My mom and I went to see 27 Dresses last night. I have to admit I thouroughly enjoyed it. There is something about weddings, so fun. All the details, the colors, the celebration. It is so fun. Go see if you need a feel good chick-flick.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Such a Girl
My mom and I went to see 27 Dresses last night. I have to admit I thouroughly enjoyed it. There is something about weddings, so fun. All the details, the colors, the celebration. It is so fun. Go see if you need a feel good chick-flick.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Real Life
There is something guilty about vacation. It is so easy to leave everything, forget your habits, forget your responsibilities, and be lazy. The real problem comes when you have to come home from vacation. Reality after vacation is a little like a glass of water thrown in your face. The last week has been a little rough, but now our trip is a wonderful memory, we are back into habits, we are fulfilling our responsibilities, and we are hard at work.
Chris immediately turned around to go to Utah to be with his family for his grandfathers funeral on Friday. We are glad we were back and he could go. He said it was like a big family reunion and a very nice weekend. He then had to be in San Francisco Saturday at 9am for a meeting. He then rented a car and drove home Saturday night. In the midst of it all he is catching up at work and busy studying. He has a full plate. He did take the night off on Saturday and we went to see "The Bucket List" with my cousin Holly. We went back to church after being gone for 4 weeks, it felt like we had been gone for months, but it was great to see everyone. Even though monday was a holiday, I still had to work. We woke up to snow starting to fall, by 11am the roads out by us were crazy messy. My "boss" made the decision to close the sales offices, because it was a holiday and snowing, we were likely to get no traffic. It was an unexpected day off, always nice. That is a small summary of the goings on. We are finally not feeling jet lagged, and accepting real life. We are looking forward to our next vacation, whenever that may be.
While Chris was gone, I decided it was my public duty to participate in the caucus on Saturday morning. All I can say is that it was a unique experience. I don't know if anyone has ever experienced one, but it was different than I expected. It was to start at 9am. I got there around 8:30 to find a giant line of people. Good thing: great turn out, Bad thing: took forever. It was held at a high school, so once inside we had to find the room for our precinct. It was fun to be in a room with all the people from your neighborhood (lots of people from our ward), but different to see peoples.....enthusiasm for politics. Our precinct was the largest so we needed to appoint 22 delegates and 22 alternates to go to the county caucus. That took an hour or more. Following that someone explained the delegates role, everyone misunderstood, so wanted to re-vote. That was vetoed, due to time because we still hadn't voted for a presidential candidate. By about 10:35 we were told we needed to wrap up for the next parties caucus. They started handing out ballots, only to run out 1/3 of the way around the room. In the end we were writing our votes on a piece of scratch paper and stuffing them in an envelope. It was a little like voting for student body president. Everyone was frustrated and we didn't accomplish everything we were supposed to. It was a little crazy and not sure our votes even counted, but it made me realize the importance of participating and the blessing of having a free country to voice our opinions. All in all I will be interested to see how things play out this year for this election. I don't consider myself a real political person, this may be the only pollitical post you see from me.
Chris immediately turned around to go to Utah to be with his family for his grandfathers funeral on Friday. We are glad we were back and he could go. He said it was like a big family reunion and a very nice weekend. He then had to be in San Francisco Saturday at 9am for a meeting. He then rented a car and drove home Saturday night. In the midst of it all he is catching up at work and busy studying. He has a full plate. He did take the night off on Saturday and we went to see "The Bucket List" with my cousin Holly. We went back to church after being gone for 4 weeks, it felt like we had been gone for months, but it was great to see everyone. Even though monday was a holiday, I still had to work. We woke up to snow starting to fall, by 11am the roads out by us were crazy messy. My "boss" made the decision to close the sales offices, because it was a holiday and snowing, we were likely to get no traffic. It was an unexpected day off, always nice. That is a small summary of the goings on. We are finally not feeling jet lagged, and accepting real life. We are looking forward to our next vacation, whenever that may be.
