Monday, November 24, 2008
Oh Monday....
So... I got rear-ended today.. yeah. First accident ever. Guess it was the best type of accident I could have gotten into if you can call any accident good. There isn't much damage to our car, I'm perfectly fine, and the other girl was at fault, so we don't have to pay anything. Just thought I'd let ya'll know.
Monday, November 17, 2008
First Anniversary
That's right! We made it through our first year without killing each other! Actually, our first year has been relatively smooth and quite fun. I don't think that we've ever "fought" about anything, which is weird according to some people I've talked to because to them their first year of marriage was the hardest. Tucker and I don't really fight... we occasionally get annoyed with each other, but not to the point that we'll say something mean to one another.
I'm not sure if I've done this in a previous post, but I feel like I should recap how our relationship formed. It all started when my brother, Jeff, moved up here to BYU after his mission to continue his education. He moved into an apartment in Campus Plaza that had an opening, which was nice because it was in walking distance of where I lived so that I could visit him. The first time that I met Tucker was when he and Jeff took me and my roommate Erin to the grocery store. Oddly enough, this wasn't the best first impression ever; it has to do with bagged salad and my roommate taking offense... really silly when looked at in retrospect, but whatevs.
At the start of the semester (Jan. 07), I spent a lot of time, like seriously a lot of time, at my brother's apartment because I was having problems with a couple of my roommates and just didn't want to go home to see them. So generally I would go to my brother's apartment everyday when I was done with class and I would leave at midnight to go home. The first few visits to Jeff's apartment were spent visiting with him, catching up and all since it had been two years since I'd seen him, but slowly that evolved into me playing cards with Jeff's roommates, including Tucker. Little did I know, but playing cards everyday and chatting with the boys at the apartment had endeared my to Tucker and he developed a "crush" on me. We used to talk on instant messanger all the time, just for funsies, while Tucker was at work, and it was over instant messanger that Tucker asked me out the first time. I thought, and still do think, that this was hilarious. I mean, who does that?
Our first date was to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point, and I don't think it was that great of a first date. The activity was fun, but the conversation could have been better... mostly on my part. I think I spent like half of the time complaining about the boy that I had dated the previous semester.... saying I was bitter would be a good description of that. We even talked about how Tucker's grandpa thought that dinosaur bones were from other planets or something like that. The second part of that date was us watching 'The Grudge', and I just remember thinking that Tucker was sitting awfully close during that movie, haha!
Now, you have to understand that at this point in my "life" I didn't really want to have a boyfriend, mostly because of my bad experience the previous semester with a dumb boy, so I was really hoping that Tucker wouldn't ask me out again. But Tucker was a persistant little devil, and he got my phone number from my brother to ask me to go to a basketball game with him and his friend (now my friend as well, Scott Matheson). I won't lie, I was kind of a jerk on this date.... basically I ignored Tucker the entire time. My excuse was that I didn't want a boyfriend right now, but man... I was a jerk.
Now before I had gone on this date with Tucker, he and a couple of his friends had been planning a group date and Tucker had been planning on asking me to go on this date with him. After my "silent treatment" to him, he didn't really want to ask me out again because he wasn't wanting to waste time on someone that didn't want to date him, but he decided to ask me anyways just to find out if I wanted to go on another date with him... he asked me over instant messanger again (haha!).
After the basketball game date, I did a little thinking, realized that I wasn't giving Tucker a chance, and decided that I needed to be nicer to him, so when he asked me out again, I happily agreed to go on the date. This date went well, and I even gave Tucker the opportunity to hold my hand, which he didn't take advantage of. But from this point on, things were good for us. Our first kiss was on our Valentine's date, and the rest of the semester was "perfect", and we decided to stay dating while we were separated during the summer.
This was probably the hardest thing that I've ever had to do; I don't know about Tucker, but leaving to go home to Phoenix for the summer sucked. Don't get me wrong, I loved being home with my family, but things just weren't the same; I missed Tucker. We talked every night on the phone and ran up our phone bills with texts, but this just wasn't all that great. After a few weeks of being apart Tucker came down to Phoenix and totally surprised me. We saw each other a few more times through out the summer, I even went out to North Carolina to meet Tucker's family (totally fun trip even though I got sick half way through it). It was on this trip in June that I told Tucker that if he asked me, I would marry him. Everything was downhill from here. We set our date, I bought my dress, and starting planning things all before Tucker had officially proposed.
The proposal was a total surprise to me; it happened about twenty minutes before I had to leave Provo to go to the airport to go back to Phoenix, but it was perfect and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
November 16th, 2007, we were married in the Washington DC temple, and our life has been great ever since. We're looking forward to the rest of our lives together, and the rest of forever as well. Thanks to all those who have supported us along the way and helped us out. We love you all!
I'm not sure if I've done this in a previous post, but I feel like I should recap how our relationship formed. It all started when my brother, Jeff, moved up here to BYU after his mission to continue his education. He moved into an apartment in Campus Plaza that had an opening, which was nice because it was in walking distance of where I lived so that I could visit him. The first time that I met Tucker was when he and Jeff took me and my roommate Erin to the grocery store. Oddly enough, this wasn't the best first impression ever; it has to do with bagged salad and my roommate taking offense... really silly when looked at in retrospect, but whatevs.
At the start of the semester (Jan. 07), I spent a lot of time, like seriously a lot of time, at my brother's apartment because I was having problems with a couple of my roommates and just didn't want to go home to see them. So generally I would go to my brother's apartment everyday when I was done with class and I would leave at midnight to go home. The first few visits to Jeff's apartment were spent visiting with him, catching up and all since it had been two years since I'd seen him, but slowly that evolved into me playing cards with Jeff's roommates, including Tucker. Little did I know, but playing cards everyday and chatting with the boys at the apartment had endeared my to Tucker and he developed a "crush" on me. We used to talk on instant messanger all the time, just for funsies, while Tucker was at work, and it was over instant messanger that Tucker asked me out the first time. I thought, and still do think, that this was hilarious. I mean, who does that?
Our first date was to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point, and I don't think it was that great of a first date. The activity was fun, but the conversation could have been better... mostly on my part. I think I spent like half of the time complaining about the boy that I had dated the previous semester.... saying I was bitter would be a good description of that. We even talked about how Tucker's grandpa thought that dinosaur bones were from other planets or something like that. The second part of that date was us watching 'The Grudge', and I just remember thinking that Tucker was sitting awfully close during that movie, haha!
Now, you have to understand that at this point in my "life" I didn't really want to have a boyfriend, mostly because of my bad experience the previous semester with a dumb boy, so I was really hoping that Tucker wouldn't ask me out again. But Tucker was a persistant little devil, and he got my phone number from my brother to ask me to go to a basketball game with him and his friend (now my friend as well, Scott Matheson). I won't lie, I was kind of a jerk on this date.... basically I ignored Tucker the entire time. My excuse was that I didn't want a boyfriend right now, but man... I was a jerk.
Now before I had gone on this date with Tucker, he and a couple of his friends had been planning a group date and Tucker had been planning on asking me to go on this date with him. After my "silent treatment" to him, he didn't really want to ask me out again because he wasn't wanting to waste time on someone that didn't want to date him, but he decided to ask me anyways just to find out if I wanted to go on another date with him... he asked me over instant messanger again (haha!).
After the basketball game date, I did a little thinking, realized that I wasn't giving Tucker a chance, and decided that I needed to be nicer to him, so when he asked me out again, I happily agreed to go on the date. This date went well, and I even gave Tucker the opportunity to hold my hand, which he didn't take advantage of. But from this point on, things were good for us. Our first kiss was on our Valentine's date, and the rest of the semester was "perfect", and we decided to stay dating while we were separated during the summer.
This was probably the hardest thing that I've ever had to do; I don't know about Tucker, but leaving to go home to Phoenix for the summer sucked. Don't get me wrong, I loved being home with my family, but things just weren't the same; I missed Tucker. We talked every night on the phone and ran up our phone bills with texts, but this just wasn't all that great. After a few weeks of being apart Tucker came down to Phoenix and totally surprised me. We saw each other a few more times through out the summer, I even went out to North Carolina to meet Tucker's family (totally fun trip even though I got sick half way through it). It was on this trip in June that I told Tucker that if he asked me, I would marry him. Everything was downhill from here. We set our date, I bought my dress, and starting planning things all before Tucker had officially proposed.
The proposal was a total surprise to me; it happened about twenty minutes before I had to leave Provo to go to the airport to go back to Phoenix, but it was perfect and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
November 16th, 2007, we were married in the Washington DC temple, and our life has been great ever since. We're looking forward to the rest of our lives together, and the rest of forever as well. Thanks to all those who have supported us along the way and helped us out. We love you all!
I'm such a slacker...
My apologies to those of you that have been eagerly awaiting a post from me. I have no excuses for why I haven't written on here for a few weeks; I just.... haven't.
Anywho, November has been a fairly nice month. We've been able to hang out with our friends, Scott and Cathryn Matheson more than once, and it's always a blast to see them. Mostly Tucker and I have been going to school and just chillaxin' in between. We're pretty ready for this semester to be done with though; we're at the point where our classes have lost their appeal and are now just tedious. It'll be refreshing to start new classes again.
