Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and so on......

Hey everybody! So its been a couple weeks since you last heard from me, but a few things have been going on. First school finally came to an end. HAPPY DAY!!!! Finals week wasn't so bad, I had to turn in my portfolio for photography, I had two papers to write and then I had one test. Of course, it was the test that I dreaded because it was social statistics and I worked really hard in that class. Well yesterday, I finally go the courage up to take a look and see if they had posted my grades. I don't know why I was so worried though, because I walked away with a 4.0 for fall semseter. YEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAW!!! As you can tell I am ecstatic about it, because it was a lot of hard work through out the semester. But I'm getting there. If all goes as planned, I have two semesters left and then I am done!!! HAPPY DAY!!!!! Keep your fingers crossed. :) So to celebrate last night, Daryl and I were going to go and see a movie. But a really bad snow storm rolled in and it became a complete mess on the roads. So we opted for staying home, cooking steaks, and watching movies. It was an awesome night.
Moving on, in my last blog I talked about my car and how we were having some issues with it. Really BIG issues. Well after the new transmission was put into it, we went to pick it up, thinking all is good now. When we got there, the mechanics still hadn't test drove it to make sure that there was nothing wrong. Well there was something wrong, the car was STILL not running well. So the mechanic offered to take a look at it and give us a call, letting us know what the problem was. When he did call the next day, he said we needed a new catilic converter(I KNOW I spelled that wrong, but I don't really care.). So for a few days we had a car that sounded like a race car, because they had removed the converter. We took it to a muffler shop and we asked the guy to put everything back together and test drive it, to see if the other mechanic was right. When we got the call, it wasn't good news. The converter was being plugged up by antifreeze getting sucked through it. THere were several leaks, we needed new parts and it was going to cost us another arm and a leg to fix it all up. By this time, Daryl decided that the car wasn't even worth putting that much money into it. Already this mechanic is telling us that it probably wasn't our transmission all along. Which is really frustrating because we paid for something that we didn't even need. UGH! So guess what we did? You guessed it, we went shopping for a new car. And I already have my christmas present. A NEW CAR!!!!! See!

This is a picture of my new car. Its a 2008 Hyundai Sonata and I love it. Its a great car. Daryl said he would probably never buy a foreign car, but we heard great things about this car and we got an awesome deal! It took us about a week and we didn't get much for my other car because of the problems, but we got it off our hands so we wouldn't have to deal with it anymore. HAPPY DAY! It was much sooner than planned, but I'm happy with it. It sucks that we have to go back to a car payment after not having one for a year and a half. But we got the payment down around where we wanted it and its all good.
Here are a few more pics of my car.



Anyways, so that is what I get for christmas and thats fine. At least now we have a car we know is reliable and it has a great warranty on it, so if something goes wrong, we may not have to pay for it. Which is a great thing. Plus its a black car and I haven't had a black car yet. :)
For Christmas we'll be at my parents house and I'm really excited. Its going to be a lot of fun. We drew names this year and I got my Aunt Della's name. Which means my shopping for her was extremely simple. Just find the Utah Jazz stuff and we're all set. I even asked her if she wanted something else and she said no. No imagination I tell you. :) Oh well, it made shopping easy for me.
Not much else going on around here. We've got a ton of snow outside. Because we've had consistent storms for about two weeks now, the snow has just been piling up. I think we have at least a foot from all the snow, which is awesome. Daryl and I had a snowball fight and he won. ONLY because he pushed me into a tree and all the snow fell onto me. What a cheater.
Thats about all for now. I'll try and get some pretty winter pictures for my blog and I'll try and get on here telling you all about my christmas day. It will be fun!!! Can't wait! :)
See ya later!!!!!!

Wow its December.

