Pounders

This post is inspired by the fact that I just found out some of my friends will be going to Hawaii for their Spring Break...how lucky for them right?!! RIGHT! It kinda got me bummed thinking about how they will be enjoying the hot, tropic sun and we will be here in Logan, just workin away...

But, then I remembered everything is fine because we have our own little taste of Hawaii right here in Cache Valley!

I know what you are thinking. Hawaii? In Logan? Yeah right! BUT!! Thanks to Pounders Hawaiian cuisine we can make it a Hawaiian night any night! YUM! Really, you should go give it a try!

The other night Bryce and I were going on a date and he suggested that we invite my parents to go with us. It was actually a pretty fun double date! We ate at Pounders then stopped to shop for a bit at Ross and Best Buy. It was fun! I'm glad we have family close so we can hang out with them from time to time!

A long weekend to remember

How nice it is to have a long weekend!! Thanks to President's Day, I was able to have Monday off from school and Bryce was able to take work off...BEAUTIFUL!! AND thanks to Alena Johnson, my family finance teacher who so kindly cancelled class, we were both able to take Tuesday off as well! How can life get any better!?

We kicked off our long weekend with the Sportsman's Expo. It was fun to walk around and see what outfitters from around the country had to offer hunting enthusiasts. My favorite part was seeing the mounted animals...there are a lot of talented people out there...taxidermy is certainly an art!

Bryce and I found a great deal on a hotel in the West Valley area...I was a little worried about the idea because, lets face it, West Valley is kinda the ghetto, but against my better judgement we booked our 3 night stay at the Baymont Inn and Suites. To our surprise, our room was very nice! They even brought us a fridge and microwave when we asked...thank you Baymont!

We went to Chili's and Nicklecade the first night. It was so fun! We checked out all the cool arcade games and did quite well at them might I add. Bryce said his favorites were horse riding and basketball. I tried a kayak one that was fun, but mostly it just frustrated :)

And, possibly the best part of all: we got a lot of sweet prizes with all the tickets we won!

On Sunday morning we went to Music and the Spoken Word. It was really neat! Neither of us had gone so it was a fun first that we could do together. The music was lovely and, as usual, MO TAB sounded great!

Bryce made us an exceptional dinner for Valentines day...microwave pasta :) We had to improvise :) It was a lot of fun! We rearranged our hotel room to be a beautiful restaurant. It was the best Valentines Day ever!

Bryce got me these beautiful flowers! We almost left Logan without them because the delivery was late. Luckily, Bryce forgot his church shoes so we went back home for a sec and we saw the flower guy getting back in his car...it made for an interesting morning but I finally got my flowers and man, were they ever wonderful!

On Monday, we went to Cabelas in Lehi and hit up the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point after. It was a blast! It brought back memories from my good old days in Geology...we learned about the different time periods and saw a lot of cool fossils and dinosaur bones. It was actually pretty darn neat.

We also saw a 3D movie. It was sweet. We saw an oceans video. We both kept trying to grab the fish because they really did look like they were right in front of us. Don't we look cool in our glasses?! :)

On our way home on Tuesday we stopped for a bit of church history in Salt Lake. We toured the Beehive House, ate at the Lion House Pantry, and also went to the church history museum. We loved going through the Beehive House and seeing all the cool things from the time period and some things that really belonged to our dear prophet Brigham Young.

Our trip was a riot! We were both so sad to go back to work on Wednesday. It was nice to spend some time together and just relax. It is so fun to be in love with your best friend!

We've been talking 'bout JACKSON!

My Bennington family (mostly my dad) LOVES to see animals. For as long as I have been alive I have known that if he has free time, he wants to be spending it looking for deer in some canyon.

The National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, WY gives sleigh rides out on the refuge to the public. It was really an amazing thing! My dad has wanted to go for a long time now and so my mom and dad, Tyanna, and Bryce and I all decided to go and see what the hype was all about.

The night that we went all the huge bulls were all together pretty close to the road and quick and easy to get to on the sleigh. We saw some huge and amazing bulls! It was a lot of fun!

You can see that we really were RIGHT out in the middle of the bulls! Bryce was wishing he could be seeing these bulls this close in the fall! Some of the bulls were typical and some were so non-typical they just looked freaky, but we were all very impressed with everything we saw on the refuge! Because there were so many elk, I figured that most of the elk that would come were already there, but the guy that took us on our sleigh said there were only about 4500 elk on the refuge and that winter that would probably see close to 7000-8000.

The elk were not the only things we wanted to see while we were in Jackson. I know I sure had my heart set on seeing some BBQ'd brisket at good ol' Bubba's BBQ! And I did!! YUM!

The next morning we woke up and went for a drive. We saw the Tetons and, of course, had to stop for the photo opp...you might ask where Tyanna is and why we are all laughing hysterically in this picture?!

Well...that would be because she is on the ground between us and the camera! We set the timer on the camera we we could all be in the pic. Well Tyanna got a little too excited and ran to change something on the camera and she fell for the first, second, and third shots :) we all could not help but laugh! Luckily she was ok and it ended up really being a funny situation! It was a good time!

Going Going Gone

What a fun December we have had! It seems like we spent most of it in the car heading to one place or another. We have been thinking it has kinda been a bummer to be driving so much, but I don't think we would have had it any other way! We were able to see both sides of my family on Christmas Eve, both sides of Bryce's family on Christmas day and we did a lot of fun things. Here are some highlights...

First things first: We had the most beautiful tree EVER :) Our plan was to go cut one in Idaho but we were too slow on that idea because the store said they sold out all the permits...so we went on to the next best thing: buy the tree at Lowe's! We thought it was the greatest thing to sit and admire our fabulous tree.

My family went to a show in Salt Lake and Bryce and I headed down early so we could check out the lights at Temple Square. We were there when the lights all popped on and that is something neither of us had ever seen before :) it was kinda cool. The night was foggy and super freezing but we still were able to enjoy the sweet spirit of Temple Square.

We were pretty spoiled this holiday season! Both of our parents told us Santa must have not got the memo that we moved out because he left presents for us at their houses! What good parents we have! Some of Bryce's favorite gifts were a Leatherman, Ariat boots and a foot spa. In my list of favorites is a Willow Tree Nativity set, cloths (Bryce did a great job I did not have to take anything back!) and cute jewelry. Our first Christmas was a fun an successful one!

We were also able to go bowling with high school friends, check out the elk at Hardware ranch, cook with our new dutch oven, and...have a lot of adventure like running out of gas completely and literally roll into a gas station :)

What a wonderful married 2009 it has been! The Roholts are ready for 2010!

Life is good!

May we present...Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Roholt! Well, it has been one month since the magical wedding day. In honor of the anniversary I thought I better officially join the rest of the world with a blog. So...I am still learning, but here ya go for post number one!

Life is good. Bryce and I live in Logan in the cutest little two bedroom apartment on 1000 N. All is well! I am working in the Admissions Office at USU and Bryce supervises the detailing at Deals on Wheels. Our little apartment is pretty much set up and we are ready for the holidays with my favorites part of the apartment right now...the Christmas tree! We have all that we could want or need :) Life is good!