west coast lovers: January 2015

We just got back from Rexburg after spending the weekend with Paige and Jacob, and we were probably the only people that went to Rexburg to visit. haha. Regardless, it was great! We had such a relaxing and fun weekend with them; we went to the temple, took a grand tour of the 'Burg, saw the Art department (lovely), ate some delicious ice cream at G's Dairy Delights, colored and excessive amount of Hello Kitty and Scooby Doo, and watched a few movies and just had a good time in their quaint little apartment. On Sunday, I was surprised (and frankly shouldn't have been) to see the mass amount of married students in her ward. In SLC I was apart of a small little student ward and then a family ward, so to see that many married couples in our same boat and age group, I envied it a bit. We are the youngest in our ward, and we're ok with that, we've got some great close friends and it's wonderful, really! but sometimes I envy and crave that college town vibe; to be surrounded by thousands of students and swimming in mass quantities of potential friendships and experiences. I am grateful for where I am and how I got here. I mean lets get real, I've had a great 2 years in Salt Lake working out life and making the friends I have now and forever will in my life (shout out to Milena and Taryn!) and for meeting Trevor and just enjoying where we are, living in Salt Lake is probably one of the most fun places. We are so close to everything. Then going to the U and landing a good job and living in the Aves, life's worked out for me in many aspects I really didn't plan for. In all honesty I just came to Salt Lake with really no plan and now I can see why moving to Salt Lake and going to LDSBC might have freaked out my mom a little since I didn't exactly follow in my siblings footsteps. Because Salt Lake is a relatively large city to let your 18 year old daughter move to and start at a school you hardly know about let along trust she'll be safe and smart in her decisions since it's a different kind of system than BYU's (more or less). You have a small school and no campus grounds to live on per se. All in all i'm extremely grateful for my experiences but with that you will always want something you never had and mine is that college town experience. A lot of people tell me how neat it is that I go to school in Salt Lake and that I married my husband there and so on, and in a lot of ways I am. I have been blessed on numerous times and have learned a lot about my little person called Meg. SO anyway, Rexburg was lovely, and I loved the weekend, it was really quite nice to go somewhere, anywhere for a few days.

In other news, I have started this new workout routine by Kayla Itsines, it's great and I love it. It's so quick and not so easy, but you get the workout done in a snap and then you have your off days to do cardio and cry. Not really. But it's really fun and actually I am seeing results whether it's all mental and I'm just trying to convince myself that in one week I've become this super fit person. As my co-worker, who's also doing it said, "Kayla is the biggest bully I have never met". That's because if you're super out of shape like we are, it's pretty much the thing you hate to love, but I guess all workout's are like that. So Emily and I have been motivating each other to do this workout and have been going to the gym and so far it's working out great and we love it. Soon me and Trevor will be in so shape it'll be insane *insert heavy sarcasm* (but mostly a preparatory for my little Birthday bash. I want it to be the year that I am at the top of my game and really at peace with how I look, feel and am as a person in general.

We've both started school and with open arms something always is a little off when I start a new semester, and this semester was missing my first class! hah I of course left it to the school to sort out my schedule and there was a little misunderstanding but all is well and I have worked it out and it's my last class, math. I just need to place myself mentally for this sojourn for a few months and then I am done. I just can't fully decide if I want to do a quick program that is around 2 years to get my bachelors at the U while Trevor is slaving there to get his Bachelors. I really have no idea, and I am the type that needs to go in with a definite plan or everything falls apart for me. Maybe I'll stick it out and enroll for a few classes here and there, but for right now I think a little break would be nice. Trevor's school on the other hand is in it for the long haul, we're hoping to peace out of Utah in 2018 or sooner if it all works out how I like it. He can get some classes out of the way by going to SLCC during the summer and kinda catch up in a way since his program classes are in hiatus in the summer. He's currently in a better state of mind now that he gets the flow of how the U works, which is wonderful. Also, I am hoping he will maybe quit his job and just go full time since the stars aligned for us with my job. Who knows though, it's tough to say since we are pretty comfortable with our plan and finances.

Now that I've bored you with that lengthy post. Here are some recent pictures.

Trevor was supposed to be taking a before picture of me

After my first leg / cardio day. I felt completely dead, well my legs did.

Snape is on my bus. No. Joke.

Probably the best ice cream I have ever had. There's caramel, almond, coconut scoop under that massive huckleberry scoop. Tasted like heaven... and 2 pounds.