Steve and Lindsey Corry

Heartfelt Thoughts.

2011-12-27T12:47:00.001-07:00

I have been thinking about writing this post for a long time. I’ve had some of it written for a long time. But now I think it’s finally time to post it. Steve brought it up yesterday and encouraged me to write it and share it. So, I apologize for the length of this post. Please be patient with my somewhat unintelligible writing. This was a difficult post to write. I tried to keep some of the emotion out so it’s not too much of a downer, but I feel like I need to share this. Here goes.

Rewind to February 2010. We decided to really try to start our family. The first few months were filled with excitement and anticipation, but by the time January 2011 came around, we were getting a bit discouraged. I was also having some other issues, so I went in to a doctor in Logan. When I explained my issues and that we had been trying to get pregnant for about a year, he recommended some blood tests. After running them twice, they all came back fine and I was referred to an OB/GYN. She was awesome. She prescribed Clomid for me. (The same fertility medication my mom used to get pregnant with me!) I used it one month, and the blood tests showed that it hadn’t worked. So we upped the amount, and tried again. I found out I was pregnant on May 28, 2011. It was the day after the last day of school. We were absolutely thrilled. The only other day I’ve been that happy is when I married Steve. We couldn’t wait to tell our families! We thought about waiting until after our Dr. appointment, but after about a week we couldn’t keep it secret anymore. We were just too excited. So, we told both of our immediate families the first week of June. I’m glad we did.

June 10, 2011. My birthday. We were in Cedar City for Dan and Brittney’s wedding. I had been spotting for a couple days, but my Dr. said it was normal and nothing to worry about. They thought maybe I had just worked too hard in the days before. (We were packing to move to Wyoming). The morning of the 10^th, we went to Dan and Brittney’s sealing. It was beautiful. We went to the luncheon, and then came back to Cedar City. I called my doctor to get more reassurance, and they said it was still fine. If I saw red blood, I should go to the ER. (So far it had just been brown/pink) That evening there was a ring ceremony right before the reception. We went out to that, and then came back to Steve’s parents’ house before the reception. Steve had a paper he had to finish and submit that weekend. At about 8:00, just as we were preparing to go back to the reception, I started bleeding. We panicked, I cried, and we drove to the ER. They hooked me to an IV, did blood tests, and ultrasounds. At about 11:30 I was discharged, and we were told that we had lost the baby. I left with pain pills and instructions on what to do next. I remember breaking down just as we got to the car. I couldn’t believe that after all this work, we had lost our precious baby. Even though I was just 6 weeks, I loved that baby with all my heart. I called my mom to tell her, and then we drove home to tell Steve’s family. Steve sat with me in the car once we got to his parents’ house for a good 10 minutes while I bawled my eyes out. Then we went straight to bed. The next day, the pain hit. It was like cramps, but 10 times worse. I couldn’t move. I hated the pain because I knew I wouldn’t get anything good out of it at the end. I felt very emotionally numb. That day we drove up to Salt Lake. The car ride was torture. I was fortunate because I didn’t need a D&C, but it killed me when I realized that my body had passed my baby in the gas station off the side of I-15. We spent a couple days in Salt Lake. Those days all blur together. It was very hard for me to wrap my head around what had happened. We were faced with other challenges as they wanted me to have more blood tests, my Dr. was out of town, etc. After spending hours back and forth on the phone with Dr.s we finally got the blood test, but they did the wrong one. It felt like the nightmare just wouldn’t end. But it did. We got back to Logan, life got back to normal, and my Dr. renewed my Clomid prescription and said we could try again. So we did.

Mid August 2011. We discovered that we were pregnant again. I was thrilled, but terrified. I kept telling myself it would be okay. I knew I couldn’t go through that pain again. August 25, right before the 6 week mark, I started spotting again. All the emotions came back in an instant. I called my Dr. in Laramie in a panic, and they set up a time to see me right away. After a couple days and a couple blood tests, I was told that I had miscarried again. I felt like my heart shattered. I set up a time to return in 2 weeks so they could make sure my blood levels were back to normal before we started trying again. I endured the pain again, and my emotions were rubbed raw. I returned in 2 weeks and they did the blood tests again. My earlier tests had been in the low 20s, and we were expecting a number near 0. My HCG was in the 300s. I called the on call doctor and explained what had happened. He listened to my whole story, and then told me to come in first thing in the morning. So began the hardest month of my life. For the next month, I was at the Dr.s office at least once a week, and up to 4 times a week. I spent just as much time at the hospital having my blood drawn. They continued monitoring my numbers and performing ultrasounds. My HCG just kept going up, but very slowly. Some other symptoms I had had earlier, but not associated with pregnancy, began to make more sense. They believed I had an ectopic pregnancy. I was very fortunate to have wonderful doctors (I worked with all 3 in the clinic during this time). They allowed me to make my own decisions. Because an ectopic pregnancy can rupture and put the mother in danger, they recommended treating it right away. But because they never could find it on the ultrasound, I didn’t feel comfortable with the shot or the surgery. They allowed me to wait, but I was instructed to take it easy- no running. I was also fortunate to have very understanding employers. They allowed me to leave at lunch to zip to the hospital, or leave 10 minutes early to make it to an appointment. They were all very good to me during that time. Steve’s parents informed us that they were having a fast for us in October. At my next Dr. visit, the number started going down. It was taking care of itself. By the beginning of November, my number was back to 0 and I was able to stop going to the Dr. I could run again. I was able to try to get my life back again. Now I’m finally feeling back to myself.

The past 6 months have been an emotional rollercoaster. I have gone through emotional and physical pain like I never knew. Most of these months, I could not look at pregnant women without crying. I couldn’t stand holding babies. I was angry and hurting. I spent a lot of time on my knees, pleading for help. More recently, I have started feeling that help. I have felt the prayers offered by friends and family members. I have felt the strength of the Lord helping me along. I found great comfort in a quote by President Richard G. Scott.

“When you face adversity, you can be led to ask many questions. Some serve a useful purpose; others do not. To ask, Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? will lead you into blind alleys. It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Willing sacrifice of deeply held personal desires in favor of the will of God is very hard to do. Yet, when you pray with real conviction, “Please let me know Thy will” and “May Thy will be done,” you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your loving Father.”

(Read the whole talk HERE)

Although it has been hard to let go of what I want right now, I have felt greater peace as I strive to submit my will to my Heavenly Father’s will. I’m still working on this. I’m still trying to live in the moment. Lately I’ve been feeling like Rapunzel from Tangled when she sings about wondering when her life will begin. I’m still working to be happy now, rather than just waiting for the life I’ve dreamed of. Steve has been amazing through this whole ordeal. He has listened to me, cried with me, and been very patient with me. I am very grateful to have my best friend at my side through all of this. We haven’t given up. Our doctors haven’t given up. I’ve been given new medications to supplement those I already have. We continue to pray daily for our future family. I’m starting to move on again, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten my sweet little babies. I am a mother of 2 darling angels. I don’t know when I will see them again, but I know they are mine. I love them each very much. I think of them every day. I pray for them every day. I know they are part of my family.

