One Year Older...

And wiser, too!



Yes, this adorable man just had a birthday yesterday. We were actually on the road for most of the day, because he let me stay in Spokane with my family for one last day. He pretty much sacrificed half of his birthday for me. That is one of many reasons why he is such a great man. He always puts others first, especially if it makes his wife happy :)

Here is one of many favorite memories I've had with Tyler:

Right after our honeymoon we moved to Chicago. One Sunday we went downtown and walked around the city. We loved it. The architecture was beautiful. Then we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo, which is free by the way. This is embarrassing to admit, but I had never been to a zoo before and Tyler promised to take me to one. I was like a kid in a candy store. We stopped at the polar bear tank, Tyler's favorite. As we watched through the glass below the waters surface a teenage polar bear was playing under the water. The polar bear would come right up to the glass to look at his audience. It was amazing to see a polar bear so close up. But, the best part was when he would hide to the left of the glass so no one could see him. When an unsuspecting kid would put his face up to the glass the polar bear would "pop out" with his mouth open and scare the kid half to death. We couldn't help but watch and laugh as he proceeded to do this for a good half hour, to several kids. We stayed and watched for that long! I forgot the camera, but Tyler has some sweet pictures on his phone...which is with him at work right now. Wish I could show you!

I'd like to invite all you readers out there who know Tyler to please share a favorite memory of him or what you like best about him as a comment on this post. (You can even comment if you don't have a blog and have never commented on my blog before... sarah, caitlin...etc. :) Love you all and hope you had a fantastic Christmas!

School Skipper!

It's true. I skipped the last day of school before winter break. Instead of baby sitting 10 year olds for 7 hours I did something much more entertaining...First snowboarding trip of the season! Unfortunately, Tyler had a final that morning so I went without him. I felt bad, but he assured me it was OK. I went with one of my best friends and her BF. We had a good time.

(My cheeks are abnormally chubby for a reason...long story.)



The fog rolled in, but once we got to the top we were above the clouds. The view was amazing.





I know I complain about Idaho, but I have to admit it is beautiful.

Sick, Boo

This is only my second time being sick this winter. I think that's pretty good for my first time being in a middle school in 12 years. There are germs everywhere, as you know or can imagine. It's Friday night and I'm home alone while my man is working for minimum wage at a movie theater so we can get super cheap movies.

Being sick and home alone I have no desire to clean our disastrous room so I'm in front of the computer watching brociety.com (hoping for a good deal on a new snowboard), listening to E! True Hollywood story on the TV in the next room, and blog stalking...kind of. I'm mostly looking at blogs from people I know/knew from high school. All are under 30 and most are married. I see all their craft projects, coupon clippings, fancy food projects, ultrasound pics, and decorated houses and keep thinking, "Wow, what's wrong with me?"

Ever since I can remember I was bored with crafty things. About a year ago I decided it was time to try it again. I went to the local craft store and bought too many things and spent too much money. I got a short start to a handbag (haven't finished it), made about six head pieces, a necklace, and became bored.

How does one even go about clipping coupons? The closest I get to coupon clipping is taking the Dairy Queen coupons we get in the mail and buying a Blizzard and getting one free :)

I don't like cooking. Poor Tyler. He loves to eat.

Some day I will have a real ultrasound pic to show all of you. That will be a good day.

Our small apartment just recently stopped looking like a bachelor pad, but only because we ditched the ratted old love seat for a set of my parents old couches and finally put real pictures in our frames to replace the mystery family photos. A few months ago 'Usher' was with me at a married friends apartment. It was cutely decorated with Easter decor. Usher said to me, "When are you going to start decorating your apartment for the holiday's? *pause* When you stop wearing skinny jeans?" She pretty much summed it up. Such a witty girl.

Instead I spend my time reading under a blanket on the couch, playing all sorts of different sports, watching movies with my man (I don't know why I keep saying that), and shopping online. Maybe I should find a new hobby. Any ideas?

Cute Idea

The wedding we just went to last month in Arizona was so fun! (I don't know if I already said that in the bachlorette party story.) I was one of ten bridesmaids. I know, TEN! Ha ha it made for a lot of good times though. So, they had their reception in the backyard of her parents house. It was absolutely beautiful and the weather was prefect. Along the side of the house was the entry into the reception. Right after the sign in book was a "photo booth". It was such a cute idea. I wish I would have had one! Here are a couple of the fun photos we had taken.

