Hee Haw Farms!

This story begins three years ago when I became an official free-loader. My wonderful sister and her husband moved to Utah. For three years (especially the latter two years when I had a car), I have made the half hour drive to visit them often. Not only was I gracing them with my presence, but also using their laundry units, detergent, and dryer sheets. I was eating their food. I was crashing on their couch or lovesac. I was using them as a very handy excuse.. "oh, sorry...I can't do that this weekend, I'm going up to my sister's house" or for an excuse to have something to do when really I didn't have anything to do.
We went to the zoo. We had girl days. We had birthday parties. We went to midnight showings of New Moon (and Jonathan even got us tickets to see the showing of Twilight in the theatre right before it). We discovered IKEA and Tai Pan. We had Halloween parties. We looked for houses and got Subway. We went to conference (or at least tried). We went to that bird place in Salt Lake. We played WII. We went shopping.We made a new love for Paradise Bakery. We complained about boys (before I was married of course). We made Halloween costumes. We went to the Jenny Phillips fireside. We went to the Bean Museum. We (Jonathan) fixed computers. We fed the ducks. We went swimming. We had a photo shoot. We went wedding dress shopping (I'm afraid to admit how many hours we spent doing that). We went to Zoolights. We went to graduation.

And for our last hurrah.....we went to Hee Haw Farms. It was a perfect ending to our Utah adventures.

BYU is back in the game....

After quite a few losses
And some terrible playing
Our boys seemed to kick it up
and win our homecoming.
(How embarrassing if we lost...
but with our record this year,
it would have been no surprise).

The best part is
that Andrew and I
got to see the team
make its comeback.
It was our first time
going to a BYU football game together.
Bonus.

Before I officially feel
that our boys
are out of their funk,
I'll wait to see how they play
next week. But till then....
GO COUGARS!

Everybody say a thank-you prayer

This week I got a job! Yay! And it's absolutely, utterly, 100% perfect (so far). I had an interview with an assistant Monday night, an interview with the boss Tuesday afternoon, and started working Wednesday night. I'm tutoring/homework help for a family wiht 5 girls. The majoring of my time will be working with only two of them. I go to their house M-Th from 7-9 at night. So amazing that I'll be able to keep it while I student teach!!! And the pay is better than any job I could ask for. It rocks. So everyone...just say a little thank-you prayer for me. Things always work out for the best.

Random Notes

Well, no job yet. Ha. But at least now instead of like stressing about it I'm to the point that I know the right job will come when the time is right.
This weekend we had Lindsay, Andrew's sister, stay with us. Andrew's parents are in the Mediterrean (which I am quite jealous of btw), so it was a good excuse to have her over. Saturday we went for a little jog, then made french toast. Yummy. Then in the afternoon Lindsay and I went to her car to go to the gas station. Easy errand that wasn't so easy. As we started to drive, it felt really weird. We got out and saw that the tire was flat. And not just flat. It was to the point where the car was turning on the hub cap. Never seen anything like it. Needless to say, Andrew taught both Lindsay and I how to change a flat tire. Good thing to know, so I'm quite grateful for the experience. We got done with the car just in enough time to hit up the creamery for dinner and head to a dollar movie. It was fun and a reminder of just how good the creamery is.
Friday, Andrew did something naughty, but I gave him permission. He didn't go to his morning class and we snuck and got a jamba juice...but only because I had a 2-for-1 okay? Don't judge me. And no matter what you say, I don't regret it and neither does he.
I cleaned the house really well and was going to take pictures of the house to put on the blog to show everyone while it was still clean..but then I got distracted and only took a pic of the bedroom. And now it's too late. You'll just have to the next cleaning day to get the pics. My bad. Better luck next time.
P.S. Tomorrow it's time to get down and dirty and finally get back into shape. Time to eat healthy and go 100%. I've just been doing it so-so the past few weeks and am getting no results. So it's go time tomorrow. I figure if I let you know, I'll be more likely to keep to my word...blubber--you're going down.

I've been terrible

It's September 12th, school has started, life is movin' and I haven't written for a few weeks. My apologies. School is weird this semester...because it's easy. I only have six credits. I don't know what to do with myself. I am looking for another job. My other job just isn't keeping me busy enough. The fact that I can only work one semester (because I student teach next semester) is slowing the process, but I will continue to look. ..and look...and look :)

Today we had regional conference. Not only was it nice to only have two hours of meetings today, but it was a great experience. President Packer presided and spoke and Elder Holland and Sister Beck spoke. We have to take advantage of these opportunities while we live in this valley, because not many other places in the world are so accessible to these experiences. Elder Hales is even giving the BYU devotional this Tuesday. Should be another good one.

Andrew is keeping busy between school and work, but still finds time to play a little ball once in a while and check a few sport stats on the internet. Taking the good and the bad...the only way to survive hard classes and the last semester of accounting classes:)

What the?!?!

So, Andrew's in class right now. I haven't started classes. No homework. It's not time to make dinner yet...so...I'm watching "I didn't know I was pregnant." The first story had me tearing up..it was touching.
The next story just makes me want to laugh in disbelief. Ya know one of those Ga-haffs that comes when in disbelief. It's nuts. The girl had a baby coming out of her and she had no idea that she was even pregnant. Like...what?!?!? Totally nuts.
As the story continues it just gets crazier. I hope it's not true. It's too creepy.


I hope that doesn't happen to me. Thank you very much.

Oh Boy!

Here I am. A free woman. Just waiting for Andrew to get home. I'm ready.

I am now free. And boy does it feel good. Summer term is over. Tonight we are leaving for our summer trip that is long overdue. How exciting! We're staying with one of Andrew's friends at his cabin in Lava Springs. Then we'll head to the pool in the morning and around noon finish the eight hours left on the drive. We're both secretly kind of excited to get on the road because we got some books on tape to see how that entertains us while we drive.

A little scary....got my oil changed yesterday. And of course the mechanic said something was wrong and I needed a new water pump. Weird because that's relatively new so I shouldn't need a new one yet. So, we're guessing it was just someone trying to make a little extra...but what if I actually do need one. . . and we find out in the middle of Montana. Gross.

Last night had his work summer bbq. There was a bunch of activities planned. We built rockets, decorated a little backpack, and made vases filled with color sand. In the middle of the activities, we realized that all these activities were for all the kids there. All of Andrew's co-workers and spouses weren't actually doing the activities, but helping their kids do it. Ha. It was funny. But we did come home with some good little crafts....I bet all the adults are jealous they don't have their own.

Well...Andrew's not home yet. Dang. I guess I'll just keep waitin' as a free woman.