April of Late

Here are some pictures of our April adventures!

 Denver bought me a camera for my birthday, which I am in love with! This was my first picture with the new camera. I know, really good! Mind blowing...

 Over spring break we went on a motorbike ride down through Arizona. Still kind of chilly, but worth it!

 This was at my mom's birthday party. Sneaking pictures at each other.

 Landon my nephew.

 Nathan eating at the big kids table!

 Denver and my glasses. Lookin' as old as ever!

Abby and Parker eatin' hot dogs!

Chris Brownisms

When I was in my first years of college I took a class from a man named Chris Brown. No he was not the rapper, but he did have a lot of good sayings. Being a coach now, I find many occasions to use them. He used to use words or saying that he called something like "State Changers", where if someone was crying or upset he would pull one out to break our focus long enough to realize it wasn't worth crying or being upset over.Well I got to use one this past week and it turned out quite funny, so here it is.

This picture about describes how I was feeling about our Character routine. This season for the drill team has not been ideal, and judges have not been the biggest fans of our Character routine. So we have been working endlessly, changing sections and really working to improve the routine. Before our last competition we changed about a minute and 30 seconds of the routine. Well this past week another part was just not working out. I have been feeling frustrated for some time, wishing I could just throw this routine away and start over with a whole new concept. In an attempt to keep the girls positive I was trying to hide these feelings, but it became apparent that they were already feeling the same way. They were saying things like, "Let's get rid of this..." or "Let's do take this out and put this in.." One girl even suggested getting rid of Cops and Robbers and doing an Aladdin theme. Needless to say we were all starting to lose any hope of salvaging this routine. Knowing that we had less than 3 weeks to region I knew it wasn't reasonable to start all over and knew I had to make this a positive experience. So I pulled out a Chris Brownism. I told the girls, "This is what we have got and we have got to figure out how to make it work. Starting over would be too much stress at this point. We can sit here and say, 'We should have done this or we should have done that' until we should all over ourselves...." Instantly everyone's mood changed. They were all laughing thinking I had just cursed, but then realized that I didn't. It was a really fun and good moment for us. I will let you know that we have been able to move on. We have gotten rid of a few not so good parts and put in some much better parts. We will have changed about 3/4 of the original routine... But I think/hope we are getting closer to a winning routine!

Welcome Back From The Break!

I have decided it is time to write something funny. Lucky for me something did happen not too long ago. On Tuesday, it was the first day back to school from the break and the night before I wasn't thinking very clearly and set my alarm for 5:44 a.m. (to be exact). Thinking that was plenty of time to get up and ready for drill at 6:00 a.m. I went to bed. My alarm went off and I turned it off and rolled back on the bed to slowly wake myself up. I then saw what time my clock said and said a word not appropriate for a blog post, which woke Denver up in a panic as well. Luckily I have an awesome assistant coach. I texted her and told her I would be a little late. This calmed me down a little, but Denver seemed to be more panicked than I was. He comes running into the bathroom informs me that he has my lunch all ready and started the car. He then asked me what I was wearing for the day. I said it was all laid out like it usually is. Next thing I know, I am doing my hair and he is trying to get a sock on my foot.

It was quite a comical scene, but I am grateful for a husband that would help me get my socks on despite the fact that he doesn't got to work for another hour, so is now awake and unable to go back to sleep.

2-for-1

So I have two things that are not even closely related that I want to blog, but thought it easier to do one post rather than two...

Part 1:

Those that know me know that I have a lot of shoes... It is sort of an addiction. But it drives Denver crazy that I have so many and it drives me crazy how they used to just pile on the floor, making vacuuming a challenge. So I came up with this design and my dad helped me build it. It makes my life so much better and my dad liked it so much he built himself one and is considering selling it. What do you think?

Part 1 1/2:

Don't let drinks get frozen in the fridge. Figure that!

Part 2:

This past weekend Denver and I had our first on-our-own camping experience. We had a blast and learned a few things that we will use next time. Like it is important that the bedding makes it into the truck and if you forget a can opener any kind of knife and a little brute strength will do. We went camping up in Coalville so one day we drove to Evanston and picked some fireworks, then drove back through Wasatch Mt. State Park here are some of the things we saw.

What a break!

Spring Break could not have come at a better time. Life was a titch stressful before we left and we both came back feeling refreshed and like we could take on the world. Our trip started out a little rocky when we did a 360 in the median and drove the wrong way for a mile or so because we were too panicked to think we should turn around to find one of those turn arounds. But, luckily we didn't get hurt or anything and luckily we have awesome family that would drive to Nephi to tag team drive us to Las Vegas so we could still make our flight. All of this happening at around 9 p.m. My poor parents didn't get to bed until 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. But we got to Cozumel, Mexico safely and had a very nice, relaxing week. Here are some pictures of things we did!

First day there... We had been awake for practically 48 hours... Be nice...

This is the East side of the island.

We saw hundreds of iguanas at the Mayan Ruins.

This is at the top of the light house.

Gotta love the Spanish to English translation.... Yes, I will have the beef shirt.

Beautiful sunset right outside our hotel.

Time to be GRATEFUL

I woke up this morning feeling very grateful. Even though this is a stressful time right now, not knowing what is going to happen next year as far as teaching goes, I feel grateful for what I do have. This past year I have been doing an internship teaching 5th grade and I will finish it up in June. Doing the internship was the best decision I have ever made, besides getting married. :) I also just got offered the assistant coaching job for the Wasatch High School Waspettes! I am so excited to get my foot in the door in this field. Dancing is my passion and I hope to convey that to these girls and hopefully they will have the same passion. Anyways... here are a few things to be grateful for:

• A husband that, whether he likes it or not, understands me completely and is patient with all of me.
• The fact that spring is ALMOST here...
• A group of students that laugh with me... or at me...
• An apartment that spoils me.
• Parents and in-laws that spoil us.
• Family (brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, etc.)
• Laughter
• Books
• All of my friends
• BUNCO groups

It may be small but if I listed everything you would be very bored...

The First 3 Weeks!

So tomorrow is the 3 week mark of being married and we made it! We are still married! We can make it for eternity right?? In all seriousness it has been great. It has been fun getting to know each other in a totally different setting and a different level. After the wedding we took a short honeymoon. My mom let us borrow the Mustang and we headed to Mesquite and stayed in Denver's grandpa's condo. It was such a nice place. We got to go down to Vegas and play for the day which was fun. We even won a little money!! Once we got back the struggle was getting settled into our new place, which is a better place than any newlyweds should be allowed to have. Much thanks to my dad! But Denver nor I realized how much stuff I had... It is still an on going process, but we will get there someday. Here are some pictures of our adventures! Enjoy!