One Busy Weekend

Gerrit ran his first marathon last week! It was the Top of Utah Marathon in Logan, and it was storming the entire time. I was pretty worried about him; it rained and hailed, and there was lots of thunder and lightning. It made me very nervous, but he did great! We also had fun staying with Grandma and Grandpa Winkel; they're always so gracious! That night we (unfortunately) went to the BYU-Utah football game, which was the most depressing event I have ever been to. Luckily we ended the weekend with a very fun Sunday dinner with all my old roommates. It was the first time since our wedding two years ago that all six of us have been together! We drove our husbands a little crazy with lots of excited chatter, loud laughter, and difficulty focusing long enough to get a decent picture. But it was so fun. :)

Love that medal!

This picture was taken before the game when we were still smiling.

 Take One...

 Take Two...

 Take Three...

And on take four we're all smiling :) Love these girls!

Happy Two Years!

A few weeks ago Gerrit and I celebrated our two year wedding anniversary. I can't believe it's been two years already! We had a great day: we participated in our stake day of service in the morning and painted a house, we did sealings in the afternoon, and we went to Gloria's Little Italy for dinner. We also had been keeping a jar of notes for each other for about month; we kept some cards next to it and we would write things down that we loved about each other and stick them in the jar. So on our anniversary we pulled them all out and I read Gerrit's about me and he read mine about him. I think that was my favorite part of the day and definitely something we'll do again. We had a really nice day!

Getting ready to paint a house!

After doing sealings at the temple

 Enjoying dinner at Gloria's

Our First Pet

I was going through our summer pictures and realized that I never posted about our first pet! Back in May we decided to get a baby duck. We went with our friends Justin and Marissa to a farm store and each got a duckling for $4. We named our little yellow duck Guard Duck (see the comic strip Pearls Before Swine), and his black friend was named Tyron. They lived together in a big box and they were adorable. When they were out of their box they would follow you around chirping, just like you were their mother duck. It was so fun. Sadly after about a month they were attacked by a cat and both died. But we loved them while we had them!