Nickolas and Rachel Pulsipher

Yummy bread

2012-01-23T21:21:00.001-07:00

Today I was a suzy homemaker. I exercised, cleaned the bathroom with help from the hubby, and made two kinds of bread. I made banana bread and sandwich rolls. I've always had trouble getting my dough to rise, but apparently the yeast was on my side today. I tried to make sure my house was super warm.

Christmas in NM and AZ

2012-01-16T18:38:00.001-07:00

Christmas was a little crazy this year. We decided to stay with my family in New Mexico. We flew into Phoenix and stayed a few days with my grandma who lives in Mesa. We got to drive by and see the Mesa, AZ Temple lights. They are always beautiful. We spent the majority of our time in NM with my parents and my sister Elisa and her 3 kids. 3 kids under the age of 3...We've decided that when we have kids we will definitely be spacing their ages further apart. :) I loved holding Olyvia who is about 6 months old...I want one :) We went to the annual Mortensen family Christmas party, that was fun too. We were able to go the the Gila Valley Temple twice during our visit. I always love going to the temple. The whole trip was just crazy, but I loved it. I love being around family. We found out that there is a job possibility in Thatcher, it is smaller than Greeley, and I would miss all the shopping places here, and the green and snow. We shall see. The plan is to just apply everywhere! Whatever sounds the best, or we feel is the right choice is where we will end up. I'm just going to post pictures because I actually started writing this blog like a few weeks ago and I still haven't finished it. I kinda forgot about it. SO here are the pics.

Mesa Temple Lights

Snap Dragons, a family tradition. You have to eat the raisin while it's on fire.

Playing Books and Runs, a game my family has always played together.

Eli and Evie on Christmas day

Jorden and Kristie Wright Family

Jason wrestling

New earings

We had Tiff and Aiden this year Tiff got bath stuff, Aiden got a drawing book and some nice drawing pencils and colored pencils.

Dad and Mom's present from Jason and Kendra

New purse

I got Nick a beard trimmer

My grammie Ruth. She is 93 years old!

New Goals

2012-01-16T18:16:00.002-07:00

Yearly Goals for 2012:

Read the Book of Mormon all the way.(Either with Nick or by myself).
Make a budget and stick to it.
Get a job
Lose 25 lbs. I figured that if I loose 2 lbs per month then it will be around 24 lbs a year.
Work on children's book stories or ideas. (I want to write a children's book, and illustrate it)
Keep apartment clean
Control my temper. When I get upset sometimes Ireally get upset. But it usually only lasts a few minutes. I do not have a good outlet figured out, so my natural reaction is to hit or throw stuff.
Eat more fruits and veggies.(hopefully we'll be able to do this more when we have jobs.)
Do more crafts/drawing.
Become better at the piano or other instruments.
Eat out less.

Monthly:

Read scriptures every day.
Stick to my weekly budget.
Lose 2 lbs
Eat out once a month ONLY
Work on drawing/art/stories or crafts, and finish 1.
Have entire apartment clean by the end of the month.

Weekly:

Read family scriptures every night, as well as personal scripture study.
Plan meals-cook meals(no eating out).
Exercise video 3 times a week Mon., Wed., Fri.
Walk or ride bike 30-40 minutes Sun., Tues., Thurs. and Saturday.
Draw/write/do crafts once a week or more.
Clean 1 room every week (thoroughly)
Practice piano/instrument everyday
Hug, kiss Nick everyday
When I get upset don't yell (breath)
Do dishes everyday (ask Nick to help)<---his suggestion
Stop being lazy (play Sims for 2 hrs only) set timer
Say daily prayers and family prayers
Eat fruit and veggies if possible.

To me some of the goals seem very achievable which worries me that I might just skip them. Others seem very hard and so I might just give up. I will at least try!

We are going to get our diplomas tomorrow!! WOOOT! You know I never use to say woot until I moved here, Weird?! Nick will finally be able to apply for student teaching, we thought he was going to be able to apply without his diploma but he found out that he does need his diploma. He doesn't have to have his physical teaching license, which is good because those usually take like 6 months to process. We are really hoping that he get's some subbing jobs before the month is through, otherwise we are definitely out of luck!

We went to P.F. Changs for the first time. We got a gift card for Christmas from Nick's older brother and sister-in-law. I had never been there and I always thought that is was a really expensive place. It looks expensive but surprisingly the prices were about the same as any of the obscure Chinese restaurants around here in town. It was really good too! I found a tutorial on how to do pin curls here

--> http://mymovingfingerwrites.blogspot.com/2010/10/pin-curled-finger-waves-101.html

I tried them and they made my hair SUPER curly. In the picture I actually had let them settle and slept on them and they were still very curly. It would probably work better with longer hair. My hair did not look anything like the tutorial they were super curly even after I tried combing through it. When I was doing my hair I washed my hair then did the pin curls, then slept on them with my hair wet, which is why they turned out so curly I guess. I like the idea of pin curls or anything that doesn't have to do with a curling iron. My hair is super fine and using curling irons really breaks my hair. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my hair healthier. Any suggestions? I've tried using a vitamin that is suppose to make your hair healthier but I haven't really noticed any difference.

California in the Winter

2011-12-06T16:03:00.001-07:00

It's not technically winter but I'd say that Thanksgiving is closer to winter than it is to fall. It's the last week of November, and for Colorado it means snow. Our drive was cold and scary. I was literally singing "Lead me guide me, walk beside me." Over and over and over again in my head while we were trying to make it through the snow storm and icy roads in Wyoming. I pretty much said a bazillion prayers in my head too. I am pretty sure we will NEVER do that again. Seeing family was really awesome though. We pretty much just relaxed the whole time. When we first got there on Saturday evening we had to go to In and Out, it's pretty much a sin if we don't go when it's so readily available to us. The one in Rocklin is actually right next to a Krispy Kreme, which is bad for my weight but awesome for my taste buds. Sunday Nick was volunteered to teach a class. He used his Dad's classical guitar for the class. We ended up taking it home with us because his Dad never played it. That makes 3 guitars we currently own. I can't remember which day it was but either Tuesday or Wednesday we went on a walk at a golf course that Nick's dad likes to golf at. Just driving around California was beautiful. I'm pretty sure California is never not beautiful. Everything is green, the trees are bright reds, yellows, and oranges.It was pretty. Near the golf course are some really big houses. Like mansion-esque houses. It would be nice to live in one someday. On Tuesday night we went to the Sacramento Temple. It's so beautiful, like I said California is beautiful. I love this temple. It has a sort of water theme to it because of the water in the area, or something like that. I always love going to the temple! It just reaffirms everything that I know and believe in. When we were driving back Saturday after Thanksgiving we managed to meet up with Nick's younger brother and his wife, and their new baby. We finally got to meet little Lilly. All in all it was a good trip even though driving it is horrible. Now for the pictures

Nick Playing the Classical guitar

Cooper, he didn't like me at this point he'd always try to bite me when I petted him

Sacramento temple

The beautiful trees everywhere

weirdo

this tree was really cool looking

the view on our walk

a little bridge that went across the street

its so green in California

this was a really big grapefruit I think

i think this is a water run off

The first really big house we saw

This house was beautiful I wouldn't mind living here

just hanging out

playing with my phone like always

Nick holding Lilly

Thanksgiving

2011-12-06T13:53:00.003-07:00

I'm finally done with school. Now I can add all the pictures and tell you about our Thanksgiving week. We decided a little last minute that we were going to drive to California for Thanksgiving. We decided even more last minute to leave Friday night after Nick got out of school(student teaching). We heard saw that there was a chance of snow Saturday and Sunday and we didn't want to wait. We left Friday night and made it to about Rawlins, WY before it started snowing. This was the worst part of our trip. It was snowing so that made it hard to see, then there was snow all over the road. They changed the speed limit to 35 until Evanston, WY. So basically a trip that was suppose to take 17hrs and 30 min. took us about 21 hrs. Almost a days worth of driving :)

California was beautiful. I'm so glad we decided to go. It was wonderful just relaxing and getting to see family. Now for the pictures.
These pictures are from Thanksgiving Day. We went over to Nick's aunt and uncles house. There were a bunch of people there. It was fun and all the food was really yummy.

It looks like Scottie is picking his nose

Nick's Aunt

The festive decorations

What should I write? This is a gift for Nick's younger brother who's on his mission.

Everyone decided to sing around the piano

The Pulsiphers and Grandma Ensgin

Cooper, he hated me when I first arrived but by the end of the trip all he wanted to do was lay next me or on top of me.

I will post more pictures of what we did before Thanksgiving Day in another post.

Trying to catch up...

2011-11-07T23:36:00.006-07:00

I forgot to post the pictures from our Estes trip that was back in October. It was nice up there and very beautiful. I love the Fall. It's now getting very cold and has snowed a few times. It snowed so early that a lot of the trees around here broke off their limbs all over Greeley. The tree outside our apartment complex lost a limb too. Luckily it wasn't close enough to fall onto the apartment complex. A lot of places lost power, but we were pretty lucky and weren't out of power for very long. It made me sad for all the trees. We didn't really do anything for Halloween. Our ward had a Halloween chili cook off activity. I made chili for the first time. I added brown sugar so it turned out to be kind of sweet. I'm not sure why I added brown sugar. It was fun though, and the chili was good. Thanksgiving is coming up soon. We are planning on driving to California. I hope it doesn't snow too much to keep us from going. I'm praying for good weather!

MVHS student teaching.

2011-10-19T13:40:00.005-06:00

Nick had his last day at Mountain View High School last Friday Oct. 14, 2011. That night there was a football game, and I was able to go. I took some pictures and videos, however my camera is not that great so they are not the best quality. Nick also had an orchestra concert yesterday, Oct 18, 2011. I took my better camera but the battery was dead, sad day. The battery was dead because we decided to go up to the mountains on Saturday Oct. 15, 2011. I have a bunch of photos and videos to share. I think I will put up the Saturday Estes trip on a different blog. Nick has started student teaching in Mead Elementary. He really misses being with the High School. I hope he can love the elementary as much as he did the High School, or at least somewhat love it as much. It kind of stinks because he said he feels like he was at the point where he could really start learning at the High School, but now he has to start at the beginning again with the Elementary school. He wishes that student teaching could be two semesters instead of just one. Well here are the pictures and videos.

Here is the Orchestra Concert

It's a long one....so read only if you're really interested in my thoughts.

2011-10-01T17:38:00.008-06:00

It's been too long since I have last posted. I don't know why I haven't posted? Sometimes I wonder if people really care if I post or not, not that the point of this blog is to see if people are reading. It's to record fun events in our lives. I guess we've just been very dull lately. We did go to a ward pumpkin festival. Mostly we all went out to a field, had some yummy food, picked out some pumpkins, and the kids played a few games. I still had fun, but I went without Nick because he had to be in Boulder for Band clinic thingy for student teaching. I am very glad we got pumpkins this year for Halloween. Every year I would pass them in Walmart or King Soopers and think, man I wish we had pumpkins, but before we never had anywhere to put them; no balcony or front porch. We now have a balcony so we can carve pumpkins. I've also had one of the worst cold of my life. It started Sunday, and I'm still trying to get past it a week later. I have decided where to put in my student teaching application. We shall see how it goes? I'm not as completely stressed about student teaching since I've been doing my practicum observations.

If I were a sim on Sims 3 I would have a negative mood effect from being stir crazy. I also would be low socially. I feel like being more social. In college it was easy to just hang out and do whatever. Now most of, the few friends that I hang out with, have lives and I would have to ask a week in advanced if we could do something from this time to this time. I miss just going over to peoples houses and hanging out until like 12. I feel like my social skills have disappeared. When I'm in class I honestly am unsure of how to build a relationship with some of the kids because I'm not sure what to say. I ask them questions but haven't really built a relationship with them. I guess I miss people. I miss having really good friends who wouldn't mind if I just showed up to hang out or talk. It's always been sort of hard for me to build relationships like that. I'm not sure why. I guess I sometimes feel like people are just being friendly but they don't really want to be close good friends. I would like to have more good friends though. I want students to be able to just say whatever they want to me, and I would know the perfect things to say back.

Nick will be done student teaching at his High School in 2 weeks, and then he will student teach in Mead at an elementary. We are excited that he will be done with school in December. I'm so glad that he figured out how to get the last class he needed and that it happened that the person he is student teaching with now also has taught the one class he needs to graduate.

We are thinking of moving, again. I don't really want to move because we just move, and we're technically still in our contract, but where I want to student teach is in Fort Collins, and we only have one car. Nick is planning on becoming a substitute teacher in January. We've actually found some really nice apartments right next to the school I want to student teach at. They are even the same price we're paying now. The only thing is whether we can actually find one available. There is a huge long waiting list. There's actually a preferred waiting list, which is basically people who've already paid for a deposit and if anything becomes available they are the first ones to get notified. If they don't want the apartment then they will go to the "waiting" list. We are on that list but I don't know where at? If we were to get an apartment there it would probably be a miracle. But we are praying!! It would be ideal!!! Oh did I mention that if you're a teacher your deposit is only $99!! They like teachers!

Something else I've been contemplating. I really really really want to go teach in a different country. I think it would be an absolutely amazing experience! Plus both Nick and I are going to be qualified teachers come May. I would LOVE the opportunity to teach children English in a different country. I've been looking at some programs, but I'm not sure what is a good program? If there is anyone who has advice please let me know! I have always wanted to do something like this. I wanted to join the red cross and volunteer to help out different countries when I was in High School. I'm not sure but depending on how things go next semester, and whether I can convince Nick, and we figure out how to afford it, I am hoping to be spending sometime in a different country for a little bit!

I had to teach a little lesson last week. It was completely nerve-wracking. I was so terrified! It was being observe by the teacher of the class, and my supervisor, who is a retired teacher. I am just wondering how teachers do it. How they know the right things to say, and remember everything they're suppose to be teaching, and manage their children in their classrooms. But at the same time, when I imagine myself being a teacher, and of course in my imagination I am an amazing teacher, I get so completely excited about teaching. I get excited whenever I'm helping a student and I'm explaining something and they get it. I can see them learning and understanding. My lesson went okay, at the end the teacher of the class got up and added her little bit, which was brilliant. I read the story the tortoise and the hare, and one of the vocabulary words they were suppose to be learning was laggard...I know who uses the word laggard?? Anyways I don't think they really understood it. So when she came up after I was done teaching she asked them to walk around the room like a tortoise. She then said that they were being laggards, or very slow. Then she said now show me how the hare moves being careful not to hurt anyone else. It was so great. They really enjoyed it too. I don't know why I didn't think of it. Sometimes I wonder if my brain really does work. I got some really good feedback though from my supervisor. She said I need to be more dramatic! Especially when younger children. Everything you say can be said dramatically, or with lots of expression. I need to not be so timid and shy, and not worry about being absolutely perfect. Which is a big problem for me. I don't know why I care so much about what other people think of me! Grr...I sometimes I wish I could just be a little different.

Well I've definitely rambled on for far too long. Maybe this is why I don't post so often, because when I do I just ramble too long. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

My friends little boy

Grandma Sullivan

2011-09-17T19:26:00.005-06:00

I found out that there was a really cool lady I was related to that I didn't know very well. Nick's great grandma Sullivan died last week. She was 95 years old, and the last of her siblings. I'm happy that she is with all of her siblings now. I did not know how fascinating her life really was. Her obituary is here ---> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=ramona-hinckley-sullivan&pid=153493100#.TmeY6kjpbgk.facebook

I loved hearing the stories about her life. She was a very cheerful person. The few times that I met her she was always smiling. She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She traveled the world. She was loved by many people. One of the stories I heard that I thought was funny was that one evening when she was spending time with her brother, Gordon B. Hinckley, or Gord I think is what she called him, they were the only two siblings from their family still alive, and she told him that she didn't want him to leave her all by herself. So Pres Hinckley, it's weird but that's what I have always known him as, told her okay. Well a few weeks before Pres Hinckley died he called Ramona and told her she had better get ready because he knew he didn't have much longer.

After the funeral we went back to her house and all the grandkids and great grandkids, went through the things she had. I completely wish I had known her when I was growing up, because just from the things she had you could tell she was an amazing lady. She had so many different things from the places she went to. I wish she could've been there to tell me all about everything and all the stories that went with them. I feel like just seeing what she had and hearing all the wonderful stories about her helped me know her a little better. I think part of knowing who she was is knowing her family. Her children and grandchildren. From seeing how wonderful they all are, I can tell she was an amazing parent, and grandmother, and great grandmother. I am so grateful for the family that I have gained. I hope that I can be as amazing as she was someday.

Grandma's House

Corn Harvest Parade in Loveland, CO

2011-09-07T23:03:00.003-06:00

Nick is student teaching this semester in Loveland, CO. For one of their first events they marched in a parade in Loveland. I being the loving wife that I am, got up with him at 6:00 on a Saturday so that I could watch him, and take some pictures. Sadly I wasn't in a great position, and some of the pictures were in the shadows. Nonetheless...here you go.

So I don't forget

2011-08-15T12:00:00.004-06:00

Sometimes there are things people talk about that I don't want to forget. Especially when a member of the Quorum of the 70 comes to your stake conference. I'm pretty sure this is a normal thing that happens at most stake conferences. This August we had Elder Clark. He recently returned from a mission in Guatemala. I don't remember if he was the mission president or what, but he was pretty funny. He was making jokes constantly and then promising things that our Stake President would have to carry out, as a joke of course. Well anyways he talked about some things that will help marriages. Talked about how when he was younger he didn't know anybody who was divorced, but now he knows many. I think it's sad how many people really are getting divorced, but I don't want to say I know everyone's circumstances. I think though that people should try as hard as they can to make a marriage work. He mentions some things we can do here are my notes:

1.Be chaste, and to go along with this we need more romance. He mentions that people forget romance which can cause some couples to not be chaste. He said, "you need to make sure you have 10 kisses a day." If there's a pornography problem he said, fix it. You need to have one day a week for date night with out the kids. He said, "if your relationship with your kids becomes more important than your relationship with your spouse, it will never work!" You need to be faithful, and asked, "do you honor your relationship in your thoughts?"

2. Pay your tithing, and fast offering. He talked about when he was first married they didn't have a table and had to eat off the lid of their stove! But the bishop asked him to double his fast offerings, he said he was paying more than double his tithing amount in fast offerings. He said, "the windows of heaven were open to his family, because he did what they asked of him." He talked about money problems being one of the main causes of divorce. "Stay out of debt. We need to spend less than we make, and don't let our desires become our needs. Don't keep up with the Jones. Financial problems destroy marriages. Start saving now, you can't multiply zero."

