megan turns 21!

It is about 20 minutes from megans birthday and I am sitting at work. She always tries pretty hard to get me to blog and most of the time I am "too busy". So since its her birthday I thought I would write a little something about her. Here are the top 5 things so far that I love about Meg and they are also the top 5 things that make me extremely happy. (No particular order)
*the way she tells me she loves me at night right before she's about to fall asleep.
*how she still tries to talk when she is laughing too hard, though she always manages to get a couple words out and then keeps on laughing.
*how she sits on the edge of my side of the bed in the morning when I'm still asleep and she is about ready to leave. She just tickles my arm or my back and then kisses my forehead before she walks out of the room.
*the way she gets excited about the tiniest of things!
*that no matter when, where or what time of day it is, she always looks her best. Amazingly beautiful.

These are only a few of the reasons I'm the luckiest man alive!

Happy Birthday Hun!!

I LOVE YOU!

Early Birthday Present

So anyone that knows Andrew and I knows that we aren't good with surprises. We both get really excited when we have a surprise for someone and when someone has a surprise for us... Ha curious is an understatement. We start probing and prying until we find out what the surprise it. Well, thats exactly what I did today. Andrew's been asking me the last couple of weeks what I want for my birthday and I've been giving him lots of ideas but the thing I wanted most was a gym pass. Well on Tuesday he came home saying he got my birthday present and he was really excited to give it to me, but as much as I begged he still wouldn't give in and give it to me that day. So today Andrew and I went to lunch and the whole time I was guessing what my present was and everytime I would guess gym pass I would get very excited and I guess Andrew saw that and that made him excited, excited enough that he couldn't wait until monday (my birthday) to give it to me. Sometime during lunch he had slipped the gym pass onto my keychain and when I got in the car to drive home I found it. I am so excited so finally be able to go to the gym again. I've been running and doing what I can at home but it will be nice to be able to lift some weights again.

Before I go I want to apologize if these posts are getting longer and more detailed and possibly boring but we've decided that we are going to start using the blog to document events in our life not only for our family that isn't close but also for ourselves. So plan so start seeing more blog posts from the Veras

Pictures

Andrew and I at the Washington County Derby. We actually got seats this year.... next to a bunch of sweaty people, lucky us.

Andrew's little catfish he caught. I think he only caught one fish that we kept and it was because it swallowed the hook and was going to die anyway otherwise we would have let it go because it was so little lol it just wasn't his trip when it came to fishing.

Running through the sprinkler at Grandma and Grandpa O's house

Tubing with Johnny, Kyle and Chris. Andrew got it pretty rough and got thrown off quite a few times

Riding on the airboat!

Back to the real world... almost

We had quite an amuzing trip full of boating, fishing and family.... Oh and how could I forget sushi. Yes we did go out for sushi not once, but twice. While living in Nebraska Andrew and I became fans of a restaurant, only 5 miles from our old house in elkhorn, called Kona Grill. Kona has everything from sushi (my favorite) to 5 spice BBQ chicken Pizza (Andrews favorite) The best part about Kona is that they have a reverse happy hour from 10 pm to midnight where everythings half off. So of course Andrew and I had to take advantage of that one night and then on Sunday before we left for Utah we went back for a strictly sushi meal with my cousin Kyle.

We also did lots of boating. My dad bought an airboat this spring. For those of you who dont know what an airboat is, it's the kind of boat that has a big fan on the back and can go over water and land. They are typically used on rivers and thats where we spent about 40% of our time this Nebraska trip. We would ride up the river a couple mile, stop at a fishing hole, ride a little more and then stop at a sand bank and swim for a bit. I'm proud to say that out of my dad, Andrew and Myself I definitely caught the best fish, I also caught the biggest, not to brag or anything :).

On Thursday Andrew and I drove to Page Nebraska where my grandma and grandpa Oltjenbruns are now residing. My younger cousins Zach, Bre and Cayden were there and oh boy do those kids LOVE Andrew. When we lived in Nebraska Andrew and Zach, who is 14 became buddies. They used to wrestle in our livingroom while I would follow them around moving all the breakable things we had. Well, things haven't changed. The first thing Andrew did when he saw Zach was get him in a head lock and started wrestling him on the front porch. It was great to see them all. I think that's the thing we miss most about living in Nebraska, the family.

On Sunday we went to the fremont lakes with my Aunt Julie. We laid out and did some swimming. The plan was that we would leave monday morning at 4 am but we finished up having Sushi with Kyle around 7 Sunday night and decided that we would just head out sunday night. I must say that Andrew was a champ!! Haha I started out driving and drove until about midnight and then Andrew drove the majority of the way after that. After 15 hours of driving, four 5-hr energy drinks and a couple of nap stops we finally made it home around noon on monday.

