Oh how I am loving AZ.

Really, both Preston and I are really loving Arizona right now. The weather is amazing (for a couple more months atleast.. I hope..) It has been in the 70's for a few weeks and the next couple of weeks will be in the 60's. Perfect!

Preston and I were itching to get out of the house and do something active and enjoy the weather. We've never been able to say we can go hiking in shorts and sweat it up in January. Fantastic!

Hardest part of the hike. Almost straight up. It felt more like rock climbing but without all the gear.

Preston and I are feeling more and more like home here. We of course still miss UT and all our families and friends like crazy but we have found our nitch here and are making some amazing friends. We love that we're finding more and more couples and families to hang out with. We have been meeting life long friends and making great memories.

(Pause, The Bachelor is back from commercial)

And, I'm back!

Preston and I have been super busy between school, work, making sure there is time for just us two, and church stuff.

I am loving my job. The girls I work with are awesome and hilarious. Preston is of course doing great in school and keeping up on all of his work. We are both teaching the 11 year old's in primary. It is so fun and we love those kids. They are so much fun and they teach us a lot.. a lot of patience! But really, they are so smart and they really do teach us a lot about the gospel and they are just great to have in our class. I am also in the Activity Day's. I love the girls in that program. Such sweet, loving, smart, cute and funny girls. I had the opportunity to give a little talk at our ward's "8 is great" fireside. I talked to the girls coming into Activity Day's this year and what it's all about. They are all so excited to be joining all of the other girls. I am also in our ward Choir which I love. We sing some awesome songs! Our choir has been asked to sing in Stake Conference which is very exciting and I also have the opportunity to sing with a smaller group in one of our sacrament meetings coming up. It's all accapella and I have never heard the song before, so I'm a bit nervous especially because I'm singing soprano and we have a super super high note that I have to really work on. But it'll turn out great.

There is just a little re-cap of what we've been up to and our life in Surprise, Arizona! I love Preston and love how hard he works for us and I couldn't be any happier right now in our lives :)