Yes, Here it is. Tennessee. Our future home. I might be able to find room in my heart to call it home, once I learn how to spell it. Tennesssee is known as the "Volunteer state." People make fun of the Behive State but if you ask me the Volunteer state sounds a bit lamer... We move in the summer. I'm pretty excited but a little nervous b/c Memphis is supposidly the 4th most dangerous city in the US. AHH!
Ever been to Cafe Pier Pont in SLC? Ever seen how much Josh can eat? We went to Pier Pont for dinner and josh ordered this "Macho Grande Burrito"... the size of a new born baby (it weighed at LEAST 6 lbs.) If you eat it all in one sitting you get a free one the next time you come in. What do you think... was Josh able to do it? Did he earn the free Burrito?
This is a multiple choice question... which one would you sent for your christmas card. Both lame. A. "warm wishes" christmas greeting or B. a Cosmo Christmas greeting. "Warm Wishes" was the one that got sent out. What's your vote?
We went out to St. George and stayed with Sunny and his fam. They have some 4 wheelers so we got on them and cruised out to these underground caves. I have been spelunking in Nutty Putty and that was a little bit scary but nothing compared to this. I really thought I was going to die! Remember my grave fear of heights, and rocky drop-offs? These came into play. In the caves there were several places with huge drop offs and there was a place or two where you had to "repel" down a steep, slick rock face. You held on to a little rope (which was tied around a rock up above) the rope was about as thick as a shoelace, so as you can imagine it was hard to get a good grip on the thing... if you fell and let go of the rope you could have fallen off a drop off on the edge of this rock face. Even though I look happy in the photo my insides are screaming "Get me out of this place!"
It's a miricle! Kelly finally got married... JK. She is now Kelly Beck, and her husband Sunny is pretty awesome. They are a great couple. They got married a few weeks ago and then went on their honey moon to Itally. That's one place that I definitely want to visit some day.
You know the feeling when you're so sick of day to day life and you think you might explode if yu don't get away? well that's how I felt right before this trip! Josh and I headed out to San Jose to visit some friends Jami and Layne... (sorry Jam, this post basically looks like yours- sorry, but what can you do?)
Look at these 2 Gnarly dudes getting ready to catch a wave... The funny thing is that it was about 43 degrees out side and the water was way cold, but these guys couldn't resist. They choose a spot that they thought was totally great for beginners. After an hour of attempts and no successes these 2 dudes swam back to shore totally wiped out and debriefed their experience. (The next day we went to church with Jam & Layne and a sufer in their ward was like "wow, you guys went there? That's some pretty Gnarly stuff... he also said that by going there they just increased their chance of shark attack by 10% I'm terrified of sharks and that's why I didn't want to go surfing in N. Cal. glad I didn't b/c with my luck I would have had a run in with a GREAT WHITE!!!)
There were lots of these street performers. This one was one of the most bestest... He would hide behind these bushes (yes, it looks like he would be totally conspicuous) and then he would jump out when someone was passing and scare them half to death!
A classic San Fran photo of the trolleys. I love San Fransisco- so many cool places and the ocean in view!
One of my favorite places in the fall- Gardner Village! They decorate it with all sorts of witches and things. Every fall, around halloween, my mom and sisters go up and shop around... It's this olden time village and all the little old houses have been made into shops. The biggest shop has an old mill on it!
For Halloween Josh and I went to a Masquerade party... We searched so hard to find masks but couldn't find any. So, we had to make our own- ha ha! (that's why they look ugly) So. I basically just wore this mid-evil times dress and Josh was a Jester. The idea was great, but the execution not so great... Josh went to target and bought a pair of womens tights with an argyle pattern. I wish the photo showed them, but you will just have to use your imagination. He had a shirt that was about 5 in. lower than his waiste so it was kindof short. Then I guess he decited that his tights were as good as pants so all he wore under them was undies! most people were a little worried about that.
The state cross country meet was a few days ago. My little runners came in second! We were way excited to be second, we knew that the first place team would be WAY tough to beat... but when the announcer read off the results and announced that we were 30 pts ahead of the 3rd place team and only 4 points away from the 1st place team (mountain crest) we didn't know what to think!!! We were soo close, so happy to be so close to a great team but so sad to loose by 4 measley points! (this photo is of our top three gals: Sam in front; 6th place overall, Steph in the middle; 5th place overall and Amelia in back; 11th place overall) I was so proud of them!
