The First Adventures of Summer

     Wow!  So many wonderful things have happened in just a few short days.  I need to learn to take my camera everywhere because there have been so many times these last few days when I wish I had it, but didn't!  Lucky for you, I have plenty of time on my hands, so I'm going to go back and reenact most of it, so I can take pictures to show off to you.


     Last Thursday, I went on a bike ride.  There's a hill close to mine and Brett's apartment that I wanted to ride up to see what was on the other side, and boy am I glad I did!  When I reached the top of the hill, I was overlooking a beautiful lake, and it just so happened to have a bike trail around it.  I thought that was very thoughtful of the city to pave that for me. :)  I was only planning on taking a half hour bike ride, but since I had time, I decided to ride around the entire lake.  It took me about an hour and a half to leisurely ride around it.  The scenery was fantastic!  There were parts when I was riding through thick forest, and other parts when I was riding through big meadows with these really yummy smelling wild flowers.  They smelt like honeysuckle.  Passing through so many meadows made me wonder why I wasn't seeing any deer, but after going through about the fifth meadow, I finally saw one!  I stopped to take a picture of it on my phone, and while taking the picture a tiny little Bambi head popped up from the tall grass.  It was so cute; definitely the tiniest deer I've ever seen in the wild!  If only I had my camera!  You can't even see the big deer in the picture I took on my phone, so it wasn't worth keeping.  Hopefully I'll see them again when I ride sometime in the near future.  Overall, the bike ride was quite enjoyable.  It'll definitely be my getaway place!  I can't wait to take my sister-in-law to see it!  She's going to love it, which leads me into my next exciting event!


     Annalee sent me a text the other day with a picture of a round trip plane ticket to Omaha!!!!!  I'm soooooo excited!  She'll be staying for 8 days!  We are going to have a blast together.  We're going to take a picnic to the lake and watch the sunset over it while the fireflies sparkle in the back ground.  It's going to be so beautiful and so much fun! We're also planning on attending the Nauvoo pageant and temple, along with the Winter Quarter's temple!  I can't wait to see her!!!  It's going to be so much fun!  22 days! :)  Eeee
(squeal of excitement)!


     This leads me into my next event.  Brett and I were able to go to the Winter Quarters temple last Saturday night.  We were intending on attending the 7:30 session, but when 7:40 rolled around and we were still lost in the ghetto, my hope of getting to see the temple that day was getting smaller and smaller.  I called the temple to let them know we weren't going to make our appointment, and they said that we could still make it for the 8 o'clock sealing session.  We made it with 5 minutes to spare!  It was so wonderful!  I must say that the Winter Quarters temple is, by far, the smallest temple I have ever seen!  About two weeks ago I had the chance to see the Nashville temple and I thought that one was small.  It was smaller than the stake center sitting right next to it.  Well, the Winter Quarter's temple is about two-thirds the size of the Nashville one.  It was so little!  Anywho, the inside was so beautiful with all of its symbolism about the stories of the pioneers, and then to continue the beauty, as we were leaving the temple at dusk, the fireflies were sparkling all around it.  It was a sight to behold!  I was so bummed that I didn't have my camera at the time, but alas, Brett and I will be going back very soon, so I will get a picture then.  Can't wait!


     It has been quite the last few days!  What a way to kick off my summer!  I can't wait for the adventures that lie ahead! :)

   

   

Life As We Know It

     If someone would have told me 6 months ago that I would be married to my sister's friend and living in Nebraska, I would have laughed at their joke and walked away, and yet, here I am!  Married to a wonderful man, living in good ol' Omaha, Nebraska.  
     On February 29, 2012, Brett and I were sealed for time and all eternity in the Jordan River Temple.  

      We lived in a nice little basement apartment in Riverton for two months.  At which time Brett moved to Omaha to start a salesperson job, and I moved back home.  We spent all of May apart, which was definitely the HARDEST thing I have ever had to do.  People say 'distance makes the heart grow fonder'.  Well, after having experienced it, I believe that saying to be a bunch of bologna!  I don't recommend this to anyone!  It's not worth crying yourself to sleep three or four times a week.  Anyway, that all doesn't matter now because we are reunited and it feels so good!!!  So once again I am with my loved one and I am now living in a quaint little apartment by a beautiful little lake.  

     Life doesn't get much better than this!  There's just one tiny glitch. . . Brett's job.  Don't get me wrong, it's a great job and it's keeping us financially stable, but the hours sure stink!  He leaves for work at 8:50 a.m., and doesn't get home until 9:45 p.m.  I really shouldn't complain though.  I would much rather be living with my honey again and only see him about four hours a day than to be 1400 miles apart and not see him at all!
     So. . .what does one do for 13 hours by themselves you might ask?  Well, I go find friends of course!  
Friend #1: Geezer the goose. :) He's a very friendly fellow. . . when I'm sharing my lunch with him.  He's definitely not a shy guy.  He'll come right up and eat out of my hand.

Friend #2:  Archibald the ornery goose.  He sure likes to hang around me when I'm eating, but when I try to talk to him or offer him some food, he hisses at me.  It's definitely one of those love-hate relationships.  The feeling is mutual.

Friend #3:  Pegleg the one-footed duck.  When I told Brett about Pegleg, he started to laugh.  I asked him what was so funny, and of course, what does he say?  "I can just picture him trying to swim in a straight line , but end up just swimming in circles".  Typical guy thing to say, but it was pretty funny.  Now, whenever I'm trying to find Pegleg, I just look for the duck that's swimming in circles. ;)

     Other than making friends, I spend my time cleaning the apartment, scrapbooking wedding memories, cleaning, reading, bike riding, listening to sweet tunes, playing Solitaire, cleaning, doing laundry, job hunting, hang out with the only other wife out here, cleaning, cooking, and now blogging!  I would go out and explore Omaha, but Brett has the car 5 out of the 6 days he works.  You can imagine how excited I was when we bought Brett a bike three days ago.  Now I can at least go explore a little bit. 

     I thought I would go crazy being by myself for hours on end, but so far it's not that bad.  With a creative imagination and being easily entertained, it's pretty easy staying sane out here. :)