I guess this is really it for this post. Oh, we celebrated our first anniversary yesterday, which was fun and kind of weird; doesn't seem like it's been a year. But yeah, now we're just waiting for Thanksgiving to roll around which will be really fun. My parents and grandma are coming up here this year for the big day, and Tucker and I will are in charge of the turkey cooking (FUN!).
Anywho, November has been a fairly nice month. We've been able to hang out with our friends, Scott and Cathryn Matheson more than once, and it's always a blast to see them. Mostly Tucker and I have been going to school and just chillaxin' in between. We're pretty ready for this semester to be done with though; we're at the point where our classes have lost their appeal and are now just tedious. It'll be refreshing to start new classes again.
I guess this is really it for this post. Oh, we celebrated our first anniversary yesterday, which was fun and kind of weird; doesn't seem like it's been a year. But yeah, now we're just waiting for Thanksgiving to roll around which will be really fun. My parents and grandma are coming up here this year for the big day, and Tucker and I will are in charge of the turkey cooking (FUN!).
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Lots of the Same Old Stuff
October has been a busy month... well, at least when it comes to school and work. Yep, this month has been a lot of the same old stuff. We've spent, or rather I've spent, a lot of time with Jenna while she's had some "drama" with boys. Other than that, we've done relatively nothing.
That did change this weekend though when we finally got together with our "long-lost" friends, the Matheson's. I'm pretty sure that the last time that we saw them was when we went camping this summer.. so it's been awhile. Anyways, we met up in Provo on Saturday night to go to Comedy Sportz. And let me tell you, it was a very entertaining evening. Comedy Sportz is basically like the TV show Who's Line is it Anyways?, except it's live. Most of the stuff they did was pretty funny, and I even got one of my suggestions used in a skit, so I felt special. After the show, we all went to Cold Stone for some delicious ice cream and to talk politics (fun stuff). But yeah, we're planning on hanging out again this weekend, and from what I understand, we'll be going to Wingers and then to Ikea. Should be fun!
As far as school goes, Tucker and I have had a few tests, and we've been doing pretty good. I got 100% (plus some extra credit) on my last Russian test! I have a test in my math class this week... and I'm not sure how I'll do, but I'm going to be studying in the Math Lab with a friend today, so hopefully that will help. Oh yeah.. I just remembered that I have a take-home midterm for my Sociology class this week too..... sucky.
Well, I think that's about it. If I remember I'll get on later tonight to put up pictures of me and Tucker carving our pumpkin.
That did change this weekend though when we finally got together with our "long-lost" friends, the Matheson's. I'm pretty sure that the last time that we saw them was when we went camping this summer.. so it's been awhile. Anyways, we met up in Provo on Saturday night to go to Comedy Sportz. And let me tell you, it was a very entertaining evening. Comedy Sportz is basically like the TV show Who's Line is it Anyways?, except it's live. Most of the stuff they did was pretty funny, and I even got one of my suggestions used in a skit, so I felt special. After the show, we all went to Cold Stone for some delicious ice cream and to talk politics (fun stuff). But yeah, we're planning on hanging out again this weekend, and from what I understand, we'll be going to Wingers and then to Ikea. Should be fun!
As far as school goes, Tucker and I have had a few tests, and we've been doing pretty good. I got 100% (plus some extra credit) on my last Russian test! I have a test in my math class this week... and I'm not sure how I'll do, but I'm going to be studying in the Math Lab with a friend today, so hopefully that will help. Oh yeah.. I just remembered that I have a take-home midterm for my Sociology class this week too..... sucky.
Well, I think that's about it. If I remember I'll get on later tonight to put up pictures of me and Tucker carving our pumpkin.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Must See!!!
So we rented this movie tonight, it's one of those that I've been meaning to see for a really long time, but just haven't. I LOVED this movie, and I think even Tucker enjoyed it... though he said the best part of the movie was the midget reporter and his mini-row boat. But yeah, this was a great movie, all about being happy with yourself the way you are. If you haven't seen this yet, you really should!!!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Beginning of October
First I'd like to make the observation that it's far too early for there to be snow on the mountains... stupid cold weather. After the storm that dropped the snow on the mountains, I made sure that Tucker remembered my desire to someday live someplace with a more mild climate. Doesn't necessarily have to be super hot or have no snow, but less snow and slightly warmer than what we get here would be nice.
Anywho, since I last posted, Tucker and I got ourselves our anniversary present to each other a little early. This was totally Tucker's idea too, there was no prompting or hinting on my part at all. We got a second guinea pig!!!! Now Chimi (the one we already had) has a friend: Changa. And to celebrate their namesake, we had chimichanga's the day after we got Changa. It took them a little while to get used to each other, but they get along really well now. I have suspicions that Chimi thinks Changa is a girl, mostly because he tends to purr when ever Changa walks by and... other events that have happened.... yeah. For clarification, they're both boys.
I also did Activity day today with the girls in my ward, and we made Chia pets out of panty hose. I originally got this idea from Lois while we were out on the East coast, so thanks Lois! The only hard part about this little project was driving around to find grass seed, finally went to Lowes and they had some, but yeah, only got it a couple hours before the activity was to take place, so I was beginning to think of other things we could do in place of the chia pets. In the end it worked out nicely, and the girls had a fun time making them.
Anywho, since I last posted, Tucker and I got ourselves our anniversary present to each other a little early. This was totally Tucker's idea too, there was no prompting or hinting on my part at all. We got a second guinea pig!!!! Now Chimi (the one we already had) has a friend: Changa. And to celebrate their namesake, we had chimichanga's the day after we got Changa. It took them a little while to get used to each other, but they get along really well now. I have suspicions that Chimi thinks Changa is a girl, mostly because he tends to purr when ever Changa walks by and... other events that have happened.... yeah. For clarification, they're both boys.
I also did Activity day today with the girls in my ward, and we made Chia pets out of panty hose. I originally got this idea from Lois while we were out on the East coast, so thanks Lois! The only hard part about this little project was driving around to find grass seed, finally went to Lowes and they had some, but yeah, only got it a couple hours before the activity was to take place, so I was beginning to think of other things we could do in place of the chia pets. In the end it worked out nicely, and the girls had a fun time making them.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Grrr.....
Warning: The following is a rant. Don't read if you don't want to hear Lauren complaining.
Stupid FAFSA and UVU.
I guess I should start at the beginning of the story. For those of you that don't, I transferred to UVU this fall from BYU to study Dental Hygiene. I didn't think that there would be any problems with this (money wise) because I'm now a Utah resident, and as such would get in-state tuition. I was wrong. I found out just before school was set to begin that I would have to pay out of state tuition this semester, even though I am a Utah resident now. The reasoning for this, given by UVU, is when I applied to the school back in December of last year, thinking that I would be starting classes in January, I wasn't a Utah resident. Well, I didn't start back to school in January for various reasons, but I didn't think that this would be a problem either. Well, turns out that I can't be changed to Utah residency until I've taken a full semester of classes because when I applied to the school I wasn't a resident. Basically this is a stupid, retarded technicality that I loathe a whole lot right now.
Well, while this was a minor setback, Tucker and I didn't think that it would be too much of a problem because we could get financial aid and it would completely cover my tuition. Wrong again. I found out today that I would only be awarded $2,241 this semester. So out of a $5,600 tuition, Tucker and I still have to pay for a majority of it. RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be able to pay for it (actually about $2000 of it was already paid by us), it's just retarded that it didn't cover everything, which we assumed that it would. Tucker's tuition will be covered, and we'll even get a little extra for him because of the SMART grant (it equals out to about $4000), so we'll stay afloat... but this whole thing is just really frustrating.
Stupid UVU and FAFSA!
Stupid FAFSA and UVU.
I guess I should start at the beginning of the story. For those of you that don't, I transferred to UVU this fall from BYU to study Dental Hygiene. I didn't think that there would be any problems with this (money wise) because I'm now a Utah resident, and as such would get in-state tuition. I was wrong. I found out just before school was set to begin that I would have to pay out of state tuition this semester, even though I am a Utah resident now. The reasoning for this, given by UVU, is when I applied to the school back in December of last year, thinking that I would be starting classes in January, I wasn't a Utah resident. Well, I didn't start back to school in January for various reasons, but I didn't think that this would be a problem either. Well, turns out that I can't be changed to Utah residency until I've taken a full semester of classes because when I applied to the school I wasn't a resident. Basically this is a stupid, retarded technicality that I loathe a whole lot right now.
Well, while this was a minor setback, Tucker and I didn't think that it would be too much of a problem because we could get financial aid and it would completely cover my tuition. Wrong again. I found out today that I would only be awarded $2,241 this semester. So out of a $5,600 tuition, Tucker and I still have to pay for a majority of it. RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will be able to pay for it (actually about $2000 of it was already paid by us), it's just retarded that it didn't cover everything, which we assumed that it would. Tucker's tuition will be covered, and we'll even get a little extra for him because of the SMART grant (it equals out to about $4000), so we'll stay afloat... but this whole thing is just really frustrating.
Stupid UVU and FAFSA!
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Bus Rides and Football Games
This past Saturday was the BYU-Wyoming (second shut out in a row!!) football game, and Tucker and I were stoked to finally go to a game. We weren't able to go to the UCLA game because of work, so I made sure that I had this day off so we could go. We decided to make the day a little more interesting by riding the bus to and from the game.
