Happenings of our lives

June was a really busy month. The church history tour was the first church event in June. Friday we had to meet at 11:30a to drive to Kansas City. We knew that I was going to be driving a lot so we decided that I would drive the newer car and Jordan would drive the old car to work.

So, Jordan left for work and I was packing at home when I got a phone call from Jordan saying that the car broke down on the freeway (this was the second time in two weeks that this had happened). So I start driving to pick him up and eventually picked him up and took him to work. We left the Mercury in the Sam’s Club parking lot. It got towed to the mechanic that day and I went back home and packed for the Church History Tour.

Jordan here for a quick post.  Just wanted to put a call out there for everyone to ban BP oil.  Show your anger for the stupidness of BP with your spending dollars and drive them out of this country!  Also, “AmPm”, “Aral”, “Arco”, “Castrol” and “Wild Bean Cafe” are owned by BP and should also be banned!  Seriously, no one go to a BP gas station and get gas or at any of the places above.  This is the worst environmental disaster and all their CEO has to say for himself is he wants his life back and that the largest disaster in history will be “modest”.

Wow, sorry it has been so long since we posted last.  We’ve really slacked off.  Tons has happened.  Both of use are going to try to catch up on everything.

Well, on Feb 15, 2010, we bought a new car!  Emily has had a really long commute because she has had to drop me off at work, go to work, go home (because she works half days), then come pick me up at the end of the day.  So it’s nice to have two cars.  We got a 2010 Toyota Corolla, it had 6 miles on it when we test drove it.  Now that it’s the end of March, we still love the car (and have already put 2300+ miles on it).

Just a side note, I get to see cows every day on my way to work, and I love it. Also, I love cows. You might wonder why. Well, cows pretty much have the best life, they get to eat all day and pretty much don’t do anything else. I also like that they make cheese and milk. I love cheese too. Anyway, you might wonder what this has to do with the pictures. Our stake puts on a big nativity every year, and they also have a live nativity. Guess what they have at the live nativity, a CALF!!! I saw the calf when we were going into the church building, and I had to get a picture with it before we left. I was so happy, it let me pet it and it was so cute.

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The other pictures were of me experimenting taking a picture in an ornament. I thought they were pretty funny.

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Well, as I have said before, there are a lot of weird bugs here in Missouri, but there are the normal ones too. I mow the lawn when Jordan’s at work and some weird bugs pop out of the grass when I mow the lawn (occasionally a frog does too).

Here’s a picture of a really green grasshopper and a lady bug. I’m glad the weird bugs are gone until next summer.

I told Jordan that I didn’t think anyone read our blog anymore, so I didn’t think it was important to post. He told me that people do read and that they like to look at pictures. So, this week I’m going to try and write more, because even if people don’t read it is still important to Jordan.

Well, it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted, but I’m going to try and recap on all the things that have been going on in our lives since the middle of July. We wanted to try and to all of our favorite things and visit our favorite people before we left Utah. So, the next couple of posts will be about that.

Well, we have officially moved into our new apartment in Springfield Missouri. We’ve (mostly Emily) have been unpacking since Thursday. We really like our new apartment but are still excited to buy a house. I start my new job on Monday which I’m really excited about that. We’ll have some pictures up later; we have lots!

Well, Emily didn’t post about our new camera so I will. We got the Canon SX200IS. It’s their line of cameras that are in between SLR’s and point and shoots. We love it. We test drove it this weekend on the White Rim Trail (post to follow with pictures) and it did such a good job. We also bought a tripod from REI for real cheap that we like as well. We’d recommend the camera to anyone looking for HD video and great picture quality but not quite ready to make the jump to an enormous SLR camera.

Our camera broke this weekend. We’re so sad, we love taking pictures and that’s kind of hard to do without a camera. What was so funny is that it broke right after I was telling Justin and Julie (Jordan’s brother and sister-in-law) how much I wanted to buy a new camera (an SLR). I took it apart Sunday and tried to fix it (I’ve had pretty good luck in the past with this). Well, after several hours of trying to diagnose the problem I figured out that the gears that bring the lens back in to the camera don’t turn anymore. So, we decided to get a new one. We’ll post more about it on Wednesday when we get it.