Simon's Cat

Jamison and I have two cats. They are pretty weird animals. I never thought that I would own cats, much less two of them, but I do. Even though they shed everywhere and sometimes peuk (they eat way too fast....) I still think they are kind of funny. I found these youtube videos that I thought were hilarious because they are exactly how cats are. Even if you don't have cats you can appreciate what ridiculous animals they are. So, let me present, Simon's Cat. (well actually the link because my computer is being funny and won't let me download the youtube video and then put it on here.... sorry everyone. But click on the link because it is funny)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvNqe8cKU4

General Conference

Almost everyone I know with a blog wrote something about General Conference. It made me feel kind of bad that I only got to watch Sunday Session. I was at dang play practice all day Saturday and barely made it home in time to say good bye to Jamison as he left for Priesthood session. But other than my animosity towards the play (only because it is sucking all my time and life away from me) for making me miss the Saturday sessions, I am still so happy that I got to hear the Sunday sessions.

The words of the prophets are so edifying and encouraging. I can't help but feel wonderful after listening to four sessions of conference (although I only got to hear two this conference). Jamison and I have decided that since I didn't get to listen to Saturday that we would do that for FHE for a few weeks. When we decided that I had the thought that we should be doing this anyways. Too often I only read and listen to General Conference a few weeks after the actual two days of conference. The words that they speak to us are what the Lord would have us hear. They are tailored to us in this day and we should study them as much as we study the Book of Mormon (this is only my opinion, I am not telling anyone what to do. Rather I am expressing my won feelings and desires).

We are so lucky that God has given us wonderful prophets that love us. I am so grateful for their words and sacrifice to serve the Lord and us.

Ancient Greek Literature is Awesome

For all those who haven't heard, I am in a play! The School of the Arts is collaborating on the Greek tragedy, Antigone. As dance is a part of the performing arts they asked for a few female dancers to be in the chorus. So there are about 11 of us and we make up the Greek chorus. We are the chorus (not the chorus leader who speaks during the play) and do the songs that introduce new parts of the play. There are five of them in total and they are kind of long. We will also just be hanging around in the audience the rest of the time we aren't on stage. What is ever more awesome is that the play is being put on in the quad. It's a courtyard like area in the middle of the school. They have waterfalls, ponds and this large stage like area that has 6 different levels that the water kind of runs in between. It's going to be really fun, or at least I am hoping it will be because I am giving up a lot of time for it.




So if you are in Utah anytime between October 7-13 come and see me!

I think that this is funny

Hehehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUG3Z8Hxa5I


I don't know why, but this really hit my funny bone.

We Have the Hippest Neighbors

As I speak, the house next door to ours is hosting a folk/alternative concert. Yes, hamburgers are cooking, the couch has been moved outside and they have covered up their lamps for ambience. The bands are really good actually. They invited us over, but we have the best seats right here, we don't have to walk the balance of too loud and being crowed out. We get to sit on our couch and enjoy the music. There was this band, Muddied Bison that was pretty sweet. Weird name though. Muddied Bison, where does one even come up with something like that? Maybe they were driving in Yellowstone and were struck by inspiration while drinking Red Bull and blasting tunes out their jeep. They reminded me al little of Deer Hunter, just not as explosive. The last band that played was good too, but their name isn't as memorable as Muddied Bison; another plus found for the name, you will always remember it.
Sitting in our house we have the perfect mixture of good company and sound levels. The only downside is that we don't have hamburgers. Mmmm, hamburgers. Summer does something to human appetites making them crave BBQ, chips, hot dogs (and delicious corn dogs) and hamburgers. To make it even better you can eat it outside! Oh and you can't forget S'mores. I eat those even in the winter time though. I just use the burner. :) I love summer nights. Nothing beats having your window open and it still being light out at 9:00 pm. Maybe being around a camp fire singing some sweet blues, but on the average night, windows open is pretty dang fabulous. What do you love about summer?

Dream Calling

The smell of play dough, chunks of crayon and flannel boards. It all comes together in the dream calling, primary teacher. Surprise! I love teaching Primary. I taught the sunbeams during college when I was home and I loved it. It gets even better this time because Jamison and I get to teach together. I have never had a calling with someone else and so to have one with my husband will be so awesome. Honestly, I have wanted to teach in primary since I have been in this ward. There is something about breaking it down to the basics that really appeals to me (that and snacks). We have three little boys in our class and sometimes a little girl. We substituted for their class two weeks ago and it was fun. We made felt flowers for Mother's Day and talked about the Priesthood.
So does anyone have any good suggestions about teaching four year old boys (and occasionally a little girl)? I would love to hear things that have worked for you and things that you have stayed away from (yes I know, I am opening myself up to the world of family advice... bring it on!!). Yeah for primary!

The Wonderful Month of May

May brings us many things. We have May flowers, courtesy of April showers, maypoles for May Day festivities, strawberries, and Cinco de Mayo for all those with Mexican ancestry. More recently however, May brings us one of the greatest days, our anniversary.

Jamison and I got married on May 2nd in Bountiful, Utah. It was raining that day, though it didn't put a damper on the moment, and most of our family was in attendance (Jamison's father couldn't come, but he was there in spirit). We were sealed in the Bountiful Temple and had our reception at the Wight House.  It was a wonderful day.

Today is our anniversary. I've never celebrated an anniversary (I didn't really think it was all that great when we were dating [I am offended. -editor and husband]) and so this was a whole new thing. Jamison must have gotten advice from someone (or as I tend to believe, he is amazing and already knows these things) and got me flowers. More specifically, my favorite and wedding flower, the delphinium (this was on May 1st because May 2nd was on a Sunday thereby prohibiting us from celebrating in a monetary way). What a great prelude to our actual wedding anniversary.

May 2nd started out wonderfully and ended wonderfully. To understand what we did I have to tell you how Jamison proposed to me. We were in a park in downtown Riga, Latvia. It was so cold my toes were starting to go numb. We just kept walking around while Jamison, unbeknownst to me, mustered up the courage to ask me to marry him. We finally stopped at a bridge in one of the city's parks. The bridge had locks with couples' names engraved on them. He had told me earlier that it was a true love kind of thing. Couples would place a lock with their names engraved on it on the bridge to symbolize their commitment to each other. It would always be there (the park people actually cut them off every year, but it is still a nice sentiment).

For Christmas Jamison bought us a lock of our very own. We decided to save it until our anniversary. So Sunday, we went to a park in Provo canyon, had a picnic (it was a little chilly) and painted our lock (we couldn't find anyone to engrave it). It was very fun.

This is our lovely lock. Jamison painted my name and I painted his. He ran out of room on the front for my name, so he just continued it on the side. It's pretty awesome.

He painted a lightning bolt on the back of the lock with the number of years we have been married! It's a pretty sweet lightning bolt!

So this was where we wanted to be the final resting place for our lock. Unfortunately, the lock wasn't large enough to go around the whole metal thing. We wanted to take a picture of it anyways because it looked so pretty on that bridge.

Jamison was pretty bummed about it not fitting on the bridge he had picked out.

This is us!

This is the final resting place of the lock. It isn't a very pretty bridge. It's basically a chain link fence with metal bars placed sporadically on the sides. But the lock fit so that's were it stays.

See if you can spot where the lock is!

YEAH FOR MAY!