So, with bus passes in hand, we got on a bus in Springville and headed up to Provo. It wasn't a very long ride, but because of the limited bus schedule on Saturdays, we got to BYU really early. This was good though, because we were able to get lunch before we walked up to the stadium. After lunch, we walked up to the stadium and found our seats, which weren't horrible, but we are in an enzone, so not the best seats we could get either. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that Scott and Dave Allen have their tickets just a couple rows in front of us; crazy!
Anywho, the game was great, but it was hot being out in the sun (both of us got sunburned), and so we left at half-time to go to Tucker's old apartment to watch other games with his ex-roommates. It's always fun to go see those guys. They were all pretty much my roommates last fall before Tucker and I got married because I spent all day, every day there with Tucker. I managed to squeeze in a nap while we were there too, which was great.
Around 530 we went and got dinner, and we were going to stay on campus to watch a movie at BYU's International Cinema so that I could get extra credit for Russian, but decided that we were ready to go home. So we didn't get to do that last part of our day, but I'm kind of glad that we skipped it cause I was asleep about an hour and a half after we got home. I would have never made it through a movie and a bus ride home.
Oh yeah, and I would have put pictures up, but of course I forgot my camera.
So, with bus passes in hand, we got on a bus in Springville and headed up to Provo. It wasn't a very long ride, but because of the limited bus schedule on Saturdays, we got to BYU really early. This was good though, because we were able to get lunch before we walked up to the stadium. After lunch, we walked up to the stadium and found our seats, which weren't horrible, but we are in an enzone, so not the best seats we could get either. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that Scott and Dave Allen have their tickets just a couple rows in front of us; crazy!
Anywho, the game was great, but it was hot being out in the sun (both of us got sunburned), and so we left at half-time to go to Tucker's old apartment to watch other games with his ex-roommates. It's always fun to go see those guys. They were all pretty much my roommates last fall before Tucker and I got married because I spent all day, every day there with Tucker. I managed to squeeze in a nap while we were there too, which was great.
Around 530 we went and got dinner, and we were going to stay on campus to watch a movie at BYU's International Cinema so that I could get extra credit for Russian, but decided that we were ready to go home. So we didn't get to do that last part of our day, but I'm kind of glad that we skipped it cause I was asleep about an hour and a half after we got home. I would have never made it through a movie and a bus ride home.
Oh yeah, and I would have put pictures up, but of course I forgot my camera.
Making a Couple Goals
Lately I've been trying to be better about exercising and such. I swim a mile twice a week, and I've started running again.......... which I'm not the happiest about, but whatevs. I've never really been a big fan of running, as is apparent by my choice in sports in high school: swimming and softball (in which running was for very short distances). But since I've been out of high school and am not actively training myself for something, I have gotten "soft", which bothers me a whole lot.
So, I've decided to set a goal for myself that will keep me motivated to exercise. I'm going to run in the Rex Lee Run this next spring at BYU. I've never really run in a race like this before, but it's always been something that I've wanted to do. So I'm going to do it. I'll only be doing a 5k (about 3 miles), but that's farther than anything I've run in one go ever.. should be fun.
Being motivated to eat better is something that both me and Tucker are going to need to work on. We're not very good about getting our veggies and fruit everyday, so I'm going to try to be better about that, and any suggestions for making veggies taste better would be welcome cause me and Tucker are both kind of picky when it comes to the green stuff.
But yeah, I really want any one out there who reads this to hold me to my goal of running in the race. Shun me if I don't keep training for it!
So, I've decided to set a goal for myself that will keep me motivated to exercise. I'm going to run in the Rex Lee Run this next spring at BYU. I've never really run in a race like this before, but it's always been something that I've wanted to do. So I'm going to do it. I'll only be doing a 5k (about 3 miles), but that's farther than anything I've run in one go ever.. should be fun.
Being motivated to eat better is something that both me and Tucker are going to need to work on. We're not very good about getting our veggies and fruit everyday, so I'm going to try to be better about that, and any suggestions for making veggies taste better would be welcome cause me and Tucker are both kind of picky when it comes to the green stuff.
But yeah, I really want any one out there who reads this to hold me to my goal of running in the race. Shun me if I don't keep training for it!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday's Suck
Yeah, Monday's are probably my least favorite day of the week. It's on Monday's that my schedule and Tucker's overlaps horribly. I get up and go to school at 7 and get home around noon. Tucker on the other hand leaves around 9 for school and doesn't get home till right before 6, which is just after I have to be at work..... it's retarded. The only times that I see him are when I'm getting ready in the morning while he's still asleep and then after I get home from work at 9. At least it helps me to remember how much I appreciate having him around.
In other news, I had a meeting for Activity Day to think up new things to do. And for those of you that don't know what Activity Day is, it's basically Young Women's but for the girls who are between ages 8 and 11; a warm up for Young Women's, if you will. It's taken me a little while to really get into this calling, though I haven't had it for very long. I think I was just concerned that the girls wouldn't like me, or I wouldn't be able to come up with activities that they would find fun, etc. But I'm starting to feel more comfortable in it, and I think that me and Ashley (the other leader) do a pretty good job coming up with activities. At our last activity, I taught the girls how to do cross stitch, and I wasn't sure if they were old enough to understand it, but it's something they can do for one of their Duty to God requirements, so we tried it out. I challenged the girl's to keep working on it, and told them that Stake and General Conferences were good times to work on it, but I didn't really think that any of them would actually continue with this. Lo and behold though, last week was Stake Conference, and there was more than one girl that came to show me their cross stitch that they had brought with them to work on! It's funny how things like that can make you feel so happy. I'm was just glad that they actually understood my intructions well enough to keep doing it by themselves. But hey, if any body has any ideas for activities that I can do with the girls, let me know!
And to end my little shpeel today, I'd like to recommend to all you out there pandora.com. It's a totally amazing site that Tucker first introduced to me. Basically it's a music site that sort of "creates" radio station for you. You enter a band or a song and the website plays songs for you that are similar to the one that you entered. I love it!! I put it on while I'm at work, and when I'm at home by myself (cause I hate it when our apartment is quiet). Check it out.
Well.... Dasvidania!
In other news, I had a meeting for Activity Day to think up new things to do. And for those of you that don't know what Activity Day is, it's basically Young Women's but for the girls who are between ages 8 and 11; a warm up for Young Women's, if you will. It's taken me a little while to really get into this calling, though I haven't had it for very long. I think I was just concerned that the girls wouldn't like me, or I wouldn't be able to come up with activities that they would find fun, etc. But I'm starting to feel more comfortable in it, and I think that me and Ashley (the other leader) do a pretty good job coming up with activities. At our last activity, I taught the girls how to do cross stitch, and I wasn't sure if they were old enough to understand it, but it's something they can do for one of their Duty to God requirements, so we tried it out. I challenged the girl's to keep working on it, and told them that Stake and General Conferences were good times to work on it, but I didn't really think that any of them would actually continue with this. Lo and behold though, last week was Stake Conference, and there was more than one girl that came to show me their cross stitch that they had brought with them to work on! It's funny how things like that can make you feel so happy. I'm was just glad that they actually understood my intructions well enough to keep doing it by themselves. But hey, if any body has any ideas for activities that I can do with the girls, let me know!
And to end my little shpeel today, I'd like to recommend to all you out there pandora.com. It's a totally amazing site that Tucker first introduced to me. Basically it's a music site that sort of "creates" radio station for you. You enter a band or a song and the website plays songs for you that are similar to the one that you entered. I love it!! I put it on while I'm at work, and when I'm at home by myself (cause I hate it when our apartment is quiet). Check it out.
Well.... Dasvidania!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Vacation Recap
K, so it's been long enough since the last time that I posted, guess I should get back into this whole thing; I did promise Katie I would, after all.
Our trip back to the East coast was pretty awesome, even if it did rain almost every day that we were out there. But we didn't let that get us down. Our first day out there, Lois and Brad took me, Tucker and Scott out to this lake that a couple in their ward lived by. I got my first experience with kayaking and a majority of my time doing it, I was going around in circles. It's a shame that I forgot my camera that day cause I could have gotten some hilarious pictures. Mid-way through this activity it started to rain pretty hard, so we went home.
The following day we went to Chimney Rock, again in the rain, and for all of you from the West side of the country, the mountain range out there is not called the 'Appalasion' mountain range, it's the 'Appalachian' mountains. I've been saying it wrong my entire life. Anywho, Chimney Rock. It was pretty cool being there, we had fun walking around up there, can't say that I've spent that much time up in a cloud before.
After Scott's girlfriend, Stephanie, finally got out to South Carolina, we drove up to Wilmington to spend the rest of the week with the whole Smith clan. I really like it out there, well, if you take out all the stinkin humidity, I would like it even more. But holy cow! That humidity is horrible! I think it's kind of funny that people think I'm crazy for living in Phoenix with the 110 degree weather, but honestly, I can't understand why people don't mind the humidity.
But yeah, we went to the beach while we were there. I got the opportunity to try body-surfing again, I'm still not very good at it. And Tucker got to see a couple of his friends out there. But the main reason that we went out to North Carolina in the first place was to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. He and his wife Wanda were sealed in the Raleigh temple, and it was a pretty cool ceremony because it was done in both English and Spanish. Wanda looked absolutely beautiful, and Adam didn't look half bad either.