My heart aches when I think of the countless women who have suffered more than me. I send prayers and thoughts to any women struggling infertility or miscarriages. The pain is awful, and no one should have to endure it. But please know you’re not alone. I pray for any of you who may have gone through this. You’re in my thoughts.

Chocolates

2011-12-02T20:01:00.002-07:00

I feel very grown up today. I am making chocolates. By myself. In my own little home.

I make chocolates every year with my family, so that part isn't new. But I've never actually done the entire process without my mom/sisters. I am very glad that when I was home for Thanksgiving I did some chocolates with my mom and Berkeley. There are some constants involved with chocolates that simply make them marvelous. Throw on Muppet Christmas Carol, sing along, dip to your heart's content, then lick your fingers when finished. Bliss. I'll surely be missing my family tomorrow, but I'm excited to attempt this on my own. And with Steve of course! Amazing Steve, who went out to the garage to scour our boxes for my candy thermometer, only to then find it for me 20 minutes later... in the kitchen. I KNEW I wouldn't be crazy enough to pack that precious item away in the garage, but I just couldn't find it! I'm sure lucky Steve's around.

So this year on my agenda- Mint truffles, Turtles, Cinnamon Bears, Cherry Cordials. Yum!! Pictures to come!! Now, I'd better go work on those centers so I can enjoy a dipping extravaganza tomorrow!!

(Please excuse my weird look in this picture. This wasn't a Christmas chocolate dipping, it was in the middle of the summer. I was providing chocolates for a wedding. It was warm out, so I had to dip from about 4am-8am. I was tired.)

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2011-11-30T17:07:00.003-07:00

:November 30:

I am thankful for this awesome thanksgiving challenge. I am glad I participated, and got back into the habit of blogging. Hopefully that means I will be blogging more often. :) Thank you for joining me on this fun adventure of gratitude. I can't believe the month is over, but I can't wait to see what December brings!

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2011-11-30T17:04:00.001-07:00

:November 29:

I am thankful for chocolate. I like chocolate. A lot. I love that my family makes chocolates at Christmas time. I am glad we have added chocolate covered cinnamon bears to our list. Yum!

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2011-11-28T20:52:00.001-07:00

:November 28:

I am thankful for my oven. It is a marvelous thing. (and it's full sized!!) A few weeks ago, the heating element on our oven broke and had to be replaced. The few days that we were oven-less were quite difficult. Because I LOVE to cook. I love to use my oven. I loved making bread today, although I don't think putting the crock pot lid in the oven was my smartest move... I now have a very melted handle... :) But I sure do love my Full Sized oven. :)

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2011-11-27T20:33:00.002-07:00

:November 27:

I am thankful for my Savior. I have relied on Him a lot in the past few months, and I have felt His love. I am grateful for the knowledge I have of the atonement. I know that my sins can be forgiven because of my Savior. I also know that He felt all the pain I ever have or ever will feel. He knows. He always knows.

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2011-11-26T22:50:00.003-07:00

:November 26:

I am thankful for the lights at Temple Square. And good friends to enjoy them with. What a fabulous night with Jeff, Hillaree, and Briley. Thanks for spending the evening with us and helping us get in the Holiday spirit!!

Also, I am thankful for our cars. While I'm not exactly looking forward to the drive home tomorrow, I sure am glad that the nearly 400 miles will take under 6 hours. Cars are great things.

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2011-11-25T22:53:00.001-07:00

:November 25:

I am thankful for leftovers. Sometimes that yummy feast tastes much better when you don't work all day to prepare it. :)

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2011-11-24T22:28:00.003-07:00

:November 24:

I am thankful for Thanksgiving. There are so many things in life to be grateful for, and I am glad we have a day dedicated to remembering and celebrating them. How awesome is it that we have a day all about being grateful. Sometimes it can be easy to forget all that we should give thanks for, and I'm always glad of the reminder. I hope we can all take a little time every day to share our thankfulness.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

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2011-11-23T22:40:00.002-07:00

:November 23:

I am thankful that my mom taught me to cook. I've been helping my mom in the kitchen ever since I can remember, and I've learned some great lessons along the way. I was blessed with a mom who is a fabulous cook. I aspire to be like her, and I like to think that every meal I get a little closer. :) I love cooking, and I am very grateful that I have the ability to make yummy food for my family.

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2011-11-22T23:09:00.003-07:00

:November 22:

I am thankful for the I-80 rest stop in Wyoming at exit 144. I had to use the restroom, and I was convinced I would have to wait the 40 miles to get to Rock Springs. To be honest, I even said a little prayer informing Heavenly Father that I didn't remember if there were any other stops before then, so he was welcome to just throw in a rest stop anywhere for me. :) Lo and behold, one mile later we stumbled on exit 144. It was grand. I very much appreciated this break on our trek from Wyoming to Utah. And now I'm thankful to be home. Yay!

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2011-11-21T21:57:00.002-07:00

:November 21:

I am thankful for the cooperation of the weather. I-80 has already closed several times due to snow and wind this year, and I am glad that it looks like the weather will let us drive home to Salt Lake tomorrow without incident. Huzzah!!

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2011-11-20T19:09:00.002-07:00

:November 20:

I am thankful for this next week. It is a 2 day work week. Hooray!! There has been some crazy stuff going on at work this past week, and I've been using lots of my prep time to help out. So this past week feels like it has gone on forever. And ever. I am very grateful that this week I only have 2 days, and then a nice, relaxing break in Utah. Yay!!

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2011-11-19T22:23:00.002-07:00

:November 19:

I am thankful for our Halloween pumpkin. We never got around to carving our pumpkin this year. So when we decided to pull out the Christmas decorations today, I decided the pumpkin had to go. Steve chopped it up and we made a bunch of pumpkin puree. Yum! I've made bread and muffins today, plus I had tons left over to freeze. I sure do love pumpkin.

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2011-11-18T22:12:00.002-07:00

:November 18:

I am thankful for prayer. I have had a lot of prayers on my behalf the past few months, and I felt their power. I am grateful for the opportunity to commune with a loving Heavenly Father. He is there. He listens. And he blesses.

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2011-11-17T20:43:00.002-07:00

:November 17:

I am thankful for sunlight. Steve and I went on a run after work today. We got home around 5:30, and it looked like it was the dead of night. I'm not used to being on the far East end of the time zone. It starts getting dark at 4:30. And it's weird. So I am incredibly thankful for sunlight during the rest of the day!!

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2011-11-16T19:54:00.002-07:00

:November 16:

I am thankful for YOU! Yep. If you are reading my blog, then I am super thankful for you. It means a lot to me that you would pop over here from your busy life to check in on me. I think you are absolutely splendid!! Go ahead. Give yourself a high five. Because you're awesome.

By the way- since when is November more than halfway over!! Craziness!

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2011-11-15T20:30:00.002-07:00

:November 15:

I am thankful for yummy food. I have had to work late the past few days, and we had our ward Thanksgiving dinner tonight. It was very nice not to have to worry much about dinner prep/clean up. I just had to make a small side dish. And then enjoy a marvelous feast. I was very thankful for that tonight.

