South Carolina, we made it!

Well we made it! Here is a view of the land and about where we live. We are only 6 miles from the airport so really this is about it. 

It seemed like every plane we got on got smaller and smaller. Yeah there were only 2 seats on our side and one on the other side. 
We were getting bored, but we wanted to document the beginning of our trip!
Before we left we stopped at my Aunt and Uncle's house. That day their daughter Emma had brought home their class assignment of re-creating the farmer and his wife picture that most are familliar with. However, they were supposed to turn it into an Easter style picture. I think my favorite is the carrot ears. 
This is Emma. Yes, we all decided the picture was a little disturbing, but yet creative. 
We took miss jenny with us to the storage unit. She now is gaurding the unit. We figure if someone tries to steal all of our stuff, then they deserve to pee their pants in fear. 
This is what our trunk looked like before we shipped it out here. It was totally full. Oh and yes of course when we got here the car had to be jumped. Isn't that awsome. 
We got a good deal because they ran out of smaller units so ours was huge. We may consider moving in. Our friends Heather and Will came to help us out. That is Will in the background.
The last day of work we had some fun with the camera. This is one of my jobs to take the C-section biohazard cart down to the processing center. I get to go in the operating room to retrieve it and mop up a little. So obviously I get to dress up a little. 
This is Heather. She and I worked on the Labor and Delivery floor together. We had a whole heap of fun playing with color. 

Moving

We have decided to move. Jack has an oportunity to work with a mission buddy/ies selling security systems this summer. So in about two weeks we leave for South Carolina. The company is shipping our car out for us and then flying us out there. We are pretty excited to move, live in the south, have a change. But no worries we will be back, and we will keep you updated on our happenings!

Trying to keep up

Seems like everything gets so busy at the end of the semester, even if you aren't in school. For Jack and I, well Jack describes it as "Friday I will have a life again." This is only partially true for he still has finals at the end of the month, but whatever. 

First of all, I took a picture of a picture so I could post to all the world that Becca did in fact reach her goal for the wedding jumping picture! Not only that but she looks really good doing it!  

We had a chance to go to Jack's mission reunion. It was pretty entertaining. We met some unique people. The mission pres. wife spoke which was pretty good. 

We also had a chance to use our mini-slider from Mary and Braxton. Because it was such a unique gift we felt like it deserved a spot on the blog. It was so fun, and it came with recipies. The slider is a stove top mini-hamburger maker. SO COOL!

A few weeks ago my Grandpa Rice passed away. He was buried here near Logan so my family spent some time here for a few days. Here are a few highlights. Here is a link to the rest of them if anyone would like to have some.

Mostly I just wanted to post about how we got to the cemetery as they were digging the grave. I have never seen that so I tried to capture a few shots to share. I think the guys working were a little confused, the one looked like we had just driven by like he  was some safari atraction. Really, it was kind of like that. 

That's it! until next time!

Lauretta '09

I finished most of the general editing of Lauretta's pictures. I am embarrassed because it took so long. However, all those that would like to see her beautiful face over 100 times click here!

Being a cowgirl

When Jack and I first kissed he took me out on a sunrise horse back ride. It was very romantic and memorable. However, not many people know some of the un-romanticness of the experience. There were many, but I want to talk about one. 

He tried to kiss me on the horse, but the horse kept jumping around so we had to wait to get off. Well standing next to the horse it stepped on my foot. It hurt a lot because I was wearing converse type shoes and I may as well have been barefoot; I had no protection. 

For our wedding, I got these boots so I can develop my cowgirl skills. I am so excited about them. I wore them to the athlete center to tutor with my pink shirt. Even though my pants cover up the pink I still felt pretty dang cute. 

I thought about green ones and just plain brown ones. I figure these are more my style, and to be honest the pinkness about them makes being allergic to horses unimportant. 

My first week of being Married!

I am a married woman now. Here is a small capture of a few events that transpired over my first week of marriage. First of all Jack and I have spent countless min. calling eachother husband and wife, just to let it all sink in. Well our first activity being husband and wife was to go shopping for things that we needed....
We did treat ourselves to an awsome dinner on our honeymoon that had a shrimp cocktail, litterally.

I got to sign for the check as Amanda McKie for the first time, here is how I did
No we did NOT leave just an .18 tip. We had a gift card, gave the extra in the tip and left our own on the table. I did feel I had to justify that so we focus on the new name, not anything else in the picture.

