Chillin’… Like a villain >:)

Yeah, just sitting all alone at my parents’ house, plotting the end of the world hehehe >:) …just kidding ;) you know I couldn’t pull that off, especially since my companion in all things is working… all weekend… as per usual. Any my lovely family is having the BEST VACATION EVER!! without their daughter and son-in-law. We have to go to school and work instead. Ultra super mega lame. :(

So what is with this no fall break nonsense at SUU anyway?? It makes me a little irritated.

By the by, in case you wanted to know, my family is at Disneyland for 3 days of park-hopping bliss and then they are going on to party like there’s no tomorrow at Universal Studios. *sigh* Mark and I are hopefully planning to go to Disneyland for our anniversary though, so that will be fun :) …Also since I am obliging him and going to the deer hunt this year and also since we missed Gershwin musical of the year at Tuacahn :’( he owes me anyway haha…

Wait… let me rephrase a little. You know, I really love my husband a lot and want him to be happy too, but sometimes we don’t have the time or the funds to do everything we would like to, unfortunately… Ha, story of the life of newlyweds. Let’s just say after all the school and work stress of the year, we both deserve a super ultra mega deluxe vacation! :)

Do you realize that as of 3 days ago Mark and I have been married for 7 months? So crazy how time has just flown by… :)

Life has been going well for us, overall :) We are happy, although at times rather stressed. Sometimes it is easy to be discouraged by life… ha, I am easily discouraged I should say. That’s why I am so glad to have Mark in my life. He is always optimistic and helps me to keep my mind on track to what is really important, like the Church and family… That is the beauty of life, that you don’t have to have a lot of money or a lot of extra time to be truly happy. All you need is a knowledge of the truth and the will to carry on through your life doing those things that you know to be right, all the while spending time with those that you love :) Boy am I glad to have knowledge of these truths…

Mark and I love you all, dear readers :) Until next time…

Ha! I bet you thought we died or something… but you were wrong, we are still alive :)

Wow, it looks like Mark and I aren’t very good at keeping a blog haha! Of course, it gets a little difficult when there is no internet available at home… But for the few of you who may actually be reading this blog, here is a probably long awaited update :)

Mark and I are still in Cedar, but since he works at the hospital in St. George we spend a lot of time down South (actually, where I am right now as I type this). I never thought I’d like living in Cedar City, but when we come back and forth, I am so grateful that I no longer live in this excruciating heat! We have been having lots of fun together this summer, visiting our families often and still going on dates and stuff :) Mark is a wonderful man and always treats me like a queen… I am so blessed! ^_^

Yesterday was my birthday. I am now 20 years old. Whoa.

Actually, I don’t feel very old, but I guess I am married and stuff so I must be starting to reach adult maturity level (although between you and me, I think it’s more fun to act like a kid sometimes haha).

Pretty soon we’ll be going on family reunions, first in the Hulet family and then with the Clarke family (which is my mom’s dad’s mother’s family. A large group of people who are mostly strangers to me haha). Next weekend, my parents are going to bring an exchange student into the family for almost a year. It’s part of a scholarship program where our government pays for kids from other countries to come to school here. His name is Bakai and he is from Kyrgyzstan; he will be going to Pine View High for a year. Haha I think he’ll be coming to the family reunion with my family… that should be interesting! Also, he is Muslim (though he told us not very religious) and doesn’t eat pork. My mom has been fretting a lot over that… apparently, they eat a lot of pork haha :) But I think it will probably be a very cool experience for my family to be exposed to a little of his culture and for him to experience the way our American LDS family lives here in Utah.

Anyway, Mark and I are both well and happy! Work is going well for him; he loves working at the hospital, despite high stress situations. His existence would be unfulfilled if he couldn’t help people like that every day, saving lives and restoring health. I don’t know how he does it haha but he does get pretty tired some days. Right now I can hear him talking to my brother about being a missionary and bearing his testimony. Every day I am so impressed by how close he is to the gospel and I am so grateful for that and for the effect it has on me and even on my family for the better! It is so wonderful :)