Cereal and Killers

This morning, I reminisced over my delicious breakfast.

I just want to let Deet know 2 things:
A- OH's cereal is amazing and reminds me of that summer I lived with her in Cambridge and we skipped class, took guitar and golf together, tubed the Provo river almost everyday and developed our passion for El Azteca, ice cream and watermelon. And we shot Esmeralda, and that was fun. Then Emily cried and we had to sit in a "roommate inventory" session for 3 hours. Those were the days.
2-Band-aids don't stick to the roof of your mouth very well. You must still use caution when eating your OH's so that your mouth doesn't bleed.

Other than my fond memories of summers past, I must tell you what happened last night. This is mostly for Melissa Folks, who shares the same strange fascination of serial killers as I do. Last night the sales reps came in and were talking about how their days went and what sort of objections they got... blah, blah, blah. One of them said,"I was trying to pitch this lady and she freaked out, called me the BKE killer and slammed the door in my face. I went to her neighbor's house and they opened the door and were on the phone to that other lady and she was yelling at them ,'don't give them my information!!'." Anyway- my ears perked up when I heard "BKE" (I actually thought, it's BTK goofball). The serial killer, BTK, terrorized Wichita from the 1970's until he was caught in 2004.

So I guess the point is, APX has good reason to be here. And more importantly, Wichitans need APX. the end.

Tornado Ally

OK, I'm back. Sunday was another adventure as well. We found a ward, although I'm sure we went to the wrong one. I just can't take another 4 weeks of 8am church! The members were super nice- they fought over who could invite us over for dinner that night! The Barnard's won. She's the RS president and he's the provident living specialist. (a newly created calling in their stake-reminded me of being in Provo again) We left our apt around 4:40 and got to their house around 5:00 or so. The menu: homemade pizza!! Yum. They have 4 kids, 3 girls and a boy. Matthew is about 5 yrs old (kindergarten) and I was sitting by him at the table. He looked over at me and said," you've got big eyes! you should look in the mirror". At first I had flash backs to being teased in elementary school, and then I realized, this kid has an underdeveloped "Theory of Mind". HA! His dad was quick to come back and said," you look in the mirror, snaggle-tooth".

After dinner we went into the family room and talked for a little while. It had been sprinkling all day, but off and on. Then, the sirens. 4 of them. Bro. Barnard got his radios out and we listened to the storm chasers find 4 confirmed touch-down tornadoes.... one of which was less than 3 miles away, but headed north away from us. The sky turned super dark and we were all excited to see a funnel cloud, but the only thing we saw was our hair in our faces. The wind was blowing and we got pelted with razor rain. At least it felt like a razor. OUCH! Back inside for some red jello and a talent show by the kids... stupid-human tricks. I put my tongue on my nose. They thought that was funny. Scott showed them a magic trick with some coins and then put pennies on his elbow and flipped them into his hand. Their oldest, Emisha (hungarian for Emily), was getting pretty good at it.

We left and it was raining SUPER hard. We couldn't drive in the right lane on the road because it was flooded. When we got to the interstate it started to rain so hard I thought the windshield was going to break! We were soaked through and our walk from the car to the door of our apt is maybe 100ft. Scott's socks were black from his dress shoes and his wool pants smelled like a dirty animal. gross...

Scott went to his APX mtg this morning and Danny, the guy from our married student ward at BYU he recruited, said that there were 4 more tornadoes sited while we were sleeping. We didn't hear a thing.

To-To, we made it to Kansas

Well I've just got a few minutes before my life is officially turned over to the APX office, so I thought I'd give you a little update on our trip to Kansas.

The drive was relatively uneventful, if you don't count getting on the road about 6 hrs late. We had so much junk in our car you couldn't see out the rear view mirror. (is that illegal?) I've got a picture to prove it... I almost had a mental breakdown trying to cram all our stuff into our tiny Geo. We hit another road bump on the way to Denver. It's actually called a mountain.... in Vail. The car transformed into the little engine that could up the huge pass, and our little engine did. (at about 5 miles an hour!) We arrived to Aunt Jayne's around midnight. We didn't make it on our double date with Megan, but she was still happy we came and used the excuse that she "had to let us in" to get off her date early. Smart girl...

