Shortly after my trip to Montana, W and I went to Great Basin National Park. We only had time for one and a half days there but in that time we both fell in love. Great Basin is in Nevada and it's such a small national park that they don't charge any entrance fees. While there we hiked to the top of Wheeler Peak (13,065 ft). It was the first time I had ever made it to the top of a mountain, I loved it! The next day we were there we went on a tour through Lehman Caves and hiked to the Bristlecone Pine grove. Both experiences were also wonderful. The Lehman Caves are beautiful and full of cave formations. The Bristlecone Pine grove was a much more sacred experience, these trees might be the oldest living organisms that we know of (the oldest ones are around 5,000 years old). It was a great trip for our marriage as well, we learned a lot climbing to the top of that mountain and I'm looking forward to when we can do it together again!
P.S. When I find that dang memory card I'll post some pictures! :)
Friday, July 22, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wow It's Been A While! / Montana Trip
Well, It's been over a year since my last post on this blog and I feel pretty bad about letting it go this long, a lot has happened in the past year so I will attempt to catch everyone up. Be ready for a few posts this week. Here's to a new start:
Last June I quit my little candy store job and took a trip up to Montana. I had never been there before and W and I were considering moving there. I also wanted to have the experience of living by myself for a while since I had never done it, I suppose that's what happens when one gets married at nineteen - you move straight from your parent's house in with your husband. I loved my trip! I rented a car and drove a big distance all by myself. I went up and visited Glacier National Park during their centennial, it was beautiful. On this trip I also went to Yellowstone for the first time and it was beautiful in a very different way. Between the two I think I preferred Glacier because it had gorgeous lakes and mountains and felt like home. If I could live there all year round I totally would, it's heaven! I will write more about my trip and include pictures once I find the memory card from my camera!
Last June I quit my little candy store job and took a trip up to Montana. I had never been there before and W and I were considering moving there. I also wanted to have the experience of living by myself for a while since I had never done it, I suppose that's what happens when one gets married at nineteen - you move straight from your parent's house in with your husband. I loved my trip! I rented a car and drove a big distance all by myself. I went up and visited Glacier National Park during their centennial, it was beautiful. On this trip I also went to Yellowstone for the first time and it was beautiful in a very different way. Between the two I think I preferred Glacier because it had gorgeous lakes and mountains and felt like home. If I could live there all year round I totally would, it's heaven! I will write more about my trip and include pictures once I find the memory card from my camera!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
NOOK!!!
W and I bought a nook from Barnes&Noble today and we are sooo excited! For anyone who has ever been to our apartment, you've seen the hundreds if not thousands of books that we own. Now with a nook we can have a library that's a bit easier to transport with us while we are still figuring out where exactly we want to settle down. And as a new promotion for the product B&N is offering a free $50 gift card with the purchase of a nook. That's actually why I'm online, so that I can buy ebooks with our new giftcard! I'm so excited!!! :)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Bless My Beautiful Hide
Well, last Friday we got to go see a production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with my manager and one of her friends. It was a lot of fun and brought back a lot of memories for W and me. We also had a Greek dinner before hand that was quite yummy.
We also now have callings in our new ward. W gets to teach Sunday School for the 14-15 year-old class and I get to teach Primary for the 9-10 year-old class. I really like W's class but am feeling a bit overwhelmed with mine (half of the class members are trouble makers). I've been thinking about it a lot lately and realizing that I like interacting with kids that are younger than this age and kids that are older, but kids that are right around this age just get under my skin. I find this especially interesting because I've been reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood and in it she talks about being this age, and being the mother of two daughters this age, and what a horrible age it is to be a girl (did I mention that my trouble makers are all girls?). I'm just not sure how to connect. Perhaps I'm just over-thinking, maybe I just need to give them more time.
My manager has, somewhat jokingly, mentioned the idea of making me her assistant manager. I think she's been doing this because she wants to get a noncommittal reaction from me. I don't know that it's necessarily going to happen, but it's a slightly new development in my life. W continues to work on his novel and hopes to be done with his first draft by Thanksgiving.
We both are doing well and living life. We're looking forward to the time when our life will reach a higher level of normalcy, but for the mean time we're trying to do what we think is best and what we think He would have us do.