3. Communication. You need to have a family executive committee meeting between husband and wife. In the meeting you talk about the kids, each one individually, finance. He says, "When there is no communication there is contention, when there is contention there is no holy ghost." He also said that you don't always have to say what you think. (I reallly need to work on this one.) He talked about an old friend of his from his mission. When his friend got married he made a promise that he would always be romantic, he would always buy his wife flowers, and he would never abuse his wife physically, emotionally, or verbally.

Elder Clark said we need to always have FHE, family scripture study, and prayer. He says, "discipline your kids, because if you don't take charge their friends will. Build relationships when their young so that when they become teenagers and more independent, the relationship will still be there." He said, "One thing that will change a young man for eternity is to send him on a mission. Families will be stronger. If you don't have sons, adopt a young man in your ward or someone you know, and help him go on a mission, if you do your name will go down in heaven. " He talks about how we need to teach our children to be diligent. Spend time with your children, father's bless your children. Make sure your kids know how to work. He talked about how he was taught to be a hard worker. When he went into the MTC(he called it the LTM) he had to learn to speak Spanish, he was going to Bolivia. He memorized the lessons. He said he didn't really know how to speak spanish but he had the lessons memorized. He said that because he had been taught how to work hard he was able to suceed on his mission, even thought he didn't know the language. He tells us that we need to serve others, we should adopt families. Always invite someone for dinner. He talked about how his wife always invited someone for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Her mother had taught her to serve others this way. He said that sometimes he would just want to spend time with his family but then his wife would say, but what about this other family, where will they go for dinner? He said that you need to make service a part of your family.

I really enjoyed Elder Clark's talk. He made it enjoyable and I really do want to remember it always. When he was talking about having more romance, he said some people put their arms around their spouses, so Nick did that. :) And yesterday we started doing the 10 kisses thing. We got up to about 8 when the next time we kissed Nick said, "what number were we on, 2?" Hehe, I love him. He makes me laugh and smile all the time. I think we're good for each other, we help each other to remember to be faithful, and not worry about all the daily (financial) problems. I know sometimes I forget that God will help us make it through, as long as we have faith. I'm lucky that I will always have someone there to help me remember.

Hiking in the Rocky Mountains

2011-08-12T14:07:00.007-06:00

On Monday before the Pulsiphers left, we went up to Estes Park. Nick had student teaching. He's in the middle of band camp. I was sad he couldn't go, but I had a lot of fun. I tried going up to this same hiking area with my parents in May, but it was still covered in snow, and it made it hard to actually go anywhere. Now all the snow was melted, the day was very warm. We packed our lunches drove up and had to wait in line at one of the parking areas to actually get to the spot where you start the hike.

Once we got there it was very beautiful the whole way up. The hike wasn't bad at all, I did okay and I'm not in shape at all. Once we got to the top you could see the beautiful waterfall. It's called Alberta Falls. There were a surprising amount of people up there. It was very busy. We found a spot near the waterfall to sit and eat lunch. You could feel mist from the waterfall from where we were sitting. After going all the way to the top we decided to hike back down and then hike across(more like strait up) to bear lake. That one was a little harder for me. It was pretty much strait up hill the entire way! My legs were killing me, next time if I want to go to bear lake I will take the shuttle bus. Bear Lake was gorgeous though. Nick and I had been there before, but it was all frozen over. I can't wait to go again, and try different areas of the Forest. We came home relaxed, showered, and went out to eat. It was so great having family come to visit, I really wish it were possible to see them more often. I think someone needs to think of a faster way to get from long distance places, and less expensive!

Some edits I did in photoshop

Our new musical additions

2011-08-07T14:20:00.004-06:00

I absolutely love music! Growing up my mom would play the piano while the rest of our family would sing. When I was in college I would play the piano while my friends would sing. I love playing, as does Nick. Recently we found a really good deal on craigslist for a electronic piano. It's a Yamaha Clavinova. According to wikipedia this model came out in the 1990s, but we're not sure when the original owner bought it. The guy we bought it from actually bought it from someone else. So the reason it was so cheap, $250, was because it was a second hand me down. It is very nice, and I've been wanting a piano for a while. Acoustic pianos are a little too heavy for our apartment, I love our new piano. I love playing whenever I want. I no longer have to drive somewhere to play the piano I can just sit down and play.

Nick's parents have come down for the weekend. A family friend of theirs got married. They've been planning this trip for quite some time. They brought with them a flute that a member in their ward was selling. We love having a new musical instrument. I have always wanted to learn to play the flute. In high school I was going to learn how to play it, but they got rid of our music program before I got the chance. Nick can now teach me. We sat down and played some songs together, me on the piano and Nick on the flute. I completely love having music in my house! It makes me so happy when I can share music with others.

I'm hoping to teach piano lessons. I've never taught piano lessons, so I think I will make Nick my trial dummy :) If anyone has suggestions on how to go about it or advice I would definitely appreciate it.

Saturday was a busy day for us. At 7:30AM I had a PLACE test, a mandatory test for educators, in Denver. We got up at 5:00 and left by 5:30. The test took me about 2 hrs to finish. It was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. I will find out on Aug 22 how I did. After that we ate some breakfast/lunch, then headed to Colorado Springs to look at the piano we found on craigslist. We decided to get the piano. The guy we bought it from took it apart for us and then we loaded it up in our little cavalier and headed back to Greeley. Once we got to Greeley we had enough time to shower and get ready for a wedding reception in Loveland. We came back and went swimming and watched Rio with Nick's family at their hotel. Busy day, and tiring but definitely a good day.

It's been awhile...

2011-07-19T01:48:00.007-06:00

I feel like I normally have nothing new or interesting to post, therefore I do not post very much. Although sometimes I'll think of interesting things that I would like to post but then forget about them until I remember them, and usually I'm never on the computer when I do think of them. I think mostly I'm just lazy! I also think I watch way too much Netflix. Nick spends most of his time on the computer, and since we only have one computer now, I am not able to use the computer as much.

In May my family came to visit me. It was only for a few days over memorial day weekend, but I enjoyed it very much. One thing about my family is that we are very close, even though sometimes you wouldn't think so, compared to other families I've realized how close we really are. When I was living near them I would see them weekly or many times a month. Now I get to see them, if I'm lucky, a few times a year. My parents and my sister Tiffanie and her son Aiden came to visit. I was hoping we would be able to go up to the mountains and see a waterfall that Nick has told me about. Nick was away in Minneapolis for the International Trumpet Guild, the UNC trumpet ensemble drove all the way there. But he came back that evening. We did go up to the mountains but there was still way too much snow! I was bummed, I guess I didn't realize that snow doesn't disappear from Colorado as quickly as I thought. We tried to hike a little but it was very slippery. It was still very beautiful up there. I love Estes Park. It was nice seeing some of my family.

Nick is student teaching in the Fall at Mountain View Highschool in Loveland. He spent a few days in June with the band director and some of the new students who will be in band in the Fall. I can tell he is going to have a lot of fun student teaching. He's told me that he's tired of going to school and not actually teaching. And he is now the new primary chorister, and he is wonderful with the kids at church. It is so surprising how well they listen to him! I know he is going to be a great teacher someday! I have a new calling as well, primary pianist, and I LOVE it. I get to go to a little bit of sunday school and I love playing the piano. It is so much fun doing music time with Nick. He makes it fun for everyone!

For the fourth of July we decided to hang out in Ft. Collins. We decided to watch the fireworks there. The city does fireworks at this park near a little lake. We drove near the lake to see if it would be possible to park and walk to the park, but there were cars lined up for many blocks! It was crazy!! It was like everyone in Ft. Collins decided to all gather in one area. We drove up to a look out near Horse Tooth Reservoir, which overlooks the city. It was actually really wonderful! We not only got to see the City of Ft. Collins fireworks, but we could see some of Lovelands fireworks and everyone else who was letting off their own fireworks. It was really nice.

We are excited for the beginning of August. Nick's parents and his brother and sister are driving here for a wedding of their good friends. I'm going to be taking the PLACE exam on one of the days they are coming, so I'm not excited about that. Especially because it is going to be in Denver at 7:30AM, way too early if you ask me. I'm going to have to leave before 6:00AM to get there on time!

We are both ready for school to be over. I feel like I've been going to school for years! I started 20 years ago in Kindergarten and haven't stopped! I really wish that I knew what I had wanted to do in High School. But I really had no idea. I wish that I had gone to a High School that would've given me more opportunities to figure out what I wanted to do. But who knows if I really would've figured it out. I have always been terrible at making up my mind. I really think that at this point I just want to be done with school, so even if I don't have the greatest desire right now to be a teacher, I'm still going through with it so that I will have my degree for later when I realize I really do want to teach. There are so many different things that I would like to do, but I've always felt that if I were going to do something in life I wanted to be really good at it. I guess I'm a little bit of a perfectionist, even though I feel that I never get anything perfect. Somethings I don't event try because, I know there's no way I good do it as great as I think I should.

Something interesting happened this Sunday. There is a guy visiting from Missouri, I think. He builds or repairs organs. He told a story about how he grew up in a musical family. He learned to play the piano when he was young. He decided to go to BYU and try out for a piano degree. But he had just returned from his mission and hadn't played very much for 2 years. The professor told him to wait a year and get better at playing and try again, but he didn't want to wait.He had always known he needed to do something with music. So he went home and prayed and had a strong feeling that he should ask about studying the organ. So he did and the professor accepted him, even though he didn't know anything about the organ. He mentioned that if he hadn't listened to the spirit he wouldn't have ended up in our ward talking to us. He mentioned that he did take a piano class and said that the lady who taught him was very humble. He said that sometimes when he would practice piano he would hear others playing and think he could never play as well as them. His teacher told him that he has it in him to play well. Basically that you won't play well unless you think you can play well. He said that he shouldn't have compared himself so much to others. Now that he's older he says he realizes that he shouldn't have compared himself so much. He said that pieces he had problems with when he was in college he can actually play them better because he doesn't think so much about what other people think.

I honestly felt like this man was speaking directly to me! The funny thing was that as soon as he was done I was accompanying someone for a musical number, I was very nervous! It's really hard to follow someone who was talking about people who have the talent of playing the piano. It was nerve racking. I do compare myself so bad, or worry about what people think especially when it comes to playing piano in front of people. I just don't know how to not think about what people will think of me, because I know that everyone will make an opinion of me either way. It human nature. I relaxed once I focused on the girl who was singing. I was listening to how pretty she sounded and tried to make myself sound like she does. I do love having the talent of playing the piano. I love hearing the primary kids sing while I play for them. It makes me love church even more.

Well I'll try to add some picture later.

Moving

2011-05-21T14:56:00.006-06:00

Monday May 16th was my mom's birthday and since we weren't in AZ to celebrate we decided to go out and celebrate here for her. It helped that I had a coupon for a free lava cake from Chili's.

We moved most of our stuff this week. We had a few of our friends come and help with trucks and a trailer. We really appreciate having a nice ward and nice friends willing to help. We got our big heavy couch moved up the stairs. We also moved our bed, last night was our first night in the new apartment. It is really nice here. We also managed to sell Nick's car for $1 more than what he paid for it. We decided to celebrate. I also managed to get my arms sunburned while we were waiting for nick to sell his car.

We think he sort of looks like Jaime from Myth Busters.

We really like our new apartment so far. There are somethings about our old apartment that were nicer, cabinets and the dishwasher and stove were newer, but there are so many things that are better with our new apartment. The good definitely out weighs the bad. It's so pretty outside right now.
The View

I found a bread maker today for $8, we shall see if it turns out good bread.

End of School... Beginning of Summer

2011-05-10T02:08:00.002-06:00

Well school is officially over. We were not very sure whether we would make it through. Nick was very stressed right until the end. I was also stressed because I had a huge project due at the end as well. We are very happy its over! I will hopefully be getting As in my online classes. Most likely not an A from my Aims class, I might've missed a few classes, or assignments. Nick and I both will be taking summer classes. I'm actually excited about mine. I will be doing observations in a Daycare. I started taking this class last Fall but was completely over stressed and got really behind after jury duty so I dropped it. I also did not care for the teacher very much, and apparently she is usually the only one who teaches it. I wasn't able to enroll in it this spring, it's one of those classes that fill up super fast. I found out they were offering it during the summer, and it was with a different teacher. I waited until midnight to enroll in it so I would be one of the first ones. I hoping to get some kind of financial aid but I'm not sure I'll qualify since I'm not going to be full time.

I still have not found a job. I'm getting pretty discouraged! I have had a few interviews but have heard nothing back. I keep calling places again and again. I will just have to keep trying.

We are very excited about moving soon. We went to look at the apartment last week and it's wonderful. It's bigger and smaller in different ways. The kitchen is a lot smaller, and it has ugly green counter tops. It's bigger because it has a balcony and a big storage closet. I found a very cute shower curtain, our current apartment has a sliding shower door. This curtain has every color of towels that we have except white. When we got married we got a wide variety of different colored towels: light blue, purple, beige, white. Sooo I found a shower curtain that has all of the colors in it. I'm very excited about this, I love shower curtains they give so much color and life to your bathroom. Did I mention our apartment has a sky light. It really brightens up the room. It's on the 4th floor, and it has air conditioning. We've decided to get rid of our kitchen table. It won't fit very well. Since our apartment has a balcony and a sliding glass window it pretty much takes up all our room for furniture, we're going to be getting rid of a desk and our table. We have been looking for a smaller table, and we've finally decided we want to get a folding table and folding chairs. We found some really nice ones at Target and Walmart. They look like real chairs and tables. We like this idea because then we can just fold everything up and put it in our large closet. We haven't figured out the lighting yet. There aren't any ceiling lights, there's a few light fixtures on the walls but that's about it. We have one tall light stand but we want to have more light. Our apartment now isn't very bright with just the one light. We get to move in on the 13th, so Friday, but we have until the end of the month to be moved out of our current apartment.

Enough about our apartments, I really want a piano! I have a new calling, primary pianist. I would really like to be able to practice whenever I want! I found one online that is $450, pretty good for a piano, but expensive for a poor person. I want it so bad though!! I really miss being able to just sit down and play whenever I want. It hurts my heart just a little. Piano has always been a way for me to relax, think about my feelings, and even express my feelings. I really miss it. I won't even be close to a piano anymore when we move. This is the piano I want http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/msg/2347168788.html isn't it pretty! It's electric so we can get it up to our apartment without breaking anyones back.

Nick is going to trumpet fest at the end of the month and my parents are coming up to visit me! I'm so excited! I feel bad though cause they're driving and it's expensive right now with gas prices.

I'm planning on doing some fun things this summer, so I will keep you posted.

50% off at Hobby Lobby

2011-04-21T16:40:00.000-06:00

I heard that there was a major sale going on at Hobby Lobby, so I simply could not resist. I was hoping to get some artificial fruit. I have this gorgeous crystal fruit bowl I got from our wedding and I use it for fruit but I feel like the real fruit just isn't pretty enough for the beautiful bowl. I've seen these artificial fruits that are sparkly, and I wanted to know how to make them. I looked it up online and they're covered in tiny glass beads. It seems pretty simple to make, but when I went to Hobby Lobby to look for artificial fruit I found out that they are very expensive. For one thing of grapes it would've been $6 and that is including the 50% discount, and that was only for one fruit. I want to get a bunch of different types of fruit. I thought that maybe vegetables would be cheaper but they're the same price as fruit...I guess in artificial world fruits and veggies are the same. I decided to hold off on this project until we had some more money. I ran out of wire to make necklaces with, so I decided to see if any of the jewelery making supplies would be half off. I found out that a few of the beads were. I found a few different beads and some wire for $10. It was a pretty good deal. I wanted to show off what I have made. Most of these beads I already had, but more pretty necklaces will soon be coming.

There's two different necklaces.

Amatuer photography

2011-04-17T15:46:00.003-06:00

I like taking pictures, but I'm not a professional by any means. I don't want to be a professional, not really. But I would like to be able to take a decent photograph, like a really good photograph, of my family or friends whenever I feel like taking pictures. I took a little digital photography class at EAC, but I do not feel like I really learned anything about photography. We learned a few things about how to edit our photographs in Photoshop. I know there's like 3rds and that's about it. I'm not even remotely good at thirds, but I do try to think of thirds when I take a picture. I like looking around me and seeing beautiful things everywhere, and I want to capture what I see on film, but it's harder than just taking a simple photograph. I think people who do take amazing photographs are awesome because they know how to capture the beauty that is all around us. I am just going to keep researching and trying to take photographs. My camera is a little limited, but it does a few things. I went out the other day and there were beautiful tree blossoms everywhere. I love, love, love tree blossoms. I will just have to keep trying to take pictures and learning as much as I can. Here are my blossoms/flowers.

Houses, Concerts, and Cars...oh and a birthday!

2011-04-11T16:13:00.009-06:00

We've been looking for an apartment like mad crazy people. We would drive around looking for "For Rent" signs and call them. I have lost the numbers and addresses of all the numbers we've called. Actually most of the people we have called haven't called us back. We called one apartment place called The Willows but they said they wouldn't know until April 10th. Well on April 3rd we decided to just go by and check out the apartment place and see if there is anything available. We went by and there were two apartments we looked at. One was a basement apartment, but it had air conditioning. The 2nd one was a 2 bedroom on the very top floor. It was very nice, it had a balcony, sky light, large storage closet. But it was just a little too expensive. We asked the lady showing us the apartments if they might get a one bedroom on the top level, and she said she wouldn't officially know until the 10th because that is when everyone has to put in their notice. Well I was very unsure about what I should do. I really wanted to live there because it has a pool, barbeque, sauna(so it says), and it looks very nice, at least nicer than where we are now. I decided that we should wait at least until the 10th to find out if there is any apartments available on the top level. We really don't want to be on the bottom because where we live now people walk by all the time, and we really don't like people looking into our windows, it's weird. So we had a few other appointments throughout the week. We went to look at the other apartments but none of them we're as nice as the willows. We had two other appointments this weekend and BOTH of them cancelled on us. SO we called this morning and found out that there was a one bedroom on the top level available. We didn't look at it cause it's suppose to look just like the one on the bottom, but with a sky light. We went over and put a deposit down. As soon as they do a credit check we'll know if we have a place to live. I'm slightly worried about the credit check because we haven't been doing so well with paying bills on time and what not. PLEASE keep your fingers crossed!

On Monday night Nickolas's parents flew in from CA for Nickolas's senior recital. Their plane was delayed quite a while so they didn't end up getting to our apartment until really late. It was really great to have family come visit. I love it when they visit! And not just because they take us out to eat! :) Nick didn't get very much sleep the night before his recital, but he did amazing at his recital. I'm glad that it's over because he was very stressed about it. Then Nick's parents took us to Olive Garden for my birthday, it wasn't until the 9th but they weren't going to be here for it. It was so nice having them here.

