Friday, July 24, 2009

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. =>

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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!!!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

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!

Friday, July 17, 2009

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!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Water World With Jared!

On Saturday the EcoSure sales men decided they were going to stop working at 1:00 and go to Water World!! I was so excited to hear that news!! That means I get to have fu adventures with Jared!!! =>
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.
When things happen that no one would wish, I think its funny to see peoples reactions. Myself, I laugh at things, that helps me keep a good perspective. Jared, he gets quite. After this little incident some of the girls would come up to me and say "Oh I am so sorry, but you are handling it so well. If that had happened to me....." I find reactions so interesting!
But we in no way let this slow us down! => It did take us a couple rides to recover fully, but being able to laugh about it right away and continuing to play helped and we ruled that park!! And we had a wonderful day there!!!
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!!!!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Craigslist Sale!

So some of our friends moved back to Utah yesterday, it is such a bummer! And since they didnt rent a moving van and were just taking their car, they gave us their dresser and end table. (thruout the summer they had accumulated a lot of free furniture) So I was sitting home last night, bored, waiting for Jared to get home, and then I decided something..... I would sell our new found furniture of craigslist! I was so excited!! I had never put anything on the internet for sale before! So I took pictures, took measurements, and posted an add on craigslist for a dresser and an end table!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! =>

Monday, July 6, 2009

4th of July Adventure!

On Saturday, after the wives run, I was able to meet Jared at Chatfield Resovior to jet ski!! A boy he sells with lives around there and his family has jet skis. They were nice enough to let us borrow them for the evening.
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!!!