Hey all! Sorry you didn't hear from me for a month, but my life is very very boring, so there really isn't a whole lot to write about. I figured, I better get on here and write something while I have time.
I have recently finished up my fall semester, just finals week is left and I only have to go in for one final, which is awesome. Then I get a month off until spring semester starts up again. I thought I could be graduating in the spring, but it looks like that won't be happening. So if all works out, which it should, I should be done with school by december of next year. YEE HAW!!!! And here is the scary thing, I'm thinking about going to Grad School. How crazy is that? I have no idea what I'm thinking, but thats what I'm considering right now. I'll probably take a year off to make up my mind completely, but thats the idea floating around.
Daryl and I went to Kansas for Thanksgiving this year and that was a lot of fun. We got to spend time with our nephews and niece, as well as the rest of the family of course. We blew up a boat, a couple pumpkins, and an old stove while there. It was awesome. I really need to put some videos on here, you guys would love them. I also went to see the movie Twilight. Yes I like those books, but I'm not obsessed like some girls are. Those people are like the people who are obsessed with Harry Potter. I think they need help. :) Anyways, I liked the movie and was happy that I got to go and see it.
Then on Black Friday, I went with my mother in law and sister in law, shopping. It actually wasn't as bad in Manhattan, Kansas as it gets here in Utah. Probably because there aren't as many people there, I don't know. It was busy and Kate, my sister in law, almost got ran over in the Walmart by some crazy lady. And that was around ten o'clock, after the majority of crazys are supposed to be gone. But I was able to find some awesome deals and I am completely done with Daryl's Christmas gifts! YEAH!!!!!
The only other thing that I've been doing is working on my photography. I won't be able to enter any of my work in the student show at Weber, because you have to frame everything and I don't have any money for that right now. But there is a statewide competition that I'm entering in January that I could win some money in. I'm not planning on winning anything, but you never know. I'll put some of my work in this blog so you can see my latest stuff. My final project I found a cemetery out in the middle of Skully Valley UT, that was really interesting. There used to be a town there name Iosepa (pronounced, Yoseepa) which means Joseph in Hawaiian. These were all polynesian/hawaiian people that moved to Salt Lake to be closer to the Mormon church and moved out into the desert to make a city for themselves. All that is left of the town is the cemetery and I found it very intriguing. The descendants of these people have a celebration there every Memorial Day weekend to commemorate their ancestors. I'll try and put some of those pictures on here. Anyways, that was my most recent project.
The only other thing happening is my car decided to die on us, the transmission went out. So we had to get that replaced and that cost us an arm and a leg. YIKES! So Daryl is already looking for something else to replace it with. It looks like my Christmas present could be a new car. :) I'm kidding, we're going to hold off for at least a month or two and hopefully find a great deal. Which is very possible. I'll keep you all posted on that.
Anyways, I guess thats all for now. See ya all next time!!!!
This first pic is one I did out at the Great Salt Lake. I put the flowers out there and took it. The other pics are all from my photography final.

Happy Halloween!!

Hey all! Another Halloween has come and gone, and boy was it a fun one. Instead of sitting at home, waiting for trick or treaters who would never come, we headed off to a party. And we had a blast!!!!
I have some friends from High school that I haven't got to see very often because as we all know, life after high school becomes different and we all go our seperate ways. But my friend Amanda, who I've known since kindergarten, sent me an email inviting me to a party at her house on halloween. I had to say yes, since I don't get to see her at all. So I was really excited to go, because I figured I would get to see people that I haven't seen in a long time. I was even more excited when I learned that four of my friends I've known since elementary school were going to be there.
Of course for a halloween party you need to dress up, so Daryl knew days in advance he wanted to be a hillbilly. (Very appropriate choice for him I think. :) ) I had no clue. So just hours before we were supposed to go the party, we began throwing together a costume for me. It started out as Indiana Jones, then my dad said I looked like the crocodile hunter, by the end of the night I was juat a chick with a aussie looking hat on my head. :)

We took the picture last night at the party of us in our final costumes. I've decided that next year I want to have an awesome costume, so I'm going to make my own and be Little Red Riding Hood. I better write that down before I forget about it.
Anyways, of course we spent the majority of the night reminiscing about things we remember doing as kids. It was a lot of fun. We talked about things I had forgotten and Daryl realized he married a freak. :) Hey, when you're a kid you do the dumbest things. Of course my lovely friends were quick to remind me what a wussy I was as a kid and sadly it hasn't changed. I'm still a wussy. :) But hey, I'm trying. :) Since we haven't been together for years, all five of us, we had to take a picture of what I like to call the Central five. Thats because we all went to Central Elementary School as kids, which has since been torn down. We even had a time capsule there, I wonder what ever happened to it. Oh well, not important I guess. So here is a pic of the five of us.