While Chris was gone, I decided it was my public duty to participate in the caucus on Saturday morning. All I can say is that it was a unique experience. I don't know if anyone has ever experienced one, but it was different than I expected. It was to start at 9am. I got there around 8:30 to find a giant line of people. Good thing: great turn out, Bad thing: took forever. It was held at a high school, so once inside we had to find the room for our precinct. It was fun to be in a room with all the people from your neighborhood (lots of people from our ward), but different to see peoples.....enthusiasm for politics. Our precinct was the largest so we needed to appoint 22 delegates and 22 alternates to go to the county caucus. That took an hour or more. Following that someone explained the delegates role, everyone misunderstood, so wanted to re-vote. That was vetoed, due to time because we still hadn't voted for a presidential candidate. By about 10:35 we were told we needed to wrap up for the next parties caucus. They started handing out ballots, only to run out 1/3 of the way around the room. In the end we were writing our votes on a piece of scratch paper and stuffing them in an envelope. It was a little like voting for student body president. Everyone was frustrated and we didn't accomplish everything we were supposed to. It was a little crazy and not sure our votes even counted, but it made me realize the importance of participating and the blessing of having a free country to voice our opinions. All in all I will be interested to see how things play out this year for this election. I don't consider myself a real political person, this may be the only pollitical post you see from me.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Happy New Year (Better Late than Never)
Well it has been exactly one month since my last post. I've been away from a computer for about a month. It has been a nice break, but I've found how reliant I am on technology. We have enjoyed a wonderful holiday season. I was taking down my holiday decorations today and felt a little sad that everything is over, until the end of the year. We had a lot of fun celebrating with family and friends. There is something magical about the season that brings everyone together. I will try and keep my update brief, but here are some of the things we have been up to.
Dec. 21st was my last day of seminary for three weeks. My sisters came into town and we celebrated an early Christmas as a family. We all then headed in different directions. Chris and I flew down to Pasadena to spend Christmas with his family. It has been a while since we were ALL together. It was so much fun. We had a packed house with people everywhere, it was great. We played games, watched movies, ate lots, went shopping, just hung out. Christmas day was so fun, watching the niece and nephews open gifts and the excitement over so many new fun things. They are the cutest kids. I love being with family.
Two days after Christmas Chris and I went on a holiday adventure to South America. We've been married for 5 years and Chris has talked about going back to Argentina since then. We decided now was the best time of any. Things are slow at work, we had a break from school and work, and why not. We had a great time. What a neat country. So much culture and history, it reminded me a lot of Europe. We flew into Buenos Aires, and then did about everything we possibly could in 2 1/2 weeks. We went to Uruguay for two days, we took a bus to Mendoza (where Chris served his mission), visited many of the areas he served in (San Rafael, Tunujan, etc.). We visited with families he knew (they were so kind and welcoming). We spent time with Thomas and his wife Sabrina (Chris and Thomas served at the same time in Mendoza). They were so nice to take us around so many places, we even spent New Years with Sabrina and her family. What a great party, we didn't get home until 4:30am. We also went to Iguazau Falls with them, spectacular. We spent the last days in Buenos Aires. Such a great city, beautiful architecture, good shopping, fun food, and great sites. We went to a Tango show, shopped the San Telmo flea market, ate great beef, and walked around a lot. It wasn't the most relaxing of trips, we were on the go a lot, but it was worth it. We have found it to be rather unpleasant coming back to life and reality, but you have to pay to play.
It was a great Christmas and New Year, we feel so lucky to have such wonderful opportunities. I will try and post some pictures, when I get my camera hooked up to the computer. I just have a few right now. Hope the new year has been good to you so far.
Dec. 21st was my last day of seminary for three weeks. My sisters came into town and we celebrated an early Christmas as a family. We all then headed in different directions. Chris and I flew down to Pasadena to spend Christmas with his family. It has been a while since we were ALL together. It was so much fun. We had a packed house with people everywhere, it was great. We played games, watched movies, ate lots, went shopping, just hung out. Christmas day was so fun, watching the niece and nephews open gifts and the excitement over so many new fun things. They are the cutest kids. I love being with family.
