So this morning I woke up to the sound of our fan cutting out. Yep, that's right, the power went out at around 5 in the morning. Then it came back on again and I was excited! But nope, it cut out AGAIN. So I woke up and took a very quick shower by the natural light of the morning sun. And then I had to light a candle in the kitchen to give more light as I did the dishes in the lukewarm water. I was trying to decide what to eat for breakfast but I realized very quickly that the only thing we had to eat for breakfast that didn't require heating, mixing, cooking, toasting or any other form of cooking was oatmeal in milk. So that's what I had for breakfast. fun fun fun
But what is fun was what appeared on our porch right after I got home from work.
My bodybugg came! Adam bought me a back to school gift. I am charging it right now! I am so excited to log my food calculate the calories burned all day! I'll have to keep you updated on how it works.
Well I am so excited for this afternoon! Happy wednesday afternoon :)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
A moment to be grateful for
So I've done it! I officially passed my Personal Training Exam and I am certified. So I went to Golds Gym and asked to intern there. I was accepted no questions asked. How amazing is that? I love going to the gym and shadowing the trainers. I learn so much watching how they modify different workout routines for people. Its really cool.
Adam and I were fortunate to find some old textbooks lying around and we have recently learned that we can ship in our old books for money. Some old chemistry books, physiology books and a couple other random ones earned us $200. 200! And then, as a back to school gift, adam bought me a body bugg! I am so excited to use it. It calculates all the calories I burn every day and it calculates the amount of sleep I got and everything!
We had some lovely neighbors move in this past week! We are so excited to live next to family :) We will have lots of opportunities to spend time with them and we can't wait. we have already enjoyed several encounters with them already!
Finally, Adam and I were blessed today to find out that we both got grants for school! That is such a wonderful blessing. We have all our tuition paid for and Adam even got an extra $2,000 for his exceptionally good grades!
I just wanted to say that we are so grateful for all the blessings we have received here as of late. We love our lives!
Adam and I were fortunate to find some old textbooks lying around and we have recently learned that we can ship in our old books for money. Some old chemistry books, physiology books and a couple other random ones earned us $200. 200! And then, as a back to school gift, adam bought me a body bugg! I am so excited to use it. It calculates all the calories I burn every day and it calculates the amount of sleep I got and everything!
We had some lovely neighbors move in this past week! We are so excited to live next to family :) We will have lots of opportunities to spend time with them and we can't wait. we have already enjoyed several encounters with them already!
Finally, Adam and I were blessed today to find out that we both got grants for school! That is such a wonderful blessing. We have all our tuition paid for and Adam even got an extra $2,000 for his exceptionally good grades!
I just wanted to say that we are so grateful for all the blessings we have received here as of late. We love our lives!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
A happy weekend!
Hello sunday!
This weekend has been amazing! It's been full of stress, talking, fun, cuddling, hard times and good times.Friday, we had quite the adventure! We set out on a mystery date (meaning, i had no idea where we were going, but Adam had a plan) And where should we turn up? The aquarium of course!
I didn't know until afterwards that Adam had never been to an aquarium before. I guess living in Seattle, where there is an aquarium so close, and my mom took me all the time when we were little, I just assumed that everyone had been to an aquarium at least ONCE. But I was surprised! It was really cool though. We got to walk around and see the animals native to utah (like all the different kinds of frogs, and did you know that bullfrogs are HUGE???) and then we got to go through this discover africa or something section. We saw a small crocodile, an electric eel, piranhas, and an anaconda! Did you know that Anacondas never stop growing? And, when Roosevelt was president, he put a $10,000 reward to anyone who could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet? Its raised now! Apparently, you'd get $50,000 if you could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet. Well you see, I spotted the flaw in this program. It's not finding the anaconda. It would be bringing the anaconda in. I don't know about you... but trying to capture a snake longer than 30 feet that could kill you... doesnt sound too fun or easy to me.Oh! there was this petting zoo part and we got to touch sting rays! It was really cool, except for the fact that I was afraid that I was going to get stung. They felt really strange too.
After our adventure at the aquarium, we went to the cheesecake factory! We got seated outside only to barely get our food, have rain start POURING down on us, get shoved back inside in some random corner of the restaurant and watch the rain, wind and lightning right where we were sitting just a couple minutes before. Crazy. But the food there is still good.
