Doggies!

Just so everyone knows, this is not our dog. Don't worry. My sister bought this dog from someone in St. George, gave us some money to pick the dog up, and meet her in Filmore to make the doggy transfer. The dog is a tan long hair chiuahua (spelling?) and her name is bella. Contrary to popular beliefs and stereo types, this is actually a very loving animal, and John even said that he loved her! Anyway, I mostly posted these pictures for my sister to be able to see her dog, but I thought I would let you all know what was going on.

Finally Some Pictures! (I hate dry, static-y weather)

This week has been great. Not for any particular reason (we still don't have any jobs), it has just been "one of those" weeks. John and I have started to take time every day to get out of the house and take a walk or go on a little hike. It has done wonders for both of our attitudes towards our current situation, we have even been getting along better, and loosing weight!

I finally got batteries for the camera and so I have the long awaited pictures of the recently painted kitchen in Summit. It still needs another coat, but it looks great. Also, the pictures were taken at night and it looks a little more blue under natural light.





I have also been taking some pictures from the walks that we have been taking here's one:


I made myself a hat!

Okay, I just have to say that I am completely fed up with the static that is ever-present in this house. Every time I turn on a light, I get shocked by the little screws that hold the plates in place, every time I touch John, or he touches me we get shocked. And this is what happens when I get out of bed.



This is NOT an exaggeration, my hair was actually stuck to my face and standing straight up. I am sick of it!

Black Eyes, Blue Paint, and Dead Batteries

This week has been an interesting one so far. At the end of last weekend, we helped (a little) with painting the kitchen in Summit. We were all SICK of the boring yellow paint and are thrilled with the blue coat that was applied. There is no denying that it adds a warmth and personality to the kitchen.

It took a little team effort to get the kitchen cleaned up so that we could take pictures, and then when I got the camera, the batteries were dead...and there were no working batteries to be found. Batteries are kind of expensive in general, and so people in our situation don't stand a chance to get our hands on some batteries...I wonder how worth it rechargeable batteries are?



Imagine a picture of a blue kitchen here



What I am getting at, is that I had the blog all ready to post and add all the pictures, but I cant because of the dead battery situation. I have decided to post anyway and add the pictures at a more opportune time.

Continuing on. On Tuesday my clumsiness got the better of me and I took quite a tumble. My hands got all tangled up in whatever it was that I was doing and I ended up face planting onto the bathroom floor. Now I have a black eye, my first black eye since walking into the corner of a wall with a Disney View Finder held up to my eyes. Which, I am sure that you deduced, left me with two black eyes. I was 5, you cant criticize me too harshly for it.



Picture of Danielle with a black eye



School is starting to pick up a little bit, I have my first test tomorrow in my math class. Yikes! And I always have tons of reading to do, but I think that I am beginning to enjoy it a little more.

We hope that everyone is doing well, we miss you all and look forward to our next trip up to Salt Lake on the 25th.

Fun in the Snow

Here is a cool story. You may or may not be interested...and I am guessing most of you wont be.




On Saturday John and I took a trip to the local shooting range, where as luck would have it a group of people were there shooting some very rare guns. They were fully automatic M-14's and NOT the civilian kind. The real deal. John was so excited he was peeing in his pants, and they even asked us if we wanted to shoot them! (just so you know, it costs about 40.00 for ten rounds of ammunition and they let us each shoot 10 rounds.) John was able to shoot the machine gun with ease, but when I had my turn to shoot it, it basically spun me around in a circle. I had no idea what I was doing. So it was a very awesome once-in-a-lifetime experience that happened in the great little town of Cedar.

Things are looking good for John getting a job. We went and talked to a guy today who knows of three companies hiring, and is going to call us with their phone numbers. Pray for us that something will finally happen with regards to a job.

After John and I decided to move, Laura began pestering us to start up our own blog so we could all keep in touch with each other. We had our minds made up that we would NEVER blog...but I was sucked into the blogging vortex when I was looking over Brent and Laura's blog while I was sitting in class this afternoon. Out of nowhere I had this overwhelming desire to join the blogging community, and John actually went along with me! So here we are!





John and I have been married for a little under five months. We recently moved to Southern Utah to get out of the hustle and bustle of the city. I am going to school at SUU. I was supposed to start on Monday, but we were pounded with a foot and a half of snow. Needless to say, we spent two and a half hours on Monday morning shoveling what we figured to be about 1200 cubic feet of snow. And we only had one shovel. Any way, school has started and I have found it to be terribly boring thus far. I am crossing my fingers for things to improve.

So now we have a functional camera, and a blog all set up. Hopefully this will help us better document our time in Southern Utah, and keep in touch with the family.