On Thursday I had an interview for the First National Bank. I hope that it went well. I thought that my Tmobile one went well but apparently it didn't. I guess in my Tmobile interview I took too long to answer questions. If someone asks me a question I want to make sure I say the right thing...it wasn't like I was sitting there twiddling my thumbs. I think that was just an excuse, who knows? I hope that I did well on the bank interview!

On Saturday Nick had his PLACE exam in order to do student teaching. I hope that went well as well. He said it was weird because some of the questions would be extremely easy and then he'd get a really hard one all of a sudden. He thinks he did okay. The test was really early in the morning so he came home and made me breakfast for my birthday. He is sooo sweet. He bought me some flowers, and was very nice to me all day. We decided to go shopping in Loveland because I got some money from my Grandma and my mom. I got two shirts that were on sale with my grandma's money, and a jewelry making kit. I wad definitely spoiled. We went to 3 Margaritas for dinner, because Nick never wants to go there and it was my birthday so he had to go :) It was a really great birthday!

Something we've been thinking about and need to make a decision about pretty soon, is our car situation. Nick's car has a broken window and it won't start for some reason. We've recently had problems with it starting before but we though we had it fixed. The battery kept dying so we got a new alternator on it and a new battery. It still won't start. We need to get someone to look at it. That might require us getting it towed. We have a friend who offered to look at it so hopefully we'll find a time where he can do that. The other option that we have been dreamily thinking about, is actually buying a car! I say dreamily because we'd only be able to do that in our dreams. We don't have a steady income so it's pretty much out of the question, but it's nice to dream about sometimes. I told Nick we should look at some Chevy's because that is mostly all that my family has bought. But his family are definitely Honda people. I guess we would have to see.

Edit:

Hi every one! (this is Nickolas) I couldn't stand the audio the camera picked up, so here's the same clip that that Rachel posted combined with some better audio.

Rattlesnake Kate

2011-03-30T01:37:00.006-06:00

I recently had a video project that I've been doing. It was actually fun and I really like how it turned out. Nick helped me out a bit too.

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Moving

2011-03-29T15:17:00.003-06:00

We found out that our leasers are raising our rent because of the economy. And because of the economy we are poor. Our apartment is nice minus the fact that its on the lower level, it has no air conditioning and sometimes we get random people knocking on our windows asking for money, or people opening our doors and asking for people...not even knocking! Maybe this is normal for some places but we don't particularly care for it. The main thing, we don't have air conditioning. The reason we got this apartment in the first place was because it was cheaper than the ones on the upper levels--BECAUSE it doesn't have air conditioning! We've spent 2 summers here and we are not fans of the heat during the summer....it's not as bad as AZ or NM but at least we had air conditioning there. We've been contemplating moving to Loveland because it would be closer to where Nick will hopefully be student teaching, which hopefully is Loveland for part of the time. It's still a drive away to mead..about 30 min. The only thing about living in Loveland is that they have higher rent prices, we would be paying at least $100 more a month. We looked around and found a few places in Greeley that would be the same price we will be paying when they raise our rent but they have air conditioning. Did I mention the apartment we were looking at in Loveland has a fireplace and a pool! We're just not sure if we'd be saving very much gas if we moved to Loveland. If he gets placed in Loveland for his secondary school then yes we would. I would still have to drive back to Greeley for my classes, and hopefully if I get a job, work. Did I mention that Greeley smells like dead cow!? I told Nick that even though we'd be paying more a month I think it would make up for it by not sucking so bad. Nick kept saying well would you get tired of driving back and forth everyday? I reminded him that growing up my school was 15 min. away and 30 min away when we moved to Playas. I told him driving back and forth is normal for me. I think I really do want to move to Loveland, I personally believe that most of Greeley is evil! It's like that story in the Book of Mormon. I'm not good at remembering names but God was going to destroy this city and he was saying what if I found a few good people. There are some good people here so I would not want god to destroy the city, but I really would never choose to live there again. I will remember it because it's where I met the love of my life!

The apartment in loveland

2 years

2011-03-21T18:09:00.006-06:00

We have been married for 2 years! I actually really like that our anniversary falls during Spring Break. For our anniversary we decided to drive up to Estes Park. There was snow everywhere but the sun was shining and it felt wonderful. We decided to buy an annual pass for the park, so we can go back and not have to pay a fee every time. Once we found the visitors center we decided we wanted to see the falls, which were frozen. I didn't really see the falls because there was still too much snow every where but it was beautiful! Hopefully once the snow melts we'll be able to go up and hike to the falls. We drove up to Bear Lake which is south of Estes Park. The animals seemed to be out because we saw deer and elk herds. The lake was frozen over so we decided to venture out onto it. I was a little unsure just because I've never ever been on a frozen lake! It just felt like I was walking on snow, nothing too special. We made a picnic of the whole day. After walking on the frozen lake we took a break to eat our sandwiches. We drove back down to Estes Park to look around the shops. I love Estes Park, it's such a cute little town. As we were driving out of Estes we passed some elk who decided to come into town and feast on some grass near the local Comfort Inn. It was a very wonderful Anniversary. I can honestly say that getting married was the best decision I've made in my life. I love having someone there for me always. I really don't know what I'd do with out him

This funny store before Estes Park, tons of people stop because of the name and it's funny cause there's this tiny little dam next to it.

My other blog

2011-03-11T15:56:00.004-07:00

I know that people don't like to hear me complain. This is the reason I've created a different blog. I've created it for my dreams. I have a lot of strange dreams and I've always wanted to write them down. I created the blog for my dreams, but if I happen to complain a little here and there that's okay because no one reads that blog. I think it's good to have an outlet of some sort. I don't see how people can bottle up their feelings and not explode. I use to be like this, keeping all my feelings to myself. Since I've been married it seems I've lost the lid to my bottle and my feelings sometimes just spill out. I need this blog! I need a way to get my feelings out. Otherwise most of my feelings get directed at my husband and he does not need for me to be angry at him. I've decided I will write the happy things on here and the not so happy things on my other blog so that people who do not want to hear my sad sob stories do not have to.

Nickolas has been placed with one of his schools. He has to do a High School half of the time and an Elementary school the other half. He has been placed with his Elementary school. It is in Mead, CO. He says its a pretty small town but there are a surprising amount of students in the elementary. He really likes the teacher. He went and met with the teacher the other day, and said he is a really fun guy. He's older and has been teaching I think for 20 or 30 years. He says that the students really listen to the teacher and that the teacher likes to joke around with the kids. I'm glad that he found a teacher that he will like. It seemed like it took him forever though to get home from the school. He said there was some traffic on the way home.

I've been worrying a lot lately, about various different things. One thing I'm a little worried about is all the tsunamis and earthquakes. Something I've been thinking about since I talked to my mom about it, is not having a year supply. We don't exactly have room for a year supply. I would really like to buy all the things we need for a year supply like grain and what not, but my mom also mentioned I don't have a grinder so it would be pointless having grain. She says I just need to build up little by little. Whenever I go to the grocery store I need to just buy an extra weeks worth. I want to learn more about food storage. Every time the church talks about it they just say you need to build it up. I want details of how to store food, what food to store, and just everything!

Happy Face

2011-03-06T17:53:00.002-07:00

I guess lately I've been writing about all the negative things. I remember when I was little and I was sad or upset my mom would just start singing the primary song, "If you chance to meet a frown do not let it stay quickly turn it upside down and smile that frown away." Then if that didn't make me smile she would threaten to literally pick me up and turn me upside down. Which of course I did not want her to do so I'd at least give a somewhat smile. I use to get so mad when she would sing that song. She would also sing "love at home" when me and my sister would be fighting. I was talking to my mom and she said I needed to post something happier. I guess I think too much about all the things that are going wrong. It's just so much easier to think about those things. But I really should think about all the positive so that people don't think I'm completely miserable all the time. In young women's I remember someone talking about writing down 10 positive things. Or 10 things you like about yourself. I think I will do that, that way my mom at least knows I can talk about happy things too.

1. I've been married for almost 2 years to my wonderful hubby. March 14th will be our 2 year anniversary. We are planning on going to the temple on Sat. and we'll probably eat out on Monday, our actual anniversary day.

2. Really amazing families. I love my families. Everyone is so supportive of us, and will always be there for us if we need help. I have had friends who's families really aren't there for them, and I feel so lucky that I do have a family who will be there even if we just need someone to talk to.

3. I'm almost done with my degree. It really does feel like I've been going to school forever, but I can see a finish line in sight, 2 more semesters. 1 semester of student teaching.

4. I have good friends. When we first got married we felt a little bit weird in our ward because we didn't know very many people. We have at least some friends who will play games with us even though we don't have any kids.

5. Heavenly Father is looking out for us. Honestly it is surprising that we've managed to pay our bills and rent so far. We always have enough money to get us by. Which leads to 6 and 7.

6. Food, we've never had to go starving or anything we've always had food

7. A home. We have a home, we have the money to pay our rent, we have not been kicked out. I really am grateful for my apartment.

8. Nickolas having a job. Even though he gets frustrated with work and tired of it, I am so glad we do have a little income. It seems like we always manage to get by with what he makes.

9. I'm glad that Nickolas is almost done with school he does his student teaching next semester, and even though he had a little set back we will both graduate at the same time. I'm so glad that he is doing something that he loves and I have so much faith in what he can do.

10. A car. I am so glad we have a working car. Our car was making a fun noise and it turned out to be that we were just low on steering fluid. We thought it was going to be way more expensive but it wasn't and the guy who looked at it just filled it up so we didn't even have to buy steering fluid to put in it. We are definitely going to need this car next semester with both of our busy schedules.

Well theres 10. So I can see the positive in life. There's a lot more that really combine with the things I've already mentioned like my beliefs. I'm so glad I know that families are forever, and I love my beliefs because it gives me a set of standards, it gives me an ultimate eternal plan. I know who I am and where I am going. It helps me with my goals: get married, have a family, gain an education, die living the way I believe I should, if I do all those things I will be able to live with Heavenly Father.-then I will really know happiness! Then I will no longer have to face the struggles of life. I will not need to think positive I will always be positive! I will always have a happy face :)

Woe is me

2011-01-26T10:51:00.004-07:00

I miss my shower! I miss having hot water. We can't do dishes so the house is starting to smell. We can't do laundry unless we go over to the laundromat. Now we are actually starting to smell! Needless to say I am not a very happy camper! I just feel icky all over and it's starting to depress me a little bit. We haven't had water since Monday, and they keep posting notes saying they're trying to fix it. Today they're suppose to have a temporary fix, but they don't yet. They're suppose to get a new boiler this weekend....but that is like DAYS away!

We've been looking for apartments in Loveland, but the only way we can get the low rent price, which is the low income rent, we have to NOT be in school full time, and someone has to work full time. It seems that if you're a full time student you are doomed to be completely poor for the rest of your life!

This is my pity party, I just want something to not go wrong today! I want to feel better, my stomach has been hurting. I want the magic fairy to come and poof everything better!

January

2011-01-24T13:11:00.004-07:00

Since it is the end of January I figured I'd sum things up. School started which was a little stressful for Nick. He still needed to get into some classes and then he found out that two of his classes met at the same time. He was very stressed

out, he is so close to being done and this is just another set back. He talked to his advisor and he suggested that he could take the one class he needs after student teaching. It isn't the ideal situation but there's really nothing else he can do since the class he needs is music and they don't offer it in the summer. He is feeling better about it because since he has to take that one class we will end up graduating at the same time. I want to walk, so everyone plan on coming to Colorado in May 2012! :) When I say it it feels so far away, but I don't feel like it's that far away. I am only taking 3 classes, a total of 5 credits, through UNC and AIMS. I'm excited about not being over stressed with classes, but I really need to find a job.

Since I'm not full time we didn't get as much money from FAFSA. Which means we're going to be scraping by until I find a job. I've applied to a few different places. I actually was really hopeful about a job at Best Buy, working in the cell phon

e department, which is where I worked at Walmart. I actually know a guy who works at Best Buy, he told me who the manager was. I called and got in touch with the guy a a couple of weeks ago, and he said he'd look up my application and call me back. I gave him 2 days to call back and he didn't so I called him. I find out his wife is at the hospital and he won't be available, until the weekend, but maybe not even then since his wife is having surgery. I called the next week, and he wasn't available until friday. I called on friday and finally got a hold of him, he said that since they did the end of the year deal and find out how much they made they've decided not to hire someone new until March, and it would be part time. Now I have to start all over! I've called Borders and will call back today. Everyone keep your fingers crossed I find a job. I guess if all else fails I'll work at McDonalds. I'm going to go donate plasma hopefully this week. I think I can make $100 every two weeks. I wish it wasn't so hard finding

a job!

On a happier note, Nick and I got a good deal on Colorado Symphony tickets through groupon a couple of weeks ago. This last Friday we went. It was Dvoraks "New World". It was really interesting. In the first part of the concert they explained each movement, or certain phrases of the song with what Dvorak had in mind when he wrote it. Interesting enough they had a lot of explanations. First they said that Dvorak loved Native I

ndians, and the Song of Hiawatha, and that is where the influence came from. But it went on to say that he was influenced by Spiritual Negro songs, and also Bohemian songs from where Dvorak came from. Basically he was influenced by everyone! One part I thought was really funny was that they had been explaining the end of the 1st movement, the change to the 2nd. Let me explain what we saw when we first sat down. The theatre was a sort of round room and had amazing sound, so Nick has told me. We were behind the symphony so we could see their stands and down below us was the brass section. There were 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, and one tuba. The tuba had a Kindle on his stand! Which we both thought was weird. Onto the explanation, so when they were describing the end of the 1st movement I guess Dvorak decided he wanted a tuba. They went onto say that the Tuba plays for 8 notes, and then doesn't play ever again! Hehe this explains the Kindle. I really liked go

ing out, we were a little rushed but it was nice to do something like go to a big fancy Symphony and get all dressed up.

Downtown Denver

The area around the Denver Center for the Performing arts which is where the symphony was

Our view

You can see it's a round sort of theater

My MLK day finds

2011-01-17T23:12:00.002-07:00

I did not celebrate the holiday very well. BUT I did find some really good finds while shopping. My purpose was not intentionally to go shopping. Nick and I were actually just wanting to get out of the house and since Loveland, CO is only 15 min. away we usually go there when we need to get out of Greeley. We actually are planning on moving there in May and we've done some shopping online, but we haven't really looked at any apartments. We mostly just drove around Loveland looking for apartments. We did find anything really, it was pretty late, and most places were closed. We found some that look decent but I'll have to call and find out prices. The only thing about us moving is that our rent is most likely going to be a lot more than we're paying now, but we need to move. Nick wants to student teach in Loveland and your chances of student teaching with the teacher you want are greater when you actually live in the area you're wanting to student teach. I still need to do some looking online, and make calls to see about prices.

The really fantastic part about today was that I found some really great finds while shopping. We decided we were hungry so we went to Carinos, who happend to be having a half off family dinner prices. So instead of paying $14 each for whatever we wanted we decided to both get Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo and it was half price, so normally it was $22 but we paid $11 and split it. We both got salads and soda's so it came out to about $20. But that was not my finds. Today has been an all around good day for shopping.

I get Groupon daily finds on my phone and today there were Colorado Symphony Orchestra tickets on sale for $19. Since I keep wanting Nick to take me to nice places and since it was so cheap, and also because Nick loved all the performances they were doing. We decided to go ahead and get tickets for this Friday. What we will be seeing is Dvorjak, from the New world.
http://www.coloradosymphony.org/current-season/performance/8/329/dvoaks-new-world-inside-the-score-czech-point-festival/ that is the website with some information about it. Nick told me a little bit about it. They will be telling the story of Dvorjak coming to America. I'm very excited. I decided that since I'm going to the symphony I need a nice fancy dress to go in.

We decided to just walk around the Outlet's in Loveland and I wanted to stop by this store called Rue 21 because they have newer styles of clothes and I like a lot of their clothes. They did not have any clothes on sale that I liked, but I checked out the shoes and found some very nice suede looking tan high heel shoes. They fit really nice and they were suppose to be $19, but they were on a rack of shoes that said $7 so I decided to see if they really were $7, and they were!

Dress barn was right next door to Rue 21 so I looked around but didn't find anything I liked in my size. I decided to see if Macy's might still be open because they have nice dresses. I was hoping to find something I could go to the symphony in. We had an hour until it closed so we headed over. I found a pretty red dress on sale and the marked down price was $20. When I went to check out it rang up as $9. I was definitely on a role today.

On our way home I realized the good luck I had been having with shopping I thought about this purse I've been eyeing at Target that is on sale but a little to high for me to actually spend money on. I was hopeful though that with my luck it might be on a bigger sale. We stopped by last minute because I found out they didn't close until 10:00 and it was 9:45. Sadly the purse was still the same price. However I found a jacket that I've been looking around for. A nice button up wool coat, but they usually run around $100 or more dollars. They had a few ugly ones on the clearance racks but I saw one that was not on the clearance rack that was exactly what I had been looking for. I tried it on and it fit perfectly. The tag had been torn off and I didn't know what the price was but they can sometimes find the price on the inside tag. It looked exactly like these coats on some other racks that definitely weren't on sale. The other coats were $50. Then I saw a tag on the sleeve that I didn't see before that said $13! I found a price checker and it came up as $13. Needless to say I got it. Today was definitely a good day for shopping! I'll have to post pictures of my finds later, maybe we'll take pictures of us going to the Symphony.

Winter Card

2011-01-10T17:35:00.004-07:00

We kinda missed sending out our Christmas card this year so I thought I'd post it on here.

Holiday Festivities

2011-01-10T16:02:00.006-07:00

Our Christmas season was busy. For me, I went to AZ for a week and spent some time with my family. It was really great seeing my family and going to the Mortensen Family Christmas party. I actually went to Animas for a funeral and saw a bunch of people from my old ward growing up. I was very surprised to see that some people remembered me. It's been 7 years almost since I lived in Animas/Playas area. I also got to watch my niece Codi and nephews Aiden, Norman, Morgan in their school play. Aiden was frosty the snow man. I think that was one of the highlights of my trip. Then my family got together and did our family Christmas exchange. My sister Elisa had Evalynn's birth brother with her and he was so much fun. Our family is growing bigger and bigger. Soon there will be equal nieces and nephews. I got to see my Grandma Ruth and give her a book I made. For one of my classes last semester I had to make a children's book. I decided to use a story that my grandma Ruth would tell to me. It was called Cheery Chirp and Limber Leggs. It's about a grasshopper and a cricket. I went to watch Tangled with my sister Elisa and her daughter and loved it! I would highly recommend it. It was very cute and funny. Plus I love the story of Rapunzel.

