Living in Two Places

Well we have officially begun our move on December 4th which was also Jerold's birthday. We have so much stuff and have only moved half of it. I will begin juggling two homes starting this week, trying to get us settled.

I have officially completed my psychology class tonight and think I have done very well. So well that I think I will take a break and get ready to go back to school for my Master's Degree in Gerontology. Jerold will take his final tomorrow and will be done with school until January 3rd when he starts Weber State.

Last Night Movie Night - Day 5 going into Day 6

Not much packing got done yesterday but some organization of scrapbooking took place. But then I decided to start making my Christmas cards so that organization is, well all over the living room. But now everything has a home. LOL I am so excited to get my Christmas cards done and sent out. I think they are really cute and different!

Last night Jerold and I actually got to spend some time together so we rented Iron Man 2. It was good. I liked the first one much better but then I was so confused with this one at first and the whole thing with his father. So, I am going to watch Iron Man 1 again, then Iron Man 2. Then I should be good. I know, it is a Wendy thing I have had it all my life. LOL But it was really nice just being able to sit and spend time with Jerold and not be running all over the place.

Today, Jerold is at work, so I have lots of things in-store for me to do. I will have college football on, all day, especially to catch the sacred University of Utah TCU football game. GO UTES! But there will be some packing, making Christmas cards, quilting, and homework. Oh, and laundry. YUCK!

I guess I better get to it!

Should be Day 4 of packing

Okay, so it really should be Day 4 of packing but truth be told we have not done anything since Day 1 or should I say Night 1 of packing. I just look at everything and find something much more fun to do like: homework, Facebook, blogging, scrapbooking, quilting, and then from doing this I just plain don't feel well so it does not get done even at night.

Jerold is so busy with work and school I hardly get to see him and the cats really miss him. I guess this is what I get to look forward to when we move. Hopefully he will only be working one job instead of running all over the place and he will have a better schedule. One can hope :) His schedule on Tuesdays is get up go to school, go straight to work and then go right back to school. He gets to come home about 9:30 at night and eat dinner. On Mondays it is his lucky day because he gets out of work early and only has to do dry cleaning at night so that is our day for all my doctor appointments. Too much fun for him. But we know all this will pay off in the end.

November 2nd was a big day and I did not get to blog that day. I want to wish my Grandma Nisky a Happy Birthday! She was so lucky to have her birthday clouded by the elections. NOT!

Then we had the elections! It was great to be able to go out and vote and see the turn out to be so high this year, especially with it being a non-presidential election year. I must say I was pretty happy with the results and hope that with some of the power changes that our government can work together. We need a balance of power, not more from one side or the other but a harmony between the two. I think this election has moved us this way, now we will have to see and hopefully be involved if my health will let me.

Starting a new Project for our new Adventure: Day 1 of Packing

I thought it would be kind of fun to blog about me and Jerold's new adventure of moving to Ogden for him to go to school. We think it will be a great experience but we will miss our kids and grandkids a lot. We probably will drive to Gunnison as much as we did to Salt Lake. We are looking forward to this part of our life the part that we kind of did out of order, but don't regret one bit.

Well today starts the countdown before our apartment is ready to move into in Ogden. The apartment will be ready for us on December 1st. We may not be ready but it will. We are planning on doing a gradual move in so we can spend Christmas down in Gunnison and see our new granddaughter that is due at the same time. This evening I started taking pictures down and packing them up in boxes. It is so weird to see bare walls in places that had the kids' pictures up.

The apartment we are moving into will allow us to take our 5 cats. It has a small kitchen but has 2 bedrooms so we can have visitors. It is in a better part of Ogden and is like a block from campus if even that. We are right next to the Dee Event Center. We are going to be on the top floor so we don't have to worry about noise. Oh, yeah we also have a deck.

My Heaven on Earth

Oh, how I miss the snow! It seems to fall all around me but never very much in Gunnison. I always hear stories of how Gunnison used to get a lot snow but in the last 10 years I have not really seen it.

