Merry Christmas everyone!!

We hope all of your holidays are merry

and that you travel safely! :)

FINALS??

Yes, this upcoming week is finals week! :S This is how we feel about that...
But hey, it's another semester come and gone right? :) And then Nick has one more to go and he is done, graduated, out of here! Then me.. I have one more semester of classes then I will do my student teaching in the Spring until about the first week of August and then I'm out of here!! :) It's so exciting isn't it? Well, it is for us.

We also found out a little bit ago that Nicholas got accepted to Oklahoma School of Dentistry!


In case anyone doesn't know where that is, it's in Oklahoma :) haha just kidding. Anyways, we are very excited for him, but we do hope to get into Colorado because that is our first choice. Well, Christmas is coming soon. We STILL haven't put up our Christmas tree (haha) that is our goal for tonight! :) I'm excited though, I can't wait to spend Christmas with my family this year (The Morris family.. if you haven't already figured it out that this is Dana writing).

Well.. good luck to any of you who still have to take finals!!!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays everyone!! Once again, I have updated the blog for the holidays (including the music!) :) I love Christmas time and I hope you all enjoy the season!

My First Cohort

I have just about finished my 1st cohort at BYU for the EL ED program. Tomorrow is my last day in the Elementary School. I have been there for 4 weeks and made a lot of little friends. It will be sad to leave them, but I am just grateful that I was able to work with all of these wonderful kids. Here are some of the pictures that I got from the other day. One more cohort to go, and then my student teaching and I will be done with school! It's so crazy to think about it, but I'm excited to find out soon where we will be moving on to. :)

p.s.- Once again, you should click on the image and it will come up bigger, then you can see all of the wonderful little kids better! :)

Colorado..

This is another collage from our trip to Colorado.. I had to get some pictures in because Nick's family is moving from their house! This was our last vacation there.. for Thanksgiving we will be in the new house! Which I think is very exciting. Hopefully we can take one last stop and look at their old home. Well, here are the pictures from our last trip.. we didn't get very many, and I hope Syd won't kill me for putting up that very CUTE and funny picture of us three! Haha, well, enjoy!

Las Vegas Trip (August)

SO, I never put up pictures from our 1 year anniversary trip to Las Vegas and Zion's Park! I just made a collage of pictures because it is so time consuming to upload pictures on this thing. So here it is! I don't have to write much, the pictures are the best part right? :)
I think you can click on the collage and it will come up bigger, that way you can see the pictures better, enjoy!

Halloween Fun!

Here are my cute little kids from the school I teach at. I dressed up as a cowgirl for Halloween (far right). They all looked adorable and were so excited for Halloween. Aren't they so cute? :)

Hopefully you can click on the picture so it will come up bigger and you can see it better!

Fall!

Well, it's Fall. November has come and I can't believe it! October went by so fast. I am now doing my practicum at Franklin Elementary. I teach first grade, they are so adorable! Yesterday was Halloween. I was a cowgirl, I wish I took some pictures, but I forgot! All of the kids were dressed up and they were so cute and excited.

Today is November 1st. That means Nick and I have been married for a year and two months. It's exciting! :)

I changed our back ground again because it's not Halloween anymore, it is now fall :) Well, not much is new. I just wish I had some pictures from Halloween and my day at the Elementary school.

Pumpkins!!

So Nick left out of town this Thursday and Friday and I decided I would go home to carve pumpkins with my little brother Isaac.

He REALLY, really, likes these little guys called Waddle Dee's ??

Yeah.. never really heard of them until now. Well he wanted me to carve him a waddle dee pumpkin and so I did! :) Here it is. It kind of looks like one.. and kind of not, but this is the best I could do!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! I customized our page to fit the holiday :) So I hope you enjoy and enjoy your Halloween.

Haircut & BYU Homecoming Dinner

Well... I got a new hair cut... What do you guys think? Well maybe you can't even remember my hair before, hah oh well! I like it, and nick likes it. So that's good right? :) I think I wanted it a little bit shorter, but thats ok. This is a picture Nick took after our Homecoming BYU dinner night. It was fun, we had a singer and Comedy Sports come and perform.. for those of you who have seen Comedy Sports you can agree with me that they are hilarious! It was a fun date night to enjoy with Nicholas :)

Free handbag?

So I just found out about this cool website from my sister-in-law's blog (thanks).

It will start on October 15 and they are giving away 24 free designer handbags on their first 24 hours of business! Pretty neat huh??

So visit them at their website.

In case that link doesn't work it is:

www.handbagplanet.com.

One Year!

