Just jumbly scatterbrained old me.

When I started this blog I had a lot more to say but it felt like a journal entry. I decided it was maybe too personal to be sharing with the blog world. So I've narrowed it down to a few thoughts. I've been feeling sort of out of sorts lately and don't know if I can put it into words. It's just one of those times in my life where coasting isn't working anymore and I realize I have some serious self-improvement to do.

Just to list some of my scatterbrained thoughts and feelings: I never realized how far I was from perfection until I got married. What a humbling experience. I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father's hand in my life and the influence that is guiding me when I'm not looking. I'm grateful for literature. If you haven't read The Secret, you should. It's funny how sometimes lessons in our lives can come as a total affirmation to the same thing we learned somewhere else. When all things work together for your good like that, and you see the same message in your life over and over again various ways, you can know that Heavenly Father is trying to teach you something.

I guess that sums up my feelings for now, though I feel like I could probably go on for hours. I still love life in Florida, despite the medians. I posted some pictures on facebook but maybe I should post a few on here:

Here's us. Zach is such a poop about pictures sometimes. I think it's cute when he smiles... he doesn't. How this is cuter? Beyond me.

Here's the Wilsons. Nick is one of our reps that's been friends with Zach for a few years. I just met Emily and she is basically my only friend out here! She stays home with baby Wyatt so she has lots of time to hang out with me. I don't think she knows what she's gotten into.

Here's baby Wyatt. He is probably the happiest/easiest little guy I know. He loves to hear himself make noise, even though he can't talk yet. :o)

And here is a little picture of everybody else, sans Nate. Behind Emily is Sunny, new bride of Lloyd (in the black), and Mark is in the blue. Nate is Emily's brother and somehow he missed the pictures. All these peeps are awesome. And there you have it... Florida in a nutshell.

Road Rage, literally

Alright- I've discovered my first (and only, thus far) pet peeve with Florida.

Medians.

Everytime you want to turn left, out of any parking lot, shopping center, or street, there is a median preventing you from crossing the road. So what do you do? Turn right, and then go to the next light to flip a U-ie (or a B, whatever you want to call it).

But THEN! You get to the light, and you see one of these:







Grrrrr!! Suddenly, I am obligated to turn left at the signal since I am already in the turning lane. I have to wait for the light to turn green. Then I have to travel down THAT street and find a way to flip around there, so I can go back to the signal, turn right, so I can finally be going the direction I wanted to go when I pulled out in the first place. The whole process has taken me up to about 10 minutes. Now WHY would you put a median in the middle of every road? That doesn't even make sense! Whoever is in charge of planning Florida roads, you suck, and I'm calling your mother. This is especially a problem for the chronically lost (ie, ME) because if I ever want to turn around I've got to drive halfway around town to do it.

Thanks for letting me rant and rave. :o)

Crusty old people

So this is the full detailed version of my nutshell post below. I was just writing an email to Mauri and thought, I ought to just write this all on my blog and update EVERYONE and kill uhhh... a few more birds with one stone.

Florida is great. One thing though is everybody is either tan or sunburned, and it's actually pretty gross. I think probably half the nation's cases of skin cancer occur in Florida. (rough estimate) A lot of these cancerous people are old, and as I was telling Mauri, I see them and I swear they are going to die because they look like the crust of bread. I tried to look up an image on Google similar to what I am talking about, but they grossed me out so much I couldn't bear to post one on my blog, so I will spare you all the gory details and let your imagination do the work. I did find this though:

Haha. That's about as gross as I'll go here today!

Our apartment is actually really great. It's a one bedroom but gosh it must be twice the size of our first apartment, in Utah. It has tons of windows, really open and airy, big living room and big tub in the bathroom with a walk-in closet! We like it. I just finally got MOST of our things unpacked today, and am dreading the thought of having to pack it all away again in a few months.

So ours isn't decorated this nicely... but this was the best picture I could find on the website. Not bad!

It was so frustrating trying to fit all our belongings into our two teeny little cars. Then at night, when we stopped at rest stops for a few hours to sleep, we had to move everything around between cars just to recline the seats back. Then move it all back again to drive. Thinking about it makes me shudder... it was a long, long, loooooong drive across the country. We each got one ticket... for following too closely. A. Zach was behind a truck/trailer who was trying to pass a semi, so they were both going slower than us, and B. Of course I'm following my husband, we're traveling TOGETHER! It was pretty bogus, and I'm honest when tickets are warranted, but he could have given me a warning and told me to back off and it would have had the same effect. Now we have $222 in tickets to pay to the state of Colorado since we obviously can't make the court date... last thing we needed! I don't want to think about it. Luckily that was the worst of our trip.

Back to something positive! The pool is really nice, and there are a couple of big pond water features in the community with fountains so when you're at the pool you can hear the water splashing peacefully behind you. Very relaxing. I finally went today for the first time, for 35 minutes with SPF 8 and yes, did not get any color. I'll try 45 mins tomorrow. I do not want a sunburn! Just a healthy glow and I'll take my time to get it. I don't want to be crusty.

Here's our pool, you can see the fountain slightly in the background on the right.

I am finally getting the hang of work. It's really not a hard job, I just haven't got the routine down yet. And the nice thing is I do have a little computer time here. Here's a picture I took of the sunset from my office door yesterday.

Too good, too too good

Omigosh. Ever since I became a regular blogger a few months ago I've been pretty consistent at writing once a week, even if nothing exciting was going on. Now I haven't written in three weeks because everything exciting has been going on!!! Let's nutshell it all, and add some fun pictures even though I haven't had time to take any real ones.

• My dad got called to 2nd counselor in the bishopric... surprise!






Future dad?





• My dad is getting MARRIED! (finally) and we are so excited :o)



Wuv... twue wuv



• We got a membership to Gold's Gym so I can stop feeling like a lazy sack



Future me?





• We looked at houses every day for 2 weeks straight and decided on an adorable one in a subdivision called Thanksgiving Meadows in Lehi. It's not even built yet so we will move in probably in the fall... hooray!



Future house... there are no pictures yet

• We moved to Florida, moving was a small nightmare, but it's already summer time here and I love it

We literally had a storm last night that looked like this! It was so cool

Soooo much to write about and so little time. Our lives went from boring to exhausting/fabulous in like a day! So now here I am in Florida, working in the office, second day and still don't know what I'm doing. I can't wait to get the hang of things. And can't wait for some people to get out here and visit me!...