We also arrived in Logan moments after the foot and a half drop of snow settled onto the ground. so we had to shovel our way to the garage because the car couldn't drive through massive amounts of snow. We would have parked it in the street, but Logan has a law that you can't durring the winter so the plows are sure to get through. So we made it in the house around 2 am.


We got an awsome Kitchen Aid from Jack's grandparents. So after our first trip to the temple as married people we made some pizza together. I did the dough. 
and sprinkled some cheese....
Jack prepared the toppings and set up an excelent dining area.

Our pizza and uh...breadsticks turned out great. We've decided that this would become a regular activity.
I had to work while Jack was on spring break. So I would come home for a nap. Jack was nice enough to make sure that I was comfortable. 
For our one week anniversary Jack made shrimp, lobstertail and fet. alfredo with french bread for me to come home to and enjoy. It was an awsome treat! 

Tribute To Heidi

So before anything else is said, I do need to give some credit to my sister. Heidi came through and did my pictures for me, actually using the amazing Cannon camera that we all have. I then used Picnik to do the edits, even the collage. I have been flattered enough to think that they look professional by the intense questioning I get when I go to Walmart. I guess Heidi had to sign some stuff saying that it wasn't professional. Good Job to her. 

Almost time...

So we are at 10 days until the wedding. I am excited. These are the things that I know:

-I won't have enough room for Jacks things to fit.

-We still are really poor.

-We aren't getting a joing blog, but I am going to have to change it

-I have more pictures to post, but don't have time 

This is all that I can do for now. Hopefully things will change a little so I can post more since I realize this is the only true source for my happenings. 

I was in Walmart the other day and I was looking intently at some items. I was approached by a woman and her daughter who was about 5. The woman and I were discussing uses for the items while her daughter continually asked if she could buy this and that. This girl even went as far as to give 3 reasons why they would be beneficial for her to have. (she was quite the girl)

I started to ask the woman a few questions about some of the products, opinion type questions. Understand that I kept saying things like "I don't know anything about this," and "what would you suggest for this." Well, I guess Heather the little girl needed some more attention so she started to talk to me. Finally as I focused back on her mother she said "You're a liar." and then she would giggle and say "just teasing, youre a big liar." more giggling "You're a big fat liar." I was so shocked, I have never had someone talk to me like that, much less someone that I could easily pound into the ground. 

Lucky for me her mother finally stepped in, and consider her response as a defense for me. 

"Heather, I think you better shut-up."

and that was it. What a strange experience. I bet a raptor would have eaten her first.

At least he wanted to date me, oh yeah, and he did.

A couple of dreams come true

I realize that my blogging has been a little sparse lately. However, I am going to work on updating strategies. I currently don't have Internet access and I have to find time to sneak up to the student athlete center at USU to use the Internet there. But usually I am working so being on the Internet isn't working. I decided to express a few things that I deem worthy of my future million dreams book. 

I single handedly conquered a beast, yes, that was my final blow to his head. The tank is no more.

I have somewhere to live after much searching. Not only to live, but with somewhere to sit. Which is another dream. We needed some couches, and then my aunt found some, the same day we mentioned it to her. For $20 we got the set. 
I witnessed the best white elephant gift known to man. I think after this was removed from it's packaging, I knew I would never be the same, or enjoy myself at another white elephant party again. 

Whitney came home. I know some of you may be confused, but this is gummibear Whitney. Do you not see her Russian Fur atop her head?

I also had an amazing weekend. I feel quite stupid because I have no pictures of my cousin's wedding that I attended. so I can post anything to be enjoyed. But take my word, it was beautiful.

I also go to hang out with Becca, Kyle, Katy, Celia, Emily, CB and Neiman. Neiman is in my ward up here, and sadly, I think we hang out more in Provo. :) This was also enjoyable, even though it was short lived. I wish I could have done more. However, it was good that I left when I did because it started to snow the moment I pulled in my driveway. 

It was an emotional drive home because I didn't want to go, nor did I want to be away from Jack too much longer. I also started to feel the pressure of things have to be done very soon. And then, I found out that they didn't deliver the invitations to my house because of a signature and a big dog. So I called the postmaster of Fruitland, and I asked if he would meet my parents at the post office so they could go get the invitations that day still because it was like 8 at night. And he did and they got them so now they will be in the mail. oh..another dream to add to the list!