We also now have callings in our new ward. W gets to teach Sunday School for the 14-15 year-old class and I get to teach Primary for the 9-10 year-old class. I really like W's class but am feeling a bit overwhelmed with mine (half of the class members are trouble makers). I've been thinking about it a lot lately and realizing that I like interacting with kids that are younger than this age and kids that are older, but kids that are right around this age just get under my skin. I find this especially interesting because I've been reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood and in it she talks about being this age, and being the mother of two daughters this age, and what a horrible age it is to be a girl (did I mention that my trouble makers are all girls?). I'm just not sure how to connect. Perhaps I'm just over-thinking, maybe I just need to give them more time.
My manager has, somewhat jokingly, mentioned the idea of making me her assistant manager. I think she's been doing this because she wants to get a noncommittal reaction from me. I don't know that it's necessarily going to happen, but it's a slightly new development in my life. W continues to work on his novel and hopes to be done with his first draft by Thanksgiving.
We both are doing well and living life. We're looking forward to the time when our life will reach a higher level of normalcy, but for the mean time we're trying to do what we think is best and what we think He would have us do.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
I got a part-time job!
Well the biggest news for us is that I've been able to find a part-time job to work while we're down here. Man, I really don't have much else to say but I enjoy it. My manager is really cool and I get tips which are always welcome!
Friday, August 21, 2009
We've Moved!
We're finally all done with school and have moved out of the apartment that we lived in for five years! For the immediate future we are living with my in-laws and hoping to hear back from some jobs I have applied for. W is happy to go with me wherever I am hired! I'm really hoping that I can get a real job and do something that I love doing, and I'm happy that W is going to be with me.
We also celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary recently. I'm hoping to write more about our celebration later. Mostly life is good, but it is slightly frustrating to wait to hear about jobs. :( We hope you all are doing well. Drop us an email if you get the chance, take care!
We also celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary recently. I'm hoping to write more about our celebration later. Mostly life is good, but it is slightly frustrating to wait to hear about jobs. :( We hope you all are doing well. Drop us an email if you get the chance, take care!
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Independence Day
I LOVE going to Independence Day festivities here where we live! It's probably one of my main favorite holidays in this community, people go all out. W and I woke up early and donned our "Revolt like it's 1776" t-shirts. Then we walked down to the field where they fill hot air balloons and watched them fill and lift off. Then we went to McDonald's for breakfast, I got a bacon, egg and cheese McMuffin and it was very enjoyable. After that we walked up to the place where the parade starts and followed the path the parade would take until we found and spot where we would be happy watching the parade. Then of course we watched the parade, we even got rained on for part of it which was really fun and cooling. After the parade we went over the the festival and looked around. We sat for a while and watched some Irish folk dancing it was kind of fun to watch. Then we visited Colonial Days for a short time, it changed a lot from last year and we thought that it ended up getting worse instead of better.
After such a full morning and afternoon W and I decided to go back home because we were both pretty tired with all of the walking that we ended up doing. Once home we ended up napping and then when we woke up I made us the Independence Day dinner of our dreams: Beefkey burgers (ground turkey and ground beef mixed together into patties), polish sausages, pork and beans, and some really good potato chips from Costco. Of course we had all the toppings and additions we could want for the beefkey burgers and sausages. We topped it all off with cherry pie and sundaes for dessert. It was a wonderful day and I'm grateful that I got to celebrate it with my favorite person!
I'm happy that the United States or at least the original thirteen colonies created such a beautiful Declaration of Independence and that they all, after a lot of debate and disagreement, agreed to proclaiming themselves free and independent states. The United States has come a long way since then, not always in the best direction in my opinion, but I'm happy that in those very early days of this Nation's conception some very beloved men signed what would become a very beloved document and would create a precedent and example for the world to see and consider. God bless America! Happy Independence Day!
After such a full morning and afternoon W and I decided to go back home because we were both pretty tired with all of the walking that we ended up doing. Once home we ended up napping and then when we woke up I made us the Independence Day dinner of our dreams: Beefkey burgers (ground turkey and ground beef mixed together into patties), polish sausages, pork and beans, and some really good potato chips from Costco. Of course we had all the toppings and additions we could want for the beefkey burgers and sausages. We topped it all off with cherry pie and sundaes for dessert. It was a wonderful day and I'm grateful that I got to celebrate it with my favorite person!
I'm happy that the United States or at least the original thirteen colonies created such a beautiful Declaration of Independence and that they all, after a lot of debate and disagreement, agreed to proclaiming themselves free and independent states. The United States has come a long way since then, not always in the best direction in my opinion, but I'm happy that in those very early days of this Nation's conception some very beloved men signed what would become a very beloved document and would create a precedent and example for the world to see and consider. God bless America! Happy Independence Day!
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