Trip to Utah

For spring break and for work, Chad and I went to Utah for a week. It was awesome! When we landed on Monday afternoon, we were greeted with snow! :) Talk about a wonderful sight since we wanted to have good snow for when we went snowboarding. A few things happened once we landed in Utah. First the bad news: our new suitcase was ripped!! And Chad lost his knife which was a Christmas gift from his parents (and his only knife since he lost all the others in attics and walls at customers' homes). Yeah, we were not really happy about that but oh well. Some good things happened to, the guy at the car rental place was really nice! He put me on as an extra driver for free and then we got upgraded to a jeep from a car because why...because our snowboard bag didn't fit in the car! Awesome! That night was fun, we got to hang out with the Nickel family, they are wonderful people! Tuesday Chad had to do a lot of driving for one, poor guy. He drove me to Provo to visit my best friend Rachael. While I was hanging out with her, he went to lunch and dinner with two guys for recuriting. Then we caught up later that night after dinner time and went to a bookstore. We walked out with SO many books! And I only chose two which is great for me cause I'm normally the bookworm. :) Wednesday was great! Snow snow snow snow! We went snowboarding at Brighton with Jaclyn and Andy! Yay! Brighton had like twenty inches or more of snow! My first taste of powder: now I can understand why Chad wants to be in the mountains so bad and why Andy moved to Utah. :) Jaclyn and I rode together while Chad and Andy went off to ride together. I am so much more comfortable on a snowboard and am really looking forward to next season! Crazy, I know. Afterwards, we picked up dinner and went to Jaclyn's apartment to meet her boyfriend and have dinner together. Then Chad took me over to one of his mission president's home. They were amazing, I can't even describe how wonderful they were! They were so sweet and it was great to meet them, even if I just came from snowboarding with a wind burned face. Beautiful! Thursday was all about traveling down to Zions Park since thats where we were going to stay for work. It was a great weekend, even if it was really cold. All the Platinum guys played baseball in the cold! Even Chad played, and I have pictures as proof! :) Friday, while the guys were in their meetings, the wives went shopping! It was long and frustrating at times...but it was great to be with Ariel and her kids! I miss them so much. Saturday, I went on a two hour trail ride with Ariel at the place we were staying. It has been so long since I've been on a horse! Needless to say, the next day and so, I was sore! But it was wonderful too. After Chad played a two hour paintball game with some guys from work, we headed back towards Salt Lake. We drove passed Manti temple, which was beautiful and a nice scenic drive. :) We then pulled up to the hotel we stayed in last year, which was so nice to actually sleep in a real bed. We were sleeping on airmattresses for the whole week, which wasn't bad either, but there is a difference between a real bed and airmatteress. When we left on Sunday, our flight was delayed which we almost, and I mean almost, missed our connecting flight in Chicago. Ah! Chad and I had to run all across that airport and made it just in time. With that, our bags couldn't get transferred in time, frustrating! we got our bags at like 4 am. Fun! But at least nothing was lost that time. The ferrets were so big when we got home and they changed! Lago has red in her color now instead of a chocolate color. Burton has just gotten bigger and then has a champange (spelling?) color a little more than just white. Wow.. that was a lot. :) Oh well, it was a great trip! I miss Utah! But I am glad to be back home in Ohio...