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2011-11-14T22:02:00.002-07:00

:November 14:

I am thankful for my coat. Yes. My big poofy winter coat. It has been very cold the past few weeks, and I have loved snuggling up in my coat at recess. Plus today was Super duper windy, so I was grateful to have my coat on my body. Steve and I went to choir tonight, and on the way back to the car (a whole 100 feet...) we commented on how hard it would be for the pioneers to cross Wyoming. I never really thought about it until now, since I live here and all. But weather here can be brutal! Snow, freezing temperatures, and insane wind! The highways close on a regular basis due to the combination of snow and wind. We drove through a white out just the other night getting home from Wal Mart. I can't imagine walking through that. For days on end. With no coat. Yes. Today I am thankful for my coat.

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2011-11-13T19:47:00.002-07:00

:November 13:

I am thankful for my primary class. I teach the Valiant 8 class. (8-9 year olds) They are absolutely fabulous. I enjoy seeing them each Sunday and spending 2 hours of the block with them. I am also thankful that Steve's calling doesn't require Sunday time, so he is able to come to class with me. It has been great having him there as well. I love primary!

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2011-11-12T11:20:00.002-07:00

:November 12:

I am thankful for running.

I love to run. I haven't been cleared to run for a while, but I got the okay last week and I went out for a beautiful run this morning. It was cold, windy, and perfect. Running is very therapeutic for me. I love pushing my body as far as I possibly can, and then a little more. I also love how accomplished I feel after a nice run. Yep. I sure do love running.

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2011-11-11T20:12:00.003-07:00

:November 11:

I am thankful for the temple.

(Denver, Colorado Temple)

I love the covenants from the temple. I love eternal families. I love knowing that my family is eternal. Not just this life, but forever to come. I love the peace that comes from those thoughts.

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2011-11-10T18:54:00.002-07:00

:November 10:

I am thankful for my cell phone. And Skype. And Facebook. And blogs. And email. And old fashioned letters. I love being able to keep in touch with the people I care about, even when we're far away.

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2011-11-09T18:54:00.002-07:00

:November 9:

I am thankful for my whistle.

Yep. Recess sure has been more enjoyable since I started bringing this little guy along.

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2011-11-08T18:27:00.003-07:00

:November 8:

I am thankful for my job. Although it was not at all what I expected to find when I sought out a teaching position in Laramie, I am learning a lot from my job this year. And really, who wouldn't love to speak Spanish with the kiddos, sing fun songs and learn basic music with the kiddos, do awesome art projects like such with the kiddos,

and have awesome PE experiences with the kiddos! (Gymnastics for the past 5 weeks, Ice Skating 5 weeks after Thanksgiving, Rock Climbing to follow...)

We love to play in the pit at the end of gymnastics. :)

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2011-11-07T21:53:00.002-07:00

:November 7:

I am thankful for music. I love all kinds of music. I love playing my violin. I love teaching my new little violin student. I love teaching all kinds of music at school. I love singing with the civic chorus. I love listening to music while I clean the house. My favorites are Mindy Gledhill, Meaghan Smith, and Priscilla Ahn. Yep. Music makes me happy. Music helps me when I feel sad. Music heals me. I love music.

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2011-11-06T09:17:00.002-07:00

:November 6:

Today's a bonus. 2 thoughts. :)

I am thankful for awesome friends. I have many of them. All over the country. And I think they are spectacular. I love that we can meet up with friends that we haven't seen in years, and still have a blast. Thanks for letting us know you were in town Greg and Caitlin! We had such fun getting hot chocolate and pie with you last night! -Anyone else ever in Laramie... let us know!! :)

I am thankful for electricity. Although it was kind of fun use candles for a few hours last night, it sure was nice when the heat kicked back on in the middle of the night. :)

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2011-11-04T20:40:00.009-06:00

Okay. I'm back. The past few months have been long and hard, but I'll write more about them later. Right now, I'm going to join in the fun! Charlotte and Leslie have both inspired me to start my own list of Thanks on my blog. I know I have a few days catching up to do, but here we go!!

:November 1:

I am thankful for Steve.

He is amazingly good to me. He is patient, kind, hardworking, and makes awesome birthday cakes! I can't imagine my life without having him at my side.

:November 2:

I am thankful for my family.

Spring 2010 family picture.

I have amazing parents and sisters. I love them so much. Plus, our family just keeps expanding! I got a new bro-in-law in September, and when I married Steve, I got a whole new family to be thankful for! Here we are as of June 2011.

:November 3:

I am thankful for my home. I love having a nice place to come to after work. I love decorating my home and making it a peaceful place to relax and spend time with Steve.

:November 4:

I am thankful for my body. I love to experience new things, and push myself. My body lets me do that. And it always reminds me that I give myself credit for.

:November 5:

I am thankful for our new water filter.

Who knew Laramie water could taste so good!! :)

Well, thanks for humoring me for my first 5 days... I'll be back with more Thankful Thoughts!!

Yikes!!

2011-08-21T20:56:00.002-06:00

I can't be failing at this whole blogging every Sunday thing already! Okay, apparently I am. But in my defense, I don't really have anything too incredibly interesting to say. I started work this past week. It's been a very interesting experience thus far. I'm going to be working in a Montessori school, and I'm not Montessori trained. It's been interesting to learn more about Montessori and see how it fits in with my view of education. It's super exciting to be starting up a new school! And by exciting, I mean totally crazy! The school is under construction, so we're going to be in the Archery room at the community center (same building) until December. Unfortunately, they're still waiting on a part for the fire alarm/sprinkler system in the archery room, and school starts Thursday. So, the Methodist church has been so kind as to lend us a couple rooms in their building. We're planning to be there for the first 6 1/2 days of school. That is unless the sprinkler part comes in... Yeah. We're taking it day by day. I'm still not entirely sure what my job is going to look like. But I don't feel too bad, because I don't know that anyone else does either. :) I'm just super excited to get the kids here. Because really, kids are kids. The reason I went into education was for the kids. So I can't wait to meet them!
Steve's been going to trainings and such for the past week and half, and he starts full time at his school tomorrow. Hooray! We're both excited to get this school year started and see what our new jobs have in store for us! I'll try to have something more exciting next week... maybe pictures... :) Good luck to everyone with the start of a new school year!!

2011-08-09T07:57:00.014-06:00

Okay. Sorry this took me a little longer to get posted than I thought. I had a difficult time getting all the pictures on here. On that note, I warn you there are lots of pictures on this post. And probably lots of rambling about our trip. So if you want to skip over it, feel free. :) Our trip back east started Saturday, July 30th. We flew out of Denver, so we decided to stop by the Denver temple, since that is our new temple. It is beautiful, but it was super busy! I can see why they need a new temple in Fort Collins.

Saturday night we arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina. Stacey, Devon, and Devon's cute nephew Charlie picked us up and we went to Smash Burger. Yum! On Sunday we went to church, relaxed, and enjoyed a yummy dinner cooked by Devon. Monday, Steve and I took off to explore Charlotte. We spent some time at the Billy Graham museum/library. It was pretty awesome. We even got little cards to sign and carry with us to remember the day we were saved. :) Here's Steve walking out of the last room in the museum, and me in front of the main building.