From left to right, Theresa, Kristi, Me, Shaunta, and Amanda. These are the girls I used to run around with every single day.
Of course there was drinking, not me becuase I find it more entertaining to watch drunks. We spent the majority of the night just laughing and having a really good time. Even Daryl got a little crazy and became the ugliest woman I've ever seen. So you'll see in the last pic. Thats about all for this, if I think of anything else, I'll post them. SEE YA ALL NEXT TIME!!!! P.S. Thanks Amanda for a great party! We soooooo need to do that again!!!!!

LETS GO HUNTING!!!!

Hey all! Sorry you haven't heard from me in awhile, but things have been a little hectic around here. School is reaching midterms and that means tests, papers, and all sorts of crazy stuff due! YIKES!!!! Thats okay though, I'm either working hard or hardly working. Mostly hardly working. :)
Anyways, this year Daryl decided that he wanted to go Elk Hunting. Something he has wanted to do since he first moved out here eight long years ago. Of course from the moment he bought his tag, its all he talked about. I, of course, was excited for him as well as myself. While hubby's away wifey will play, and all that.
I don't know how long it was between him recieving his hunting permit until he actually went hunting, but I think it was a couple of months. He really started talking about it as soon as September rolled around. Which was fine at first, then I was like, I get it you're going hunting. :) I only kid here, I was happy for him. So of course because thats all we discuss I start dreaming about him hunting and shooting an elk and I think, that should be good luck.
The weekend before he was to go hunting we were watching the news so we could see the predicted weather for the upcoming weekend. It wasn't good news. The week was supposed to be wonderful, in the high seventies and lower eighties, but what was this, a really big storm moving in on Saturday? After weeks of beautiful weather, God sees fit to bring rain in on opening weekend for elk hunting. I found it rather amusing, Daryl not so much. But I thought Elk were easier to hunt when it was cold and wet, because they were moving down from the higher mountains. (I don't know anything about hunting, so I think I'm just making stuff up here.)
Of course Daryl was going, there was no way he wasn't going. They were predicting our first snowfall since last winter and really cold temperatures. Of course Daryl and his buddy James, who went hunting with him, packed all the warm clothes and everything. I made sure that they took extra food just in case it snowed so bad that they were stuck up in the mountains longer than planned.
So while Daryl was freezing, hunting for a big elk, I was down in the wet valley hanging out with my family and playing games on the Wii with my brother. I heard from Daryl once and he said it was really cold and wet. I of course was like, I'm sorry but remember you wanted to go hunting, this is supposed to be fun!!!
When he made it home Monday, after a horrible weekend of weather, he didn't bring anything back with him. I was a little sad because I would have loved for him to get one, but he was just happy to be back. The funny thing was that day they came home was a nice sunny, warm day.
Here are some pictures of where they were camping:

I believe this is day one of hunting. Do you see the bear? Well if you do then you're making things up because all you should see is a tent and the vast forest around them. This is what we call roughing it.


This is what we call the first snowfall of the year since last winter. I also call the boys CRAZY for going up there. But they still had fun.


And this is what it looked like on the day they packed up and came home. Poor guys.

I only make fun of them because I could never stay out in the cold the way they did. I would be too much of a wuss. Of course, after that Daryl decided he needed to go hunting the following weekend, still wanting to get his elk. When he said this I took his chin in my hand, kissed his nose and said, "Honey, its going to be worse next weekend." He groaned, got smart, and went hunting with a buddy that has a camper. GO DARYL!!! And this past weekend was much colder than before, but he wasn't nearly as cranky when he got home. Thank the Lord for campers!!!

