Moving On

Wow... I think I'm down right terrible at being overly consistent with my posting!

Obviously much has changed since I posted over a year ago! I have recently graduated and moved from being a clerk at the bookstore to an assistant manager and now to a career in my field! I love the work I'm doing now! I hadn't realized how much I'd missed being able to delve in and design a working application. There's something about being able to create something that other people can use and enjoy that's down right satisfying. Well That's pretty much the bulk of the changes. I'll have to be more diligent about posting!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Honeymoon'n it up! FINALLY!!!

So to say it has been a long time since I last updated would be a severe understatement. However I'm happy to report that so many wonderful things have happened in that time. Most important would definitely be the fact that I'm now a married man and loving it completely! :) Also I received a promotion at a job I returned to in December. I'm now an assistant manager at Rebelbooks. It's so much fun and I really love working with the staff there. And of course there's our honeymoon which we were just able to go on which is one of the main reasons for this post and update.

Thanks to a fabulous tax return from the government Shari and I got our honeymoon 6 months after the fact. Better late than never! We ended up having so much fun it was extremely difficult to return to reality. Our adventure started out at 2:00am on Monday the 21st of June 2010. We headed off for LA so as to economize on the tickets we had for the parks. We arrived not too long after the park opened and hit up Space Mountain first thing. I think we even did it twice while the lines were short if I remember correctly. We made good use of the fast passes to get as many rides in as possible. Mid day we left the park for a few hours to find ourselves some food and to get checked into the hotel, Ayres Inn. Then it was back to the park for more action.

This trend continued for the next three days. We enjoyed many different sights and experiences such as new rides like California's Screaming', Soarin', Grizzly Rapids, and several shows. We also saw Disney's Firework Show, Parade, and Fantasmic (<-- AWEsome!). We rode a million rides (probably in part thanks to our cute little "Just Married" buttons we got the first day). And of course there was the food: corn dogs, mickey mouse ice cream, churros, and citrus chicken. :)

Oh! I almost forgot to mention that for the first time ever in an amusement park I got rejected. I was told that I couldn't ride the ride because I was too TALL!!! Yup too tall... I've heard of people being too short but not being too tall to ride a ride. The bar wouldn't go over my knees far enough so they sent us away. However, we did get a free pass so that we could get on any ride we wanted (almost) without having to wait in line! It was way worth the time spent in the failed ride!

Overall it was a blast. We'll definitely have been left wanting to plan trips to explore places and make many more memories for ourselves and hopefully our family too! :)

Excitement's in the air

Well not too much has happened since the last update. But a lot is about to happen! :) Shari will be moving to town tomorrow! It's going to be so wonderful to not have to say goodbye for such long periods of time! We're also going to be going to a wedding and to Pennsylvania during the next two weeks. We might have a trip to St. George and/or Beatty in there too! :)

As for now I'm just working and getting everything ready for school to start. I might sign up for a 5th class though I haven't for certain decided yet. I just finished reading Leviticus in my scripture study. Now on to Numbers... oh yay... I'll just have to keep reminding myself that it's only 36 chapters! HAHA

I'm an engaged man!!! :)

Well... The fourth of July weekend 2009 will always be a very special day for me! :) It was this weekend that I asked Shari to marry me! :) Things are up in the air at the moment as to when but we know we're getting married! :) I put the ring on her finger and everything! I was so excited!

So she thinks I should say how I did it. Well... I'd thought of a lot of things that I could have done. But in the end it ended up being a last minute decision to do it before she left so I wasn't able to do any of those things. She and I were cuddling near where her ring was stashed. So I reached over to grab it then pulled it out and showed her. Then while holding her I popped the question. She said yes! :) It wasn't much of a proposal but it was SO nice to be able to just hold her while we became engaged! :) We went out to eat at Chevy's after that. July 6th, 2009...

