I am one lucky gal

although I am sitting here listening to the screaming and groaning of fictional halo characters being brutally murdered by my husband, I cannot help but smile.

yesterday I was having kind of an 'off' day.

chris left in the morning to san antonio (an hour + away)

and I woke up feeling alone and...well alone.

I love it here in austin but I miss my family in utah so bad!

and its just been an extremely adventurous but overwhelming month

moving all over and i was just feeling a bit worthless

and like I forgot how to do everything.

I ended up on the phone with my amazing mother who is always a best friend,

she reminds me that there is someone out there who

loves me and cares no matter what and to

go along and read my scriptures and pray before doing anything else.

I also got to hear my niece, Brooklyn, chatting.

"vacuum. nice...?"

oh, i miss those babies so bad!

It made me cry and smile at the same time.

so my mom sent me this photo of B..

I LOVE how because she has to open her mouth so huge

that her hand it trying to open big too. so cute.

I feel lucky to have an awesome family who is always a phone call away.

I wish I could 'zap' my self there so bad.

later in the day I made my favorite: german chocolate cake

yum!

as I was baking I received a text from chris that made me smile.

a couple minutes later noticed I was still staring at my phone day dreaming.

I was brought back to 16.

I feel the same way now that I did back then.

he sends me a sweet text and my whole body has butterflies.

I am so blessed with a hard working husband.

he's so good to me.

I feel lucky to have such a wonderful husband who loves me

no matter what.

(ice skating: winter 2005)

its raining here

i love rain storms.

i have been waiting for a good one since we got here.

now its pouring and i'm all alone

chris is working in san antonio today.

the thunder is SO LOUD!

utah never rains like this.

niagara falls.

riding the maid of the mist was pretty exciting!

I'm not going to lie...

once again Hollywood does make everything WAY cooler!

have you ever seen Bruce Almighty?? i was hoping to get way more wet, ya know when he has to go live and do a piece on the maid of the mist and gets soaking wet?? haha

It was still an awesome adventure..I was prob too busy taking pictures to 'soak' it all in. I tend to do that a lot..

well hello!!

Hi everyone! as you can see I changed my blog! yay

I have had a lot of changes lately...

last week of May..

became a massage therapist! woohoo!

these are the people I spent almost

every second of the last seven months with,

feels weird not be with them any more...they quickly become like family.

the same last week of May...

packed up our house and drove away to new york for the sumer.

Kuzko stayed in his first hotel on the way!

he was a bit nervous sometimes..

break in the middle of who knows where

We were staying in Buffalo this time.

actually, technically we were in a little town called

Cheektowaga-right outside of Buffalo.

view of niagara from US side looking at canada

**I'll put photos on another post of our Niagara Falls outing.

anywho, things didn't go as planned and/or promised

by the company chris was working for..

so we looked for other jobs and were blessed

by a very good full time (normal) job in

Austin, Texas. so...

the second week of June...

packed up again drove away to texas. yeehaw!

PEACE OUT SUMMER SALES!

we stayed with Chris' family

(whom we haven't seen since last year)

while we looked at what feels like

every single apartment in Austin for a few days.

eventually we found a place the three of us are very happy with.

so now we are just getting all settled

thank you to the local IKEA and Craigslist.

kuzko making himself cozy on our craigslist steal! I love our new couches!

we are excited to start making some moolah and

to have some new adventures!!

photos from summer of '09 in Austin