V-Day.

Me :  'Seth, what do you want to do for Valentine's day?  Want to just get some steak and grill out here?'

Seth:  'What?  When's that?  Oh, that's right.  Valentine's day is this month.'

Seth :  'I had a surprise for you, but since you've already made plans we'll go with what you want to do.' -with a smirk on face

Very much looking forward to spending V-Day with that fella.  :).

In reality I could care less about Valentine's day.  Seth and I have enjoyed 'forgetting' about Valentine's day since we first started dating---because----Our first V-Day was celebrated with Seth in Clemson and me in Greenwood.  With us only dating for four months I wasn't expecting anything more than a 'Happy Valentine's Day, Erika.'  I didn't even get that!  Seth was very sick on this Valentine's Day and couldn't even talk to me (or so he says!), much less wish me a 'Happy Valentine's Day'.  I'm sure if you know me you realize that at the end of that day I could care less about his sickness.  I was furious.  I was a evil-scary girl who went crazy on my poor sick boyfriend for not even calling me on Valentine's day to wish me a Happy Valentine's day. 

He should have realized then that he was getting himself into a mess with me :).  Now, we joke about our first not so happy Valentine's Day.

Seth is quickly and surely wrapping up his last semester of Graduate school.  We were thinking it may take him a little longer to complete and finalize his thesis, and he may postpone his defense until June-August-but this is no longer the case.  Several issues have popped up with the later defense dates and it is no longer an option.  Seth will be defending this semester (although we don't know the date yet), so he is definitely a busy busy man.

Due to the fact that Seth has been booked up and will continue to be booked we've been very unadventurous around here.  With any adventures-blogging has been pushed to the back burner.

Two Sunday's ago Seth and I went for an outing with Joe and Gina.  We were going to go for a little hike up Logan canyon and once we arrived at our destination we figured out that the hike wasn't going to happen.  The snow was higher than Joe's bronco, so we just traveled up another minute to Bear Lake.

Beau-ti-ful

Gorgeous, but SOOOO cold

We literally froze up there! I can honestly say I thought I had hypothermia in my feet!

Gina and Jack scoping things out.

Seth's wonderful parents gave him one of their film cameras and that baby is now Seth's pride and joy :).  With Joe going to school at USU for photography, Seth has asked Joe to tutor him.  While Gina and I chit chatted and froze Seth and Joe did camera talk.

Figuring out lighting and various other camera things.

This time last year Seth and I had Olivia and Brian visiting us and looking forward to Emily and Trevor's visit two weeks after O & B!  We had piles and piles of snow on the ground and were just getting started with our married Utahan lives :).

Man Time has FLOWN by soo quickly!  We are very much hoping to have more visitors this semester, and are oh soooo pumped about a possible visit from Seth's folks and Nana!

Almost the weekend and SuperBowl time :).  Hope everyone has fun.

A recent picture of my favorite mountains :).  So pretty.

The Cook's :).