ONE YEAR!!! Hurray! Our one year anniversary was on Friday (7th), we didn't do a whole lot that day...because our crazy busy lives don't slow down...not even for our anniversary...how rude!
In the morning I made homemade lasagna becasue it is Richard's favorite, it turned out really well and he had no idea I was making it so he was very pleasantly surprised when he came home to homemade lasagna for dinner. Then we went to Salem to play softball in a 2 day tournament that we had been participating in with some friends, it was a lot of fun.
Saturday we had a competition thing for our dance class. It was actually really fun, we competed in ChaCha and we got to the semifinals...so we made it to the top 12 out of about 48 couples, it was really fun.
Then we got to celebrate our anniversary! HURRAY! We went to the temple to do sealings, which is always great, and it was really fun to celebrate our own sealing by helping other people become sealed to their own family. We are so richly blessed to know that we can be together forever so how can we not help others receive the same blessing!
Then we went to lunch at a place called Gurus Cafe. It is in Provo on Center Street, it was our first time there and it was DELICIOUS! I would highly recommend it to everybody! We got some really yummy pasta with an alfredo sauce and lots of veggies, cilantro and lime quesadillas and sweet potato fries! YUM!
It was a lot of fun to be able to take a day to celebrate the wonderful year we have had together! And we are excited for many more wonderful years to come! :)
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Joseph
Last night we went and watched "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Scera Shell outdoor theater in Orem. It was really fun! We went with Richard's Grandma, Aunt Amy, Uncle Ralph, and cousin Aimee. It was a lot of fun. The production was really fun and really well put together. The actors and actresses were really good and they put some really fun spins on the story. So yeah, I have a couple of pictures but I don't have my camera with me. I will try and post some later. But if you are in the area and need something to do I would highly recommend going and seeing this show!
Monday, July 13, 2009
I stink at this...I know...
So I now officially stink at blogging...I know. I know I said I would blog all about Guatemala when I got back...but I'm pretty sure that would take years...so if you have any questions just ask! But I will post some pictures, I really promise. Not in this post...but soon! I will also post some pictures from Richard's trip to China! Hurray!
So an update on our life...
As you know I went to Guatemala and Richard went to China. We both had absolutely amazing (and very different) experiences. We loved every minute of it, but we were happy to be home. Richard picked me up from the airport and we went straight to Olive Garden so that I could eat lots and lots of salad (you would be surprised how quickly you begin to miss lettuce when you can't eat it...I barely made it through 2 weeks!).
Since our wonderful trips we have been just as busy as ever. We are both going to school and working. I am taking my final class before August graduation (HURRAY!), so I just have my one class, it is my capstone class, so basically I am just writing a big long research paper. And I am working 30 hours a week, so needless to say I stay PLENTY busy! Richard is taking two classes and working about 20 hours a week, so we are both very busy!
We are also moving to a new apartment on July 27th so we are supposed to find time to pack and clean our current apartment in all of our spare time (right...). Life is busy, but we will find a way to get it all done...we always do! :)
So an update on our life...
As you know I went to Guatemala and Richard went to China. We both had absolutely amazing (and very different) experiences. We loved every minute of it, but we were happy to be home. Richard picked me up from the airport and we went straight to Olive Garden so that I could eat lots and lots of salad (you would be surprised how quickly you begin to miss lettuce when you can't eat it...I barely made it through 2 weeks!).
Since our wonderful trips we have been just as busy as ever. We are both going to school and working. I am taking my final class before August graduation (HURRAY!), so I just have my one class, it is my capstone class, so basically I am just writing a big long research paper. And I am working 30 hours a week, so needless to say I stay PLENTY busy! Richard is taking two classes and working about 20 hours a week, so we are both very busy!
We are also moving to a new apartment on July 27th so we are supposed to find time to pack and clean our current apartment in all of our spare time (right...). Life is busy, but we will find a way to get it all done...we always do! :)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Guatemala!
