-THE PETERSONS-
How fun it’s been reviewing my photos
to refresh my memory of the events of the past year. Jake and I have now been married for 53 weeks. Yes, we celebrated our first year
anniversary last week! We’re so
grateful for all the support we received from everyone who came to our wedding,
sent cards, presents, called us on the phone, etc. Thank you. Our
wedding day was more incredible than we could have ever imagined. We often joke that we want to go back
and do it all over againJ We were privileged
to gallivant to Manhattan and Palmyra, New York for our honeymoon. We enjoyed the hustle and bustle of
Manhattan at Christmas and then ended off the trip with the calm and sacred presence
that is all about the LDS Church historical sites in Palmyra.
Over spring break we took a trip to
San Diego. We spent most of the
time visiting many of the families from Jake’s mission. Their company was great and their
cooking incredible! We stuck
pretty close to home with our other traveling ventures. We treated ourselves to a couple days
in St. George, including a day at Zions’ Park, as we had a weekend break
between spring finals and the beginning of our summer semester. We enjoyed many outings to Bear Lake
with the Roskelleys and the Petersons during the summer, and a fall-break trip
to Park City with the Petersons.
Through our traveling, we make an effort to do a session in a temple we
haven’t been to before. We call it
“temple collecting.” This past
year we collected 10 different temples!
Now for the low down on our
day-to-day lives. Jake and I have
finished most of our general business education classes. Sadly that means that we no longer have
classes together. Jake is heavily
into his accounting major, and I into my marketing major. We both have one semester left in our
undergraduate education. In July,
I started working at an internship that I will stay at through the end of the
school year (working part-time). I
am doing marketing and public relations work for JJ Cole Collections- a baby
products company. Jake recently
was accepted into a full-time internship program at Jones Simkins Accounting
Firm. He will be taking next
semester off of school and working 40-60 hours a week doing taxes. I am scheduled to graduate this May and
he will graduate next December. My
plan is to hopefully find someplace that will take me on full time (fingers
crossed) and Jake will likely continue on to get a Masters in Accounting from
Utah State.
We keep busy with church callings and
participation in extracurricular activities at USU. Ironically enough, after
being married for one week, we were called to be the Marriage and Family
Relations Sunday School teachers in our ward. Due to a ward split, we have also
been able to serve in a variety of other callings, including the Young Men, Young Women, Relief Society, and Elders Quorum. Recently, Jake
became a member of Beta Alpha Psi, a really great accounting society/club. This
year, I have continued to be involved with the University Ambassadors. We have
also stayed busy serving as VPs over Huntsman Scholar Committees and being members
of the Business School Ambassadors program.
However, our favorite thing to do remains spending time with both of our families. We love their enthusiasm and
cheerfulness and love being involved in their lives.
We wish you a joyful Christmas season
filled with family, friends, and the CHRISTmas spirit.
Love, Kristina & Jake Peterson
