The Luck O' The Irish!

Jon favored me with a little Irish jig for St Patrick's Day and I thought I would share with all of you:


He's such a good sport!

I know it's short. We thought it would be best if we left him with a little dignity. ;)



We hope everyone had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!!

A Dream Come True!

It's finally happened! After 4 years of studying photography and one year after graduating in it, I finally have a nice camera!!!!



Presenting our Nikon D5100 !!! (Isn't she beautiful???)



This has been a long time coming, and it's so weird that it is finally here but it's just wonderful! I take this little beauty with me everywhere I go and I love it! Jon and I think it's worth every penny. We also bought a telephoto lens for it too! We only got the camera and lenses a couple days ago, but here a few shots we got while wandering around the Riverwoods mall that night.
















I know it's not much yet, plus I am more of a portrait photographer anyway, but there you go. Wanna hear something even cooler?? It has an hd video recorder on it! Here is a video we took with it of our adorable nephew, Britian, trying to jump...

A story of sorts..... by JON!!!

Yes! It is I!!! This is my first official post! And to celebrate this most festive occasion Caitlyn has given me pictures to post with it! So I'll post them and comment in a very original way. We'll see how it goes tell us what you think.

And there was great peace in the land Provo until the eve of March the thirteenth. For it came to pass that Jonathan was troubled and felt there must needs be a date of great courage and valor. So it came to pass that Jonathan went and departed with his wife Caitlyn to see the great Caesar and pleaded for merriment. Caesar looked kindly at the couple and awarded them with food and beverage and there was much rejoicing.



Therefore Jonathan and his wife Caitlyn also met their friends the duck family at wilderness park and shared their food with them. The semi-ungrateful ducks stood off in the distance momentarily while the couple were close, so the couple kept their distance and let the ducks partake of the food that was brought for them after some patience.



And thus Caitlyn and Jonathan continued their journey down the path by the Provo river. But lo and behold, the ducks were displeased with their departure and formed a band of mercenaries that tried their best efforts to block the couple from continuing their journey. The mightiest one named Hercule shouted, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!"


Fortunately, the couple went on in their journey past the duck barricade. And as luck would permit, Caitlyn and Jonathan ran into their duckie friends, Fred, George, and Bob. They were camera shy though and went fleeing as soon as we got out the camera. So the couple journeyed on. And it was thus said of the couple that they found a swing in the forest. It was made of fine rope and a grand seat. The couple both tried the swing and agreed the workmanship was fine.

Isn't she such a cutie?

And I can still jump out of the swing

As Jonathan and Caitlyn continued their journey. The adventurers upon the path came upon a band of kids on a trampoline who termed Jon as the "tall guy." And more so these children felt as if they had superpowers and we could not hear them talking about us since we were on the path and even talked more when we walked back down the trail. But our journey continued. And it came to pass that Jonathan and Catilyn met up with friendly dogs, though Jonathan kept his distance due to his big dog phobia.

And lo, when the trip looked as if it would continue, Caitlyn said she needed to pee and thus we turned back down the trail. The journey back had scenic views of the river though, here are some.

So nice outside

And it came to pass as the adventurers journeyed back, the couple bumped into our friends Fred and George, but not Bob this time and they all wondered in awe where he could have wandered off too. But it came to pass that the couple caught up with Bob later with his wife! The meeting was so exciting that they needed to take pictures with the cute couple! It was as if feeling like a big family after meeting up with them.

Good ole' Fred and George

Bob and his Wife!

And thus concluded the adventure for today, Caitlyn and Jonathan went home and rested. Till next time.

Getting back to normal

For the last 2 weeks I have have been sick with a bad cold/sinus infection that were so bad I had to leave work early one day. That is something that can rarely happen at my job because our department is so small during the fall and winter that we HAVE to get someone to work for us if we can't go to work. Even if you are sick. And lets face it, it's pretty much impossible to get people to work for you. So I felt lucky that day. But then for the rest of the week I spent a lot of time in bed, if I wasn't at work, which got pretty boring, especially while Jon was gone at work (and by the way, if you have three adorably perfect nephews, don't get sick or you won't be able to play with them).

Anyway, when Jon got home he would help stop the boredom by talking with me, watching movies with me, reading my book to me (which must have been incredibly boring for him) and getting tissues and medicine for me.


He even made me chicken noodle soup

And played games with me!



He is pretty much the sweetest husband ever! But since I didn't want him to catch whatever I had, I made sure he drank lots of this.....



And used lots of this.....




My mama was also super sweet and brought dinner over on Sunday night. And she let me borrow her diffuser and oils!


I went through 3 boxes of Tissue, and got lots of medicine from the doctor, and spent lots of time in bed, but I'm starting to feel a ton better. Sorry this post is kind of boring, but that's been my past 2 weeks. Ha ha.

Now that I'm pretty much better, things are starting to get back to normal. Jon spends as much time as he can studying for the GRE which he is planning on taking in May.




Currently he is memorizing lots of words. He has made a ton of flash cards and I test him on them when I am home.




And on a random note, my work got an awesome new time clock. Instead of sliding your card to clock in and clock out, we now get to clock in and clock out with a time clock that reads your fingerprint to identify you! Its so neat every time I come and press my finger on the clock and it beeps, says my name on the screen, and then says "Thank you."


I feel like an FBI Agent. :)