Tuesday morning, Stacey and I went to get pedicures. I'd never had a pedicure before, and it was pretty great! We wandered around the mall, got her a beautiful dress to wear to the temple, and ate some yummy frozen yogurt. Then it was time to go back to their place to get ready to head down to Columbia.

Steve and I were lucky enough to drive with Stacey on our way down to the temple. We took this picture while we were waiting at the drive thru at McDonalds. :)

The Columbia, SC temple is beautiful! And very small!

Hey look! They're married!!

We got some group shots outside the temple, and Steve was photographer and took a few other great pictures of Stacey and Devon. After a few minutes though, we were all way too hot and decided to get back in the cars.

So we drove to Charleston and checked into our hotels. Side note here, our hotel was bad news!! It was not exactly super clean. And it didn't have a do not disturb sign. Which, apparently, we needed. When we were gone on Wednesday, we came back to find Steve's bag wide open. And when we were gone for only a little bit early Thursday morning, we came back to find 3 of our 4 towels had gone missing. Weird. Anyway, back to Tuesday night. We met back with everyone and Devon's mom treated us to TGI Fridays. It was yummy!

Wednesday morning was Devon and Stacey's ring ceremony. And it was on board a Carnival cruise ship. Awesome! We spent the hour before the ceremony wandering around the ship.

Then we attended the beautiful ceremony.

And ate a super fancy dinner in a fancy dining room.

Steve was even brave enough to eat his whole pile of creamed spinach stuff all at once. And this was even after baby Sammy had tried a small bite and made the funniest most disgusted face. I tried to take a picture of the dessert, but it turned out kind of weird. But it was SO good! Passion fruit goodness with berries and yummy juice.... and also super yummy cake.

After dinner, we were kicked off the ship so they could get ready to set sail! Thursday morning we were on our own. We started the day by running across this cool bridge over the Charleston Bay.

This is a horrible picture of me, but I am just showing that we really did run. Please ignore my crazy facial expression.

Then we packed up our stuff into Stacey's car (Thanks for letting us borrow it!!) and headed North to Myrtle Beach. On our way, we stopped at the Hampton Plantation. It was neat, but within seconds we were eaten by mosquitoes!! I think between the two of us we received at least 20-30 bites within about 5 seconds. It was CRAZY! Between the heat, humidity, and bugs, I don't know how slaves worked on those plantations. My heart goes out to them even more after experiencing just a few minutes there. As Steve was taking this picture, I was calling out for him to hurry up because mosquitoes were starting to find me again.

We kept driving and made it to Myrtle Beach. Our hotel here was still cheap, but SO much better than the one in Charleston! And the location... Awesome!!! This is the view from just outside the hotel. Perfect.

Steve got to experience the Atlantic Ocean for the first time!

And my feet were super happy.

We spent the rest of Thursday on the beach. Friday, we decided to do some exploring. We walked down to the main part of Myrtle Beach and walked through lots of gift shops. At my favorite one (The Gay Dolphin) we found many very random treasures. Including these magnets...

Cool huh!? They also had some from other states/cities nowhere remotely near Myrtle Beach. We spent the rest of Friday afternoon playing in the waves. I didn't really get any pictures, but trust me, it was great! Saturday morning we decided to get up really early to see the sunrise. We missed the actual rise part, but it was still beautiful!

Then we went for a barefoot run on the beach.

We left Myrtle Beach that morning, and headed back to Charlotte, NC to start our journey home. Unfortunately, our flight from Charlotte to Atlanta was delayed because of a storm in Atlanta. We finally made it, but when we landed in Atlanta, we found that we had missed our connecting flight... by 5 minutes. :( So we tried to get on Standby for the last flight to Denver that night. We started as numbers 40 and 41 on the standby list, and we made it all the way to 20 and 21... but we didn't make the flight. So, we made ourselves "comfortable" and got a couple hours of sleep.

*Note I'm wearing Steve's suit coat... it was FREEZING!* Our new flight was scheduled to leave Atlanta at 9:40 Sunday morning. But we were super lucky and were 2 of the 3 lucky individuals to make it on standby on to the 8:20 flight. We got home around 1:00 and napped the rest of the day. :) We had a super fun vacation, and I'm glad we were able to see Devon and Stacey, and also spend some time with just the two of us before school starts. :)

Coming...

2011-08-07T20:17:00.003-06:00

I originally planned to spend this afternoon typing up a marvelous post all about our adventures through the Carolinas this past week. But that was when we were going to get home last night. Since our flight was delayed because of weather, we missed our connecting flight and were stuck in the Atlanta airport overnight. So, I spent this afternoon taking a nap instead. In case any of you are absolutely dying to know all about our trip, come back tomorrow. I'll tell you all about it in the morning! :)

Welcome to Laramie!

2011-07-31T13:00:00.001-06:00

I'm back! So, when we were getting ready to leave Logan, Hillaree and I promised each other we would blog every Sunday. Last Sunday she was great and posted... but we didn't have internet yet. :( But I am determined to redeem myself, so here is my first post from the city of Laramie! We moved out here July 15th and so far, we're loving it! Steve and I both start work on August 15th. Him as a school psychologist at Linford Elementary, and me as a PE/music/art/Spanish teacher at the brand new Montessori School. We're both super excited! We've spent the past 2 weeks unpacking and exploring this new city. We've also started a kind of game... seeing how often we can find the bucking bronco around town. They are everywhere! In the past few weeks we've also started getting to know a few other couples in the neighborhood. I'm looking forward to making some new great friends, although I really miss everyone back in Utah!!

Anyway- I took a few pictures of our place... so that just like when we moved to Logan, I can give you the grand tour!! Welcome to our little apartment!

We'll start the tour with the outside of our wonderful home, taken from Google Maps. It's a small house divided into 2 apartments. We are in the basement, and the entrance is the door you can see. Let's head on in...

...and we can proceed to the basement. On the right, you'll see an entrance to the garage. We are lucky to have it, so we have lots of storage in there. The neighbors upstairs do lots of car work, so all their tools are in there. No room for actual cars though. When you go down the stairs, you'll want to take a left...

and you'll be in the shared laundry room. See that door there, that's our door. Hooray!

You'll walk right in to the living room. Turn to your left, and you see the dining area. I'm so glad we have a real dining area... that's not part of the kitchen! Turn the corner to your left and you'll see the kitchen.

Take a moment and admire a few things with me. Number one- dishwasher! Number two- full sized stove! Number three- a fridge that is taller than me! Did I mention the dishwasher!! I love this kitchen. There's not a ton of storage space, but we were able to fit everything we needed. Let's head out of the kitchen and take a right.

The dining area is to your left now. It's all just one big long room. There's a nice storage closet down there at the end, and if we keep walking past it we'll end up in the office.

This room is home to our computer, Steve's school stuff, and my sewing stuff. Also, the three boxes we haven't yet unpacked. They're all old papers and school stuff, and we just can't bring ourselves to sort through them quite yet. Maybe in the next few months... :)

Around the corner, we have the bathroom. It's quite small, and the shower is only a corner shower, but it works just fine!