We had tons of fun while we were out there; it's always great to spend time with family, especially because we don't get to see them very often. But by the time the week was over, Tucker and I were ready to be home again. The only bad thing about coming home though, was the fact that rain followed us. It was freezing (well, not technically freezing, but it was a whole lot colder than when we had left a week earlier) when we got home, so it made if feel like we'd been gone for a really long time.
But now school's started again, and thus far, things look like they're going to be good this semester. Honestly, I'm just glad to be back in school period; taking a year off sucked big time. I'm taking a beginning Russian class this semester, and me and Tucker are both really excited about it. It's fun to actually be able to learn things from Tucker about the language. I know that it's going to be quite a while until I can actually understand well enough to carry on any kind of conversation, but I think it'll be fun. Maybe someday when we actually have the time and money, Tucker and I can take a trip back to Russia to visit people and places that Tucker knows.
Our trip back to the East coast was pretty awesome, even if it did rain almost every day that we were out there. But we didn't let that get us down. Our first day out there, Lois and Brad took me, Tucker and Scott out to this lake that a couple in their ward lived by. I got my first experience with kayaking and a majority of my time doing it, I was going around in circles. It's a shame that I forgot my camera that day cause I could have gotten some hilarious pictures. Mid-way through this activity it started to rain pretty hard, so we went home.
The following day we went to Chimney Rock, again in the rain, and for all of you from the West side of the country, the mountain range out there is not called the 'Appalasion' mountain range, it's the 'Appalachian' mountains. I've been saying it wrong my entire life. Anywho, Chimney Rock. It was pretty cool being there, we had fun walking around up there, can't say that I've spent that much time up in a cloud before.
After Scott's girlfriend, Stephanie, finally got out to South Carolina, we drove up to Wilmington to spend the rest of the week with the whole Smith clan. I really like it out there, well, if you take out all the stinkin humidity, I would like it even more. But holy cow! That humidity is horrible! I think it's kind of funny that people think I'm crazy for living in Phoenix with the 110 degree weather, but honestly, I can't understand why people don't mind the humidity.But yeah, we went to the beach while we were there. I got the opportunity to try body-surfing again, I'm still not very good at it. And Tucker got to see a couple of his friends out there. But the main reason that we went out to North Carolina in the first place was to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. He and his wife Wanda were sealed in the Raleigh temple, and it was a pretty cool ceremony because it was done in both English and Spanish. Wanda looked absolutely beautiful, and Adam didn't look half bad either.
We had tons of fun while we were out there; it's always great to spend time with family, especially because we don't get to see them very often. But by the time the week was over, Tucker and I were ready to be home again. The only bad thing about coming home though, was the fact that rain followed us. It was freezing (well, not technically freezing, but it was a whole lot colder than when we had left a week earlier) when we got home, so it made if feel like we'd been gone for a really long time.
But now school's started again, and thus far, things look like they're going to be good this semester. Honestly, I'm just glad to be back in school period; taking a year off sucked big time. I'm taking a beginning Russian class this semester, and me and Tucker are both really excited about it. It's fun to actually be able to learn things from Tucker about the language. I know that it's going to be quite a while until I can actually understand well enough to carry on any kind of conversation, but I think it'll be fun. Maybe someday when we actually have the time and money, Tucker and I can take a trip back to Russia to visit people and places that Tucker knows.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Summer's Winding Down
It's really crazy to think that summer is just about 2 weeks from being over. These past three and a half months have gone ridiculously fast, and it seems like there should still be lots of time left. But I guess we've had a full and eventful summer. We've been on about three (soon to be four) really fun trips, and have had plenty of time to just chill and do nothing. Once school starts things will be fairly busy for us again, and even slightly hectic. We still haven't really figured out how we're going to work transportation for both of us.
This Saturday we'll be flying out to North Carolina to spend the week with Tucker's family and to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. We're both really stoked, and I've been waiting for this trip all summer. Friday night we're going to drive up to Bountiful to stay with Tucker's grandma and then she'll take us to the airport in the morning. We still don't have anyone to leave Chimi with, though we haven't really asked anyone yet. So if you're reading this, are in the Provo area, and would like to watch our guinea pig for a week, let me know! I promise he's really easy to take care of; very low maintenance.
Anywho, I think that's about all I have for you guys right now. I won't be posting next week cause we'll be on our trip, but when we get back I'm sure that I'll have plenty to say and plenty of pictures to post.
This Saturday we'll be flying out to North Carolina to spend the week with Tucker's family and to go to Adam Wilson's wedding. We're both really stoked, and I've been waiting for this trip all summer. Friday night we're going to drive up to Bountiful to stay with Tucker's grandma and then she'll take us to the airport in the morning. We still don't have anyone to leave Chimi with, though we haven't really asked anyone yet. So if you're reading this, are in the Provo area, and would like to watch our guinea pig for a week, let me know! I promise he's really easy to take care of; very low maintenance.
Anywho, I think that's about all I have for you guys right now. I won't be posting next week cause we'll be on our trip, but when we get back I'm sure that I'll have plenty to say and plenty of pictures to post.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
2008 Summer Olympics
In case you didn't know, or were in a cave for the past week, the Olympics started this past Friday, so our TV has been constantly on the three different channels that we have in order to watch as much as we possibly can.
It's a little known fact, but I'm pretty much obsessed when it comes to Olympic swimming. If I remember right, it was during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that I first watched swimming and was like, "That looks easy. I bet I could do that." Hence, my passion for swimming was born. It was the year after that that I started on the high school swim team, and everything was down hill from there. I still swim everyday (usually about a mile or so), and I think I've watched almost every event for swimming that's been on TV thus far these Olympics.
But if you haven't been watching, let me tell you, you're missing out on one of the greatest situations in Olympic history. Michael Phelps has already made history, actually I think it was made yesterday, when he became the first Olympian ever to have 10 career gold medals... and he's not done yet. Phelps is shooting to win more gold medals than anyone in a single Olympic games (which I think is 7), and he's already got five with three events left, and the way things are going, he probably will reach that goal.. or at least I seriously hope that he does. All in all, it's going to be a long time till we get another person even close to as good as Phelps is at so many events. He's truly an inspiration.
I've watched more than just Michael Phelps this week though. I stayed up way to late last night watching to see if the Women's Gymnastics team could get gold (which they didn't), and I watched a sport I've never seen before (Handball) and kind of want to learn to play.
But yeah, you should definitely watch the games. I'm excited for Track and Field to start, cause that'll be a blast to watch too.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Blond Again
There you have it; I'm blond again. This is pretty much the same color that my hair always used to be. I like it alot. Though these pictures don't quite do it justice.Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Just Another Day in Paradise
For some reason, the week this far has been full of leg injuries. Not for me or Tucker, but man, it's kind of ridiculous. For example, Sunday at the start of Relief Society, the pianist was getting up from just playing the opening hymn and immediately sat back down on the bench and started.. not really yelling, but very loudly saying 'Ow!' over and over. She dislocated her knee. But she ended up just borrowing one of the many wheelchairs that were available in the room and went with her husband to a different room so she could recover.
Monday rolled around, and I can't remember if I said this in a previous post, but I don't have to teach the last session of swimming lessons, so I was the supervisor on duty and a lady came to the front desk and told us that someone just slipped on our bleachers (which are cement, and so when wet like they are during lessons, are also slippery) and hurt her ankle. So I went out with another guard and looked at the lady's ankle.... it was obviously broken, and she was going into shock. So we took care of her best as we could until the paramedics arrived (I even splinted her leg with a pillow) and then passed her off to them. That was pretty exciting. Thank goodness for first aid training. But that's all for exciting leg injury stories.
I also finally got around to finalizing my classes for this fall. Though I'm not really happy with some of the times, but everything else was taken. But I'm really excited, cause I'm taking a beginning Russian class, so maybe I can start talking to Tucker in code.. or at least another language, might as well be code though. Not excited about having to take the bus to campus every day though.
And as some of you know, the last book of the Twilight series came out (Breaking Dawn), and I bought the book off one of the other girls that I work with after she finished it (she's moving to Hawaii and didn't want to have to pack it). I'll admit, it was a good, entertaining story just like the first three books; not the best written book ever, but the series kept me entertained for a week and even helped make my dreams pretty action packed which was a nice change. If you're looking for a good story and don't mind some angsty teenage drama with vampires thrown in the mix, then I would definitely recommend the series to you (and will even lend you my books).
Ah yes, before I close, I am blond again. Pretty exciting, huh? *Pictures to come soon!
Monday rolled around, and I can't remember if I said this in a previous post, but I don't have to teach the last session of swimming lessons, so I was the supervisor on duty and a lady came to the front desk and told us that someone just slipped on our bleachers (which are cement, and so when wet like they are during lessons, are also slippery) and hurt her ankle. So I went out with another guard and looked at the lady's ankle.... it was obviously broken, and she was going into shock. So we took care of her best as we could until the paramedics arrived (I even splinted her leg with a pillow) and then passed her off to them. That was pretty exciting. Thank goodness for first aid training. But that's all for exciting leg injury stories.
