This is Halloween!!! Can you guess what we dressed up as?

New York (words to follow soon after!)

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