I flew back a week later and two days later Nick and I left for California for a week. It was the first time in a while that all of Nick's brothers and sister were all together. It was so great seeing them and just spending time with them. Nick's younger brother Andrew was getting married so the day we flew in..that night his wife Kimberly got her endowments. On Tues Dec 28, 2010 they were sealed in the temple. I'm so grateful that I was able to attend the sealing and see they're faces when they got married. You could tell how truly happy they were. They're reception was fantastic and very huge! They served cake balls dipped in chocolate, candy like gummi worms and taffy, and lots of candy. They had a photo booth set up, it really was a nice reception. The day after they got married we got on the plane to come home. It was so nice seeing all our families this Christmas, that was the greatest gift anyone could give us.

Thanksgiving!

2010-11-27T12:10:00.012-07:00

I've been meaning to write a post about Thanksgiving for a few days now because with my last post I was talking about the things I don't have. I went to church and someone gave a talk about remembering the things you do have. I felt guilty because in my post all I was talking about was the things I would like to have for Christmas. I am grateful for the things I do have. It's not like I'm completely poor and I don't have anything. I actually have quite a lot to be thankful for. I have a very wonderful family. It's a very large family now that I'm married. I'm surrounding by so many people who love me and care for me. Thanksgiving really helped me remember that!

For Thanksgiving my parents decided to drive up here and spend it with us. I'm very grateful that they were willing to do that because they have so much family down where they live they really didn't have to drive up here. We wanted to go out and eat some steaks because growing up my family would always just grill steaks for Thanksgiving dinner instead of doing the whole turkey and everything. I called a week in advance around and pretty much everywhere was closed and I didn't feel that Golden Corral was going to be good enough. I decided to get a small turkey breast and some of the other fixin's for Thanksgiving dinner. My mom brought a ham from a pig they raised, along with a ton of other meat for our freezer. We spend Thursday cooking and have a very wonderful dinner in our little living room (which is where we keep our table).

We went shopping on Friday, not early in the morning; we decided to go to Ft. Collins because my parents had never been there. Nick was our guide because I really don't know FoCo very well. We decided to go to downtown FoCo and found some very interesting shops. One shop that I loved was called Ten Thousand Villages. It was the coolest store ever. My mom bought some things and she got me a little basket, but I don't remember where it was from. In this store they had little sections where they had little trinkets made by people from all around the world. I should've taken some pictures! Then we went to a toy store where I did take some pictures. They had the funest toys and Nick really liked it because of the puppets they had. I took a picture of these funny hats they had one was a monster, there were some that looked like the Anne Geddes hats she puts on babies, where it looks like your head is a flower. All in all it was a great day. Nick had to work so we went back in time for him to work and went home and watched movies on Netflix.

Today, Saturday, my parents wanted to leave by 12:00pm so they could get going. Nick had to work at 11:00 am so it worked out for everyone, except leaving me here by myself! I'm thinking I might put the Christmas tree up! I'm leaving in December to go home for a week and visit all my family in NM/AZ. Then I fly back and 2 days later Nick and I are flying to California for Christmas and a wedding. Nick's younger brother Andrew is getting married. It will be a very busy December for me :) I am very excited though because I will be seeing a few new babies I haven't seen yet! My cousin Amber's little girl, my brother's little girl, my cousin Eddie's little boy, and my bro and sis-in-law's little boy Calvin. Needless to say I have lots of holding babies to do!

I'm excited yet dreading the next few weeks of school. I have to make a Children's book, and write a ten page paper, among other things. It will be very busy next week! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

P.S. This blog has been completely stupid and has given me lots of trouble trying to add pictures. It keeps moving the words around so that is breaks up my sentences. Then when I move a picture it deletes a different picture. I just decided to move all the pics to the bottom. Very stupid! If it looks really weird sorry!

Christmas Wish List

2010-11-16T15:13:00.004-07:00

So I know your not suppose to think about presents and what not just really about the true meaning of Christmas and I am, but I'm also thinking about all the things I'd like to buy if I had money to buy them. I think making a list helps me not to get too discouraged that I'm so poor I don't have enough money to buy myself anything other than what I really simply need. So I am going to make me a Christmas List and not expect anyone to get me anything, they will just be my little "someday" ideas that maybe someday I will buy myself, when I have the money. In case any of you out there are looking at buying me a Christmas gift feel free to borrow an idea from my list but you do not have to buy me anything!

CHRISTMAS LIST/WISH LIST (even not during christmas time)

Teapot

Children’s books-to build up my collection-which is like 2 total children's books

Hair rollers fuzzy-you don’t heat them

Kitchen towels

IPod alarm clock

Case for phone-not white-my current one is white and it is completely dirty, i can't even wash it

Silky/flannel robe-not big fleece kind, i have the big fleece kind but it gets too hot

Waterproof gloves

Jean jacket

Body wash-any kind but rose scented

Dove intense hair therapy shampoo and conditioner

Rotary cutter

You’ve got mail on DVD

Twilight movies

Harry potter movies

Grey skirt-flowy mid length( i want this for Andrew's wedding)

Disney movies

Bose head phones-the kind that sit in your ears-like nick’s old ones

Black Boots-Ugg kind with traction on bottom

Hawaiian get away trip

Trip to Europe(Ireland, Scotland, London, Italy, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, France)

All That 70s Show on DVD

All Friends on DVD

Wii Fit

Standing Mixer

Spring form pan

Baguette pan

Sometimes it feels like the list could go on forever! Especially when I start thinking about bills, and how they're just never ending! It seems like when I think about how we can't pay our bills that I shouldn't even consider buying myself anything just for me. I've noticed now that I don't even look at anything, or even think about shopping because I just think...oh we don't have money. I'm even bad at grocery shopping because I always want to get more than we need. But when I write a list of the things I'd like to have, for just a second I pretend that I could actually buy all these things for myself. I imagine having enough money to pay for all our bills AND buy myself a little present. Sometimes I really wish we could just live in our little imaginary worlds where nothing is bad, no one in the world is poor, starving, getting hurt or killed. Everyone gets what they want and is completely happy and has no desire to be mean or evil.

In other news-Nick's car has a broken window and it has begun snowing. We decided to buy a tarp for now until we can buy a new window. I have a ten page paper due, on a book of my choice. I am going to do my favorite book, Ella Enchanted. At first I wasn't sure that this book would be right for this class-English -Fantasy and Science Fiction. The book we just read had some fairytale themes so I am going to be able to use Ella Enchanted, which is a cinderella story. I also need to make a Children's book, hopefully that won't be too hard but I do need to find out if there's a specific type of paper I'm suppose to use.

I've decided to put off student teaching for a semester. I don't want Nick and I to be student teaching at the same time. Nick will do student teaching in the fall 2011 and I will do it in the Spring of 2012. Next semester Spring 2011 I will just take a few classes and work-hopefully help out with bills for a change. While I'm student teaching Nick will look for a job, and work.

That is life for now.

Cookie Time!

2010-10-12T00:22:00.000-06:00

Rachel made Halloween sugar cookies tonight and she went crazy with the camera. She took like 50 pictures in about 2 minutes. And here they are!

Me frosting a punkin

say "cheese"!

After having too much frosting.

And the cookies in all their orange and green glory: (and black)

In closing, we want you, to stay away from our cookies.

(and check out Rachel's cute new hair cut!)

Estes Park/ jury duty

2010-10-02T13:49:00.004-06:00

Well this week was very stressful but ended in a very non-stressful way. On Thursday Sept. 24 I went online to see if I had to go in for jury duty, I had already gotten the letter in the mail a few months ago. I found out that I did have to go in. I have never done jury duty and have heard horror stories about how they make you wait forever and you don't have time to eat lunch so your starving. So going in I wanted to be prepared. I took my laptop two different kinds of snacks, and I was hoping I wouldn't be there for too long. I had contemplated just telling them that I really couldn't do jury duty or be a juror because I had two quizzes and two tests this week. Great timing to have tests and quizzes. I went in, filled out the little questionnaire. They asked a few strange questions like do you know anyone in law enforcement, that would be a yes! Then some other questions like do you recognize any of these people, and then they listed a bunch of people's names. Then the last question was, is there any reason you can't be a juror. I listed that I had some quizzes and tests. Well we wait about an hr for everyone to get there and finish the questionnaire. Then they have us all go into the courtroom and sit on the pews in the back of the room. I don't remember why we raised our hands but there was a part where we rose our hands and swore to do something, oops i forgot what it was. We they told us that there's going to be 14 chosen jurors and then 2 of those jurors are going to be alternates. They then said they were going to call off 14 juror numbers, then they were going to call 28 juror numbers. If your number was in the first 14 then you were to stay after all the numbers were called. If you were in the 28 then you came back at 1:30. If your number wasn't called they said come back at 3:00. Well my number wasn't called, so I'm thinking, "yeah I'm totally not going to be a juror". Well I come back at 3:00 and I guess I was a few minutes late but It seemed like everyone had been waiting for me. As soon as I got in, (every time you go outside you have to go through security to get back in) they called out 28 people. I noticed there were less people in the juror room than earlier that morning. Well the baliff lady started calling out numbers, and I was the last number to get called. She said we're going to be questioned by the attorneys. Everyone else who wasn't called waited on the pews in the courtroom. We go into the court room and the prosecuter and defendant attorneys ask us all some questions. It was close to 5:00 so the defendant attorney actually didn't ask us much questions so they said we had to come back the next morning. I go back the next morning and got really lucky and was chosen as a juror. Well I was hoping that I really wouldn't get chosen but I figured well this will be interesting. I don't really want to talk much about the case just because it was not a wonderful memory or anything. This man was being charged for sexual assault on his "step-daughter" even though she really wasn't his step daughter, he had been dating his mom for 7 yrs. Well anyways he said he didn't think it was sexual assault because his family is free loving and is use to walking around naked all the time, and the girl who was supposedly assaulted didn't say anything until a year later and it seemed as though her story was different every time she told it. It was just a he-said/she-said case and we had to decide who we believed. It was suppose to be a unanimous verdict, but there were people in the juror who were definitely decided it was sexual assault and there were some who said, no way this guy didn't knowingly assault the girl and the girl and the guys story of the situation were both completely different. Soooo in the end the judge said it was a mistrial because we couldn't come to a unanimous decision. It was very stressful and I hated it very much. I don't like making those kind of decisions. I did feel as though I did try my best and was actually sort of relieved that it was a mistrial. But i hate that they all have to go through it again. That family was so torn up and it was just awful to see. Well anyways I decided I needed some kind of relaxation, so Friday, Nickolas had work off, so we decided to go up to Estes Park, basically the Rocky Mountains. It was so beautiful with all the trees changing colors. We just loved it. It was very soothing and relaxing and very non-stressful.

End of Summer and Beginning of School

2010-09-14T23:41:00.004-06:00

Well I've definitely been slacking. It's be two months I think since I've posted anything. Nickolas's Grandpa Pulsipher passed away at the end of July. We weren't sure if we would be able to go because finding a last minute plane, bus, or train seemed way too expensive. Nick was still in class but I still really wanted to go. As things got closer to the funeral we decided we'd drive to Utah and catch a ride with Nick's aunt. Nick's teacher said it was totally fine and that nothing was really going on the last week of class. He turned all his papers in before we left and we drove to Salt Lake City on July 25 right after our ward announced a new bishopric. We decided splitting the drive into two days would make it less exhausting. We stayed the night at Nick's Grandma Sullivan's house and met up with his aunt the next morning. I must say most of the drive was pretty boring. There wasn't very much to see going through salt lake, except for white dry salt lake beds. In Reno we hit some rain for a little bit. We got to California and met up with Nick's mom. Tuesday Nick's family was so nice and let me go to the beach, since the last time we came we never got to go. We spent most of the day at Half Moon Beach in San Francisco. I made a castle, I don't remember ever being a kid and making a sand castle. We ate lunch on the beach. The water was pretty cold but I didn't think it was too bad. I ended up getting sunburned on my legs. We also went to the botanical gardens in the Golden Gate park. That whole park was beautiful and I would like to see more of it. We also stopped by In and Out on the way back to Nick's parents house. Every time we go to California I have to stop by In and out because we don't have one near where we live. Wednesday was Nick's Grandpa's funeral. I found out a lot about the Pulsipher side of the family. I hadn't met some of his aunts so it was really nice to get to meet everyone. Wednesday evening we had nick's aunt on his mom side come over with her family and his grandma ensign on his mom side came too. It was so much fun just to get together and play some guitar hero. Thursday we went swimming at the pool in Nick's parents club house. Friday we visited Nick's grandma ensign and walked to the American river near her house. We got a little wet again there. Saturday we went bowling, i didn't do too bad on one game. Sunday we caught a ride home with nick's uncle. It was really such a great little vacation to the end of summer. We got home and I dreaded started school.

School started on Aug 23. Since all my classes are on tues and wednesday I didn't actually start class right away. The days that I have class are super busy from 8am-9pm with a few hrs in between. Even though sometimes it can be stressful I love having monday wednesday and friday to relax and get homework done. I'm suppose to find a job. Right now it's been difficult, and it seems like no where is hiring. I'm worried too, that if i found a job I'd have a mental overload. I am taking 12 credits at UNC and 9 credits and AIMS. Your not suppose to do that, but if i want to graduate by next december then I have to. I'm having difficulty distinguishing between my classes. I'm slowly getting better as I go but for the first few weeks of class my brain felt it was getting overloaded. I almost started crying last thursday because i didn't have enough time to finnish my math quiz. I was feeling super stressed. I also keep forgetting about my online class. Hopefully I'll get it all figured out soon.

In other news, we decided to buy and new couch. Our old couch which we got free from our neighbor had lost all it's spring on the middle cushion, and was really annoying and painful to sit in. We went to American Furniture warehouse and found an awesome dual reclining couch. We had some difficulties though with it actually working. When they delivered the couch monday, labor day, we were super excited. The delivery guys hauled it in asked us to sign and left. We immediately sat down on the couch and tried to pull the recliners. Nick's recliner worked but mine didn't. We tried pulling and pulling and it wouldn't budge. Nick turned the couch over and took a look at it. I can't really explain what was wrong with it. He said something about a wire and hook and that it looked slightly bent. So we called customer service and they said they'd send us another one on wednesday. I was the one who received it because Nick had class. When the guys dropped it off I pulled the recliner to make sure it worked and it did. As soon as the guys left our apt i sat down and it wouldn't recline. It was the same side too. I was in between running after the guys and trying to call them on the phone. I got one of the guys on the phone and I said, "yeah you just dropped off a couch for me and it's not working." So the guy came back, looked at it tried pulling it and it wouldn't work. He said we could try having them send a new one or call customer service and see what they say. We thought well if this is happening this certain couch then why wouldn't it happen to the next one? We decided maybe we should just look and see if there's another couch we like. So after nick's class and before he had to go to work we drove down to Ft. Collins to the AF warehouse and looked at all the couches again. There was one couch that I sort of liked but nothing seemed to compare with the one we had chosen. I really liked how the cushions were and that the recliner button was on the outside not inside. The sales lady we had talked to before was super nice and was basically saying she'd do anything to help us out. She said they could send a technician but it may take a few weeks. I didn't want to wait weeks for a new couch but I decided I still liked the first one we had chosen. We called customer service as soon as we left the warehouse and they said they could send someone the next day. The next day they called back and said the technician wouldn't be able to make it and tried to reschedule for the next week but I got them to come the next day, friday. The guy came out looked at the couch fiddle with it a little, said it looked a little bent. He started hammering on the couch and wahlah it was fixed! I was excited! The only problem we have now is that we still have our old couch sitting in the middle of our living room waiting to be taken. If we had a couch we'd take it to the ARC or something. We'll figure something out.

Right now were trying to get our brakes fixed. A guy in our ward knows how to fix them and we're gonna have him do it on friday. We're also planning on going to the temple on friday.

July was a busy month

2010-07-23T16:41:00.005-06:00

So it's been awhile and we've done a few things this month. I have some pictures I want to post. We saw the 4th of July parade. I was hoping to see the stampede part but we missed it, so maybe next year. We also went to the Greeley stampede which was fun as well. We got a turkey leg and looked at an artist display. The stampede isn't anything like our fair in NM. Usually in our little Fair we can display things that local people have made. For example, baked goods, things people have sewn, drawn, taken pictures of. The art display at the stampede in Greeley was mostly professional stuff. All their art was for sale and I'm pretty sure there wasn't anything under $200. They had artist from around the US. Most of them had a southwestern theme as well. We also got to see a man jump from 80 ft in the air to a tiny little pool of water...I think they said it was 10 ft deep! CRAZY! we saw fireworks on Monday the 5th of July because on the 4th it rained and they couldn't get the fireworks to go up.

Then just last week we drove down to Springerville, AZ and went camping with my family. It was really great to see everyone. All of my nieces and nephews have grown up! Evalynn was so much fun to see and watch. She loved to sing and dance and just very fun. She accidentally pulled a hot cup of coffee on her and got some burns on her chest. My sister Elisa and Spencer ran her to the local hospital, and luckily everything turned out okay and Elisa says she's doing really good. I went fishing and didn't catch anything! But I loved seeing my family, I really missed them.

Camping in Brentwood

Being poor. :)

2010-07-08T11:53:00.003-06:00

I just wanted to talk about my dream because my mom said I should write down all the "fun" times we're having being a poor married couple and someday we'll look back and realize how "FUNny" everything was.

Well yesterday was actually fun we were doing laundry and since the dryer in our apartment building doesn't work at all, we don't waste our quarters on even trying to dry it. We usually hang our clothes up all over our living room, basically anywhere we think it will get dry. I'm still trying to figure out how to put a clothes line in my living room. Well yesterday we decided to wash our blanket and sheets. If any of you have done laundry you know that a blanket that fits a queen size bed is big. So what do you do to dry out a big blanket in your living room? You make a tent out of chairs! :) Yes we made a tent and we even took a nap underneath. It smelled very good because the blanket had just been washed. It didn't help though that yesterday was a cloudy sort of day and the blanket still wasn't dry when we went to bed. I would have to say though that this was one of those fun times my mom was talking about.