I also finally got around to finalizing my classes for this fall. Though I'm not really happy with some of the times, but everything else was taken. But I'm really excited, cause I'm taking a beginning Russian class, so maybe I can start talking to Tucker in code.. or at least another language, might as well be code though. Not excited about having to take the bus to campus every day though.
And as some of you know, the last book of the Twilight series came out (Breaking Dawn), and I bought the book off one of the other girls that I work with after she finished it (she's moving to Hawaii and didn't want to have to pack it). I'll admit, it was a good, entertaining story just like the first three books; not the best written book ever, but the series kept me entertained for a week and even helped make my dreams pretty action packed which was a nice change. If you're looking for a good story and don't mind some angsty teenage drama with vampires thrown in the mix, then I would definitely recommend the series to you (and will even lend you my books).
Ah yes, before I close, I am blond again. Pretty exciting, huh? *Pictures to come soon!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Same Old, Same Old
Yeah, our life is kind of simple right now. It consists of working, eating, and sleeping. Real hard, huh? Once school starts up things will get interesting, or at least different, again. I guess there is something that will be different this next week; I actually have to work at closing time at the pool. Thus far all I've done is open. I'm not very thrilled about having to close, but whatev. Oh yeah! And I'm finally going to be getting my hair cut (been wanting to this whole summer)! Along with the hair cut, I've decided that I'm going to go back to blonde, so that'll be fun.
Sorry that this post is super short, but we really haven't done much of anything since we went camping.
Sorry that this post is super short, but we really haven't done much of anything since we went camping.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Escalante Camping Trip
All I can say about this past weekend is: wow! It seems like we did sooo much on Friday and Saturday. So we drove down to Richfield, UT on Friday morning to meet up with Scott and Cathryn, and decided that before we would leave to get to our campsite, we would go see the new Batman movie. And HO-LY CRAP!!! That movie was probably the best superhero movie that I've ever seen! That being said, it was also one of the most creepy movies I've ever seen. The Joker was exactly as I think he should have been, and the movie was just....... amazing! I don't even know how to describe it, but I would definitely recommend it, though, Mom, Dad, if you read this, I can pretty much guarentee that you guys wouldn't like it.
Anyways, we eventually left for Escalante (Southern Utah) by about 4:30pm and got there right about 7. We were totally stoked to do this trip cause it was one of those things where you backpack in a few miles and have to cross a river a bunch of times. Plus it was my first time doing a camping trip without sleeping in a tent, so that was pretty awesome. It took us about 2 hours to get to our camping site, but surprisingly it was still slightly light outside once we did get there, so we didn't have a problem getting dinner ready or setting up our sleeping area. We ate chili, courtesy of Tucker, that was amazing, and then when we went to bed we watched The Transformers on the Matheson's portable DVD player.. haha, yeah, totally camping, I know.
So when we woke up in the morning, we got everything packed up and headed out by 8 to get back to our car. On the way out we stopped by some indian ruins and a natural bridge, and then once we got to the car (nice and tired from our 7 miles of hiking roundtrip to our campsite), we headed to Bryce Canyon to meet up with some more friends to do a 1.2 mile hike. Now I know that that hike doesn't sound so bad, but it was a hike down into the canyon, and then right back out, or rather out and up. Needless to say, by the time we started the uphill climb, we were ready to just fall asleep. But we did make it out, and after making it back to Richfield and cleaning up a bit, we went to a great restaurant in Monroe, UT for some amazing steaks. After that Tucker and I headed home, and both fell asleep as soon as we got everything into our apartment. So yeah, we're both sore and tired, but we had an amazing time this weekend and wouldn't have had it any other way.
Anyways, we eventually left for Escalante (Southern Utah) by about 4:30pm and got there right about 7. We were totally stoked to do this trip cause it was one of those things where you backpack in a few miles and have to cross a river a bunch of times. Plus it was my first time doing a camping trip without sleeping in a tent, so that was pretty awesome. It took us about 2 hours to get to our camping site, but surprisingly it was still slightly light outside once we did get there, so we didn't have a problem getting dinner ready or setting up our sleeping area. We ate chili, courtesy of Tucker, that was amazing, and then when we went to bed we watched The Transformers on the Matheson's portable DVD player.. haha, yeah, totally camping, I know.
So when we woke up in the morning, we got everything packed up and headed out by 8 to get back to our car. On the way out we stopped by some indian ruins and a natural bridge, and then once we got to the car (nice and tired from our 7 miles of hiking roundtrip to our campsite), we headed to Bryce Canyon to meet up with some more friends to do a 1.2 mile hike. Now I know that that hike doesn't sound so bad, but it was a hike down into the canyon, and then right back out, or rather out and up. Needless to say, by the time we started the uphill climb, we were ready to just fall asleep. But we did make it out, and after making it back to Richfield and cleaning up a bit, we went to a great restaurant in Monroe, UT for some amazing steaks. After that Tucker and I headed home, and both fell asleep as soon as we got everything into our apartment. So yeah, we're both sore and tired, but we had an amazing time this weekend and wouldn't have had it any other way.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Been Awhile...
To those of you that actually read our blog, I apologize for the two week break that we've had in our posting... my excuse is that work is very tiring and Tucker's excuse is that he never knows what to say on here. But all excuses aside, here goes.
I'm pretty sure that the most major thing that's happened since my last post was the Fourth of July. And not gonna lie, our BBQ was a total blast! The only drawback that we had with the whole thing is the fact that we don't have air conditioning, so when Tucker started to heat up the big pot of oil to fry the wings, our apartment quickly became unbearable. So we moved everything over to our neighbor's (Austin and Michelle) backyard, which surprisingly was much cooler than being inside. The food was great, and hanging out with all our friends that we don't get to see very often was even better. After all that we did fireworks (more than one little plastic green army man melted that night), and then when all but Scott, Cathryn, Jared, and Heidi had gone home, we watched episodes of The Office. Such a great night.
The day after we eventually got everything cleaned up and then we decided to drive up to Ikea for a "date". It's always fun to go walk around that store, and we even came away with a dresser for our bedroom so that we have a place for all of our clothes, and then on the way home we got a new guinea pig!!!! It was a great surprise. His name is Chimichanga, but we call him Chimi for short, and he's got the coolest/craziest hair I've ever seen on a guinea pig. Hopefully he'll live longer than the rest of our attempts at having a pet, and we've already decided that if he dies as well, that we're just going to give up on the whole having a pet thing.
That's basically it, except for the news that I'm just as fast at swimming as I was my senior year of high school... not necessarily as in shape, but in a race today that I did with some other girls at work, I got the same time that I usually got back in my prime. Pretty sweet! Now I just have to get back in shape, which I've been working on for the past couple weeks, so it's only a matter of time before I'm able to swim more than a 200 without getting short of breath.
I'm pretty sure that the most major thing that's happened since my last post was the Fourth of July. And not gonna lie, our BBQ was a total blast! The only drawback that we had with the whole thing is the fact that we don't have air conditioning, so when Tucker started to heat up the big pot of oil to fry the wings, our apartment quickly became unbearable. So we moved everything over to our neighbor's (Austin and Michelle) backyard, which surprisingly was much cooler than being inside. The food was great, and hanging out with all our friends that we don't get to see very often was even better. After all that we did fireworks (more than one little plastic green army man melted that night), and then when all but Scott, Cathryn, Jared, and Heidi had gone home, we watched episodes of The Office. Such a great night.
The day after we eventually got everything cleaned up and then we decided to drive up to Ikea for a "date". It's always fun to go walk around that store, and we even came away with a dresser for our bedroom so that we have a place for all of our clothes, and then on the way home we got a new guinea pig!!!! It was a great surprise. His name is Chimichanga, but we call him Chimi for short, and he's got the coolest/craziest hair I've ever seen on a guinea pig. Hopefully he'll live longer than the rest of our attempts at having a pet, and we've already decided that if he dies as well, that we're just going to give up on the whole having a pet thing.
That's basically it, except for the news that I'm just as fast at swimming as I was my senior year of high school... not necessarily as in shape, but in a race today that I did with some other girls at work, I got the same time that I usually got back in my prime. Pretty sweet! Now I just have to get back in shape, which I've been working on for the past couple weeks, so it's only a matter of time before I'm able to swim more than a 200 without getting short of breath.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Park City
So our trip to Park City this past Friday was a total blast! We only ended up going with Scott and Cathryn cause Ryan and Leah had to work (I think), but even so, it was one of the fun-est dates that we've ever been on. We left for Park City at about 5:30pm and got up there around an hour later. I've never been up there before, so it was really cool to see how gorgeous and slightly different that city is in comparison to Provo. It had kind of an old, New England/European feel to the way the houses looked, and it was easy to tell that the people that lived there were better off than everyone living in Provo.
But anyways, the actual walk through the mini-art galleries was really fun. Lots of the stuff was amazing to look at, though I wasn't a big fan of a lot of the 'modern/contemporary' stuff. And it was kind of funny too that more than one of the galleries had a faint smell of alcohol permeating
them. Over all though, I think there were just two artists that I liked a lot. The first is Sergei Trukhan, and Tucker had seen his work the last time that he did this walk and liked him then. The picture that's included here to the right was the most amazing painting that I have ever seen. It's kind of hard to tell here, but when the lighting is shining just right on this, it sort of glows and looks like the light that's shining through the trees is actually real. Tucker and I have already decided that someday when we have a couple extra thousand dollars, we're definitely going to buy a copy of this painting.
