We meet again

Ohhhhhh, blogging (sigh)! I spend a lot more time on blogger than you all might think. I look at all of your far more interesting sites instead of keeping up with my boring blog. There are just too many of you that I love and want to keep up with the goings on in your lives!!!

But, alas, a new post is past due. I will start with fulfilling my tag assignemt. Are you happy now Carrie?

1. 10 years ago...I was just about a senior in high school. Oh, the care-free days!

2. 5 things to do today... I went to work (an hour late... was bored out of my mind...). Read friend's blogs. Blog. My favorite hobby with my hubby, bake a pie.

3. Favorite snack... right now- I don't really have one. I try not to snack a lot at work. I have to watch my girlish figure, you know.

4. If I were to become a millionaire I would... I would set aside $100,000 to pay for my husbands schooling, a trip to Hawaii, a trip to NY, and maybe Europe too. Continue to work, well, until I have babies. Invest another $100,000 short term. And then, invest the rest long term

5. Places I've lived...Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, California, Spain, Utah and Washington.

6. I tag... no one because I am a party pooper!

WARNING:

I may not be any better at blogging in the near future.
I am convinced that blogging is best suited for stay at home moms. Even if you are working out of your home. Being at home is more conducive to blogging!
Also, our internet connect (or the wi-fi connection we borrow) isn't good enough to upload pictures... I have to fix that problem, somehow.
So, we are doing well here! We are having a great time in our new place, finally being settled again. Work is... work, but not bad.
The exciting recent event was a trip to St. George with the George family. I would post pictures but I can't.
I guess if I still want to do this I'll have to be creative with the posts to be interesting enough to read, instead of relying on pictures. That will be a challenge!
Til' we meet again.

I am horrible at blogging

So... we finally found jobs in Salt Lake and moved down. Since I have been working full time again I have had less time to blog, among other things.

I am a marketing assistant at Weir Specialty Pumps. They make custom industrial pumps, yadda yadda, its pretty boring stuff but it got us down here.
Danny decided to work for Sunrise Contractors Network again except this time he is in sales and not installation. He likes it because he can interact with lots of people. He is doing really well so far but like all sales jobs it will take a while to get it up and running full speed.

Basically, our lives are pretty boring right now but I will still try to post.
Oh, oh! We did celebrate our First Anniversary! Yea! I love my cute husband! We celebrated with our family because there was a more important event that day.

Danny's oldest brother Pat and his family adopted a little girl last August. The adoption finally went through and they were able to be sealed. We attended the sealing of little Natalie Mae in the Idaho Falls Temple. She was blessed the next day. It was a great family weekend.

The happy family!

The proud parents.

Courtney was having fun! She is sooooo cute!

The next weekend there was another baby blessing in the family. Benjamin was dressed for the occasion in his tux.

The man I thought I married

Blogging has lots appeal already. I am sorry I am not better at keeping up with it more regularly.

We have been in Utah just about every weekend for the last month and a half for one reason or another. Danny wants to go again this weekend to go snow boarding with his bro. I am sick of driving down there but Danny told me last night that he just wants to get out of this boring valley whenever he gets the chance.

If you know us, you would know that this has been a source of arguments in our home, where we are going to live. When we were dating Danny said he didn't care if we lived in the city or the country (specifically Bear Lake). When we got married a switch flipped and Danny would hardly think of living anywhere other than Bear Lake. Since we moved from Vancouver to Bear Lake three months ago he has genuinely missed the city life. Imagine that, my country boy turned city boy (not totally). Anyway, so when he said last night that he wants to get out of here whenever he can my reply was, "Who are you and what have you done with Danny George"? He had a pensive look on his face for a split second and said, "I am the man you thought you married". I laughed about that several times last night just sporadically bursting out in laughter.

Here are some pictures of our almost weekly trips to Utah.