Ok, wow. You guys are probably wondering why this took me so long.. but, Nick and I finally celebrated our One Year Anniversary! It was on September 1st! Guess what else? I forgot about our cake that was in the freezer until today in class I remembered we never ate it! So after this I am going to tell Nick. Anyways, the reason I didn't write this earlier is because.. well we went on vacation to Las Vegas for our one year, so obviously I had better things to do than be blogging on our trip. Ha, and after our trip we met up with my family in Zion's Ponderosa Ranch and did a bunch of fun activities. After that we came home and.... school started :( Yeah, I know, it stinks. So that's why I have been really busy and am just finding time to write. Well, I just want to say that we have had a wonderful first year of marriage, with plenty of challenges and opportunities to grow and learn from each other. Yay for marriage! We reccommend it to everyone, but most who read this are probably married anyways.. so I guess, congrats on everyone else's marriages too! Love you guys!

You're an anti-dentite!!!

Lately..

So we have done a lot these past couple weeks, I just haven't gotten the time to write about the things we have done. Here's what we did:

July:

We went to Colorado to visit Nick's family

-water skiing

-the Cheyenne Zoo
August:

-Helped with Hayley's Bridals

-My Birthday!

-We went to Hayley's wedding

-My Brother's Homecoming

We had a lot of fun in Colorado. We went water skiing and I tried it for the first time in my life! I would have to say it was pretty tough for me to get up, I guess that's why I never got up. I got up for a split second, but let go. Nick is an excellent wake boarder and I was able to take a lot of pictures of him! Sydney has some pictures of me trying to water ski, but we haven't gotten them yet, so when we get them I will post them. Nick and I got in the water for a little bit and went swimming, it took me forever to jump in because the water was so cold!

While we were in Colorado Nick and I went to the Colorado Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. I think it's the only zoo built on a mountain, but I'm not sure, so ask Nick for more info about that. Anyways, we got a lot of fun pictures and the zoo was amazing. My favorite part was probably the giraffe's. They are awesome! We got really close to them and were able to touch them.

We also got to go up to Salt Lake and help Hayley, Nicks sister, out with her bridals, so we have a few pictures from that.

On August 18th it was my birthday! Nick was so cute and did a lot for me. In the morning I took him to work and then I got ready for work. No one came in the store at all and then all the sudden Nick walked in around noon! He had brought me lunch and we sat down and ate it together. After that we talked for awhile and then he left back to work. When I got home he had me come upstairs with my eyes closed then had me sit at the top of the stairs while he read me a poem he wrote. It was so cute. After that he did a little scavenger hunt for me and had some present's hidden in our house. I found them and then tried them on. He is so adorable, I love Nick. :)

I love to bake, I made a banana cream pie for Nick and I one night. Except for in the picture it doesn't have the cream. It was so good, we ate it in two nights. I am starting to make a hot pad for our kitchen, however I took it all apart because I didn't like it, so now I have to start over. ha, we'll see if I ever get it finished.

My brother AJ came home from his mission on Wednesday the 20th of August. We picked him up at the airport and brought him home. He is pretty normal, and still funny. I am happy to be able to see him again. We went to his homecoming talk on Sunday, it went very well. After the talk we had to hurry and leave to go do our sharing time. I think our sharing time went really well (so does Nick) the kids loved it and they even remembered what we taught them when we asked them afterwards. haha.

Hayley, Nick's sister, got married on Saturday August 23rd in the Salt Lake temple. We were able to go to that and helped a lot with the reception. It was a good day. We didn't get very many pictures however because our camera is breaking!! One of these days it will completely brake and we will have to get a new one :( but for now, it will have to do.

So, last but not least… I kept my corsage from the wedding and made a picture holder with the flowers around it. It's really cute and I can't wait for Nick to come home so I can hang it up.

11 Months..

Well, as of TODAY Nick and I have been married for 11 months! Isn't that exciting, and crazy? Time flies when you're having fun :D

I Love you Nick, HAPPY 11 MONTHS!

We're finally parents...

Just kidding about the title thing ;) hah...

But, I love little kids if you guys didn't know and we got the cutest pictures at Ben and Raquel's wedding the other day, so I just have to put them up!

My Aunt's sister had twins and Nick and I took care of them at the reception for awhile. It was so fun! They are the cutest little kids and Nick looks like the perfect little daddy :)

This week in Nick & Dana's lives...

Well, this past week I got a job at a store called Abella Bridal. It's a really fun place to work. Here are some of my favorite dresses they have at the store.

Nick and I are still doing great, and we will be coming up to 11 months now of marriage on August 1st. I can't believe how time has flown by so fast!