We got to KS around 11:10 on Saturday night and we decided to unpack everything from the car and then find a grocery store. (we gave all our food away before we left Provo because there were no more holes to cram it in) So, off on our little adventure to the nearest grocer. That trip only took 2 hours. There was only one grocery store that was open after midnight.. and it was about 20 miles away. We stopped at a red light to ask a lady where the store was and she responded, "you go down to 21st and AR- kansas." (say it like /r/- for those of you who are not IPA savy- it's just the letter r) Well, I thanked her and had no idea what she said to me. We circled around another 40 minutes or so before we found a store. We went to the door and a little Mexican man stopped us and said "no open". WHAT??? He also tried to explain to me where the store was, but I couldn't understand him- there was too much wind to make out his speech. I wish I had a high-pass environmental filter so I could've understood him. We found the store. It's Kroger with the code name of Dillon's. We didn't have a card there to get the discount on the milk, so we used my mother-in-law's phone number to qualify. Thanks Mary! You'll be getting all our savings this summer :)

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I also thought as I was venturing to pack that I should inform my "viewers" on our plans for the next little while. (plus it helps me procrastinate packing.)

We are moving to Kansas for the next month with APX. Then it's on to the even-more-secluded-state of Oklahoma. Scott decided to sell this summer sort of last minute, which has thrown our lives into a semi-scheduled mess. I find the new adventure together exciting, and even more so now that school is out and I don't have a million projects and presentations to occupy every waking hour. We are crossing our fingers for an early Thursday departure, but it's not looking too realistic. Maybe I should be loading luggage and not blogging....

Nah.

First we stop in Denver to see Scott's aunt Jayne and her family. We planned a double date with his cousin, Megan, on Friday night. She's going on the date with her home teacher.. haha. So really we planned to save her, although it seems a lot of girls do date and marry their home teachers. (Scott was mine while we were engaged.)

Next stop- Wichita, KS. There was this one time about a million years ago that my cousin, Keri, and I were driving through KS. Her jeep overheated and blew the head gasket. I don't have very fond memories of that trip, nor of the state. We slept in the mechanic's shop... dirty, dirty place that was. So you can imagine why I can't wait until we get to OK...(now how many times will you hear that in your life???)

Mr. Snuffleupagus

Do you remember that Sesame Street character that looked like a mammoth? What was he anyway? Well, my husband looks amazingly similar to it these days...yes, Scott has a cold. This is rather unfortunate, seeing that the weather is so lovely today. In fact, we've had some awesome weather the past few days, which has been extremely unfortunate for me because it's finals week.

Ahh yes, finals. Finally over. It seems like this last week has lasted a century with all the studying and, well, not studying I accomplished. I discovered that I'm much better at finding remote things to do, watch, and/or talk about while I attempt to study.

In fact- right now, as you can tell, I'm attempting to pack what's left of our belongings to move to Kansas tomorrow and I'm accomplishing so much!!

Mawage is wot bwings us togevah tooday

(I didn't know that a blog page would be so smart as to publish your posts as to the time it first saves them. Thus, it was my first post, but I finished it last.)
This should have been the first blog.... but anyone that knows me shouldn't suspect anything different than my typical ways: jump in with both feet (maybe even before looking). Anyway, back to the basics....
Although I do not conform to the typical LDS population in regards to The Princess Bride, I do find the blogs title quote to be quite hysterical. Maybe it's because I want to offer speech therapy to the Impressive Clergyman... he DEFINITELY has some phonological disorders.

If you couldn't guess, I'm majoring in Communication Disorders at BYU. Scott has decided on... (drum roll)...Dentistry. He's attending UC in the fall. We were married in the San Diego temple in August of 2008. So far, our first months of marriage have not been ideal, but they have made us better friends and closer in every aspect of life. So maybe that is ideal...