The other "fun" time is mostly my dream. Yesterday I was making breakfast and we happened to run out of eggs and milk and tortillas all at the same time, we were having breakfast burritos. We had just paid some of our bills that we could afford to pay, so there isn't much to go shopping for groceries with. That is why I sent Nickolas because when I go I always feel like I don't have to worry about money. Let me explain my logic in this. Growing up when I went shopping with my mom she always bought the name brand stuff! She never seemed to worry about whether she could afford to buy eggs or chicken or peanut butter. Sometimes I wonder if my mom had just told me that we couldn't afford to buy something that maybe my brain would comprehend the idea of really not being able to afford something. I know I don't have money but my brain still thinks that it doesn't matter. Anyways there are actually some other things were out of so I told Nick if he wanted to get some chicken and peanut butter then he could. Well he came back with eggs tortilla's and milk, just one. Let me explain something else. Nick likes to drink milk by the gallon. I tell him he really is a camel. He literally has to ration himself when we don't have money for milk because he will drink all of it if he doesn't think about it. Well we had a very nice breakfast and ran out of ranch while we were having breakfast. So I have one more item to add to my long list of things we out of.

My dream was funny because I was at the grocery store and Nickolas had sent me to get a few things. Well of course my brain kicked and I started thinking, "oh we need that, and that, and that." I found some really awesome things, like blackberry lemonade that Nick and I love from Chilli's. So I really wanted to get this bag of frozen chicken but I was calculating in my head and the price of frozen chicken was more than what we had in our bank account, literally. But I really wanted it so bad, that I decided to grab it. Then Nick came up and told me I had to put some things back because we couldn't afford it. It was still a nice dream because I at least thought I was going to get something I wanted.

I really do look forward to the day where buying frozen chicken or blackberry lemonade (if they make it) and not have to worry about price...or name brand. I don't buy name brand anymore because I did realize that it's waaaay cheaper to buy kroger or equate. I sometimes can't tell the difference. I hope that day comes, I hope that being poor doesn't really last forever!

Life....

2010-06-30T22:54:00.004-06:00

So I think I'm the only one who actually writes on here, but I still talk about Nickolas so I can still call it "our" blog. I've been meaning to post but I really don't want to because I don't like what I want to talk about. I do feel that I should talk about it though. I will start with three dreams I had last night and then you will see why I want to talk about it.

1st dream I had: One of my education teachers that I didn't particularly like, but I didn't hate her was a teacher in an Elementary classroom. A lot of the people I've been taking classes with have taken a lot of classes with this teacher and almost everyone I've talked to loves her. I felt like she had this sort of fierce look like she could kill you if she wanted to just with her look. She was actually pretty nice and not a bad teacher but she had this whole, "i'm not going to take anyone's crap or any thing from anyone" thing going. Well in my dream she was the head teacher in this classroom. It was snack time and I had fed the kids some strawberries. Well something happend the kids had ate too many strawberries or something and she went balistic. She was yelling at the kids telling them they're pigs and she started measuring their necks to see how fat they were. I thought it was completely wrong that she was doing this and I was really getting mad at her. Then I just was thinking, no she can't get away with this. So I got up the courage to go to her and tell her to stop and what she was doing was wrong and I was going to call the head of the school, the big boss, and tell them what she was doing. She just kind of looked at me and said whatever, like she didn't think I'd really do it. I talked to some other teachers in my dream and they said, oh but she such a good teacher, who cares if she's a little mean. I was really struggling with trying to tell on her. I even went to the phone a few times and of course the big boss person was on speed dial. Eventually I found the courage to call them and I left a message for them. Well this is where my dream switches and dream 2 starts.

Dream 2 is my nightmare!! So I'm the teacher for the CTR 6 in primary. Here's the background so you can know how I feel. I feel completely inadequate for this calling. I feel like the kids never listen to me, and what I do seems pointless since the kids aren't listening. There you go background knowledge. In my dream I was trying to teach my lesson. I had prepared way ahead of time and I think I knew the lesson really well. Well needless to say none of the kids were listening at all. I was getting frustrated. I had a bag of good candy, like air head and chocolate, because I figured if I got them this kind of candy they might listen. (more background knowledge a couple of months ago I bought a big bag of candy around easter and had it in my church bag so that when the kids were behaving well I'd give them a little candy...well guess what they didn't like the kind of candy I chose.) On to the dream....so I told the kids if they were behaving well they'd get to choose a candy out of the bag. So they still were not listening to me and they sort of were being quieter. So after the lesson I let them choose a candy. Well they kept coming back and grabbing candy and I was trying to tell them just one but they were listening. Like I said NIGHTMARE!

So I think this is the point where I should tell you that I got fired from my job. I don't want to go into detail but I honestly feel like it wasn't my fault and I shouldn't have gotten fired. I will admit that I could've done something that would've helped but I think even if I had I still would've gotten fired.

My third dream: One of the teachers called me back to work for a day. I was so frustrated because I didn't know anything that was going on or anything about the kids, like who was potty-training, and what not. I was telling the lady who had called me back in to work that I wish it was more organized so I could feel like I knew what was going on. She was helping me make some labels for kids so I'd know who was potty-training. In my dream I worked a full shift and was suppose to work until 6 pm. It was around 4 pm and I asked the lady if this meant I was getting my job back. She just laughed at me and said, "no way". So i got sooo mad and told her fine then I'm leaving. And i just left.

I can kind of interpret these dreams. The first and third dream have to do with me getting fired. I feel so bad, but angry at the same time. I know that I made a mistake but i don't feel like I should've gotten fired for it. Therefore this makes me feel completely worthless and that I will do horrible at any job I try for. I know it's possible to make mistakes, but honestly I think one of my biggest fears is making mistakes! And having it realized that making a mistake gets you fired just makes it so much worse. This is also why i'm very hesitant to find another job. I don't want to start all over. Now I'm wondering if teaching is really what I want to do because what if I make a mistake as a teacher. I know it will be very easy to make a mistake as a teacher. I want a job where if I do make a mistake it won't be that big of a deal. Now I have no clue what I really want to do. I feel lost, all over again.

Another thing that I would like to add to things being crappy. My hometeacher told me that his wife heard a rumor that I was 5-6 months pregnant!! That means everyone thinks I'm fat. This also goes to show that Relief Society is just great at knowing about people. And since I've got a calling in Primary I'm not in Relief Society anymore and so therefore everyone thinks i'm pregnant cause they don't pay attention and realize that i'm in primary they think i'm not coming to church cause i'm sick being pregant. I love how easy it is for people in church to assume that since your married obviously you must be trying to get pregnant. Being fat doesn't help either cause then people think you are pregnant. I'm not saying I hate pregnant people or anything, I know ALOT of people who are pregnant. It just kind of stinks that almost every person I know is pregnant. I don't feel like I should feel left out because I'm the only one not pregnant. Being pregnant is not a fad! Or is it? I sort of get the feeling that it's the cool thing to do. :) Right now, Nickolas and I feel like when the time comes it will come....So maybe it's just everyones time to get pregnant?

Well anyways that's life for now. Since I got fired Nickolas has actually been getting more hours at Kohls, which is amazing. Hopefully I can find something though before the end of July (thats when aug rent is due). I wish I didn't have to work. And actually if I continue with teaching then in aug i'll only be able to work certain days. I didn't know life could get so complicated! Since we've been married it just seems like things get more and more complicated. I guess I just always thought, you get married and live happily ever after. But I don't think the happily ever after part comes until your dead, assuming you've lived a righteous life. I guess I'll just have to focus on the good parts. Being with the one I love...having a car, a house, food, all the necesscities of life. Then maybe someday greater blessings will come and we'll have good jobs, degrees, family, and a house...not particularly in that order. I think life will always be complicated, but I guess it's how you look at it.

Summer

2010-06-14T23:04:00.007-06:00

So far this summer has been school and work. Nickolas and I both have classes this summer. All of my classes are in June and he has one in June and July. I've taken two weekend classes, and I do not plan to do that ever again. It's hard doing 8 hours of class with a 1 hr or 30 min lunch. But I am so lucky that both of my teachers were completely nice and awesome. Both of them I think it was their first time teaching in college. My first class was on assessment in the classroom. Basically making sure your kids are learning and if they're not what you need to do to help them.
The second class was Creative expression in the classroom, so basically how to do art with children. It was a lot of fun! Some of the things were so interesting. The teacher is from Russia and super nice. She had a very thick Russian accent and hearing her talking the whole day made me think with a Russian accent. I'd be talking or saying something in my head and it'd have a Russian accent. She even made Borscht and I tried it, it tasted like vegetable soup. I've decided I wouldn't mind teaching English in Russia if we had the opportunity. We did so many fun things and she got me thinking about being an art teacher, she asked me a few times why I wasn't doing that. Some of the projects we did: Folk art painting on plates, so you know those decorative plates people have on walls, we did that with hard paper plates and paint. We did a naturalistic drawing of a dried leaf in water color, not my favorite one. We did a still life of some objects she had set up in pastels. We drew self portraits of our classmates, one interesting project was we did a self portrait of ourself then after a few minutes of time we passed the picture to our neighbor and then they continued the picture of us, needless to say I ended up looking like the fairy godmother on Shrek 2. We had a take home self portrait assignment with mixed media, so we could use any type of paint or we could add pictures we could add anything as long as it stuck to the paper. I did water color and glitter glue. We did textile and pattern painting, basically we took a plastic divider, covered it with paint for a back ground then stuck it onto a piece of paper. Then we wiped off the divider painted some fun lines or swirlies then pressed it onto our background. We embroidered a pillow, I chose to do an umbrella with rain drops. We made air dry clay figurines. I made a dragon, snake, and fish. We then did a fairy tale painting. First we took turns telling a part of a made up fairytale. This is the story: There was a white horse who had a skinny neck and a big head and rainbow colored hair. Because he had a skinny neck and big head it made it hard for him to find a girl. So he went looking in the forest and met a yellow pig. They were playing in the mud and the horse ate an magic apple and turned into a donkey. It started to rain and washed off all the mud and they ran into a cave and made babies. Then an evil short man with a talking cat on his shoulder came and stole all the babies and took them to a farm. On the farm the evil man made them dig for potatoes. They had to dig big holes, well some beanstalks came out of the holes and started raining potatoes. Then there was a potato famine so they ran away and went to a new world where they farmed carrots. The babies decided to run away to the circus and met a unicorn who turned them all into horses. An evil bull came and chased all the horses into the sea. They swam back to the new world where the farmed carrots. They ate so many carrots that they had really good eye sight. One horse named Elmer had the best sight ever and decided to run away to the forrest. He met a boy who was beaten and helped the little boy to get better. Elmer's eye sight grew worse because he wasn't eating carrots anymore so the little boy helped him when his eye sight went bad. The End. My picture was the horse eating an apple. The last project we did was straw dolls. This one was probably my favorite. I felt like I was in the olden days making a doll out of straw. I'll post pictures. I have two more weeks of summer school and then I'm done until August. WHOO hoo!

Finals and summer school

2010-05-08T11:55:00.002-06:00

We had finals this week, I know that doesn't seem happy but wait, so I got a few days off of work for finals. We had extra time on tuesday so we went to Ft. Collins. We drove through all the beautiful houses and stores, and realized Greeley really is a dump. We want to do our student teaching in Ft. Collins so we are hopefully planning on moving there next summer! That is something to look forward to. I was just in complete happiness as opposed to all the things in Greeley that make me sad, like money, school, and work. We went up to Horsetooth reservoir and it was just beautiful. We hiked a little, in flip flops since we weren't planning on going there. I think the funnest things are when you just go outside not planning to go anywhere and end up doing something fun.

So for the summer I'm taking 3 classes now and working very very part time. This means less money and more school. I honestly don't know how we're going to afford to live! Hopefully Nick will get more hours at Kohls, if he doesn't he'll have to get another job.

I was thinking about how things were when we first got married. Things are a lot better. We have an apartment and we're pretty moved in. We're trying a lot better to keep it clean. When we first got married Nick didn't have a job, and now he does and it's not carpet cleaning, so he doesn't stink when he get home (most of the time). We're both a lot closer to being done than when we were married. And we have so many new family members coming into our world. New nephews and nieces, and whatever your cousin's nieces are called. That is very exciting. We have a lot to be thankful for.

California!

2010-03-22T20:41:00.009-06:00

So this last week we spent spring break in California. I got to meet Andrew Nickolas's brother who has been on a mission in Mexico. We got to see Sacramento and San Francisco, and just relax. It was so great, and I think my health really improved, I felt completely fine the entire time I was there. The moment I got off the plane in Denver I felt my entire face full of congestion! Greeley just does not bode well with me. I love California, it was green and sun shiney the entire time. Monday we flew to Sacramento and waited at the airport for Andrew to get off the plane. It was really funny and nerve-wrecking to meet him for the first time. It was funny that he was having trouble with speaking English. Tuesday we relaxed and spent time with the family. Wednesday, St Patrick's Day, we went to Old Sacramento and saw the train museum and bought some salt water taffy. We also went to see the Pulsipher Grandparents, whom I had never met either. Thursday we spent a "anniversary date" in San Francisco since our anniversary was on Sun Mar. 14th. Can you believe we've been married a whole year? San Francisco was a lot of fun, even though we didn't make it to the beach. We walked around Pier 49, Fisherman's Wharf and took the cable car down to China town. I was sort of expecting China town to be different, it was mostly shops and stinky food. I found a really cool Chinese fan that I need someone to translate for me. By the time we caught the cable car back to our car the sun was setting, so we headed towards the Golden Gate bridge, with plans of turning to go to the ocean, but missed the turn and ended up on the bridge, headed home. It was getting dark so I decided we should just go home anyways. All in all it was a very nice spring break. I felt completely relaxed. I'm sad to be home but have a greater determination to finnish school so we can move away from Greeley, to somewhere warmer. We're hoping to go back to California for Nickolas's younger brother Jon's high school graduation in June.

Homecoming and Old Sacramento

San Francisco

Being Sick and cars

2010-02-10T10:40:00.003-07:00

Sadly I think most of my life is all about our cars and being sick. I've had an awful cold that started on Saturday. On Saturday Nick got an email from a lady on craigslist saying she wanted to buy his computer. He was very excited because he wants to buy some new microphones and recording headphones, and it's been a while since we've had money to buy him something he wanted. Since the things he wants are so expensive. The lady called on Friday and said she'd call Saturday morning at 9:30 and we'd tell her where to go. Well we had already been planning to go to the temple since Nick didn't have to work that Saturday. So we got up at 8ish and waited for the lady to call. She didn't call but Kohls did and wanted Nick to work at 5:30. This limited our time in Denver so we had to hurry in order to get Nick back to work on time. Well around 10:00 the lady called and said she still wanted to come look at it, and that she'd be ready in 30-45 min. Well it takes 1 hr and 30 min to get to the temple. So now our time was really limited. But we decided that even if we had to get Nick back late we would. Well the lady calls back and says she's going to be there in 20 min...this was at 11:00 well around 11:45 we decided we had better go so that we could get to the temple and Nick back to work. So we tried calling the lady back, and she wouldn't answer, so Nick left her an email, since her voice mail wasn't set up. Well I was feeling fine that morning but as the day progressed my sore throat got worse and my nose got really stuffy. We had a wonderful time at the temple, but I was exhausted and feeling awful by the time we left to go home. Nick called work because he was going to be a little late. But we amazingly got back by 5:00. I stayed home and slept a lot. Did you know that the people of Colorado get mad if your registration isn't up to date? Nick found that out :) So Registering his car plus the fine for not having it registered was about $200. Let just say Nick wasn't very happy.
Sunday morning I felt worse, so Nick being the wonderful husband he is taught my lesson and he actually enjoyed it very much. So we might be teaching together! I stayed home sleeping most of the day, until I got tired of being in bed and did the dishes. Sunday night my eyes were really itchy and I decided to put some eye drops in them, but the eye drop solution was really old so I think I gave my eyes a cold because Monday morning when I woke up my eyes were sealed shut, and I felt like poo!
Monday I did not go to classes and slept till it was time to go to work. Work is kind of funny and they won't let me call in sick even if I have pneumonia so I've decided trying to call in sick would be completely pointless...even if I did have pink eye like I thought I might. I went to work, and used all the energy I had, but luckily the assistant manager saw my eyes and sent me home, although it wasn't any sooner than I probably would've gone home. She said I should go to urgent care. But she doesn't have my insurance and doesn't know that my insurance won't cover anything! I did call my doctor though and got an appointment for the next day.
Tuesday I went to the doctor and he told me it was a cold...thanks I didn't know that. Luckily thought it wasn't pink eye. So he told me to sniff saltwater! and take Muccinex D, and he did prescribe me so amoxacilin. I still feel like crap and it's wednesday. But we got our taxes back, and Nick applied for Fafsa for us. So with all the expenses that are coming soon taxes will be gone! Yay. My ear has been plugged since yesterday morning and it's frustrating not being able to hear. I really hope it goes away soon, along with this cold! I think Nick is getting a cold though, which isn't good since Saturday he's playing in a Gala for UNC. This is how I get to spend my valentines days. UNC likes to schedule the Gala on Valentines day. We will hopefully be feeling good and go out to eat or something.

Oh yeah our Anniversary is in 1 month...1 year..now we can count our anniversaries in years instead of months! I'm also excited for all the babies that are going to be born this year! There will be lots of babies on my side of the family and 1 on Nick's side! :) VERY Exciting!!

California here we come!

2010-01-26T23:18:00.002-07:00

I'm so glad we have family somewhere warm and near the beach! Andrew, Nickolas's brother is coming home from his mission in Mexico during our spring break (perfect timing). We're flying out there and spending a week in California for spring break. This is like the first time I've ever actually done anything for spring break. We are sooooo excited! Now I really have to lose weight. Oh I'm doing a weight loss competition with my sisters. I thought doing a competition would motivate me to actually lose weight. I'm actually more motivated now that I will be going to California!! Losing weight is hard. If anyone has some good suggestions let me know!

Holidays and a Wedding

2010-01-15T10:47:00.002-07:00

So much has happened since our last blog. Thanksgiving and a wedding, and then Christmas. Thanksgiving was really nice. It was just Nickolas and I. I bought a ready to cook small turkey, yams, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes(nick made those), and sparkling grape cider. We also went and watched New Moon while the turkey was cooking. Which I don't think is the best idea because your not suppose to leave your oven on while your not at home, luckily nothing bad happend and the turkey turned out good. It was nice just us 2 for our first Holiday together.

At the begining of December we weren't sure if Nick would be able to get time off for my brothers wedding but he requested it anyways. A week before my brothers wedding he found out he did have the days off so it all turned out great and we flew to albuquerque then drove to mountaineer for my brother's wedding. It was freezing cold there but I was very excited for my brother and it was a small and nice wedding. Our camera died so we only got a few pictures but I copied some of my cousin's pictures so we have more.

