Duluth Camping Trip

These are some random pictures of our camping trip. We drove to Duluth (about 2 1/2 hours) after I had work on Friday and camped there Friday night. We were the only ones in our camp ground area. It was really fun. Saturday morning we drove around Duluth and Two Harbors and walked to some light houses along Lake Superior. It was a nice relaxing little vacation. Mom, notice the Duluth train I'm standing in front of, it is the train from Ticket to Ride.:)

Renaissance Festival

Mom this Picture is for you!! I still get the giggles over that night.
Mark and I went to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival this year. It was quite the experience. About 60% of the people there were dressed up. We were expecting that the people at the shops and at the shows would be dressed up but even the people coming to the festival were dressed up. Man, some people really get into these kinds of things. There were some really strange people there. (For any of you who have been to BYU and have seen the sword fighting and crazy dressed up students at night and on campus you will know what i'm talking about) It was fun even though it was different than what we thought. We went to the Joisting show, which was really fun. The nights were fully dressed in armor and did the whole joisting thing. It was pretty cool. Some of the other shows weren't that great with with crude and nasty humor, so we skipped the shows. There was an elephant and camel there that you could ride and juggling club and different crafts that kids could do. It was a fun date.

Summer Activities

We finally have a computer now!!! So i thought i would up date the blog with some pictures.

These pictures of us biking are in Utah. In one of the pictures dad is fixing mom's flat tire while i'm trying to provoke the buffalo by throwing a rock at it. (actually the buffalo was so far away that i didn't even get near it with my rock. Plus i throw like a girl. I think i only made it about 3 feet.)

One evening Mark and i were bored so we made little people out of medical gloves. Mark did a little skit with them. It was hilarious.

These are pictures of us playing Disk golf. Our new past time hobby.
One weekend that Mark was home from his clinical we went to the Science museum. We got to see the Body World displays. (dead bodies that have been plastified) It was fascinating.




Mark's Birthday. I made him a key lime pie. I'm putting this picture on because i'm proud of my pie. I'm not much of a cook but this pie turned out really good.

This is me right before my 1/2 marathon. It was the best race ever. We ran through meadows, trees, around a lake, in and out of neighborhoods, and on the highway.

Mark and I went to a Minnesota Saints game (baseball). It started raining right before the game started so the game was postponed for and hour. It was kind of exciting although we ended up leaving a bit early because everyone around us started smoking.

More Murder Mystery

Mystery Dinner Theater

Mark and I are in Utah right now. We have had lots of fun haning out with the family. Friday night we went to a Murder Mystery dinner theater with Mom and Dad. It was a lot of fun, we got to be part of the play, which made it really fun. Mark was healed by an exorcist because he was possessed by evil spirits. I got to dance with the reverand.

Life is BUSY

I decided that it is about time to do a little update, but in all honesty there isn't whole lot going on. Mark is now home which is beyond exciting, unfortunetly it isn't just fun and games there is still work to do. I'm working a full day (8:00am-6:00pm) and after work something always comes up. This first week that Mark has been home we have gone home teaching twice ( I went with Mark because his companion couldn't go), which is not just a 30 min ordeal, there are talkers around here, Mark went out with the missionaries one evening, I have a presidency meeting, On sunday I had another Missionary corrdination meeting to go to, tonight Mark has scouts, Sunday I have meetings all morning. So.....things are still busy. At least i can see Mark even if we arn't exactly doing recreational type activities.

I think am about due for a vacation!!! I'm feeling very overwhelmed with work and primary. Although times seem to be hard i'm sure that i'm growing and becoming stronger. Sorry my blog is really boring, for those of you who don't know our computer crashed about a month ago while Mark was in Sioux Falls, SD. Until we save up enough money to buy a new one my blog will be just words. (which is alright what would i post? pictures of my desk or my primary agendas? ) :)

Winning Prize

Congratulations, your prize is a beautiful white rose and a kiss from this cute little pig. Ok, this is kind of lame but i can't really find any pictures on the internet and unfortunately we can not post any of our own pictures for awhile.

MARK'S COMING HOME!!!!!!

I'm so excited Mark is coming home this weekend. I haven't seen him in two llllloooooonnnnngggg weeks. Unfortunately he leaves on Sunday to go back to Sioux Falls, but i'm so excited to see him I just had to tell everyone. :)

Mark's Surgery

I thought I would write a quick entry because Mark had a really exciting morning and I want to tell everyone about it. He got to see two total hip replacement surgeries today; Somehow he and another student arranged so that they could actually watch a surgery. Mark said that it was so cool. The surgeon made only a three inch incision and was still able to replace the whole hip. I just think it is amazing. He also said that the surgeon accidentally cut open a blood vessel and blood started spewing everywhere. He said it was really gross. He also mentioned that the smell was horrible, burnt flesh!! The surgeon was so nice to Mark, he took him to the surgeons lounge and feed Mark. He is also going to let Mark watch a knee replacement also. Mark thinks it is awesome. I don't know how well I could stomach it. :)

Ok, I'm finally creating a new post. I just hope I don't get introuble because I'm at work, but there is seriously nothing for me to do.

Anyway, i'll just quickly update everyone on what is going on in our lives. As you all probably know Mark is in South Dakota right now. This is his first of five clinical roations during the 3 year Physical Therapy program. He is liking the experience for the most part. This rotation is Acute Care, so he is working in a hospital. He is working on the cardio and pulminary Floor, so he sees a lot of elderly patience that have heart problems. The one thing that he really does not like about working in Acute Care is that sometimes he has to change dirty diapers . He has had some pretty nasty things happen. One persons cathedar spilled open all over the floor, one person can't control bowel movements and has to be constantly wiped and changed, there have been a couple other instances where he has had do deal with nasty body fluids. YUCK!!!! Also in a couple weeks he will be moving to the burns and wounds unit. That will also be quit the experience dealing with bed sours and other gross wounds.

Me, i have a new job at Fogg & Associates, patent law firm. I like it for the most part. There are some hard things about it but every job has those. It is so nice to have the weekends and nights off, although as soon as i have the weekends and nights off Mark leaves for SD so we don't get to spend time together anyway. We figured out that when he comes back in August it will have been 8 months since we have been able to see each other at nights and on Saturdays. Crazy!!! All i know is that i can't wait until August. It will be like a vacation everyday being with Mark.

The last couple of weeks have been super hard without Mark, but i think i'm handling it fairly well. I sleep on the couch, but other than that things are normal. I just try and keep myself busy so i don't think about being alone. Although, one of the most depressing things is getting on the train to come home from work and realizing Mark won't be there and i'm going to an empty appartment room. That may sound really sad, well it is, but i'm doing fine. Mark is able to come home most weekends, so it is fine.


(I'm really sorry about the poor spelling and grammer, i was never good at it and i really don't feel like going through and correcting all of it)