And last stop, at the end of the mini hall is the bedroom. I love the bigger windows in these two back rooms. It makes it feel not so much like a basement. One of my favorite things about the apartment so far has been the trains! We live pretty close to the freeway and train tracks. And it is a busy train yard!! Every couple hours, including all night, we can hear the trains and their whistles. I love it!

So. That's the apartment! Now... who's coming for a visit!?! :)

Roller Coasters

2011-04-06T10:22:00.003-06:00

I've been thinking about roller coasters, and how they relate to life. Weird, I know. But usually I just hear people talking about roller coasters when referring to the ups and downs and unexpected turns of life. Which is great, but I feel like Steve and I are at another point of the roller coaster. Have you ever been on Wicked at Lagoon?

It's a fun one! And right at the top of the hill, you freeze for just a split second. And look down.

And you know it's going to be good and exciting, and just perhaps a bit unexpected. But for that split second, you're frozen. That's where I feel right now. I know good things are coming! (Intern for Steve, moving, end of the school year) But right now, it's just the anticipation. I don't know where Steve will intern. I have no idea where we're moving to. There are lots of surprises in store. Just like the twists and turns of a roller coaster. But, I do know that it will be fun, and exciting, and it will be over all too fast. So now, I'll just take a deep breath and enjoy this roller coaster ride!

Apology for repeat

2011-02-10T17:37:00.003-07:00

I apologize if some of you have heard this story before... but Steve said I should put it on here. And since I have no real intention of trying to catch up from the past 10 months... here goes!

Last week I was teaching my kids about equivalent fractions. Equivalent was one of their vocabulary words, so to start off the lesson I had them talk to their neighbor and take turns explaining what the word equivalent meant. I noticed that two students at the back weren't talking to each other. Boy was waiting patiently, while Girl was staring off into space. Girl is a tiny little diva who tries to act like she's 16. (She was wearing heels today... she's 8!) Anyway... I go back to them, and tell Girl that she needs to tell Boy what the word equivalent means. I startle her and she jumps a bit, then turns right to Boy and blurts out (quite loudly) "I love you!" (I'm laughing as I'm typing this...) It was great!! Much better in person... but just try to picture in your head a little 8 year old boy turning bright red as the whole back row starts chuckling and Mrs. Corry is laughing so hard she is crying and can't talk. It took me nearly 3 minutes to get my class going again. I would finally get my composure and go to the front of the class, only to look back and see Girl- at which point I'd start laughing again. I hear all kinds of things as a teacher, but this was the first confession of love. :) Fortunately, Boy and Girl are both great kids with great senses of humor, so by the end of the day they were laughing about it and by the next day it had essentially been forgotten. But I still think it was the best thing I've ever seen in my classroom!

New!

2011-02-06T20:06:00.001-07:00

New background! New posts coming!

Oh p.s.- when I changed the background, it got rid of all the links to blogs. So if you happen to read this, could you send me a link to your blog so I can get it back up there?

Thanks much!! :)

Running...and Rambling...

2010-04-12T20:17:00.002-06:00

I've been meaning to post this picture for a while now- here it is! January 23rd- My entire family ran a 5K in St. George. It was everyone's first race... except for me and Steve. I LOVE races, and this one was extra special! I'm so glad I got the chance to do this race with my entire family! A few weeks ago me, Steve, my mom, and Berkeley ran a 10K in St. George. It was also awesome! Pictures to come. :) These races were part of the Runners Series- a way to get into the St. George Marathon! So- we registered last week, and we are now OFFICIALLY training for the St. George Marathon on October 2nd. Woot! Anyway- enough with my rant. I really just wanted to post this picture because I like it so much! :)

The B.L.U.T.

2010-02-16T19:33:00.004-07:00

Meet the B.L.U.T. (Big Loud Ugly Thing) The newest addition to our household... :) And it sure does make me happy! The pictures below do not even do it justice, and were taken AFTER I scrubbed it and made it as clean as possible. Yep. That's all. I love the B.L.U.T!!!

Pizza Pizza!!

2010-01-17T20:06:00.004-07:00

We love pizza. For Christmas Jeff, Jenna, Dallin, and Allison gave us the coolest gift ever! In November, Jenna learned that I struggle with making pizzas look pretty. So, for me to practice with, they gave us a cute gift basket of yummy crust mix and pizza sauce, as well as a super cool chef's hat for Steve and an adorable (handmade) apron for me. This gift basket also came with an awesome Pizza Stone!! (We have since used the pizza stone also to make Indian naan... perfect!!. But more on that later...) Right after we got home from Christmas we decided to give it a try and make pizza....

And boy was it yummy!! Thanks other Corry's!!

Our Christmas. :)

2010-01-03T18:26:00.005-07:00

The Christmas season has come and gone, but it was definitely one full of great memories for us! Of course, the Johnson family Christmas always starts with chocolates. Steve and I went to Salt Lake to help with the dipping for a weekend. And of course- the best part is when you get to lick off your fingers... yum!

Even though we weren't home for Christmas, we still decorated our apartment for the season. Here are a couple of my favorite decorations:

I received the nativity scene when I was 12 from my primary teachers. I absolutely love it! Last year was the first year that I didn't have it to display- it was lost somewhere in my parents house. But I found it this past October, and this was the first decoration to go up. The angel was a project for my Theater for Elementary Education class at SUU. We had to make puppets out of different objects, and this is the one I made out of a popsicle stick. It makes me smile, so we have put it on our tree for the past 2 years. :)

Another Johnson family tradition... actually a Wride family tradition... is my Grandma's Christmas party. All kinds of fun is had there! Enchilada dinner, delightful eclairs, peanut butter cup making, graham cracker "gingerbread" house decorating, and even Santa pays a visit! I look forward to this party all year! What a great time to get together with family and just have fun!

The actual Christmas holiday was spent with Steve's family in Cedar City, and we had so much fun!! I didn't have my camera with me a lot... so I missed lots of great photo moments. Like the caroling party on the 23rd, and Christmas morning itself! But- I did manage to capture a couple great moments. First, a picture of the Christmas Eve nativity. We went over to Bob and Barbara's house, where the kids reenacted the Nativity for us. Fabulous!! Next- our stockings Christmas morning. I love Christmas morning, and I'm sad I don't have any other pictures! But these will have to do for now. :)

The day after Christmas we drove to Zion with Steve's parents, Dan and Laura. We went on a small but icy hike- the Canyon Overlook Trail. It was absolutely beautiful! And Zion covered in snow may be my favorite view of Zion ever! Gorgeous!

Now- we've returned to Logan and we're getting ready to get back into things. :) I hope you had a fabulous holiday season as well!! (Look below for our Christmas card for you!)

Now... Bring on the new adventures of 2010!!

Christmas Card

2010-01-03T12:31:00.003-07:00

A little late...
I made this Christmas card a while ago, and then I forgot to email it to everyone. So- Merry Late Christmas!! :) (It's the front of the card, then the top and bottom of the card...)

