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So I received this file from a good friend, Cameron Smithson, who used his phone to film Julie asking me on our first date. A couple of questions arise here. Why didn't she have enough guts to just ask me in person? I don't know. Why was she the first to ask the other on a date? Another question worth pondering over. But it does bring back lots of good memories.

And now we ask some more questions. Why did Julie want to date someone who is so weird and arguably immature? Why couldn't Seth answer Julie to her face? How did this relationship progress? Hmmm...mysteries of life and love.
Here is how we related our first date on our Wedding day.

First official date

- Seth: Julie asked me to Preference at BYU by using a friend’s cell-phone to relay the message that she wanted me to go to the dance with her. I responded via the same way and we were set for our first official date. I realize how lucky I am that she took me. The actual date was really fun. We went to Los Hermanos and ate some Mexican food. We then went over to Kawanis Park to play some ultimate Frisbee. I remember this because in that game I was trying to be on my best behavior and impress my date. However, she seemed quite unimpressed and to prove the point, ended up hitting me in the face with her hand when throwing the Frisbee. This sent a message loud and clear that I was not doing too well. Later on that night, we watched a movie, and she sat away from me making me think that things were going even worse. However, she then came and sat by me and chastised me for not sitting by her (there was no place for me to sit by her, and I had sat down first saving her a spot). The rest of the night was blissful flirtation. We held hands, and stayed up way later than we should have. However, holding hands was another “first” for our courtship, and I wouldn’t trade that night with all its blunders and blessings for anything.

- Julie: It is true, I asked Seth on our first date. Seth and I had just started hanging out around the time of Preference so I knew that if I did not act quickly someone else would try to ask him. It started out as a joke where a mutual friend said that he thought it would be funny to ask by cell phone so he told me to practice on his cell phone. Well it turns out the friend showed Seth this practice and Seth responded soon after. I was glad that the asking part was over, but then I had to figure out how to make a good first impression. We started the night out by going to dinner at Los Hermanos with a group of six couples. Afterward, we went to play glow-in-the-dark Frisbee, I am terrible at Frisbee, and Seth was really good at it so I knew I had to step my game up. In the process of trying to make myself look more competitive, I accidentally hit Seth in the face. I was so happy when they finally stopped the game and started the movie. After the first movie, it was too cold to hang out outside so everyone piled into the back of my eight passenger van and started another movie. I was so nervous because he was sitting so close and not trying to hold my hand. Half way through the movie we “somehow” (according to Seth) held hands. And as Seth would say the rest is history.

That should catch some of you up. Me least of all.

As per my promise to Julie (which I am reminded of frequently), I am writing. It is the beginning of the end of free time. In other words, school has begun and we are headed for one final round around the block together. Julie is beginning her last and final year as a BYU student (hopefully) and is going to graduate in Communication Studies next Spring! I am beginning the Accounting Jr. Core and am excited for 2-3 more years of school. The workload for the Jr. Core gets me up everyday and into class at 8, and I have been returning to bed close to midnight every day. But things will be calming down soon enough. Julie, of course, is as beautiful as ever. I am ever attracted to her gorgeousness and tranquilizing aura. I am as flabby as I have ever been, and plan on getting back into shape, running, lifting, and toning my flab into rock-hard abs, steel-beam thighs, and bone-crushing biceps. I will then go on tour with the President's personnel bodyguard squad and flex in front of large anti-American crowds in China and the middle-east.

We will be posting soon about our glorious trip to New York, our impressive run-ins with the paparazzi, and how reminiscing there could get you run over by a horse carriage. Toodles. You're up Julie

Marriage is too much fun!!!

I say that because I am noticing that I want to spend less and less time with my homework. I am also noticing that work would be much more fun if Seth were there too. I guess I will just have to cross my fingers and hope that Seth can retire at age 23....which may be possible since he was just accepted into the Accounting Program at BYU....how cool is that!?! But we will save the stories of retirement for later. For now I am forced to update everyone on our life, yes our life because we have decided to blog together! yay! I don't know if you have noticed but Seth has only posted once compared to my ....well I have written a lot more than him. So I predict he will be writing next. The Reminiscent you once knew has changed, it is now a married view point, interesting right? By the way Reminiscent is an adjective referring to past situations and this means that we will write about things in the past. Therefore, the past can consist of a day to months, which explains the lack of consistency in writing on this blog.