While we aren't a huge fan of photographers, there was one husband/wife team, John and Debora Scanlan, that had simply beautiful pictures. I loved them so much, I convinced Tucker to let me buy one of their notecard sets for $15 bucks so that I can frame them and hang them in our bathrooms someday. I've never seen photos with such vibrant colors and such simple compositions look so amazing.
All in all, I'd definitely do that gallery walk again, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone here in Utah. It's a blast! Oh, and in case you were wondering, it takes place the last Friday of every month, and is in the historic downtown part of Park City.
On Saturday night we hung out with Ryan, Leah, and Scott and watched the movie Flawless. It was a pretty good movie, seeing as none of us had ever heard of it before. Demi Moore and Michael Cane star in it, and I probably wouldn't mind seeing it again. And last but not least of all the things we did this weekend, we went to Ellie Belnap's homecoming. She gave an amazing talk, and it was nice for me to finally meet her because I've heard so much about her. Her ward was ok, but the music director was..... well, it seemed like she was having a competition with the entire congregation on who could be louder. It was kind of hard to get into the right frame of mind for the sacrament when she was belting the song out like she was in a Broadway play. But oh well, can't blame her for liking to sing.
That's all for now I guess. On the 4th of July, we're going to have a BBQ with a bunch of our friends, so that should be fun, and I'll do my best to take pictures of it to post here.
***Note: For some reason, all of the links that I had for other people's blogs got deleted. I've got a few up again, but I don't remember all the ones that are supposed to be there, so let me know if you want your's on our list.
But anyways, the actual walk through the mini-art galleries was really fun. Lots of the stuff was amazing to look at, though I wasn't a big fan of a lot of the 'modern/contemporary' stuff. And it was kind of funny too that more than one of the galleries had a faint smell of alcohol permeating
them. Over all though, I think there were just two artists that I liked a lot. The first is Sergei Trukhan, and Tucker had seen his work the last time that he did this walk and liked him then. The picture that's included here to the right was the most amazing painting that I have ever seen. It's kind of hard to tell here, but when the lighting is shining just right on this, it sort of glows and looks like the light that's shining through the trees is actually real. Tucker and I have already decided that someday when we have a couple extra thousand dollars, we're definitely going to buy a copy of this painting.While we aren't a huge fan of photographers, there was one husband/wife team, John and Debora Scanlan, that had simply beautiful pictures. I loved them so much, I convinced Tucker to let me buy one of their notecard sets for $15 bucks so that I can frame them and hang them in our bathrooms someday. I've never seen photos with such vibrant colors and such simple compositions look so amazing.
All in all, I'd definitely do that gallery walk again, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone here in Utah. It's a blast! Oh, and in case you were wondering, it takes place the last Friday of every month, and is in the historic downtown part of Park City.
On Saturday night we hung out with Ryan, Leah, and Scott and watched the movie Flawless. It was a pretty good movie, seeing as none of us had ever heard of it before. Demi Moore and Michael Cane star in it, and I probably wouldn't mind seeing it again. And last but not least of all the things we did this weekend, we went to Ellie Belnap's homecoming. She gave an amazing talk, and it was nice for me to finally meet her because I've heard so much about her. Her ward was ok, but the music director was..... well, it seemed like she was having a competition with the entire congregation on who could be louder. It was kind of hard to get into the right frame of mind for the sacrament when she was belting the song out like she was in a Broadway play. But oh well, can't blame her for liking to sing.
That's all for now I guess. On the 4th of July, we're going to have a BBQ with a bunch of our friends, so that should be fun, and I'll do my best to take pictures of it to post here.
***Note: For some reason, all of the links that I had for other people's blogs got deleted. I've got a few up again, but I don't remember all the ones that are supposed to be there, so let me know if you want your's on our list.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Nothing Much to Report
So this post has the potential to be extremely short since not much has happened this past week.
I guess I'll start with a follow up from my last post (aka whether or not Tucker took me to the movies). Yes, we did go see Indian Jones this past weekend, but as I predicted, it wasn't on Friday, haha! Of course it's ok that we didn't go Friday night, I just think it's funny that I knew exactly what would happen. Tucker came home from work, and when I showed him movie times for that night to remind him, he pitifully asked if we could see the movie the next day. So cute, haha! So we saw the movie on Saturday, and Tucker even bought me a cute dress (such a nice husband). The movie was..... just alright, I suppose. Definitely wasn't as good as the originals, but it wasn't completely horrible. A disappointment, is what Tucker called it.
As far as being sick goes, I'm still on the tail end of whatever we had. My nose is still stuffed up, and I've developed a cough that is extremely annoying when I try to sleep, but other than that, I feel just peachy.
The only other thing that I can think of to let everyone know about is we're going to Park City this Friday night with some of our married friends to go walk through a bunch of mini-art galleries. I think it'll be a blast, and I'm pretty sure that TuckTuck's excited too.
I guess I'll start with a follow up from my last post (aka whether or not Tucker took me to the movies). Yes, we did go see Indian Jones this past weekend, but as I predicted, it wasn't on Friday, haha! Of course it's ok that we didn't go Friday night, I just think it's funny that I knew exactly what would happen. Tucker came home from work, and when I showed him movie times for that night to remind him, he pitifully asked if we could see the movie the next day. So cute, haha! So we saw the movie on Saturday, and Tucker even bought me a cute dress (such a nice husband). The movie was..... just alright, I suppose. Definitely wasn't as good as the originals, but it wasn't completely horrible. A disappointment, is what Tucker called it.
As far as being sick goes, I'm still on the tail end of whatever we had. My nose is still stuffed up, and I've developed a cough that is extremely annoying when I try to sleep, but other than that, I feel just peachy.
The only other thing that I can think of to let everyone know about is we're going to Park City this Friday night with some of our married friends to go walk through a bunch of mini-art galleries. I think it'll be a blast, and I'm pretty sure that TuckTuck's excited too.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Bored at Work
Yup.. the title for this post pretty much sums it up. I got here at 5:15 this morning and have finally Facebook'ed myself out (one can only look at pictures for so long). But anywho, I figure it's been a week since I last posted, so I'll go ahead and fill some time by writing a new post for those of you who visit here.
I'm not sure if I mentioned in my last blog that I had a sore throat last week, but I did, and by the weekend, it evolved into a full on cold thing. It would have been fine to be sick under normal circumstances, but because of the fact that I had to get in the pool at work everyday for four hours, it made it pretty miserable. How did I get sick, you might ask. Well I blame it either on one of the little kids that I teach swimming lessons too, or one of the other girls here at work cause she was sick right before me. Whatever though. I finally went to the doctor yesterday morning, and he didn't really tell me anything that I didn't already know to do. But I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better today, and will attempt to get in the water to teach lessons. Oh, and yes, I did get Tucker sick as well, though his doesn't seem to have been as bad as mine.
In other news, my good friend Deborah Peterson has finally made it public that she's pregnant, so I feel ok writing it here. I'm so excited for her, and just slightly jealous too, though not enough to change anything just yet. She and her husband, Sam, will be having a baby girl on November 2nd! They're going to be great parents, and their baby is going to be dang cute. Seems like a lot of people that I've known up here at BYU that are married already are either pregnant or have a baby, and that makes me want one too. But I'm almost completely positive that with the way our lives are right now, Tucker and I couldn't handle it financially or timewise. Ah well, maybe in a couple years. It's funny though, we've already got a bunch of names picked out for future children, so we don't have to worry too much about that once we do start having kids.
Lastly, I'd like to let everyone know that Tucker has promised to take me to see Indiana Jones on Friday. You can be sure that if we don't see it, you'll be hearing about it here in my next post, haha!
One final note: I love the new feature that lets me see when everyone's updated their blogs. Totally sweet!!
I'm not sure if I mentioned in my last blog that I had a sore throat last week, but I did, and by the weekend, it evolved into a full on cold thing. It would have been fine to be sick under normal circumstances, but because of the fact that I had to get in the pool at work everyday for four hours, it made it pretty miserable. How did I get sick, you might ask. Well I blame it either on one of the little kids that I teach swimming lessons too, or one of the other girls here at work cause she was sick right before me. Whatever though. I finally went to the doctor yesterday morning, and he didn't really tell me anything that I didn't already know to do. But I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better today, and will attempt to get in the water to teach lessons. Oh, and yes, I did get Tucker sick as well, though his doesn't seem to have been as bad as mine.
In other news, my good friend Deborah Peterson has finally made it public that she's pregnant, so I feel ok writing it here. I'm so excited for her, and just slightly jealous too, though not enough to change anything just yet. She and her husband, Sam, will be having a baby girl on November 2nd! They're going to be great parents, and their baby is going to be dang cute. Seems like a lot of people that I've known up here at BYU that are married already are either pregnant or have a baby, and that makes me want one too. But I'm almost completely positive that with the way our lives are right now, Tucker and I couldn't handle it financially or timewise. Ah well, maybe in a couple years. It's funny though, we've already got a bunch of names picked out for future children, so we don't have to worry too much about that once we do start having kids.
Lastly, I'd like to let everyone know that Tucker has promised to take me to see Indiana Jones on Friday. You can be sure that if we don't see it, you'll be hearing about it here in my next post, haha!