Long Overdue...(Road Trip)

2009-11-25T13:09:00.005-07:00

Okey dokey, so this post is very long overdue. And, I'm not going to post all the amazing details that I originally planned to. If you really really want to be bored to tears with all of our super cool adventures- just let me know. Otherwise, In a nutshell: We drove across the country this summer! It was great. We started in Yellowstone with Steve's family, then drove out to see Steve's Mission (West Virginia), and my cousins in DC. Then- back we came. We made several AWESOME stops along the way, and we're already excited for our next big trip... sometime...

So- here's our grand course--

Several of the stops were simply KOA stops- places to sleep. But a few fun places we went were:

1- Yellowstone. Super cool animals, and awesome family!

2- Welch, WV. Steve served here for 7 months. I started feeling slightly chlostrophpobic after just a few days. But it was awesome to see where Steve lived for so long and meet some of the people there. What an awesome place!

3- Washington DC. We had tons of fun seeing all the monuments, some museums, and spending time with some of both of our families in VA. We even met up with Dani and Kelly to do a temple session in the DC temple. Beautiful!

4- Kirtland, OH. We only stopped here for a couple hours on a Sunday night, but we got to tour all the buildings but the temple. A very neat place.

5- Waukesha/Milwaukee, WI. We stopped here to see Stacey and meet Brian. Awesome! We are both now quite in love with Milwaukee. Neat City!! We had TONS of fun here- It was one of my very favorite stops. Stacey took us to the Wisconsin State Fair (AWESOME!) and to a Brewers game. (Also awesome!!) Thanks guys!

6- Nauvoo, IL. Fabulous. I wish we had more time here. One of the most beautiful locations I've ever seen- gorgeous river, beautiful little valley, perfect. And the temple. Breathtaking.

7- Logan, UT. Home. It was fabulous to travel- but I was very happy to get back home at the end of it all. :)

If you're dying to see more pictures, click HERE.

Our homey!

2009-09-21T21:55:00.007-06:00

So- I promised pictures of our new home on here. But first, I shall share some pictures of our old place. A few months ago I took these pictures to put on the ad, but I needed to shrink them first. So, I put them on Facebook just to quickly shrink them. But then my internet died and by the time I got back on, several people had commented on them. So, they remained. But I shall paste them here because I know everyone is dying to see our last place! :)
So now, a virtual tour of our basement dwelling in Spanish Fork! We lived here from Aug. 2008-June 2009. We shall begin with the stairs of doom! I realized just now that I don't have a good picture of these stairs! But... here is a picture of us on the stairs... as they are covered in snow... and another picture of me sitting on them.

Yep. Those are what I fondly called the stairs of doom! :) They really weren't too bad, but I'm glad to have normal stairs now... :) Especially with heels...
Moving on- the first thing you saw when you walked into our house was the kitchen!

A very nice kitchen... just random placement. :D
Then you walk down the crazy hallway...

*oooooh* and on your left you see the laundry/storage room. It was quite nice to have all the space under their staircase to put our stuff in. :D If you look to your right you will see the bathroom.

I do miss this bathroom... and all the counter space... and the nice long mirror... But- moving on. The bedroom was located right before the turn in the hallway.

It had a nice big window, and a very nice large closet. Then- if you followed the turn in the hallway, you would finally end up in our living room!

Tada! (Or to quote Dallin... Tadada!) :) It was a little weird having the living room at the end of the house, but it was sometimes kind of fun to lead our visitors through the entire house when they came to visit... :) That door in the corner went to the storage room of the people upstairs. They slipped us our mail under the slot and we slipped them our rent in return. :D Many good times were had in this apartment, but we were very excited to move to Logan! And now that we're here, here are some pictures for you!
First... the door. (Yes, steve laughed when I took a picture of the door, but I intend to give you a tour, so we have to start outside... because I say so...)

And since I know you're all dying to know- we're the one on the left. :) When you walk in, you see our living room/kitchen... like so!

Yes, beautiful I know... :) The doors lead out to our porch, which I totally forgot to take a picture of, so I'll just have to add it later. :D It is quite marvelous with our hammock and all... Anyway- here is a better view of our kitchen- you can practically feel like you're walking right through our home!

Please take time to notice the fridge that is a good six inches shorter than me, along with the itty bitty stove... it holds my smallest cookie sheet... and that's all. But- it's a functioning gas stove, so I won't complain too much... Now my dear friends, turn to your left and we shall proceed down the hallway.

Yep- there's Steve... studying away! (actually, I think this was Sunday, so not so much studying going on...) But that is a pretty typical sight around here. To your immediate left you see our linen/game/random stuff closet, and to your right is our bathroom.

And now you see why I miss the counter space and big mirror. If you were to turn left rather than right, you would see our bedroom.

Notice the lovely cinderblock walls. :) Aaah the joys of on-campus living! I feel almost like I'm back in Juniper again... almost... Proceeding- at the end of the itty bitty hallway, we have the second bedroom. Or in our case, the computer/ironing/storage/Steve's closet/extra books/music room. Please ignore the mess... we are STILL trying to figure out where to put stuff and how to organize that room.

Maybe one day we'll get it figured out. And hopefully we'll have visitors to come and see it! *hint hint...* If anyone needs a place to stay in Logan we would love to have you stay with us! I'll even feed you! Or, if you're just passing through, give us a call! We love visitors!! So, I shall see you out...

And we hope to see you back here SOON!!

I apologize if this blog was photo-overload. I really like looking at pictures of other people's houses... Yes... I'm weird that way... so I put up lots of ours. I hope you don't mind! :)

May-June...

2009-09-07T14:49:00.016-06:00

This summer has been fabulous! Steve and I have been out living life, and not finding too much time to blog about life. But... now we're back and starting to settle into a routine again, so I suppose I should blog about our summer. The entire summer. But I'll just start with May-June...So- here's the game. I'm going to go through our folders and pick 1-4 pictures from each folder that describe something that happened. Then I'll tell you all about it. :) Sound fun? Great! Here we go!
Flashback- all the way to May! May 30th actually. My parent's anniversary, and my family's 6th anniversary! (from our temple sealing!) :D
Not a great picture, but we got to go to a VIP tour of the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was absolutely fabulous! Our small little group of 8 had our own tour guide and it was absolutely beautiful! I love the temple!! Not to mention the fabulous lunch and free Mormon Tabernacle Choir cd they gave us after the tour... :)

Now, jump to a week later- June 7th- My Grandma Wride's 84th birthday. My mom told her they were inviting her to dinner... just a small affair with my parents and sisters. She made a big deal that I couldn't come up because we were so busy getting ready to move. But instead, all of her kids/grandkids who live in Utah came up to my parent's house to surprise her! (Including us... you should have heard grandma scolding my sister..."You lied to me! You said they weren't coming!) haha! Anyway, I was the one with the camera, so I suppose I should put these pictures up for my familial members. :) And I suppose now is a good time to see if I can figure out how to add video, because I did take a video of us... quietly saying surprise... so we didn't scare her too bad... :)

The week before we moved we went to visit our good friends Raj and Ranjeet. Their son Lucky and his wife Kayla were there too. It was great to finally meet them! What started as a quick visit quickly turned into dinner, and we had a great time with them!

