July 1, 2007

Hello Family!

Well this week marks the completion of our first week done with school for the summer semester. We are both only taking one 3 hour class, so you wouldn’t think it would change our schedules too much, but of course it has. Christopher is determined to get an A and has been working really hard so far to achieve it. If he can keep it up he might actually pull it off. The only down side to him working so hard in his one class is he has no time to write a letter this week, so he handed to duty over to me.

We are very sorry we didn’t get a letter out last week, but to make up for it we will let y’all in on one thing we did. Last week ended with a wild trip to the Pleasant Grove Rodeo. We went with some friends of ours and surprisingly none of us had ever been to a rodeo before. It was better than it sounds. Once we got acclimated to the smell it started to be a lot of fun. I have to admit I was surprised at how fun it was. You wouldn’t think watching grown men hang on to a huge full grown bull in a smelly arena would be fun, but it is. If anyone has not gone to see a rodeo I would highly recommend it.

This week was a very long one for us. Between both work and school I didn’t think the weekend was ever going to come. But it finally did. On Friday I got out of work early and Christopher didn’t have to work at all, so we started our weekend off with a trip to the city pool. The best part of the pool was the two huge water slides. Utah has been having 100 degree weather this past week, so the dip in the pool was very refreshing.

Friday night Christopher and I packed up and headed down the road to Spanish Fork Canyon. We were accompanied by two other couples in our ward. The six of us found a camping spot, grilled some dinner, hiked to the hot springs, and ate s’mores around the camp fire. It was a long night. The hike to the hot springs is about 2 and half miles. It definitely took a toll on my body. In the end though it was a lot of fun and my back did not even hurt the next day from sleeping on the ground. Now I call that an accomplishment.

Saturday, once we got back from the canyon we started out trying to accomplish everything on our list to get done. Since our weeks are so busy with school and work we save every little errand for Saturday. Last week we got the brakes fixed on Cougar. This week we had to get one of the studs fixed on the front right tire. Just like many other occasions when a person takes their car in to get fixed another thing breaks. Christopher is convinced that Les Schwab broke it, but of course there is no convincing them of that. The best part of the whole experience was driving away from Les Schwab and realizing that in the process of fixing the stud they ruined the bearings. So next week will start with a third trip to Les Schwab to try and get our bearings fixed. This one though they will pay for, so that will be nice.

The up side to waiting for our car to get fixed was Christopher’s discovery of car washing supplies at Shop Co. We left the store with three brushes, a bucket, and car wash concentrate. I have never seen Christopher so happy. Our apartment has a hose with a sprayer attachment on the side of the building, so Christopher spent Saturday night washing Cougar. I think as a result now Cougar will get cleaned about twice a week.

This week Christopher and I proudly spent all the rest of our gift certificate money to Bed Bath and Beyond. We got two pillows for the couch, a throw blanket, a cheese slicer, and two picture frames. We can now hang up The Family Proclamation and our marriage certificate we got from the temple. Everything looks great in our new apartment.

Today we went on a picnic for lunch up the Provo Canyon and went to Boyd and Tamela’s for dinner. We grilled burgers for lunch and ate tacos for dinner. We ended the evening by playing spoons. I am proud to announce that I won!!! It was a proud moment.

We had a long and busy week and are looking forward to another one. At the end of this week the Henderson’s will join us for a trip to Grand Junction and Vernal. We can’t wait to see and spend some time with them. It should be a lot of fun.

We love you all very much and are so grateful for all y’all do for us.

Love
Hannah and Christopher