Welp here is our married Reminiscent look at the last few months:

I would like to demonstrate how my cooking skills have greatly improved within just a few short months....

Before: This was supposed to be scrambled eggs and hash browns

After: this is successfully a melon soup with lettuce wrap on the side.

Before new years day:




After New years:

Before Julie was 22: Seth was 22



After Julie was 22: She caught the oven on fire...I did not take a picture of it because it was tramatic so I will just include my birthday picture

Before Seth made green tapioca: he made a delicious Asian dinner
Afterwards: he ate the tapioca
Overall, I would say we have had a pretty eventful marriage. :) To be continued...the saga of Zion National Park and the IronWOman Ana

-Witness Verification-

I Seth, The Husband Sainsbury, verify that these things stated herein are true and accurate. Furthermore, I love my wife. Let it be known.

Seth

Even MORE Honeymoon.....day

So on our last day in California we checked out of our hotel and waited for the car rental man to bring us the car. Well the car rental man came and said "you aren't Seth Sainsbury are you?" I am pretty sure he thought we were two teenagers or something because it seemed like he couldn't believe that we were renting a car. we said "yes" and he walked us out to the hotel pick up zone ....and there sat a beautiful 2008 red dodge charger...like high class charger...my mouth almost dropped to the floor I was about to say "Seth are you serious, do you really think we have the money to just rent a charger for one day." but I held my tongue because the car guy got into the front seat....for some reason when I thought of the enterprise commercials I always assumed that the "we'll pick you up" just meant that they would drop the car off at the given location. I was wrong. They get in the car, and drive you to the enterprise (easily confused with the star ship from star trek, its not the same thing btw) So the car man drove us there and we sign a gagillion papers and then he takes us to our real car...I kinda hoped it would be just as sweet as the charger, but at the same time I did not want it because I just KnEW something would go bad if we did (it's unlucky to try to live a high class life when you don't have the funds to back it). YET I did not want a trashy car that may not make it to the beach (of which was our destination, and then the airport). Luckily we were given a middle-class car that was sheik but not too crazy that someone would rob us on the one day we would do something that was probably not as financially sound as we usually are. Not quite sure what type of car it was but I felt a lot more normal in this one, it's funny how that works, dont you think?
After we got the car, it was Santa Monica Beach, BABY! Side note: Julie (me) hasn't really hung out near the ocean the one time she did it was to a visit to mexico and she preferred the pool that sat right next to the ocean, something about "recent shark sightings in this area" kind of scared her. Other side note: the only beach she has ever hung out at is Utah Lake Beach...which as we all know is not a beach so much as a deposit of mud that suctions the life out of anything that steps on it.
I hoped that Santa Monica would be better. Hoped may be an understatement...I prayed. It was a beautiful balmy 70 degrees. We pulled up into a parking area and were lucky enough to see a van just leaving so we pulled up right behind it. But then we got even more lucky because they got out of their car and gave us their parking pass, so our parking was FREE!!!! ( we would have originally had to pay like 7 dollars I think) It was so cool, one of many blessings that we had on our honeymoon. After parking we walk down toward the side walk that leads to the ferris wheel dock thingy. It was the weirdest thing there was turf grass and people were doing yoga and boxing. Weird but cool I wish that I could just go to the beach and work out to the sound of the waves. Once we were on the dock I was amazed to see the ocean up close. It was so clear (ish) It was absolutely beautiful, I could honestly say that I would love to live by a beach someday. It was just one of those things where you just are stunned by the glory of our heavenly father. so here are seth and I on the ferris wheel dock. And no we did not go on the ferris wheel, I was just as content to sit and stare at the wonders of the ocean.
In these two pictures we were trying to stand just far enough that when we came home we could crop one of us in, so we could be together in the picture (it wasn't too crowded on the dock) Yeah, If I could crop I would try.....



so then we tried to take a picture of ourselves together, we were kind of successful



After we realized this was too much work we decided to ask a couple that happened to walk by if they would take a picture...in reality they were the first people I saw that didn't look like they would steal our camera. :)




After the dock we headed down to the ocean to actually touch the water that was licking the shores of the Santa Monica beach. This sand was like NO sand I have ever touched with my feet. It was so soft and squishy, so here I am enjoying the sand.


