February, March, Etc.

 Bryan gave me a rose for our first Valentine's Day. The card says "Screw V-day, but here is a rose anyway, smiley face.

 Sometimes Bryan would stop by my house on my "off" week and leave me messages on my car...

 Byran was so excited to find these pink shoes in the womens section Target, sadly he returned them.

This pic is of the Brigham City Temple that we took on our way up to Bear Lake to go snow boarding. Sadly as soon as we got there we got a call that Bryan Roberston was in a car accident so we turned around and headed home. Gorgeous little Temple though!

February 7, 2012 Glass Blowing

 Bryan took me on a glass-blowing date at Holdman Studios. It was really cool. I mean hot. Like really hot.

 We watched them as they retrieved a blob of fiery, white-hot glass from a crucible on the end of a long pole. He said the glass was about 2100 degrees Fahrenheit... I asked him if he ever got burned and he said everyday. (Notice he's only wearing 1 glove, I'm guessing the other hand has no nerve endings left...)

 Then we had to roll the pole around as the blob cooled a little and try to keep it centered.

 Then we got to choose the colors of the glass and they rolled the blob in bits of colored glass and re-melted it. Once the blob had color we had to pull the blob with tweezers as the glass cooled.

 Then right before the glass cooled completely they stretched the glass blob to create a stem.

The guy helping us made it look so easy but it was NOT because we had to work really fast before the glass cooled. The total time from when he pulled it out of the hot crucible until the glass was completely hard was about 2 minutes. There was amazing art around the studio and if I had a spare $400 I would have purchased one of the platters...
Holdman Studios also does stained glass and they've done a lot of the stained glass in some of the newer Temples like Manhattan, Idaho Falls, San Antonio, and the re-done Laie Temple.

January 29 and February 12, 2012 Byran Cooks!

Bryan LOVES Chinese food. He made me a few meals and I LOVED that. We called it "woking" with Bryan. He always keeps me laughing.

January 24, 2012 Snowshoeing

Bryan took me snowshoeing.  Although I don't like being cold, I DO like gorgeous, sparkly, peaceful snow scenes. Byran made a snow angel.