Yard Work

I haven't updated in a while, so I am going to have a few posts to update my life in the last little while. We launched the new site at work at the end of May, and that has kind of taken over my life. I love the new site, but it has taken a lot of hands on work to get it going. You should check it out www.heraldextra.com. It is starting to calm down a little now.

For a lot of the summer, I have worked in the yard. It has been a lot of work, but I really do enjoy getting my hands dirty a little bit.


Love these irises. Though they are only
I love this old stump, so I planted some flowers in it. I think they are so cute!
There was a cute flower bed with bark in the front of the house, and I built it out so that it goes around the side too.
I rebuilt this brick path. Most of the bricks were broken, so I replaced them with ones that were not.
The orchard. I got this cute bench from Bonnie. I love it in that little corner. Shawn and I sit on it at night. The only problem is that the light back there is motion activated, and so one of us has to occasionally stand up so that i will turn back on.
I also planted a garden, and will take pictures soon. I have tomatoes, watermelon and cucumber plants. There are also apple, pear and plum trees, strawberries, grapes and blackberries.

What keeps me going day after day...

This is my drawer at work.... my hidden stash of ibuprofen and caffeine.

Now for Grad School!!

Shawn graduated from Utah Valley University on Friday with his Bachelor's of Science degree in Behavioral Science. We are so proud of him!!! Now on to grad school!

Processional Video.

Can you see him in the crowd of graduates??

President Monson was the commecement speaker. (I got these pictures from the Herald photographer :)

When Shawn was in the tunnel waiting for processional to start, President Uchdorf and his wife walked in. Shawn shook hands with his wife. She held Shawn's hand until she could put it in President Uchdorf's so Shawn could shake his hand too. It was pretty cool.

President Eyring and his wife were also there.

That night we had a party at our house to celebrate!

New Car

I am so behind on the blog. I thought I would update the tree on my car story. We ended up having $2500 in damage, and so we took the $2000 insurance check and traded the car in for $3000 and get a new car. It ended up working out pretty well. We ended up getting an '05 Nissan Altima.

Crappy morning.

I woke up this morning after a spring snowstorm. It was that heavy snow/rain. We ended up with quite a bit outside.

When I went outside to leave for work, there was a HUGE tree branch on my car. The heavy snow had broken it off and it landed on the top of my car. I went and woke Shawn up and told him that a tree branch fell on my car in the middle of the night. We had to call Brian to help us pull it off. It was so heavy.

We got an estimate on the car. $1200 in damages. Sucks. Could have been worse though. The really heavy end missed Shawn's car by about 3 inches.


One of the three dents on the top.

This is the branch after we pulled if off my car. IT is GIGANTIC!!!

Brian helping pull down a different branch that broke off.

These bushes are normally 10-12 feet tall. The snow pushed them down so they are shorter than me.

This poor little tree. When I came out it was smashed to the ground. I pulled the snow off. I will have to tie it to a post to see if I can get it to go back to normal.

Incredible

Last week Shawn had 2 students tell him he looks like Mr. Incredible. What do you think? (I picked a picture where Shawn was wearing red so that you can picture it a little better, though shawn is pretty sunburned in that pic.)

At least I have a good idea for a Halloween costume for next year!

Livin' in the 801

Shawn found this.... hysterical!!!