Easter & Beyond

Well, our first blog post was about the time of Easter, but we didn't post some of the pictures that I think were deserved...

This is how we adapted our Energizer Bunny and Eiffel Tower to Easter for FHE one night.

At some point we died eggs, both on our own, as well as with my best friend Nikki. Nikki's little sister Cami, and Paul both got a little carried away with the rubber bands they were using to mark the eggs.

During April we attended one of Chelsi's recitals....she did a fantastic job. Afterwards Aubrey was posing for us.

I love any chance I get to meet up with my college roommates Leslie and Amy. On Paul's recommendation we met one morning at Over the Counter with all the couples.

Lucky for you, that's all of the stuff we can remember from our first few months of marriage before we started the blog.

San Francisco Honeymoon

Since we wanted to have more of a "real" honeymoon - you know, where you go somewhere cool - we decided to go to San Francisco over spring break. We drove Paul's Dad's truck to California, and stayed at Chris & Hedy Eyre's house. Just before we left, I interviewed with the Stabile family to see if I could spend my summer nannying for them. On our way I called to ask if they had decided and they told me I had the job!

We enjoyed a day at Monterey Bay Aquarium. I really liked the starfish, and the penguins. Paul particularly enjoyed the Otters, who put on quite a show for us. Since our calling at the time in our ward was as Teachers for the Sunbeams, we had recently had a lesson on fish. So we made an extra effort to note all the amazing fish, and share the pictures with them. They especially enjoyed Nemo & Dori.

We also went out to the beach to explore. The water was so cold, but the rocks were enough to entertain us both for more than an hour.

We spent some time in San Francisco too, but weren't really enjoying it too much apparently, 'cause we ended up with zero pictures. We'll have to go back!

We did get a chance to visit my cousin Aleisha and her family. Chris and Hedy also organized a big dinner so that we got to see Dana & Aaron Benning, Ben & Ashley Eyre, and Aaron Eyre. Dana and I both lived with Chris & Hedy the summer before I left on my mission. At the time Dana was single, and Aaron was after her (they had dated previously). But she thought he was weird and would always finagle a way for me to come with them so she didn't have to "date" him. It was at this big dinner that I learned they had gotten married! No pictures of that either...

Before heading home, we took the opportunity to attend the Oakland Temple. I was excited to share this temple with Paul, since it's where I received my own endowment. Paul felt pretty bad that his hair was so long. He sure looked young with the long hair and braces. The braces he had gotten shortly after our wedding, so that his parents insurance would still cover them. He had grown out his hair for the first time in his life, now that he wasn't under his dad's influence, and just wanted to see what it was like! I did enjoy the curliness!

The New Snowmobile

During Paul's mission, his family's cabin burned down. Lucky for us, they rebuilt it before he even came home. However, both of the snowmobiles were burnt with the cabin. But for the family Christmas present in 2006, Grammie & Boba purchased a new one. Paul and I were lucky enough to go help Boba pick it up and take it to the cabin. The best part though was that there was still just enough snow to warm it up and use it once before it was put away for the spring/summer/fall. We each got a good ride on it. Paul was quite skilled with that machine. However, on my ride, I didn't quite get a corner correctly and I knocked it over. We took a picture, but it's on Paul's old phone which is long gone. I wasn't hurt, and the snowmobile was just fine (after Paul helped me turn it back up). We still haven't told Boba what happened though...

Family Time & The Slopes

After our Honeymoon to Kolob, other than full-time school for both of us, we spent lots of time chilling with family. We hadn't gotten much time to do that while we were dating & engaged (since I was up at USU). Since my dad worked at The Canyons, we went skiing/snowboarding a few times.

Rennie & I went one day, and she wouldn't let me take any pictures of her to document our experience. So this was the best I could do.

We also spent quite a few Sundays at dinner at my Mom's house (before she got remarried and moved to South Jordan). We usually sat in the living room playing Catch Phrase. I think this was one such occasion.

Kolob Honeymoon

Our first night as a wedded couple we rode a carriage to the Anniversary Inn and stayed in the Anniversary Inn Suite. The next morning we drove down to Rick & Linda Eyre's cabin at the bottom of Kolob Canyon (between Cedar City & St. George in Southern Utah). We spent a couple nights there for a mini-honeymoon before school started back up for both of us.

After we got to the cabin, we decided to drive back up to Cedar to go to the grocery store. After we grabbed our groceries, we got caught in a wicked snowstorm as we drove back to the cabin. This is our little blizzard experience.

After we got home we discovered two dead mice on the floor near the bed. Needless to say it put a momentary damper on the idea of our sweet getaway!

The next morning the storm had ended, but it was very windy all morning. Once it finally stopped, we decided to take a trip down to St. George for a visit with cousins (Jared & Saren Loosli, and Jonah & Aja Eyre) and go out to dinner. When we tried to leave the property, we got our Subaru stuck in a snowdrift. We spent most of the afternoon trying to dig it out. Paul was such a diligent worker. After a while, I made hot chocolate for the two of us to warm up. Paul wouldn't even come inside to drink it, he just kept working, taking little sips here and there. When we finally got the car out of the drift his pants looked like this...

After getting dried off and warmed up, we finally headed down to St. George. After a good little visit with cousins, Jonah gave us a gift card for Outback Steakhouse, so we headed there for dinner. Aja also gave us the tip that we could go ahead and try out the horses back at the cabin.

So the next morning we saddled up those horses and went for a ride. However, we could only get one of the horses to allow us on it's back, so we didn't get to ride together. But we sure enjoyed the bit of riding we got to do anyway. I sure love this picture of Paul riding away on the horse (we can't remember it's name).

After our horse-ride we got a call from Outback. I had left my purse & phone down there, so we had to drive back down and grab it before heading back home.

We highly recommend the mini-honeymoon, no pressure to go see the sights in some cool place, just a chance to spend time with each other and learn how to live together!

The Newlyweds in Retrospect

So, when we were dating and very newlywed, we had not yet learned to blog. We have a few journal entries and pictures. But no details. So I'm going to attempt to give some details we remember from our first 4 months before we started blogging.

Mostly I'll just give some details that we remember that go along with pictures & video, and try to add any other stories that we can remember. Just know that up through the first "This Little Cundick Family" posts, everything is in retrospect!