Catching Up

What up??!!

So, after weeks of contemplating whether to start this blog or not-I finally gave in and decided Why Not?

--With Seth's and my family in South Carolina (about 2100 miles away)-I figured we could try to keep them updated through this blog about what our lives are consisting of while we are in northern Utah!  I can promise there will be misspelled words, bad grammar/grammatical errors, unimportant ideas, and gushy stories because 1. My contact with the female world has declined 2. My husband has showed very sweet tendencies 3. Simply to brag about my wonderful life :).  With all that said I can now start catching you up on our lives over the past two months.

South Carolina to Utah-about 4 days for us to drive (granted we did have to haul our lives in a Penske truck).  Beautiful scenery!  Why Utah you may ask-I know my parents asked this often :).  Seth is attending Utah State University-getting his Masters in essentially Natural Resources/Policy.  Very difficult for me to explain to others-so I shorten it for everyone's benefit.  If you would like to know more about it-Ask Seth. :).  I can tell you that he works on the computer a lot-reading environmental policies from every state, going to classes, reading papers for these classes, writing summaries for these classes, starting projects/papers for these classes, as well as working on a thesis/project (or something like that) for his Masters paper?  Not sure if I correctly said all that-but just bare with me.  Some days he enjoys it so much and others he can get overwhelmed with all the work he has to do.  I am currently working at an Assisted Living as a CNA-enjoy the people and work-plus it is a little extra income for us.

We have been in Utah for about 2 months and have actually done a lot of things so far.  National parks (Thanks to some wonderful friends who got us a park pass as a wedding gift! Very useful!), lots of hiking, celebrated my birthday, and a trip to Southern Utah with our neighbors.  We have been attending a church called Maranatha Baptist-and met so many wonderful people there.  It is a wonderful support for Seth and I-especially living in this culture.  We are both enjoying cooking-and have come up with a wonderful weekly menu method (I'm sure others have this also).  We plan out our meals for the next week and every Saturday morning go grocery shopping-useful!  Brag moment:  We have started making our own flour tortillas (will swear by them)-hibachi chicken, veggies, rice-with the shrimp sauce, and many other delicious random meals.  Maybe I will even write it up on here-so you guys can see what yumminess we will be eating for a week :). Brag moment end. 

Now, that we are sort of caught up-I'll try to make sure and keep this updated.

The Cook's :)