November and December to Remember.

We haven't blogged so here's a quick recap of the past couple months.  For thanksgiving we went to Nate and Jill's house. It was good.  Cassie's Parents came to town to join us.  On black Friday the ladies woke up early to go shopping, and at night we went to temple square to see the lights.    

 

On December 3rd we were the MCs for the ward Christmas party. We went dressed as shown in the picture below and did really good Christmas comedy.  You had to be there... 

 

On Christmas Spoon woke up at 4 and dragged me out of bed.  She was more excited than a small child.  "Santa" brought me a kinect for the xbox as my big gift.  For her headline gift my santa brought her an armoire for her thousands pieces of jewelery. It was our first married Christmas and it was a huge success.     

Extreme Makeover Dresser Edition

We did this to that dresser.

Before

       

After

Family Reunion

We had an awesome time at our 1st annual semi bicentennial  Marsha Rey Robinson Miskin family reunion. All 7 children were there along with all 18 grand children of Marsha.  Louis (the eldest grand baby also known as chay chomps) got his mission call to Colombia.  Olivia is the youngest grand baby at the age of 0.  We didn't take any picts so I jacked some from Vanella. We had a talent show and a lot of just general hanging out, throwing the football, pounce, visiting, BBQ and water balloon ambush, guitar sing along,  craft day, and kareoke (at least we tried to).  One night the kids were out in the tent and the most powerful random rainstorm hit and we rushed out there to try and save them but they were soaked.  We also went to a reunion at Jay's house (my mom's brother). It was a really fun weekend to have the fam all together and to see everyone.      

        

Wedding

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the value of 1000 pictures?

 

Well this is taking forever... If you want to see all one thousand pics come over some time.  But needless to say the wedding was a blast and it was good to get together with old friends and new families. Spoon and I have now been married for 2.5 weeks and we love it.  It is fun.

California

We are in California. We are getting married in 4 days! Here are some of our engagement pictures even though I'm sure you have all seen them.

Fun stuff this week

We had a week full of fun rad things. First of all, we both got new phones. Personal Droids that literally do everything.  I thought the phone knew when Mom's birthday was when I got a text from an unknown number reminding me to call my mother. Turns out Jill got a phone and it was her but I wouldn't be surprised if my phone knew too.

Next we found an apartment in Pleasant Grove.  It's the basement of a massive log cabin brand new kitchen, small and cozy up by the mountains. I'll be moving in April 24th and Spoon will move in after the honeymoon :)  

On Saturday I went to the festival of colors in Spanish Fork.  Cassie had to work :( but I had a really good time.  

There were thousands of people there.  We all threw colored chalk at each other, it was epic.

On Tuesday Cassie got a rare day off so we decided to go register for our wedding.

Spoon of course had complete control of the barcode gun at all times... ;)

Spoon is back!

This is a picture of me waiting for Spoon at the SLC airport.  She went to California over valentines weekend to do some wedding planning.  I told her she can never give me crap for missing an anniversary, birthday, christmas, valentines day, or any other special occasion since she missed this one.  One lady at the airport was approaching me from behind to come see my sign to check if I was her ride or not.  She was so weirded out when it was a spoon sign.  Spoon arrived and cried then we ate at Olive Garden in SL, it was good.    

Diploma

I got my diploma in the mail today.  It felt so good.  I cried. Well just a little... maybe. After years of sweat and hard work, all nighters, huge papers, tests and classes I got this piece of paper.

Jim and Pam are engaged! Michael: To be married?!?!

So are we!  We became engaged on Christmas morning and the above picture is worth the 1000 words that I was going to write.  It was awesome. We will be wed on June 5th in the San Diego Temple. 

Here is the bling in partial glory but you should really see it in person.  Spoon is so spoiled (Alliteration).

Cassie's Mother made us an engagement cake and a BYU cake because I graduated. They tasted as good as they looked.

We had party and we did a toast  with sparkling cider.

Post BYU Beard

Thought I'd let my beard grow out a bit. After 24 years of either not being able to or not being allowed to, it feels so rad.  And mine is said to be better than Nate's, in some circles.  Oh yea, I graduated from BYU,  I got a bachelors degree in Latin American Studies.   And no, I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but it sure feels good to be done.  I am sleeping a lot these days to make up for the past years of staying up all night writing papers.