One final note: I love the new feature that lets me see when everyone's updated their blogs. Totally sweet!!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Summer Plans
Ok, so it's been a couple days longer than a week since I last updated; my bad. I've either been too busy or too tired these past few days to have written something. But hopefully now that I'm starting to settle into my new routine/schedule, I'll do better in the future.
So, last week I finally started working again (hallelujah!) and I'm really liking it. I work mostly in the mornings and a majority of the time for each of my shifts is spent in the water teaching swim lessons (which I am loving). Some days I don't enjoy spending four hours in the water so much, but teaching and swimming are two things that I love, so most days I don't mind too much at all. The staff at my new job are all great. Everyone's just laid back and good humored, so it makes for a nice work environment.
In other news, we got to hang out with some of our friends this past weekend. Scott and Cathryn were in town (they're living down in Richfield for the summer) and so we had made plans with them to go to dinner or something, and then a few hours before we were supposed to meet up with them, Leah Dymock called us and asked if we wanted to hang out. So... we combined our plans and all went over to Ryan and Leah's for dinner and games. We had a blast playing games and just chatting (and watching Samantha crawl all over the place), and dinner was excellent. But we also made some more plans for this summer with all of them.
Tucker's really excited about all these plans, so I'll go in chronological order and do my best to remember/guess the dates for these things. This Saturday, Ryan and Leah are moving back up to Provo, so Tucker and I will help them with that. Then on the last Friday night of June (the 27th, I think), we're all going to drive up to Park City to go walk through some mini art galleries. The next time that we're all going to meet up again is the Fourth of July, and more than likely we'll be having a bbq. We'll probably have more than just the afore mentioned people at this since Jared will be in town and we all want to see Heidi again. Plus, Tucker wants to make steaks and wings, and boy-howdy, people will not want to miss out on that! Next, either the weekend of July 11th or 18th, we'll all be meeting down at the Matheson's in Richfield to go camping. I'm pretty sure that we're all stoked for this one cause Scott says he's got some amazing places picked out to go to. So, that's all that we've got planned... for now. More than likely we'll be doing more stuff, but by the time we had all this sorted out on Saturday night, it was way past my bedtime and the Matheson's had a two hour drive ahead of them. So needless to say, this will be an awesome summer.
Oh yeah!! And we are probably going to fly out to North Carolina for about a week at the end of the summer to spend time with family and also to go to one of our friend's wedding/reception. We're way excited for that. But I'm also bummed a little cause that means I won't get to make another trip down to Phoenix, but we'll get to go down for Thanksgiving, so it's all good.
So, last week I finally started working again (hallelujah!) and I'm really liking it. I work mostly in the mornings and a majority of the time for each of my shifts is spent in the water teaching swim lessons (which I am loving). Some days I don't enjoy spending four hours in the water so much, but teaching and swimming are two things that I love, so most days I don't mind too much at all. The staff at my new job are all great. Everyone's just laid back and good humored, so it makes for a nice work environment.
In other news, we got to hang out with some of our friends this past weekend. Scott and Cathryn were in town (they're living down in Richfield for the summer) and so we had made plans with them to go to dinner or something, and then a few hours before we were supposed to meet up with them, Leah Dymock called us and asked if we wanted to hang out. So... we combined our plans and all went over to Ryan and Leah's for dinner and games. We had a blast playing games and just chatting (and watching Samantha crawl all over the place), and dinner was excellent. But we also made some more plans for this summer with all of them.
Tucker's really excited about all these plans, so I'll go in chronological order and do my best to remember/guess the dates for these things. This Saturday, Ryan and Leah are moving back up to Provo, so Tucker and I will help them with that. Then on the last Friday night of June (the 27th, I think), we're all going to drive up to Park City to go walk through some mini art galleries. The next time that we're all going to meet up again is the Fourth of July, and more than likely we'll be having a bbq. We'll probably have more than just the afore mentioned people at this since Jared will be in town and we all want to see Heidi again. Plus, Tucker wants to make steaks and wings, and boy-howdy, people will not want to miss out on that! Next, either the weekend of July 11th or 18th, we'll all be meeting down at the Matheson's in Richfield to go camping. I'm pretty sure that we're all stoked for this one cause Scott says he's got some amazing places picked out to go to. So, that's all that we've got planned... for now. More than likely we'll be doing more stuff, but by the time we had all this sorted out on Saturday night, it was way past my bedtime and the Matheson's had a two hour drive ahead of them. So needless to say, this will be an awesome summer.
Oh yeah!! And we are probably going to fly out to North Carolina for about a week at the end of the summer to spend time with family and also to go to one of our friend's wedding/reception. We're way excited for that. But I'm also bummed a little cause that means I won't get to make another trip down to Phoenix, but we'll get to go down for Thanksgiving, so it's all good.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
It's Already June?!
Posting on a Sunday.. this is weird; I'll throw off my whole schedule with the blog! Ah well. With my new schedule at work, Tuesday's aren't going to work for posting any more, so I'll just have to experiment with different days till I find one that works. That's right, I said it; I finally have a set schedule for work, it's only been about a month now. Starting tomorrow morning, I work from 5:15am - 12pm (I work that shift Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) and then also on Tuesdays and Thursdays I work 7:45am - 5pm.
And I'll be perfectly honest, I'm actually excited about working at this place. It's a pool owned by the city of Springville, but it services Springville, Mapleton, Salem, Payson, Spanish Fork and Santaquin; quite a big area for one small pool. I did my training and first inservice this weekend, and just from being around the staff and in the general atmosphere of the pool, I can tell I'll like it. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the cash register and I'll be good.
Yesterday (Saturday), Tucker and I finally took the trip up to Kohl's to get Tucker some desperately needed new clothes. We had a gift card from our wedding and one from my mom for Tucker's birthday gift, so he pretty much went hog wild. Four new pairs of shorts (as all his old ones had holes in them), four new dress shirts, new slacks, and a couple new tshirts (both of which are not black/navy blue). Not gonna lie, he looks pretty dang good in his new outfits. He even wore one of his new dress shirts to church today, and normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but it was the first time that Tucker's ever worn a colored shirt to church so he felt a little weird.
Well, that's about it for now. Depending on how tired/worn out I feel this coming week I might post again; not much, mind you, just a small little update on how things are going. Have a great week!!
And I'll be perfectly honest, I'm actually excited about working at this place. It's a pool owned by the city of Springville, but it services Springville, Mapleton, Salem, Payson, Spanish Fork and Santaquin; quite a big area for one small pool. I did my training and first inservice this weekend, and just from being around the staff and in the general atmosphere of the pool, I can tell I'll like it. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the cash register and I'll be good.
Yesterday (Saturday), Tucker and I finally took the trip up to Kohl's to get Tucker some desperately needed new clothes. We had a gift card from our wedding and one from my mom for Tucker's birthday gift, so he pretty much went hog wild. Four new pairs of shorts (as all his old ones had holes in them), four new dress shirts, new slacks, and a couple new tshirts (both of which are not black/navy blue). Not gonna lie, he looks pretty dang good in his new outfits. He even wore one of his new dress shirts to church today, and normally that wouldn't be a big deal, but it was the first time that Tucker's ever worn a colored shirt to church so he felt a little weird.
Well, that's about it for now. Depending on how tired/worn out I feel this coming week I might post again; not much, mind you, just a small little update on how things are going. Have a great week!!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Memorial Day 2008
So first, can I just say that I absolutely L-O-V-E long weekends. They're amazing!
Anywho, this past weekend Tucker and I drove down to Kanab (small town on the southern border of Utah and Arizona) to spend time with my family. It's kind of a tradition in my family to go there on Memorial Day Weekend; I remember going there every year when I was little, and it was always a total blast. It's my mom's mom's (so Grammy's) side of the family that goes cause apparently our ancestors helped to found that town. And from what I understand, we're also related to 3/4's of the people buried in the cemetery there (totally awesome, huh).
It was great going down again this year cause I've got some crazy fun relatives. We spent most of our time with Roger and Janet (Roger is my mom's cousin) playing games. And it was also nice to go down to Kanab because the last time we were there, Tucker and I were still dating (yes, Tucker visited me there in Kanab last year). Kind of weird to think that we've been together for more than a year, not married for a year, but just together. I'm feel lucky every day cause I've found him and because I get to spend the rest of... well, forever with him.
In other news, I finally get to start my job this week. That's right, I get to be an assistant manager finally at my neighborhood pool. OH!!! And I'm doing my first activity for my calling today. I'm the activity day leader (which was Achievement day when I was in primary). Basically I do fun stuff with the 8-11 year old girls in my ward. We're making journals today. I'm soooooo excited!!
Anywho, this past weekend Tucker and I drove down to Kanab (small town on the southern border of Utah and Arizona) to spend time with my family. It's kind of a tradition in my family to go there on Memorial Day Weekend; I remember going there every year when I was little, and it was always a total blast. It's my mom's mom's (so Grammy's) side of the family that goes cause apparently our ancestors helped to found that town. And from what I understand, we're also related to 3/4's of the people buried in the cemetery there (totally awesome, huh).
