Wednesday, October 5, 2011

There’s a new cook in the kitchen!!



Well maybe not an entirely new cook but we now have the assistance of Miss Emilia Rebecca these days! Our sweet angel is 8 months and 9 days old! She loves emptying cupboards of their contents ensuring that I, as head chef, know exactly how many plastic bowls, lids, and spatulas are kept on the lower shelves. I can’t believe how quickly time has swept by. In the last two months, Emilia cut two teeth, learned how to crawl, has started jabbering frequently, and likes to hold our fingers as she strides across the room. As mentioned above, she is also extremely talented at emptying anything of its contents (diaper bags, baskets, drawers, etc) and spreading those items throughout the room. Personally, I think she delights in watching me pick them up twenty times. Just today she also started standing on her own without any help!!! Our menu at the Cazier household is also going through a drastic change as we have begun the joys of baby food!

We are currently considering the transfer of our kitchen to a new area in the world. David is working on his last semester of school (until the Masters). He is a resource teacher doing his student teaching this semester at a middle school. After this semester he graduates and we will be transferring our kitchen to a new place of employment. The spice in this recipe: not knowing just where the new location will be. The icing on the cake: we won’t know until the beginning of November at the earliest and we will need to move by the early to middle of December. The actual cake: there is no doubt that we will have a job. Even with this spice and icing, this cake is going to be delicious. We will greatly miss Logan and our friends here, but we are ready to start our next recipe!

I love being the cook in the kitchen! It’s so wonderful to be at home with Emilia. I love experiencing life with her and I love being the wife of such a magnificent man. As my sister and I grew up, we played house. We played “mommy” and we dreamed of the day we would one day be mothers and wives. We dreamed of the day when we would be the executive chefs in our kitchens. I am living my dream and so grateful for it. My favorite kitchen to cook in includes an adorable baby girl pulling herself up on my legs with a grin on her face as she looks up at me. It includes a handsome hard-working man walking through the door to tell me that I look beautiful even when I don’t. It includes a smile on my face that no one and nothing else could have ever put there.

I am grateful for the new cook in our kitchen and I’m grateful for the taste tester we already had on staff (David). They both make our kitchen home.
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Married!

Married!
May 23, 2009

We're engaged!

Dave and I had mentioned getting married and we knew that's what we wanted however I was not expecting to have him propose until the spring semester had started and to not be getting married until the beginning of the fall semester.
Dave had other ideas.
December 12 was the last day that Dave and I had before I headed back to New Mexico for Winter Break. For my Christmas Present Dave had told me that he was taking me up North to walk around Temple Square with all of its Christmas lights, and to the church history museum, to see the new Joseph Smith movie, and to take me to dinner anywhere I wanted to eat. He also gave me a gift card to one of my favorite stores, Deseret Book which he also planned to let me roam through while we were up North.
Others had mentioned the possibility of him proposing but I brushed it off knowing that he didn't want to get engaged this semester. I knew I was right when the week of the trip, Jake and a date (Emily Dutson), planned to join us for the trip.
The day we had set to leave, I was a stressed out mess. I had packing to do, and a final to finish. Dave, Jake, and Emily all arrived at my apartment while I was still in my Pajamas finishing the last of my work. I very quickly showered and got dressed (thank goodness my roommates had already picked out my clothing for the occasion). We left town and I slowly de-stressed as we continued the drive. By the time we made it to Salt Lake we were all starving. We stopped and got the soup and sandwich at the Nauvoo Cafe, which was absolutely amazing and incredibly delicous. We then found the times for the Joseph Smith Movie and left to walk through the Church History Museum. On the way there Dave and I realized that his camera had no batteries so Jake and Emily walked through the museum and Dave and I went to buy the batteries. We all made it back in time for the beginning of the Joseph Smith Movie. It was a fantastic movie which also had me crying by the end of it. When the movie finished the lights were all on at Temple Square so we decided to walk around. As we walked Dave began tossing his keys in the air. He dropped them and I stopped to wait for him while he picked them up. It took me a few seconds to realize that he was proposing to me! I said yes and he slipped a beautiful ring on my finger.

Engaged!

Engaged!
I know this picture isn't the best quality but this is right after Dave proposed to me and was putting the ring on my finger!

How We Met/First Date

Dave and I first met when he and his best friend Jacob Thomas ( a fellow resident on Castilleja Dorm like myself) decided to decorate Duke Dance's apartment before he returned home from his honeymoon. At the time they claimed that they needed help knowing how to decorate it and therefore were looking for the help of a few girls. They roamed the hallways until they found a room of about 6 girls (including myself). We agreed to help and set up a time for later in the week. Later that week we all met up and made a trip to Walmart to get the needed decorations. While there Dave and I ended up separated from the rest of the group. Dave and I talked while we looked for the right decorations...he asked what brought me to Snow and I answered honestly. "The Lord. This is where he wanted me and there is no other explanation for it." He claims this impressed him...and I think I believe him. The next Friday, I had the apartment to myself for one hour before my next class. I had just succeeded in splattering miracle whip all over after dropping the bottle on the floor when someone knocked on the door. Lo and Behold it was Dave. He came and we talked for the next hour. He invited me and my roommate Marsha to go on a hike the next day. I thought carefully and decided it would be fun. I was almost late for my next class which I just happened to have with Jake. Jake and I started talking and the plans changed so that we ended up turning the night into a double date and doing the hike that night rather than the next day. Sadly enough I am not much of a hiker and I gave a little over halfway through the hike. Dave, ever the gentleman stopped with me and we again talked for the next hour while Jake and Marsha finished the hike and came back to us. The men had brought with the makings for a sandwich which we all ate while watching the sunset. Afterwards we headed back to the car and went back to Duke Dance's apartment to watch the Emperor's New Groove and Mountains of Ephraim (most of you won't know this one..it's a home video Dave and Jake made before their mission) and enjoying a bowl of ice cream. Before ending the night Marsha and I invited them to join us for the rodeo in Manti the next night. They agreed and that concluded our first date!