Update and a Tag

I thought I would give an update since my last depressing blog. First of all, we finally found out what Travis is charged with in regard to the elk and we were so, so blessed! The fish and game officer and the prosecutor were VERY merciful because they knew that what happened was an accident, so the only thing Trav gets is a charge of $217.00! Amazing since it could have been sooo much worse! Also, Travis's Aunt ended up dying soon after I posted my last blog and her funeral was a couple weeks ago. It was very sad and I am going to miss her a lot. At her funeral I kept thinking about why she was able to survive her first bout of cancer only to die a few weeks later and I decided that one of the reasons was so that I could get to know her because I had never gotten the chance to do so. I am grateful I got that chance. She really was a great lady.

On a brighter note, I got to take a whole week off of work to go deer hunting/camping. Cathy posted some pictures- if you haven't seen them you should go look at them. I got my first deer! Whoohoo! It is a tiny little one, so it's not much to brag about. But, the part I am proud of is I shot it perfectly so it didn't have to suffer and we have meat in our freezer again! That's always nice. And it was really nice to be able to take the week off and spend time with family and friends. I actually really enjoy it!

Lastly, I was tagged by Amy! This was actually kind of hard!

1) Where is your cell phone? Silent
2) Where is your significant other? Work
3) Your hair color? Bleh
4) Your mother? Work
5) Your father? Caramels
6) Your favorite thing? Trav
7) Your dream last night? Dreamless
8) Your dream/goal? Family
9) The room you're in? Office
10) Your hobby? Books
11) Your fear? Failure
12) Where do you want to be in six years? Mom
13) Where were you last night? Pumpkinwalk
14) What you're not? Tan
15) One of your wish-list items? Sewing
16) Wheree you grew up? Oregon
17) The last thing you did? Work
18) What are you wearing? Norm
19) Your tv? Home
20) Your pet? Labs
21) Your computer? Lame
22) Your mood? Meh
23) Missing someone? Travis
24) Your car? Messy
25) Something you're not wearing? Eyeliner
26) Favorite store? Lots!
27) Your summer? Hot
28) Love someone? Yep!
29) Your favorite color? Red
30) When is the last time you laughed? Now
31) Last time you cried? Funeral

The worst weekend ever and a tag!

This weekend was NOT a fun weekend for us. It has been one bad thing after another. First of all, Travis has been elk hunting the past week or so and has been pretty frustrated because he had been working his tail off and hadn’t seen a bull elk. On Saturday the weather was bad and apparently that is when the elk start moving around so you have more of a chance of seeing one. Anyway, Trav, his dad, his buddy, Willy, all went up to Morgan and hunted land that one of Willy’s roommates had given them permission to hunt because his parents owned it. So, they went up there and to make a long story not as long, had a great hunt, called in an elk and Travis shot it. It was a 6x7 and definitely the biggest thing Travis had ever shot and he was obviously very excited, especially because we are officially out of meat and this elk was so big it would have completely filled our freezer. Anyway, soon after he shot the elk, the Fish & Game came up and informed them that they were hunting on CWMU ground which is a HUGE problem and is considered poaching. They took the elk, took his gun along with Willy’s and his dad’s guns and told him he would be notified of what action would be taken. We are fully expecting Travis to be charged with poaching which is a $2,000.00 fine, possible jail time, and NO HUNTING OF ANY KIND FOR FIVE YEARS! For all of you who know Travis, this is not good. We are hoping that the other two aren’t charged with such severe charges because it was Travis who tagged the elk and such, but we have no clue what will happen. As you can imagine, they were all furious at Willy’s roommate and called him up to see what was going on. He was just like, "Oh, sorry. That sucks." The Fish & Game officer informed them that the roommate actually owns a very small piece of land no where near where they were hunting. The roommate had actually taken them up there and shown him what land he "owned". What an idiot. Then, they had to call Trav’s mom to come pick them up because the road was too muddy to drive their truck down and when his mom got there she informed them that Travis’s Aunt, Jim’s sister, had cancer in the brain and spine and would most likely not survive much longer. Jim is her medical power of attorney so he has to be the one to make all the decisions which puts a lot of pressure on him and leaves Trav to run the shop. He is very capable of doing that, it just adds extra responsibility and stress, but he is obviously more than willing to help. Anyway, to top off everything, this morning Travis’s car broke down. What fun!