Saturday morning I got up really early and went to North Orem to take my NASM Personal Training Certification test. It was crazy hard! I was so nervous to take the test, my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest, and I thought that I was going to be sick. But luckily, I wasn't sick, and I passed my test! I am now a certified personal trainer :)
After that, I came home, and Adam and I made some Cinnamon bun popcorn and a bean dip for my sister-in-laws birthday party. We had my family come over, we watched the movie Up! and we made our own bottle cap pins and filled out our own adventure book. It was very clever and quite fun :) Thanks to Jameson for the planning! And happy birthday Becky! (on Monday)
Well church will be starting very soon, and I am playing the piano in relief society so I should probably get dressed now...
This weekend has been amazing! It's been full of stress, talking, fun, cuddling, hard times and good times.Friday, we had quite the adventure! We set out on a mystery date (meaning, i had no idea where we were going, but Adam had a plan) And where should we turn up? The aquarium of course!
I didn't know until afterwards that Adam had never been to an aquarium before. I guess living in Seattle, where there is an aquarium so close, and my mom took me all the time when we were little, I just assumed that everyone had been to an aquarium at least ONCE. But I was surprised! It was really cool though. We got to walk around and see the animals native to utah (like all the different kinds of frogs, and did you know that bullfrogs are HUGE???) and then we got to go through this discover africa or something section. We saw a small crocodile, an electric eel, piranhas, and an anaconda! Did you know that Anacondas never stop growing? And, when Roosevelt was president, he put a $10,000 reward to anyone who could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet? Its raised now! Apparently, you'd get $50,000 if you could find an anaconda larger than 30 feet. Well you see, I spotted the flaw in this program. It's not finding the anaconda. It would be bringing the anaconda in. I don't know about you... but trying to capture a snake longer than 30 feet that could kill you... doesnt sound too fun or easy to me.Oh! there was this petting zoo part and we got to touch sting rays! It was really cool, except for the fact that I was afraid that I was going to get stung. They felt really strange too.
After our adventure at the aquarium, we went to the cheesecake factory! We got seated outside only to barely get our food, have rain start POURING down on us, get shoved back inside in some random corner of the restaurant and watch the rain, wind and lightning right where we were sitting just a couple minutes before. Crazy. But the food there is still good.
Saturday morning I got up really early and went to North Orem to take my NASM Personal Training Certification test. It was crazy hard! I was so nervous to take the test, my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest, and I thought that I was going to be sick. But luckily, I wasn't sick, and I passed my test! I am now a certified personal trainer :)
After that, I came home, and Adam and I made some Cinnamon bun popcorn and a bean dip for my sister-in-laws birthday party. We had my family come over, we watched the movie Up! and we made our own bottle cap pins and filled out our own adventure book. It was very clever and quite fun :) Thanks to Jameson for the planning! And happy birthday Becky! (on Monday)
Well church will be starting very soon, and I am playing the piano in relief society so I should probably get dressed now...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Busy busy busy
So its been a while. I know it has. but its been a busy month!
Lets see...whats happened?
Well, I turned 21 for one thing! it was an exciting day. this is how i spent my 21 birthday. First- I woke up and went to work. After work, I went to the doctor to get my neck checked out because I injured my neck really bad the day before. Then after the doctor, Adam and I went to the dentist to get our teeth cleaned. And we got quite a shock with the bill--Hello!??! x-rays were 170! for one of us! Luckily, no cavities, so we didnt have to return. Memo to me--just keep the teeth clean and dont visit the dentist unless you have to. Oh and do you know how uncomfortable it is to have your teeth cleaned with a hurt neck? Not fun!
After the dentist, we met up with my family who was in town and went to the texas roadhouse for dinner. It was so much fun! They made me sit on this saddle as they sang to me. It was kind of awkward. but I liked it anyway :) We went to our apartment afterwards and had a watermelon and an ice cream cake for dessert. I got some really fun books from my parents, and a really cool tv series called Life from my siblings! I'm so excited! Planet Earth is so cool, so I'm really excited to watch these.
That weekend, we went to bountiful for my other birthday party! It was so fun. We had a luau/beach themed party. Plenty of pulled chicken, and meatballs, and other yummy foods was made. Then, mommy williams made me a really cool parfait for my "cake" it was so good!
lets see... what else happened?
Oh! Adam got accepted into his I Sys program at BYU! We are both so excited! Its really hard to get into the program--like a 30% acceptance rate. So we're both really excited for that!
