We've had an eventful few months. Stefani had her senior recital and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Piano Pedagogy (piano teaching) We don't have any pictures of her senior recital but we have a CD for anyone who wants it.

I have been working hard building trampoline parks all over the country and some outside the country. I got to go on an install in New York. I got to go see Times Square, Central Park and ride the amazing subway. We ate at Carnegie Deli, they had the BEST cheesecake I've ever had. 

We went to the Manti temple with Stef's parents and had an awesome time. It was a beautiful temple and we had a good endowment session.

 We are still working on finding a place to live in Davenport,IA. We are going to be moving sometime during the end of June. 

Here's a few random pictures of our life!

Our romantic candlelit dinner! Yes that is my wedding bouquet in the vase!

We had our super delicious Alfredo! 

We made these yummy sugar cookies for Valentine's Day!

We did not have a heart cookie cutter so we used a cup and a knife! 

Spring Break part 2

We had to wake up super early in the morning to get to the airport. We were flying standby and we had to be in California the next day for the Music Teachers National Association Annual Conference that the pianists at Weber were presenting at. Anyway, we flew out of Des Moines with no problems. There were tons of open seats on the flight. However, when we got to St Paul/Minneapolis we were in the airport for a long time. There were several flights that they called our names on but there was only one seat on the plane left. We knew the flights around 7 and 9 had tons of open seats on them so we knew we would get out of there in time for our presentation. We ended up watching Bedtime Stories, eating, reading, and playing games on the computer. I really believe we did not get on a flight all day because of my parents driving home. They were driving in a blizzard. There were several times they had to call us to ask us what the roads were like up ahead. Once they were on clear roads and out of the blizzard, we got on a plane. I truly believe it was a blessing in disguise at the moment. It was frustrating then, but it looking back it was definitely a blessing. We finally got to Cali and our best pianist friend Zoe came to pick us up. We had a dress rehearsal right when we get there at 8:30 at night. The rehearsal didn't end til 10:30, which as 12:30 IA time. We were so tired from waking up at at 5 in the morning and then not getting to bed til 1 (IA time which we were used to).
The next day was our presentation involving dancers. It was so much fun! As soon as we were done we went to Disneyland!!! We had so much fun! It was not crowded and we got a super good deal on our tickets! We hopper tickets and got to ride every ride we wanted (except Thundermountain Railroad which was closed and being renovated). We really enjoyed Disneyland. Neither of us really like Disneyland we think it's overrated, but we had tons of fun since it wasn't super crowded.  Cars Land was SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!! That was by far my favorite part! We went at night and it was all lit up in the Neon just like in the movie. And the ride in Cars Land was even better! I was smiling the rest of the night because of it! It wasn't intense or anything, it was just so cute!
The next day we drove home with Zoe and her boyfriend. That was also tons of fun! We really like both Zoe and Jake!

                                                                 

                                                          The Classic Disneyland Picture

                                                Collin made the same face as the green aliens!

                                     Our favorite Jungle Cruise ride tour guide, Jeremy Jensen!!!!

                                                           Cars Land! I was so happy!!!!

                     The awesome Cars Ride that I don't remember the name of! See how big my smile is?!

World of Colors was also super awesome!

Our awesome drive home!!!! We love Jake and Zoe!

Spring Break part 1

Our Spring Break was so fun! But very busy! We left on March 6 to drive to Davenport, Iowa with my parents.  Wyoming was so boring and SO LONG! We did stop at Little America Hotel to get ice cream cones though! So that helped! My parents were lucky and got to sit in the back and watch movies for once! They kept joking that we were the Mom and Dad and they were the kids since we were the ones driving. We drove to North Platte, NE the first day and stayed the night there. We found a super great deal with that though because our continental breakfast was a free breakfast at a diner next door. It was super great!
The next day we drove the rest of the way through NE and IA. There were really cool migratory birds in NE that were fun to watch! There were TONS of them! My dad especially loved them! NE and IA were full of corn fields! I'm sure during summer it is super pretty and green.
We really like IA. We got there on Thursday and had dinner. We went back to our hotel that night and played games. It was so fun! I love when my dad plays games with us! Friday morning we drove around the area to look around. We also met with some ward members there and talked with them. They told us about the area and the ward. Then we went swimming in our hotel pool and went to dinner. Saturday was the big important day.  We went to see the Mississippi River that morning. It was raining so it was kinda cool. Then we were at Palmer College of Chiropractics for a school tour day. I was feeling sick so that was not fun! The school was really cool though. We had interactive classes and lunch and free chiropractics while we were there! That was the first time I had ever been to the chiropractor and it was so nice! We then drove to Des Moines that night cause Collin and I then had to fly from the Des Moines Airport to California while my parents drove back home.

Temples

So I was going through our pictures and noticed we have tons with temples. Collin and I try to go to the temple every week! We absolutely love it and it has brought us so close! It's a great habit for us and one we will miss when we don't have a temple so close that we can go to!

                                                                    Las Vegas, NV

                                                                         Draper, UT

                                                           Mesa, AZ (one of our favorites)

                                                                Salt Lake City, UT

Update 2

Alright now I'll continue with our updates.