While in Moab we also went to Canyonlands. The day was cold and rainy. Lots of fog settled in over the canyons. This picture here is my family looking at the canyons once the fog cleared up a little bit but I think it's funny because it looks like they are looking at the end of the world.
This is one of the cool formations of canyonlands. As we were looking at this we saw the famous Utah photographer Tom Till... he was taking photos of the same thing. I'm going to venture to say that his photo probabally turned out a little better than mine, but I still think mine's pretty awesome.
Those of you who know me well might know that I have a little obsession about indians. I was very excited when we found these old indian petrogliphs on one of the rock walls near the Canyonlands (look closely and you will see them!)
This past week was UEA. We took advantage of the break from work/school and went on a little trip out to moab. We hit the arches and took a hike out to delicate arch. Even though I was freaking out for a little bit of the hike because I was afraid I was going to fall off the Mtn. (see example below) it was way fun.
Here is an example of something that would freak me out. Even though this doesn't look scary, Josh is actually standing on this overhang that has a 2800 ft. drop off. At any moment this rock could have just given way. Josh wasn't too worried about that though- I think I was more worried for his life than mine on this trip (he's a dare devil and I'm to afraid I'll die to do anything risky)
This is just another one of my favorite formations... balancing rock. We hit it at just the right time of day- the shadows and lighting on the thing were great... If I would have been a professional photographer I would have gotten some sweet pictures of the thing! (this trip did inspire me to become a professional photographer so just you wait!)
Last week my Cross country team had their region meet! Both the boys and the girls won! To be honest we were very nervous for the girls... one of our varsity runners had her hip out of place so we had to put in a JV girl. Our top varsity gal had a (minor) surgery for an illness she'd been having just a few days before the race, another of them ran through pretty bad achilles tendonitis, and another ran through a stress fracture... If you didn't get the picture these girls are tough! I was so proud of them! State is in 4 days, we'll see what happens.
This weekend Josh & I went to Cedar City. My cross country girls had a race down there so we made a big trip of it. There was a cross country team flying in from Hawaii to come to this meet and then they are going to stay with the timpview kids and work out with us for a couple days. On our way down to the reace we stopped at SUU to learn a polineasian dance from a couple kids on our team. (On monday we're having a luau with the Hawaiian team and we wanted to impress them... I mean obviously- look how great we look in the photo!) But, It was so pretty down there though! After the meet we stayed in a hotel at the Brian Head ski resort, and ran a couple pretty runs up there around cedar breaks.
These hooligans are the girls on my Cross country team! (They are pointing at a mountain they had run up the day earlier.) They are the best thing about my job! The season is over in another 3 weeks... but we are really excited because we hope to kick butt! There has only been one 4A team that's beat us this year so we're excited to see what we can do at state! We've got a couple of head cases so as long as we can keep them calm (and un-injured) we should be in good shape!
Last week Josh and I went boating with my sis. and her boyfriend. I discovered the new adventure of Wake surfing. If you haven't done it then you should. You take a rope that's about 8 ft. long and then you take a surfboard and you just pull yourself up and there you are surfing on the wake just right behind the boat! I'm kindof impared when it comes to stuff like this so it took me about 8 tries to get up, But man, it was pretty awesome!
So, the other day Josh took his Optometry admissions test. He did really well, better than he expected. His score put him in the 90th percentile. After he found this out he was going around saying how smart he was and how he's not "the dumb one" in the family any more. A few hours after he'd found out how "brilliant" he was we were going to go grocery shopping. We walked out to the parking lot, in broad daylight, to find that Josh's car was not in his parking spot. He starts freaking out and saying his car is stolen, he'd just seen it in his spot an hour ago! I just kept saying are you sure? did you park it on the street or somewhere else? He was sure he'd parked it there and it had been stolen. He then gets on his phone, still freaking out, and dials the police... waiting for the police to pick up the phone he remembered- "oh, I drove my car up to campus and it's still up there" Ha!
Today is the first day ever for my blog. I don't really know how this whole blog thing is going to work out for me but I have high hopes! I thought maybe if I just write some random stuff then I could check out my blog and make sure it's working properly.
