~Happy Birthday, Mom~
I miss you more every day

Pennsylvania 10/01/08-10/07/08

We went back to Pennsylvania for Jared's sister's wedding! It's always fun going back east to visit with Jared's family. Especially for such a happy occasion! Best wishes to Steve and Laura!

While we were in the area we went with some of the family to see the Gettysburg sites.

One of the Natural Wonders of the World is in Virginia. We took a day trip out to see The Natural Bridge. It's a geological formation where a creek has carved out a gorge in the limestone, forming a 215 ft high by 90 ft wide arch! There's an actual highway that crosses the naturally made bridge. Thousands of visitors have come to see it over the years. Many carved their names into the limestone. The rumors has it that the initials G.W that we saw there was actually done by George Washington before he became president. I also saw a carving with the year 1855 next to it! (Those little dots at the bottom of the picture above are people!)

Big "thank you"s to Jared's sister Beth and her husband Cardell for letting us crash at their house during our stay in PA, to Jared's parents for your hospitality and for keeping us well fed, Jared's brother Chris for getting us to and from the airport it one peice, to everyone that came with us on our day trips, and to Laura and Steve for getting married so we could come and visit! = ) We love spending time with all of you!

(Flying in to Utah)

Also to be mentioned...

9/19/08 Big thanks to the Lish's for the fun time up the canyon. The cobbler was deLISH, and thanks for letting Jared win Ticket to Ride. Some how when Jared wins it's easy to pretend I won.

9/29/08 And thanks to the Erkelens for the fun boating night. It was nice to relax on the water and watch Jeff tear it up wake surfing!

9/15/08-9/27/08

I know, I know. I'm way over due. I'll do my best to update you of the last month with out making you read for an hour.

On 9/15/08 I started a new job. It was at Novacoast who is a partner company of Novell's and in that same plaza. I say "was" because I didn't like it and quit on 09/30/08! I should have never taken the job to begin with. It was less money than I wanted, doing work I didn't want to do, and it just felt like a big step backwards for me. (I'll update you on what I'm doing now a little further down.)

9/22/08 My niece Lindsay and her husband, Michael, are back from Alaska. We had a European dinner night with them and nephew Ryan & Ashley, and VeNicia. Lindz served a mission in Poland, and has a Polish cookbook. That's what inspired the whole idea. Jared had his heart set on making Borscht. So that's what we made. I guess it was good for what it was, but I didn't like what it was. Beet soup. Ew.

Lindsay makes it look good though, doesn't she?

We ate yummy home made Perogies, a Greek salad, and yummy Italian dipping bread. Mmmm! We moved to the Hibberts for bunt cake, and to play Rock Band. Always a good time.

FYI: if you take funny pictures of yourself with my camera while I'm not looking, they'll most likely end up on my blog for the whole world to see. (That's right. The whole world follows my blog.)

9/27/08 VeNicia, Lindsey, and Jenn joined me for a craft day at my house! = ) (Thanks again for coming!) Jenn and I worked on these cute fabric pumpkins. Lindsey worked a little creative scrapbook she's putting together. And busy VeNicia graded school papers. (I tricked her in to starting a pumpkin before she left though. Muhahahaha!) It always takes me several times longer to do a project than I think it's going to. I spent all day on the little pumpkin, and finished the rest later. It was nice spending time with everyone, we had a lot of fun!