State Champs!

Let's get real. OHS cross country has been killing it! This last Wednesday the boys cross country team won their state race, STATE CHAMPS! I think I have more school spirit for Ogden High now then I did back then! Z man made his goal to run at state and he ran so well :) They were all so stoked to win, now where are the rings?!

The COOLEST thing that has happened in Ogden High girls soccer in 10 years happened today. I am SO proud of Avery, and all the girls on the OHS girls soccer team. They are fighters! There was more hustle, fancy footwork, beautiful corner kicks and pure heart in todays game than I have ever seen! These girls have passion for the game! Check it out. And these pictures show it!
Gallery: Prep Soccer: Ogden High School defeats Cedar High School During the State 3A Championship g
The whole tournament was so fun to watch. It made me miss playing! Well done lady's, I can't say enough about how awesome you all are. STATE CHAMPS!!!

Let's talk for a second about Weber cross country. I miss my girls. I have to go to physical therapy and it tends to fall right when the team meets. But I need to give them a shout out-- TAKE CONFERENCE. These girls are going to show the Big Sky what Weber Wildcats are made of! And the men too :) KILL IT!

Chase has been home for one year. ONE GLORIOUS FABULOUS THRILLING YEAR!! I have known him going on about 5 years. I have been his wife for just over 4 months. FOUR GLORIOUS FABULOUS THRILLING MONTHS. I decided to put together a big document that comprises all of our emails over the two years of his mission. WOW. I am about 18 months into the beast and it is TWO HUNDRED NINE PAGES!!! Already!! Gah! We had fun writing, that's all :) Chase had to work all day on the anniversary of his homecoming :( But we later had a discussion about all that has happened between October 22, 2010 and October 22, 2011. Mostly about all the places we have been!...

The cabin with the family (a few times!), St. George (Twice- Chase's first visit to the house), Canada (HATE/LOATH), Park City (honeymoon and Chase's birthday), Hawaii (honeymoon), Cedar and Las Vegas (helped La and Sean move), Lake Powell (sum fam vaca), Boulder CO (visit the girlies), Idaho (track meet), and a plethora of of other places that have made the past year ROCK MY SOCKS. Of course there ring shopping, wedding planning, bridal showers, the groom going MIA for 5 weeks (I hate Canada), and then the Wedding of course. What a year. (Suddenly I feel like I should be writing this the last week of December...eh)

Latest and greatest news! I got my wisdom teeth out! AND I FEEL GREAT! I had an moment of feeling rather nauseous because i had taken so pain meds on an empty stomach. But other than that I am coherent, not to mention the numbing still hasn't worn off. Cross your fingers! I have a hub, Connie mama, and Mama to take care of me. And of course an endless supply of peach sherbet and green jello!

That's when you know that blog should end. At green jello.

Home

(Actually written 9-29-11. I have this thing about writing blogs, then letting them marinate for a little while. I didn't intend it to take over 2 weeks. Here we go.)

Chase is at work :(

Blog time :)

Ok. So basically my life has been full FULL of “Wow I MUST blog this!” moments lately.

Moving. We did it. We have moved. The move has occurred and we now live at 1235-2 27^th Street Ogden UT 84403. The dash 2 means PARTY IN THE BASEMENT! I love, no we love our house, no we love our home! Virtual tour—The front of the house is straight out of a story book, so cute! Our door is under the front door of the house. We have our own porch light bulb! I know right! It has the cute little chain that you pull on to turn it on. And it’s one of those twirly light bulbs that saves energy- Go green or go home! Then you go in the front door and Vooalah! (Holy heavens that is the hardest word to spell ever. Or it’s me forgetting how to spell a word that is easy to spell. I once forgot how to spell of. Ov? Uv? Except I was in like 3^rd grade.) Anyway, the front door.

The great room is wonderful! It serves as fireplace snuggle hub, movie watching snuggle hub, dinner eating hub, and everything else hub! Maybe a little homeworking every once in a while. We have put ceiling to floor drapes on one full wall. LOVE. We were lucky enough to inherit, for the span of the rent, a very spacious and convenient entertainment center/ storage unit. It begged the question, “Why is there no TV in this hole here in the middle?” That’s what it said to me. It didn’t ever beg, it just whispered it one time… I think. But to Chase the spacious and convenient entertainment center/ storage unit was SCREAMING and WAILING in AGONY, “HOW CAN YOU STAND THERE WHEN I AM BLEEDING OUT THIS GAPING HOLE IN MY CHEST???!!!!!” So, we promptly did a little research and got a TV. Just kidding, we both wanted a TV, but TVs speak differently to different people (genders).

Back to the great room. I am finally able to utilize and love some of the beautiful wedding gifts we got. It helps home be more homey and less housey. Our table is counter height, LOVE. The fire place is so quaint! Ahh! I can’t type fast enough to match my excitement :) Bedroom—Newly painted furniture, new bed stuff and a tiny closet. Perfection. Kitchen-- $10 microwave, cabinets full of OUR stuff and OUR food, a new rug, and more happiness than orange slices at half time. Bathroom—not enough storage, light bulbs that get warm and feel really good on wet hair, and a shower that is really hot really fast. (Second time I have mentioned light bulbs. Unintentional.)

We also have a new vacuum. “This one here will suck up all your dirt for $525. This one here will suck up 99% of you dirt for an emotionally relieving $440 less. I’ll take it! And if it fails within a couple years, I will recoil my distain for Dyson and their ability to sell a dirt sucker for $650!

Back to the bedroom. One day, I wanted to put the bed skirt that was not yet between our mattress and our box spring, just there. I thought I could do it alone. Woah!! Spoiler alert—It can’t be done. Imagine- me holding the top corners of the bed skirt in each hand. Enter Chloe under top mattress, above the mattress on the bottom, squirming from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed. Chloe sandwich, with mattresses and a bed skirt as garnish (I would have said mayo, but mayo is against religious beliefs in our home. What would Chase have said?). It is not an easy thing to straighten a bed skirt while trying to balance a mattress on your back. Even if, heaven forbid, you were to get the skirt straight, how in hellsbells are you going to get OUT of the sandwich without messing up the skirt! I kid you not, the ENTIRE time I was in the mattress sandwich I was thinking. MUST BLOG.

Yesterday was well, a great day. I got to spend more time than usual on any given week day with Chase. Most of it was spent studying in quiet time, but pre-study time with Chase and I is super fun. Smiths—What treats shall we get for our study session? Doughnuts and vitamin water and root beer? FIVE DOUGHNUTS and vitamin water and root beer? Oh ya, bring on 4 hours of silence and textbook literature. Then to top it off, we had a discussion about deodorant, use your imagination. Then, to top off the topper, we found the BIGGEST birthday card I have EVER seen! And it was a singing card. I laughed out loud and have never been so amused by something so trivial (Oh whoa, that was a straight lie. I definitely have been.).

Well, my crave for blog has been quenched. One last note; home is the coolest thing ever. I love home. My home with Chase, and my home I grew up in. But the best thing about home is the fact that home isn’t a location, it is a feeling or mentality associated with anything you feel is home. Lately the more trivial things I have associated with home have been household appliances and décor—the picture of Chase and I in our room or a George Forman grill! What I am trying to get at is -> the most happiness I have ever found is when you can associate home, not with a location or anything else, but with people. Chase is my home. Where he is, I am home. My sisters and brothers. My parents. Connie Mama and Tony’s home is home to me. Not the house, but the people that are there.

I love home because it means you love people and those people love you back.