Some recent work.

I almost forgot to add some pics that I've recently taken for my color photography class at school. I have four pictures that I printed, but only two that I really like. So I thought I would add those two for all to see. I also promised Jodi that I would add the pic she helped me with, with the glow in the dark stars.
We were asked to take pics that would be titled "My Heart's Desire" and "Darkness Visible". Its supposed to be in a pair, where the pictures tell a story. For the first one I did a picture of the Consitution of the United States, on an American Flag. That one I am really proud of because it turned out awesome. And if it doesn't look good on here, you'll need to see it in person because it truly is one of my best. The picture that goes with it is a picture of three of the founding fathers of our country kneeling and praying. I wasn't to pleased with it, but its not horrible.
For Darkness Visible I took pictures of some glow in the dark stars and of my lava lamp. The lava lamp pic is pretty boring, which I figured it would be. But the glow in the dark stars turned out really cool and Jodi helped so I'll dedicate that one to Jodi my awesome assistant for that day!!!!


Like I said, they look a lot better when you see them in person than they do on here. Its a little hard to take pictures of them without a flash showing up somewhere. If you are interested in seeing the other two, let me know and maybe I'll post them on here for ya. I hope you like them, I'm very proud of my flag picture. One of my best so far.
Thats all for now! TOODLES!!!

PARTY ON!!!!

Hey all my fans! :) Its been a little while since I last blogged, but life has gotten a little hectic. I've been really busy with school, every class is killing me. I think the teachers are out to get me. :) But I digress. (I think that is how its spelled. Its my intelligent word for the day.)
My latest adventure occured while my husband was away in Las Vegas for "work". Or so he says. But you know the saying, while the husbands away the wife will play. YEE HAW! AND PLAY I DID!!!!!!!
I decided to have a girl party over at my house and we had a blast. I invited a few friends and my friend Amy brought over Rock Band. We had to come up with a band name and I so wisely chose the name HOOTERS. (Well we're all girls aren't we?) If you don't know what rock band is then you totally need to play it!!!! Its where you have someone singing, someone on drums, and two people playing guitars. Then you play songs and you make money(not real money, darn), and earn fans! Its way fun! We get into it a little too much, but we have a blast. So I'm posting a few pics here of us all playing the game and just having fun.



We had a lot of fun!!! Nothing like just hangin' out with the girls! We really had a lot of fun! Some people were a little leary of singing, but when among friends nobody makes fun of others. So we all had to sing and it was great!!! I have some funny pics of some of the singers. But they are all awesome!!!
After the party I went to go and see the musical Cats with my cousins. We had a blast there. In the beginning of the show the actors are running through the aisles with their eyes glowing. One ran past me and ran into my shoe, then turned and scared me when he looked at me. I didn't scream though, but a woman down a few rows did, it was really funny. But I absolutely loved it and too bad I couldn't take my camera in with me. But I took pics of the playbill and my ticket!!! I want to go again!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!!


Thats all for now!!! Not much else going on!!!!!! See ya later!!!

Peach Days!!!!

Wuz up my peeps!!!! Sorry, feeling a little funny tonight. :) Anyways, I figured it was time for another blog for ya'll and most recently, well the second weekend in September, we went up to my home town to Peach Days!!! The only reason why we go is because they have the BEST PEACH COBBLER you have ever tasted. Plus we had to go and see the carshow and motorcycle show.
So we decided to wait until the parade got over before we made our way up there. Of course silly us pull into town about the time the parade ends and its a mad house. Hey, there is nothing to do in Brigham City so Peach Days is all that they have. :) We had to go and get Scuba burgers, which are not made of scuba divers. ( Daryl argued with me that they were. What a goof.) I believe its the local Search and Rescue team that puts it all together and they call it scuba burgers because they like to dive. (You can tell I don't truly know so who knows, they could be made of scuba divers or scuba gear for all I know. :) )
From there we went and looked at the motorcycles that were lined up on mainstreet. We found one that looked just like Daryl's only it was a little prettier and probably a lot more money put into it.


