I have been married for one wonderful year!

Annie's Song -John Denver

You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest,
Like the mountains in springtime,
Like a walk in the rain,
Like a storm in the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean.
You fill up my senses,
Come fill me again.

Come let me love you,
Let me give my life to you,
Let me drown in your laughter,
Let me die in your arms.
Like a storm in the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean.
Come let me love you,
Come love me again.

I LOVE the lyrics, but not so much the voice singin'

Hello all!!
It has been two long months since I have written.
And its not because nothing has happened…
I have a new niece, which was born on Peachy Queen's birthday.
I have been camping up to the land of potatoes.
Two of my coworkers quit to go partying at Dixie College
I now have a new one! It’s been awhile since I have worked with a friend of the same faith :D
The Hubbie is back in school and now working part-time.
The puppy is adorable as always! She has recently begun her second heat though.
I have drastically chopped off my hair for the second time since I’ve gotten married.
A friend of mine says I can no longer switch my men, so I switch my hair :)

Sun Tunnels

In an abandoned town in a Utah desert lays a giant piece of artwork. It may come as a great unknown secret to some, but the artwork has been around for over 30 years.

The Sun Tunnels are set up to align with the summer and winter solstices, at these times the sun is centered exactly through the Sun Tunnels. Ten inch holes are cut into the concrete piping so that constellations can be seen through the holes at night. The holes align with four constellations-Perseus, Draco, Columbia and Capricorn.

Nancy Holt, the creator of the Sun Tunnels, constructed her artwork in 1976. Holt's late husband, Robert Smithson, is the creator of the Spiral Jetty located on the Great Salt Lake. The Spiral Jetty is made of mud, salt crystals and basalt rocks. It's shaped in a counter clockwise coil and lays 15 feet wide and 1500 feet long.

To view the Sun Tunnels, take I-80 west from Salt Lake City to Wendover to Oasis Nevada. Take Nevada #233 to Highway 30. Turn right at the first road, drive 5 miles to Lucin. Cross over the railroad tracks for two miles, turn left for two miles then turn right for about a mile. --Tina Brown

New Ride

As many of you know, Mr.McGee and I have been sharing our cute little Honda Civic named Elph for the last five months. Our schedules have recently changed and I must now stay at work an extra hour every evening. I have been doing my homework and finally found a decent car for us to call #2. I went to check it out, test drive it and give it the Terry inspection last night. We set a price and shoke hands. I am going to the elderly couples home tonight with McGee to swap a cashiers check with their title and a few signatures.
I am happy to have a nice new car. I would have preferred more time to look, but we got a good deal.

Specs: 2000 Nissan Altima GXE, 2.4-liter 4cyl engine, 5-spd manual, 104k miles, 4-dr sedan, power everything but seats, big trunk, no wrecks, oil change every 2k miles, CD player, bronzy-silver color, never smoked in, no stains, simply nice!

I go to pick it up now. Ta-tah!

We have decided to name her Mei-mei (Pronounced May-May). Which means Little Sister in Mandarin.

To a chipmunk who isnt:

We plan on coming Wednesday after I get off work if I can find your gift to us. We'll be visiting a store afterwards. So our visit will be shortened. I found you. Thanks for teaching me how to from kurticus. Cant wait to see you. I am glad I never dated you ;)

Updates on the Newsletter

Goodness. The day after the April Newsletter was due I cut my hair. I took off 6-8 inches. Its above my shoulders in a VERY cute A-line doo! Its easy to do and much better looking than ever before. My boss says its short and SASSY! I agree. Everyone has been complimenting me and my new look. Life is great!

Saturday Christopher and I were given a puppy. She is a Chihuahua! She is only six months old. She is white, and weighs 3.5 lbs and will only get to be 5 lbs. We have been trying out names the past few days and have yet to choose one. We got her for Free because her sweet owner, who is one of CMs high school friends, moved to a sm. apt and didnt want to pay $250 to keep her there. Chihuahuas are usually ~$600.00 so we are lucky we got her and all her toys, food, leash, carrier for free too! The BEST part is that she is litter trained! Crazy huh? I never heard of a puppy who uses a little box to go potty in before, but its wonderful!

Soon I will put up a picture okay!

Here are a few of the names we've been playing with:
Princess, Peanut, Little Sister, Muy Muy, Siu Long, Little Dragon, Pretty, Sweet Pea and many more. I shall let you know if we ever agree on one. Let me know which is YOUR favorite

I dont feel as unique as I thought I was:

There are 63,356 Girls in the United States with my FIRST name.

There are 25 Girls in the U.S. with my FULL MAIDEN name.

And 20 Girls in the U.S. with my FULL MARRIED name!!

http://www.howmanyofme.com/

We were bored, so we wrote a story for you

Morena: Once atop an hour, there was a boy of about ten years old, (we'll call him Tom) and while he was walking through a pond in the middle of a luscious forest, he suddenly heard a sound from behind him.

Mr. Locher: And he turned around, but he never saw anyone so he started to walk faster

Morena: ...he spashed through the shallow pond as he began to jog. The sound behind him was following quickly. He looked over his shoulder and could still see NOTHING!!! What was following him? The air itself seemed to be creating the dull, yet deep moan that was penetrating him to the core. Tom was scared. He felt like a tough little kid, he didnt think anything could scare him. Just this morning he had killed a HUGE probably-poisonous spider in his Uncles barn while milking cows. He even ran around with its dead body mangled and hanging limply from the stick he had stabbed it with.

