Bookies

    Now that I am done with school (HOORAY!) I find myself with lots of extra time before and after work and also on my days off. I just finished the last season Netflix has of Bones and I don't know what to do with my life on my own!

    So I set up a library account. They have free internet access/wifi and I got a card so if I find a book I like, I can check it out or take it to work with me so I can read when I get down time. 

    For some reason, today I am not scheduled to go in to work until later this afternoon. After dropping Jared off and sending in my passport to get my name changed (for free) I came to the library and am enjoying people watching. 

    At the table next to me, there are 3 VERY elderly people. They each have a little bag, which I assume is their lunch. Every now and then they break their staring out the window to make a little comment to each other, comments which make no sense to me. 

    The table I sat down at, there was a rather large black man who seemed to be focus in his book. I don't normally think I disturb people, so I quietly unpacked the laptop and cord and sat down to begin this blog post. As soon as I sat down, he looked at me, put down his book and left. 

    Did I break library protocol? Am I not supposed to sit at a table if there are 3 open chairs? I took the seat farthest from him...

    I feel as if I need to go talk to a librarian about the proper protocol of this library. There seems to be talking, so complete silence is not expected. What's the system with tables? Are there more tables I just don't know about? Do the elderly get special privileges in being able to eat in a "no food and drink" area?

    Until I figure out how this library works, what are some good books I can read? It's been a while since I've been able to read a fun book, not associated with school in ANY way. 

    I would appreciate all the help I can get! Leave comments and give me suggestions!!

Fun Weekends

    Jared and I have had some really fun weekends lately, jumping in to having an awesome summer. 

    A few weekends ago, we went and visited my family in GA for Ben's graduation! Grandma and Sara came from the Hunt side. Grandpa and Marilee came from the Voegele side. We had family pictures taken, which was nice. Ben was totally funny and wouldn't look at us very often when he was graduating, but we still got some funny pictures! 

 Not looking

Not looking again

Not looking and yawning

 Finally got him looking in our general direction as he got up to walk on stage

This was Jared and I outside waiting for Ben to come find us. It was sunny outside...

    Ben also got his Eagle Scout thing. I just got pictures of the program.

    It was pretty much a weekend about Ben. The rest of the time was just fun and hanging out. The big events were the graduation, pictures and Eagle Scout thing. 

    A little bit after that, Jared and I got tickets to a Steve Martin show! He saw them on Groupon and it was such a great deal and we couldn't pass it up! It was an outside concert and was just so great! Steve Martin is hilarious; we still laugh at his jokes! And all the banjo playing was amazing. He is with the band The Steep Canyon Rangers and they just had a CD come out, so they are going on tour to promote it. At the very end during an encore, Steve did the famous King Tut song and it was awesome!!!

     Us with our tickets! What a silly guy behind us. Thought he could get away with picking his nose!

The stage waiting for Steve Martin

He's telling a joke before playing. He has some pretty good ones.

 Can you tell it's him? White suit, black glasses. Totally Steve Martin

    I'm now working on Saturdays so our weekends may not be fulled with stuff like that every week, but we'll still find fun things to do. We like to lay out by the pool and get tan and once a month we go to the LDS temple down here that's just a few minutes away. 

    We're still waiting for the eggs in the nest outside to hatch. We'll let ya'll know when that happens!

I'm back!

    So the past few weeks have been stressful with me working really hard to finish school before the deadline. But good news. I finished! All of my grades are in and finalized and I should be getting my diploma mailed to me in about a month! 

    It'll be nice for the first little bit now of having full days off work and not having to rush somewhere and do Accounting, or go through a giant stack of Humanities flash cards. After a while though, I'm sure I'll be dying for something else to do. 

    So I'll be looking for another job or will be trying to work extra hours at other bank branches. One week I was able to work a full week by picking up shifts at another branch that needed help. If I just let people know I am very available to pick up extra shifts, maybe they'll ask me to help again!

    Other good news, we have a bird and her nest and her eggs in our little flowers outside! It's so fun! We noticed our flowers looking a little off and every now and then we see a bird in the flowers and it'll fly off when we try to get a good look at it. 

    

    Jared went out one morning to water the flowers (thinking they were dying and that's why they didn't look so good) and the bird flew out. He noticed a nest! So we got a better look and there are 4 eggs in the nest!

    We are trying our best not to spook the bird too much so she won't leave the nest. We want the eggs to hatch and have a cute little bird family in our flowers on our patio!

    Now that I have all this extra time, I am back into keeping this blog updated! The next couple blogs might just be racaps of things going on or that have happened. 

    For example, I still need to blog about our trip to GA for my brother Ben's High School graduation. I have pictures and everything!

    Another thing, we are going to start working on food storage. Just pick up something each time I go out shopping. Are any of ya'll working on food storage? What kinds of things do you buy that I can just get piece by piece?

    It's good to be back :)