8 TV Shows I Love to Watch *We don't regularly watch TV but here's a few favorites*
1. Oprah Winfrey's Big Give
2. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
3. Saved by the Bell
4. Fresh Prince of Bell Air
5. Full House
6. CSI-The original stuff
7. Boy Meets World
8. Cops (Steven watches this at lunch at work)
8 Things that Happened Today
1. I woke up EARLY!
2. I wore tie dye, a face tattoo, and flip flops to work (Professional Development Day)
3. We went grocery shopping.
4. I dropped half of dinner on the floor.
5. We worked on homework.
6. We took a study break and danced to "When Did You Fall" by Chris Rice
7. I worked on our shutterfly 2008 album and Steven approved!
8. I got 5th place for my teacher made enrichment judged by a regional advisor :)
8 Favorite Places to Eat
1. Fazoli's (too bad there's no more in AZ)
2. Bajio (we located one in AZ!)
3. CARAMBAS (an old family fave)
4. Chipotle-Steven's favorite
5. Applebee's
6. Arby's
7. Subway
8. Home- eating Freschetta's Naturally Rising 3 cheese pizza straight from our oven :)
8 Things I'm Looking Forward
1. GRADUATION!
2. Our one year anniversary!
3. Starting our family!
4. Buying a cute SUV (Chelsea)
5. Having His & Hers Mazda RX-8's (Our Retirement Cars)
6. Buying our own house
7. Getting our Halloween costumes in the mail!
8. Going to the temple again soon!
8 Things on My Wish List
1. College Diplomas
2. Our own babies!
3. Shoes (a permanent part of Chelsea's wish list)
4. Right Hand Heart Ring (Chelsea)
5. Having a gun (Steven)
6. Good grades for this semester!
7. Successful activities for our callings!
8. A goodnight's rest!
8 People I Tag (If you've never been tagged before you just use the headings and answer them for yourself in a new posting)
1. Bekah & Pete
2. Katelyn & Colton
3. Molly & Mike
4. Paige
5. T & Jackie
6. Caitlin & Greg
7. Alan & Ellen
8. Kal & Ashley
October 13, 2008
October 12, 2008
Fall :)
Since my allergies have passed I can now post about how much I love this weather!! Yahoo puts us at a current 61 degrees with a high of 85 today. There was a gentle breeze and the feeling was great!! One of the things I miss the most about SUU and Cedar City (besides the people) are the leaves! I would kill to walk through my favorite pathway on campus and drive up the canyon with Jenni! No doubt we would get lost and take a ridiculous amount of pictures, but the fall experience would be complete!! Maybe Steven and I will road trip up to northern AZ so he can experience the beauty of fall leaves and changing seasons!
This picture is from Oct 2, 2006- Jenni and I escpaed homework from a day and hiked up the canyon. We found this beautiful waterfall in the process!
This picture was taken Oct. 10, 2007 on an escape up the canyon. This time I was with Elijah and I wanted to share with him what a beautiful place we lived in!
God Bless Cedar City!
October 2, 2008
Random Thoughts on a Thursday Night.
Wow it's been awhile. I want to post more, but something else is always priority. I was planning on posting pictures of the past few events, but my computer is being mighty difficult tonight. I've decided to update on the major aspects of our life piece by piece.
First is school. Steven's schooling is doing considerably better. He understands his new concepts in physics and they finally got a tutor. However, the only times the tutor is available, Steven is at work. That class is very time consuming. I wish I could help, but mostly I just pray. He's working on a new speech this week. It's about sleep disorders. For FHE we decided to do the research for the speech. This weekend will be the practicing weekend. It's going to be worse than the last one because he has to remember the quotes exactly.
