Rowling's Best Yet

I just finished the new harry potter book. Katie and I went to a late night party to buy it. I stayed up all last night and got to chapter 25 before I stopped. Then today after church I finished it. All I can say is that it was awesome. The creativity that book shows is just phenomenal. I have to stay quiet while Katie reads now but I look forward to discussing it with her. For those of you who want to read it, Be exited. For those who don't care, I understand. Really though, What a great piece of children's literature. How awesome it is that Rowling has succeeded in helping children feel the desire to read a 759 page book. I am impressed. I don't mean to sound obsessed because I am not. I am simply on a good book high. In other good news Katie and I are now Motel managers and as a result no longer have to pay rent. The job is easy going and we get to move in to our new home on August the 1st. We just check people in and out and that's pretty much it. You can hear guests enter from the comfort of our living room and we get payed to wait for them plus, (as is mentioned above) NO RENT! We have much to look forward to.

Friday the 13th!

We had a wonderful date on Friday the 13th, and quite fitting considering the day. We went out with our dear friends, Brian and Katie Wall, and our dear relatives, Brian and Tia, to Brazillian food. And then...for the holiday mood we went to see the new Harry Potter movie. It was fabulous, and we consider it to be the best movie by far. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and returned home happily from our date.

Summer Lovin'

This summer we have set some goals to save a bunch of money since we have finally gotten ourselves out of debt! One of our goals is to go to Oregon and have a ridiculously fun time exploring and hanging out with my family! The other is to create an emergency financial fund ... aka a savings account that actually has money in it, imagine that. So we're pretty darn excited. But because of these goals we both have two jobs and are trying to get a third and we're also going to school this summer. So life is a little crazy, but we're still having a blast. We hope to find a job in the late afternoon/evenings that we both can do, so we spend some time together. So that's pretty much it for now! Ciao, Katie

Life and Water at Sterwart Falls, Memorial Day

This morning we arose at 5:17 am to acquaint ourselves with nature. We drove up to Sundance and embarked on a 4 mile hike to see a nearby waterfall. Katie dared not to venture down to the river as I, and was rewarded with rest and a bit more cleanliness. I scurried around the rocks looking for something not yet seen by human eyes and only found myself in danger. I owe my current health to a little stick that preserved me from falling. The hike back was a bit more relaxed and we drove home praising ourselves for finishing an activity before we would have normally been awake. We think ourselves tough and in-touch with nature now as we nestle ourselves on a couch next to a computer, listening to music. We'll use our stoves, sleep in our beds, cook in our microwaves and occasionally visit the outdoors when school and work schedules allow. For now however, we are in touch and have been touched by the glorious feeling of sunrises, forest and waterfalls early in the morning. I should allow Katie to complete this...

Mostly it was really great to be outside again. While Brad was Mountain Goatin' it up I sat on the top of the world, looking down at beautiful mountains and the waterfall. I also found lots of caterpillar friends! Anyways, it was a blast to run around outside and get some great exercise in the great outdoors!

Katie's Explanation of Bumpsky-and-Brad

Through inspiration of my brother and his wife we have decided to also create a little blog for ourselves.
History: we met in the magical city of London, September 2005, where we had the time of our lives getting to become best friends. We were married nine months later in the Medford, Oregon temple after which we immediately moved to Roosevelt, Utah. That was the strangest experience either of us have had. Although we learned some good things we still can't quite laugh about the whole experience.
August of 2006 we moved back to civilization, also known as Provo, Utah. Not the most exciting place in the world, but it provides cheap education and good friends.

I am an Elementary Education major with a minor in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. It is seriously such a blast to be learning. Brad also loves school and together we love to have philosophical, social, and educational debates over the things we learn in class and personal study.

Although we love school we occasionally skip class and work to play together. There is not much else we love more than to hang out with each other, goof with the bees, and make each other laugh.

A few of our favorite memories together include:
*The fire pit we dug in our backyard in Roosevelt, followed by a delicious weeny roast.
*The Doves Concert
*Rafting down Flaming Gorge
*Finding the frozen newt in the parking lot
*Going to Mesa Verde
*Avoiding a high speed crash after leaving Santa Fe
*Home fries at the Horseman's Haven
*The Chowder Bowl and Beverly Beach
*The delicious pizza in Ashland, OR
*Finding Bodacious Dr.
*Isotope baseball game in Albuquerque, NM
*Skipping through puddles after the Art Brut concert in London
*Birthday present shopping
*Nickle Creek concert
*Vista House wind
*Guillotine the game

Anyways, we are mostly keeping this blog as a journal of our outings, but hope that you friends and family might also like to see what we've been up to.

much love,
Katie

Brad's beginning of what's been going on...

Between longings and constant wonders we have decided to do this in an attempt to find Solace through in-personal communitcation. We have chosen to remain silent only because of the ease, but wish for those we have associated with in the past and the present to know of our doings if they so desire. Whether this be a journal entry or just another thing we will start just to ignore, is for the future to decide. We will see what choices we make and if we can use the Blog to retain the activities with due respect and proper accounts. If Katie will allow her Feelings to not control and Brad keep his pestimistic meanderings to himself, the blog will remain neutral and offend no one, but will be a place of records and occurences within the lives of two very in-love humans. Are own past is full of foreign lands and the sorting of social upbringings. New Mexico Vs. Oregon has been a wonderfully thrilling competition with only few wins and alot of ties. We spend lots of time in intellectual pursuits. We know nothing as of yet and are working to gain some sort of valuable know-how so we can be paid for its use in the near future. Outside of all this we find oursleves expressing alot of gratitude to each other and appreciating our situation as it stands. Good luck figuring this out because it is just as confusing as most of our preferences.

Brad