Hey!
If anybody wants updates on what is going on in Guatemala give me your email address and i will send you the bulk email. i would rather not post that on the blog right now. love you!
If anybody wants updates on what is going on in Guatemala give me your email address and i will send you the bulk email. i would rather not post that on the blog right now. love you!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Greetings from Korea!
So i'm sitting in the Korean Airport, and it turns out they have free internet! hurray!
Everything has gone smooth so far, we met up and drove up to SLC airport without a problem. We had 2 12 passenger vans taking us so we didn't have to worry about getting up there on our own. There was a huge amount of traffic heading south, i'm sure going to lake powell for the long weekend, but northbound was relatively traffic free.
We checked in and everything went smoothly at SLC! Hurray!
Dr Balling has given us each a number so that we can count off and figure out if everyone is present. We've been doing that, it kind of makes me feel like being in elementry school, but i guess it's effective. We've been joking around about buying a rope and putting knots in it so that we won't get seperated just like the sunbeams in church. I'd love to see us crusing around the busy streets of beijing with that!
We landed in LAX and then had to leave the secruity area to go to the international terminal. I am grateful that Dr. Schultz knew what was going on and could lead us to where we were going because i was sooooo lost! It is not a very organized airport! That and then there were just these random arrow signs showing where to go as parts were under construction. all in all very confusing.
When checking in it was finally the transition to the accented english, you know, the part where you have no idea what's going on and then they stop talking and are waiting for you to respond. I'm going to have to practice my listening and deciphering skills to figure out what is happening so that I don't have to ask people to repeat everything.
We had to sit in the LAX internation teminal for about 3 hours. Tyler has an oldschool computer game that he brought that can play multiple people, so we passed the time playing that game. It's a pretty fun game that keeps the time passing.
We all say by ourselves for the long flight over. I don't know how seats are assigned, must be when you check in, but i was disappointed to learn i'd be by myself. My seat was a B seat, so i felt confident know that i'd be a roach for the 12 hour flight. When I sat down right behind me was a couple that had the 2 seats on opposite sides of me and wanted to sit together, so hurray! i got to move over and sit on the window seat directly over the huge wing.
At least i wasn't squeezed in.
The flihgt wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected. I mixed it up with that i was doing and thing went just fine. I started with a movie. Silly me, i thought the movies would be edited. I was watching Grand Tourino, and it turns out definitely not edited. I got to a scene with a gang and the f word was getting dropped all over the place. If i were a good person i probably would have turned it off and watched it when i got home on clean flix, but i was already wrapped up in the movie. Thankfully that was the worst of the language and while there were a few time my ears hurt it wasn't too bad.
For dinner i had steak. It was the only thing I could understand the flight attendent saying. The steak was actually pretty good except i think they forgot to cook it. It was almost completly red the whole way through. Good thing I was hungry and while not my favorite was able to eat it.
I then slep horribly for about 4 hours and then listend to the Count of Monte Cristo with my eyes closed for another hour. I had to rewind and relisten to parts and had cat napped through, but the book was really exciting, it made me excited to listen to the rest of it!
I then watched Yesman, the lights were off and the reading light that was supposed to shine for me shined on the nice little korean lady 2 seats away. Oops. So no reading was accmplsihed until just before landing.
Yesman was actually way funnier than I thought it would be, but that might be because i hadn't gotten much sleep.
After htat movie the flight was almost over so i read the rest of the way.
While not something I would want to do, it certainly wasn't as bad as I anticipated it being.
Now i'm just chiling here in Korea. We have a while before our flight leaves so i'm hurrying to finish the email so tyler and I can go walk around for a bit.
If you have other questions feel free to email me!
-Richard
Everything has gone smooth so far, we met up and drove up to SLC airport without a problem. We had 2 12 passenger vans taking us so we didn't have to worry about getting up there on our own. There was a huge amount of traffic heading south, i'm sure going to lake powell for the long weekend, but northbound was relatively traffic free.
