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Who wants to play a game of catch-up?

So I thought last month that I would do a monthly summary for all those interested readers, but it kind of slipped through the cracks and June is almost over. Despite that, this blog entry is still just going to cover the month of May. And Logan and I had a very very busy month of May... May 7th is Logan's birthday as some of you know, and some of you might not know that when it's your birthday you can get great discounts at some restaurants. For example, Denny's.

One weekend we decided to go visit my brother who is currently in Idaho. My family (like generations ago) hailed from the area we drove through on the way there. I was able to show Logan some family graves and even my great great grandfather's old house. I was pretty impressed with myself for knowing exactly where to go in the cemetery :) We also stopped at Dworshak Dam where I worked for a summer. It is huge! 717 feet tall and 3/4 of a mile long. We had lots of fun with Tyler. One night we stayed up way too late playing a game of Risk. I think it is out of my system for a very long time now.

We got back just in time to plan a last minute trip to Disneyland. Logan has an uncle who works for Disney and he was going to be down there that weekend watching his daughter perform in a choir competition. So thanks to him we got 3 days free Disneyland/California Adventure park!!! :) We are so lucky! We also had a couple days to explore Hollywood. (Note: Logan's short red beard, and sorry for the sideways picture)

The next weekend Logan's cousin was married and we had lots of activities going on with that. We even got to see Logan's mom for the weekend and that was a lot of fun. We will be glad when we are closer to both our families so we can see them more often. I can hardly believe we'll be moving in a little over a month!

Amongst all these adventures I am working nearly everyday substitute teaching and I have one interesting day I would like you to know about. So I get to the high school and am going to be teaching an art class. The class is supposed to start by drawing some sketches. One boy doesn't get to work so I go over and ask him to pull out his drawing pad and get to work. So he kind of scribbles. I figure, oh well, what else can I do. About 25 minutes into class a girl comes in late and tells me she's the TA. I tell her she is being recorded as absent because she had come in to late. She sits down anyway, right next to the boy that wasn't working. The talk for a while and then the boy starts turning around and saying these weird sexually harassing remarks to the girls around him, so I tell him knock it off or you're going down to the Principal. So he starts saying the things to me too. I've pretty much had it by then and am looking for a security number to have them come take care of the student when the TA leaves to get the mail and another student comes up and asks if I'd like him to go get security. Some time passes, the TA comes back and finds out security is coming and tries to get the boy out of class. I tell her he isn't going anywhere. Then the other guy gets back from getting security and tells me that they said they'd come but they think it isn't that big of a deal. By this time we figure the kid is on something because he is usually very quiet in class and today he is quite the opposite. So the security people come and take him and one guy comes over to me and says that a girl came to them and told them that I wouldn't let her help this kid get some fresh air. Yeah right! Like I'm going to let her get him off campus! She said "You gotta get out of here, you're going to get in trouble." (to the kid). Anyway, so the security guard thought I should have just let him get some fresh air...blah blah blah. Turns out the kid's body started to shut down because he was on a major drug and they sent him in an ambulance to the hospital. Good thing I didn't let the kid get some fresh air. Later that day I caught a kid stealing razor blades and a few other items. When I confronted him about it he pretended not to know what I was talking about. Eventually he started co-operating with me and I found out he had other items I didn't know about...what a day. Sorry for such a long story and I didn't put in nearly the details it needed :)

Come back later to see info for June, and be excited to hear about all the adventures we have planned for July!

Blah-ging

So I've decided that blogging isn't my favorite activity to do. I thought it was kind of fun at first because you can write out stories and insert pictures, but then I found myself just loading pictures on Facebook where I didn't have to write anything. But due to the surge of complaints I have returned again. Since I haven't written since February let me do some catching up. March was a not very exciting month and I was glad to be able to look for ward to April.

I flew out to Georgia to surprise my family for April Fools Day. My dad was supposed to be the only one to know, but then he slipped and told my mom, but that was okay because I still got to surprise my brother and sister. Then they were surprised again when Logan met up with us that weekend. Then we drove down to Florida for a week. We got to spend lots of time at the beach and came back with a wonderful and much needed tan :)

I actually got to be there for two weeks longer than Logan, but we were there together for a week in the middle :) It was nice because Logan had only really been with my family right before the wedding and with everything going on, he really only got to be around them for a day. The only problem now is that my family loves him more than me!

