Here We Are!

The Arthur's have entered the world of blogging. Welcome to our site. We can't promise it will be updated regularly, but it will be a good way for family and friends to see what we're up to.

Dave and I are living in Pennsylvania while Dave attends dental school. We have 1 year and 4 months left of the 4 year program. Time flies!

We just celebrated our 4 year anniversary. Since this blog is going to be a family journal of sorts, I want to give a quick overview of the past 4 wonderful years through pictures (warning: I'll try and keep it simple, but this might end up being REALLY long).

Dave and I met during the summer of 2002. We were both attending BYU and moved into the same ward for the summer. We had a lot of fun dating and getting to know each other. Maybe I'll get into more detail at another time. We were married January 2, 2004 in the Manti Temple.

Here are some random pictures from the last four years:

Fly Fishing at 6th Water

Welcoming home my brother Daniel from Iraq.



Thanksgiving Point


Our first niece, Savannah was born. May 2004

Welcoming home Dave's brother Ryan from his mission

In Colorado with my family

Hey look, it's Napoleon and Deb! Halloween 2004

Dave mountain biking

Hiking the Subway in Zion National Park

This is the way I like to fish

Our first Christmas in our little apartment in Provo, 2004

Church History Trip with Dave's family, 2005

We had three weddings during the summer of '05 (my brother, my sister, and Dave's brother) Here is a pic of my sister and my brother's wife.

Daniel and Magen were first

Then Rob and Jen

And then Kristin and Loren

A couple days after the last wedding, Dave and I took off on a 2,000 mile adventure across the US to our new home in Pennsylvania. We stopped for a day in Nauvoo.

This is the bathroom that greeted us in our new apartment. Needless to say, this was my first project to take care of. But all in all, we really like our apartment.

Doesn't that look better?

This is from our first trip into Philly, a day or two before Dave started school. We saw the Liberty Bell and had our first authentic Philadelphia Cheesesteaks.

Yeah! Our first visitors. Three of my aunts and one uncle were on a "leaf peeping tour" through New England and they came to see us--we had a great time! October 2005

Eating cheesesteaks at Jim's on Southstreet

One of the more famous cheesesteak spots (but they definitely not the best)

Visiting family in Utah for Christmas, 2005

Isn't this the best Santa you've ever seen? I found it under my Grandma's tree.

Longwood Gardens with our friends, the Perry's. We had a picnic lunch, then explored the beautiful gardens and ended the day with a fountain show.

Mom and Dad came to visit us in May 2006. We saw a few things in Philly but the main attraction was a trip to Gettysburg. Dad was in heaven.

The day after Mom and Dad left, the girls (Angie, Jana, Jill and Anne) came to visit. We saw the sites in Philly and Lancaster.

At the end of May, Dave took a canoeing/fishing trip with some other dental students.

Okay, I'm going to continue this little backtrack through time in my next post.