We had a great, relaxing trip but are now having to adjust to being back in the realy world. Andrew started work Tuesday and I start school this monday, Aug 23 :). I also turn 21 that day whoo whoo! I'm not excited or anything ;). So next week we will be back to our hectic lifestyles consisting of school and work and thats the way we like it.... most of the time.

Andrew and Megan

What are your middle names?
Kent and Lynn Renee

How long have you been together?
We have been together since July 30, 2008

How long did you know each other before you started dating?
We knew of eachother for years but really only knew eachother for about a month

Who asked who out?
It was more of a mutual thing

Whose siblings do you see the most?
Probably Andrews because he has alot of them so it's easier to for them to find time

Do you have any children together?
Not yet, maybe in a couple years. Yes, you heard me right people we are waiting a couple years. Sorry but we have too much we want to do before we have kids.

What about pets?
We have a cat name elliott Jones Vera

Did you go to the same school?
Yes

Who is more sensitive?
It used to be him because I hated showing emotions but now that he's shown me that it's ok it might be me.

Where do you eat out most as a couple?
hmmm, I think we change it up alot.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Nebraska I think, Maybe Cali. I'm not sure which one is further

Who has the craziest exes?
Haha I think he would say him and I would just go with it because I don't think my exes are crazy.

Who has the worst temper?
It depends on the situation, I've seen Andrew get pretty mad but I also get fired up about certain things

Who does the cooking?
Andrew all the way. I don't see the point in cooking when I don't like to eat big meals anyway

Who is the most sociable?
Idk. When I'm around my friends I'm definetly more loud but when I meet new people I'm pretty shy but Andrew is just... "normal" around everyone

Who is the neat freak?
DEFINITELY NOT ANDREW!!!!

Who is the most stubborn?
ME!!! He tries to be stubborn but eventually has to give in because I never will

Who hogs the bed?
I've been told that it's me. I guess I sleep in the middle.

Who wakes up earlier?
Me

Where was your first date?
The big dam

Do you get flowers often?
Not so much anymore, but thats ok because I get lots of other things, I feel pretty spoiled

How long did it take to get serious?
Maybe a month. We hit it off pretty fast.

Who eats more?
Andrew. He's a bottomless pit!!

Who sings better?
Andrew!! But I'm finally starting to sing in front of him, even though I suck

Who does the laundry?
Meee!!!

Who's better with the computer?
Depends on what program I think

Who drives when you are together?
Usually Andrew, I think I scare him when I drive.

Who wears the pants in the relationship?
He does, but I pick them out :)

Who has more tattoos?
Neither of us do

Who eats more sweets?
andrew

Who cries more?
Probably me now days. It used to be him because I hated crying but now I cry occasionally.

How long before you had your first kiss?
Haha it was the day after our first date. haha Andrew was a sweet talker

Who is better with finances?
Andrew knows more, but I think I make better decisions

Who gets jealous easier?
ANDREW!! But he's gotten so much better since we've been married

Who has better taste in music?
We listen to alot of the same.

Favorite couple moment?
I don't think I could pick just one favortie moment, but here are a few. The driving game we made up, our honeymoon, and airsoft gun wars

What a Month!

July was quite an eventful month for us. We were both working, I was going to school but we also made lots of time for fun. We went to the days of 47 rodeo with our friends Paul and Amelia and their cute little boy Caleb, we went hiking to Cascade Springs with the Vera side of the fam (Very beautiful place, I would recommend hiking there) and we also celebrated our two year anniversary of being together. Yes, on July 30th we had been "officially" together for two years. So I was thinking it would be fun to tell about how our relationship "officially" started. It was Bailey's 12th birthday and Andrew and I had been hanging out for about 5 days. He was planning on taking Bailey to Pizza Hut for her birthday and asked if I wanted to come along. I of course said yes because since the first day we had hungout all I wanted to do was be with him :). Anyway, that whole day I had been texting a mutual friend of mine and Andrews who wasn't too happy about the fact that we were hanging out so much. So while we were at Pizza Hut this mutual friend asked if Andrew and I were "together". I wasn't sure so I just came out and asked and Andrew said, "Sure"! So this year on July 30th we celebrated by having a little lunch together. Andrew had to work so he just brought home Subway and after that I went tubing with some friends on the Provo river.

Andrew and I are currently in Nebraska..... WHOOP! We are both really excited, we've missed it here so much. We left Thursday at 2 in the afternoon and got here Friday morning around 5 AM. Needless to say we were both exhausted Friday but that didn't stop us from going, going, going. We went and visited with grandma Pat which was nice and then my dad took us out on the river to test out his new airboat. I must admit it's alot more fun than I expected. Today (Saturday) we've spent most of the day playing on the river and are now getting ready to go to the fair in Arlington.

Well thats all for now, but I'm sure I'll be blogging again later about the adventures of out Nebraska trip.