The bride and groom.



Which couple is faking it?


Old roomies and best friends...with some guys :)


LOVE her.


Bridemaids, bridesmaids, bridesmaids...


Lots of bridesmaids.


Ahhh, precious.

OUCH!

Every Tuesday for the past four weeks I have had a Rolfer come over and work on me. What's a Rolfer? Well, it's someone who goes to Rolfing school to become a Rolfer so people can get Rolfed by them. Sorry, I like the word "Rolf". It's actually the last name of the Doctor who invented the technique, Dr. Ida Rolf. In short, Rolfing works with your connective tissue, (fascia) to realign and balance the whole body. Some call it structural integration.


"This is the gospel of Rolfing:
When the body gets working appropriately,
the force of gravity can flow through.
Then, spontaneously, the body heals itself."
~ Ida P. Rolf

There are ten sessions, which cover the entire body. Each session lasts about two hours. Our Rolfer takes before and after pictures. I wish I could find Tyler's to show you all. The differences are astounding. I will try and remember to post mine when I'm finished. When it comes to healing your body Rolfing is pretty much amazing.

I was convinced to have this done because my husband and almost his entire family has had it done. They all spoke of how all their discomforts were cured after these ten sessions. Tyler was told by his chiropractor that he would need to continue seeing him throughout his entire life. Not anymore. After less than half the sessions my body already feels like it's working and moving how it was supposed to all along. My movements are fluid and nearly effortless. I love it. You don't realize how bad your movements are until you start functioning properly.

Sounds too good to be true? Well, it's not, BUT there is a draw back. This process is painful! The first two sessions were a walk in the park. The third wasn't bad, but left me with some bruising. The fourth almost made me quit! OK maybe not quit, but it was definitely one of the more painful things I've gone through. But, I'm learning very quickly to strengthen my mind and breath through the pain. It kind of makes me feel tough :) Though, sometimes I want to cry like a baby.

Bachlorette Party Tempe Style

One of my very dear friends was married in the Mesa, AZ Temple this last Saturday. Tyler and I flew out from SLC Thursday evening to get in a long weekend of warm weather, and ohh was it warm.

Being one of the bridesmaids, I helped plan a little bachlorette party for Thursday night...

Here is how the evening played out:

9:00pm - We all meet up at the bride-to-be's parents house, let's call her Bang. When five of us bridesmaids show up we put on our matching outfits, shorts and white t-shirts with fake black corsets printed on the front, and some heavy make-up. We all ditch our husbands/boyfriend/fiance and head to the car.

9:30pm - We arrive at the "dance studio" located at some strip mall near ASU. Knowing what we got ourselves into we enter the building to see this:

















Yes, we signed up for a pole dance class. It was innocent, I promise. But, the gay Asian pole dance instructor made things just a little awkward.

9:35pm - Our poles are cleaned, the party lights are on, the music is playing, and we are ready to learn some serious moves! Gay Asian pole dance instructor named "Mako" by the way, is teaching us some pretty sweet spins and looking extremely graceful in the process. Most of us look completely ridiculous, but having fun none the less.

10:15pm -We are well into our class and laughing all the while. Another bridesmaid, lets call her Usher, seems to have a very noisy pole. After a while, Bang asks Mako, "Are these poles safe?!" Mako's reply (*please use your gayest voice while reading this), "I just got these checked out two days ago. They are completely safe!"

10:20pm - Mako has now progressed to showing us a more difficult move. Mako, "Watch me first." He proceeds by mounting his pole and showing the difficult move. All of the sudden we hear "chunk chunk", that's my noise for Mako's pole dismounting from the ceiling while he is still spinning gracefully on it using the perfect gay scream/squeal as the pole falls quickly to the padded floor. We all rushed over to help and ask if he was OK when Bang says, "You're bleeding!" I look down at Mako who looks fine, so I follow Bangs gaze to Ushers face. Still standing, Usher looks in the mirror to try and dab the trickle of blood off her forehead. Her dabbing isn't doing the trick when the blood starts running all over her face. We rush her over towards the bathroom, lay her down, and put wads of paper towels on the gash. All the while this is what Mako is saying, "Oh my gosh I'm freaking out! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! I'm totally freaking out right now!"