The rest of the weekend was great to of course... but how can it compete with that. Shari came down for the weekend to visit and we went out to Beatty to stay with my family. We didn't do everything we'd planned to do on the Fourth of July but still got to have a wonderful time together. We visited Rhyolite and watched the fireworks while drinking super yummy slush... oh yes... and there was cuddling involved... :) We got a little swim time and some hiking time in too. Shari saved my life... hehehe. I almost plummeted to my death at one point in our hike. Ok. not really. But it sounds cool that way. I would have been very badly beaten up by the end of the fall though. :) Thanks for saving me all that pain baby! :)

Well that was our weekend! :) Hope all of you are well too! :)

Has boldly gone where no man has gone before... sorta... :)

Well, the realization came to me today that this month I attended a different ward every Sunday of the month. At the beginning of the month I went home to Beatty for a week. So my first Sunday was spent there. However, I didnt attend the Beatty branch because my mom and sister went to the Durango ward here in town so I went with them. :)

Then came the really fun part! I went to Idaho! I bought plane tickets for that trip a month ago or so and it was so much fun! I went to see my girlfriend, Shari, who's going to school there at BYU-Idaho. We ate out and just visited the first night I was there. Then the next day we went to Yellow-Stone! I'd never been there before. It was quite enjoyable. So much beauty! Not to mention that the company was so cute! :) hehehe. That night we made pizza with another couple and watched "Bridal Wars." Sunday was church as usual at her ward. Then monday we hung out and toured campus and enjoyed our last few hours together. And I got to try Bajios! :) I broke down and cried though when I had to leave her at the air port! It was so hard! I was so lonely!

BUT!, She got to come down to St. George the next weekend to visit for a couple days while my family was all gathered there! That was so awesome and made it a lot easier to handle the time we're separated! That was a crazy but fun trip! There was a total of 22 of us all together... 10 very rambunctious kids and lots and lots and lots of people over all! It seemed like most of the time was spent getting the next meal together! HAHA But it was good to be able to see everyone. It was almost a family renunion. We were just missing our oldest sister who wasn't able to make it up. It was very nice to be able to introduce Shari to them all! And the best part is that they all really liked her! They did say however that I stole her away too much! HAHA... ;)

And now I'm back to Vegas... working and saving and waiting anxiously for the 2nd of July to come so I can see Shari again! :)

Just a thought

I need to update you all on my trip to Idaho, St. George and so forth... especially before the 4th when I have Shari down in Beatty... I'll have lots to write about then... Maybe I'll do it later today. But for now I had a thought when I was studying my scriptures.

I found it interesting, and perhaps this isn't the way it was supposed to be taken, but I noticed that all of the sacrifices (I'm currently reading in Leviticus) that the Jews were required to do were made with resources that were renewable. Thus they would never be asked to make a sacrifice that they couldn't make. They'd always be able to access something that was acceptable to be able to make the sacrifice. I think the same is true of us. The lord will never expect us to make a sacrifice that we can't accomplish! It may be hard. We may have to stretch. But we can do it!

I've been studying the scriptures again... :)

So I wasn't originally intending this to be a boiling pot for my scripture study inspirations but I'm reading the Old Testament for the first time from cover to cover and there seems to be a lot of scriptures jumping out at me that I really enjoy and want to share. This is the only book of scripture that I have not read cover to cover yet so I'm excited! Today's insight comes from Exodus 16:3

3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the ^aflesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with ^bhunger.

A couple things stood out to me. One was that instead of trusting that he would provide as he had done so far, the children of Israel decided to murmur and complain instead. I can definitely see this in myself at times. How better it would have been if they had instead said, "Lord, we're hungry, we have no way to provide for ourselves, and we know that thou art watching over us. Please provide a way for us to be able to feed ourselves." The result most definitely would have been the same with the providing of manna and quail. But it's so easy to forget to ask the Lord for help and to just complain instead. The second thought that struck me was the fact that the Lord didn't rebuke them for complaining. He simply provided. I think it's a perfect example of his patience with us and willingness to teach us to trust him before expecting it.