Lucky, Kayla, Steve, Lindsey, Ranjeet, Raj

Also right before we moved, Steve's brother Nate and his wife Monica had their first baby! We were lucky to get to meet her before we moved far away! She's almost 3 months now, but here she is in her first few minutes of life. Cute huh!

Heidi Marie Corry -- June 15, 2009

The next day Steve and I got to go with my family to a Bee's game... in a suite! Yep. They started selling tickets much cheaper than what season holders paid for theirs, so my dad called and complained and they gave him a suite for a night. And it was awesome!

And now to the big move! We moved on June 18th. We packed up everything in Spanish Fork on the 17th, in the pouring rain... blah! And then spent the night in our sleeping bags in the living room. My mommy came down to help us the next day as we finished cleaning, and then drove up to Logan! Hurrah! It was a great drive, and we had tons of people come and help us as we were unloading. Aggie Village really is a great place to live! What fabulous neighbors! So, here are a few shots of the chaos that was our house before we moved. :) And I'll get pictures of our new place soon... :)

On the 25th of June Steve and I went with my Grandma and sister Maggie to the Andre Rieu concert at USANA ampitheater. It was Awesome!! I quite like Andre Rieu, and I've grown up watching his concerts on tv at my grandma's house. So it was pretty exciting to actually see him live! The tickets we had were for our own suite, and included a fabulous dinner before the show. And during the Blue Danube, Steve and I got up and danced! (It's tradition to dance during that piece). We were some of the only ones in our area, so we got lots of applause... even though we weren't fabulous... :) Unfortunately, my sister has that picture, so I'll have to steal it from her. :D Here are some other fabulous pictures of that marvelous night! :D

So- here you have the beginning of our amazing summer! Still to come- Corry Reunion, Sun Valley, the rest of July, and of course the magnificent road trip! So... come back soon!

New Post Coming... Tag here!

2009-07-06T14:54:00.003-06:00

I promise a new post is in the works, but in the meantime, I've been tagged by Ashley!
So... here it is.

Here's what you do: Go to google.com, then type in "... needs".

That means I typed in "Lindsey needs". Then you post the first 5 things that pop up!
Here's what I need:

1. Lindsey needs... to take breaks to use the water fountain or bathroom. *Yep. I sure do sometimes......*

2. Lindsey needs... nurturing, patient, and committed adoptive parents. *riiiiight....*

3. Lindsey needs... to remember to breathe. *Don't we all... :)*

4. Lindsey needs... a heart transplant. *Not quite... but this was a sad story. :( *

5. Lindsey needs... a new Do! *Pretty sure I just cut my hair, but I sure do like new hairstyles!*

My favorite is that several of these came from other people doing this same post... :D

Now... time to find out what you need! I really don't know who reads this... so if you did, and you want to do it, consider yourself tagged!! ... and let me know, so I can go read it. :D

Big Chill

2009-06-12T10:56:00.003-06:00

I have fallen in love with appliances from this wonderful place. Big Chill. They make retro inspired fridges, dishwashers, and stoves. And... they're in fabulous bright colors! My kitchen one day is going to have lots of happy bright colors. I have my bright red kitchenaid mixer, fantastic bowl/mugs in bright colors, and some random spatulas/can openers and such in bright colors. So, while investigating Rachel Ray's kitchen, I discovered this amazing place. And I have now decided that one day I will have these appliances in my kitchen. I'm loving the red. Although the blue stove is great too... as is the yellow. :D Take a gander! :)

I'm in love...

One Year Older...

2009-06-10T07:42:00.000-06:00

Summer...

2009-06-09T11:41:00.003-06:00

Blogging is difficult for me, because I feel like I have to blog about everything that happens. Then, when I get behind, I don't want to take the time to catch up about everything... so I don't. My new goal is to blog at least once a week about 1 thing. Small, random, whatever. But I will be more regular about blogging!
With that said, I had every intention of making this a great blog full of pictures of everything we've been up to since school got out. But... I packed the camera cords yesterday. And as much as I love you all, I don't really want to rip into a box to pull out the cords. So maybe you'll get pictures after the move. :)

Without further ado- here is today's random blog.

:: PLUS ::

:: EQUALS ::

Happy summer memories from my childhood involve a plate of my favorite cookies, a glass of my favorite drink, and good friends. Growing up we used to eat these cookies with the Shay's. As I got older I started taking my snack along with a good book. And while I haven't enjoyed my complete summer treat yet- I look forward to a summer at our new apartment- complete with balcony. Oh- and yes, they're in the oven now. :D

Done.

2009-05-30T22:24:00.000-06:00

I am not yet coherent enough to blog about the end of the school year. But I now have several empty days ahead, so a fabulous post shall be coming. :)

Job!

2009-04-16T23:06:00.002-06:00

Just a note to the blogging world-

I have just been hired as the ESL teacher for Woodruff Elementary in Logan starting next year! Yay! While not the job I was planning on... or interviewing for... I am very excited about this new job, and I think it will be quite an adventure! Going to a school where almost 50% of the students speak Spanish as a first language, I've got a lot of brushing up on my Spanish to do this summer! Wish me luck! :D

Update for the world!!

2009-03-20T19:08:00.005-06:00

Okay... So I have a lot of serious blogging to catch up on here. Here's a couple random pictures and such to fill in all of you interested readers. :D

So, last weekend began Saturday with a phone call from our landlord. We were up and preparing to go to Salt Lake. Sunday was our anniversary, so we were going to celebrate all weekend. :) Our landlord called to tell us that someone had visited our car the night before. It appeared as though someone wanted to give us an anniversary cake!... that didn't make it to far. Or not. Here's a look at Steve's beautiful car before he spent the morning cleaning.

After the car was all cleaned up, we made it up to Salt Lake where we went to Hogle Zoo! Fun stuff! I hadn't been there since elementary school, so it was super fun to go again! My students were finishing up animal reports, so it was fun to try to track down all of their animals. I have lots of pictures of me pointing to animals. Then, I put all the pictures together into a powerpoint presentation and took it to school. I was basically the coolest teacher ever for those fifteen minutes. :)

Here I am pointing out the elephant for one of my sweet little girls. Yay elephants!
Steve compared himself to an orangutan... my kids thought for sure that although Steve was almost as big (arm to arm) their dads were certainly bigger! And one cute little boy insisted that he was in fact bigger than this orangutan... right... And here's me sizing up to the gorilla.
Steve found his favorite animal at the zoo! The lemur. Steve's really good at leaping like a lemur... so it was fun to see him with the lemurs. :)
I always liked the lion drinking fountains all over the park.
Unfortunately, there were some animals I couldn't find in the the zoo. (see lion above) Some of them, I was able to find in the gift store. Like this terrifying polar bear!
Scariest looking polar bear I've ever seen! :D

Anyway, that was our trip to the zoo. I loved it!

