Yuba Camping Trip

This story was back in August of 2018:

It's been quite a while for me and Cat Lover to write ever since we explained about other great events we've had ever since we got married. Another fun event that we did for the first time as a couple is going on a camping trip to Yuba with Cat Lover's side of the family. It was a chance that Cat Lover and I could spend together while being away from our everyday routines. It was also a chance that Cat Lover and I could demonstrate the Wolf-em treat to her family.

The trip started on the 27 of July. We had to wait for almost an hour to wait for one of Cat Lover's sisters' husband to come out from doing a blood test at the doctor's office. We drove all the way to the Yuba Natural Park. I've never been to Yuba in my life. It's just on the other side of Nephi City where Drama Queen taught at Juab High School. When we got there, it was a great looking lake to sightsee. Cat Lover and I had a chance to go for a little bit of a swim in the lake before the rest of her family showed up with tents to set up on the campground we made a reservation to.

Cat Lover grew up loving to ride on a four-wheeler and motorcycle with her parents on bumpy dirty rides. In fact, her entire family had grew up loving to go dirt riding. I never rode a motorcycle or a four-wheeler. A funny thing is, I used my car to drive on the dirty bump ground near a beach of the lake. Even Cat Lover was with me on one run. She thought it was fun, but she would prefer riding on the four wheeler with her mom and the motorcycle with her dad.

We had lots of fun having a campfire around, even if there was so much wind that was always trying to blow our tents down and I would feel really stressed out that it's been a while for me and my family to go on an outing from home. On the first night, it was hard for me and Cat Lover to sleep on the air mattress that was blown up for the night, but then by morning it had deflated itself. However, on the second night, we slept with Cat Lover's parents on mattress pads. It was still hard to sleep inside a tent, because you never get used to camping often, but I didn't want to disappoint Cat Lover and her parents.

There have been a few of the times during a day that I was feeling so stressed out about being out in the fresh air with mosquitos flying around, wind blowing our tents down, and even having to toss and turn on the ground to sleep. Cat Lover was always worried that I wasn't having any fun on the camping trip, but I kept telling her that I really was having fun, even if my gestures sometimes didn't look like it. She did let me have the opportunity to go home a day early and wait for them to come back home, but I told them that I could still be at camp, because if I left camp without Cat Lover, my family would be so upset with me for abandoning my spouse with her parents all alone. That would make me feel like I'm a terrible husband, so I just stayed with them until the last day when we had a chance to go home after a fun camping trip.

We stayed in Yuba for two nights until Sunday when it was time to go home. We still had fun in Yuba, experiencing a new place you've never been to before and even sightseeing the valley. I'm hoping next summer, I'll have another fun camping trip with Cat Lover and her family. And that time, I will make sure that I really am having fun with a fun gesture!

The Manti Trip

This story was also back in June of 2018:

It's been recent that I blogged for all of you, especially blogging about Cat Lover's missing wedding ring. Well, she wanted me to talk about a fun trip that she and I went to over the weekend. As many of you might expect, we took a one night trip down to Sanpete County to go see the most exciting event that has been a legacy for my side of the family. 

I'm pretty sure that my Mom told you all about the Mormon Miracle Pageant and how it's been a fun event to attend. Cat Lover told me that she only went to see it once in her life. And I thought with requesting a weekend off from work, I would take her down to Manti to go see the pageant. We drove all the way down to Sanpete County after we finished packing for a one night sleep at my grandpa's old home in Ephraim. We did a first stop at the Terrel's grocery store in Mt. Pleasant. We always like to eat their doughnuts, especially with the ones that are shaped like a foot. Unfortunately, the doughnuts at Terrel's were all sold out! It's sad, because my Mom was hoping that I bring her home one of the apple fritters. Instead, we bought the different kinds of cookies that were still on display at the Terrel's bakery. I guess Terrel's doughnuts are popular on Saturdays down in Mt. Pleasant.

When we got hungry, we stopped at my aunt's entrepreneur-made restaurant called Dairy Freeze. It's like Dairy Queen, but this time, they serve bishop shakes in cups with a lot of different options of flavors for shakes. When Cat Lover and I ordered the shakes and they were brought to us, she tried it and she thought in her opinion that they're way better than the shakes at Sonic (no offense to the people working at Sonic).

