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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.