Lucky Girls

Taylor is enjoying working for E*Trade. He has been in training this past month and studying for the Series 7, which is a common license in the investment industry. Yesterday was his big exam day. He has worked and studied so hard that we were confident he would pass. Not only did he pass, but he got one of the highest scores in his group! We are so proud of him! I arranged for a babysitter and surprised him and took him to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings, which is one of our favorite restaurants that he has been begging to go to for weeks. It was nice to get away for a couple hours and celebrate. Sage, Harper and I are pretty lucky girls to have him!

We have had a busy and fun weekend. Friday afternoon Taylor took Sage on a date for ice-cream and to the park while I went to the gym. After putting her to bed Taylor and I went on our own date. We were going to go to a drive-in movie to see Mirror Mirror, but decided save that for another date. Instead we went to dinner at Paradise Bakery and then went ice-skating. We also drove around and looked at some homes and decided that there are some nice homes in the Salt Lake area. Since the night was still young we walked around and looked at books at Barns and Noble. On the way home we stopped by Target and walked around and had some good laughs. It was such a nice evening. I really did marry my best friend. Today we went to the temple for the sealing of Taylor's good friend Garett and his now bride Angie. I love going to sealings. We have been fortunate enough to attend two in the past couple weeks. It really puts life into perspective. Afterwards we went to a birthday party for one of our favorite little men, Cole. We all came home and took a little nap and then barbecued for dinner and watched an episode of The Biggest Loser. This evening Taylor has been reading and I have been working on our family journal/ photo book. 

Melted Knife

Taylor insisted I blog this. I guess he thinks it is important family history. It's the every day things that make our history, right?  So here it is... I dropped a knife in the oven when I was checking the chicken. I didn't want to take everything out and thought I'd get it out after. You can see what happened. I obviously wasn't thinking straight... I was trying to get Sage to bed and get the veggies cooking and just wanted the chicken to cook faster... Lesson learned.

Curtains

I decided I wanted to put up curtains.
I have wanted to since the day we moved into Starcrest over two years ago.
I found curtains I really like that bring out the blue in the new pillow I just had to have from Home Goods.
I said it could be an early birthday gift because I wanted it so bad.
Taylor said he had bigger plans for me, but if I wanted a  pillow then I could have it.
I got it.
And I got my curtains.
A curtain rod?
A much harder task.
I looked at Target, Ross and TJ Max with no success.
9:00 last night I decided I was going to go to Walmart and find a rod because I couldn't wait to put them up.
I found a rod.
Ironed my curtains.
Taylor started to put the rod up.
It was too small.
Back to Walmart I went. Exchanged it at 10:00pm.
Taylor tried to put them up again and the brackets did not extend out far enough.
Taylor made me give it up for the night.
Sent Taylot to HomeDepot at 7:30 this morning to search for extendable brackets.
We hunted at HomeDepot, Lowes, Bed Bath and Beyond and Walmart.
Nowhere could we find extendable brackets that held a 1 inch rod-only 3/4 inch or 5/8 inch.
Taylor got home a little before 6pm when we should have been putting Sage down for bed.
Instead we went to Home Depot and bought another rod that is 3/4 inch and got the extendable brackets.
Lost the receipt to Walmart so we got store credit for the second rod I got at 10pm last night.
Forgot to mention I had to jump in the dumpster to get the box for it.
Don't worry it was pretty empty- still gross, I know...
Sage was in bed by 6:30 and my curtains were up by 7:00.
Oh and this rod came with extendable brackets so back to Home Depot we will go to return the others.
I think they are beautiful.
But were they worth all that?
Probably not.
I sure did marry a good man though.

We have an artist in the family!

During the Newlywed game the husbands had to draw a picture of their wives and then the wives had to guess which picture their husband drew of them. It was so funny! Here is the picture Taylor drew of me. I never knew he was such an artist! Looks just like me, right? Haha 

Joanie's Diner

Taylor and I celebrated our second anniversary by spending a night in Logan at the Anniversary Inn. Jeanne and Tony took good care of our lil bug. We stayed in Joanie's Diner, which is a 50's theme. We ate lots of junk provided in the diner-hotdogs, banana splits and cheesecake as well as enjoyed much needed time alone together. We also danced a few songs from the jukebox. After checking out in the afternoon we ate a yummy lunch at Cafe Sabor. It was a wonderful way to celebrate. (Please look past the poor photo quality. Of course the camera was in Sage's diaper bag.)

