Sunday, September 15, 2013

Farewells and Fresh Beginnings

My husband and I decided we would both post today concerning what's been going on. So since Kevin's point of view is below, I'll try not to repeat what was already said!

First off, it is goodbye to the lovely Washington and hello to... uh... Provo. August was a fulfilling month for me and Kevin. I was called to be the Young Women's Instructor for that month, and I loved every lesson that I was able to teach! I think that by the time I actually became decent at giving lessons was the last week I was able to teach them. The last week, a girl actually came up to me and told me she didn't want me to leave. Can I just say... the Lord definitely knows what an individual needs to begin feeling good about themselves again.

Throughout the entire course of the summer, I have been struggling to come up with a name for my photography business. All I knew was that I wanted to include my baby boy's name in it somehow. Eden Garth was just too special to not be included. I had come up with "Tailoring Eden" and "Eden's Tailor", but none sat well with me. Finally last week, I concreted my name... I now run and operate "Eden & Me Photography", and I couldn't be happier. I even got my first little photo shoot as Eden & Me! Amber and Brett let me do a little photo shoot of their newest family member, Hannah Dawn. She endured my pictures well (: And now I'm happy to say, I've done my first infant photo shoot as well!

Anywho, we are back in Utah with mixed feelings but hopeful optimism. I'm a lucky girl this year, and I now get to enjoy the company of my kid sister, Savannah, here. I definitely have been enjoying classes, work, and freetime with her.

So, story time! First week of school and, of course, there's a big ol' football game. Kevin and his best friend, Jon, decided that they wanted front seats for the BYU vs. Texas game. So Kevin woke up at seven in the morning to go stand in line for it, leaving me and Savy to run the errands. Four o'clock rolls around, and I receive a text that reads, "We won't be able to hold the seats for much longer, the sooner you get down here the better". So we run down there. And just as we meet up with Kevin in his front seats, it downpours. Like, I mean DOWNPOUR. I thought I was in the shower or something. We ended up getting kicked out of our seats for lightning, running back to our seats, and, eventually, Jon went and grabbed trash bags for us. We became the Trash Bag Team, and it was great. We ended up watching a huge victory for BYU against a ranking team. It was glorious.

This weekend we have been redecorating our living room. We want to have a new feeling to our apartment, because last year was a hard one. So... here are the results thus far.

So far, so good.





Back to School

Dear Dedicated Readers,
Well I know that I'm not as good a writer as my very articulated wife, but here is my blog post for this month. First on my mind however is that I've decided that everyone besides Jana, and maybe Bryan and Brett's family, is really bad at writing on the blog. So maybe we need to step it up everyone!

So I will give mostly my side of the events of the last couple of weeks as I expect my wife will write her accounts. August was a fast passing, busy month as Taylor and I were finishing up our time in Seattle. We had a visitor, Lisa one of Taylor's friends, come and visit us. I had to put in some time to get work done but was able to complete almost everything that my team had wanted me to complete in my internship time frame. Taylor headed back to Provo to meet up with her family as they brought Savannah down to college. This left me with my last week at Microsoft trying to finish everything up and make sure I get the return offer. Mom and Dad were very kind to fly Kyler up and I spent my last day at Microsoft with him as well. I was told that they wanted to extend me an offer and I ended my internship on a good note. Going along with that, as many of you have heard, I have accepted the offer to return to Microsoft next summer. Kyler and I proceeded to drive the fun way back down to Provo and made it Saturday evening, the Saturday before school started. We meet up with Taylor and Savannah and spent some fun time with the family for Hannah's baby blessing on Sunday.

School has been a fun adjustment, getting back to the rhythm of work and assignments has been fun. I am taking 3 computer science classes, 1 Portuguese class, and 1 religion class. Work has been nice to return to my friends there as well as a couple of new coworkers. Taylor and I are doing pretty well otherwise, just keeping up with work and adjusting to the new schedule. My flag football team won our first game, 21 to 20, stopping our opponents would-have-been-the-win 2 point conversion with about 30 seconds left to play. Other wise things have been great. Hope to hear from everyone else shortly as well!

Love,
Kevin and Taylor