I miss the lake effect that Magna use to get. I remember the winters of 1982-83 I believe because of the floods of 1983 (I was only 8 or 9 then). We would help my mom shovel the snow after the plows would fill our driveway back up with snow. My dad would help us build a big snow ramp in our front yard for us to go sledding down. We would also go to Hunter park and go sledding down the big hill on the weekends. My mom would make us homemade hot chocolate. We would also build giant snowmen in our front yard. This tradition would continue throughout the years. We would also add the hills at our elementary school Lakeridge. It had steep hills and jumps, it was a riot. Now they have fenced it off so kids can't have the fun we did. We did this all through our teen years.

I had to have a boyfriend who liked the snow. They had to make snow angels, snowmen, have snowball fights, be willing to help shovel the basketball court with me to play ball or at least a game of H-O-R-S-E. My husband Jerold really does not like the cold but he does tolerate the snow for me. When we were dating I had him outside on a Christmas party at night with no winter coat or gloves and we were making snow angels and we also made a snowman. We were soaked. I didn't mind, those who don't know me, I never wear a coat and use to wear shorts and sandals in the snow (I was wearing shoes, socks, Levis and a long sleeve shirt so I was really dressed warm) but Jerold he was freezing but he married me anyways.

When my parents moved to Bountiful they still got the lake effect and they lived on the bench; it was my dream, more snow!!! After a big storm I will call and talk to my dad to see how much snow they have gotten. Then I mope because we have nothing here. If by chance we get more then a skiff of snow in Gunnison I am on the phone to my parents, my sister and my brother telling them the wonderful news.

My Heaven on Earth would be for me to have white fluffy snow surrounding me!!!

Eight Years of Marriage

This month also brought about eight years of marriage for Jerold and I. We were married on March 10, 2001 in Mesquite. We "eloped" and invited all our families and brought the kids. My best friend Heather was also there. It was the funnest day. Kira was my Maid of Honor, Adam and Whit were Jerold's Best Men, my niece McKenzie was my Flower Girl and Alexis was my honorary Flower Girl(she was quite not 2 years old). We were married by the Reverend Johnny B. Love (that was his real name).

We spent the night in our wedding attire eating at the Oasis Buffet (I ate BBQ ribs in my wedding dress and did not get a drop on me. That was a surprise to everyone), playing miniature golf with our kids and my brother, video games, and having a great time. We went to San Diego for our honeymoon.

Here is a picture of our family then:



And eight years later:



This photo also includes my brother Jason, my sister-in-law Angie, my parents Kevin and Dorothy and my father and mother-in-law Delmar and Shirley.

For our anniversary we went to my favorite Mexican restaurant in Salina called El Mexicano. It is soooo good. It is worth the almost 2 hour drive from Salt Lake to come and visit me to go eat there. We were going to go see "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in Gunnison but we did not want to rush dinner so we missed the movie. So seeing we were close to Richfield we called our son Whit to see what movie was playing there, it was not one we wanted to see. Well, I knew there was one in Ephraim, so we ended up driving all the way to Ephraim from Salina to see "Taken". But we had time to kill so we went to Paulie's Brain Freeze for an old fashion malt. They were yummy! Then off to the movies we went. The movie was great. I really recommend "Taken", it was full of action and it was suspenseful.

My Sister Tied The Knot!!!

I am so excited to say that my sister got married this month to a wonderful man named Jeff. They were married on March 7th. I think Jeff will make a great dad, well officially a great step-dad to McKenzie and Alexis.


She made such a beautiful bride and my niece McKenzie was a beautiful Maid of Honor and Alexis a cute Brides Maid, and Rebecca a darling flower girl. They are pictured here with my all my grandparents, my dad and mom, and me and my brother.


This is myside of the family. We are all here except my son Adam, his wife Nikkie and my grandaughter Erica.



The wedding cake.