In July my brother Taft left on his mission to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. We were really close so I was sad when he left, but he's doing awesome!!! I'm so proud of him! I think in the last post I said for our anniversary Collin took me to see Phantom of the Opera in Vegas. It was AMAZING!!! I absolutely loved it!
Then school started and life got boring again. But it was Collin's last semester so that was exciting! We were involved with a Halloween party full of Disney characters and the kids came trick-or-treating to the Disney characters. Collin and I were Woody and Bo Peep from Toy Story. We did this the year before too and we had so much fun! It's fun to see the cute little kids come and be so excited to see the Disney people in real life!
We had 3 Thanksgivings to go to in one day so that was pretty crazy. The Cragun family, the Barker family, and then my aunt's family. It was crazy, but fun to be with family the whole day. Collin graduated in December with a Bachelors in Microbiology and a minor in Chemistry. That was a very exciting day for our family! Technically he could get a real job now, but he has more school to do since he wants to be a chiropractor!
Our Christmas was once again small this year. We got a big Draper Temple picture, a few seasons of The Office, Collin got me a Disney Piano Book, and I got him Drill Bits. Even though we've had small Christmases, we've loved them. And I'm trained from my family to wake up super early to open presents so we were up at like 6 I think opening presents. After we had our Christmas we went to parents to have breakfast with them and to talk with my brother on the phone. I absolutely loved talking with him. He's such a great kid. Christmas Eve we were at Collin's parents having the Cragun Christmas. That was a lot of fun too. I love seeing how excited all the little nieces and nephews are with their presents.
January 2013 Collin lost his job from something that was an accident and he didn't know was wrong. So that was a tough little while, but luckily my brother Dallin got him a job at Trampoline Parks about 2 weeks after so we didn't have to wait too long before we had another job. He helps build Trampoline Parks all over the country. The end of January he was in Virginia for a week. I missed him at home, but he got lots of hours while he was there.
This month we celebrated Valentines Day the smart way. I was busy the night of Valentines Day with something for school, so we went out to dinner the night before. GREAT IDEA! It's not packed and busy the night before. Then on Valentines Day we gave each other our presents (Collin gave me chocolates and then said he was taking me shopping, and I gave him a basket of "101 Reasons Why I Love You". I typed up 101 reasons why I love him and then bought a few presents that had to do with the reasons. Pinterest was such a help for this). Then February 25 was Collin's birthday so we went out to dinner at The Pie and I gave Collin his presents, Skyfall, the game Ratuki, dark chocolate covered pomegranates, Riesens, and a nice bright blue AE shirt.

                                                              My big little brother Taft

Wow it's been forever! Sorry!

Yep we haven't updated on here for like a year and a half so I will do my best to make up for lost time. December was our first Christmas together and we had a meager first Christmas. But we loved it! We got a Blu-Ray player, 5 or 6 DVDs, and we each gave each other a small little present. Collin game me a Phoenix Suns couch pillow and I gave him a nice white and gray striped sweater. We then went to AZ with my family for a week and that was a lot of fun. This was Collin's first time going to AZ and he loved it (which is very good).
January 2012 was a scary month for us. My Nanny passed away after being sick in the hospital for about a month. This was so sad for me. She was the one who made me want to play piano when I was little. I wanted to play just like her. Having her die before my Senior Piano Recital was very very very hard, but I know she will be there in Spirit listening. I know there is no way she would miss it. Just after Nanny died Collin's dad was in the ICU. He was so sick. He had a horrible cold with an infection on his stomach that burst. They had to drain fluids out of him. It was so scary. We went down to AZ for my Nanny's funeral and I was so afraid the whole time that my father-in-law was going to pass away as well. Luckily, he didn't and he's doing great now. I had to play a musical number at Nanny's funeral which was very hard for me, but luckily I was comforted for those 5 minutes that I didn't cry until I sat back down next to Collin. I'm so grateful for her and the life she lived and her absolutely amazing testimony!
For our first married Valentine's Day I made Collin Snickerdoodles and he gave me the Proposal and a bag of Ghiradelli chocolates, just like when we were dating. We also went to see The Vow. It wasn't as good as I was hoping but I still liked it. Collin's birthday is also in February and we had a lot of fun for that.
I don't think much happened until summer. We had so much fun during the summer. We went to the cabin at Bear Lake several times. I tried water skiing and I got it! And it was so much fun! The water wasn't super cold like other times I've been there so that was definitely a plus! One of the times we went to Bear Lake we went on a family hike to Bloomington Lake which was really pretty. There was even a rope swing to swing into the lake, which of course Collin had to try. It was a lot of fun though and a very mild hike. We also went on a trip to AZ and Vegas. Collin says he experienced something totally new for him in AZ, it's hot but when the wind blows, the wind is still very hot as well. It was strange for him, but awesome for me! I miss AZ summers! In Vegas we went boating with Collin's brother, Boone's family. We had so much fun with them. We also celebrated our anniversary while there by going to see Phantom of the Opera.
And this is all I have time for so I'll finish another time!

                                                              Bloomington Lake

                                           Collin with our niece and nephew, Rylee and Kaden

                                                              I did it! And we have proof!

                                                         Collin is much better than me!