Sunday, October 31, 2010

halloween week

Victor, IA
population 900
about 60 miles from our house
taken 10/28/2010
NO SNOW!!! YAY!!!


We have had an eventful week -- a few highlights were:

- Driving 100+ miles 2 days this week. This makes me grumpy.

-Seeing our friends Elise & Joel at stake conference. They met in the same ward Cody & I did. Joel & I worked together at BYU and Cody & Elise grew up in the same ward.

-Seeing my old Young Women's President, Jeanna, and her ADORABLE girls (and husband too!), also at stake conference. Jeanna was like a second mother to me, just like so many of my other Young Women leaders.

-Watching the Sound of Music cast reunion on Oprah. I bawled twice. Once when a Vietnam vet talked about how the movie was his refuge while he was deployed AND during this clip (start about 50 seconds in with a box of tissues nearby).



-Watching the Giants dominate in the World Series -- especially their cute rookie catcher.

-Having our first real trick-or-treaters! The only problem is that nobody says 'trick or treat'. They just stand at the door and expect candy. Seriously?

Sunday, October 10, 2010

the best intentions

the sunrise on my way to work a few days ago
yes, i drive to work while the sun is rising

I stink at blogging. It's kind of ironic, because I LOVE reading other people's blogs -- but then I think that nobody could LOVE reading ours :) I know that is far far far from the truth, so I am going to try really hard to jump back on the blogging train. I don't really think that I am going to try to recap everything that has happened since I last blogged, but I will leave you with a few of today's thoughts.
I love Iowa.
I love living on the edge of town and I love not living in the megametropolis that is the Salt Lake & Utah Valleys.
I love driving by corn & bean fields on my way to work. I do not love driving 2000 miles in 2 months of work.
I do not love Iowa's weather when it wakes me up in the middle of the night sounding like a herd of softballs with wings banging into my window. (It really was just an awful rainstorm with super turbo wind.)
I do not love when my kids cough in my face & get me sick. (But, I am not getting as sick as last year.)
I love blogging. And I will blog again, soon :)