valentine's day weekend.

It was definitely the most eventful weekend we've had in a long time!! We had Feb. 15th off for President's Day last week so we took full advantage and celebrated all weekend long! Friday was Chinese New Year so we had a little get together with some friends and family. Everyone brought a little "Chinese treat" like cookies and fried rice. Dave made delicious potstickers and I turned a Thai pasta Chinese :)We spent the night playing Hilarium and Wacky 6. Overall, a very successful new year.




Saturday we had our Valentine's Day celebration stuff. Dave got off early, around 6 o'clock and we got ready for a double date with cousins Scott and Ashley! We had Hawaiian haystacks for dinner and went dancing at the Sweetheart Ball! It was the most comedic thing you've ever seen! People are so... interesting here. We love them and they make our days so interesting. [Honestly, just yesterday, Dave and I were at a 4-way stop and sat and watched this guy dance his way across the street while he listened to music through these huge headphones!] We waited in line for a solid hour and a half to have our picture taken. The line took forever to move because the guy was doing multiple shots and poses for everyone! Still so much fun though!


Monday! Dave heard from his teacher about this awesme place to go cross country skiing. We thought we'd give it a try so we rented skis from the ORC and drove up to Harriman State Park. It was incredible!!



The day was relatively warm and we ran around in long-sleeved shirts. It was a rough start but eventually we got the hang of it. One of the trails we followed went right along the river. The park is known for their huge swans that just float on the river. It was just beautiful! We loved it and had such a wonderful time.

corsages galore!

This semester I'm taking the most wonderful class: flower arranging.

I've been making all sorts of wonderful things. Actually, so far we've only learned how to make corsages but I'm thrilled with the two I've made. I feel like they're the most beautiful things on the planet. I was crushed when Dave didn't feel the same way. I've been begging him to wear them when I get out of class but he, being a biased male, feels like wearing a pink corsage will look weird.



I added a blue ribbon to my second corsage in hopes that that would "man" it up. Apparently it worked because I got the OK to pin it to his backpack and he wore it around all day :) For me, I count that as a success and definitely progress. Hopefully I can get blue flowers next time or something so he'll wear it on his shirt.

christmas sale.

I'm so my mother's daughter. I can't resist a sale. I'm always "planning ahead." Honestly that does get me some pretty great deals and I use that to justify spending later but... I do sometimes feel a little out of control.

Anyway, Christmas sales were pretty good to me :) I am planning for next years Christmas and got some really cute ornaments and cards and everything else. We may have actually even bought two trees.

I just wanted to share my newest, cutest ornaments though! They are some adorable birds that I found at Hobby Lobby. I'm not sure if they're clay or metal but I know that they'll look FANTASTIC on my tree.

Everything New!

So lots and lots of fun has happened but so much of it has happened that once again... I've fallen terribly behind on my posting. So in short:

We had a wonderful Christmas in Indiana with lots of fun with the Knechts! Complete with the most wonderful gifts of a tent and two sleeping bags! I hope to use them next week on a little excursion. I'm not sure if Dave will be joining me since he's sworn I'm crazy and is thinking I have no idea what I'll be getting myself into.

We also wrote new years resolutions! Along with the obvious regular goals to improve ourselves I added my first married person goal!! "To help Dave know when he is wrong in a very sweet way." Dave then suddenly felt inspired to write "Get Hannah to obey me always in a very sweet and nice way." So I say we've got some really great times ahead of us :)

In addition to our resolutions, we've started a "75 Things To Do Before We Die" list. Dave's has on it: "Go sky diving. Go to Africa. Go hunting.[I was appalled] and Go on a humanitarian trip." I had things like: "Swim with dolphins. Invent my own sport. Skinny dip in the Mediterranean. and Travel the world" - Good thing Dave is going to be a dentist :)

We also had our EIGHT MONTH ANNIVERSARY!! It sounds so long but to us it seems like is barely been a day! To celebrate, Dave surprised me and made a life long dream come true.... We got ANNIVERSARY FISH!! We now have three very sweet goldfish now added to our home: Penny, Harold, and Chester. Unfortunately, we can't tell them apart yet so as of now, their names are all interchangeable.



I also got a hair cut!!! I don't know if it's good or bad but I'm personally thinking it looks mostly bad [especially since sweet Dave made the rather scarring comment of how I looked like I'm "anime" I've had a little issue with my hair since then. For those of you who don't know what anime is, by definition it's "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality."] In other words, not the highest compliment you can pay someone. I like to think I look almost mod? Which even if that's bad too means I'll still grow these bangs out in 2 months tops!!

my wonderful birthday!

