Christmas Break and New Semester



Sorensen Christmas Tree











White Christmas at the Sorensen's

Finally found some time to get the blog updated!! Yay for me! Well Christmas was definitely an experience for me. This year we spent Christmas with Daniel's family in Lyman. Let's just start out by saying that his family does things way differently than I ever did on Christmas. They spend ALL DAY opening presents. Everyone opens one gift and plays with it until you've lost interest or you complete it. We had lots of Legos to put together and movies to watch. :) It was a blast! Daniel did extra well with my gifts this year. He got me a keyboard, so now I can practice piano at home. I was very very excited that I was lucky enough to get it.







Before Christmas rolled around we were fortunate enough to go through the temple and get sealed on our anniversary! Forever and Always has never meant so much. I sure am one lucky girl. With the anniversary came us taking the top of our cake out of the freezer and enjoying it all over again. It was SO delicious, even if it was a year later. Daniel's brother Nic had a pieced and commented that he forgot how good our cake was. In all of the chaos we were also able to get some actual wedding pictures taken (a year after the fact). Due to some unfortunate events almost all of our wedding pictures were lost by our fabulous photographer last year. So now we have temple pictures :) We've made a goal of getting down to the Denver Temple once a month and so far so good.  One month down and the rest of the year to go!



We're almost through the second week of the spring semester and it's looking like Daniel and I will both have good ones. Daniel is taking a few math classes and getting some of his financing classes taken care of. As of right now he's on track to graduate next May.



Last week I started training for the RAGNAR relay race down in Utah. Lots of running, swimming and Zumba for me! It's great getting back into shape and being able to enjoy the workouts too. Zumba is the greatest and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a fun entertaining workout that really works you out. You can't beat having fun while working out. If you want to look at what exactly the race is check out the site:  www.ragnarrelay.com/race/wasatchback 



Well this has been a pretty random and unorganized blog, but hopefully you were able to follow. Well, until next time....



That's my goofy husband and I love him so so much!!!

One year together...the start of something wonderful!!!







Thanksgiving and Finals Week

For Thanksgiving we got to go up and visit my family in North Dakota, in a little tiny town called Ross. When I say little tiny I mean it has a post office and a bar. As the big snow storm was rolling through the western United States, a few days before thanksgiving, we decided that we should head out Tuesday night so that we'd make it. We left around 5 or 6pm for our 10 hour journey. We were originally planning to head out Wednesday morning, but just loaded up the car as soon as my sister made it to Laramie. Needless to say we hit bad roads as soon as we left Wyoming a few hours later. Our 10 hour drive turned into a 14 hour drive on some pretty scary roads. We finally made it around 8 or 9am. Thankfully we made it in one piece without incident. Daniel drove the whole way and was amazing!
Thanksgiving was fun. We had the whole family together except one brother and his wife. (Matt and Jessie) We took my mom black Friday shopping, went and saw the movie Tangled (love it!), and of course ate lots of yummy food. We set up the Christmas tree and played games. It was a fun packed break from school.
It's the end of the week before finals and it's been pretty hectic. Whoever coined the term "dead week"....was CRAZY! Unless of course, they called it that because the students become dead from all of the end of semester assignments.
With the semester coming to a close it means that Daniel and I are creeping up on our one year anniversary :) Very exciting! And....what's even more exciting is that we get to be sealed on the 18th!! All our family will be able to be there with us on this important day. In case you're wondering, this is the exciting news that i mentioned in my last blog :)
Daniel and I are doing well and looking forward to the end of the semester. We'll both be working over the break and getting ready for the spring semester.

First Time in a Long Time...

Considering that the last time I was on here was in February....it's been a while. I've decided to reconnect with the blog and maybe figure out some of the features. I'm still pretty lost, but I'm sure I'll get it figured out soon enough. Here's an update on the Sorensen family:

In May Daniel and I both graduated with our associate degrees from WWCC in Rock Springs. It was a great stepping stone in our educations. This summer Daniel was lucky enough to land an internship in Houston, TX at NASA Johnson Space Center! He turned 24 during his first week at the space center. It was a wonderful summer of learning for him. The heat and the city living was definitely a new experience for us. We made lots of friends while we were down there and one is coming to visit us in January. We're excited to see him. Shortly after we left for Texas my family moved to North Dakota for work. It kind of came as a shock when they told us a couple months previous. We had lived in Pinedale, WY for almost 15 years. It was definitely home and where we considered to be our hometown. Luckily my grandparents on my dads side still live there so we have a reason to go visit. Plus I still work as a locum for Sublette County EMS.

Daniel and I both changed our majors when we came to the university. Daniel is getting his bachelors in math with a minor in finance while am going into secondary education. I really want to coach and teach science! We've finally settled into our ward here in Laramie, the Ridgeview ward. I'm the Relief Society Chorister and am loving it!

We've got a busy few weeks ahead of us and are looking forward to both Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks which we get to spend with our families. North Dakota with my family for thanksgiving and Lyman with Daniels family. Speaking of family...my younger brother Matthew got married in April! Brindi is going to college at Western. The youngest, Zak, is adjusting to a new school up in North Dakota.

This is just a glimpse of the crazy life of the Sorensens and there will most definitely be more to come :) Exciting things are happening on our one year anniversary!! ;) Stay tuned...

First Time For Everything!

Well hello all! We have a blog! Decided that this was a great way to keep in touch with people, so here goes nothing. Wish me luck :)