HAPPY

2 years and 1 month ago today.
I married my best friend in the Los Angeles Temple. 
and it has only gotten better and better since. 

Day One

Happppy 2 years and one month Anniversary to US!
Last year I didn't write about our anniversary until October 3rd so I decided I should do the same this year. What a great tradition. and What a year we have had!! I can't believe we have been married for two years. One of the first things Andrew said about our two years was that that is what a mission feels like. and it made me think of all those people who left for their missions when we got married... they are all COMING HOME! my gosh I have been married for as long as a mission is. and really that doesn't seem very long but for me it is. and for all those missionaries, it is a long time. SO way to go missionaries and way to go us!!

One year 

It has been one heck of an amazing year. What can I say.. things just keep getting better and better with this guy. I just keep falling more and more in love with him. I really never knew what people meant when they said that their love is stronger than the day they married. The day I married Andrew I thought I loved him to the extreme but today I can honestly say I love him more than the day I married him.  Just think of the song by Brad Paisley, And I thought I loved you then. Yup thats how I feel. and really those words are exactly how it happened for us. I seriously could not stop looking at Andrew that Sunday at church when I met him. and now he is my whole life.
WOW crazy how things like this happen.

A little look back on the past year...

• Semester Fall 2011 at BYU-Idaho 
• Picked Apples at the Orchard 
• We went to our friend Clayton's Mission Call opening -- He is in New Zealand 
• Then went to Clayton's Farewell. 
• Andrew worked as a Scarer in the Straw Maze in Rexburg
• Went to St. George for Time out For Women with Andrews Family 
• Went back to St. George for Thanksgiving/ Christmas with the Sorensen's 
• We went to Zion and to the old Sorensen home. 
• Andrew turned 22 
• Alex got her Associates Degree in General Studies 
• Celebrated Sydney Turnbull going to Ukraine at her Farewell
• We went to Kansas for Christmas with the Browns 
• Went to the Great Wolf Lodge with the Browns 
• Alex worked on her youtube channel while Andrew went to school in the Winter
• Alex got into BYU for Fall 2012 
• We went to a BYU Basketball Game
• Went to a BYU Volleyball Game
• We watched a lot of TV shows ;) 
• We tried to start being more healthy :) 
• Alex went to Time out For Women in Idaho Falls 
• Celebrated Taeden's 2 year Birthday
• Spent Spring Break in St. George & California
• Explored the Los Angeles Zoo for the day
• Watched a lot of sports. Especially Basketball 
• Semester Summer 2012 for both Andrew and Alex 
• Went shooting with Anna & Jordan and Lindsey & Dave
• Grandpa Brown Passed away 
• Cameron Went into the MTC
• Alex turned 21 
• Justina & Curtis have baby boy #2  Caleb Steven Checketts. 
• Andrew got his Associates Degree in General Studies 
• Moved to Provo, Utah. 
• Went to Lake Powell with the Sorensen's, Turnbulls, Rahns, Julie & Val. 
• Alex started school at BYU
• Andrew started working for a Lawn Maintenance Company. 
• Hiked Y Mountain on September 2nd at 11pm for our Anniversary :) 

wow. amazing what a year can do. I love looking back at all the things we have done and remembering all of the wonderful experiences we have had. Makes me look forward to all the years to come. I can't wait to see what happens in the coming year!

For this years present giving Andrew got these legit moccasin slippers he has always wanted and I got a pair of pretty pink vans. I think we are officially the shoe loving couple, and if you don't believe me come take a look at our closet.

Two years 

Well we are happy. Life is oh so good. and I still get butterflies every time he walks through the door and smilies those beautiful pearly whites at me.
I find myself cherishing these days more and more. and taking in every single moment we have together because I know days like this won't last forever. and who knows when we will have time like this again. I am soaking it all in and enjoying every moment. these are the best days of our life.

Hope you guys are having a great week.
love,alex&andrew

September Wedding Bells

September is just the BEST time to get married. well if you ask us. and if you ask anna&jordan and now alex&logan.
Andrew's best friend Logan ( he was mentioned in this post and this one) goes to school at BYU-Hawaii, lucky little duck, and he met this AWESOME girl named Alex (mentioned her in the last post).
Well long story short they dated and fell in love and got married. awesome right? yes.
September 6th 2012 they got married in the Salt Lake City Temple. I loved being able to go and celebrate with them in the most special day of their lives. This temple is so magical. I love the history of it. and the detail of everything in it.