David Jacob Knecht threw me the most awesome 21st birthday party anyone has ever asked for. It started out with my favorite breakfast – French toast- with eggs, yogurt, orange juice, and orange slices [that he peeled himself even though he hates to do that!]



Then he took me on a surprise shopping trip! After two hours of bliss, he then surprised me with ticket to go see “New Moon”! Since we hadn’t eaten yet, we snuck Subway sandwiches in [that we got with a 10% discount because he told them it was my birthday]. He’d heard me mention it would be fun to see that movie and nothing stops him from trying to impress me so off we went to the theatre. He was less than impressed at the end to say the least, haha.

We came home and he finished sculpting my masterpiece birthday cake [that I was not allowed to see until my birthday party that night]. He had to work for a few hours and I had to babysit which honestly, I didn’t mind at all since the girls are adorable and I’d rather be with them than by myself. We had a blast playing “Hungry, Hungry Hippo” and eating those yummy frosted animal crackers.



Dave came to pick me up and surprised me AGAIN by taking me to dinner at Applebee’s! Our server was so cute and put my lemonade in a fancy margarita glass because Dave told her it was my birthday too! We went home and I opened my presents and Dave sang me a solo happy birthday song [which I will try to put up here-we recorded it and it’s hilarious!]. We were surprised at the end when the smoke detector started going off!




The entire day was so fun and full of surprises. It was nice being on Thanksgiving break too! I have the most wonderful husband who does everything for me.

My husband = a girls dream come true.

the halloween post

Halloween was a little bit different this year than others... "less spooky" I guess you could say. Dave had to work until about 7:30 pm. I went to pick him up and pretended I hadn't started dinner yet because I didn't know what he wanted. He was clearly disappointed and hungry. I was quite pleased at that - my great acting skills were in play AND better yet, waiting at home was DINNER IN A PUMPKIN!


Boy was he surprised! Just look at that expression!

I masterfully wielding an extremely large and sharp knife into the smaller "squaty" [that's what the recipe called for] pumpkin, surprising myself at how good it looked in the end! I added a little decoration to the outside and popped it in the oven for the "1-2 hours" the recipe called for. As we found out later, it takes about 4 1/2 - 5 hours instead.

We had a few hours of down time so we decided now was a good time to carve our other pumpkin! Dave chose slightly smaller knives than I did and began his work on "the big one."

I contributed the eyes while Dave finished up the nose and mouth! We were pretty pleased with our little pumpkin and set him out for all to enjoy around 10:30 pm Halloween night.

Finally, the pumpkin was done and we pulled it out to enjoy the insides!

And we found that it was goooood!

For dessert, we treated ourselves the spider cupcakes we made courtesy of Melynie's genius!

And what is Halloween without a movie?! Actually, all the scary movies were checked out so we settled on "He's Just Not That Into You." Not our favorite movie but I had pulled our mattress into the living room which was a bonus! [not to mention warmth element there - the living room is the warmest room in the house and since we don't use the heater... well you see my point.]

the college life...

Well I’ve been neglecting this blog for some time and we thought it was time you had an update/reminder about what college is like!! We are loving school! Our Ultimate Frisbee and Soccer team are done but unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures. Next time…

Dave is working at Broulim’s in the meat department, a local grocery store, so that is my next goal to get pictures at. I have a feeling I will have to be very sneaky about it though. Taking pictures at school has been a little embarrassing for Dave but inside he knows it’s really worth it :)

We made some delicious sugar cookies shaped like ghosts, pumpkins, cats, and moons a few weeks before Halloween and somehow didn't get to it again... we made spider cupcakes instead!

Dave diligently studies his bones and now has moved onto his muscles. He asked me to be his study buddy once. He has since found other "buddies" since it takes at least twice as long with me... (no fault of my own).

Perhaps this has something to do with the "additional study time" with me... :)

I've begun reading a book I've long had on my "to read" list and so far it explains a lot. I often read Dave excerpts from it and he just smiles and then says, "Why can't women be more like men? How can you get so many meanings and emotions out of one sentence?!"


Dave likes people to know that we are married :)

One day, I asked Dave to drop my violin off in my locker for me because I was late for class. When I went to go get it later that day, I found the new "name tag." :)

And so, that is a taste of what life is like for us and we love it!