Two Years in a Nutshell

Matt was extremely unimpressed with my anniversary post so he requested that I make a new post with pictures of the last two years and writing in it...Some days I'm in a writing mood and some days I'm just not, today I'm just not. Matt doesn't seem to get it so I'm trying just for him. I have nothing better to do so I might as well but sometimes when I have nothing to do it's hard for me to focus and do the things that I could be doing. We have had quite a few adventures these past two years!
WE:

Got Engaged

Got Married

Went to Snow College

Saw the 49ers play in San Fran

Went Hiking

Went to the beach

Supported Matt

Went camping

Visited Utah

Celebrated Anniversary #1

Bought a house

Saw JT in concert

Watched Molly get baptized

Bought a dog and then gave him away

Shuffled through the Pear Blossom

Joined APX

Lived Happily Ever After

A Few Days Overdue

Happy Anniversary. Two years seems like nothing! It has gone by so fast but feels like we have been together forever at the same time. I'll spare everyone the mushy stuff and just say how happy we are to have each other.

What Country Do I Live In?

Molly, Audra and I decided to go shopping today in downtown Laredo. The Laredo magazine described it as...
"Where visitors can experience the old world charm of the huslte and bustle of downtown bargain shopping. Lace up your walking shoes, thorw on some SPF and get ready for a shopping experience unlike any other."
A shopping experience unlike any other was an understatement! We headed north for the shopping experience of a lifetime, to our surprise when we got there it was RIGHT ON THE BORDER. I mean the street we were on was where people were walking across with their suitcases ready to shop! We were the ONLY white people that we saw all day and I'm pretty sure the only people who were speaking english. I have never felt so out of place...even when I went to Mexico. At least when I was on vacation in Mexico I was aware(and excited) that I was somewhere besides the United States and it was fun to experience something different. Today was so weird because I really didn't feel like I fit in, at all. It was the weirdest thing. Anyway we really did have fun...I'm not too sure that we'd go back down there again but maybe!

My Dream Come True...With A Twist, Twist

So...After many long hours of anticipation for Laredo and our new home we finally arrived.


The dirt road paved out of gold to our house


Our new front door

Welcome home. As I'm sure you can imagine we were all a little surprised but still hopeful. The apartments are actually really nice inside, just an odd location. Come to find out we had no furniture, no running water and no power. What in the world are we going to do? We do what we have come to do best...we all go out to eat. This wasted a couple hours and gave us all a little boost of energy. When we got to our apartment the problems still were not resolved so we decided to get a "hotel". No one wanted to pay much so we settled on dun da da...LA HACIENDA!
Woohoo.



The next day we got moved to dun da da...EXTENDED STAY AMERICA.



This seemed more promising than La Hacienda and their poison hot breakfast...not so much. I'm pretty sure people really had extended their stay, indefinitely. There was no maid service, no hot breakfast and a never ending odor of fish and cigarettes that lingered in the hall way. Nice. Too many days of second hand smoke and nothing to do finally got to Camee and she got us moved over to the dun da da...
THE MARRIOTT.







Oh my heck THIS is my dream come true. This is the kind of hotel a girl could get used to living in! This is better than Christmas morning, can I seriously just tell you. They have everything you could ever want in the whole wide world right at your finger tips...including a grocery shopper that delivers your hearts desire right to your room! I'm never going to want to go back home.
We are waiting here until we get furniture in our apartments....hopefully that means we will be here for the next three months : )

My Dream Come True...With A Twist

When I was a little girl my mom would read me a book, Eloise in the Plaza, about a girl(who happened to look a lot like me!) who lived in a fancy hotel. Because of Eloise I have always LOVED hotels and dreamed of living in one...
We left El Paso on Sunday morning and started off our new adventure to Laredo Texas. After MANY long hours in the car, a few food stops and for me at least quite a few restroom stops we finally made it to San Antonio! We should have got there in the late afternoon but we didn't actually get there until 8:00...I guess that's what happens when you are caravaning with 8 cars and a moving truck.
We had a really good dinner at the Alamo Cafe(mexican food, my favorite) then we went to Spencer and Sara's house to spend the night. Sara and I broke our record for midnight chats and stayed up until 6 in the morning! Matt and I had to be up and out the door by 7:30...lets just say I was in quite a daze the rest of the day!
Our short trip to Laredo ended up being a long trip to Laredo since we encountered a few set backs....sick people, tropical storms, small bladders...
We were all excited to finially make it to our appartments and see what they were like. Dun Dun Dun...to be continued.

Happy Dad's Day

For Father's Day we went with Matt, Camee and Scott to Cattleman's Steakhouse to eat at their "world famous" restaurant. They have a pretty cool set up. We got to walk around and look at all the animals and then we got on a tour "bus" which was actually like a home made wagon pulled by a John Deer tractor and went out to see the old movie sets. I think it would have been better minus the jeans and the 104 degree temperatures. After the tour we went and ate at the HUGE restaurant. I wish I would have taken a picture of my 10 oz Ranch Burger..I was feeling really sceptical about it since that is almost a pound of burger and I really only like the see through patties from McDonalds but the waitress ASSURED me that it was pretty thin...not really that big at all...Holy Cow, literally, it was like an inch thick!

Happy to be in the shade!




This is an old pioneer home...for RICH pioneers...I wouldn't want to be poor!

Look at all the ghosts in there


Looks like Matt and I are the only ones who like each other


The little boys like the helicopter


They used this helicopter for the movie Courage Under Fire


Matt's been keeping an eye out for a good car for Molly...he can hardly contain his excitement over finding this gem!


Molly LOVES it too!

We really did have a great fun time looking at all the cool things and being amazed that anyone could shoot a movie out in that heat!