We visited one of my best friends from High School, Martha and her husband Keegan (who also went to the same High School). They live in Logan, UT and are finishing school this term. They were so nice to have us for dinner for homemade Big Macs. We played Nerts for a couple hours too.

I visited one of my other best friends from teen years, Elisa Ludwig. They moved back to UT after being in Philadelphia for a few years for grad school. She has two cute kids! We have a lot of fun when we get toghether.

We also saw Danny's bro and family. That's Braiden and Danny getting matching hairstyles. They are so cute together! Danny's hairstyle finished off with a buzz. Now he looks bald... as if he wouldn't be soon enough. Thanks Mike!

It was pretty funny, though, everywhere we went that weekend people we talked to would say, "Oh, you two must be brothers." Then they would point out Ryan, Danny and Mikes cousin who is in his thirties and say, "Is this your Dad?" We all got a good laugh every time that happened! Sorry, Ryan. You really don't look old enough to be their dad!

My bro Jason and his family were in town for the weekend so those of us in the area stayed at my dad's house for a few days. We missed the Gaytons, though! We always have a lot of fun being together! None of us wanted to leave! The boys had fun playing the Wii.

There is the perfect, most awesome sledding hill by my dad's house. Every winter (the last 5 that he's lived there) I have dreamt of sledding on this hill. We finally did it! Alia and Faith loved it too!

Danny loved the fake snowboard to practice on. I was impressed with my hottie husband as he flew down the hill and made jumps with this "snowboard", rather, piece of flimsy rubber with foot straps. Its hard to see in the pic but there is a jump just below Danny with which he could catch 3-4 feet of air.

Jason took this picture of his cute beta fish. This is Jada, Jason's second kid. She is beautiful but "has a little bit of a weight problem".

This is Gracie, Steve's fifth. She is so sweet!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I love my husband very much... so I bought him a truck for Valentine's Day. He better love me forever!

Actually, we bought it last Sat. because we need a second vehicle. We got a really good deal (hence bying a truck and not another car). I like trucks too but I don't think I will ever get to drive it because Danny loves it so much.

A Slice of Peach Pie!

One of our favorite activities to pass the winter days is baking! I mentioned in a previous post that Danny would only help me make green chili enchiladas. Well, now he cooks two things. His favorite thing to help me make is homemade peach pie! We made three just last week. I have to admit, they are DELICIOUS! The whole pie is gone in less than 12 hours. At the least, they are good, for beginners.






Thanks for the recipe Grandma George!

Winter Daze

Sorry, its been a while... we have had some George family emergencies in the last couple of weeks but don't worry, all is ok!
What I have been doing to keep myself busy, besides looking for jobs in SL, is snow shoeing in the mountains of SE Idaho. I have gone several times with a couple in the ward, Steve and Mary Hill; they have been kind to take me with them and lend me a pair of snow shoes. I have enjoyed our outings even in the snowy winter days.

Steve and Mary Hill

My cute snow shoes!

Last week Mary and I walked back home after a short snow shoe journey. We noticed that a deer was stuck on a fence about 100 yards away. We put our snow shoes back on and walked across the field to it. I thought it was exciting. I felt heroic. We pulled and tugged on the fence and the deer to try to free its back leg that had been impaled by small knob at the top of the cross bars. You can see them in the picture, they are very small. A quarter of an inch knob is all it took to trap this deer. From trying to free itself (before we discovered it) its leg broke. After about five minutes we did free the deer. However, it was too late for us to save it, it cannot survive with a broken leg but we figured it might be a little, just a little, more at peace when it died if it wasn't hanging on a fence.

It has warmed up here in Georgetown the last couple of days its only temporary, though. This is when everone in town gets on their roof and shovels all the snow and ice off. This is a chunk of ice that Danny chiseled off the flat overhang off the side of the house. It was too big to pick up. Some chunks were even thicker than this and up to a foot.There was a huge pile of snow and ice big enough that we had to shovel a walking path around it. The picture doesn't do the size of the ice chunks justice.