As far as school for me goes...I wish it was over. My two online classes are ok. It's definitely not the same as in-person normal classes. Oh how I miss SUU. My psychology class is do-able. It's a lot of reading, but not boring so I handle it. My other class is a joke. The teacher never clarifies anything and never emails back so I'm frustrated. I just barely figured out how things work in the class...because a student clarified for me on the discussion board. On a brighter note, I should be able to start at Ottawa in a few weeks. I'm getting super tired of paper work though. I just keep reminding myself that I can be graduated by next December. That's manageable.
Next work- Steven's job is same old same old. It's working out better this week for him to do half day at school and half day at work M,W,F. I know it's tough having to finish class, rush to eat and change and then head to work-he's a trooper!
Now my job. I've learned one important thing this week: At least I have a job and my hours aren't being cut like so many other's in the area. Ok now that that's over I'm going to complain for a minute. I almost quit my job this week. I've been working long long hours and having lots of kids. That's the ok part. The not ok part is my coworker. She seems to think she knows everything. So, she bosses me around-even though Iknow what I'm doing....just as much as she does. She also thinks that her kids are perfect so all kids should be raised like her kids...Now she was a mom at 16 and her kids principal often calls so I'm doubting that part. She also doesn't do anything. Today, in four hours-she changed a total of...guess how many? TWO diapers! In three hours of that time guess how many I did? About 25-30. So it's a real fair thing. She wants to be in a different room so she's "acting like a B until they realize what she wants" thats what she said at least. I got so frustrated today, I went in to the office at lunch and was in tears talking to my boss. But very long story short, my boss is reasonable most of the time and she's going to handle it. If she doesn't then I feel like I have good reasons to quit. I've been looking for a job more closely related to my future degree or an internship so hopefully we'll see. I've learned a lot of life lessons at my job but I can tell it's getting close for a need to change.
Lastly, Church. Steven is getting the hang of his 11-year old scouting. I'll post pictures of our training weekend whenever I can. He gets frustrated with some of the boys, but he just got an awesome assistant scoutmaster and some plans set so he'll manage.
I LOVE My Calling! My beehives are awesome. I am continually impressed by them *for the most part*. They want to be at church and mutual and anything else, and they want their friends to be there too. They are working on personal progress *mostly* and they shine more and more every day. By the end of the year we will get 4 more girls and they are already planning ways to welcome them. You can't get better than that. Church is awesome-we are excited for CONFERENCE!!
When someone asks me how life is going I usually say: School, Work, Church, Repeat. It's about accurate. We try to spend as much time together as possible, but it is very limited. We ALWAYS eat dinner together and we always go on a Friday night date (well sometimes it gets moved to Friday & Saturday nights). It's tough being a young, newly married couple in a family ward and going to school. Especially tough when almost all the other couples we know are expecting an addition to their family :) We're looking forward to graduation and starting our own family, but everything in good time!
PS Our mailbox has been stuck lately, so we're having trouble getting it open every night. Don't be worried if we don't respond to fan mail in our normally timely manner ;)
First is school. Steven's schooling is doing considerably better. He understands his new concepts in physics and they finally got a tutor. However, the only times the tutor is available, Steven is at work. That class is very time consuming. I wish I could help, but mostly I just pray. He's working on a new speech this week. It's about sleep disorders. For FHE we decided to do the research for the speech. This weekend will be the practicing weekend. It's going to be worse than the last one because he has to remember the quotes exactly.
As far as school for me goes...I wish it was over. My two online classes are ok. It's definitely not the same as in-person normal classes. Oh how I miss SUU. My psychology class is do-able. It's a lot of reading, but not boring so I handle it. My other class is a joke. The teacher never clarifies anything and never emails back so I'm frustrated. I just barely figured out how things work in the class...because a student clarified for me on the discussion board. On a brighter note, I should be able to start at Ottawa in a few weeks. I'm getting super tired of paper work though. I just keep reminding myself that I can be graduated by next December. That's manageable.
Next work- Steven's job is same old same old. It's working out better this week for him to do half day at school and half day at work M,W,F. I know it's tough having to finish class, rush to eat and change and then head to work-he's a trooper!
