january/february

Where did January and February go?? they were good months, but i'm glad that bleary dreary cold stuff is gone and we can start moving on to spring!

handsome's birthday dinner at Corbin's :)

his steak and my salmon yum!!

first birthday cake i got to make as his wife

baby at fourth sunday dinner

dallin and i made it our goal for this year to get to the temple AT LEAST every month in 2014. we're doing great so far, and enjoying the joy and blessings that come from temple attendance.

 

tayler and i thought up these beautiful hand embroidered valentine samplers for our etsy shop. these are the ones I did for my house :)

i had so much fun with our february decorations!

in february i went rock climbing with my brother josh. it's his passion and i wanted to see what it's all about, and spend some time with him. it is SO hard! but i'm so glad i went.

Valentines day was lovely to spend with my permanent valentine!! And it's our boyfriend/girlfriend anniversary of five years!! Five years ago handsome asked me if he could be my boyfriend. Now look at us!! 

Isn't bestie the most amazing?? She remembers absolutely everything. 

Facetiming this beautiful girl in France!!!

Came home from work to these AMAZING flowers from my love. They are my absolute favorite 

Permanent valentines 

This year made our valentines dinner of homemade manicotti! A

Quick day trip to lava hit springs, ending of course in square ice cream cones

February temple trip

happy march!

Sneak peek at my quilting signature on my first quilt!! 

Great news, we found a ZAXBY'S in Utah!! This is one of handsome's favorite restaurants down south. And they just opened one in Ogden!! We have been there probably too many times now, and it's just as good as he wrote home to tell me about!! 

Bad news, it makes you fat haha!! 

Not so good coloring, but this beautiful painting was painted by my great grandma before I was born, and grandpa gave it to me to keep! I found this fun rustic frame and I love having it in my living room, getting to imagine what great grandma Ora Hunt was like! 

Happy march!! 

March temple trip! So blessed to have temples so close!! 

Sunday afternoon walks 

I came home from quilting and handsome had BOUGHT ME AN IPAD!!! I adore it. And him. What a fun surprise! We are having so much fun with its convenience, and I'm getting a lot out of its real purpose in my life, reading on it! 

Happy baby shower BrieAnna and baby Porter!! Love these friendsies

                                       

Sneaky picture of handsome playing the prelude in sacrament. He is amazing. And I get to sit by him on the stand!!! 

olsen new year

Happy New Year's from the Olsen's!

we had a wonderful celebration. we saw FROZEN (best thing of all times ever!!!)

then we had dinner at The Roof. it was lovely and delicious and so much fun. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing husband to do such fun things with. it was so good to spend the evening looking at our temple.

2014 will bring lots of new things that we can't wait for! i'm so excited to see new places and try new things. we have lots of adventures planned and i just can't wait!!

haha our cute hats that they had on our place settings

my fancy drink, and of course handsome's dr pepper

ice sculpture!

what a view!!

yay for 2014!!!

christmas loves

where did December go???

Tayler and I's Etsy shop has been so fun! and we were featured on Groopdealz with these darling earrings we make. http://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetseptembergirls

here's my adorable new car!! shiny 2008 black Mazda3. notice handsome's comment on my picture of it :) love that man

gingerbread houses with our favorite gingers!! 

#olsensandstokes

preview of our christmas cards we sent out! i'm in love

the day we invented our new tradition of a dessert first date

cutest tree around

our first nativity

for my cardinal room. obviously

first apartment key ornament :) planning on doing it with all our future house keys

figured out how to have pictures of our callings!!

the screenshot was after my december lesson. how blessed am i?? and on the right was when we got to go see the ogden christmas lights with Dallin's young men

family ornament party

haha outside our apartment complex

christmas morning!!!

one of my favorite gifts: got my wedding band!

super nice sewing machine from my mom and mother in law and two grandmas :) can't wait for all my sewing projects and quilting adventures!!

we had such a fun december together. except for the bronchitis i had for a week. but even that wasn't that bad because my sweetheart took such good care of me!! on to January!