As you may notice there is no one in the water, well that wasn't because of shark sightings, but rather it was freezing, up until this point I had managed to stay gingerly warm and dry (other than my toes) but as seth had me posing for the next picture....well see for yourself


Yup a WAVE, a real one, came up from behind and splashed up to my mid thigh. Imagine this julie in cute white capri's...wave....julie in wet white pants. grrrr, oh well, I was after all at a beach in CALIFORNIA with the hottest man on the planet <3 Julie & Seth at Santa Monica beach in California!!!!!



after the beach we rushed to the enterprise drop off zone and were lucky to make our flight back to the freezing Salt Lake City Utah. California was a wonderful surprise, there were so many cool things to do and see! I would love to go back because I know that there is tons of stuff I have yet to see. Thank you Seth for a beautiful trip that I will always remember with a smile on my face.
And thus begins the non-honeymoon chronicles......

Honeymoon Continued.....
On the next day of our California adventure we had a blast hanging out with the mute actors across the park. After seeing several children in pictures with disney characters I thought they were having the time of their life chillin' with the princesses etc. but when I posed for this picture I was so uncomfortable that minney wasn't talking to me....all she could do was mime, needless to say I was a bit disappointed; alas, I was still able to muster up a smile for this photo op that I have seen countless other happy children pose for.


by the way this entire trip we waited in lines but they weren't terrible lines...nothing compared to the boring lagoon lines but I couldn't believe there was a LINE for Minney.

After this precious photo, Seth and I tried to get tickets to the Aladin show but there was like a two hour wait so seth thought it would be funny to take me on the TOWER of TeRrOr .....I'll admit I was a little terrified...okay a lot terrified...so when I was standing in line and saw these five-year-olds all I could think was "what kind of parent would take there miniature child on a terrifying ride" I was scared standing in line, I couldn't believe that they would attempt to scare their kids any further. so yeah...the ride was terrifying but not as terrifying as I was afraid it was going to be, see look I'm kinda smiling!
The Aladdin show was hilarious! Well more like the genie was hilarious! it was really cool to see a disney movie acted out on stage. Some of their props were really cool! In my expert opinion (after the plight with the children on the Terror ride) I would encourage every parent to take their kid to this. We didn't get a photo because I think they said no photos...but that didn't stop some people.
I'm not quite sure where this is..but I thought it was so cool how ornate everything was in Disneyland. Everything looked like the time period/effect it was going for.

and finally my handsome husband! Awww what a stud! So good at surprises!

This is Seth and I in case you didn't know we are in love .....


Here I am at the princess castle!!!!!! Seth didn't want to be in the picture for some reason :)

I think this is toony land (or something) Walt let me drive his car around for a while..We took this picture right after a four- year old girl got out of it...yup I had to fight all of the other four- year olds to get this picture...


This is a small world
Here we are on the buzz lightyear ride, the scores are messed up I am space ranger 1, yeah I know beginners luck.

the last ride that I will post for today is splash mountain. This was the ride Seth told me I was going to love...that it was sooo much fun. I was lucky enough to get the very front of this ride...by the end of this ride I was soaking wet, *note to my future self do not go in the front when seth says I will love this ride.Well when I get more time I will post more stories but in reality we were so lucky on a lot of the rides we went on. We were always on the front of rides. I was the driver on the indiana Jones ride, which was cool! The funniest thing about california is that it was a wonderful 70 degrees and some californians were wearing sweaters and ugg boots, while I was sweating in my short sleeve shirt. The california saga will continue....tomorrow