After we made it to the old house in Ephraim and set up our stuff to spend the night, we just thought that we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, so we stopped by a Walmart nearby in Ephraim to buy some cereals that we an eat for breakfast before we go home. When it was finally time, we drove all the way to Manti, which was only a ten minute drive from Ephraim. It was quite packed with a lot of people going into the Temple ground to settle down to watch the entertainment. We waited for a long time until it was dusk and that's when the Pageant started.

During the performance, Cat Lover and I were always lip-sing the scriptural messages that were being performed in the Pageant. It was because we have been studying the scriptures and we always do, so that we can build a testimony in our lives of what we believe in. Right after the Pageant was over, Cat Lover just told me that she enjoyed it and shared me a kiss of love and gratitude for bringing her to the event. We carefully went through the traffic back to Ephraim to spend the night and then depart home by morning. We both had fun down in Manti, just the two of us. But we both felt like we wished our families would've been there to see it, since it was the last performance of the year. I'm hoping by next year, we can convince our families to come with us to see it. I hope you enjoyed this story about our second mini honeymoon.

Missing Ring

This story was back in June of 2018:

I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to talk about on here that would be considered normal or new to all of you. But then it came to me that I remembered that today was my day off of work and I got to spend time with Cat Lover. She works a three-hour work shift at Village Baker and has lots more time to be around the house. On the days when I'm off of work, I go pick her up and we do something fun together. For example, I read a junior novelization of Inside Out from the Pixar movie and I just finished it to her. It makes her feel like she wants to see the movie again.

Not the actual ring, but it's kind of like the one she lost, but I found it for her.

Anyway, today was going really smoothly, until Cat Lover told me that she lost one of the wedding rings that they were both supposed to be welded together. She was in tears when she told me that she tried really hard to find the missing ring. I gave her a spousal embrace, encouraging her that we'll find it. Then at the possible second, for a random reason, I started looking in one of the laundry baskets and heard a ding inside. I dug through and found the ring! She was so happy that I found it for her and she's happy to have me as a husband.

I didn't think about taking pictures of me and Cat Lover today, so I just found some more of those happy moments we had as a couple together. She's really grateful to have me as a spouse to live with for her life and for the eternities. I don't know what she could do without me. I'm still trying to help her be happy with her life and I still want to teach her some good active skills that she can do, so that someday, our future children will be able to grow up and become like social people. And also to know that spouses can help each other with their struggles and lost items, like a wedding ring!

Comeback

 I realized that I haven't been blogging on this blog in years. I'm so sorry about all of that. It's just a lot of things have been going on with my life that I haven't had much time to blog on here, I have a lot to say about how those years have went with me ever since the last time I blogged on here. I've done some guest blogging on Twelve Makes a Dozen and I ought to show you some interesting that have happened with me. I hope to hear more from all of you again and see what you think of the posts I'm about to show you.

Pie Vlog

It's been such a long time since I got to blog, because things have been going crazy with getting used to marriage and celebrating Mother's Day. I'm not sure if this is what I should be showing you, but Cat Lover and I have been thinking about doing a vlog where I demonstrate my unique techniques of making these pies. The idea came into my mind after Pi Day after I made these pies for everyone to try. I then decided that I could make more pies and show you how I make them. I made this little intro that I'm planning to use for my Pie Vlog. It took me a long time to put it together and find the right non copyrighted music just for it. If you like, I'll plan to do the vlog and show you the demonstrations of my pies If you would like to see more of them, you can subscribe and share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and many other sites that you can share it with. You can even leave comments below on each vlogpost I put up on YouTube. I hope that you'll look forward to it as well as I am.

The Little Apartment

I thought I wrote just recently about the honeymoon that Cat Lover and I have been on. But my mom asked me to do another one, because she and my dad have been having going through the day of helping Catwoman and her little Supergirl go through the custody trial. We're still hoping that things will work out for them.

Anyway. My mother kept on asking me about the little apartment that all of your followers are hoping to see. At first, I thought she was still going to do that, but since I'm living down there with my wife, she asked me to describe of how the little apartment is going for the both us. We're enjoying it so far ever since we came back from the Honeymoon.

The way it looks from the pictures, it sure makes it look exactly like we have entered an apartment with an outdoor hallway, but it still is in my parents' basement. We're so glad that my dad has had the time to get the sink and the oven/stove in full operation for the both of us to use the kitchen appliances. We have been making some meals with these appliances as test runs and they all work really well.

