Predictions 2010....

Inspired by my friend Andrea's blog, I am going to do a list of "things that will happen" in 2010.

January - Pray for and get a raise or more hours at work. I expect hours to get increased anyway because tax season is starting.

February - Choose a home church. Sell my Camry. (If you are intere

sted in buying it email me or David. It's a great car and I'll be sad to see it go.)

March - Buy an older, yet reliable, used car for me to drive. Celebrate David's 27th birthday. I'll plan a special date & maybe we'll get together with friends. Yes. That is what we'll do. Oh, also, does softball season start this month? If it does, I'll find a team

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April - Tax season will end so hopefully I won't be as busy at work after the 15th. And if softball season didn't start last month, hopefully it starts this month & I'll be on a team.

May - Go to northern California to be in Melissa & Josh's wedding. Maybe David & I will make a little extended vacation out of it.

June - Go to southern California to be in Crystal & Brett's wedding. Maybe David & I will make a little extended vacation out of it. Possibly move if we can't renew our lease.

July - If we have money left over from our travels, we'll buy a bedroom set. Cal King bed, here we come!

August - Work & live.

September - Celebrate my 26th birthday. David has planned "date days" for my birthdays the last couple years. I'm sure he'll come up with something good. :)

October - Celebrate our 1 year anniversary... by going "away" somewhere for that weekend. Probably be baby hungry, even though our plan is not to get pregnant for at least another year from this month.

November - Celebrate Thanksgiving & experience random snow showers across Salt Lake City.

December - Travel to visit family for Christmas. Probably be baby hungry again.

I'll check in on this post a year from now with what actually happened in 2010!

Lesson #1 Learn the hard way...

Don't dry new brown towels with older yellow ones. The yellow towels didn't turn brown, they just came out of the dryer with annoying little brown fuzzies ALL over them. Lesson learned.

A couple pictures

These are the bobblehead "cake toppers," that aren't really cake toppers at all, with our wedding cake.
This is my Aunt Terri & Uncle Bill. They make me laugh. I want to put this picture on my fridge.
These are our friends Todd & Danielle. They like to steal cameras. They will be going overseas to live & work. We love them.
This is David & I on our honeymoon. We went on a road trip in MA, CT, & RI. We found Clinton, CT.
This is David & I on our wedding day.

Holidays

Well, we've been in CA for a few days now, enjoying our time with family and friends. We haven't really taken any pictures. I just wanted to post something quickly, to let you know I haven't forgotten about this blog. I do need to post more, make more of a commitment to updating this. We'll see.

Happy New Year!!

PS... Favorite things about CA.... 1. Friends & Family, of course, 2. Kaffa!, 3. Ichi, 4. Cool/Warm weather in December, 5. Holidays in Pasadena, 6. Coffee Bean... :)

Highly Recommended...

David & I have very much enjoyed watching various shows from PBS & the BBC which could be categorized as the "House" series I guess. Not the "House" you are thinking of that is the witty doctor, but "Manor House", "Texas Ranch House", "1900 House", "Frontier House", "Regency House Party", "Colonial House".

The basic theme is that the producers take a modern day group of people, including families and strangers, and place them in a controlled historical environment to make them live as the people of that year in history did. So, in "Texas Ranch House" a family from California and random guys came to a Texas ranch set up as it was in 1867. They had to wear all the clothes of the period and live the lives of a ranchers family & cowboys. They had to get enough cattle to sell by the end of the summer to pay the mortgage of the ranch.

"1900 House" takes place in England. They took a family in 1999 and placed them in a flat fully furnished as it was in 1900. They had to brush their teeth with soda crystals, cook on an iron stove, wear corsets, and buy meat from the butcher who came door to door.

The shows combine reality tv and history lessons at the same time. These shows bring history to life really. It's hard to know what life was really like 100, 150, or 400 years ago... but these people (and viewers like you) have the opportunity to bring history to life. Would you want to get your milk every day from the dairy cow in your yard? Or tie up a corset every morning? Or shave with a straight edge (cutthroat) razor? Or brush your teeth with soda crystals? Or wash your hair with eggs? Or bake in an iron stove with no temperature gauge but your hand? Interesting stuff!

We've checked out every one of these shows we could find at the local library. (Free movies, btw... why go to Blockbuster or do Netflix when you can check out almost any movie for free?)

Wedding & Honeymoon Pics

David has posted some pictures from our wedding & honeymoon on his picture gallery. http://gallery.me.com/dc3

We can't post the "official" wedding pics yet, but if you have any pictures from our wedding you can upload them to David's picture gallery. :)

So, it's happening again....

It's that time of the month...uh, I mean, year when big changes are coming. You know, the weather changes and it gets a little cooler. The "big change" for all those who do not live in So. Cal. or Florida is the COLD weather that's coming. Another "big change" for single people is MARRIAGE, which David & I will be entering into in 11 days. :)

So, the "so, it's happening again...." title is in reference to even another change. We are moving! Moving where? Back to Salt Lake City. It is official. Yes, we are getting married in 11 days, going on a honeymoon, coming back to So. Cal., packing up, and moving to Utah at the beginning of November. Several factors went into the decision making process including our job & housing situations, and desire to live outside of CA. We processed, prayed, "slept on it", charted our options, etc etc. The conclusion: let's go! It's definitely scary, but exciting at the same time.

Yay!!! We are very excited for this adventure. It is hard to say goodbye to family & friends here, but we definitely believe God is giving us an opportunity to leave California (for a while or for good, we don't know) and experience life in another state. Whoo hooo!

Just thought I'd give an update, although it is brief. If you have questions/comments/concerns (in that order), please let me know! :)

Us in Park City Sept 2008.