Las Vegas

Last week Clint and I took a trip to Mesquite and Las Vegas. We went golfing in Mesquite for two days and Las Vegas for three. It was a lot of fun and I didn't want to leave. Especially because the weather was so dang nice. We came back to a driveway full of snow and could barely make it up the driveway.

In Las Vegas we saw a few shows. We went to Jersey Boys, which was good and we recommend. It's about the group The Four Seasons. We also saw the Cirque show Ka which we don't recommend, and the Cirque show Love, which we definitely recommend. We stayed at Treasure Island, The Eureka in Mesquite, The Encore, and the Mirage. We had a delayed flight that set back our plans to Las Vegas, and a cancelled flight trying to get home. Which caused so much switching around. But the Encore was awesome. The Mirage.... totally not. FYI.

Not much else is going on. Our primary class is going well and we like it a lot. We both gave talks on Sunday, on how temples complete the Plan of Salvation and that went well.

I don't think I've told anyone that we are officially going to Houston this summer. So we are, and I'm so excited!

Anyone else so excited for Dear John to come out this weekend? I am.

New York

Clint went on a "work trip" aka golf trip, to Arizona a couple of weeks ago so I decided it would be a great time to go visit Emily in New York. I was there 4 days and I had a ton of fun. We did a lot of the typical tourist sight seeing adventures. We went and ate at Little Italy, we saw the Radio City Christmas spectacular with the Rockettes, we saw the tree at Rockefeller, did a little shopping at Macys, went and saw "In the heights" on Broadway, which was so good and won a whole bunch of Tony awards last year. And Times Square is right there so we walked around a bit. We took a bus tour which was freezing. The big winter storm was coming, but you gotta do what you gotta do when you're only in NYC for two days basically. We also took the Staten Island ferry past the Statue of Liberty since they weren't running the ferry to the Statue of Liberty because of the storm. We rode in taxi's, rode the subway and trains. My favorite part was probably "In the Heights" and the Rockettes, which is good because I bought the Rockettes DVD, and I read they are making a movie for In the Heights. Thanks for letting me visit Emily!

And FYI our Christmas was good. We went to Clint's parents house. I guess Christmas isn't too eventful when there aren't any children around.

FYI

There hasn't been too much going on here lately. Buuut Clint and I were called to be Primary Teachers. We haven't started yet, but we will be teaching the 7 turning 8 year olds. Which means we'll have a lot of baptisms to go to, but that's ok. We are pretty excited about it. I also got a part time job working for Hallmark and am in charge of the cards at Walmart. Clint has become a par golfer, and I'm still getting better. So that's about it. We have such exciting lives.

The big 2-6!

Clint turned 26 on Wednesday! For his birthday he got new golf clubs, and I got him a net to hit balls into. We also got Coldstone cupcakes that were delicious and went golfing. Here are just a few pictures...

Rachel's wedding

Last weekend Clint and I went to my little sister Rachel's wedding. She and her husband, Steven, were married for time and all eternity in the Nauvoo Temple. It was a lot of fun and we're glad we could be there.

We also had the chance to take a tour of Miller Park while we were in Milwaukee.

And we also celebrated Mya's 5th birthday. Clint and I gave her Pretty Pretty Princess, a game Emily and I loved when we were younger. Dylan said he wanted to play because "Crowns, earrings, and rings are cool" He won both games, which could explain that crazy smile.

Another anniversary

Clint and I celebrated our 2nd Anniversary Monday. It's been a great two years. On our drive back home Clint showed me he can wiggle his ears. I was kind of surprised after knowing each other for over 3 years that I didn't know that, but really when does that ever come up? I don't even remember how it came up then. I think I was asking him when we have kids, whose eyes do we think they'll have, or their ears and I think that's when he wiggled them. We have a lot of time to talk about anything and everything on our road trips.

We decided to take the little drive to Yellowstone and loop around to Jackson and stay the night and then back for our anniversary. Yellowstone was cool, I've never been there before. I really wanted to see some bears but we weren't so lucky, but we did see these really big deer that I don't think I've ever seen before, I don't remember what they're called, and also a few buffalo. The hot pot things and Old Faithful was really cool though. Can you tell we didn't look at any of the signs based on my descriptions?

You'll have to tilt your head. Old Faithful goes off every 90 minutes give or take ten minutes they say. We got there just in time to get a good spot and only had to wait ten or fifteen minutes. There were a ton of people waiting there. While we were walking away we heard this older man say, I waited my whole life for that little piddly thing? haha, that was kind of funny, kind of sad.

After Yellowstone we drove to Jackson where we stayed the night in a really nice little cabin. I think it was called The Rustic Inn. We went to dinner at the delicious Gun Barrel Steakhouse.

It's good to be back. I've been busy unpacking and washing everything that was in storage and also everything we brought because it smelled like smoke. I won't miss those apartments. I've been going thru everything too and we have a huge pile of stuff to give away. It's funny how much I decided I didn't need only 5 months after I went thru everything. Clint is back into his golfing kick and I think has gone every day except for Wednesday. Clint and I bought season passes for Targhee to go snowboarding this winter. We're pretty excited for that.

Guess who's back, back again.

Last weekend Clint and I decided to call it a summer and not stay for the extended season. It took us two days to drive but it seemed like forever!!! I figured out there was about a four hour stretch in Wyoming and Nebraska that was exactly the same I took a few weeks ago with Janna and Brian. Clint and I stopped in Independence, MO to look at the Community of Christ temple, and to our surprise the LDS visitors center was open on Sunday. So we went in and it is so nice. We didn't get to go to any of the other sites, so we'll have to do that another time. So we'll be here until next summer when Clint sells somewhere else again. We usually find that out in early January.

Here are a few pictures from the visitors center.

The church had updated the visitors center a few years ago. I thought this was pretty cool, you touch the picture of one of the apostles and then you had the choice to listen to their latest talk, or read a message, or read more about them. Clint is pointing to Ecuador, where he served his mission. They had all the different Books of Mormon in the different languages with another interactive message.

In this room we learned a little about W.W. Phelps and the newspapers he published and the hymns he later wrote and published with Emma Smith. A neat fact we learned was, see on the right side of the picture they have the cases where they keep all the different letters? The "uppercase" letters come from the upper case, and the "lowercase" letters are kept in the lower case. Simple enough.

They said on average 9 families lived in a small cabin. This was another cool part there. They dimmed the lights and we sat in the cabin, and they would play testimonies of people who lived in Independence and how it was living with so much persecution. If you can see on the left side of the picture, there's the window with flowers. That was a flat screen tv that would flash different backgrounds. You know so it looked like you're really looking outside.

The Community of Christ Temple. The "ice cream cone" as Clint would describe it.