Another thing that we're also glad about having is this Roku television set secured to the wall. We're happy snuggling together on the bed and the couch watching some fun movies and even watching Studio C with the BYUtv app on the TV set. From what we just watched tonight was Fireproof. It really was great to be learning on how to keep a marriage from ever falling apart, just like in the movie.

And speaking of marriage, we're still loving each other, even if we are working at jobs or if we're doing other things that may acquire being temporarily separated during a marriage. Cat Lover sure doesn't want to get a divorce and neither do I. We are still working on making sure we're responsible for the things we're doing in the little apartment. Like, we still have to pay rent, even if the utility bills are still under my parents' household when we're living here.

All right, I just realized that I'm getting off subject with the little apartment. We set it up like any other home could be like. We still have the walk-in closet that we can put our clothes inside and we received these two big red shelves with white drawers to store our things inside. One of them is inside the walk-in closet while the other is being used as a little pantry. Space is quite limited in this little apartment, but we're also working on being careful with our money, so that someday, Cat Lover and I will have our own place to live in and start a family.

I hope that I explained a lot of things that are understandable to see, but I also hope that these pictures do show of how the progress has been accomplished. Now another thing that we need to work on accomplishing is to start making our own family. I'll keep in touch with you all.

The Honeymoon

Here's the moment that you've all been waiting. This is the time that Cat Lover and I have been on the best moment after a wedding reception: HONEYMOON! It was quite the time that Cat Lover and I have been on a little vacation as husband and wife. This is how the Honeymoon went. Momof12 set us up to a fancy hotel to stay at for a couple of nights. When we went to the hotel to drop off our things, the hostess there wasn't letting us in, because we didn't have a credit card with us to check in. Cat Lover and I were so stressed out about that, because Momof12 set up a reservation for us, but it turned out that the hostess she talked to before wasn't there and we ended up talking to a different hostess. So they let us in after all, because we had the receipt of proof that we had a reservation set up for the both of us to stay a couple nights.

This hotel was quite interesting. They had these fancy looking lamps the size of a box and they had hotel room locks that don't make you stick a card through a slot, but that it has a sensor to scan your card. We wanted to go for a swim in the hotel pool and relax in the spa, but the evenings inside the pool area were always crowded, so we ended up going to it in the mornings when it's not crazy. We wanted to be by ourselves, because that's where the romance comes on a honeymoon. Maybe on our first wedding anniversary we'll find a hotel's pool to have to ourselves.  We had this entire king-sized bed to ourselves to sleep and snuggle with each other on the nights. 

 Anyway on the first day of our honeymoon trip, we ate a delicious breakfast from the lobby's breakfast area. After having a little bit of a swim and relaxing at the pool and spa, we drove all the way to the district to find some fun things to do during our Honeymoon. We ate lunch at a Denny's where some waiter thought that we looked more like high school students to be a married couple. Well, everyone just has some opinions about how marriages work throughout society. Anyway, after lunch, we went to see the Greatest Showman movie in theaters. It was quite amazing to learn the history about how the circus began in our world and how it became the greatest show on earth.

 After the movie, we went to Neilson's Custard to have a Concrete Shake, one of the most expensive ice cream shakes that are worth buying on a honeymoon. We drove around the district to see a lot of fun things, like new parks that have been made by Mountain Mike's and Neilson's Custard. When we were hungry for dinner, I was going to take Cat Lover to Texas Roadhouse, since she told me it's her favorite restaurant. However, that entire restaurant was so crowded a lot of people had to wait in a long line from outside. There was no way Cat Lover and I were going to wait that long to get food, so we decided to find some other place to eat out. We went to IHOP that was near by and we ordered some delicious food that was quite interesting. They had red velvet pancakes that tasted a lot like the red velvet cake mixes for fancy birthday parties, and many other kinds of pancakes. Cat Lover just chose a plate of grilled cheese sandwiches and fries, which that's okay with me. Because as a spouse, you can't expect your own spouse to chose the same meal while eating out.

Anyway, we went back to the hotel to snuggle in our bed some more. This had been a short honeymoon for us, but it was worth the time and effort to have this, since Cat Lover and I have been living in my parent's basement with that little apartment that we're staying in for a while until we make a budget to have our own place to live in. We're happy to be married and we're almost thinking about starting to have children.