Guns and Walls

Okay. So we had an interesting night Tuesday to say the least! First, I had one final, which I took very quickly, and made it home in time to see Chad off to work. Well, he was exasted from Sunday and Monday when his dad and him worked and finished building our new ferret cage! It looks awesome by the way, once I figure out how to get pictures up here, they will be up. Anyways, I decided to go with Chad to Indianapolis so he would make it there safely and back. So we left at 5 and it took about 3 hours of him being on the phone to get what he needed done! It was totally frustrating and I was thinking about the poor little ferrets at home in a cat carrier. :) Eventually the problem was fixed and Chad went to a customer's house to install equipment. We then went to Outback to use a gift card. Finally we headed home about ten o'clock. About one hour or so into the drive, we pulled over at the Speedway at the Brookville exit because I needed to use the restroom. (I sure know how to pick them) Well, I got straight for the bathroom while Chad is parking the car and what not. When I get out of the bathroom, I see the cashier and other customers standing at the doorway mentioning something about "having no cash" and "red bag" and something about a guy having his hoodie up and then I see a cop pull up. And I have no idea where Chad is at! Scary!! And I realize as I listen to the people talking that the place had gotten robbed when I was in the bathroom! So I run around Speedway trying to find my husband and my car, because I can't see it. So I begin to think that "oh no, i hope the guy didn't force chad to drive him any where" because man, that guy would have been in for a surprise in more ways than one! So I walk around Speedway and find our car, but I can't get into it because my keys are in the car! and so is my cell phone so i can't call chad! So i go back into the store to see if Chad is somehow in the restroom too. Well, he wasn't. So I go back out to the car and walk around near the semis. And Chad comes walking up saying I got to go talk to this cop, who just pulled in. Umm, okay? So then I find out the whole story. While Chad was getting hot chocolate waiting on me, he sees the guy forcing the cashier at gun point to put cash into the red bag. Wow! So Chad thinks of what he could do and decides once the robber ran out of the store to follow him (with a safe distance so he doesn't get shot) and calls the cops. Another man did the same thing too. So anyways, no one was hurt! which was great. Chad had to give his statement and then we left. We got home after midnight and I decide to let the ferrets out so they can run since they've been locked up for six hours. Poor things! Around one thirty, I notice that Lago, my ferret, is missing and can't find her! So I get Chad to help find her. Then Burton goes missing. And then Chad notices that they are in the wall with Rocky trying to get in too! AHH!! Lago had found the hole that the installers of our "updated" wall heater had put in to run wires (it was huge!) and my smart ferret was able to pull a little bit and get in. As did Burton! So I throw Rocky into the cage as we try to get the others out. Burton was the first pulled out by chad as I held the heater up since we didn't unscrew it. Then Lago didn't want to come out and all the time we are calling and making noise so she doesn't move anywhere! Evenutally Chad just shoved his hand in the hole and yanked her out! She was filthy! I gave her a wet rub down and they were put up for the rest of the night. Oh if we only had the new cage! Its big enough that they can run around when we can't get them out to play. So now Chad is working on removing the last old piece of heater that we didn't remove (since the apartment complex wasn't going to do it! grrr!) and is moving the "updated" heater down to cover the hole. So yeah, Tuesday night/Wednesday early morning was interesting to say the least. All I have to say is Thank You Heavenly Father for blessing everyone at Speedway with safety and for not letting our ferrets be stuck in the wall!

Here is Lago! She is hiding under the cedar chest.

Meet Burton playing in her daddy's shoes!

Newest Family Additions

So I decided that we would also have a blog to share stories with friends and family members. It will come in handy espeically when we evenutally move out West.
Let's see, the newest additions to our family have been three baby ferrets! They are about 8 weeks old. Two girls and one boy. I know...crazy! Since now we have to train them (fun!) with potting (just like REAL parents) and that bitting is NOT a good thing (hehe...some parents don't have to teach that). But its great, just got to build the cage. But their names are: Burton (white with a gray stripe and tail), Lago (chocolate with white on her neck and toes), and Rocky aka Chunk (dark with the large stomach). You might wonder where the names come from: snowboarding! Chad and I decided that we wanted to do a snowboard theme: Burton is a brand and Lago is a crazy awesome snowboarder that we like (yes, we would have gone with white but Burton was the white ferret's name). Rocky is kinda chad's mom's ferret, but we are holding onto him right now since they are all family! so we have our hands full at the current moment, but they are so cute when they play together and explore the room.
Always, Chad and I are doing great! We are just waiting for the summer to start: for those who haven't heard, we should be in Nashville! I am excited for that and can't wait to be there after graduation! Anyways, we are doing good and love being together! :)