Then it was Christmas and I got somewhat more excited about Christmas than I did Thanksgiving. We bought a fake Christmas tree and some Christmas decorations. One of Nick's families tradition is that on Christmas Eve you turn off all the lights and just use candles. Nickolas's mom also does a lamb dinner but I'm not sure I like lamb and I've never cooked it so we passes on that tradition. But we did open 1 Christmas eve present which is always pajamas, my families tradition. We passed on Snap Dragons because I've never liked raisins or ones that are on fire anyways. It was very nice just spending Christmas with the two of us.

More recent news, school has started and my work schedule has changed a little bit. This semester is a lot less stressful. I have 4 classes all of them are in the mornings, and then I go to work at 1:30 and work until 5-6. We're working on getting Nick's car fixed so he can go to work at 4:00 and neither of us have to figure out how to get to work or home from work. On Tues and Thurs we ride the bus together for our classes. I feel like we get to spend more time with each other this semester. It is really nice. Nick has a new calling as the Ward Choir Director, and I'm a teacher in the primary. Both these callings are very new to us, but I'm sure we'll do fine. Our plans for this year are to go to Nick's brothers graduation in California in June. We would like to go to Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore for spring break if we have the money. Other than that not much else is new.

Cars/Holidays

2009-11-07T18:43:00.005-07:00

I guess its time for a new update. Last week we had a lot of snow here in Greeley. Every school in the area was closed Thursday, EXCEPT UNC! Whoever makes the decisions to close the school must be part eskimo or something! At EAC in Arizona they'd close the school down if it started snowing, even if the snow melted! I go to work at 7 in the morning and head strait for class afterwards, and I didn't get the email from my teacher saying my math class was cancelled. I had my wonderful husband drop me off as close to my class, but found out it was cancelled. He was on his way back to pick me up and the car died in the middle of the UNC parking lot, on a hill might I add. I walked to where he was, cause he was somewhat close. He was in the middle of the lane where you go to park, so he let it rolled down hill and parked it sort of out of the way. Luckily the institute is close, so I stayed with the car and Nick got the Institute Director to give him a ride to get some gas. I had a small gas container in my trunk from the previous out-of-gas situation. He came back filled it up with the small amount of gas he got and it wouldn't start! So we got a jump, and headed strait for the gas station. My mom really amazes me sometimes with her knowing when we're in trouble and had gave us some money so we could fill up our car. Once we filled up our car it wouldn't start again so a nice lady next to us gave us another jump. Nick drove the car around for a while and it has been fine ever since. The other car issue we have is that his car is broken, for some reason. He says its the alternator. A month or so ago he was going to a concert and it wouldn't start, it was dead, he got a jump and it went a little less than a mile and died again. After the concert I drove him to his car and jumped it, let it run for a really long time. It went less than a mile again and died. Does anyone know what this is? He just bought a new battery a few months ago when he was having problems with it. Before his battery cables clamps were really corroded so he replaced the clamps and the battery and it was fine until it died all of a sudden. Its been sort of hard just having one car. I've had to walk home a bunch of times, and Nick has to run from one end of campus to the other to get to class on time. I guess its more inconvenient than anything. We've been managing so far, but its getting cold, and will soon snow a lot more than it did and will stay cold, and I definitely don't want to be walking home when I still have a cough. That's another thing my bad coughing has gone away but I still have a cough, and occasionally coughing fit every now and then. How long does it take for pneumonia, or the gunk in your lungs to go away?
I'm excited for next semester. Right now my schedule is so crazy I don't know what I was thinking. But next semester I've decided to have all my classes in the morning and work afterwards. This means no more driving back and forth and less stress! So far Nick and I are planning to stay here for the holidays. For thanksgiving a friend of ours mentioned a "Friendsgiving", at her house, so I might not have to cook a turkey and Nick really really wants sweet potato casserole from the Honey Baked Ham store. For Christmas, who knows?? We'll definitely be here in Colorado, but we're crossing our fingers that Nick can get the 4th and 5th of December off for my brother Jorden's wedding. YAY! I'm very excited about that, I kinda worried that he would stay a bachelor forever hehe. But i'm so excited and I'm planning on going no matter what, even if it means leaving Nick behind. :(
Nick has trumpet fest coming up this week. I'm excited for him. There will be a concert with some really awesome professional trumpet players on Friday night, then Saturday he will play. Nick is also the assistant ward choir director and is excited that he may/most likely will be conducting on Sunday. School is good, and almost over!! yay! I'm so excited for the holidays! We are hoping to buy a real tree and everything. My first holidays with just me and my hubby.

Married college life/being sick

2009-09-29T13:22:00.004-06:00

So it seems that the whole world has decided to get sick, including me. But I didn't just go for the normal cold or even swine flu(thankfully). I chose to get pneumonia..well my body decided to get it. I've had a cough for about 3 weeks, deep in my chest, phlegm everywhere(yuck). I had scheduled a doctors appointment about a week before i got the bad cough and by the point I really needed to go to the doctor I had a doctors appointment thankfully. I probably should have gone sooner but going to the Urgent Care when you have crappy insurance and no money is not something I do unless I'm seriously dieing. The doctor could hear me wheezing from the waiting chair and already diagnosed me with bronchitis. But she decided to listen to me breathe and I guess heard something that made her decide to give me a lung x-ray. After the x-ray she said there was an abnormality in my lungs. I asked her what that means. She said well normally on a x-ray your bones are white and your lungs are black...well their was a fuzzy spot on my right lung near my heart and she said anything fuzzy is worth checking out. She is going to have the radiologist check it out and if he thinks its anything to worry about they'll call me back in for another x-ray. But she said i had pneumonia and prescribed me some strong antibiotics. Which comes to the other exciting part of life....the part where you pay all the money you have in the bank to pay for the prescriptions that will help you from dieing. Don't you love the government and how the medications people need to survive on are so expensive that it's like their saying well we'll jack up the prices so people will go more into debt? Doesn't make any sense to me. She also said I shouldn't go back to work...because obviously I could get people sick. But when I call into work their not too concerned about me infecting all the little kids, their more concerned about having people work. I'm pretty sure i'm the reason everyone at work is sick so now it's my fault and they need me to come in, infect more people, just so their not out of staff.? That doesn't make any sense to me either. But no one at work care about how I'm feeling. The way they say it...we're just so desperate we have no choice but to make the sick girl with pneumonia come in. And lets add on top of everything school work! I had to start and finish a 3 page paper(not too bad) and do all my online work..which for my online class is a lot of work. I did not go to math because I think I've already got enough people, i shouldn't add my math class to the list. But i do have a wonderful husband who cares so much about me and does so much for me. He makes life worth while, and makes being sick not so awful.

Other and more exciting news. We're going to Arizona again! Seems like we've been doing that a lot lately, but this time for a more amazing and wonderful reason. My niece is being sealed and blessed on the 17th. I'm so happy that Nick and I will get to be there for it. Yay for eternal families!

We also got to see Amber and Jr on Saturday. It was fun even though I was trying to cough up my lung...thank goodness for cough drops. We got to eat yummy turkey legs(though not as big as the renaissance festivals). And we went down the Alpine slide, which is in Denver on a mountainside. I was scarred at first mostly cause I didn't want to fall off and fall down the mountain, but I realized it wasn't that bad and even If I did fall I wouldn't have fallen cause it's not that steep. I also would go faster if I had another chance. Its fun seeing family, I'm excited for Amber and Jr. I've always said Amber would be the best mommy ever! Even since we were little she was the one that would always run to the babies and ask to hold them.

Well thats the update for now. If anything really exciting happens I will hopefully post it.

p.s. i forgot to mention that our microwave has died so we will be out of a microwave for a while.

Our date/exciting adventure

2009-09-05T20:49:00.003-06:00

So since Nick didn't work Friday night and I didn't have class he decided we should go on a date. We've been talking about how we should go on dates more often but we really haven't since we've been married (almost 6 months now). We kind of forgot about it because we were watching a show on Hulu. We decided that we would do it the next day, Saturday. So we woke up late and Nick made me waffles, and then we left for our date. I like being surprised I guess so I didn't ask Nick where we were going and I told him not to tell me. I had noooo clue where we were going. I remember people talking about the Poudre River but I had never been there and neither had Nick. So I guessed it by the time we got to the parking area cause I saw signs for the Poudre River Trail. So we took a walk and saw these beautiful trees and the river. There were also lots of bicycles which I didn't like that much. When your walking along the trail there's a yellow line. Your suppose to walk on the right side, and when a bicyclist comes up behind you their suppose to warn you by saying, "on your left." Well I didn't know this and I thought on your left meant, move to your left cause he's coming? But luckily Nick knew this and so he yanked me out of the way before the bicyclist pommeled me. The second adventure and funny scare was that we had turned around and started walking back. I stopped to take a picture of some of the shale and carvings and we started walking and hurt this buzzing/screeching noise and both Nick and I freaked out! We had no clue what it was, I thought it was a snake cause it was coming from the ground. Well Nick was pushing me away and I was searching the ground for the snake coiled up or something but I saw this bat laying on the ground! So I pulled Nick and ran down the sidewalk away from it! This all happened in about 3-4 seconds. We were both scared, my heart was beating so fast! And then as I was thinking about the bat I figured it must have been hurt or something cause it was just laying on the ground helpless, and all it moved was it's head. I think it was screeching at us to help him! I feel so sad! But I know I couldn't have done anything to help him. I told Nick how sad I was and that I wish it's pain would end by some animal coming along and eating it and putting it out of it's misery. I don't think animals should suffer or people either. If I had to die, I'd want it to be quick and somewhat painless!

School is awesome! :) Sort of. Nick is in Jazz band he is seat 4 in the lab 4 I think that's how it goes. He loves being in symphonic band. My classes are easy for the most part. A lot of them, even my math class, require a lot of reading! Which I haven't done yet. They also require outside hrs. So one class I have to read at an elementary school. Another class I need to do some volunteer after school program or just a volunteer program where I help and can observe kids. My other class I just have to observe a kid and parent conversation. Lots of observation and outside time which is hard to do because I work. But that might be changing? My director of the daycare has talked to me about not coming in so early in the mornings but I really can't work any other times and still get 40 hrs a week. Nick and I were discussing it and we might be fine without me getting 40 hrs a week if he gets 20 hrs a week. A bunch of people have quit from Kohls recently so he's getting more hrs. Well I guess that's our adventures of the week.

sorry I don't have a picture of the bat.

School/Work....

2009-08-25T22:08:00.003-06:00

So school has started and all the craziness that goes with it! But so far it seems like I'll do okay. I think I will be able to handle going to school full time and working full time, but Nick is going to school full time and working two part time jobs! So busy schedules for both of us means we don't get to see each other very much. It hasn't hit me hard yet, but I'm already starting to miss him. So my schedule: wake up at 6:00 am get ready for work and go to work for two hrs. Then I take a 2 hr break where on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a math class. Then I rush back to work to be there by 11:00 so I can do someone's break. Then I work until 5:00pm except Thursdays I have a 4:30 class. Most days I have class after work, except Monday and Friday. Nick has classes most of the day and works in between at the computer lab. I don't get to see him on my 2 hr break cause he has class. I do get to see him for about 30ish min til he has to leave for work at Kohls. He gets off at 10:30 tonight. I try to be in bed by 10ish so I can get up for work the next day. It's not exactly fun but I am glad to be taking classes.

My classes so far have been really awesome. They all seem very easy. I have one online class that is Intro to Early Childhood Education. The teacher seems very nice and the assignments don't seem too hard. We have 3 papers and most of them are about observations of children, easy. Working at a daycare is going to help me a lot with my classes. I went to my math classes today. I was very nervous because for one I wasn't even enrolled in the class. It had been closed when I wanted to try and take it. So I went and talked to the teacher before class started and I told him I was hoping to take his class and then the class was so full I wasn't sure I'd get in trouble for taking someone's seat so I asked if he wanted me to leave. He said, no just pretend like your taking the class. He's pretty funny and nice. That class does not seem too hard. It's teaching kids math, so we're going to get to do a lot of fun excercises and learning to teach kids different methods of doing math. And tonight I went to my Literacy and Developement class. It's for Early Childhood. The teacher is really young and she was talking about how she doesn't like quizzes or papers or homework so most of our homework and class time is going to be reading and discussing what we read. I have two more classes. Intro to theater, that one should be interesting. I read the description and it talked about reviewing plays and directing and stuff. So we'll see. I needed another 3 credits so I could be full time and it was the only class at the right time. My other class is Children's Literature which I'm excited about.

Other than that work is good. I'm actually glad now that I'm not in a classroom. I don't have to stress as much when I'm at work because I'm only doing breaks. And they keep me busy now that school has started so I haven't been sent home.

I should've started with this, Nick got into Symphonic Band! He's very excited. It meets at an earlier time so now he can work at night. We're still waiting on the jazz band news.

We're going to Arizona this weekend for my aunt's funeral. I'm not happy about why I'm going home, but I am very excited to see my family again. Well I guess that's all for now. I'll make sure to let you know if I go crazy! :)

www.yearbookyourself.com

2009-08-01T11:01:00.005-06:00

So I found this website that's pretty fun and you should check it out. So Thursday work sent me home because they said they didn't need me a little while after I had been home they called and said I didn't need to come in on Friday either cause there wasn't going to be enough kids. I'm not happy about not getting hours, so we'll see what happens. They're also changing my schedule, since I'm not group lead qualified yet (I need one human development class then I will be), they have moved me out of the class I was in and now I'm going to be doing breaks and helping with classes when they need help. There's a chance they could cut back my hrs. They've been doing this to a few people. So those people that they've moved to being just helpers have not been getting their hrs. So I might be looking for a new job.

So with all the free time I've been given I saw this website and decided to play around. So you should look closely because you might see your face! Have fun!

4th of July and camping in AZ

2009-07-21T19:34:00.006-06:00

So we recently had a decently long vacation with a little bit of work in between the 4th of July and camping with my family in AZ. For the 4th we decided to meet up with my sister and my cousin, and my cousin's inlaws in Northern NM. My friend from college got married the 3rd and we decided that since Los Alamas and Cerro, NM were decently close we could go to both. So we stayed the 3rd in Los Alamos at this very sad looking hotel( it was cheap and only one night). We got to drive around Los Alamos at night and realized we never wanted to go back to Los Alamos again. There was not much to see except labratories and sciencey stuff. It was cool to see all the plateaus. It was very gorgeous there, minus the town. We got up the 4th and drove to the middle of nowhere, Cerro, NM. Once we finally took the right turns we got to my cousins inlaws house and found out we were going camping (we weren't told that.) We also found out that they were going to this lake to watch the fireworks on a boat. We drove for about 10 min to this town in the mountains in northern NM. It's a cute town I can't remember what it was called. It had all these old fashiony buildings and stores and there were ski slopes. The whole town had this old westerny kind of theme. We made it to the lake, but they could get the boat to work so we just parked along side the lake and had sandwiches and Nick and I got to play with my neice Evalynn. She is too adorable. We ended up staying in a campsite not too far from my cousin's inlaws house. Nick and I got the good bed in the 5th Wheel cause Nick is taller than everyone else. We were pretty tired and we were driving home the next day. We got up and had some yummy burritos and celebrated Evie's bday which was fun (since I don't live close enough to go to most bdays). Then we drove home and got home around 11ish. Long day and we were tired. Nick had training on mon. and tues. and I had work on mon. Then we were both off til the next mon. So we left tues night for Santa Fe, NM. And stayed the night at an econolodge(that they were very rude to us.) and we actually got to sit in the hot tub for a few minutes. Then we got up Wednesday morning and drove the rest of the way to Springerville, AZ. We decided to meet up with my sister in Quemado(very small town). And followed them to their friends house where we got to see some horses while Spencer(her husband) filled the water on their friends 5th wheel. Eventually we made it to Springerville and met up with my parents my other sister and my two brothers and their families. We followed them up to our camping site. It was fun seeing my family again my brother had borrowed a boat from someone and one day we went to Big Lake and watched them fish and played Sorry and Dominoes. My sister Elisa I believe cheats because she won like every game. Nick and I got to play babysitter alot which we really didn't mind because he got a chance to know his newly aquired neices and nephews and I got to see everyone who seemed to grow so fast! We did get teased ALOT about having babies or being pregnant, which did get very tiring after awhile! I seem to be getting that alot, maybe I'm just getting fatter people!?? I dont' excercise like at all anymore. You'd think that people would realize we've only been married 4 months now! It makes me think that I'm getting fat and need to loose weight cause people think I'm pregnant so basically they're calling me fat :) We had alot of fun anyways seeing all the family. And now for the pictures!

4th of July in NM

Camping in AZ

Nick found a job!

2009-06-11T11:32:00.006-06:00

Well Nickolas finally found a job. God works in mysterious ways. Because Nick got a call yesterday morning from an old employer, a carpet cleaning company, saying that Kohls(the clothing store) had called for a refrence. And asked if Nick was still looking for work. Nick didn't like working for this place so he was really hesitant, but he knew we need more income. He thought about it and decided to try calling Kohls since they had asked this previous employer for a refrence. Kohls told him they would have to call him back when the hiring manager gets in. Then on my lunch break Kohls called and said he will be started June 16th, in the Home and Kids department! From my point of view I knew Nick didn't want to work for the carpet company but I thought this was the answer to our prayers because nothing else had come along. And I told Nick to pray about it. But at work I was thinking that if he did work for this carpet cleaning company, which would end at the end of the summer, he wouldn't have time to find another part time job for the fall. Because he has worked very long hours and the carpet place. There wouldn't have been anytime to go to interviews, and they're not exactly easy about giving you days off, you'd have to be dieing or something. So this all worked out for the best! Thank you for all your prayers. I know there were many that were thinking of us. As soon as Nick starts he's going to hopefully find out how to get days off, and if we're lucky he will get the days off so we can go camping with my family in July. But if not, at least he still has a job! And one that will work well with his schedule in the fall. Besides that there's not much else new. Nick has been working very hard on cleaning up and unpacking the living room while I'm at work, and now all we need is a couch! If anyone knows of anyone who's giving away a couch or selling one for very cheap let us know!

our door peep hole.

Our book shelf and cubby hole thing.

the kitchen

our little bar thing in the kitchen that opens up to the living room

the bathroom(its small)

our very large storage closet

the bed

the coat closet

Yep we have a dishwasher! :)

We Moved!