It was great going down again this year cause I've got some crazy fun relatives. We spent most of our time with Roger and Janet (Roger is my mom's cousin) playing games. And it was also nice to go down to Kanab because the last time we were there, Tucker and I were still dating (yes, Tucker visited me there in Kanab last year). Kind of weird to think that we've been together for more than a year, not married for a year, but just together. I'm feel lucky every day cause I've found him and because I get to spend the rest of... well, forever with him.
In other news, I finally get to start my job this week. That's right, I get to be an assistant manager finally at my neighborhood pool. OH!!! And I'm doing my first activity for my calling today. I'm the activity day leader (which was Achievement day when I was in primary). Basically I do fun stuff with the 8-11 year old girls in my ward. We're making journals today. I'm soooooo excited!!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Good Times
This past weekend was a total blast for us, and we were totally worn out. Saturday morning me and Tucker went to see the Chronicles of Narnia sequel with Ryan and Leah (a couple of our friends up here). It was a pretty good movie, kind of loud, but good nonetheless. Was kind of reminiscent of Lord of the Rings, but what isn't when it comes to fantasy? After the movie, we came home and then helped throw a BBQ at our neighbor's (Austin and Michelle) house for a bunch of friends. That was really fun too; Tucker did the cooking for it, which is kind of funny cause it was like he was back in his ward at Campus Plaza doing the cooking for a ward party. When we left the BBQ we went over to Ryan and Leah's to watch Casino Royale (another excellent movie). By the time we got home we were dead tired, but Tucker had to prepare his lesson for Sunday so we stayed up past our bedtime.
Sunday was good. We hadn't been to church for two weeks because of our vacation, so it was nice to be back. Tucker taught in Elder's quorum and did a wonderful job (of course).
I'm still waiting to start my new job... getting kind of tired sitting around at home cleaning all the time, but I guess it needs to be done. Ah well, I'll get to work again soon.
This weekend we'll be going down to Kanab for our annual mini-family reunion. Should be a total blast! Hopefully next time I post here I'll have some great pictures to show everybody. Well, that's it for this week I think.
Sunday was good. We hadn't been to church for two weeks because of our vacation, so it was nice to be back. Tucker taught in Elder's quorum and did a wonderful job (of course).
I'm still waiting to start my new job... getting kind of tired sitting around at home cleaning all the time, but I guess it needs to be done. Ah well, I'll get to work again soon.
This weekend we'll be going down to Kanab for our annual mini-family reunion. Should be a total blast! Hopefully next time I post here I'll have some great pictures to show everybody. Well, that's it for this week I think.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Overdue Update
First off, I guess I should apologize for the HUGE break in posts here on our blog; but I promise that we'll do a better job (cross your fingers).
Since last time we posted, not much has really changed. The end of March was pretty fun. We had both of our birthdays, Tucker's parents came to town, and we decided to get a pet! The day before Tucker's birthday (March 29th) we got a guinea pig that we named ChuCho, and we both loved him so much. Sadly, he died suddenly almost 4 weeks after we got him. We felt that something was missing without a pet in our lives, so we decided to get another guinea pig (ChanCho) who died as well only 2 days after we got him. So, a little hesitant, we tried one last time and got Chorizo.
The semester ended well, and this past week we went to California with my family courtesy of my parents. We hit up Disneyland and then spent a couple days on the beach in San Diego. It was such a great vacation; just the break that we needed. When we got home yesterday though, we found out that Chorizo(picture here to the right) had died on Thursday. Needless to say we're sad about it, but we're also a little upset. We went through 3 guinea pigs in less than 2 months, all the while taking care of them extremely well. There was no reason for any one of the guinea pigs to die, so we think that there might be something wrong with Petsmart because that's where we got all three of them. We've decided to hold off on getting another pet for awhile, mostly because it's not fun being constantly afraid to look at the cage because the animal might be dead. But it's ok, we'll try again eventually.
Other than that, we're both just going to be working this summer. Tucker's got like four jobs on campus. One's his sensory lab job which he's had for a long time, then also he's started working in the library as a janitor. On top of that he's going to be working on two different research things; one to help his professor/boss finish up her PhD and the other is a competition to make a new dairy product. I finally quit my job at Apx and got hired on by the city of Springville at the local pool as a Shift Manager. So I'm really stoked cause I get to be back around water, but I've actually got some power (no, I won't let it go to my head).
We'll keep you guys updated on everything else, and try to post at least once a week. Have a great summer!!
Since last time we posted, not much has really changed. The end of March was pretty fun. We had both of our birthdays, Tucker's parents came to town, and we decided to get a pet! The day before Tucker's birthday (March 29th) we got a guinea pig that we named ChuCho, and we both loved him so much. Sadly, he died suddenly almost 4 weeks after we got him. We felt that something was missing without a pet in our lives, so we decided to get another guinea pig (ChanCho) who died as well only 2 days after we got him. So, a little hesitant, we tried one last time and got Chorizo.
The semester ended well, and this past week we went to California with my family courtesy of my parents. We hit up Disneyland and then spent a couple days on the beach in San Diego. It was such a great vacation; just the break that we needed. When we got home yesterday though, we found out that Chorizo(picture here to the right) had died on Thursday. Needless to say we're sad about it, but we're also a little upset. We went through 3 guinea pigs in less than 2 months, all the while taking care of them extremely well. There was no reason for any one of the guinea pigs to die, so we think that there might be something wrong with Petsmart because that's where we got all three of them. We've decided to hold off on getting another pet for awhile, mostly because it's not fun being constantly afraid to look at the cage because the animal might be dead. But it's ok, we'll try again eventually.
Other than that, we're both just going to be working this summer. Tucker's got like four jobs on campus. One's his sensory lab job which he's had for a long time, then also he's started working in the library as a janitor. On top of that he's going to be working on two different research things; one to help his professor/boss finish up her PhD and the other is a competition to make a new dairy product. I finally quit my job at Apx and got hired on by the city of Springville at the local pool as a Shift Manager. So I'm really stoked cause I get to be back around water, but I've actually got some power (no, I won't let it go to my head).
We'll keep you guys updated on everything else, and try to post at least once a week. Have a great summer!!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
The Kitchen is Done..... Almost...
So, the remodelling on the kitchen started about three weeks ago, and is in the very final stages. There just a little bit of painting that needs to get done on the ceiling, but everything is looking good. Of course, there's that underlying curse that seems to have come upon me and Tucker: we have problems with pipes/water. Yesterday (saturday), we tried to run the dishwasher and one of the pipes that hooks up to it came loose and sort of started spraying huge amounts of water all over the kitchen. I wasn't at home when it happened, but apparently there was water spread throughout the whole kitchen. Here's where I tend to let out an exasperated sigh. I suppose eventually things will get all done and fixed, hopefully that will be by the end of this next week.
In slightly better news... well, not really news, but whatever. Tucker and I went and walked around a couple of model homes down in Mapleton. Really nice places, little out of our price range at the moment (the home cost $450,000), but yeah, we'll save for a few years, give or take, and be able to afford that some day. It was a good way to get ideas on what we want in the future though, and we both agree that it's going to be tons of fun to own a home.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Woot-woot!
So I mentioned last week that we might be getting new cabinets, and I am happy to report that we are! We are currently under construction and without our kitchen, and have been for about week now, but we're perfectly fine with that because the kitchen is going to be amazing! We get new cabinets, new wood flooring, and we actually get a dishwasher!! I'm so excited for it to be done, it'll be great! Pictures will come soon!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
And so it begins...
So, I saw that a lot of married couples now have their own little blog pages, so I figured, "What the heck!" Hopefully this will be a good way to keep everybody up to date on our new life, but if not.. oh well.
At the moment, our lives are pretty simple. Tucker's still going to school, and I'm working at Apx still but taking a couple online classes through UVSC (which is so much nicer than not going to school at all). Yeah, that's pretty much our lives. Although we did have a little bit of excitment this past week when we discovered some mushrooms growing in our kitchen. Yes, that's right, mushrooms. Turns out we have a small leak in one of our pipes that kept the carpet next to the cabinets just wet enough for the fungi to grow, so we're supposed to have a plumber out today to fix that up for us. Some good news coming out of this though: we get new kitchen cabinets courtesy of our landlords! Yep, the water did so much damage to the cabinets (not to mention they're really old), that they'll be buying some new ones for the basement. We might even be getting some tile or wood flooring in the kitchen too, which would be incredible because it's currently carpet.
All in all, our apartment is finally a clean and comfortable home... with the exception of our bedroom. Still trying to figure out the best way to get that room organized, but we'll get there.
At the moment, our lives are pretty simple. Tucker's still going to school, and I'm working at Apx still but taking a couple online classes through UVSC (which is so much nicer than not going to school at all). Yeah, that's pretty much our lives. Although we did have a little bit of excitment this past week when we discovered some mushrooms growing in our kitchen. Yes, that's right, mushrooms. Turns out we have a small leak in one of our pipes that kept the carpet next to the cabinets just wet enough for the fungi to grow, so we're supposed to have a plumber out today to fix that up for us. Some good news coming out of this though: we get new kitchen cabinets courtesy of our landlords! Yep, the water did so much damage to the cabinets (not to mention they're really old), that they'll be buying some new ones for the basement. We might even be getting some tile or wood flooring in the kitchen too, which would be incredible because it's currently carpet.
All in all, our apartment is finally a clean and comfortable home... with the exception of our bedroom. Still trying to figure out the best way to get that room organized, but we'll get there.
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