To end on a brighter note, I was tagged by Laura:

Joys
My husband
Reading
Being with Family

Fears
Bad guys- sounds pretty childish, but it’s true!
Failure/Disappointing others
Something bad happening to Travis

Current Obsessions/Collections
My TV Shows of the moment: House, Bones and Law and Order, SVU
Watching/Hoping my grass grows
Planning Christmas Presents

HUSBAND TAG!

I figured since I haven't posted a blog in over a month and I was tagged in this Husband Tag thing, I should probably spend a little bit of time and do it! I like looking at other blogs, but when it comes to adding posts to my own I can't think of anything to write about that anyone else would want to read. So, I was actually kind of glad when Amy tagged me! It gave me a topic to write about! And it is one of my favorite topics! My husband is my best friend and I am so lucky to be able to be married to him. Anyway, here goes:

1- Where did you meet? Travis and I actually met in High School. Yes, we were high school sweethearts. We went to school together our sophomore, junior and senior years, but we never actually met until our senior year in Government class. The teacher based the seating chart by our last names and since my maiden name is Cardon and his last name is obviously Burton we sat next to each other. A couple weeks into the class, the teacher changed the seating chart because we talked too much and put us across the room from each other. It was pretty funny because whenever we got into trouble for talking he would always blame Travis because the teacher said I was too good of a kid to get into trouble and Travis was a troublemaker! Haha! I had a crush on Travis soon after I met him, but he liked another girl and would tell me about her. Sad... but it only took a few months for him to realize I was the one for him!

2- How long did you date before you were married? Well, this is kind of a tricky question for us. We started dating on October 22, 2002 which was during our senior year of high school. But when we graduated from high school I went off to BYU and he stayed in Brigham City to work. We didn’t break up when I moved, but we had some rocky times and broke up for a few days here and there a couple of times. But, we worked everything out and when I came home for the summer we had a lot of fun until he left for his mission on August 18, 2004. He was gone for two years (obviously). I didn’t want to "wait" for him so I dated a couple of people while he was gone. I had one pretty serious boyfriend during that time, but dating him made me realize how much I really loved Travis and wanted to marry him. So, when he came home on August 22, 2006 we immediately picked up where we left off and were married in January of 2007. So... we knew each other for over 4 years when we got married, but we didn’t date that whole time due to college, his mission, etc.

3- How long have you been married for? 1 year and 7 months.

4- What does he do that surprises you? Hmmm... this is kind of a hard one. Let’s see, one of the first surprises after we got married occurred the first night we were in our apartment. We had boxes everywhere of all of our stuff because we couldn’t move in until the day we got married so we obviously didn’t get a whole lot done beforehand and we had opened all of our presents earlier that day. Anyway, he did not go to bed until everything was unpacked and put away and the pictures were hung on the wall. Seriously. I couldn’t believe it. I wanted to go to sleep and he was up unpacking and banging holes in the wall to hang pictures.

5- What's your favorite feature about him? Probably his eyes. He has really pretty green eyes and they change color quite often. I also love his hands. I don’t really know why. I guess because his hands are a sign of how hard he works. That sounds weird, I know.

6- What's your favorite quality about him? He is the hardest worker I know. He grew up in a home where hard work was expected of him. Since we got married he has been going to school and working. For the last few months he has been working from 5-4 and then goes to school from 5-10 over in Logan so he has really long days. I also love that he always does the dishes! What a sweetheart! I HATE doing the dishes so he does it for me.

7- Does he have a nickname for you? What is it? Baby, Babe, Hunz or Huney

8- What's his favorite color? Green or Orange or Camo

9- What's his favorite food? His mom’s sweet and sour chicken and pizza!

