NYC Pictures

Check out the NYC picture slideshow at this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30040669@N08/show/

Home Alone

Well, I am home alone...and I hate it. Sterling has been driving across the country since Friday and thankfully he arrived safe and sound monday afternoon. I think moving into Brandon and Becky's new apartment in NYC presented somewhat of a challenge. Ster and Bran did it ALL by themselves, although they were expecting help when they arrived, that help ditched them last second. It took several hours and Ster sounded sooooooo tired on the phone. I guess it is expected since he and Bran drove for the last three days all day like trailblazers. He is a good brother I think.
We got a new camara this last week. If you know Ster very well you know he is insanely talented when it comes to anything artistic. I am excited to see his pictures from his cross country trek. I am sure they won't disappoint. It looks like a nice camara to me, so nice in fact I am barely aloud to touch it! I do have a tendency to drop and break things so it is understandable.
I have loved watching the Olympics this last couple of weeks. It has really cut into my sleeping schedule, but it has made me feel so patriotic. Those athletes are seriously insane. I cannot even fathom the determination and sacrifices those athlets have made. I guess what I am trying to say is... GO USA. ha ha
Anyways, hopefully my next post will include some fun pics.

Adventures in Mennear Land

Well, I promise I tried to update my blog last week, but somehow everything i had done was deleted. I was upset and have been boycotting blogging since...until today. So, just an update on what we have been doing lately.
Two weeks ago we went to Redfish Lake with my family. Sterlings brothers both came with wife and girlfriend. It was so fun up there. We hiked, wakeboarded, skiied, laughed, and most importantly ate....a lot. Sterling went on a crazy hike with my insane hiker father. It was a 12 mile jaunt to the top of the highest peak in the Sawtooth Range. Sterling loved it, but he didn't have much food for the hike and it took all day so that added to the challenge.

I went back to another week of work after Redfish. Sterling also returned to work for a few days before we headed off to Bear Lake this last weekend. I haven't been there all that much, but it was so fun! Again we went with Sterling's brothers and wife and girlfriend. It was Becky's grandparents' place we stayed at there. Becky is Sterling's brother's wife (wow). We ate way too many rasberry milkshakes and laid on the beach and jet skiied. Another amazing weekend.

Sterling and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary over the weekend. It has been a fun/hard/exciting/learning/growing two years. I love that guy and have so much to learn from him! I hope we have 50 more anniversaries to celebrate together.

Sterling's three best friends have either moved, or are moving in the next month. Chad and Taylor, our very good friends left for Texas last week which was hard, but we are so excited for them! And both of Sterling's brothers are moving. I think this will be a hard time for both of us, escpeically him, because of all the changes. Becky and Brandon are moving to NYC for medical school and Wesley goes on his mission to El Salvador in the same week. Luckily Sterling is helping his brother drive/move across the country so Brandon and Sterling will have a lot of time together before they actually move. Sterling and I are also planning on going to NYC over thanksgiving.

We all go through these times of change in our lives. I remember moving from jr high to high school, and then the big one for me was high school to college. I felt like i was losing all my friends and realizing that things would never be the same again. Then when I moved from grand junction and stopped playing volleyball and left a lot of friends there in colorado, that was another huge change for me. This seems to be another one of those times, instead I have another person to face the changes with, who I will always have, so those changes will never seem so hard. But change is so good. It helps you to grow and learn to face new challenges and rely on eachother!

Another weird thing I am thinking about is the fact that I start my last semester of classroom school this fall. It is so weird to think that after 6 years of working so dilligently (summers included), I will finally earn a master's degree. I never dreamed that I would go this far in school, but it has really challenged me and helped me to love school and learning. I honestly will miss school (never thought I would say that either). I guess if I miss it too much i can live vicariously throuhg sterling whe will face another few years after I complete school.

Well enough with the sob stories and catch up, now go have a good day.

Winning Streak Continues

So, no worries, we won our softball game again tonight! That's two in a row. As I was standing on second base during the game, not paying attention, I realized that I LOVED being outside on summer nights, under the lights, enjoying beautiful weather, and playing a game I am terrible at with friends and sterling. (sorry run on sentence.)
I am terrible at softball for many reasons. One of them is that I am insanely afraid of the ball, (mostly stemming from childhood experiences). The other night during our game, again I was playing second base. "Hercules" got up to bat and decided to make a direct shot for my shin with a grounder. Did i mention I have terrible reflexes and couldn't get my glove to my shin in time? Needless to say I stopped it with my shin (adding to my fear of the ball), but I threw the guy out at first through my intense pain. Since that night two weeks ago I have not been able to feel anything in that two inch diameter place where the ball attacked my shin. It is so annoying.

Sterling is gone tonight working on an architecture work project. They say architects live under their desk, I hope this doesn't prove to be true when sterling is a REAL architect. He works hard which I definately appreciate.
I have had some great experiences working in the hospital this summer. People have some incredible stories to tell. Everyday I am amazed by people who have been all over the world, lived amazing lives, and here they are lying in a hospital bed because they got in a car accident, or have cancer, or their joints don't want to work anymore. It makes me so grateful for my health and makes me want to live each day as if it was my last.
So my word of advice, appreciate your body! They don't always work the way we expect them to.

For your Information

So I feel like I am speaking in church and about to introduce us, like you don't already know us, but I feel that is appropriate for this post. WELL, Sterling just finished football this last school year after four seasons (took a break for this thing we call a mission!). Sterling is an art major at Idaho State Univeristy and he is always creating amazing things. For example:

Sterling is working for an architecture firm this summer and he is really enjoying it. It is challenging but he is gaining some great experience. He continues to impress me day after day with all he does.

Sterling and I love summer because we get to be outside more. We really like to wakeboard and waterskii and just generally boat. Sterling is busy with other committments as well and he just works really hard at everything he does.

So I am also a student. I am studying occupational therapy. I am currently doing a rotation at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.I have to commute to Idaho Falls which is a pain, but I enjoy the people I work with and really enjoy what I am doing ( I hope I enjoy it because this program is costing us an arm and leg). I work 7 days on for about 11 hours and then I get 7 glorious days off and work with kids who have emotional and behavioral problems. I have one more semester of school, an internship and a professional project (thesis) and I am done.

We currently play softball for a city league team and it is really funny to watch. Prior to last night's game, you would think that sterling and I had never played sports in our whole lives by watching us. We always pop-flied out when we hit, and I couldn't catch a thing to save my life. Last night we redeemed ourselves a bit and actually got on base, and caught a few balls. WHOOO, now let's just make sure we can keep this up!

So, there you have it, that is us in a nutshell.

We're kinda new to this

So, here I am beginning the blogging world. I guess it is a good way to "journal" our life experiences, and check up on all our friends and family. Don't expect much from this, I am a terrible writer, I am not funny, and I definately do not tell good stories. So enjoy, laugh, cry, and keep in touch.