A Monologue

From 5th to 8th grade I was a crafty little thing. I enjoyed making endless amounts of wooden door hangers, cross stitching animals and cute, homey phrases like "A Clean Home is a Happy Home", and ceramic Christmas ornaments. As soon as I started 9th grade, however, I abandonded my embarrassing, homemaker ways and started reading fashion magazines and hanging out at the mall all day.

I am pleased to announce that my craftiness has returned - I have now abandoned Banana Republic and I have learned how to sew (kind of). My first project is the red and cream striped shirt in the pictures at the bottom of the page. Since then I have made an apron, a skirt, and a wrap-dress that is one size too big because I didn't know that each patterns run in sizes.

I would like to thank my husband for telling me that everything I make (and do, in general) is amazing even when it is not wearable, my mother for buying me a sewing machine and my grandmother for giving me some of her old material and patterns. (I am also grateful to flickr for providing these pictures via the web so no one can see my projects close up, thus my flaws are not quite as visible.)

Here are some photos of the projects:







In other and more interesting news, Jared and I turned into the kind of weird people that wait in line to go to a movie for hours even though we know that if we waited a week we could enjoy the same show but in an emtpy theater without the wait. We went to see the new Harry Potter at the IMAX theater. It was worth the wait and staying up way past our bedtime. I'm not a Harry Potter maniac or anything but it really was so great.

Also, we had a BBQ the other night and it was a delight and we plan on having another one in the near future. Things like BBQs used to make for an average night for us, however, since we have now reached "adulthood" they are a rarity and we view it as a special occassion.







There you have it! We love and miss everyone!

Decisions

It seems like everyday lately we have had to make some new, big, life-altering decision. We have decided to go back to Provo until our house sells which excites us because we love Provo so much and disappoints us because we were looking forward to being on campus at GWC. Not to mention we really need the money that it would give us.

Now since we will already be in Provo we are thinking that maybe I should finish my degree at UVSC but I don't think that will happen. I already have one worthless degree from there, I don't want another. The decisions we are making now concerning my education will determine if I will be equipped or not to teach our kids or make a difference in the world. I have sucked UVSC dry of any wisdom it has and it is time to move on. However, if God tells me to go back I suppose I will.

We have been enjoying ourselves in Colorado. Jared doesn't work very much now because there isn't much work, unfortunately, but we have so much fun being together that we secretely don't care.

Last night we went to this adorable little town called Manitou Springs with Jefferson, Abigail, Doug and Olivia. It is by Garden of the Gods which is in the picture from our previous post. We ate on the patio of a little restaurant and then bought ice cream from an ice cream shop down the street. The night air was perfect and everything seemed light and fun, like all of our old summer nights used to feel. Life is so much more complicated now that I am married but so, so, so much better. I don't know how I ever lived without Jared.

Here are some pics of our night in Manitou:



These are a lot of pictures that look like the same picture.