Back in I-Dee-Ho

Other than my last post, it's been quite some time since I've recorded anything and boy, have a lot of things happened! Where to start now... First off, student teaching finally ended! It was a great experience, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I were with Clay, not that I didn't enjoy it. Luckily, I had friends and family around so I spent time with them. So now I am no longer a student!!!!!!! It is weird being graduated from college but it feels great! Clay and I will walk together in July so pictures coming then. I also took a last minute road trip with my bro-in-law to Vegas for General Conference weekend. That was oh so great basking in the hot sun, even though I'm never pleased with the weather...I'm either too cold or too hot which was the case but I didn't care...it was better than Idaho.

I quickly caught on to this contraption, whatever it's called, I forgot but some type of long board. It was pretty fun! But it was nice just relaxing in Vegas :)
Well, the time FINALLY came to be reunited with my long lost love, Clay :) I packed basically everything at my place in Utah which was a pain in the butt. I drove to Burley, left my car there for my brother Jared to have now for college, celebrated my other brother's birthday, Jake, then my dad drove me to Boise to fly out on Thursday. The anticipation was killing me waiting in the airport and the flight itself. Luckily, it was shorter obviously than flying from Salt Lake. Once I finally flew into Seattle, Clay was just about there so I waited outside for him. Well, I was on the upper level and he was on the lower waiting for me so the suspense was even worse because he had to drive out of the airport and back in again, grrr. Ha ha Anyway, we finally met up and it was so weird! I hadn't seen him for 2 months but it felt like an eternity and was weird getting into the car-feeling like I didn't even know or recognize him! Ha Oh it was an absolutely wonderful reunion! We each had a night of planning and mine was the next night. But we went out to this awesome Brewery that afternoon overlooking part of Puget Sound.

This was by the Brewery/Restaurant but I wish I would have taken a picture from the place so you could see it all! The next day was Clay's last day at work. I drove him to work, went to Wal-Mart to change the oil, did some shopping for my night that I had planned, and did it all with the great invention of the GPS! I would have absolutely gotten lost had it not been for that. Clay got it for his birthday before he moved to Washington so it saved his life too :) I later went to pick Clay back up, met all the people he worked with, and drove back and just relaxed. I won't go into details of what my night plans consisted of, but here's a picture of the candles on the counter after we blew them out....I think it's cool because you can see the smoke from it.

Well I had made a little picnic on the living room floor with shrimp and cocktail sauce, kiwi, cucumbers, sparkling cider-a MUST, little cinnamon swirl breads, and whatever else. Later that night we went to get some pizza at this bar which was FABULOUS! Clay has gotten me into eating Jalapenos and hotter stuff and so we got cheese and Jalapenos on the pizza and was it ever good! We went for a walk around the glass museum and by the boat docks.

Clay had taken this picture a while back ago when he was by the Glass Museum but they have this bridge that have these structures above and all around you, it's amazing!

Well enough of that...Saturday morning we packed and left Washington. We stopped in Othello to visit Clay's Aunt which was fun! I was getting way motion sick so I drove the rest of the way until Boise. We stayed there that night but we had a short little family reunion. Half of the kids now live there so my parents came up and the rest and we had a picnic in the park, took a family picture and had a nice time chatting. My older brother Jeremy had gotten back from Iraq a little back ago but I hadn't seem him since he got back and I didn't see him leave so it has been years since I've seen him so it was great for that, although his wife couldn't be there. They had just gotten back from vacation in Mexico...luckily they didn't bring the Swine Flu back with them, although my sis-in-law's sister has been really sick and has had to be quarantined (sp?). So anyway, we stopped in Burley for Easter, then finally to Utah, packed up, and drove home the next day.

This doesn't look too bad but it was a pain to pack everything as I'm sure many of you know. It was pouring rain too so that didn't make it any better. Well, back to Idaho. Good bye U-tard territory! I have come to accept the fact that there really are U-tard drivers. They simply are retarded, at least the majority. And just to let you know, I was and am not a U-tard driver.