2009-05-31T19:18:00.002-06:00

So we're finally moved! Yesterday was very tiresome...and I didn't even do much, Nickolas did all the work! We did have too much stuff for our old apartment. We borrowed a truck from a friend and took about 3 loads of big stuff, also using our old landlord/old member from our ward's honda element(the box looking car). Plus we took a bunch of loads in my little chevy cavalier. There was a huge pile of stuff in the living room, and a tiny maze so we could get to some of the stuff. We've been working on making our new apartment look more like a home. We're thinking about getting a new book shelf because our old one is falling apart, and we have no couch. So if you want to come stay with us then you'll have to sleep on the floor for now. We're going to try and find something cheap, but we'll have to save up money. We get a low signal of internet that disappears sometimes, and then comes back. But it is a very nice apartment and we've already fit most of our kitchen stuff into the many cabinets we have. We also have a huge storage closet that we can still fill. The bathroom over the toilet cabinet thing got cracked when we were moving just at the top, so it still works but we will probably eventually get a new one. We definitely are planning on staying here til Nickolas graduates. We'll take pictures once some more of the stuff is put away. It doesn't have air conditioning so it can get a little hot sometimes but its cooler than if we were up on the 2nd or 3rd floor.

So if some of you didn't know, our old ward that was the University 2nd Ward, was dissolved last sunday. We had 7 families moving out of the ward so they just decided to get rid of it. Now were in the Glenmere Ward, with alot more families. It felt like sacrament took a long time, but it was just because there were actually people filling up all the rows. It seems like a very nice ward. There were so many people that came up and said hi. I think we're both going to like it very much. I'm also very excited to have a ward choir. I talked to the choir director right after sacrament and she told us that their not going to have choir for the summer because she's going to take time off to have a baby, but there will be choir again in Aug.

So I'm still waiting to find out if I will get any money from Fafsa, but I've declared my major I'm instate, so tuition won't be totally crazy. I'm very excited to start school again. I will hopefully be very close to getting done with the Liberal Arts Core, I think I have to take one class, and then I can start on the courses towards my degree. When I looked at how many credit hours I've taken I've taken a few more than Nickolas, but alot of my credit hours transfered over as electives so technically he's probably closer to being done than I am. I declared my major in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Music. In order to have my classes I took at EAC transfer over as music credits I'm going to have to take a transfered evaluation test at various parts of the music program. Nickolas is going to help me study and remember the classes I took a few years ago so hopefully I won't have to take any more music theory. I'm going to be working full time still in the fall, but take as many classes as I can after work. Nickolas is still looking for a job, he had a group interview at Kohls and will find out soon enough whether he got it. I've told him that maybe the right job just hasn't come along yet. It took me a while to find my job, and I love it. Well not much else is new. We'll keep you posted though!

just a thought, so I've only got 3 blogs that I'm subscribed too, and I don't know of anyone else I know who has a blog...so sometimes I wonder if peope really read this? Oh well it's still fun to write.

2009-05-21T10:30:00.003-06:00

So I've decided I should write down some of my dreams, and I'm going to use blogger to do it! Nickolas was at a bachelor party last night for his friend and I fell asleep waiting for him to come home. I think I should tell you about Pikmin. Pikmin is a game where this alien guy's spaceship breaks down and crashes everywhere on this planet. His objective is to find all the pieces and fix his spaceship before he runs out of air, and before the toxic oxygen on the planet can kill him. Well he finds that on these planets are these creatures that look like little onion buds and they grow flowers on the top of their heads when their planted in the ground, but you can pull them up and they will do what you tell them to...like carry pieces of spaceship and you can throw them at the evil slugs and they eventually kill the slugs. Well you have 30 days to find 30 pieces of the spaceship, but it kept telling you that you might not need all the pieces. Well Nick had 29 pieces and it was the last day and he almost beat this big frog creature but he needed more red pikmin to fight the frog, and so the day ended and the alien dude ended up going home anyways...but Nick didn't save so he could've gone back and killed the frog. And for some reason the fact that he did "finnish" the game by defeated the frog really bothered me. Its silly cause its just a game, but i had a funny dream. So Nick has moved on to playing Zelda Twilight Princess. (not that i really know anything about these games since i don't really play them, i like watching Nick play and helping him out when i can). So in my dream I dreamt that Nick was Zelda and he was I was sorta like this friend that helped him figure things out in the game. And we had found the last key to get to the evil princess girl(I've never played or heard of twilight princess so this is prob not anything like the real game). So i went on and there were all these people gathered around the evil princess like a boxing arena and I was waiting for nick(Zelda) to show up to fight her but he wasn't showing up and she was going to go away and I knew he needed to fight her to win, so i went up to her and was trying to stall til Nick showed up to fight her and so I started fighting her myself and eventually she stabbed me with her sword and I turned into this metal statue, and her evil guards were taking me away as I saw that Nick had been captured himself by the village army guys and I tried to help him break out of his homemade handcuffs but he had like given up and wasn't going to fight to free me. Cause if he fighted the evil princess he could get me back, but he had given up. So I decided this had to do with him not "finishing" pikmin. It was sort of funny though.

I'm not working today because only 7 kids showed up for my class and the ratio is for every teacher 8 kids. And the actual teacher in that class was already there so they told me to go home. So not much else is new. We're moving soon, and very excited because we'll be closer to internet hopefully and closer to work, and we'll have more room. We plan on staying at this place at least til Nick graduates. Hopefully it turns out to be a nice place. Nick is desperately trying to find a job. So keep your fingers crossed!

Hope you like the pic Nickolas :)(Next time you should save me and I won't put funny pics of you up! :) I love you!

Rachel's day

2009-05-15T14:01:00.003-06:00

So Nickolas is currently on his way to Montrose, CO for a band memorial day thing and I don't know what to do til he gets back? So Nick cleaned the house up yesterday, it's not dirty enough to clean again. I don't know what I'll do.

In other news we're moving! We were looking at an apartment but it's official now! We paid the security deposit and everything, and we'll move in the 30th. So I guess I could pack, but I don't want to do that by myself. It's nice because the apartment is closer to where I work, and also closer to where Nick has most of his classes. Hopefully we'll also have internet access so I will be able to make more of these blogs.

I guess I don't have much to say besides that, I'm sad because this is our first time away from each other since we've been married. I think I might possibly die, but that would be okay because we will be together forever. But I don't really want to die, so I'll try very hard not to.

We went and saw the X-Men Wolverine movie last night because we decided that since we as a family collectively got 7 A's, Nick got 6, and I got 1, that we deserved a treat for doing so good. It was a pretty good movie, it tells you more of the story if you aren't a Comic Book fanatic and already know the story. We realized that it had been awhile since we saw the first movie. I didn't know Wolverine had a brother but Nick says he was in the first X-Men movie? I guess we'll have to rent it and watch it again.

Nick is still looking for a job, and I'm still working at the Daycare. I found out we're on a hiring freeze so when they hired me and told me they'd give me a 90 day eval, and a raise they made it up. I'm a little frustrated about that, and about how the teachers leave me in the room alone alot, even though they're not suppose to. But its still nicer than Wal-Mart. We are doing a Safari Summer theme. There's going to be another teacher in my class. I work with 2 1/2 -3 1/2, they're trying to make it so we have 3-4 yr olds. So my typical day is show up go outside(or in the gym if its cold). We stay outside til about 9:00-9:30. We come inside, the kids wash their hands and sit down at the tables. Then we have breakfast. After breakfast we go potty and sit down with a book for circle time till everyone has gone potty. At circle time we go over our colors, ABC's, shapes, day of the week, weather, numbers, and we work on spelling our names out loud(or recognizing the shapes in their name). After cirlce time we set out centers for the kids to play. We usually have a theme for the week and certain activities we do everyday. If the theme is May showers, we do a raindrop art project, or we made rainbows with construction paper. The centers are different each day. Somedays we'll do blocks and dishes for our kitchen drama area. Depending on how many kids we'll set out more or less centers. After about an hr we'll clean up and go outside. While the kids are playing outside we grab lunch and put mats down. They play for about an hr outside and we go inside, wash our hands, and sit down and eat lunch. Since the place I work for is right next to the hospital and associated with the hospital we get our food from the hospital(which isn't too bad). After the kids are done with lunch we have them throw their food away and go potty. They lay down and go to sleep for about 2 hrs. This is sort of like a little break, but gives the teachers time to get stuff for their classroom done. Or prepare for the next days activities. When we wake up we have them go potty, and clean up their mats(put their blankets and sheets in their buckets). Then they sit down and we have snack. After snack we do some more activities, read books, play at centers, then we go outside until the parents come and pick them up. It's not bad or complicated, except when the schedule changes or you get switch to a different room, cause teachers called in sick or what not.

Well I guess thats all for now!

Being Married

2009-04-27T19:00:00.008-06:00

Well life has been just busy since we actually got married. But life is great now that we are married. No more having to take someone home at night, now we just get to cuddle all night! :) It's amazing, I definitely suggest that if it is possible you should consider getting married. I'll briefly talk about the wedding and all that jazz. We flew down to Arizona and spent $98 on a marriage license!(definitely worth it though). It was to incredible to try and even describe how we felt, I can say it was the best decision I could've made. Being married for all eternity is so amazing! I don't have to worry that if something does happen that that's it! It's not, I will have my love forever! Oh and I want to thank everyone who helped out so much with the reception and everything. Especially my mom who is completely amazing and can frost a wedding cake in an hour! I have so much to live up to, I don't think I could ever be as great as she is! And thanks to mom pulsipher who made our reception wonderful! It was so great! Oh and the real thank you cards are being worked on...that's what Family Home Evening is tonight!

In other news we're probably going to be moving! The house we're in is small and cute, but it's too small. We have no room for our stuff. So we've been looking at this apartment complex right by where Nickolas works and has classes. It has a dishwasher!! And the washer and dryer is shared but only a few doors away from our apartment. If all works out, we'll be moving at the end of May. I'm excited because we're also going to get a couch from our institute director!

Other than that nothing else new. Other than school thats it. Hopefully it won't be so long til the next blog....plus we have wedding pics yay!

1 year anniversary, and temple recommends

2009-03-09T14:31:00.004-06:00

Yesterday we had our Temple recommend interview with President Dunn. it was really cool. It wasn't just an interview. It was more like a little private marriage prep class.

He started the interview by reminding us that guys and girls are different and they need different things, and that our jobs in marriage is to find out what ways we can best show love to each other. Then we talked for a while about what to do when you get in an argument (I'm supposed to step outside and get some fresh air, and she is supposed to stay put and not call anybody, and don't leave!) We also talked about ways to comfort one another when things go wrong. President Dunn specifically mentioned to me that no matter what, I shouldn't try to fix her problems. I just need to listen. That part is going to be really hard cause a lot of times I try to "fix" things without even thinking about it.

President Dunn also talked about the temple. He reminded us that the things in the temple are symbolic and they're eternal and they're meant to be that way. He then read several scriptures with us to show us how eternal (and ancient) temples are.

All in all it was really incredible. And most importantly, we have our recommends!!! We are excited beyond words for this weekend! I can't believe there are only 4 more days left!

We went to Chili's for our 1 year anniversary since we started dating. Our friend was working there and she gave us the best hot fudge chocolate volcano cake ever! Even just reading it makes me drool.

13 more days, alot to think about!

2009-03-01T20:55:00.004-07:00

So I've been thinking about a lot of things as time gets closer to when we get married. Mostly how we got to this point. I've been thinking about growing up in the church and the teachers I've had. I remember especially young women's when getting married in the temple became one of the most important goals in my life. I remember making a promise to my young woman teacher that she would get an invite to my temple marriage...and she has! :) I'm so happy that after all these years I AM accomplishing a very important goal that has been very big in my life. I've been worried, and it might be silly, but I want to see everyone who has been such an impact in my life after I'm married. All my Sunday school teachers from when I was in Primary to Young Women's, I want to see them when I'm married and say, "look I made it, and you helped me get here, Thank You!" I found out that there's another girl from my home town area having her reception on the same night as mine...in the town where I grew up, and I'm very worried I won't get to see anybody! I guess it's silly, cause having people show up to your reception is not something I should be worried about, but I want to get the chance to say hi to everyone.

Another thing I thought about this weekend. This weekend we went to the YSA Retreat in Estes Park. We had a speaker talk about communication and how big txting, emailing, facebooking, blogging is getting. Some of the statistics were scary! He mentioned how parents said their communication with their children has increased because of txting. But he gave us a warning that communication can be used for good, but Satan can twist good things and use them for evil. I was very tired, and so I could only remember a few things, but I remember the speaker saying, "remember who you are and what you stand for." (I think he was referring to when we're txting or talking to each other). But I remembered that my mom use to always, always say that to me anytime I'd go somewhere. I know what it means but it made me remember what a great example my mom is. How she was always trying to help me become a better person. And I'm so grateful now that I am doing all that I can to make it possible so we can be together forever as a family.

Nick:
Hearing Rachel talk about people and youth advisers who affected her made me start thinking about all the people who helped me decide who I wanted to be too. My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life. Just seeing how they treated each other and make decisions together helped me know how I would and should show love to my future spouse. And now that our marriage is coming so close, I'm really realizing how much that affected me.

I also thought immediately of one of my Young Men's advisers. He was also my Home Teaching companion for a long time. All the lessons he taught to me and to our Home Teaching families help me make decisions every day. He was also an incredible example to me of what it's like to really have charity. He was (and I'm sure he still is) so kind and caring and generous to everyone. I'm really grateful for all the things he taught me as well.

In less serious terms, this week we're going to be getting our hair cut so that way if it turns out bad we have a week to let it grow. We'll take Nickolas's suit to the dry cleaners, and there's a temple trip on Saturday. In temple prep the bishop talked about how if a married couple would go to the temple every week their first year of marriage they'd have less problems. So since we both have Saturday's off we're going to make it a goal to go at least every other week, or when possible. We have our interview on Sunday next week and then a friend of ours is driving us to the airport on next Thursday. We're getting married in less than 2 weeks! 13 days!

We had waffles and hashbrowns for dinner.

Update on Txting!

2009-02-24T19:30:00.005-07:00

We have txting again! When I started my new job on monday at a daycare I realized not having time to spend with Nickolas was killing me and at least when I text I'm talking to him somewhat. So I called Verizon and had them turn it back on, but we're limited to our txts. If your Verizon we can txt as much as we want. But we've each got 500 other non-Verizon txts. So you can txt us if you want!

We had some issues with hotels but we've booked hotels for the right dates now and so we really are good to go pretty much. We have an interview with the stake pres. the sun. before we leave. It's coming so soon, we keep getting more excited and anxious everyday!

My new job is exciting I'm sort of rotating around going to different classes. The daycare is really great because teaching the kids and preparing them for Kindergarten is a really big part of their curriculum. I'm slowly getting use to it. It's exhausting and I'm always tired. It's harder finding time to do my homework, I guess if I wasn't spending all my time on the comp. or watching TV that would help too. Nickolas and I are both pretty busy this week with classes. But everything seems to be getting better!

Four-way stops, contacts and txting.

2009-02-18T15:32:00.004-07:00

First I will start with Nickolas getting new contacts. I think Nickolas looks wonderful either way but I've tried to encourage him to get contacts for awhile and he finally did. The reason being, when I play the piano its easier for me to play with contacts in. I try my hardest not to look at my hands when I play but occasionally I do look at my hands, and if you wear glasses you have to move your head entirely to look down. By doing this you loose your spot in playing music. With contacts you have better periphial vision. We went to the Vision Center and had the eye doctor look at Nickolas's eyes. He has an astigmatism so the contacts he has actually has a weight in it or I guess extra plastic or whatever contacts are made out of so that the weight goes to the bottom on his cornea?(I'm not an eye doctor so I can't explain this very well) Anyways at first Nickolas tried for probably about 20 min to put the contacts in! Then the eye doctor came and actually put the contacts in his eyes, so she could check and make sure they're lining up right. I think most of us have been through this. The first time I got contacts I believe it took me 15 min the first few days to put the contacts in. He's had them about a week and is doing very well with them. Sometimes they'll get stuck in the corner of his eye when he puts them in. But he doing very well. After he's put them in, his eyes are hardly red at all from trying to put them in.

So next topic is txting. I love txting but sadly we've turned off texting on our phones. I thought I would die! I even have a phone that is made for txting! It has a full qwerty keyboard! And it's almost pointless now. I'm hoping we only have to do with out txting for a little while. But i'm sure i'm going to love next months bill. $40 less is going to be a big help. Another money issue I've been having is with wells fargo and my student loan. I really didn't want to take out a student loan but I had no other option. I was approved a month ago and it still hasn't gone through. It was due on monday. So I called Wells Fargo and they said the check was already in the mail. So Aims charged me a finance charge..luckily it was only $7 since i'm only taking one class. But I cheked today and it still hasn't gone through! Wells fargo said it was in the mail a week ago! So that's a little frustrating. But luckily I got a call from the Daycare I applied to and they've asked me to come in for an interview. Keep your fingers crossed!

Something scary that happend today. So where I live I'm right along 10th ave that goes North and South and 22nd st that goes east and west. Well it's right by the Universtiy of Northern Colorado. All along 10th ave people will park on the sides where you don't have to have a parking pass to park. So when your along the cross streets, like 22nd st and your trying to get across you have to basically pull out into the middle of 10th ave and if someone isn't paying attention and they're going pretty fast they could definitely nail you. Like what happend today. I was getting ready this morning and all of a sudden I heard honk, Honk Brake(squeal), then CRAsH, and then skid. I run to the window and see a suburu looking vehicle in the middle of 10th ave his bumper on the ground, and I see an SUV looking vehicle on it's side(all I could really see was the bottom of her car). What i'm guessing happend was he was trying to cross 10th ave and she didn't see him and when she did she must've yanked the driving wheel pretty hard that she ended up on her side. Everyone was okay the guy was freaking out, he got out of his car and ran over to the other car to see if the lady was okay. She climbed out of the drivers side door. And then campus security showed up. Eventually there were 2 fire engines and a few cop cars. Here's the crazy thing, I don't know statistically, but since I moved to that house in Jan i've seen 2 car accidents in the exact same spot. I've actually seen 3 car accidents in the same spot, once last year when I lived somewhere else but I was trying to go to my old apartment that was a few streets down. It makes me so paranoid that sometime when Nickolas or I leave the house that we're going to get hit. They need to make it into a four-way stop. It's so dangereous it makes me a little bothered that I know there's been more than one accident in that same spot, why hasn't anyone tried to change it? Who has to die first?

Other stuff, we did some fun things on Sunday. We went up to Estes Park to see the Rocky Mountain Natl. Forrest, which we still haven't found!? We last tried to go to the RMNF(Rocky Mountain Natl. Forrest) when Nickolas wanted to propose to me but we ended up not having enough time to walk around so he didn't ask me the way he had wanted to. This time we took a different turn and definitely did not find the RMNF. So we turned around and headed back to Estes Park. It was freezing cold outside but we decided to walk around anyways. There are so many adorable little no-name shops there. We decided we wanted to come back and spend all day there. We also want to take our families up there and visit all the little shops up there. I think my mom would love it. Then they could actually see the RMNF, and we could too.

