finally done with finals

Finals Week.

Here are some memories...the happier ones.

We celebrated our good friend Conor's birthday at our place!

The theme? Mexican night.

Chips and salsa, chorizo tacos, tampico juice, 

&

yummy chocolate birthday cake.

I also had the opportunity of witnessing this:

This guy was taking a survey about Christmas traditions on campus. 

At the end of the survey he would ask, "Do you do the mistletoe tradition?"

Then somebody from the second level would drop a mistletoe. 

This seriously had to be one of the funniest pranks ever.

Merry Christmas right? 

They made a video, watch it here. It's worth your time. 

Jeremy finished his finals early.

This was torturous for me.

Married life during finals week:

I stay studying while Jeremy watches movies.

I was completely jealous.

More studying

And studying

Studying.

Sariah/Nosy invited us over for breakfast!

She showed us her domestic skills.

Glad that everything is over. 

Time to finally celebrate Christmas!

Can't wait for Colorado tomorrow!!

Hooozah!

we are moving to....

MEMPHIS, 

TENNESSEE!!!

We accepted a job offer with Valero!

Jeremy interned with them this past summer in San Antonio

and so he interviewed with them again...

HE GOT IT!

We are REALLY excited about this new adventure!

It's been so fun looking at houses in the area. 

We will be moving there sometime after our graduation in April!

Soooo exciteddddd.

I'm extra excited to be in the SOUTH again. Oh gosh.

And to be closer to my family 

&

Bama peeps.

We are so thankful and blessed to have received this job offer.

I'm so PROUD of Jeremy!!!!

let it snow

October is gone and where was I?

I didn't even post anything on my favorite month of the year!

Well, here's a little lookie at our FIRST costumes together.

We were scout leaders?

I'm  not really sure what we were going for, but hey, this is all we could find at DI.

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snow snow snow

It has arrived.

I'll admit that this year we had the best Fall weather I have ever seen. 

It has been perfect.

Unfortunately, it is time for a new season. 

Let it SNOW!!!

Today we went on a lunch date to...

my favorite

Denny's!!!!!

Here are some before and after pics of the hubby

With my classic breakfast.

Double hash browns.

After lunch we went to a park in Provo. 

It was magical.

love birds 

There was an estimate of 11 inches of snow today.

hehe

Provo is beautiful covered in snow. 

I love my husband.

honeymoon

 The weekend of our wedding we stayed in Salt Lake City. 

We checked into the Little America on our honeymoon night,

 only to find out that we got upgraded to the 

Grand America!

Woah, and let me tell you- it was the fanciest hotel I have ever stayed at!

I have never seen anything like it, it was pretty AMAZING.

We don't really have pictures of our hotel...why would I think about taking pictures when I just got married??

I know. weird.

This is the hallway...sweet huh? 

Check out the chandeliers.

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Then we stayed a week in Park City

Yummy

We went out to eat every night :)

Park City Main Street

Jeremy was sick on our wedding day, and then, of course, it was my turn.  So by the time we were on  our honeymoon,  both of us were pretty sick.  I'm not sure what we had but it was a combination of a cold/flu. Oh, and I also had an allergic reaction to one of the medicines. Funnn.

So don't judge our pics-we were sick and tired.

Delicious!

Park City was fun! It was difficult trying to get out of bed everyday because we were so exhausted from being sick.  But we made an honest effort to explore the town and visit as many museums as our bodies would allow.

Mountains & Trees

Our annual hike up to Y mountain.

This red tree was the only thing giving me hope during this hike. 

Let me tell you, except for maybe Jeremy, everybody was strugglin'...everybody means Liz & Natalia.

Provo view from the mountain

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Yesterday we had a mini girl's road trip to Park City! :)

We went to the Visitor's Center and just happened to run into Hermana Walker!

Love this girl to DEATH. She gets full credit for "Jeremy & Natalia."
She knew what was good for me!

The drive up to Park City.
GORGEOUS
Love FALL

It was soo good to see an old friend! Andrea was my roommate on two separate occasions so we became really good friends. She is such an amazing missionary & I'm so proud to call her a friend. I can see how much she was grown in the past year and I know the Lord is mindful of her and her service.  She is such a sweet girl helping God's children and teaching them. I LOVE ANDREA!!! :)

• After Park City, Jeremy did our weekly clean the house after a week of busy-ness.
• We walked around Provo and looked at this cute boutique shop down the street.  I love Provo in the Fall. 
• We then had a spontaneous dinner at Banana Leaf (food from Sri Lanka & Singapore) on University Ave.  I had some sort of curry-dunno the name of the dish...BUT, the the presentation was AMAZING.  I have never seen anything like it before-bad night to forget my camera. I highly recommend this restaurant..it's kinda on the pricier side for what us cheapos in Provo would like to spend but if you are feeling splurgy-definitely go there. And I failed to mention that the food was DELICIOUS/YUMMY.
• I realized that whenever I cook food, I don't like the taste of it. But if somebody else cooks me food, I think it is sooo gooood. For dinner tonight, Mrs. Castagno cooked up some rice with steamed broccoli and fish (healthy right?).  Unfortunately, I wasn't too crazy about this meal. I'm pretty sure if Jeremy would have cooked dinner tonight-I would have been all over it.  I need to get over my weird psychological idea that whatever I cook tastes bad. Jeremy tells me I'm a good cook, but then again, he is my husband so I guess it's a husband duty to tell his wife that her cooking is good. Maybe? Regardless, I appreciate his compliment. And maybe my cooking isn't so bad? Ehhhh.
• The Castagno's decorated for HALLOWEEN...and it's not even OCTOBER yet. That shows how excited I am. Today we had a creepy red head come over with a creepy mask over her face and she brought cookies, zucchini bread, spider webs, spiders, and leaves (yes, leaves)--just in time for October tomorrow :)

Well guys, it is time for me to return back to my husband. 

See how handsome he is?

we went to the zoo

Yes, we went to the zoo.

WHY?

We needed to escape Provo for a day.

 Instead, we went to "Africa."

I'll admit: I haven't been to the zoo since like 7th grade. 

I most definitely had fun on our GETAWAY.

Jeremy and his friend