10:25pm - The bleeding hasn't stopped. Usher suggests, "Maybe we should go to the hospital?" She was the most calm out of everyone. So, we take off leaving Mako "totally freaking out". After rushing to the car, we lay Usher down in the back seat and tell her not to fall asleep, "You might have a concussion!" Halfway to the hospital we calm down and the reality of what just happened sets in... we all just bust up laughing. We just can't believe it! Did a stripper pole with a gay Asian instructor on it just land on her head?!?!?

10:45pm - We make it to the hospital. When we check in Bang starts to fill out paper work which asks exactly what happened. There really was no easy way to say it, "A stripper pole fell on her head and split it open." The 25 year old male nurse got a kick out of the story. The 40 year old female nurse practitioner who put the four staples in her head got a kick out of the story. BUT, the 50 year old male doctor probably got the biggest kick out of it and wouldn't leave it alone. "So, they brought you all the way down from Idaho for this?" "Did you pop out of a cake or anything?" "I hope you were paid well." The list goes on.

12:30am - We leave the hospital with an ice pack and some Tylenol. Usher was a little disappointed in the pain meds to say the least. We hit up Taco Bell and spent our meal reminiscing the evening. Tempe had really started our trip off right.

On that note, the wedding was beautiful, the reception was awesome, and we had a ton of fun with long lost friends. Thanks Arizona for such a wonderful time.

Ugh

I'm not feeling adult enough for one of these...









Please don't expect one anytime soon.

Mondays' Memory

Now that you know I work for a school out here, there is something else I have to tell you....in southeastern Idaho almost all the schools get atleast a week off for SPUD HARVEST! Can you believe it? I certainly didn't when I saw the years schedule at the beginning of the school year. As funny as I think it is I love having this week off work. On top of spud harvest, they have cold/snow days planned in for each school year! Not if, but when there is too much snow or it get's to or below -20 F school is canceled for the day. Those circumstances occur so often they have to plan them into the school year.

So, in memory of not having school this week, for the up coming days I will have off due to extreme weather, and the fact that there is an inch of snow on the ground right now here is a picture of an icy day in November of 1996.



Spokane had an ice storm when I was in 7th grade. Power was out at our house for three days and school was canceled for several days. Everything was coated in an inch of ice, I mean EVERYTHING! My family camped out in the livingroom for those days with a fire in the fire place and candles, flash lights, and lanterns to get us around the rest of the house. I absolutely loved it.

I'm Sorry...Really

I'm sorry to all who actually read this thing. I'm feeling boring and that leaves me thinking there is nothing worth writing about.

Most of you know this, but I no longer work for that advertising company, or any advertising company anymore! It's hard to hold onto a job when your husband leaves every summer to make twice as much money as you do in an entire year. (That's not really saying he makes a lot, just shows how little I make.) So, what job could I get with all my summers off, holidays, and weekends off, pretty much the same schedule as my student husband??? A fifth grade para in special education at a middle school just down the street? Well, that's exactly it. I teach small groups of 10 year olds with learning disabilities math, reading, and language art.

I know it's hard for you to believe I'm talking to 10 year olds, let alone teaching them. You gotta do what you gotta do, right? I know teaching children is an incredibly difficult job and that's exactly why I never went into elementary ed in my college days. And now, here I am trying it. Thank goodness I'm not one of the real 5th grade teachers in this school who have 34 children in each class. I can't imagine. I can hardly handle four! Like I said, I'm not cut out for this. But I'm learning a ton, mostly about patience.






I got this beauty for free. Just one of the many perks of my job ;)

Yes, I chopped my hair off and yes, I never thought I would have another school picture taken in my life. Just goes to show how life surprises you sometimes.

Mondays' Memory

Like most families, Saturday's in the Weathers household meant cleaning. Laaaawwwts of cleaning. Well, it seemed like a lot at the time! The house I grew up in was built in the 1970's I believe and it had this nifty little speaker system that went througout the entire house and out the back door. We had some fun times with it, but that has nothing to do with this memory. On the speaker system was a radio at the "mother-board" in the kitchen area. One beautiful Saturday in April of 1998 a couple of sisters and I were listening to what I'm sure was a pretty rad song of that time period. Could have been 'Truly Madly Deeply' by Savage Garden, 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five, or 'Iris' by the Goo Goo Dolls. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was a rock song because that's how we rolled ;). Trying to put some excitement into our Saturday spring cleaning we formed a band with our cleaning supplies and rocked out hard core. Someone snapped a picture and here you have it, enjoy:




(I'm the guitar player/back up singer...if you couldn't already tell.)

