Dang Packing!!

Jared and I are going up to Idaho this weekend for his friends wedding and a Miller family reunion. And our schedule after that will be: work for two weeks, cruise for one week, work for 1/2 week, move to Utah, so we came up with the plan to take anything we dont need to live for basically 2 weeks and put it in our storage place in Idaho. Well, since Jared is working from sunrise to sundown, the lovely task of packing and organizing and stuffing things in the car has fallen on me. This morning I enlisted the help of one of the wives that lives right below me to assist in the moving and stuffing of our giant bean bag!This bean bag is 8 ft long!! It is giagantic!! Here is a picture of it to give you some persepctive.This bean bag weighs 95-100 pounds and is huge and akward to carry, so we slid/pulled it down the stairs and to the car on a blanket. And after stuffing for a while, then we had the idea to document it. This is the bean bag, probably about half way in. Crazy I know! It looks like the car is pooping out something huge and blue!
And with more pushing and tugging and tucking, we were able to make some progress.
This was officially my work out for the month! I would have never guessed, but every single muscle in my body can push, and can be sore from pushing!
In this picture I like the blanket just chillin there. We used it to lay down and push with our legs. We even brought one of our folding chairs our to use. This thing is crazy stubborn!
After and hour and a half of pushing and pulling and tucking this is how close we got! We were all out of energy and ideas on how to get the trunk to close all the way!!So we walked over to the apartment office to see if they had some twin or something we could use to tie it down, but to no avail!
When we got back I had a renewed determination!! And my a true miracle we got the trunk closed!!!! Oh I was soooo elated!!! And not 10 seconds after it closed there was this huge thunder clap, and a storm started coming! It was a great modern miracle of bean bags!! And no, my plan did not work out entirey, fo I wanted the bean bag to be soely in the trunk and fill the back seat with tubs and such, but I will take what I can get!
At least the trunk is closed and our bean bag is in the car!! I have packed other things, but the boxes are too heavy and big for be to carry out alone, and it is pouring rain, so that adventure will be saved for later tonight! But for now, I will just relish in the triumph over the bean bag!!!

Things Can Change So Fast

Last night Jared and I went to see the Harry Potter movie. There was a showing at 9:15pm but we were not able to make it to that one so we had to wait for the next one, which was at 10:30pm. While waiting we walked around the shopping center and saw these beautiful fountains!! And we ran into some a couple that works for EcoSure so they were able to take pictures of us! =>

I can't decide which one is better, so I put both of them up! =>
After the picture taking we continued to walk around and decided we were hungry. We went to a restaurant that we went to when we first came to CO, its has very yummy mexican food!
We went in late in the 9:00 hour or early in the 10:00 hour, and didn't think much of it. The place was dimely lit and had music playing, but not terribly loud. I ordered a huge burrito, knowing I wouldn't finish it all, but it sounded so good, and Jared thought he ordered and enchalada (if that is how you spel it).
Well this is what came, and weird, but very pretty looking, salad. We were a little confused. => So we asked the waitress. Apparently he ordered and enselada rather than an enchalada. Weird how two very similar words can get you two every different things. => But he was a good sport and ate it, and he got to finish my huge burrito, so it wasnt a total loss for man food. =>
Towards the end of our meal the lights got even darker and the music even louder. Then all of a sudden there were scantily clad girls dancing on the countertops! That was a little suprising. Jared, being the good boy that he is, didnt look at them, but unforrtunately his eyes ran into mowgli. => It was the funniest thing I had ever seen! This guy was dancing in a loin cloth and thinking he was all that! Oh so funny!! Jared then immediately got up, went and found our waitress, got the check and left. It is funny how quickly a good place can turn into an inappropriate place. But that ladies and gentleman was officially my first nightclub expereince!! Wahoo!!! =>
We got out of the restaurant just in time for our Harry Potter movie!!! I took this while we were watching the previews. Can you tell that I am super exited for it and Jared is.... less that excited. => The movie was not as good as I would have hoped, but it was not terrible. It was just LONG! We got out of the theater at like 1:30am!! Oh was I tired!! =>
But it was a very interesting and adventerous date night! And I loved being able to play with Jared!!

Waiting and Waiting and More Waiting...

On of Jared's friends/coworker has been having stomach problems, and on Wednesday he was going to the doctors (they were going to put in out and stick a caera down his throat to see whats up with his stomach). And he needed a driver to drive him there and home, and I got the lovely task since it was my day off. => lol I actually didn't mind helping him out. Well he thought it would take like 4 hours, so I brought one of the wives with me so we could go shopping in downtown or something, to entertain ourselves.