We checked in and everything went smoothly at SLC! Hurray!
Dr Balling has given us each a number so that we can count off and figure out if everyone is present. We've been doing that, it kind of makes me feel like being in elementry school, but i guess it's effective. We've been joking around about buying a rope and putting knots in it so that we won't get seperated just like the sunbeams in church. I'd love to see us crusing around the busy streets of beijing with that!
We landed in LAX and then had to leave the secruity area to go to the international terminal. I am grateful that Dr. Schultz knew what was going on and could lead us to where we were going because i was sooooo lost! It is not a very organized airport! That and then there were just these random arrow signs showing where to go as parts were under construction. all in all very confusing.
When checking in it was finally the transition to the accented english, you know, the part where you have no idea what's going on and then they stop talking and are waiting for you to respond. I'm going to have to practice my listening and deciphering skills to figure out what is happening so that I don't have to ask people to repeat everything.
We had to sit in the LAX internation teminal for about 3 hours. Tyler has an oldschool computer game that he brought that can play multiple people, so we passed the time playing that game. It's a pretty fun game that keeps the time passing.
We all say by ourselves for the long flight over. I don't know how seats are assigned, must be when you check in, but i was disappointed to learn i'd be by myself. My seat was a B seat, so i felt confident know that i'd be a roach for the 12 hour flight. When I sat down right behind me was a couple that had the 2 seats on opposite sides of me and wanted to sit together, so hurray! i got to move over and sit on the window seat directly over the huge wing.
At least i wasn't squeezed in.
The flihgt wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected. I mixed it up with that i was doing and thing went just fine. I started with a movie. Silly me, i thought the movies would be edited. I was watching Grand Tourino, and it turns out definitely not edited. I got to a scene with a gang and the f word was getting dropped all over the place. If i were a good person i probably would have turned it off and watched it when i got home on clean flix, but i was already wrapped up in the movie. Thankfully that was the worst of the language and while there were a few time my ears hurt it wasn't too bad.
For dinner i had steak. It was the only thing I could understand the flight attendent saying. The steak was actually pretty good except i think they forgot to cook it. It was almost completly red the whole way through. Good thing I was hungry and while not my favorite was able to eat it.
I then slep horribly for about 4 hours and then listend to the Count of Monte Cristo with my eyes closed for another hour. I had to rewind and relisten to parts and had cat napped through, but the book was really exciting, it made me excited to listen to the rest of it!
I then watched Yesman, the lights were off and the reading light that was supposed to shine for me shined on the nice little korean lady 2 seats away. Oops. So no reading was accmplsihed until just before landing.
Yesman was actually way funnier than I thought it would be, but that might be because i hadn't gotten much sleep.
After htat movie the flight was almost over so i read the rest of the way.
While not something I would want to do, it certainly wasn't as bad as I anticipated it being.
Now i'm just chiling here in Korea. We have a while before our flight leaves so i'm hurrying to finish the email so tyler and I can go walk around for a bit.
If you have other questions feel free to email me!
-Richard
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wow...
So I am now at work and Richard is on campus waiting for 4:00 to roll around so he can go to the airport and go to China. I knew saying bye would be hard, but I didn't anticipate breaking down in tears mere seconds after dropping him off. I called him less than a minute after saying goodbye to tell him that I miss him through my tears. It was intense. The weekend will be rough since I have nothing to do, but hopefully on Monday when I head out for my own adventure it won't be quite as hard. I am looking forward to my own adventure and to him having his own adventure, but I can't wait for June 10th to come so we can be together again and share all of our fun adventures.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Slacker
So I know I have been horrible and not been posting anything. The problem is that life is ridiculously busy as I am sure you all know. And when life isn't busy blogging is not the way I want to spend my time. But I promise that when I get back from Guatemala I will be good and post about all of my adventures and the pictures I have. And I will also make Richard blog about his China trip...I promise! But until then I am sorry for being a slacker!
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