1 Down, Only 49 More to Go

Honestly its more than 49 anniversaries I hope to celebrate in this lifetime. Sometimes I wonder how long we will get to enjoy (and sometimes endure) the situations life throws us into. I am amazed to find myself as much (or more than) in love with my sweet hubby as I was a year ago when we were married. I remember being in college the first time up at BYU-I (goodness I can't believe it was 6 years ago) and seeing all the dating, engaged and married couples the campus has-and realizing I would never be able to commit to being married for eternity. I couldn't even handle keeping a boyfriend for a period longer than 4 months! My roommates and I joked constantly that we were all aspiring to be the next Sheri Dew.I do know that I have been incredibly blessed to stand beside the man I have called my husband for the last year. We have been through quite the adventure these past almost 3 years: from writing and getting to know each other, me moving to Washington, Utah (the one place I swore I would never live), the experiences of us being able to date one another there, to getting engaged, living 900 miles apart post-engagement, and finally getting married, adjusting to newlywed life, and starting school back up, while balancing full time jobs with education and trying to find time to just be with each other.
I've had quite a few thoughts running through my head this past week. Life has been super hectic recently between getting hours in at work, study and class time, and accomplishing everyday life tasks like shopping, cooking and cleaning (which to be honest I took a three week hiatus from both a little while ago). Sometimes I wonder if it is ever going to slow down so I can catch my breath and not feel absolutely exhausted all the time. Its discouraging to be told, "If you think it's crazy now, wait till..." (next semester....you have one kid...2 kids, etc....you get the drift) but life does go on.
You accept the changes,

You learn to adjust,

and You grow.

But to get to the fun stuff, to celebrate our first anniversary (which was September 20), we decided to go on a short camping adventure (work and school schedules dictated a saturday/sunday only adventure) up Farmington canyon, which is just a few minutes drive from our house. What started as a casual trip turned into quite the adventure. We were super excited to finally have a REAL opportunity to use the tent we received as a wedding gift somewhere other than inside our house (yes, camping in a tent *inside* our house-see previous "boredom" post from August).
Just a few highlights from our exciting excursion:
-we had fun wheeling around to our campsite
-We got to shovel about 50 crushed cans out of our firepit
-We had tin foil dinners! My favorite camping dish ever. YUM!
-We went to bed after looking at the stars
-Woke up to thunder, lightning and pouring rain 6 times that night
-Had random people walk into our site and ask if we were camping there (uh, duh?!)
-Listened to another campsite rock out to AC/DC at 1am between thunderstorm showers
-Heard multiple shots randomly fired from guns close to our campsite a couple times through the night (freaked. me. out.)
-Got to spend the weekend together in a new adventure. Honestly, there couldn't be anything better than that!
Overall we loved the experience...

Wanna come camping with us? :D