Eternity-What a beatiful concept!

Well Valentine's Day is over, thank goodness! It was... terrible. Honestly the worst V-day I have worked. This was my fourth year at the Flower Patch and it far surpassed all of them. I was so excited for the day to be over. Spencer did make my day a lot better, though. He was a contract driver for the holiday so I got to see him intermittently throughout the day. Just seeing him like that made my day so much better.
It was really just the night that got me. I was there at 6:45 that morning and come about 6pm that night I was starting to get a bit tired and sick of being at work. And of course I was dealing with ornery customers on the phone's in the back. I must interject now and say that I don't think there is ever reason to be mean to someone. I don't care what has gone on, there is absolutely no reason to be mean to another person. Now back to my night. After talking to a couple extremely upset, rude, and very mean people, I broke down. I just started crying cause I couldn't hold it back anymore. My manager was lovely and held me for a little while before she took over the phone call I was on because the lady had asked to speak to the manager. Anyway... I finally got off at about 8:30 but Spencer and I were hungry and definitely not feeling like cooking anything. So we walked across the street and ate at the Malt Shop. Yum! It was so good after a long day at work. I slept very well that night, needless to say!
The rest of the week I was still very busy with everything. I couldn't wait for Friday to come around and I was SUPER excited when it finally did! Spencer and I had gotten a coupon for this Bed and Breakfast in Cedar City so we decided to use it the weekend after V-Day because we knew we would both need a break. We got our room for half off, but upgraded for about $30 and it was soooo worth it! The place is called Amid Summer's Inn. I highly recommend going there if you want a relaxing/romantic getaway. The place was beautiful! And the breakfast in the morning was divine. It is home-made every morning and was so delicious. The night we got there we were so excited for our room. We stayed in the Sir Francis Drake room and it was decorated in sea apparel. There were ships, captain hats, oars, compasses, all sorts of stuff for decoration. It had a king size bed that was the most comfortable bed I have ever slept in in my entire life. We had such a wonderful night and wished we could stay longer. But it was back home the next day! I had through Monday off, though, so the weekend was still absolutely amazing. It was so relaxing and sooo nice to be able to spend time with Spencer. We spend a lot of time together, I know, but being to be together for a few days straight was so wonderful.
This week has gone by pretty quickly. School is still raging on and I am starting to stress out a little because I have the first draft of my full length play due on Wednesday. Yikes!
But today was wonderful (after I got off of work at 2, at least.) I came home and Spencer and I just goofed around, had lunch, etc. Then we went to the Temple with Brian and Julia, our good friends. We did sealings, and it was my first time doing them so I was very excited. It was truly a wonderful experience! Kneeling across the altar from Spencer again was so wonderful. It made me think back to our wedding day and how happy and excited I was. I starting thinking about the people that we were doing the sealing for and it made me happy. I know that they were probably overjoyed at being sealed for all eternity-I know I was! And we got to do sealings where children were sealed to the parents. It is truly a miraculous thing. The Temple is such a beautiful place. It is so amazing that we can do work for the dead so that they can receive the blessings even after they are dead. It was so special to be able to do that with Spencer and I loved it and can't wait to go back!
After the temple we were able to spend the rest of the evening with Brian and Julia. They made dinner (which was so yummy) and we brought the oreo cheesecake that Spencer made (which was absolutely amazing and delicious! SO glad I have a husband that is a wonderful cook!). I was able to write there more scenes for my play, but now we are home and I am ready for bed. We haven't gotten much sleep the past few days and I am really feeling it.
I just have to end with saying how grateful I am to have such a wonderful husband. Spencer is so good to me and I am so grateful to him. I am glad that we get to be together for time and all eternity. Eternity-what a concept!

School, work, school, work....

We have been so busy with our school and work. We both quite dislike school, I like my job, but Spencer hates his. Fun stuff for us! Spencer didn't get accepted into the film program and it has been making things very difficult. He is going to apply one more time in the fall, but that's the only other shot he has. So we are hoping and praying that he gets in. He is retaking classes this semester to up his GPA, and hopefully that will help. He is extremely talented, so that's not what is holding him back. I am a little biased, but even so, Spencer is probably one of the most talented people I know. He is talented in so many ways it just blows me away. Sometimes I really feel like there is nothing he can't do. I love that man. And I know he loves me because of the crap he puts up with at work.

Oh the poor guy-his job sucks and he hates it. We both wish he could quit, but we definitely couldn't live on my paycheck alone. I guess if I withdrew from my classes (minus my major classes) I could work enough to pay for things until he found another job, but that's a little extreme. And Spencer would never let me do something like that. He is so good to me. The company he works for is changing their name, pretty much their whole business. He is not looking forward to the changes because that means he will be working with more upset customers than he already does, but what can he do? That is why he is trying so hard to find a different job. He is applied to multiple jobs on campus, but he hasn't heard back from any of them :( But I am sure something will come up. We are starting to pray about whether or not he should just quit now even without another job lined up just because he feels horrible working there. He feels so dishonest and like he has to be so mean to the customers... he really does just feel terrible working there. Having to tell people day after day, "I'm sorry you are losing your house and you can't make the payments but you are in the contract and you still have to pay," starts to wear on you and I can tell that it is wearing on him. :( So keep him in your prayers if you can!

My job is going. I love what I do, I just wish I was getting paid more what I am worth. I did just get a raise which I am extremely grateful for, and I am grateful to have a job that I enjoy in this economy. I am, however, absolutely dreading Valentine's Day. Worst day of the year in my opinion. It is a terrible holiday. I hate that there has to be a day set aside to tell your significant other that you love them. You should be doing that everyday, not just once a year! And not to mention it makes my life a living hell for a couple weeks. But Spencer is extremely supportive. And I know he will really help me through those couple weeks, he did last year. This year will be more crazy though, because we have significantly less help than last year. But life goes on!

And with Spencer as my husband, life does go on quite wonderfully! He makes me so happy. He is so loving and so good to me. I am grateful to have him in my life. Cuddling up with him in bed every night makes everything worth it.

Beautiful Fall

Spencer and I went to my house Saturday night and it was so beautiful. I never want to come back to Provo after being at home. Spencer said it perfectly when we were talking on Sunday. The pace of life is so much slower at home. My parents brought us back to Provo yesterday. I was so sad to have to come back. But we had to come back for work and school :(

Spencer is such a hard worker. He works about 30 hours a week and goes to school full time. I am so proud of him. He is doing a lot better at school this semester and it is great. We have lots of fun together when we can.

We are both absolutely loving the fall. The trees are so beautiful in the vibrant colors of yellow and red. We love the cooler weather as well. I love sweater weather! We are doing very well and just plugging on.

Our car keeps having problems. We are just hoping and praying that it will get through the winter. We are hoping to use our tax returns to get a new car. But we will see how that turns out. We are just working hard to keep up with life. We are doing great though! Married life is so wonderful and suits us perfectly. I seem to focus better and be able to get more done. And we have so much fun together all of the time. It is like living with my best friend :)