So my best friend Kelsi Remund gets on me about blogging, because hers is beautiful and updated weekly. Mine is obviously not as well attended to. Well I'll give you a little insight into this past year starting with our "lovely" Spring Break. We didn't get out of the house until Wednesday because I had thesis stuff and 10 pager to write... so we finally got on the road, stopped and visited the Leathams (my sis and her fam) and found our beautiful camp site in Red Cliffs Recreation area by St. George, UT.
All went as planned with tin foil dinners, and exploring the reds until we went into town the next morning to break change for our next night's fee, and get gas among other things. Then it happened. Acceleration attempt.... sputter sputter... almost got on the freeway, but luckily we decided to check it out at the Chevron. $1,000, and 2.5 days later we should have our Xterra by tomorrow morning to get us back to SLC. All the fortunate events were:
1. We weren't at the campsite
2. We didn't enter the freeway
3. The Chevron had a full service mechanic that seemed pretty honest.
4. The closest place for lunch was an In-and-Out so we had some grease to wash our sorrows away.
5. It wasn't the head gasket.
6. Our home teacher had mentioned he would be in St.George with a large home for us to stay in... so needless to say we gave him a call. Brent and Coryann have been amazing. We went to Wingers with them and their cousins for dinner, watched the Blindside in the theater room, had blueberry pancakes for breakfast, and went on an awesome hike adventure in snow canyon today. Tonight: Pool and Hot tub.
Though its been awesome to have the comfort of a lovely huge home, I have to say, I think I know why I like to camp. Vacationing in or near a city isn't much of a break for me. The natural escape is so necessary.
Since its been a year since the blog I'll give you the most exciting things of last year:
New Nephew baby Eric in March- I took a trip with Erica and Landy to see him in Oregon.
Went back to Hawaii for about 4 months we both worked and played a lot.
Went to Zions with the Olsens when we got back to UT.
Went to Oregon again to see fam and the scenery for Fall Break.
Went to Death Valley, and So Cal to see nature, and Watts, and Roses for Christmas
Had two Rose arrivals in January for a Ski week.
One (David) Rose stayed for the semester.
Brett did Bahamas and some other cool jobs.
We decided to head back to Hawaii for Brett to try managing at least for a year. (leaving for HI in May)
I will be proposing my thesis next week, gathering data, and defending in the fall. Done with coursework after this semester.
I'm doing a Yoga teacher training that is super exhilarating. Leif is in many of my classes so that makes it all the better.
Thats us... Next time i'll get some pics up here.