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” – Jane Austen

I feel like there is so much to do I don't even know where to start. Sorry for the lack of blogging if anyone out there cares! We arrived in Idaho just over a week ago and we have yet to finish unpacking. We both started work or school a couple days after getting here and now we leave Friday to head up to Spokane. My baby brother gets home from his mission tomorrow! Time flies...

"Ugh whatever." E. Harker

The Harkers

On June 28th, my friend Chelsea came into town to visit her husband...and me of course ;). Since then I have had only four days without a visitor. It's been great! But, I must admit I am tired. Tylers' family left Sunday and I've been busy doing laundry, cleaning, and really just getting back to real life. I've been working for Apx as an office assistant for the last couple weeks since one of them left early. It's easy and I'm hoping to do it full time next summer, if we go out again.

I'm going to take it slow and just post about our visit from the Harker family, which came into town after Chelsea and my trip to NY to visit the sisters, (see post below). It was really nice having my sister and her family in town for a week and I hope they enjoyed their stay. If you would like a more detailed version of what we were up to check it out here.

Here's my version of what went down:

Pool time.


Blueberry/raspberry picking.




Gillette Castle.



Picnic by the state capital building.

Park playing.

Beach in Rhode Island with Grandma.


It's been a fun summer. The east coast has been a great new adventure! I really do love it here and it is beautiful. Don't tell anyone, but I miss Rexburg ;) (I will be wanting to escape it within a few months though. Once the snow comes and the temperature gets below zero!)

July

No time to blog! Went to NYC first week of July, had sister and her family the second week in July, my Mom is here right now, and the Muir family will be here the last week in July... I may or may not blog again till August. We shall see.

NYC Weathers Style

Three of my sisters have real jobs that pay them a real salary so they get to do some real traveling. They all met up in NYC a week ago and are heading to France, Germany, and Austria for the next 2.5 weeks. I met up with them in New York last Wednesday and spent a couple days with them.

My first train ride. (From New Haven to Grand Central.)




We hit up Time Sqaure, Empire State Building, Manhatan Temple, old Public Library, and a few other places...








But, probably the highlight of the trip was...


Center orchestra seats 6 rows back at the Met for the ballet. You could see ever muscle and every drop of sweat. It was beautiful.

House Wife

This summer I have been "working from home". Which, in all actually means I'm waiting for my boss in Rexburg to give me work. I half heartedly looked for a part-time job here in CT, but with no avail. During the school year I am the primary bread winner so it's really weird right now not to be the one raking in the dough. Feeling guilty, I take my role as a loving house wife. Here is what I do for Tyler while he works:

- Clean
- Laundry (he helps with this one)
- Grocery shopping
- Pack him a lunch
- Make him dinner
- And occasional cook up some breakfast
- Wash all the dishes

I try not to let him help me out because then I feel like he contributes way more than me ;) This may not seem like very much to most of you, but it is very different for me. While I work 40 hours a week and Tyler goes to school we usually take on all these responsibilities together. Equally. Well, he never makes dinner, but he usually does all the dishes afterwards. I guess it's good practice for when I'll be staying home with the little ones in the future...

Vintage

My darling sweet husband of mine loves old cars. He loves them so much he owns two, a '76 Cadillac something, and a sixty-something Lincoln, I don't know the specifics :). They both run great, but look nothing like these beauties:




Half of this car is made out of solid wood. I can't imagine how heavy it is...



I like the color of this car...


We went to a car show yesterday afternoon. There were probably a couple hundred cars there at this local park by our apartment complex. Most of them were amazing! Some were...funny. We saw a few souped-up cars from the 80's and even some "fast and the furious" type cars. But, mostly it was just really nice vintage cars from the Ford Model-T to that Charger muscle car at the top of this post, (one of Tyler's favorite cars ever) and everything in-between.

Maybe someday I'll get on the show Over Haulin', so at least one of Tyler's cars can look real nice...for free.