My mom is always telling Daryl he needs to get a motorcycle with a side car so that she can go riding with him. Funny thing, we actually found one that day and it was pretty cool.


From there we went and got our peach cobbler, which was AMAZING in case you were wondering. We took a pit stop at mom and dads house so Daryl could get a nap and I could bug my family. (FUN STUFF!) Then we went down the street to the car show. We came across these old army jeeps from World War Two. They were really amazing and the guys sitting next to them had a whole lot of old stuff from that time. In fact he let Daryl hold this old gun sitting in the front seat. That was the biggest grin that Daryl ever had on his face that day. (I'm not sure what kind of gun it was, but it was awesome.)


These jeeps were totally stocked with scary weapons. Like on the window there were two gernades hanging there and there was guns under seats. It was really amazing and it makes you wonder if that was truly how they drove around during the war. Wouldn't surprise me.


Then of course we ended up going to find the mustangs. I had to keep wiping Daryl's chin because he was drooling over them constantly. :) But they were cool. We find a mustang that Daryl liked until he came around the back and saw that they were Nebraska fans and then he wasn't so keen on that car anymore. (I can't quite figure it out.) Then of course we found a mustang named Eleanor, like from Gone in 60 Seconds and I made Daryl take a picture of me in front of it. My future car. :) (I wish.)




So we had a lot of fun while were there and jealous of some of those mustang owners. I know there was a lot of pics on this, but I thought you would all enjoy it. I'll see ya on the next blog!

My New Embarrassing Moment.

So we all have embarrassing moments, ones that we wonder why did I do that? Or, am I ever going to live this one down? Well, normally I wouldn't be sharing this with everyone, except for this has never happened to me before and I do have to admit, looking back it was freaking hilarious.
For those of you that don't know, I now take public transportation to school. Its actually really nice not having to drive everyday and I'm meeting interesting people on the bus. (Plus its saving Daryl a lot of money and we all know how he loves to save money.) Anyways, I have to take my car about a mile down the road to a church where the bus I need stops to pick me up. Let me just give you a picture of where I wait.
Its in a really nice neighborhood, on a very busy street. Of course, in Utah we live right up against the mountains, so those are directly behind the houses I wait by. There is a streetlight, not yet hooked up, right above the stop, but right now its still kind of light at six thirty in the morning when I'm waiting for my bus. Directly behind me is a house that sits up on a hill and this house has seven foot bushes right behind me. Its kind of their fence, but you can't see anything through it.
So this morning, I was doing my thing, waiting for the bus at my stop, thinking about all that I needed to get done today. When I noticed that the cars just about thirty feet down the road were coming to a quick stop. I saw a little movement out of the corner of my eye but assumed (remember what happens when we assume people), that it was just the joggers heading my way. So I went back to thinking about what I needed to do after school and all the upcoming assignments due. Then I happen to hear a noise, not a usual noise like a dog barking or a car, or a person. But I wasn't quite sure what the noise was, but I quickly found out.
Remember those seven foot bushes behind me. Well all of a sudden, something HUGE came bursting out of them. It took me a second to realize that it was a GIANT Deer, a male with GIANT Antlers to be more exact. Without thought, I screamed like a girl,(because I am one thank you very much), and ran as fast as I could. And if I'm not mistaken, I think the deer did the exact same thing, only he went in the opposite direction.
The whole time I'm running, (I've left my backpack behind, by the way), I'm thinking of a video I once saw on Animal Planet. I'm sure some of you have seen this before, where a man is getting attacked by a male deer. Yeah, I thought for sure that was going to be me. With every passing step I was waiting to get attacked from behind. So, picture if you will, as I'm sure you're already doing, this in slow motion. I'm sure I scared the deer as much if not more than he scared me. He wasn't expecting anyone on the other side of the bushes and for that matter, I wasn't expecting anyone to come through the bushes. I'm sure for a split second, a nano of a second, we stopped looked at each other and thought, HE'S GOING TO KILL ME!!!! Then we ran.
And remeber those joggers I was telling you about. Well they stopped to see if I was okay, but didn't ask until the laugher had subsided. The one said it was the funniest thing she'd ever seen and wished she had her video camera, because we would probably be winning America's Funniest Home Videos. Then she continued to laugh along with her companion. I was soooooooo embarrassed, but I'm glad I made someone's day. Then they went on the merry way, laughing of course and I climbed on the bus that had just pulled up. THANKFULLY no one on the bus had seen what happened to me.
I tell you what, I have been close to deer before, but never this close. You think scary movies are scary. OH NO!!! Why don't you go stand, in the half dark, in front of seven foot bushes, have a GIANT deer come through, scare you s*** less(excuse the language but I feel it is appropriate), and then you tell me what's scary!
Yeah, maybe I exaggerated a little bit about it being a GIANT deer, but he wasn't little. Because if it had been Bambi before adulthood, I may not have run.
I hope that I have given you all something to laugh about and I'm sure you are all rolling on the floor with laughter right now. YOUR WELCOME!!!!!!!!