Two days after Christmas Chris and I went on a holiday adventure to South America. We've been married for 5 years and Chris has talked about going back to Argentina since then. We decided now was the best time of any. Things are slow at work, we had a break from school and work, and why not. We had a great time. What a neat country. So much culture and history, it reminded me a lot of Europe. We flew into Buenos Aires, and then did about everything we possibly could in 2 1/2 weeks. We went to Uruguay for two days, we took a bus to Mendoza (where Chris served his mission), visited many of the areas he served in (San Rafael, Tunujan, etc.). We visited with families he knew (they were so kind and welcoming). We spent time with Thomas and his wife Sabrina (Chris and Thomas served at the same time in Mendoza). They were so nice to take us around so many places, we even spent New Years with Sabrina and her family. What a great party, we didn't get home until 4:30am. We also went to Iguazau Falls with them, spectacular. We spent the last days in Buenos Aires. Such a great city, beautiful architecture, good shopping, fun food, and great sites. We went to a Tango show, shopped the San Telmo flea market, ate great beef, and walked around a lot. It wasn't the most relaxing of trips, we were on the go a lot, but it was worth it. We have found it to be rather unpleasant coming back to life and reality, but you have to pay to play.
It was a great Christmas and New Year, we feel so lucky to have such wonderful opportunities. I will try and post some pictures, when I get my camera hooked up to the computer. I just have a few right now. Hope the new year has been good to you so far.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Tis the Season
I find myself thinking each year I will be better organized for the holidays. Each holiday rolls around and I find myself totally unorganized with ton of things to be doing. Although, I do have to say I'm enjoying the season. It is a great time of year. We got quite a bit of snow last week, it has been really cold, so it is staying around. It makes everything cozy and holidayish.
I got a bee in my bonnet a couple of weeks ago to have a Christmas Party. It started as a small group and grew and grew. It turned out to be a success, I think. We had just about 100 people end up coming and I hope everyone had a good time. You know me, I love the food, so that is what I did. We had appetizers and desserts (lots of food). Chris also decided he wanted sushi, so he posted an ad on Craigslist and found a guy to come and make fresh sushi, it was a big hit. Lots of people tried sushi who hadn't had it before. It was a lot of work and we were tired, but it was worth an evening with friends. The holidays are great.
We are looking forward to a nice vacation for the holiday. Off to Pasadena with Chris' family. It is forcing me to have everything ready and done next friday. We will see how this week goes.
We had a beautiful sunset the other night, had to take a picture and share. I hope you are enjoying the holiday prep like I am. Stay warm.
Pictures: some of the shoes from our 100 guests, Table decor at the party (couldn't find our camera until the end of the night), sunset.
I got a bee in my bonnet a couple of weeks ago to have a Christmas Party. It started as a small group and grew and grew. It turned out to be a success, I think. We had just about 100 people end up coming and I hope everyone had a good time. You know me, I love the food, so that is what I did. We had appetizers and desserts (lots of food). Chris also decided he wanted sushi, so he posted an ad on Craigslist and found a guy to come and make fresh sushi, it was a big hit. Lots of people tried sushi who hadn't had it before. It was a lot of work and we were tired, but it was worth an evening with friends. The holidays are great.
We are looking forward to a nice vacation for the holiday. Off to Pasadena with Chris' family. It is forcing me to have everything ready and done next friday. We will see how this week goes.
We had a beautiful sunset the other night, had to take a picture and share. I hope you are enjoying the holiday prep like I am. Stay warm.
Pictures: some of the shoes from our 100 guests, Table decor at the party (couldn't find our camera until the end of the night), sunset.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Happy Birthday Mom!