Today in primary we had one little girl to teach. Her name is Sophie, she has long blond curly hair, she looks like a little doll.

Anyways, so today Nick was telling a story about a little girl named Angela. Angela had stolen something from one of her friends. Nick turned to the girl in our class and asked, "Sophie, how do you think Angela felt after she had stolen her friends toys? Do you think she felt happy (Nick smiled) or sad (Nick frowned)? The little girl in our class looked at Nick and she said, "She had the frowning face, but her nose was probably a little bit shorter than yours."

Here's another funny thing she said today.

Me: "So Sophie, when your mom asks you what you learned in Primary today, what are you going to tell her?"

Sophie: "I'm going to tell her the truth"

Our Little Fern

The other day I was waiting for Nicholas to get home from work and he was taking forever. Finally it was about half an hour since he had called the first time and said he was on his way home. I picked up my phone and looked out the window when all the sudden he opened the door and popped inside! He gave me a big hug and smiled and I was about to say something along the lines of..."Man, what took you so long??" but he pulled out this cute little fern behind his back and said, "Here you go, I bought this for you!" :D :D It was so cute! He said, "I was thinking about buying you flower's but they'll just die right away." It's true. It's been like 3 weeks now and our little fern is still sitting there growing :) So, that's my love story for the week. I Love you Nick!!

Here is a cake I made in my elementary ed Art class. It's made from some clay stuff that you can buy at craft stores like Michael's or Roberts.

Camping Trip

Sometimes I get really bored here at home by myself.........
So... I write an extremely long post!! :) a couple.. or a few weekends ago Nick and I went camping. First we tried going up squaw peak to find some camping grounds there, but... that was quite a disaster. We got there and there was only one spot left, the worst spot ever! The grass was overgrown, the table was so dirty with bird poop all over it. The spot for the tent wasn't shaded and the sun was beating down on it. Worst of all, we went to go pick up the ticket to pay and on the lid there were about 100 little caterpillar guys crawling all over it! I told Nick I hated bugs and especially when they were falling out of the trees on top of me. I tried to suck it up until we were in the car and Nick said, "Hold still there's a little caterpillar on your shoulder." I freaked out. I'm not going to lie. So we left and we went to look for a better spot. I'm glad we did, because the place we found after that was so nice and the perfect spot!


We finally got there and settled in around 7 or 7:30 p.m. We set up the tent and camping chairs then started on dinner. We had freeze dried Lasagna! Yummy :) It was actually very good. Better than my cooking at home. hahah. After that we ate some treats, sat by the fire and talked, then we brushed our teeth and got ready for bed.

Our first night there sitting around the camp fire.

Ok, the next morning we woke up and stretched for a little bit and decided to start making breakfast. Nick wouldn't let me cook anything so I just took the pictures. :) We had a DELICIOUS breakfast which consisted of: Eggs, hashbrowns, bacon, and Juice (Tampico-my favorite!). The breakfast was so delicious!

Our wonderful breakfast!

Anyways, so after we stuffed ourselves with breakfast we were so full we felt like we couldn't even walk. We had planned to go on a hike though and if you know Nick and I... we don't give in and we do what we plan! I'm glad we went on it too, it was fun and it helped burn off some of those calories we had just gained.

Here's me just strolling along

Nick jumping and me trying to get a picture of it... It was great.

Just hiking...

Nick with our brand new camping stove!

After the hike we walked back down to the car. We said goodbye to our camping spot, and the managers of the campground (who had become our friends earlier) and we drove home.

So, as you hopefully can tell, we had a wonderful time! It was fun to finally be able to do things outdoors and be with Nick :) He loves camping. I do too, probably not as much as him, but I still do :)

Finally... school is over

- These are pictures of our Trip to Zions Park!-

- Our Wedding Album, which looks absolutely gorgeous! -

I am never going back to campus again!! Until Fall semester starts. Ok.. well, maybe I'll go there a couple of times to meet Nick for lunch or something, but that's it. My finals went pretty swell though, I got a 97% on my first one and pretty sure I got like a 110% on my second one. ha.. that was a joke.

Nick is at work again. I start my work on Monday, I am excited.
So.. today we get to go camping!! Nick has planned this wonderful trip for us and I am so excited. I can't wait to get out of here.

Last night I came home from Raquel's bridal shower and I walked in and there was this huge tent in the middle of our living room with a little lantern on inside of it! Nick had set it up and it was fun to go inside with him! It was so cool. He even bought me a brand new sleeping bag! :D I am excited to try it out.

-My new sleeping bag, Lantern, and camping food! ;) -