Adventure #7: First Six Months of Marriage

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

January - July 2013

We spent our first winter together in a nice apartment on campus. To be honest, we were so excited to live together that we stayed in most of the winter. We went to school and work, and then just played board games and watched movies. It was great. We were really bad at making new friends, but we were content spending time with just each other.

When summer came we were able to do a lot of fun things. First of which, we got to see my older brother James graduate! We were definitely jealous of him because we still had two more years to go. 

Soon after that we were able to take a trip down to California to spend time with my family. We got to go to the San Diego Zoo - something Jordan has wanted to do for a VERY long time. We had so much fun and it was like a dream come true for Jordan.

This turtle was seriously a dinosaur! So cool!

Yes, we like taking goofy pictures.

I was spying on Jordan... and an elephant.

OK, this giraffe was so weird! Another giraffe was going to the bathroom,  and this guy thought it would be a good idea to taste it. He quickly found out the his buddy's pee wasn't very tasty and was making this face for like ten minutes. Jordan says they do this for mating purposes, but I think this guy obviously made a mistake. ha ha

My brothers James and Ryan on the left, and Jordan and I are on the right.

 We did lots of little random things throughout the summer. Most of them were pretty spontaneous, but they were so fun and relieved a lot of the previous stress we had about school and work.

These dandelions were so big. This was right before we were going to see Man of Steel in the theaters with Jordan's family. He wore his Superman shirt and I wore my Batman shirt. :)

And what good is summer without some sparklers?

Over the summer we found out great ways to get free food. July 11 = free slurpee at 7-Eleven and July 12 = free Chick-fil-a if you dress up like a cow. I think we scored some other free food, but I can't remember exactly how.

Jordan thought his utters were so cool. ha ha

Our biggest trip that summer was our trip to Idaho and Yellowstone with Jordan's family. It was the furthest north and the furthest east I had ever been in the US (yes I'm from Southern California and I like it there). It was so beautiful in Idaho and Wyoming! I had never seen rivers and wildlife like in Yellowstone either. 

Waiting for Old Faithful

This is Caity and Johnny, our niece and nephew.
Some of the cutest kids on the planet!

So many bison!

This guy decided to cross the road right in front of us!

We loved seeing the waterfalls in Yellowstone.  :)

The Brassell Crew

Caity and Kevin were REALLY tired.

And so was Shaylee.

We got to see a great firework show by a lake in Idaho.

Jordan was very proud of his driving through the mud. He was able to get our entire car covered!

This is a picture from our rafting trip on the Snake river. It was awesome!