My parents are finally off to India. Which is really exciting for them! Not so exciting for us though, when we went to walmart for like ten seconds, came out and the car was dead. We had no idea what was wrong... and since it was my dad's car before I thought... well if only i could call them! But you see, it was like 2 pm utah time, which means its like 1:30 AM india time. Not cool.
Its been pretty stormy at nights lately. I turned to Adam one lightning filled evening, and I asked "Adam, can you have a lightening storm during the day?"
to which he replied "yes... but its really rare... but yes... but its really rare"
And he made fun of me. I mean, how often do you see thunderstorms during the day?
But guess what???
Just yesterday, it happened. I saw a thunderstorm during the day! it was awesome! Half the sky was dark and grey and the other half was blue. and lightning struck through the dark side into the light side. I thought it was so cool. and so awesome that it happened right after our conversation. Maybe its not so rare.
I take my NASM personal training test this saturday! As in... 2 days from now. I'm kind of really nervous for it, but I am so excited at the same time. It will be awesome. Hopefully I pass! If i do, i have an internship lined up with golds gym for after.... hopefully it all works out.
And thats just some of whats happened lately. The rest has been filled with, but not exclusive to...
homemade french bread
more birthday parties
playing with nieces and nephews
invader zim
netflix on demand movies
internet problems, and then fixing them
chocolate peanut butter bars
zumba, pilates and yoga
lots and lots of strawberries
and homemade crafts!
Lets see...whats happened?
Well, I turned 21 for one thing! it was an exciting day. this is how i spent my 21 birthday. First- I woke up and went to work. After work, I went to the doctor to get my neck checked out because I injured my neck really bad the day before. Then after the doctor, Adam and I went to the dentist to get our teeth cleaned. And we got quite a shock with the bill--Hello!??! x-rays were 170! for one of us! Luckily, no cavities, so we didnt have to return. Memo to me--just keep the teeth clean and dont visit the dentist unless you have to. Oh and do you know how uncomfortable it is to have your teeth cleaned with a hurt neck? Not fun!
After the dentist, we met up with my family who was in town and went to the texas roadhouse for dinner. It was so much fun! They made me sit on this saddle as they sang to me. It was kind of awkward. but I liked it anyway :) We went to our apartment afterwards and had a watermelon and an ice cream cake for dessert. I got some really fun books from my parents, and a really cool tv series called Life from my siblings! I'm so excited! Planet Earth is so cool, so I'm really excited to watch these.
That weekend, we went to bountiful for my other birthday party! It was so fun. We had a luau/beach themed party. Plenty of pulled chicken, and meatballs, and other yummy foods was made. Then, mommy williams made me a really cool parfait for my "cake" it was so good!
lets see... what else happened?
Oh! Adam got accepted into his I Sys program at BYU! We are both so excited! Its really hard to get into the program--like a 30% acceptance rate. So we're both really excited for that!
My parents are finally off to India. Which is really exciting for them! Not so exciting for us though, when we went to walmart for like ten seconds, came out and the car was dead. We had no idea what was wrong... and since it was my dad's car before I thought... well if only i could call them! But you see, it was like 2 pm utah time, which means its like 1:30 AM india time. Not cool.
Its been pretty stormy at nights lately. I turned to Adam one lightning filled evening, and I asked "Adam, can you have a lightening storm during the day?"
to which he replied "yes... but its really rare... but yes... but its really rare"
And he made fun of me. I mean, how often do you see thunderstorms during the day?
But guess what???
Just yesterday, it happened. I saw a thunderstorm during the day! it was awesome! Half the sky was dark and grey and the other half was blue. and lightning struck through the dark side into the light side. I thought it was so cool. and so awesome that it happened right after our conversation. Maybe its not so rare.
I take my NASM personal training test this saturday! As in... 2 days from now. I'm kind of really nervous for it, but I am so excited at the same time. It will be awesome. Hopefully I pass! If i do, i have an internship lined up with golds gym for after.... hopefully it all works out.
And thats just some of whats happened lately. The rest has been filled with, but not exclusive to...
homemade french bread
more birthday parties
playing with nieces and nephews
invader zim
netflix on demand movies
internet problems, and then fixing them
chocolate peanut butter bars
zumba, pilates and yoga
lots and lots of strawberries
and homemade crafts!
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