Summer

We have had a wonderful summer. Not quite the "summer o' fun" like we were planning. But still quite good. This has been the first summer that Ben has not taken classes during spring/summer since we have been married. It has been great! I love to have my husband that is not stressed about classes or projects. But no worries he will be coming back all too soon. So I have added some fun pictures of our summer so far.

Zion's National Park

Birch Aquarium

Timp Cave

Fireworks on the 24th of July

Oh, and we ran a 5k this morning and we both got Personal Records

Before @ 6:00 am

After -- 5k later -- about 9 am

In the Kneader's parking lot.

All you can eat French Toast as out reward!

Happiness

I was talking to Ben and I just need to decide to be happy. I am working on that. I have to be happy and appreciate where I am and what my life is right now. Because if I take for granted my life right now, Heavenly Father is now going to give me more to take for granted. Those are my thoughts today.

Spring is here!

A lot has happened since I last wrote, so I will just tell you the major stuff. I now want to be a doctor, Sarah and Neil moved to St. George, we went to Zion National Park, April ran her first 5K, Kyle got into Humor U and we went to his show- and it was really funny!, I took the test to be a CNA and am waiting on the results, and April and I decided to buy a Nintendo Wii! So that's the highlights form the last few months. There's some other stuff that's cool that I'm forgetting right now, but I might tell you about it later. I'll try to remember.

Yeah!!

It's my Birthday Month!

I was going to put a picture of my past birthdays but I don't have any. At least not any on my computer. I will have to make sure we get some good ones this year. So I just put a cute picture of me.

Wow, is it February already?

Ok, so I missed the whole tomorrow thing. Real quickly, the Facebook story- April called her desk at work "home" accidentally, and I thought i twas funny, so I ribbed her for it. Then I thought it would be funny if I changed my Facebook status to reflect our new living circumstances. So I made it say how lonely I was since April moved out (10 minutes before to her desk at work) and within 2 hours I had a text message on my phone and 5 comments asking how we were doing. It was really funny. Trust me.

So I went hiking last Saturday, up Y Mt. it was awesome! There were 7 feet of snow at the top! I went with Kyle (who had to turn back early because he didn't have snowshoes- we didn't think the snow would be that fluffy!), Tyler, Mark Pruitt, Bill and Jolena Ashman, and Mark's friend Mark, who I used to work with back at Globalization Group. It was a fun group. And it was SO pretty up there. I love hiking in the winter.

Also, I finally decided on my career- I'm going to be a PA. It will be hard for grad school, but I think I will like it. That's the plan, anyway. Ok, I will try to write more often. Now I have homework to do, so I will see you later!

Merry Christmas!

So we went to Loveland for Christmas and it was awesome!!! We left two days early due to a storm we wanted to avoid. The first night there we went to see Santa Claus with the nephews- that was fun. We also went ice skating on the frozen lake in the White's neighborhood. And on that one "we" means Sarah and Ben, everybody else thought it was too cold. Wussies.

Then we had Christmas. An abbreviated one, because Celeste had to leave on Christmas eve. :( So we opened the presents to and from Celeste, and Elijah almost had a heart attack when he saw his present- a Spider Man toothbrush. It was SO funny to see a three year old freak out over a toothbrush. He was so happy.

The next day it was actually Christmas and we opened the rest of the presents and April got me gaiters and an ear warmer headband thing. She does love me after all! Good thing I got her a Foreman grill so she knows I love her too.

(OK at this point April has informed me that I need to learn from the Facebook fiasco of two weeks ago and not say things like "she does love me after all" because as funny as I think it is, other people think we're having problems when I put things online like "Ben Willford is feeling lonely since his wife moved out" . So nobody worry- she does things that let me know that she loves me all the time.)

So just when I thought that this year's Christmas couldn't get any better- we went skiing!! In Colorado! It was awesome. And April went up the lift and she did really well! She conquered her fear of sliding down a mountain with nothing but two sticks strapped to her feet: by the end of the day she was even smiling! It was amazing. So we came home and now we're going to bed early because we're very tired after all the hardcore vacationing we did. Oh, and we got sick.

Ok, so I will tell the tale of the lonely Facebook status tomorrow and until then- Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!