How to finish your wife's treat.

Step 1

Go out for ice cream on Shaila's birthday.  I order a small blizzard and she got a parfait.

Step 2 

Shaila get's a call from Grandma and Adam finishes his Blizzard... mm mm.

Step 3

Shaila finishes her phone call before Adam can finish her parfait.

Step 4

The finish.  Now that you have eaten most of your wife's parfait wait a minute, she will get upset and let you finish the rest!

legal mumbo jumbo.  I did not actually eat all her parfait.  She was able to eat most of it and I just thought I would share some meaningless photos.

It is over... until September.

Well folks tonight was it.  The last college football game of the 2011 season.  I love spending Saturdays in the fall and early winter watching football.  The days get colder and it has always been so much fun for me to watch all the games every Saturday.  I remember many, many days watching starting at 8 am with the pregame shows and going until close to midnight.  Only moving to cheer on a play or feed my face.  It is wonderful.  Usually there is so much going on during the fall and it is one of my favorite times of year because of all of it.

Last year I didn't get to watch much.  I was too busy falling in love with my best friend.  The one person who I would choose to do something with over watch any football game, any game!  I didn't watch much.  This season though I was hoping to watch more.  I knew that Shaila hadn't watched football before and I would have to get her into it if I wanted to watch it like I used to.  The first weekend came and she agreed to watch a game or two with me.  I tried to answer any questions she had to help her learn the game but after only 15 minutes she was on her phone playing games and not paying attention.

This continued game after game, week after week.  I was sad that my best friend didn't care as much as I did about one of my favorite things.  After a few weeks she began to get upset about how much I was watching, so I tried to compromise by telling her the games I really cared about watching, because I wanted to watch them all.  I told her the games and times and told her that if she wanted to go out or do anything during the free times we could she just had to tell me what. She never did so I just kept watching.  She wasn't too happy.

As I look back I realize this may have not been the best idea on my part.  However I do also realize just how much she sacrificed to let me do something I love.  I love her so much for it.  I am so happy to call her my wife and know that we are forever.

To you sweetheart.   I say, it is done, over, finished, complete until next September. I am sorry I love football so much, but for now I am yours  do with me as you will.  Just know that come next September I will want to do it all over again.   Hopefully by then I can convince her to like it a bit more.

Christmas with the Bazzelle's

After driving cross country several times over the last year, we decided that we would just stay here in Utah for Christmas. At first I wasn't too excited about this decision, but after convincing Adam's mom that they needed to come out here too, I was ecstatic! In my 22 Christmases this was my first one away from my own parents. They were just out here for Rachel's wedding in September, so they couldn't make a second trip out for the holidays. So I'm lucky to have gained a second family this year that was able to visit. Adam and I tell each other all the time how lucky we are to have married into families that we actually enjoy being around.
Our tiny two bedroom apartment was packed, but happily so. The Christmas tree had so many presents under it that we joked about having to get a second one just to have somewhere to put all of them. We were all spoiled, at least I felt that way. And Dad Bazzelle kept hinting at wanting grandchildren, saying things like, "Christmas is much more magical with little ones around', and "I'd like a grandchild that doesn't have fur" (referring to Jenni's dog-child, Elliot). I just kept having to remind him that we had only been married for 7 months! Maybe we'll get around to it this year ;)
Before everyone left, we were able to do an endowment session at the Salt Lake Temple. I've never done a live session before, and it was a very neat experience to go through with my new family. It was the first time that all five of us had been in the temple together since Adam and I were married. After the session, we had to walk around a little bit to see the lights. Nothing beats Temple Square at Christmas time. Gorgeous! I took a few pictures with my phone, but they don't do it justice. If you haven't been, be sure to go next year!

Like I said, these pictures don't do the experience justice. Even in the freezing cold, you could feel the warmth of Christmas spirit. I hope that all of you had a wonderful Christmas, and that you took at least a few minutes to remember our Savior who was born so long ago, and that he is the reason for this wonderful time of year.