Catching up on the past 10 months

Life is still good! We've been married a year and four months so far. Wow, time has been flying by. We have had a great ten months since our last posting on here. Here is a quick recap:

We have been building up our insurance agency. Its has been going great. There is a lot of potential and we are trying to capitalize on it as much as possible. We are on track for truly great things! The thing I love about our agency is that we are independent insurance agents. For all types of insurance, we shop about twenty insurance companies to find our clients the best rates available.

We have such great opportunity because most people have their insurance through captive agents (they represent only one company, compared to us who represent multiple). When these people allow us to give them a quote, we save them a lot of money!











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Sarin has built a mini piano teaching empire! One day, she decided that she would teach piano lessons to some kids in the ward. Within a week, it exploded to about ten kids. I had the chance to see one of her lessons and I can definitely say that she has a talent for it. Sarin is so awesome at working with people. She is so positive and is bursting with good energy. I would dare say that Sarin is the best piano teacher ever!


We have been traveling and enjoying ourselves. We still love road trips! A great vacation that we took was with Mark and Camille in April to Las Vegas and Disneyland. It was soooo fun!





















We wanted to get in a good visit to Disneyland before we have kids. We ran to all the rides, leaving all the parents with kids and strollers in our dust!















They wrote this especially for us!
















There were a lot of awesome patriotic things at Disneyland. They had a really cool flag ceremony with songs and everything. Also, there was a really cool presentation about Abe Lincoln.

Walt Disney loved America!















We had a fun time at the beach.















This is huge Sarin standing on top of the mountain.















We witnessed a few Elvis and drive-thru weddings in good ole' Las Vegas.





















We had a big game tournament of men vs. women. It was crazy.















We drove around to all my old stomping grounds with I was a kid. I lived in Vegas from when I was 2 until I was 12 years old. Sarin, Mark and Camille were so nice to listen to me as I took them everywhere and told them all of my favorite stories from my childhood.



Right now, we are in Seattle selling pest control. I've done it for the past five summers and it is a great way to raise funds in the short term. We are out here raising capital to invest in our business. We have been here for two months so far and have one more to go. We have been having a great time. Pest control sales has been a huge blessing in our lives through the years.


Life has been so miraculously good and we feel very blessed. I love our routine in the summer. I think that this might be one reason why life is so good. We know what makes us happy and function well every day, so we make sure to do it!

Our routine:
10:00 am - Wake up and drink two huge cups of water (I love starting my day with tons of water).

10:00-11:00 - We read the scriptures and then something else. This summer, I've been reading Mitt Romney's new book called "No Apologies." I highly recommend it.

11:00-12:30 - We go to our awesome gym just down the road. Sarin has been lifting weights with me for the last month and is definitely getting stronger. (She has a passion for being healthy and totally fits in with big guys in the gym).

12:30-2:00 - We come home and eat a huge lunch, I get ready, then I leave for work.

2:00-9:30 - I go door to door selling pest control.

10:30 - I get home and Sarin has an AMAZING salad ready. Each meal is an adventure with Sarin because she experiments and invents and has a great talent for making tasty, healthy food.

After we eat we watch a movie or tv show then go to bed super late....... that's why we sleep in until 10:00! Ha!

The little things that we do each day make life so good: reading the scriptures, working out, making goals and making them happen. We are making great things happen and the Lord is blessing us like crazy.

We know that our lives are what we make out of them and we are making it happen!

Our first few months: the adventure really begins!

Life is good! This is the first blog of the Ullrich family. I just want to start off with telling everyone how AWESOME my wife Sarin is. To all my friends out there: I want you to meet Sarin. It was totally a miracle that we met (and totally a miracle that she married me).

I want to use this blog to keep in touch with friends and family. We are going to chronicle our travels (at least until we have kids), big moments in life, adventures, and anything that we would like our loved ones to know about what is going on in our lives.

I'm going to start with a bunch of pictures as a quick review of some big events through our first couple months of marriage.


As of now, we have officially moved back to Colorado to start an insurance agency with my dad and brother, Adam. My dad has been doing this for a long time, so I'm lucky to have his guidance.


Here is the recap......in pictures


If you want to hear about how we met, here's a link to the engagement blog....I know that you're probably saying to yourself, "Wow, this guy thinks that we really care about all this stuff. He must be oh so vain!"

Well, for your infomation, I wish that a lot of my friends who got married and now have blogs could post a little bit about how they met their spouse...or who their spouse is...I know you but I don't know who you married to. I guess I can just give you a call. Here's the link:

http://www.thejerryandsaryshow.blogspot.com/ "how we met"

Jared & Sarin's Wedding Montage from Jason Jenkins on Vimeo.

This is an awesome wedding video that tells our story too! One of Sarin's family friends did it. He is a TOTAL PRO and has an awesome company.



We got engaged in December of 2008.
These are some pictures taken by another TOTAL PRO!

This is my bachelor party the night before the big day. Wow, this was crazy fun!
(I just had to post something about this)

We got married in Rexburg, Idaho on April 11, 2009.

After the wedding was the honeymoon! (I've been saving my money)

Stop 1: Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Stop 2: Cancun!

We mostly liked it because of the all-you-can-eat crazy awesome food!

After the honeymoon, Sarin had to go back to BYU for finals week.

(Oh yeah, did I mention that Sarin did some finals ON OUR HONEYMOON! I hung out and played pool with these young Canadian high school dudes who only spoke 99% French and 1% English....I don't think they believed me when I told them that my wife was back in the room taking a final for her Masters Degree!)

Provo is such a beautiful place! (especially when Sarin is in the picture)

This summer, we lived and worked in Seattle. I did the job that I do every summer: summer sales. Its crazy hard work, but its really fun. A lot of people can't handle or hate door to door, but for some reason, I have come to love it I think!

If you don't know what summer sales is, I'll just tell you one thing: ITS CRAZY!!

I'll leave it at that.

This summer was a big adventure! We worked super hard and had a lot of fun. Below are some picture from our trip to Astoria, Oregon. Pretty much all my life, I've been obsessed with that place because of the movie Goonies.

This is Sarin and our good friend Nate after they finished a half marathon. Sarin got second place in her division!


Right after the summer, Sarin's sister had a baby in Indiana, so we made a trip. On September 11, we rented a car and made a road trip from Indiana to Washington, D.C. just in time for the "Conservative people fed up with big goverment MARCH ON WASHINGTON."

There is so much history at that place. The founding fathers really created something great! Now its up to us to keep it that way.

Today is November 20, 2009 and this blog is officially up to date! I will try to keep it this way. If you've made it this far, you are a true friend!