Well that's the news for now. I'll try to write more. We're getting really close. Sunday we had bishops interviews, then we just need to get an interview with the stake president and we can actually get married in the temple! I'm so excited, it seems like it's so close but I feel like everyday is taking as long as possible to be over! Well we're almost there!

One more thing....

2009-02-13T15:52:00.002-07:00

Today is a very sad day indeed! I regret to inform you that we no longer have text messaging!! Hopefully it won't be forever, but for now until we can afford it, we will no longer be txting anyone, or receiving txts. We've turned off the option for txting so you can't txt us even if you tried! I'm so sad because txting is one of my main forms of communication. But I guess I"ll have to do it the old fashioned way and call people. :(

28 days... So close and yet so far

2009-02-13T10:26:00.004-07:00

Man we've been awful about posting on a regular basis. The thought of us getting married is so amazing that it makes everything else look ordinary and dull! We never know what to write about.

We're both still looking for jobs. And I think we're both really tired of hearing, "Sorry, we're not hiring till April." We're just doing the best we can to get by on savings and tax refunds. Thank goodness for turbotax.

Other news in the financial world, we're working hard to find ways to pay for school next semester. The school scholarship fair was this week and we spent quite a while talking to different people and even a credit union looking for scholarships. Luckily UNC has a universal scholarship application so you don't have to fill out hundreds of applications.

This year is also the first time FAFSA (Federal Student Aid) considers me an independent so I don't have to provide my parents financial information on their application. Which hopefully means that I'll actually get some grants. I filled that one out yesterday too. Rachel is going to fill hers out after we get married and hopefully it won't be too late for her to get something too.

As far as planning the wedding goes, this Sunday we're going in for our first round of Temple Recommend interviews! We'll go and meet with the Stake President some time next week (hopefully). I also finished booking hotels so that means we're almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost almost done! All we'll have left to do is to finish Recommend interviews, and then get the marriage license when we get down to Arizona. SO CLOSE!!!!

My turn! So I had to go and correct all of Nickolas's mistakes. I decided I should add something too. So I think I want to talk about preparing for the temple. In our temple prep class there are 4 things we need to do to prepare. 1. be morally clean 2. word of wisdom 3 tithing 4 keeping sabath day holy. Next sunday we're suppose to be talking about these. We're suppose to find scripture refrences so I'm going to do my homework on here. So 1 is basically talkng about chaste. So we should look at D&C 42:22-24. It talks about how a man should love his wife with all his heart and shalt cleave unto her and none else. He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her shall deny the faith, and shall not have the spirit. Same thing goes for women too. In Matthew 5:28 it says whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust after her, hath commited adultery already in his heart. I know alot of people think it's okay to just look, they make excuses saying they're not really doing anything bad if they're just looking, but the scriptures say that even if you look and lust after a person you're already commiting adultery. 2 is keeping the word of wisdom D&C 89 basically take care of your body and feed it avoid alcohol and tobacco and other addictive things. In D&C 89: 18-20 it talks about the blessings of keeping the word of wisdom. They shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge even hidden treasures. They shall run and not be weary and shall walk and not faint. I think sometimes when we think of the word of wisdom we think oh yeah I'm not drinking alcohol or smoking or chewing so I'm keeping the word of wisdom but part of it is being healthy and active. Alot times we can be lazy and just eat out all the time, and sit and watch tv, we could be doing fun activities with our families. Having family dinner is part of being healthy, having a real meal. We can do stuff too like go for walks or if you have kids find physically active things to do like going hiking or playing at the park. 3 is tithing Malachi 3: 8-10 says will a man rob god? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. When I pay my tithing I always pull out the amount for tithing first before I pay for anything else. And I always have the money I need for my bills afterwards. I think sometimes people will wait till they're almost out of money then remember they need to pay tithing and sometimes they realize they don't have enough money. The blessing of paying tithings are in Malachi vs 10 I will open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 4 Keeping the sabath day holy. D&C 59:9-10 say and that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day. For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors and to pay thy devotions unto the most high. I thinks sometimes on sunday we get caught up in doing church things we forget that sunday is suppose to be a day of devotion to god and a day of rest. When we go to church and take the sacrament we renew our covenants with god and keep ourselves worthy.

Temple prep has been a big help in preparing me. I've been reading a book called Through Temple Doors, I don't remember who it's by but he's a previous Salt Lake temple president. It talks about the history of building the first temples and the first ordinances and how much the saints sacraficed just to have the opportunity to receive their endowments and be sealed in the temple. It's amazing! Well I'm done for now I'm very excited to go home and to receive my own endowments and be sealed in the temple. It's so close and yet seems so far away. It will come eventually though.

One year ago this week...

2009-01-18T13:52:00.004-07:00

During Sacrament meeting today, a memer of the stake High Council was telling the ward about his family and mentioned that he met his wife, they were engaged after 3 weeks, and then married 3 weeks later! Then we realized that we still have longer to go till we're married than this High Councilman had even know his wife! That made us think about how long we've known each other now and we realized that one year ago this week was the first time we met!
For those of you that don't know the story, I got to know Rachel because I was on institute council at the time and I was assigned to invite her to the upcoming institute activity (but truth be told I was the one in charge of making assignments for that kind of thing and I thought she was cute).
It was just a fun activity with a bunch of different board games and stuff. We started off playing some board game that slips my memory with a group of people. When that game ended, people wandered off and Rachel mentioned that she had Sorry at her apartment. She went and got it and we played with with Daniel Avery from our ward. (Again to be honest, I didn't really pay any attention to him cause my attention was somewhere else.) That was a lot of fun then Daniel went home but we wern't ready to leave yet. We were having too much fun!
We played about 20 rounds of me losing Egytian Rat before we decided that it was getting kinda late and we should probably go home. I don't know about Rachel, but I went home feeling pretty happy:)

This is Rachel: (I was very happy because I kinda was hoping to meet Nick that night. People had told me about him and said that he was a very nice and sweet guy, and he was into music which was a definite plus. Also the sunday before we had actually first met but we didn't really talk to each other, we were at a friends house and I had gotten a ride from someone else and just as they said we were leaving Nick was going to play something on the guitar, and I really really really didn't want to go. I love it when guys play the guitar!But my ride was leaving so it made me ten times more interested in finding out who that really tall guy was. After we played games and we had so much fun I was definitely interested in getting to know Nick.)

In other news, we ordered our rings this week! We found a website with some pretty good deals. They aren't anything really fancy cause we're poor but we don't care. We're just happy that they're on the way!

Christmas Break part 2

2009-01-10T11:57:00.015-07:00

On the 22nd I flew to California so I could be with my family for Christmas, and Rachel stayed in New Mexico so she could be with her's. (Hardest week ever! Ask my family. I was a bum all week.)

We both had great Christmases. She got the purple ipod she has been wanting and I got a camera. Both of which gifts neither of us were expecting. So be looking for a lot more pictures in the future cause we actually have a camera that's not part of a cell phone now!

Anyways, we were both really happy to be with our families, even though it was a little rough being apart. I was really happy to see Bryant and Miriam again(Brother and sister in law) the Montgomerys and Grandma and Grandpa Pulsipher, Paul and Elen, Grandma Ensign and everyone else! I love you all and hope things are going well. And I hope Miriam isn't frozen stiff in Boston:)

On the 30th Rachel came up to California to spend New Years with us and to meet the rest of my family (exept Andrew, who's a LDS missionary in Mexico right now, and we're proud of what he's doing). New Years Eve was fun. We went over to the Monty's for a while, and then we went back to my parents house to watch the ball drop and to make as much noise as possible at midnight as made evident by this extremely attractive picture of me.

Nice isn't it?

I think our favorite part of our stay in California was our day in the San Fransico area and Muir Woods. We drove down to Muir Beach first and spent a little bit of time walking around, beach combing, chucking apples into the water and watching the seagulls bring them back...

After that we hiked up to Muir Woods. It took a while and it was really muddy but it was beautiful!

Left to right:Dad, Sarah, Scottie, and Mom

The Redwoods in Muir woods were amazing! Everyone should go see them sometime in their lives.

After we wandered around the Woods for a while, Mom and Dad went back for the cars and we drove down to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Rachel had never seen it before, and this was the first time I've been able to see all of it and not have most of it covered with fog.

The next day we had to go home and neither of us wanted to go. Neither of us was ready to stop being on break and Rachel already missed her family again.

Instead of flying, we decided we wanted to try taking the train. That's another thing I think everyone should try at least once. It was a lot of fun! And it was a lot more comfortable, roomy, entertaining, less of a hassle and definitely more beautiful than flying! The only downside was it wasn't very easy to sleep in the Coach cars and it took a really long time and we were both ready to get off when we got to Denver. Ps, thanks for picking us up Taylor!

Thanks again to everybody that helped us out and made our break so amazing! We miss you all and we love you!

Christmas Break Part 1

2008-12-21T18:22:00.006-07:00

Right now, we're sitting here watching a christmas movie in Rachel's parent's house after a nice, lazy and warm Sunday in New Mexico. Her family has been great and so nice and supportive. Even though her oldest brother Jason gives us a hard time... non-stop...

We left Colorado on Thursday afternoon and it started snowing and blowing the minute we got to the airport. So we got delayed for about an hour. But we got up in the air eventually and had a pretty uneventful flight.

We stayed Thursday night in Mesa with Rachel's grandparents Rod and Joan Cardon. Grandpa Rod is a riot and Joan is sweet and has lots of cool stories and history about everything in Arizona AND New Mexico. Plus she makes really good "pink cookies."

The next day we drove down to Virden, a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere New Mexico. Although Rachel's used to it and think's it's boring, I think it's beautiful in it's own kind of way.

On Saturday we went to the Mortensen Family reunion. There were 100+ family members that crammed into a little old Church gymnasium. The kids all got on stage and acted out the Nativity story while Rachel played the piano and they had me direct the music. It was fun.

I'm tired of writing it's Rachel's turn now:)

So I hope Nick hasn't been scared off by my crazy family. I'm also very excited to have some good times with Nick's family. It's really nice being with my family. I have missed them so much and I miss being around them all the time. I also can't wait to start my own family someday. I know Nick is going to be a great dad just seeing him with my nephews and neices. I'm excited for the future! Well that's all for now! I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

:the picture is of Nick and my nephew Peyton.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc...

2008-12-08T10:12:00.002-07:00

Well it's been awhile since we've posted and Nick is busy with finals, so I guess I'll do it. Thanksgiving went really well I was expecting to have a burnt turkey breast, since it was my first time cooking a turkey. But it turned out really well. I invited a few of my friends from work, and they brought some side dishes. Nick helped me cook a lot of it and it was a really good experience I think. I guess I didn't have very high expectations.

We've also taken some more engagement pictures, and finally we got them back. I'm not sure I like them as much as Nick does, so we'll probably take another set. I actually want to take some pictures when we go down to Arizona. I'll post one that I like.

For Christmas Nick and I are flying to Phoenix, AZ on the 18th. Nick's roommate will drive us to the airport. We'll go to my family Christmas party on the 20th. He flies to California on the 23rd of December. It's been awhile since we've actually spent even a day apart. But at least we'll be with our families for Christmas and then on Dec 30th I'll fly to California and spend a few days with Nick's family. I'm very excited about that. The only place I've been to in California was San Diego. And I'll get to see Nick's family again.

Some other plans: I've already put in my two weeks notice with Wal-Mart. I'm so excited to not work there! We've signed the rental agreement for the house we'll be living in. I'll live there by myself until we're married :) We've done wedding gift registries at Target and Wal-Mart. I don't think we're done though. I've been looking at what classes I'll need for my Liberal Arts Core at UNC and I only need a math class and something from Multicultural Studies, so maybe ASL. UNC is still a little expensive if your just taking a few classes so we looked at AIMS Community College, which is nearby here. They have the classes I need. So if all works out well hopefully I'll find a part time job working on Monday Wednesday and Friday, then I'll take the two classes I need on Tues. and Thurs. I still need someone to take over my lease for the apartment I'm at now, but I think that everything will work out. Nick has been doing very well on his finals, I don't know the specifics though. Oh something I forgot! Its actually quite amazing but I guess if God wants you to be happy he makes it possible. So it was a couple of weeks ago our ward was doing a baptismal trip the weekend before Thanksgiving and I had asked for that Sat. off, but they had scheduled me anyways. The Fri. before I was very sad that I couldn't go to the temple. So I prayed to God that I would somehow be able to go even though I knew there was no way possible. I couldn't call in cause they wouldn't take a church function as an excuse. So I asked God that if there was any way possible, then I would really like to go. I got up Sat. got ready for work, reluctantly, I got to work scanned my badge and it said I wasn't scheduled! So I got really excited and talked to one of the Managers and they said I could go home! It was completely amazing and I love God so much because he wants me to be happy! The temple was so amazing as it always is! Afterwards we went to this bridal shop, poor Nick, I told him I didn't have to go but he knew I really wanted to. So he waited outside while I tried on some dresses. I found this very gorgeous, but expensive dress. I'm waiting until I go home and can go with my mom, so hopefully I'll find one like it for a cheaper price. So this has been a long one and I will end because I have some things I need to do today. Thanks for listening(reading)!

Great Weekend!

2008-11-16T17:56:00.005-07:00

Not much happened during the week other that the regular work and school. Finals and projects and juries are starting to get close. But I'm ready

This has been a great weekend though! On Saturday we went to a couple different stores looking for deals on furnature and picking out color themes for all the rooms of the apartment. We also fanatsised about big screen TVs, fancy washing machines and even a piano that we found at the thrift store. But then we remembered that the apartment's tiny and we have no money. Oh well. Maybe someday:)

That night was the the YSA Winter Formal. Now those of you who know me pretty well know that I can't dance and I've never liked going to dances. But we were really excited for this one. I think part of the reason I was so excited to go to this was because for one it's probably the last single dance I'll ever have a chance to go to, and that's exciting! And the other reason is because I was going with my FIANCE!!!It was fun getting all dressed up too. Rachel found a really nice, red dress that looked amazing on her for only $7! And I just wore my black dress shirt and a red tie. All in all we had a great time just dancing to the slow songs (I have no idea how to dance to anyhting else) and talking about the future while eating mounds of peppermint patties. We talked about the apartment and where we would put everything and day dreamed about making good use of the real, wood burning fireplace in the living room!

Today we had our first weekley interview with the Bishop. We can already tell that they're going to be amazing! This week he talked about how we each have a trust "account" and how we need to be sure to always be pedositing in each other's trust acount. We also have to be careful not to withdraw anything cause it's really hard to replace. If we deposite regularly, we won't ever have to worry about what the other is doing. No matter where we are or how far apart we are.

Scheduling

2008-11-12T17:27:00.003-07:00

Exciting news today! We just got off the phone with the Mesa, AZ Temple! The sealing is on March 14th, and Rachel's scheduled to receive her endowments on the 13th, but that might change still depending on what time flights are etc.

We also made a decision on an apartment! It's small, just one room. But it's cheap, utilities are included, it's close to campus, and it's privately owned by a member of the University Family Ward! We're way excited about it. We'll take pictures when the current tenants move out.

Along those same lines, Rachel is in a lease at the apartment she's at now until May, and we're trying to find someone to take over her lease in January. So if any of you know of someone who's looking for a place too stay, let us know.

Ok, for all you married people out there we have a question. Rachel gets to buy one thing from Walmart with 20% off, so we wanted to get something for our apartment. My question is, what is something that you wish you had in your first apartment, or what one thing were you glad that you did get?

Engagement Pics and Apartment searching

2008-11-10T13:24:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Nick and I took what is the 1st round of engagement pictures! At stake conference Saturday night we saw one of our friends who got married a few months ago, Becky Sanchez, she said she had a camera and would love to take our pictures. This worked out really well because Nick and I had been discussing what we were going to do for engagement pictures since we didn't have a good camera and we weren't sure who we could get to take pictures. From what we've seen they look really great. So when we get our announcements out you'll get to see them! :) We took a few by ourselves and I'll post those ones.

As for apartments Nick is actually working on finding places to live as I type! If it's possible I'm going to move out of my apartment in January and move into one by myself until we get married. I will have to find someone to take over my lease because I'm in an agreement til May. So we're hoping that works out!

Marching band is finally over! I'm excited because now I can see Nick more. Nick is pretty excited too because and i quote, "it was a big pain in the rear-end." This was his last semester for marching band but he still will be in concert band. I'm still working at Walmart in the Connection Center(cell phones). I am very looking forward to not working there anymore! They have been giving me problems with scheduling and also told me that they don't have a part time position for next semester. That means i wouldn't be able to do school and work there still. I will also be looking for a new job next semester. I've already found some receptionist positions available. I plan on taking a few classes and working as much as possible. Nick will also find a better paying job and a job with more hours. We hope that we will be able to live. :)

Nick wants to say something:

I just didn't want to make Rachel do all the talking. But I'm not very good at this blogging thing or typing apparently cause it took me about 27 tries to type this one sentence! But I just wanted to say we're way excited for everything that's coming up even though some of it is kind of scary and stressful!

Nickolas and Rachel Pulsipher

Yummy bread

Christmas in NM and AZ

New Goals

California in the Winter

Thanksgiving

Trying to catch up...

MVHS student teaching.

It's a long one....so read only if you're really interested in my thoughts.

Grandma Sullivan

Corn Harvest Parade in Loveland, CO

So I don't forget

Hiking in the Rocky Mountains

Our new musical additions

It's been awhile...

Moving

End of School... Beginning of Summer

50% off at Hobby Lobby

Amatuer photography

Houses, Concerts, and Cars...oh and a birthday!

Rattlesnake Kate

Moving

2 years

My other blog

Happy Face

Woe is me

January

My MLK day finds

Winter Card

Holiday Festivities

Thanksgiving!

Christmas Wish List

Annie Rugged Oxford-Payless(if anyone happens to buy some shoes from payless right now you could get these shoes half price...i'm just saying :)

Cookie Time!

Estes Park/ jury duty

End of Summer and Beginning of School

July was a busy month

Being poor. :)

Life....

Summer

Finals and summer school

California!

Being Sick and cars

California here we come!

Holidays and a Wedding

Cars/Holidays

Married college life/being sick

Our date/exciting adventure

School/Work....

www.yearbookyourself.com

4th of July and camping in AZ

Nick found a job!

We Moved!

Rachel's day

Being Married

1 year anniversary, and temple recommends

13 more days, alot to think about!

Update on Txting!

Four-way stops, contacts and txting.

One more thing....

28 days... So close and yet so far

One year ago this week...

Christmas Break part 2

Christmas Break Part 1

Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc...

Great Weekend!

Scheduling

Engagement Pics and Apartment searching