He looked a lot scarier and bigger than this!

Chillin' with the Family.

So over Labor Day weekend Daryl's brother Clint and his family came out to hang out with us for four days. It was a blast! We got to spend a lot of one on one time with our nephews, which is something we don't get to do enough of since we live so far away. But they are a riot! Here they are just being silly.

They came by train to get to us and were only six hours late getting in, but it could be worse. We had to take two cars to go and get them, then while everybody grabbed a nap, I went of to school for a few hours. It was pretty funny to come home and find the whole house really really quiet. They were all sound asleep. But not long after that, Daryl woke up and the rest of the household followed, so the fun began!!! WHOO HOOO!!!!!
During the weekend we ended up going on a few bike rides. Well, mostly Daryl and Clint rode bikes, I tried to keep up with them in my car. A little hard when my car seems to want to overheat all the time. Oh well. At least I got to spend time with Shanielle,(I hope I spelled that right) and just chat away. That was a lot of fun.
I also learned how smart our nephews are and just how funny they can be.
There was one day we were just hanging out at the house, I can't remember exactly what we were doing, but out of the blue Cameron, who is two for a few more days, say "For shizzle my nizzle." (However that is spelled.) We all stop, look at each other and go, "Where did he learn that?" It was really funny. That kid is hilarious. So the rest of the weekend I made it my goal to get him to say "Don't hassle the hoff." ( I learned that from my friend Amy. Not sure exactly where it comes from, but I think its funny.) He was very good at compling and said it to Daryl a few times, making me just roll with laughter.
Overall we spent a lot of time just hanging out and chatting with them. We took them to Park City and ate at a really good brewery. Then on Monday we went to a local aquarium to see some fish and sharks. It wasn't too impressive, but it still had some really cool things there. They had this place where you could go and touch the sting rays as they swam by. At one point there was a sting ray that sort of climbed the side of the tank and scared the crap out of me. I'm not sure, but I think Izaya actually touched that one. Crazy kid. I've touched them before and they feel really wierd.
I've also offered Cameron a photography job with me when he grows up. I'll add the pics at the end here, but he got these cheap little camera toys on the last day they were here and he thought he was a photographer. It was pretty cute. He was taking pictures of me while I was taking pictures of him. It was hilarious. He also took a picture of me on his "Cell phone" (a toy phone with Buzz Lightyear on the front) and I told him it was a great pic of me, other than I looked a little like Buzz Lightyear. He didn't get it, but I thought I was funny. :)



Anyways, we had a blast with them out here and I think we are done with family visiting for this year. Which is sad, we always have a blast when people come visit us. Oh well, I'm sure we'll be bugging them soon. YEAH!!!! I guess I'll se ya'll on my next blog!!!! Ta ta!!!

More about my summer!

So now that summer has sort of officially come to an end, I thought I would tell you more exciting stories from my summer break. Besides, there isn't much else going on right now to talk about. So summer break it is!! Woo Hoo!