Now my job. I've learned one important thing this week: At least I have a job and my hours aren't being cut like so many other's in the area. Ok now that that's over I'm going to complain for a minute. I almost quit my job this week. I've been working long long hours and having lots of kids. That's the ok part. The not ok part is my coworker. She seems to think she knows everything. So, she bosses me around-even though Iknow what I'm doing....just as much as she does. She also thinks that her kids are perfect so all kids should be raised like her kids...Now she was a mom at 16 and her kids principal often calls so I'm doubting that part. She also doesn't do anything. Today, in four hours-she changed a total of...guess how many? TWO diapers! In three hours of that time guess how many I did? About 25-30. So it's a real fair thing. She wants to be in a different room so she's "acting like a B until they realize what she wants" thats what she said at least. I got so frustrated today, I went in to the office at lunch and was in tears talking to my boss. But very long story short, my boss is reasonable most of the time and she's going to handle it. If she doesn't then I feel like I have good reasons to quit. I've been looking for a job more closely related to my future degree or an internship so hopefully we'll see. I've learned a lot of life lessons at my job but I can tell it's getting close for a need to change.
Lastly, Church. Steven is getting the hang of his 11-year old scouting. I'll post pictures of our training weekend whenever I can. He gets frustrated with some of the boys, but he just got an awesome assistant scoutmaster and some plans set so he'll manage.
I LOVE My Calling! My beehives are awesome. I am continually impressed by them *for the most part*. They want to be at church and mutual and anything else, and they want their friends to be there too. They are working on personal progress *mostly* and they shine more and more every day. By the end of the year we will get 4 more girls and they are already planning ways to welcome them. You can't get better than that. Church is awesome-we are excited for CONFERENCE!!
When someone asks me how life is going I usually say: School, Work, Church, Repeat. It's about accurate. We try to spend as much time together as possible, but it is very limited. We ALWAYS eat dinner together and we always go on a Friday night date (well sometimes it gets moved to Friday & Saturday nights). It's tough being a young, newly married couple in a family ward and going to school. Especially tough when almost all the other couples we know are expecting an addition to their family :) We're looking forward to graduation and starting our own family, but everything in good time!
PS Our mailbox has been stuck lately, so we're having trouble getting it open every night. Don't be worried if we don't respond to fan mail in our normally timely manner ;)
Diamondbacks Game!
Pictures from the Dbacks game we enjoyed!
Dakota, Mom & Jaden
Me & Dakota
Me & Jaden enjoying cotton candy!
The stadium was open and so were the doors!! This picture is mostly for those of you who read our blog, but have never been inside the Chase Ball Park!
October 1, 2008
Little Philmont
So I just realized that the pictures weren't working because the link came up in another window and I missed it.
At the training weekend we went to. I sewed all those patches on his uniform. It was a pain, but now I want him to earn other things so that he can have more nifty patches. 
This our 'out in the woods picture' Steven's in his full uniform-including socks. I'm wearing my BSA shirt that I bought to seem supportive...and flip flops.
So I pack up everything needed in our backpack. Then I switch to help Steven roll up sleeping bags. I go to grab the bag and see this giant spider on it. I don't know where it came from, but I took pictures and it got relocated outside. It was bigger than my hand.
All in all, we had a good trip. Steven learned a lot. I went to most of his classes with him. For a few hours, I played with our Bishopric member's 2 year old daughter. We ran all over and hit grasshoppers with sticks. We 'roomed' with Bishop and his wife, and Tim & Jessica Hedgecock. It was fun combining bottom bunkbeds to sleep in. Haha we should have taken pictures of that!! Steven & Tim ended up in the cracks. Jessica and I decided it was their own fault because they didn't snuggle with us.
We enjoyed the time driving together and the cool weather was a nice change. We left in a hurry because a storm was moving in and we didn't want the car to get stuck in the dirt road leading out of the camp. Maybe he'll still be in the calling next time Little Philmont rolls around too!
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