It was a beautiful day. and everything was just amazing. love is great. and so is marriage.

and on that note, i seriously love this man so much. 

can you see her face? she seriously looks so happy. i love it. 

the newlyweds and the parents. 

we switched husbands and waited to see who noticed first. 

i really just love this. and all of them. 

Logan's adorable little sisters. 

the men. 

oh man look at that ring. 

happy couple 

rainbow to the reception. 

The day was just wonderful. The wedding. then the reception. We had so much fun there. i fell in love with the location of the reception. and then we all fell in love with the food. seriously delicious. and Dustin (our photographer) was there with his photo booth. that was SO FUN! 

Needless to say we all had a great time and we are so happy for this beautiful couple. 

Welcome to the Club :) and we can't wait for them to move to Provo! 

love,alex&andrew 

End of Sweet Summer Time

Here is the adventures of our last week in California in August going into September. 

We celebrate Anna and Jordan getting married. 

Had a bonfire on the beach. 

Had our one year anniversary. 

hit an owl.....

and just hung out with some amazing people. 

I love them all. I have loved getting to know all of Andrews friends and how they have welcomed me into their lives and are now some of my best friends. its great. I love having this group of people to hang out with. They are all so amazing and fun. 

These first pictures are of our bonfire on the beach. It was a little cold but so fun. 

We were serenaded by the beautiful Lindy playing the guitar and roasted some jumbo marshmallows. 

Andrew is really great at taking pictures with me :) 

Here are some pictures from after we got out of the temple. 

On our way home from hanging out at our friends house we hit an owl. 

It was so SAD! Andrew picked it up and got it out of the road. 

It was still alive so we hope it flew away once we left. 

Loook at how big he is! 

Andrew with one of his anniversary presents! 

We love you all! 

Enjoy this wonderful and beautiful weekend :)

love,alex&andrew

Happy October 3rd!

1 year and 1 month ago today.

I married my best friend in the beautiful Los Angeles Temple.


It was the best life decision I have ever made and the start of something I could have never imagined.
At first I was a little weirded out at the thought of being married at 19 years old but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I never really saw myself as a 19 year old anyway.  I wasn't much of a dater through out the years. When I met a guy and hung out with him by the first night I would usually know if I wanted to pursue it or if the guy would just drive me crazy. and most of them did. or it was just better off as a friendship.
However when I met Andrew something lit up inside of me. I got butterflies every time I saw him. I knew that I didn't just want to be friends with him and I didn't want him to leave my life either.
Little did I know that he would never leave my life. I got him for forever.

This past year as been full of life adjustments, changes, and amazing adventures with my best friend.
I love you Andrew English Sorensen. You are my everything and more. thank you for being my husband. you give the best hugs a girl could ever ask for. I love knowing that I get to grow old with you.

I am so in love :)

Just a little recap of the first year..

• Cruise to Mexico for our Honeymoon
• Alex got her gallbladder our just 3 weeks after the wedding
• We lived in California until December 
• Alex worked at her Father-in-laws office for three months
• Went to the ammmmazing Michael Buble concert. 
• Rented our first apartment together 
• Celebrated Andrew's 21st Birthday 
• Celebrated Alex's 20th Birthday
• Got a new puppy Oakley. Who unfortunately died but will always be loved and remembered. 
• Had the fire department show up at our house. 
• Watched Andrew play a lot of sports. 
• Had our first Christmas together 
• Celebrated our second Valentines Day together. First as a married couple.
• Participating and watching the Worlds Largest Dodgeball tournament..well we tried at least. 
• lots and lots and lots of homework..
• Going to Alex's first Dodger game
• Andrew got to see his best friend Logan for the first time in two years and I finally got to meet him! 
• We went camping 
• and finishing 
• spent another week apart which I highly suggest we never do again. I hate those kind of weeks
• We spent another lovely week at Lake Powell. play play playyyying 
• We have spent a lot of time hanging out with Justina & Curtis looots. 
• watching sports
• watching reality shows. including anything Kardashian & Project Runway. 
• We got a fish named Elias. 
• playing all the time. we are really good at finding random this to do
• he makes her laugh all the time.
• he laughs at her all the time. ha 
• he also scares her all the time 

What is going to come in this second year of marriage?

we have no idea. but we know it will be amazing by each others sides. 