Happy Birthday to the greatest mom. Thank you for your friendship, love, laughter, and everything you do. We love you!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Nice Weekend
We enjoyed a nice Stake Conference weekend. Chris got to fly and ATV on Saturday, so he had a great time. We got together with some friends on Saturday night, had dinner at a new Mexican Restaurant (yummy Carne Asada tacos), and then went to the Adult Conference session. Great talks about our responsibility to be teaching the rising generation. Very powerful, we have a lot of work to do. Sunday session was also great, a variety of speakers on many topics. It just is a great motivator to keep working. I've been worried about seminary and this gave me a pick-me-up. We can do it. We made pizza for dinner and had my parents over. Fun to visit with them. With all our busy schedules we haven't seen them much. I'm trying to be more productive with my time as my next few weeks will be fairly busy. I started my Monday with a break from seminary (Veterans Day), a walk and three loads of laundry. Lets hope this week ends up being productive. Have a happy monday.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
November Already
I got a little panicky yesterday. They had a poll on the news asking if it was too early to put up Christmas decorations. HELLO, YES!!! I have so many things to accomplish before December 25th, it just makes me seem like I have less time if I have to worry about Christmas already. Don't get me wrong I love the holidays as much as the next person, but lets get to Thanksgiving first. Some of my upcoming goals for before Christmas: Start my gift shopping (sooner rather than later), renew my real estate license, seminary, service, decorate, bake, throw a party, sew, listen to as much Christmas music as possible (love Christmas music), be with family, and try and enjoy it as much as possible. Now I feel a little better. I love the holidays.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
It's Time for an Update
One may ask where we have been. Well I wish I had a good exciting excuse, but really I've mostly been at a loss for what to write about. Somehow as I've been trying to come up with something exciting and profound to blog, three months goes by. The several friendly comments ("Are you ever going to update your blog?", "I think it is time you updated your blog!", "How is your blog coming?")have finally pushed me into a more motivated state and I am resolving to do better. When life becomes mundane and boring, it is hard to share new and insightful things. Please bare with me as I come out of a blogging hiatus.
A quick update should get you up to speed: the summer went by too quickly, we enjoyed time at the pool (thanks mom and dad), a trip to Mexico with Chris' family, my parents returned from Houston (nice to have them home). Lots of work, with not a lot to do at work. School started again, which means seminary did also. I'm teaching the freshman this year and they are a great group of kids. They are tired a lot in the mornings, but so am I. We are enjoying learning the stories of the Old Testament. There is some great stuff in there. The cold weather is here too quickly and I am bummed about that. My garden froze early, but it did pretty good, lots of tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers and peppers. I turned 30, which has been a little more difficult than I would have thought, but hey there isn't much to be done about that. We got new couches, we got a piano, and we got satellite. Chris recieved his diploma, he officially graduated, he worked hard and is glad to be done.
I'm sure there is more I was trying to think of the most exciting things, sorry it isn't much. I will pool all my pictures from the last couple of months and share some photos. I will be better about updating, I promise.
A quick update should get you up to speed: the summer went by too quickly, we enjoyed time at the pool (thanks mom and dad), a trip to Mexico with Chris' family, my parents returned from Houston (nice to have them home). Lots of work, with not a lot to do at work. School started again, which means seminary did also. I'm teaching the freshman this year and they are a great group of kids. They are tired a lot in the mornings, but so am I. We are enjoying learning the stories of the Old Testament. There is some great stuff in there. The cold weather is here too quickly and I am bummed about that. My garden froze early, but it did pretty good, lots of tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers and peppers. I turned 30, which has been a little more difficult than I would have thought, but hey there isn't much to be done about that. We got new couches, we got a piano, and we got satellite. Chris recieved his diploma, he officially graduated, he worked hard and is glad to be done.
I'm sure there is more I was trying to think of the most exciting things, sorry it isn't much. I will pool all my pictures from the last couple of months and share some photos. I will be better about updating, I promise.
Friday, July 27, 2007
How Does Your Garden Grow?
My adventures in gardening this summer have been enjoyable. I'm starting to see the "fruits of my labors". We are trying a variety of different things: yellowcrook neck squash, green beans, zucchini, cucumbers, acorn & butternut squash, several tomato varieties, and several pepper varieties. I will keep you posted on my growth. Oh and a watermelon, it is so cute. Enjoy the treats of summer!
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