Friday, March 20, 2009

Our First Home!



We signed for our very first apartment together last week in Provo, UT! We signed a two-year contract with the intent of establishing ourselves in one place while Michael gets his degree from BYU in computer science and Brit (hopefully) gets her Masters in Social Work from the University of Utah. The apartment is two bedrooms and two full bathrooms so guests are definitely welcome!! We also will be experiencing the joys of our very own washer and dryer, diswasher, and covered parking! The apartment is just across the street from a big green park and a little water park that we have full intentions of having season passes to! Since the previous residents moved out a couple of weeks ago, the landlord was more than happy to turn over our key early and we have slowly started to move our things into the apartment. The next step is to get furniture and start painting! It has been fun to see the interior decorator come out in the both of us as we continue to catch the vision of our own little home's potential! It makes things so much more real. We have had a blast!


*The picture is of Michael in our apartment sitting where the couch will eventually be with his feet up on our new record player - records in hand*

Friday, March 13, 2009

Engagement Pictures


We got our engagement pictures taken on Wednesday and back yesterday! Katherine Loveless, our amazing photographer, did a great job and we are really excited about them! Feel free to take a look at a couple that we have posted on Photobucket. Let us know which one you would prefer to see in an announcement in the near future!! Just copy and paste this link into your browser:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=37215866&l=9ca9541bfc&id=17818278

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Christmas and The Grand Canyon

Go check out our Christmas Break pics at these sites:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2234325&id=17818278&l=ee95d

The Story...

Michael and Brit met way back in the fall of 2007 when a mutual friend (Jordan McDonnell)brought Michael along on a Vegas trip to go to the BYU v. UNLV football game. After the trip Michael couldn't seem to get the royal treatment that he had received at the Taufers' house off of his mind... They had been nice enough to provide Michael with a wet towel and dirty clothes to keep him warm while he slept in a closet in their basement. He also has a vivid recollection of receiving a powerful stiff-arm from Brit during a game of flag football in the park before the BYU game. The trip was a memorable one... Unfortunately Brit came home with no memory of Michael.








It wasn't until the end of August 2008 that Brit and Michael ended up moving into the same apartment complex and the memories came flooding back. Michael spent the first couple of months of their new friendship deciding whether or not he was ready to ask Brit out on a date; in fear of the knowledge that he had that the relationship would progress... Brit, on the other hand, was spending her time oogling at Michael from her kitchen windown and writing in her journal about where she and Michael would most likely take their engagement pictures... If they ever did end up going on a date...










After spending their first couple of months establishing an exciting friendship Brit and Michael went on their first official date to a BYU film festival and dinner at Bajio Mexican Grill. On November 13, 2008 Michael and Brit became an official couple with a kiss on a set of train tracks under a bridge in Spanish Fork. It wasn't long before road trips were planned and their relationship blossomed into one of love.






Michael and Brit got engaged on February 14, 2008 and is excited for their May 16, 2009 wedding in the Las Vegas temple.