Now for our 1 year celebration we went to an amazing restaurant in California which was right on the beach. yay. 

I absolutely love this restaurant and they have the most amazing Clam Chowder. I loove it. 

So we went there and then went to my all time favorite frozen yogurt place.. Pinkberry. yum yum yum

It was a wonderful night. I loved just being alone together with no stress or worry. just us having an amazing time celebrating our one year of forever. 

Andrew got me this amazing pearl ring that I have been wanting and a necklace that is just perfect. It has a pearl on it, then a stamped piece of metal with two birds on it, then another small stamped heart with a+a on it. MAN this boy did gooooooood. 

I got him this awesome BYU football book that he has been wanting for..well ever since he first laid eyes on it. And I also got him a pair of shoes but they are taking for-e-v-e-r to get in. 

but he is supper excited about them. 

overall what a successful first year of marriage. I think we are qualified to start year #2  

wish us luck cause here we gooooooooooooo

love, alex&andrew 

Will you Marry me?

Marry me?

A year ago today my best friend asked me to marry him. 

and guess what?? 

I said yes :) 

It has been simply amazing. 

I could not ask for a better man to spend the rest of eternity with. 

and I am so so so so soooo glad we will be together forever. 

it is my fairytale come true. 

i love my mr. 

and 

i love being a mrs.

This are pictures from the night we got engaged.. we went to dinner with friends and later that night he asked :) 

How he asked told by Alex:

The whole week before we were planning on having a "going away" party for one of our friends. 

We were planning on going out to eat and then getting a projector set up and watching a movie out under the stars. all week I was really excited about it and planning on having this "party" that everyone was talking about. Well Saturday rolls around and I have to work, then we go to the "Rexburg waterfight" (which was awesome btw) and then Anna (andrews sister) and a bunch of others want to go bridge jumping...well andrew is like I have a bunch of stuff to do around town so I don't really want to go. So I was like okay I will just stay here with you and go run errands. well Anna ended up convincing me to go with them so that I wouldn't be "bored" with andrew "cough cough figure out what was going on cough." I go bridge jumping with everyone.. (turned out to be SO much fun and I actually jumped..ah so so so scary) and when we get back we shower and all the girls are like oh lets get cute for dinner. 

So I am like alright awesome I love getting all dolled up. 

We go to dinner at Wingers, and the guy that we are throwing the "party" for is only there for like 30 minutes so I thought that was kinda strange...hello this was for him..well at least I thought it all was. 

We go back to the house and Andrew is like freaking out about getting everything all set up.. and he is acting really weird.. I had NO idea what was going on, just thought he was annoyed or something that he was the one having to get everything set up.

We all get blankets and pillows and get laid out in the grass and pick out a movie and all. 

Anna goes to put it in and....

my face pops up on the screen. 

it was an ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh moment.

for a slipt second I was like why the heck is my face on the screen. 

I turned to andrew and hid in embarrassment realizing what was going on. 

and from there on out everything started clicking. 

this was not a party for our friend...

it was all for me. 

Andrew made a video of pictures of us. 

some of us dating, some of just me making funny faces, and some of me when I was a little girl (thank you dad) 

and it was all playing to our song.

Michael Buble - Everything

At the end of the pictures it said a bunch of sweet stuff. 

he then pulled me up and he knelt down, pulled out the ring and said, 

Alex, will you marry me? 

and of course I said YES, yes, yes, 

of course yes. 

and the rest is history :)  

Beautiful right? 

YES! 

If you want to see the video it is the post just below this one :) 

yes, I was the ONLY one that had no idea what was going on the whole week, day, hour, everything! up until my face was projected onto the side of a house..ha

mr. pulled it off really good didn't he? 

even my roommates knew because they heard someone talking about it.. ha. 

good thing I don't catch on too easily. 

Hope you all enjoy your Sunday :) 

love,alex&andrew