10 minutes

We have been married for 2 years, although it feels like 10 minutes... under water! That's our joke. It really has been the most wonderful two years. We were reminiscing of the last few years and wanted to record a few memories...  

How we met/ Our first date

I served my mission in Spain with Taylor's cousin Michael Karren. Little did I know that he was a matchmaker. Before I left for home Michael mentioned he has a cousin that had recently got home from his mission in Mongolia. I kind of laughed about it and did not think anything of it. Michael also wrote home and told Taylor about me. I got home in November 2008 and a couple months later I had a facebook friend request from a Taylor Fenton. We chatted online every now and again, but neither of us thought much of it. Several months passed and around June we both happened to be online one evening and began chatting; mostly about a silly boy I was seeing. He gave me some good advice and told me I had been patient enough with him. After this conversation we began talking more regularly. My mission president, President Farnsworth and his wife, who happened to be from Utah were coming home in July and I had planned to attend their homecoming. Taylor planned a date for us while I was in town. I was staying in Provo and he was up in Salt Lake. I drove up and met him in Salt Lake and then he drove us up to Paradise, where we had our first date. We went to his parents home, visited, and took the 4 wheelers out for a picnic. We didn't get very far before a hot oil began dripping on my leg. We stopped, got off and as soon as we did there was a loud noise and the back wheel caught fire. We ran back to the last house we had passed and the lady called the fire department. Taylor called his parents, who arrived with a fire extinguisher and put the fire out before the fire truck, ambulance and police car all showed up to the scene. It was one hot first date! We ended up having a picnic in the backyard. Later that evening we stopped for dinner at Cafe Sabor and then went back to his parents home in Salt Lake and watched Win A Date With Tad Hamilton. On my way back down to Provo I called my friend Katie who I was staying with and I told her, "I'm going to marry Taylor Fenton." She just laughed. Taylor and I had been picking dandelions which were ginormous and making wished. I actually made a wish that I would marry this man that I had known for a whole 3 hours. The next morning we went together to the Oquirrah Mountain Temple Open House. When I went to pick him up he had a oreo with peanut butter on it for me. Any doubt that he was my man vanished at that moment. He had work in the afternoon and I had a homecoming BBQ to attend. He called me that night and said he was coming down to Provo and wanted to see me. That night we both agreed that we were crazy, but that it was love at first sight. 

How He Proposed

2 months later we were engaged. I was going to school in Arizona at NAU, but a couple weeks after our first date I drove back out to visit him. He came out to Flagstaff a few weeks after that and had got me a plane ticket to go visit him again Labor Day weekend. The week before coming to visit he was complaining about pain and thought he was getting a kidney stone. He had had several and was also diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease. I of course was worried. When he picked me up from the airport he had an ice pack on his lower back and was in a lot of pain. The next morning he woke me up early saying he had been up all night and needed to go to the hospital. He had a bag full of pain medication, but had forgot his water bottle. I stopped at 7-11 and quickly ran in and got him bottled water. I had to drive because he was hunched over in agony. He was directing me to the hospital and had me pull over because he thought he was going to throw up. He had me pull into this park. He got out and I sat in the car wondering what I should do.  He came back to the car and said he wanted to take some pain medicine and see if the pain subsided before going to the hospital. He asked me to come sit with him outside at the park. Before I knew it he was pulling a beautiful, sparkling ring out from one of the medicine bottles. He asked me if I would be his medicine and marry him. I was in such disbelief that I told him to shut up. We hugged and I eventually said yes and he put the ring on my finger. I then asked if we still needed to go to the hospital. I thought maybe he wanted to propose before going because he knew the evening would be spent at the hospital. He informed that it was all made up. He really has a history stones, but he was just fine. That night we went to dinner at The Roof. I am not easy to surprise. I almost always ruin surprises, but he sure can be sneaky...