Janie's visit

I guess I'm back tracking a little but one of my best friends from school, Janie Sandberg came to visit me in houston. Janie and her husband Jeremy came during the memorial day long weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed having company and it was so nice to spend the weekend with Janie and Jeremy because they're so fun! So they came Friday night and threw me a bridal shower! It was so much fun. Janie asked Dan questions earlier to during the 'shower'. So for every question I answered incorrectly Janie had a big marshmallow waiting for me to fill my mouth with. I do have to say I did very well but still got many wrong, which led to a mouth being full of marshmallows!! Thanks Janie for the shower!! So on Saturday we went to the Kemah boardwalk and watch all the boats to out to the ocean. Then Janie took me to Jack in the box for the first time! and it was really good. The afternoon we spent at the Houston Space Center!! 'Houston we have a problem'!! we took a tour of the command center at NASA! it was really fun although it was also very busy due to memorial day weekend. Then Janie and Jeremy took me out to eat at a Italian restaurant. I loved it! it was a perfect day! which we ended in shopping at walmart to fill my cupboard with food for the next month which was wonderful because I only have a bike! So it was wonderful to have Janie and Jeremy come visit!

Living in Houston

So moving to houston on my own was very difficult. But I survived. I did not realize how different and hard it would be to move away from the student life. So I headed to Houston after visiting with Dan's family. I headed to Dallas to be there for my friend Kenny Kyle's wedding. I stayed with his family which are practically my second family. They then drove me to Houston where Heather Kyle lives in North Houston. Heather gave me a bike and drove me to my apt. So when I got to my apt there was no electricity or a/c. Oh man! My phone had also died and I was all alone. So needless to say I didn't have much, no car, no phone, no internet, and no electricity. I did however have furniture thanks to my very nice landlord. So i lived without electricity for 3 days. It was very long. My parents mailed me kala's phone and I went grocery shopping on my bike.

But all the hardship is mostly over. Now im pretty much lonely. I have a phone, internet, electricity and a/c which hardly works and a bike. still no car. So I bike everywhere, except work is 10 miles away so I have always seemed to be able to find a ride to work! i love my coworkers.
Weather in Houston is crazy hot and very humide. During the summer most people go from their a/c house to a/c car to a/c work. Me on the other hand, I ride a bike and sweat to death and then I go home and sweat some more. My a/c does not like me and does not like to work. Fortunately, work is very cold! Before I came here I thought i would be outside and tan after work. No way! It never cools down and so I pretty much stay inside until 7pm when the sun isnt so hot. In my loneliness I have been able to read many books. It is very enjoyable to be able to read books outside of school work!!

Trip to Seattle

So I started a blog for all my wonderful friends to know what new things are happening in my life! But mostly for Amanda!!

For an update. My parents came to Salt Lake for my sisters graduation from BYU-I. They also happened to come the week earlier for see conference. Oh lets say about after 15 minutes of meeting my dad my wonderful boyfriend (Dan Morgan) at the time asked permission to marry me. Then two days later proposed without a ring! He just couldn't wait. So we are getting married Aug 26th in Salt Lake temple. This made it very hard to concentrate and get everything done during finals week. I had the amazing help of Amanda to help me dress shop!! and then I spent my remainder of the time studying and packing up for the summer. After finals Dan and I drove to Seattle were I was to meet his family!

I really loved going to Seattle, it is beautiful! I did have very good luck and it seemed to only rain during the night! I spent time with his mom and sister exploring downtown Seattle. We went to the waterfront, we did the underground tour and explored pikes market with the flying fish!! I also went back downtown with Dan later and we went to a glass blowing shop, were we got to see them in action! We also went up the space needle. So, Dan actually lives on Camano Island which is in puget sound. So we went island hoping in the puget sound! we took a fairy to friday harbor. Seattle was a lot of fun. Dan's family adored me! well they seemed to like me a lot. And best of all I got to spend all day and every day without any school or work for a week with Dan!