Here is a picture of Strawberry Bay. We spent a lot of time there this, mostly just fishing. We did spend a weekend there with Daryl's parents at the beginning of August and rented a pontoon boat. It was a blast!!! We rented a pontoon boat for two days and had some pretty exciting adventures.
The first morning we went out, it was really really cold!!! But the fish were a bitin'! I jokingly told my father in law that I would be the first to catch a fish that day. Funny thing, I was. We had probably been sitting in one spot for about ten minutes when I got my first bite! YEE HAW!!! I was so excited I was yelling for Daryl to come and help me. I did get that ugly bugger up on the boat and he wasn't big enough to keep but I was pretty darn proud of myself for catching the first fish.
So after we put him back in the water, I jokingly said that I was going to catch the second fish, what do you know, I did. This one was smaller than the first, but I still caught the first two fish. GO ME!!!! So of course, everyone else wanted to move spots because they weren't getting fish. I'm kidding, we decided to move and we hit a hot spot.
We were sitting there chatting, having a good time when all of a sudden Daryl's Dad's pole started jerking. SO he hurried to his pole, then about ten seconds later, suddenly my pole starts jerking. So I ran to my pole and wouldn't you know it, a few seconds later, Daryl's Mom's pole started jerking. So we're all trying to reel in our catches, yelling at Daryl for help, and poor Daryl is running around trying to help us. Sadly he didn't get a fishy then. But his parents both got awesome keepers and later on would eat them. Good job parents!!!!
By the end of the day, between the four of us, we caught a total of ten fish. Four of them, were mine thank you very much. I was pretty proud of myself. So Daryl decided to take a swim in the lake, crazy bugger. It was really cold, but nice and clear. I've added a picture for you all. Yeah he looks a little cold.

The following day we went out again and this time my parents, my brother, and our friend Yusef all came up to join us on the boat. It was a lot of fun. We did more touring around the lake than fishing, but it was gorgeous. We were looking for a black bear that had been spotted a few days before, never did find him though. I don't know if thats a good thing or a bad thing. Oh well. Sadly our day was cut short by a really big storm that decided to roll in.
I get a little nervous out on lakes because I'm just that way. I kept watching these clouds coming and going, we should probably head back in. I repeated it severaly times and I know I was driving people crazy. Finally they happened to listen to me and its a good thing too. We found out later that one pontoon boat was stranded out in the lake during the storm and the waves weren't small either. Also, when we came into dock, our boat died right as we got to the docks and so we may have been stranded out there if we hadn't come back in. Yes I know, I'm the smart one, what can I say. :) Although, I wish I was a little more adventurous, but I'm just a pansy. :) But while we were out there, we did have a lot of fun. I'm adding a picture of the storm clouds looming towards us and you decide whether or not I was right in wanting to hurry back in. :)

Thats pretty much all that I have about that story. Not as funny as my combine story, but still a good story. :) I'll be posting another blog soon enough!!!! See ya then!!!

Kansas at Dusk

Becoming a farmer!