The year of a million dreams

I use Shutterfly for all of my online picture needs. It's come in handy MANY times lately. Well they sent me a fun offer for a free picture book. Which of course I am going to take advantage of but coming up with something to put in there is a pain. It has to be done withing the next 2 days so I have to come up with something quick. I came up with this AMAZING plan and started to work on it, but realized that I will have to spend more time on it. But the idea is so good, I am still going to do it. 

book theme : THE YEAR OF A MILLION DREAMS

the reason I can't make this book is because the year is not over until april 28, 2009. in the meantime I am puting together a book of pictures that represent big events that have happened to me in the last year. I was going to keep it to just fun things, but realized that there are a few amazing things that really weren't fun that I would like to include. ofcourse I will begin with the amazing dream come true in disneyland which you can read about here. From there who knows what great things I will come up with!

any suggestions of things to put in would be greatly appreciated. 

post number ONE HUNDRED!

on this special occasion celebrating 100 posts...

I JUST HAPPENED to be working on wording for the invitations and looking at web sites when I happened upon this website and looking at a few I noticed a guy and a girl named Diane and Alan that I used to go to elementary school with and they are getting married, well they did last month. I wouldn't ever have known. This happened to me with my own family. I think I blogged about it a while ago that my cousin married a girl I went to elementary school with. She recognized me and was afraid I wouldn't remember her. It's kinda fun to think about actually, people I've known since I was little and what happened to them, and if they might be related to me.

Emily Beck...I know you have a blog already. If you forgot the password let me know, actually forget it, I have already taken care of it here.

Some things

I have many other things to post such as pictures and stuff, but I am waiting until the internet stops blinking in and out. In the mean time here are a few thoughts that I have had in the last 10 min and I have been timing myself:


I really want to know what I have been missing at the work that I love but left...

Saw some pics from freshman year, I was skinny...

Read Becca's blog, while it was enjoyable there is one thing that made me so excited that I am going to change my daily habits...

I miss Whitney....

I had a weird dream about Whitney...

When is Whitney going to call...

HA! Becca's blog...

When is the next time I can go to Provo?

MMMMM....wedding cake

*sniff* I have to get rid of my favorite pair of pants, I couldn't save them today...

oh it's almost time to go dancing...

I have got to Google a few things resulting from Becca's blog...

I hate watching sports on TV

My Dress!

There are a few new posts. I realized I needed to 

catch up a bit, so keep scrolling down!

My Aunts, a few of my cousins and my Grandma came with me to try on my dress durring the break. Here are a few pics at the store. The link to all of them is on the right of the blog. We decided that my flowers were going to be brown, and I am SO EXCITED about it. It was such a fun outing! every time I wear it I can't help but get even more excited to get married. March 7th! Yes!

Christmas Fun!

Here is a quick overview of our good times in the last two weeks. It snowed at least a foot Christmas eve and Christmas day. Then it rained and half of it melted. But not before we had a good time in it ofcourse! Jack totally surprised me with a sewing machine. I just said I wanted one in passing and never expected to get one. We got all kinds of good stuff for our apartment. I am so excited to go and move in.We were so blessed this Christmas to get a lot of things we could really use as a coule. That's a weird phrase to me. It's kinda official, we are a couple and now I live in Logan, and I got a whole bunch of things that I have to take back with me so I can be a married person. WOW!

Bridal Shower!

Just a few shots from such a fun day!

The BEST weekend so far!

So clearly if you read facebook you know I am engaged, if you don't you know now, I am engaged. For the record his name is Jack and I am so excited to be with him forever! Jack and I are from about the same place, neighboring towns. I have been eyeing him since I was 15. He played basketball in High School, and I have always thought he was pretty attractive and would pay particular attention to him on the court. 

We got engaged early Thanksgiving day morning. We had dinner with our families the night before, and believe you me, we all were curious what was going on. However, it was much better the next day. 
Jack came and got me early in the morning, and the fun thing about where I am from in Idaho, in the winter time it's always really foggy and beautiful. So lucky for me it was as though the world was just me and him at the time because you could only see so far infront of you blocking the view of everyone around us. He took me out to where we had our first kiss. If you need to review there is a great post about it in august. 
We stopped and Jack says "I think I saw a dead calf out here." so I hopped out and started to look around, actually thinking he did because I saw a black thing before. 
Here he said to me "wow the world looks so beautiful in white, you know you would look beautiful in white. I am going to have to ask him to clarify because I don't remember how the comment about the ring went but I eneded up calling him a turd and then he took the ring out and got on one knee. It was beautiful. I put the ring on, we took a quick picture and then we got in the truck because the turkey bowl was starting in like 10 min and he was playing and I wanted to go shower. And that is how it happened