This picture is taken while driving down to the doctors. The little sicky was in the back being too sick to be in the picture =>
So we get to the doctor place, which is in a kindof shady part of town, but we take the little sicky in and they tell me to be back at 4 (it was 2:45) so that was no problem, it would just be faster than we expected, which is never a bad thing. So Danae and I drop him off and head into dowtown to do some exploring.
We made a food break at McDonalds, and I get a text from the sicky saying it will probably be more around 3:45 that he is done. So we didnt have as grand of an adventure as hoped (driving thru dowtonwn and eating mcdonalds) but no big. So we head back to the doctors and get there about 3:35. I go to the front desk to find out where to pick up the patient, and they tell me I willhave to wait longer because he is still in gettin looked at. I didnt think it was going to be too long, but boy was I wrong! We start reading magazines to be entertained, but they are all over a year old! so we knew all the stories! So we started entertaining ourselves with taking pictures.
Little did we know we would be taking pictures for the next TWO HOURS!!!!!
Yep, as you would expect some of the pictures got pretty funny and weird! =>
But the funny thing is, while we were taking all these pictures, we were doing them silently! I know it doesnt look like it, but we were skilled at stealth-mode pictures! The nurses did not want to be there, and therefore were not very nice, so we didnt want to agravate them =>
Wheel chairs.... oh so fun! I would never wish to have to be in one, but they are great tools for enjoyment and fooling around! =>
No, Danae didnt actually push me around, remember we had to be super quiet, but we can fake like it in the pictures =>
And off we go!! => Just kidding, this was only when we had been waiting at the office for one hour! Little did we know we had a whole other one to go!
Can I just say, doctors offices are boring!! They have nothing fun in them! Good thing I found a camera in my purse, or who knows if we would still sane? =>
So we took well over a hundred pictures while we were there, but I am chosing only the best to put on here. Some of them got a little random, which some of these are, just imagine like fifty times more weird, and just be grateful you dont have to see them =>
IT was taking forever! And we didnt want to bother ther nurses too much about it, so we just patiently waited.. and waited... and waited... and waited.......
We were dreaming of a time when we were not trapped in a doctors waiting room.... hehehe not really, just taking more random pictures. =>
My hand is on top, oh yeah, look how tan I look!! =>
These pictures are my favorite! Just imagine, having to jump and time just right, while being absolutely silent. Yeah, we got pretty talented at jumping quietly! =>
And about this move, I call it going crazy in a waiting room => hehehe
So we totally even got bored of taking pictures! This was our last one, just to show our bordem. But luckily like 30 seconds after this picture was taken, a nurse brought out our little sick boy all drugged up! And it was time to go home!!! I am glad I could help him out, but doctors are not my favorite, especially when they tell you a time, which is hours off, and cause you to wait in a boring waiting room!! But luckily I had a friend nice enough to join me in the bordem. =>

Day at the Temple with the Wives

So I feel like every other thing I write is about the temple, which isnt a bad thing, it just a little out of the ordinary. => Well this morning two of the wives and myself went to a session at the Denver CO temple. And as usual I LOVED it, but today was different! After our session we had the opportunity for the three of us to sit down with a member of the temple presidency and ask him any questions we wanted! What a treat!! He is such a sweet and loving man, and he was so helpful with his answers! That was one of the neatest experinces I have had in the temple! I am so grateful I was able to participate in something like that! And of course, after we too pictures around the grounds! => I must say, I am getting pretty good at taking pictures of temples, ok, at least I think so. => And amazingly, not one it the same pose of setting as before. I wonder how long we can keep that up =>

What a beautiful day to go to the temple! Denver weather is so funny, it will be gorgeous like this until about 4:30, then it will rain and thunder and hail like you would never believe!
Me and the wives!! These girls are so great to do all this stuff with me! I am so thankful to have friends out here!
Me and one of the wives in the background! I still think the grounds are absolutely gorgeous!! =>
Can you tell I am excited first to have something to do today, and second to be doing it with friends and at the temple! Yay!!
This picture reminds me of a wedding photograph, how its focused on one person, but one person is out if focus and in the background => I still think it is cute though!
Pretty pink and purple!! I love the little accents that are thrown in too!!
Proof that it really is the temple I say it is! =>
Some of the wives! We totally stacked our bags and made a sweet rig so we could but the camera of automatic timer and take a pictue of all of us! We are pretty inventive i think! => I had such a blast today!! Yay for friends and temples!!!

Downtown Date

Saturdays are one of my favorite days because Jared gets home areound 4:30 or 5!! When he got home yesterday we decided to go to the pool and swim around a bit! I love swimming and it is a thousand times better with Jared!