10-What is his favorite sport? Football and Basketball

11- Who said I love you first? Him. He told me the day after we graduated from high school. I think he waited until then because before we started dating I once told him I didn’t think you could fall in love in high school. I later changed my mind about that, but he waited until we were done with high school to tell me he loved me!

12- When and where was your first kiss? November 4, 2002 on my front porch!

13-What are your favorite things to do as a couple? Probably hike, camp and be outdoors.

14-Do you have kids? How many? Not yet, but we do want some in the future!

15- What's a hidden talent that he has? He actually has a really good voice. I love hearing him sing, but he rarely ever does! Especially if he knows he is being listened to. He is also a really good cook.

16- How old is he? 23. Yes, he is younger than me by 9 months.

17- What's his favorite type of music? He pretty much listens to anything except things he thinks are cheesy. He doesn’t like a lot of my girl music.

18- What do you admire most about him? His integrity. He is one of the most honest people I know. Also, he never gets mad at me. Even if I do something really stupid, he says, "Oh well," and forgets about it. I really need to work on that. Sometimes I think I nag at him way too much and get mad at him for little things he does way too much. Even if we disagree about something, the minute it gets a little bit heated he will stop and wait until later to finish the discussion. That’s a really good trait for my husband because I can get pretty heated and argue forever.

19-What's his favorite past time(s)? Hunting. I swear, it is getting to the point that there is always SOMETHING he could be hunting/fishing for. And if not, there is always scouting or researching for hunts coming up. I really can’t complain though because it keeps us physically active and gives us good food to eat! Since we have been married the only meat we have bought is turkey steak. Everything else comes from his hunting ability. It’s pretty sweet.

20- Do you think he is going to read this? Nope.

My Very Cute Husband

When we got married, my dad put together a little DVD of pictures of both of us growing up. It was then that I realized how INCREDIBLY cute my husband was as a baby. Now, don't get me wrong... he is still stinking cute. But oh man, he was the cutest baby EVER! I hope my future babies take after him.

My First Blog Post! WaHoo!

After all of the pressure, I have decided to make myself a blog! I guess for my first posting I will talk a little bit about me and Trav. We have been married for almost a year and a half (time goes by SO fast when you are married!) and have loved every second of it! (At least I have... I should probably let Travis speak for himself!) We started out in Honeyville in a little 2 bedroom apartment but have since bought a house in Brigham City. We have totally re-done the inside of the house because we bought a fixer-upper, but are still working on the yard. In fact, at the moment the yard is totally gutted except for one tree-bush fort thing that Travis loved and a fire pit. Hopefully we will finish the yard before the summer is over so that next year we can have a garden. We have two labs, one chocolate and one yellow. Their names are Nelly (the chocolate) and Duke (the yellow). Nelly is a great bird-hunting dog and is almost 6 and Duke is just a puppy (only about 8 months old) but already about twice as big as Nelly. We are hoping that he will be as good a dog as Nelly! They are fun dogs, although Trav does a lot more with them than I do. I am working at a Law Office in Brigham City and loving it! There is a lot of stuff to learn and I feel like I am barely getting started, but it is always interesting and I work with some really great people! I feel very lucky to have found such a good job in Brigham City because there really aren't that many. Travis is going to school part-time and working full-time as a machinist. His dad owns a machine shop and Travis pretty much runs the machining side of things while his dad does the business part. He works and goes to school pretty much all day every day except the weekends, so we are always looking forward to the time we actually get to spend together. We both love the outdoors and spend a lot of our weekends camping. Travis and Tim (my brother-in-law---he married my sister Cathy) spend a lot of their free time fishing this time of year. I go with them occassionally, but spending all day on a fishing boat gets pretty boring after the first couple of hours. Although, Trav just got called into the Elders Qourum so that free time is going to be a lot more limited for the next little while. Anyway, that's us in a nutshell! We love Brigham City-- I wouldn't be surprised if we stayed here forever. We love having both of our families live so close and feel very lucky to have the family and friends that we have.