Over 2,000 Miles in a Weekend

I am such a slacker...I am supposed to be packing right now, even though I've been packing all morning, but I need to take a break. Clay and I left for Utah Friday night and made a stop in Poky for a Twin Falls Roommate Reunion :) I can't believe that we made it work because we had been trying for months to get something together to all meet up. Even though it was just for a couple hours and eating at Texas Roadhouse, it was well worth it. Thanks to you all who sacrificed your time to come!!!

L-R: Heather, Brittnee, Kandra, Me

Bottom: Daisy, Niki, Nicole

Thanks Girls!!!

That night after getting into Utah, Clay and I decided to stay in a Hotel by the airport so we stayed in at the Holiday Inn and it was awesome! It wasn't like your average hotel room with the flower bed spreads, little mirrors, etc. We had a King size bed, flat screen tv, HUGE vanity mirrors :), white bedding against a dark red wall. I loved it. We ended up with the place from Priceline and so we got it dirt cheap too for what the average rates were! Saving-check.

We took the shuttle to the airport in the morning, got to security quickly, only for them to stop Clay.
Security dude: "Who's laptop is this? It's not supposed to be in your bag."

Shoot, well we'd never taken a laptop flying so we had no clue what to do with it and I didn't realize it was in his bag. So this guy has Clay follow him behind the x-ray machines or whatever and this lady freaks out and yells at him telling him he can't go that way so then this other guy looks for Clay while he's going the other way. He has him pull all his stuff out and put it in its own bin and go through again. LAME. Then while we're waiting for our plane, Clay gets a drink of water and gets splashed all over his face. Can this trip get any worse? ha ha Well we finally arrive in Seattle/Tacoma and get to choose our rental car (economy size) and are left with a Toyota Yaris (?) so Clay looks like a giant and hits his head every time he gets in/out. We get to our first place for housing. Here's the background real quick. 2 months ago we looked for fun on craigslist, knowing we weren't going to rent yet, but we found an awesome duplex. Clay decided to call on it weeks later and the lady said the other side would be available the end of July! Perfect, just when we'd be there. In the meantime, we found another place of hers that was ok, but nothing like that first place. Ok, back to story. So this first place was that ok place I just mentioned. Not too bad, small bedrooms, kinda scary neighborhood. Please take us to the next place. Instant Love!! Someone was still living in it otherwise I'd have pictures, but he showed us around. 2 story duplex, wood floors for the living room which is huge and wood stairs. Storage under stairs, pantry, nice cabinets, stainless steel appliances, washer/dryer closet with storage, 1/2 bath, full bath, 1 nice sized bedroom, bigger master than ours right now with a better closet :) Not to mention that we have a small backyard, new 2 car garage and an alarm system! We had one more place to look but we took the applications and after that other place, went back and took it. YAY! I'm super excited! So here's what it looks like on the outside. Ours is on the right where the lady is.

We went to lunch after that at this place called Anthony's at Point Defiance off the bay. We ate outside which it was only "80 degrees and it doesn't ever get this hot" but seemed fine to us. Well the sun was blasting down on us and I got a sunburn! ha Kinda funny. But here's our view from the dock where we ate.

Mt. Rainier looks gi-normous! It was a great quick trip as we took a quick nap in the park and headed back to the airport. Next time we'll be pulling a big moving truck and ready to make Tacoma our home for a little while!

A Dream Come True

I'm still lacking on catching up with recent weekend activities (the 4th of July...) but I couldn't wait to post this. You probably think I'm weird for even thinking of posting this or sharing it with everyone, but it cracked me up to the furthest extent (does that even make sense? oh well, it sounds good). So...Clay and I are riding with my parents to Bear Lake today and as we're driving through Soda Springs, I look in the middle of the street and out of no where, there's MONEY FLYING EVERYWHERE!!!!How could you mistake those great green dollar bills, just feet from us as we're going oh, about 30 mph, and I freak out because...as weird as this may seem, I have constant dreams that this would happen in my life. I wish for the day that I would be walking down the street and come across a big pile of either coins, quarters, or simply dollar bills - preferably 100's ;) Ok, so me freaking out...I yell at my dad that we should stop so I can go grab it all! (My mom agrees with me, ha ha) Well, come to find out he saw a wallet a few feet from us too, which of course I didn't and wasn't aware that maybe someone lost this money - well there wasn't anyone running around crazy trying to catch it all so I figured that this was just a figment of my imagination and that it was in fact still a dream of mine and too good to be true. Needless to say, we didn't stop and just drove on through looking through the back window to see if anyone else stopped or if someone was brave enough to dart in the middle of the road to grab the loot. But it sure made me ecstatic to see that dreams do come true, even the most wildest and unprobable dreams :) I love it. The end.

A Day in Island Park

Last weekend, the end of June, Clay's brother, Tyler, and his friend Caeli came up from Utah to hang with us. Friday night we did a session at the Temple with our ward and then Saturday we headed up to Henry's Lake and fished their outlet. The first place we went there was nothing...other than Caeli finding this fish just "floating" by the bank which was a good 16 inches. So, Clay went to grab and it suddenly came to life! So we took it with us happy that we already had a big one! We left and went more into the trees and fished a wider river/stream. We borrowed our friend's waders so I put mine on and headed through the bushes upstream. We got into the water, quietly may I add, and instantly saw fish jumping! I was so excited! I am the type of fisher that if I don't at least see that there are fish there, I lose all hope. Ha ha So it looked like a bright day. Not too long after was I already having bites. I ended up catching at least 4 fish, however, they were not the legal size limit so sadly I had to throw them back in. It was so cool though just catching them and reeling them in! In the meantime of me catching mine, Clay changed bait and as soon as he cast his and took the first reel, his pole just bent like it had caught on a log. But NO...it started pulling so he had caught a big one! He finally reeled it in, and it was a good 17 incher!!! It was so cool! I act so surprised and excited because we haven't caught anything like that! So we caught some good ones there. We went to one more place and it seemed like a lame place but Clay was by a little dam and cast it by the side of it and low and behold, the same thing happened and he got a 16 incher! Tyler was taking it off the hook while Clay was freaking out that he was going to drop it when he took it and chucked it onto the bank. I picked it up and it had some spasms or whatever so I freaked and dropped it. Anyway, that's all we caught and so it was time to gut 'em so they let Caeli help out, this being her first time fishing. We then headed off to Tyler's old Bishop's cabin in Island Park and visited with his family and had some grub. We took off with the 4-wheelers up to Sawtelle Summit. It was an awesome ride and the top was spectacular! I was a bum and didn't go explore like the others so they were the ones getting the pictures. We ended the night with dinner at Pond's Lodge. I got a funky burn on my arms because I only used the remaining sunscreen from my face and didn't rub it all in so now it's a weird looking tan. Ha ha It was a lovely weekend!

Then

If you aren't into country music, you need to be just for this specific song. I'm sure those of you that do listen, have heard of Brad Paisley. His new song, Then, is like the perfect love song. I've heard it quite a bit lately and just imagine it being played at my 50th Wedding Anniversary someday :) Here's a video of it with the lyrics if you want to enjoy listening to it. I love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npE8QdDtN4I
I don't know how to get the actual video on the post so if you know, please help me out!