After swimming for a couple hours we, ok I, decided I wanted to go dancing, and Jared was just dragged along. => So we set off to downtown Denver to find a place to dance!
We were going to crash a Young Single Adult dance, but we couldn't find where it was. So I had the brilliant idea to just go to a dance club, because I was sure there were many in downtown Denver. And Jared being the loving and kind husband he is protested slightly, but gave in and started driving around to find a dancing place for me.
And yep, we totally got lost! It was a fun lost tho, and Jared is a human GPS system so he got us back on course in no time! But it was interesting seeing the slums of Denver. =>
We meandered our way into the heart of downtown, and found some place to park. I had givin up on the dancing idea because we were not finding any attractive places to dance, only the ones that you would get shot if you were a white girl => And I wasn't really in the mood to get shot. =>

While driving we saw a bunch of people walking around this one street. For more like 20 blocks there is a mall! The street is even called "16th Street Mall" And at 10 o'clock at night there was a lot of hustle and bustle around there, so we decided to walk it. And boy, whas that an eye opener or what!! I can honestly say, I had never been so grateful to have standards. We saw many things, that I never thought were real. There was a guy that was so drunk he passed out, cut his hand on the way down, and peed like a gallon out of his pants, right in the middle of everyone. There were skanky musslims, yeah, I never thought you could be skanky with every part of your body covered, but trust me, you can. A restaurant caught on fire, yes real and true!

These are the fire trucks that came. Jared and I had walked by the restaurant and an alarm was going off, and it was very annoying, and a funny smell was comingout but we didnt think anything of it. Then we went up a couple levels of this structure and we saw smoke coming out of the roof and then these fire trucks pulled up, and it all made sense! Very intersting! We also say 2 lambourginis, a fricking sweet lotus, sweet mercedes & bentelys. And we saw a real Cyote Ugly. Yes, I was still nieve enough to think it was just for a movie, but no, they are real!

I wanted to go in, just so I could get the experience, but alas, I am too young! That adventure will be saved for a later day, maybe. => Then Jared and I found a gelato shop nestled in between like four different night clubs, and these were the nice kinds, not the get shot kinds.
So we got ice cream and a milk shake and parked ourselves on a bench and people watched. Let me tell you, some weird people go to night clubs! I am glad I don't party at those scenes! But, they do make for some entertaining people watching! And the bums. Haha, those guys were hilarious. One even had a sign saying "Trying to get drunk as hell, please help" Oh so funny!! Looking back on it now, we totally should have taken a picture, but we didn't. All in all, this was a very enlightening experience. I know it is hard to believe, but this was my first time in a downtown night life! Jared's favorite part of the night was just watching my reactions to things! It was fun to go visit and see "how the other half lives" but I am very grateful for my standards and values that keep me out of places like that!

I Love to See the Temple...

...I went inside today. I convenanted with my Father, I promised to obey! For the temple is the House of God, a place of Love and Beauty. I prepared myself wen I was young, this is my sacred privilage! =>

I have been humming that song all morning, with a few changed words, and rightfully so. I went to the morning session at the temple today!! I LOVE when I go to the temple! I do not go often enough, but it is such a treat each time I go! This morning my friend Janae and I went to the 8 o'clock session, meaning we had to get up at 6 and leave my 6:45 or 7! Wow what an early day (yes I think that is early) but so worth it!! I am so grateful there is a temple close to us! And there has been one close every place we have lived!

I love the temple!! I was like a kid in a candy store, I was so excited that we made it on time! => (traffic wasn't horrible but it deffinately was not good)
After we got out it was picture time! => We tried to take a picture of ourselves in front of the temple, but this is how it turned out, not as good as we would have hoped.
So then we wised up. There were construction workers working on the grounds, so we asked one of them to take a picture of us, and it turned our marvelous! =>
One of my favorite things about temples is their grounds! They are always so beautiful and have the prettiest flowers and shrubbery!! This picture reminds me of the wizard of Oz when they fall asleep in the flowers. =>
Janae found a stubbylight pole that we could jump up and sit on and then have a cool angle for a picture! I like it! And look at that gorgeous sky by the temple! Beautiful!!
These trees were so fun and pretty! Oh goodness, I don't know what can compare with the temple and its grounds!
Then there was this patch that had like a gazillion daisies! Ok maybe not that much, but a lot! And it was so pretty!!!
I love daisies too, they are such a happy flower! Today was so much fun and so wonderful! I still have not gone to the temple with JAred while living here, but he went one time with some of his sales team, so at least he went! That is the next goal, to go with him at least once whie we live in Denver!