Almost 3 years...What!

 So, I have missed out blogging the last two and a half years and with a baby coming, I want to get better.  My sisters are such good examples of good bloggers and keep telling me treat this as your journal. Here goes nothing!

Catch up time:

  Zach and I have moved 4 times since starting out in Orem. We have moved so much these few years for better jobs and school for Zach. First, to Sandy where Zach got a job at the yummy Chipotle and I was still working for Central Utah Clinic in Provo. Then, Zach got a job at Sunflower-  which is a natural food store like Trader Joe's. I had gotten a job at an insurance company,that I hated, but was closer to home.

  During this time we decided to start looking for a home. We went with a guy from our ward who was a realtor. Big mistake! We basically did his job for him by looking for places and figuring out what was needed. He set us up with a mortgage lender who screwed us over with false hope that we were approved for a loan when we were not. It was a mess and we missed out on about three different homes. But now that we look back at all we experienced and learned,it was worth it in the end.
 
Zach got a job as a driver for Wasatch Meats and was taking classes at Salt Lake Community College. I had gotten an awesome job at Intermountain Healthcare which happened to be right down the street from the town homes we had tried to get. Zach and I had to move in with the Olsen's-awesome friends we met in our Sandy ward-because our lease had expired and we thought we would be moving into a house. When that fell through we got an apartment at River Oaks in West Jordan. That apartment was my favorite one of them all because it was so clean and quiet. Although, Zach's bike was stolen off of the balcony while we were at Lake Tahoe last year:(
 
We loved our life in Salt Lake with our two awesome jobs but it was around August or so that we discovered we were expecting. Yes, baby boy is expected to arrive April 20th. It was decided then that we needed to move back home to Colorado or Idaho. It would be easier for Zach to finish school and both places were cheaper than Utah. Zach got excepted to BYU-I in October, we moved up here in November and started school in January. It feels unreal to be back up here but we are taking one day at a time:)

Just the Beginning for the Paul's

Zach and I met almost a year ago in an untraditional way (at least for Utah haha).

I started training a girl at my work and we hit it off. One day she looked at me and said I have a boy I want you to meet and I agreed to going on a date. I was thinking to myself this would be the last time I would let someone set me up. I met Zach up in Murray on December 3 at his best friend-Sean's sisters house...that's a mouthful. I can honestly say that I knew the first time I saw him that things would be different this time around for the better. From that day on we haven't been a part longer than the week and a half I went home to California for Christmas. Even with the 45 minute commute between us, we found a way to be together.

Zach proposed to me on February 11th at the duck pond on the BYU campus. It was funny because he was late coming to my apartment and we had planned to do something outside since it was such nice weather in February. He didn't know where to go, so I took him to the duck pond to feed the ducks and on the bench he popped the question. A guy walked by us after and asked if we were celebrating Valentine's Day early, little did he know that our lives were changing at that very moment ;)

We decided to get married on June 18th(also Nana's b-day) that way it would be easier for our families to make it. It was a beautiful day and everything I imagined my wedding to be. All my siblings and their families were able to come and go to the sealing. Zach's parent's, brother Tyler and his family, and Charlie were able to come out too after a long and adventurous drive from Colorado.

Zach and I are now living the life in Orem,Utah and loving every minute of being married and able to spend with each other.