It had been chilly the past week and finally today the sun was out and warming the fields and forest near the farm. He was so pleased with the weather that he decided to take a walk in the forest. The walk that might get him killed. He reached the other side of the pond and ran back into the density of the brush. Maybe he could lose what ever was
following him if he took many confusing turns....

Mr. Locher: he decided to go back where he first heard the sound, being an idiot and tired he decided to rest for a bit. Well while waiting and catching his breath, the Loch Ness Monster came and ended his life. He will be sadly missed.

Morena: "Hey!!! I liked him! Why did you have to kill him! Didnt you mean to write the Locher Ness Monster?"

Mr. Locher: so u caught the loch ness part hehe sorry its not my fault he decided to rest!

I am certainly surprised that anyone still checks this blog, but I am very happy that you do!!!

I got myself a raise last Friday; here is my story:
I work at UFCU and I love it. Mr.McGee came to my work after he was off work and told me that his employer was hiring a new receptionist. I would be paid a dollar more and I would be working in an awesome place, with many very nice people, including my sweet husband! I went over there and talked to everyone (many other friends work there too) and they all wanted me. The girl who was hiring offered me an interview that same day. There were SO many reasons why I wanted to leave here and go work just down the street....

...yet, I love my job here. I thought about it for many days and I finally told my manager about the opportunity I had been offered. I told him I would give my final decision the next day. That evening was rough as I tried to decide. I even wrote out a PROS and CONS list for both.
The next morning my manager called me into his office and told me how much he appreciates me and all my efforts. He said many very nice things. The best of which was that he would offer me a buck-fifty raise if I stayed. So I took the generous offer and I do not regret it.

The major draw that the other job had was the money anyways. Since I love what I am doing, and love the new pay, why go anywhere else now? My employers have been so good to us. I work less than a mile from home and I get all the silly holidays off!
I am so blessed!

I hope you are all having good luck with your jobs! I love you all!

Hello All!
Its been a very long time since I have talked to many of you and I miss you so very much.
I am doing wonderful. Married life is going smoothly. We loved conference and cant wait for next months Ensign to come out. The two of us went camping during Christophers spring break. We went out to the desert since it was snowing in the mountains. We had a great time and built a huge bonfire in the middle of the dugway valley!

I bought two dozen eggs and CM and I colored them for FHE last week. For Easter dinner we went to the Terrys. J and S and my sweet niece were all there. S is pregnant and its been fun now that she is feeling well. We had our annual Easter egg hunt. Even though we are all either old or too young, we still have loads of fun doing it.

My sister W and S just got back from New York where they have been for four months doing an internship. The whole family now has 'I love NY' shirts. They went to so many museums that they dont want to see one ever again :D

Work has been great at UFCU. No complaints at all. I will likely stay working here as long as I can, which could be at most four years. CM and I share a cute green Honda Civic. I bought it with my own money that I saved up before we got married! We are however looking for a second car, but we wont be needing it till the end of summer.

CM has only two weeks left till the semester is over!!! I am more excited than he, because he chose a schedule that kept him at school three nights a week and that was no fun. I would only get to see him for a few minutes on Tues,Wed and Thurs. During summer he is going to just take one class in the morning and work full time as a Physical Therapy Aid.
Well I had better go clock in and get back to work. Love you all!!!

Many years ago when I first began driving, I loved it so very much. The freedom. The world had finally been opened up to me. I loved driving so much that I would fill up my tank with my allowance money and drive all the way to Heber for a shake. I would even drive across the border to Wyoming in the summer, just to find a friendly park and read a favorite book under a tree. It was the ride there I loved the most. Knowing that my parents trusted me to be back by midnight. Knowing that if I needed them, I could call with my new cell phone. I could go wherever I wanted as long as my debit card had money.
I would turn up my stereo and listen to all my favorite songs over and over again. I would sing loudly and no one objected to my unpracticed voice. I loved driving through the canyons.

If only gas prices were lower I would do it all again!

I am sitting in my apartment staring at my husbands’ laptop. He is at SLCCs library doing lots of math homework that is due tonight. After that he has to work on his six page Chemistry assignment that is due on Thursday. Goodness they have started this year out tough.

I still work at UFCU as the head teller, I absolutely love it there. They gave me a second fifty-cent raise at the beginning of the year! They also hook me up with a two hundred dollar retention bonus every quarter.

I am currently sitting at a square card table which serves as our dining table. It has a folded twin-size sheet on it which is our tablecloth. We have cupboards but no countertop nor kitchen sink. Only three outlets work in the entire apartment. One has a space heater plugged in, the other is in the bathroom, and the final one takes turns charging our cell phones.

I have been making at least one good meal everyday. I made breakfast last week and made pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and I sliced a banana. On Sundays we have been going to eat with either the McGee parents or the Terry family. This means we have leftovers on Mondays. The other day I made a huge pot of shell noodles and put a whole jar of spaghetti sauce and tuna in it. He loved it! –Dang we are eating good for newlyweds. Especially because we still have lots of cake and cinnamon rolls left. Did you guys know that the cinnamon rolls that were at my reception were made by Kneaders? They are a super delicious bakery that everyone around Midvale loves.
Well I had better get some dishes done in the bathroom sink and then start some laundry. I’ll write again soon :)