...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!
And we had plenty of adventures there! When we first got there we went in the wave pool to warm up, and get ready for the adventure rides ahead! Jared and I love the wave pool!!! It is so much fun to be thrashed around by waves!!! Almost as good as the beach, but hey, living in the inland states, you take what you can get! =>
After we were thuroughly warmed up we went to the wave simulator. Now when I went with the wives, I tried every ride, so I know what I like and what I dont. This, I dont. I assume if I were better at it I would, but all you do is get on then thrown off by the waves. Well, the whole office had met up there, and I figured I would try it one more time. BIG mistake!!!! Totally went on, totally wiped out, and totally flashed THE WHOLE EcoSure office!! Yep, there was nothing left to the imagination! Needless to say, Jared wasn't very comfortable with that. But now we have a funny story to tell. 
I had wanted to go to the water park with Jared since before we even came out here! I am so grateful that we got to spend 1/2 a day there!!!
And after a fun filled day of work and Water World, we drove back waterlogged and chlorinated! => But it was sooo worth it!! => So much Fun!!!!
I asked $30 for the dresser and $10 for the end table, or best offer. And lo and behold not 40 minutes later I get an email from a girl who it willing to pay the full $30 for the dresser! I was so excited! So I was safe and had her come pick it up when Jared was home. And I made 30 bucks! Just that easy!! Oh I am so excited! I am going to have to find more things to sell! => But the end table hasn't had any nibbles yet, probably because its not very attractive. => Oh well, I am sure there is a DI near by! =>
We went with a group from EcoSure down to the lake. Jared and two other boys went to the boat docks to just the two jetskis in, and ten rest of us went down to the lake front. When we first got there it was slightly raining (sprinkling) and the wind was blowing like crazy! So yes, it was a little chilly. But the water was warm, so I put my feet in the water and blocked the wind and the rain with my umbrealla =>
When the boys finally got back to us Jared and I got to go out!! And it was also our job to take life vests back to some people on the other side of the lake. (The boys has some miscommunication so the person who drove the car left without giving the boys life vests, and the rangers wouldn't let them drive the jetskiss over to us without life vests. This kind family was nice enough to let them borrow some)
I was rip and rearin to go, but then we discovered that I had taken the big life vest and left Jared with the small one. =>
So we exchanged vests, and everything was all fine! =>
Here we go!! I am so excited to ride this thing!! =>
We had to figure out how to ride together with two exrta life jackets. So we situated them between ourselves, because we figured I would be holding on to Jared for dear life anyways. =>
I love that I got to play with Jared on the 4th of July!! While we were waiting for the jet skis I was talking to one of the sales girls and told her that Jared and I hardly have any pictures together this summer. She was so cute and took my camera, and she deffinately did a good job at taking pictures of us on the jet skis!! Thanks so much Jenny!! =>
Here we go! Off into the wild blue yonder! => (I like the touch of two life vests between us, after all we need to be B_O_M length apart) => hehehe
These things were so much fun! Yes I was nervous and scared the first time Jared went super fast, because this is my first time on one, but then I got used to it and it was very enjoyable!! =>
After our first ride together!! I love this man!!! I am so lucky to have married such a wonderful person!!!
While we were waiting for the boys, We were under umbrellas (as you saw in the beginning of this post) and Jenny had an idea that we exagerate the picture and go waist (and then neck) deep into the water while still holding the umbrellas. So later that evening, we did. And I think it turned out to be a pretty cute picture. =>
On our second time out, we got dumped into the water. I was way scared to go in the water, maybe I have watched one too many water related scarry movies, but once I was in there, I was fine! And it was quite funny! =>
This is the day we were out, I had to get one of the bipolar skies! There were dark rain clouds, normal bright blue skies, some clouds that couldnt decide if they wanted to be rainy or not, and a beautiful sun! It definately was not the perfect warm lake weather, but it was not bad! And there was like no one on the lake, so we had it practically all to ourselves!! I am so glad Jared and I were able to play together on the 4th!! After the lake we watched a couple fireworks from our balcony, and then watched "Independace Day" I didnt make it through the whole movie, I fell asleep, but its the thought that count, right? => Happy 4th of July!!!
Oh yeah, we just ran! =>
Don't even think about messin with us! We will whoop yo trash!
This is what we looked like running! => Yes I know we are silly =>
On your mark....... get set..........
Go! And we are off! =>
The thing that comes to my mine when I see this picture is the cheer "We bad, we know it, we're here, to show it" =>
Then commences the jumping pictures! =>
I taught them the toyota (or C) jump. It turned out pretty cool =>
We asked a passer-by to take a pictre of all four of us! For some reason when people take pics with that camera, their finger is always in the shot. Maybe I have a weird camera =>
Oh yeah, we can dance. =>
We tired to find the coolest car to get a stretching picture by, this is all we could find => The other ones were just normal cars.
Then we found this cute motorcycle!
Since we pretty much rocked the jumping pictures we thought we would try hand stand pictures. The goal was to get one person on a hand stand with feet and hands apart, one person standing rightways up in that position, then one in a hand stand again.
This was as close as we ever got. None of us expected it would be so hard. =>
Oh yeah, rocking our cute ecosure wives tanks! (we finally figued out how to do self timer on my camera so we wouldnt have to ask random people who get their fingers in the pictures)
Some of the EcoSure wives! If it wasnt for these girls, I would probably go crazy here with Jared working so much!
After like forever taking pictures, we went to Denny's to have a celebratory breakfast! => This was so much fun to do but I found out something. I am a walker not a runner. (in more ways that one =>) But it was so much fun!!
We vastly underestimated the time it would take to get to our little run in the mountains. The start time was 8:05am and we parked our cars quite a ways away at 7:54am. So this is a picture of us running to the starting line. We counted it as our warm up. =>
Yay! We got to the starting line, yes already out of breath, when the man yelled "two minutes 'til start". Yes, we had made it in time! Which was actually perfect because we were able to just slip right in! =>
And someone was nice enough to take our picture in those two minutes! This is 3 of the 4 wives that came up to race (the fourth got waaay car sick driving up here so she stayed in the car)
And we are off!! Yes not a very cute picture, but we were running, all I needed was proof! => lol
Yes, we were milking it for all it was worth!! It was so fun to mess around with the camera while running, who knew? => This picture makes it look incredibly uphill! =>
One of the wives started not feeling very well about 1/2 mile in, so I stopped running ad walked with her for a while. Look at this beautiful scenery!!! We are like 45 mins up in the colorado mountains! Gorgeous!!
These were the cute little signs that lead our way. I think they are just adorable!! & believe it or not, i felt safer with being able to see them! Not too long after the last picture of me was taken, about 3/4 miles in, the wife I was walking with felt really sick, so she turned back and went to go wait in the car with the car sick wife. => So I went on my merry little way, and about a mile later I crossed the third wifes path (I know this story sounds like a fairy tale thiing). I do have a confession to make. I did turn around right htere and ran to the finish line with the third wife. I kno, i know I cheated. I figured out I ran a little over 2 1/2 miles of the race, and we parked a ways away, so I got 3 miles of some sort of movement in at least =>.
Me at the finish line, with my EcoSure shirt!! I did have so much fun running this race! I want to get in better shape where I can actually compete in a race like this one day, I think that would be so fun!
Me and the third wife, Janae, at the finish line!! Yay we did it! (and yes, the guys finger is in the picture). This was waaay fun! And I have like fifty billion pictures that we took after the race, but I will put them on the next post. => Happy 4th of July!!!
