. We did go get some pizza and found a nice park by our apartment and watched various people and their fireworks. We were all glad that there were so many people willing to send their own money up in flames. Thanks to several people in the North Provo/South Orem area and to the Stadium of Fire, we had a pretty nice little show! That night Chelsie and Caleb camped out in our living room while Mama, Daddy, and Emily went up to Sandy to stay the night. It was kinda fun to have them over for the night. Nate and Caleb played a game called Field Command while Chelsie and I watched a nice chick flick (I actually fell asleep pretty quickly).

Saturday we got visit with all sorts of family. We saw most of the Nances before they head off to Josephs wedding and then their new tour of Germany. After a couple hours of visiting with them, we spent some time with Dusty and Bill. Bill made his very yummy burgers. Yumm!!! It was nice to be able to see so much family! The weekend went rather quickly, but it was nice to spend a little time with my family.

The Joys of Google Reader

I am confessing to a slight problem I have with spending time on the computer. After an entire day of looking at a computer, I come home and spend hours on end staring at my own computer checking email, Facebook, friends blogs, and other such things. But now, I am happy to say, I have been spending MUCH less time on the computer. I found this wonderful little thing called Google Reader. I have it check for updates on all of the blogs and news pages that I read, so instead of spending hours checking several different sites, I just check Google Reader and it tells me who has made any changes. I love it!!! I'm not trying to sound like a commercial, I'm just saying that I am happy to be breaking my computer addiction. I can now keep up on everything online and spend time on different and more important things. I feel so free!!!

Happy Birthday Emily!!!

We haven't posted anything in a while but we have been very busy. One of the more recent exciting things was Emily's visit from Rexburg for her birthday! She came down Friday then headed home Monday morning. While she was here, we probably spent most of her visit making a birthday cake. Not really, but we did spend a few hours Friday night then ALL Saturday morning. It was pretty fun! This was the first attempt at using fondant for both of us, but I don't think it was too bad. Here are some pictures from the fun weekend.

Emily mixing our triple batch of yellow cake.


Cake with yummy raspberry icing.


The frog beginnings.


The finished product!


Happy 20th Birthday Emily!

Not to shabby for our first attempt at fondant and all the special cake carving we had to do. After the cake was done we went to Nielsons Grove park down the road for a little party with family and friends. By the end of the day we were all exhausted, but it sure was a fun day!