Being a city girl isn't such a bad thing when I'm home in the city. Its when I get out to the farm that my husbands family loves to pick on me for being a city girl. :) I'm only kidding, they lovingly show me how to do things on the farm and laugh the entire time while I'm messing up. Oh well. About two months ago Daryl and I went to visit his family on their farm in Vermillion, Kansas. I've always loved going to their farm from the first time I went there. You get to do a lot of things that you can't do in the city. Like blowing up old ovens, but thats a whole other blog.
Anywyas, from the above picture you can see that we are standing on a Combine. (Not a tractor for all you city folk. I used to call everything a tractor, again another blog.) Anyways, Daryl's dad needed to get some harvesting done, so of course we offered to help. Well Daryl offered to help, I just tagged along, because thats what I like to do. I'm sure they think I'm funny when I find it exciting to do things that they do everyday. So when Daryl decided to go out and harvest some wheat, I HAD to tag along. Heaven help us!
I sat next to Daryl as he went back and forth through the field just fascinated by the workings of the combine. Wierd I know, but I had question after questiong for Daryl and I'm sure by the end he was completely and utterly annoyed by me. But hey, I can't help it. When I'm doing something new, I have to know EVERYTHING!! Then he does the craziest thing. He turns to me and says, "Honey, would you like to drive?"
My first thought was, ARE YOU CRAZY!!! Have you seen me drive my car??? (kidding, I'm an okay driver most of the time.) Then my second thought was, this is how his parents make their living, if I ruin this I'm in tonz of trouble. So of course I said yes, how could I not? He showed me what I needed to do, we quckly switched spots and went on our merry way.
Now everyone has seen how good farmers are at making beautiful rows while harvesting in their fields. NOT ME! Oh no, I had zigzags, I didn't know the meaning of straight. All the while I'm thinking, THIS IS AWESOME!! I' M FARMIN'!!!! I was able to do a few rows, then I turned it over to Daryl again. Of course he had to go back and fix my mess ups, but it was a blast. We even scared a turkey out of the field and I thought that was pretty cool. We later found out from his parents, that the turkey happened to be sitting on a nest of eggs and we didn't break any of them. Well, we know I wasn't driving when we went over the eggs. :)
Anyways, like I said, I love going to the farm and experiencing all these fun things for me. I think I talked about combining for a few hours and I'm sure the family was rolling thier eyes by the end. But it was great. I even got to drive a tractor, yes a tractor not a combine, later on in the day. I almost put that one in a pond, but again thats another story. :) (remember I'm a city girl, I don't know what I'm doing on a farm.)
So there is my fun farming story for today. I have plenty more where that came from. If I find more pictures, I'll add them on here. I'll also post a picture of a sunset I took on the farm while were there. Right before we lit off fireworks that shook the entire county!!! YEE HAW!!!!
See ya on the next blog!!!!!

Entering the blogging world!

So I've decided to jump on the blogging train with the rest of you crazy bloggers. It just gives me something else to do in my so dull and unexciting life. :) Of course I say that now, but soon I'll be really busy. On the 25th I will be starting my fall semester. Yes I'm still in school and I'm praying and hoping that I'll be graduating in the spring. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I'm finally studying a field that is holding my attention and is very interesting, GO SOCIOLOGY!!! No I'm not going to be a social worker, I'm not quite sure what I plan on doing with this degree, but I defiently don't want to become a social worker. Not that I don't think they do a good job, its just not for me. I'm also minoring in Photography and that is truly where my passion lies. I've found that I absolutely LOVE my photography classes and look forward to them all the time. Its also a great place to get my creativity out and thats always fun. I'm currently taking pics to put on a website so that I can try and make money at photography. I realize how hard it will be to get into that field of work, but I'm actually fairly good. If I do say so myself. :) So if anyone is interested in me taking pictures for them, let me know and I'll be very willing to do that. The only catch is that the pics I take will be on my website, but you get copies for free. YEAH!
The only other thing happening in my life right now is my health. For those that know me know that I've had seizures in my sleep before. They have seemed to come back a year after I decided to stop taking my medication, just to see if I needed it. The neuroligist I see doesn't really know what is wrong and for all I know there could be no reason for it. But we're still running tests. I'm going in for a ecocardiogram(however thats spelled) on monday after my classes. I'm not sure why they want to look at my heart, other than maybe seeing what my blood flow is like to my brain. Who knows. I try not to worry too much about it, because at this point there is really nothing I can do. So I'll keep everyone posted as to anything new I learn.
Everything else is going well in our life. Daryl is still working hard for Tesoro Oil Refinery in Salt Lake City and my cat Kiki is still driving me crazy. Every time I try to pawn her off, nobody wants her. :) Oh well, for some crazy reason I love that pain in the butt.
If I didn't say it before, welcome to my blog and all the exciting news that comes with it. Yeah!!! I am a sheep now. I have fallen in line with all the other bloggers. YEAH!!!! Keep smiling and see ya in my next blog!!!!!