The day I got back we got to go to a Mariners vs. Tigers baseball game which the Tigers won :) Go Tigers! (That was for you Logan, and Shellie if you end of reading this) :)

The weekend after that we went camping up at Deception Pass. It was so beautiful! The weather was great and we had lots of things to do. The campsite we got was perfect! There weren't hardly any other campers around us for the majority of the time. We set up our tent and sleeping bags and went for a walk along the coast. We climbed on rocks and ended up getting soaked by a wave on the way out to them. The we went back and built our fire. I had pre-baked our tin foil dinners so we wouldn't have to worry about getting sick or waiting forever for our food to cook and they were delicious. We played some Italian cards and played with the fire for awhile. We had had a pretty long day so we were pretty tired and fell asleep before our heads hit the pillow. But I woke up in the middle of the night and I could hear something in the bushes. I don't know why this always happens to me! Anyway, Logan reassured me there was nothing, but I know there was something, even if it was just a rabbit. Eventually I fell asleep again. When we woke up we had pancakes and bacon with hot chocolate mmmmm...

After we left the campground we walked along the deception pass bridge and hiked on some trails. Logan was the leader on the trails and on our way back from one Logan walked right over this snake. We were going at a pretty good pace so when I saw it I couldn't just stop, so I screamed of course and jumped over it, he couldn't figure out what the problem was, then I showed him he had walked right over the snake. He just thought it was a stick :) Then we tried to make it move (the bark). But it was scary.

On our way back home we stopped at Mt. Vernon to see the beautiful tulips and daffodils.

I loved April.

Now, if I don't write in here for awhile it's probably because I am substitute teaching, spending time with Logan, finishing wedding albums, talking to friends and family, going grocery shopping, doing laundry, doing church callings, working in the yard, fixing meals, babysitting, sewing, napping, or maybe I'm working on another adventure :)

The Mailman

Because there is no school this week, and because I have had many days to sit in my house I have turned to watching everything that goes on outside my window. Those of you who knew me while I lived in DT will know that this isn't the first time I have done this. But I now know the neighbors patterns, who drives what car, what cars make what noises, how many kids each neighbor has, and some things I didn't want to know. But that is bound to happen when you look out the window all the time, right? Anway, I also watch the FedEx man, the UPS man, and the Mailman. I know what time of day they usually arrive and sometimes the mailman will park his car and eat his lunch in front of our house. The other day I needed to put something in the mailbox, but right when I went to go out the mailman pulled up so I quickly hurried back in the house. But as I am getting used to the neighborhood, I'm now over this and today I willingly talked to the mailman when he dropped off the package. I could have pretended like I wasn't home, like I had when other mail carriers had dropped things off, but no, I am now grown up. Aren't you proud of me?

Finally Wedding Pictures!!!

Our wedding pictures are up! You should take a look at them. You can't copy and paste from the website because they are copyrighted, but we are getting the discs soon, so if you want any particular ones, just let me know and I can email them to you! Here's the address:
http://realportraits.smugmug.com/Weddings
the password is Jan 2 09 (case sensitive)

One fish, two fish...

I know that many of you are anxiously awaiting some wedding photos, but you are going to have to wait a little longer because I don't have them yet. Instead you will just have to put up with some honeymoon pictures and stories :)

We left shoreline just as it was getting dark surrounded by lots of family wishing us luck as we drove off. Our car was pretty much covered in oreos, shaving cream, soap messages, pop cans, you name it, we had it. We even had branches and flowers duct taped onto the car (...good 'ol Kermit...he puts up with so much) I thought it was great! We had to turn on the wiper blades to be able to see to drive. After we had been driving for a while Logan noticed that there was tape on his window, so I looked at mine and I had it to, but it wasn't holding anything on...then we came up to a street light and I saw this little black eye and orange body, of course I gasp so Logan thinks something's wrong...then he finds out there's a fish taped to my window. This is funny because Logan joked about how all he wanted at the reception was fish in the flower vases and I said no, but my brother, sister, and cousins went and got a couple fish and stuck them in right before the reception. Only problem was that there was plant food in the vases so the fish died :( Tyler taped it to my window...what a funny guy :)

Logan got it off at the gas station:

So finally we ended up in Vancouver where they were having the worst snow storm they'd had in 30 years, but we did some great sight seeing despite the snow:

From Vancouver we rode a ferry over to Victoria which was a great city for touring on foot. They have a royal museum, old buildings, a hotel that has afternoon tea, and beautiful views!

Can you find us?

Anyhow, Victoria was a great place, but we were done there and were headed back through Vancouver and home when it started to rain. We turned on the wiper blades and for some reason there was a streak across the window. Logan stopped the wiper so I could look at it, and what do you think it was? The other fish :)