Sunday was our 1 year anniversary. Yay!! It's weird to think that it's already been a whole year, but it also feels like I've been with Steve my entire life. Bizarre feeling. I love Steve SO much! So, I made Sunday dinner extra special. :) For dinner, I made a YUMMY fondue recipe. It was super good, and lots of fun to eat the fondue!
Then for dessert, we had chocolate fondue! Another super yummy treat, and lots of fun. We also got to eat the top layer of our wedding cake! I LOVED spending the whole evening with my love! He surprised me with the sunflowers on Sunday morning. I love sunflowers. It was very romantic. :D I can't believe how lucky I am to have Steve in my life... forever! I love him so much and I look forward to many more happy years with him! People say that the first year is the hardest. Our year has just been full of happiness, so I can't wait for many more years just like this one! And better. :D

On a random note, I finally got a new purse on Monday to replace Sausilito. For anyone who missed that... Sausilito was my wonderful green purse with the worm. He was stolen several months ago, and I've been making do with a small black purse I had that I really didn't like. So, here's a picture of my new one. Much more me! :D
I finished up my last parent teacher conferences last night. Right in the middle of them, I got a wonderful phone call from Steve. And Drumroll please...........

Steve was accepted into Utah State's School Psychology EdS program!!! WAHOOLA!!!!!! We'll be moving to Logan in the next couple months and I can't wait!!
I'm really proud of Steve. He's been working really hard the past few months with GRE, preparing applications, preparing himself for interviews, etc. Utah State was his first choice, and he was one of 5 people accepted- I'm so Proud!! So- if you see Steve around, be sure to congratulate him! :D
PS- check out the entry below- still spaces available for a free gift! :D
Love to you all!!!

Spread the love!

2009-03-05T21:32:00.001-07:00

Yay Stacey! I got this idea on Stacey's blog, and I think it's a fun idea to spread love to all around. :) Yeah- cheesy sentence, but it's fun... right!?! So... get commenting!

ARE YOU GAME?

The first three people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog.
The first 3 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

Who's in?

Look who we met!!

2009-01-20T21:46:00.004-07:00

So, once upon a time Steve and I went to Salt Lake on our way to Logan. And near my parent's house we passed this...Yep. We met President Obama... How about that. :) I guess that's all for today. Have a fabulous day!

Holiday Season!!

2009-01-11T20:37:00.006-07:00

Steve and I had a fabulous holiday season! We spent Thanksgiving with his family in Cedar City, then Christmas/New Years with my family in Salt Lake. So- let's start with Thanksgiving. :)
We went down to Cedar City to spend several days with Steve's fabulous family. Julia made a YUMMY turkey dinner and we ate... a lot. We got to spend lots of time playing with our adorable nephews and playing Cranium with the bros and sisters. The morning after Thanksgiving we went on a beautiful hike with Jeff Sr, Nate, and Jared. Here's a picture of us at the end of the hike. Wahoola!

The next day Judy and Jared took us rock climbing! It was pretty exciting, because I had never been rock climbing. And, after a long time... I made it to the top of the cone! I was proud of myself. :D Steve conquered the cone too... a lot faster than I did... :) Wahoola!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, and it was a good time to get to cedar city again. :) Wahoola!

The first Saturday in December was chocolate day. Chocolate day is a wonderful day of the year when my family makes chocolate... lots of yummy chocolate. Yep. This year we made such goodies as mint truffles, turtles, caramels, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, raspberry cremes, etc. It is a wonderful day, and Steve got to take part in it for the first time. Here is a picture of our first chocolate day experience together. Wahoola!We spent Christmas in Salt Lake at my parent's house. Santa was very good to us. He brought us such things as an ipod docking station, a kitchenaid mixer, puzzles, chocolates, games, and a camera! Now... we can post fabulous pictures from a camera rather than a phone. :) Here is the first picture our camera took- Christmas morning. Wahoola!Yes... we are beautiful. :) My family got a wii for Christmas, so we spent lots of time over the break playing with wii sports, wii mariokart, wii fit, etc. Wahoola!My sister Maggie gave Steve a Snowman making kit and me a Snowwoman making kit. We decided to put these to use in my parent's front yard. Steve made a fantastic traditional snowman, while I went for more of a snow diva look. Here's what we came up with. Wahoola!New Years Eve we were back up in Salt Lake. It was a fun night full of puzzling and shrimp eating. Yummy! :) At the stroke of midnight my sisters and my dad were at the airport picking up Berkeley's former roomate. So me, my mom, and Steve blew horns, ran up and down the street, and otherwise made merry. :) Here we are in our Fabulous festive costumes. Wahoola!
On New Year's Day my Grandma always takes the family out to the Old Spaghetti Factory in Trolley Square for dinner. It was super yummy! I have been to Trolley Square many times in my life, but I'd never walked across the bridge... so we parked across the street and walked across the bridge. We also tested our timer on our camera, and it works great! Wahoola!So, we had a fabulous holiday season. While it was nice to have a two week break, it has been very good to get back to school again. Steve's having lots of fun with the cute little autistic preschoolers, and I'm having a good time getting back into the swing of things- right in time for Parent Teacher Conferences this Thursday! :) I've told some people about our Stairs of Doom... or Stairs of Death, so here's a picture of them. They're not that bad... but be wary of them in the snow... :) We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season! Wahoola! (BTW: Steve helped with this post... his contribution consisted of the Wahoola at the end of every paragraph. :D )

Back Again!!

2008-11-05T20:01:00.007-07:00

For some reason I always do picture posts... :) I never actually take the time to write too much, but I shall blog through pictures. :D So- here are some more pictures since my last picture post. I hope they make you smile. Maybe I'll actually WRITE a post sometime in the near future. But then again, maybe not. In the meantime, everything is going well here in Spanish Fork! Steve and I are still just working and having a good time! We've been called to be CTR 5 teachers in our ward, and we start teaching on the 16th. I am really looking forward to teaching/singing/playing/eating snacks with the 4-5 year olds in our ward! :) Today I took my first sick day from work. You would think that I would have had time to blog today, but instead I decided to read the entire third Harry Potter book. For some reason, I've gotten into rereading that series, as well as reading for the first time the Anne of Green Gables series. Fun stuffs. Anyway- here are the pictures, and I hope I'll be back soon! Enjoy!
PS- these pictures are very much out of order... so you may want to read the caption above each picture so that they make more sense. Yes, I am too lazy to figure out what order they go in. :) Cheers!

So- Over UEA my family invited us up to the Homestead for a night. On our way up, Steve and I decided to stop by Bridal Veil Falls. Here we are. :)

A few days before Halloween, we were invited to Raj's house for some fine Indian cuisine! Steve used to work with Raj- a very kind Indian man who speaks limited English. During their time working together, Raj brought lunch for Steve, and Steve gave him rides home from work. It was great to meet his wife, daughter in law, and granddaughter. They all spoke limited English, but they fed us fantastic Indian food! We can't wait to have them over to our house sometime!

On the 23rd, my cousin Holly got married! Yay for Holly and Michael! Unfortunately, I had parent teacher conferences that day, and I couldn't leave to attend the ceremony. Here's a picture of the ceremony taken by my cousin Katie, and a picture of me, my sister, and my grandma at the reception that night in Salt Lake.

Also before Halloween, Steve's brother Nate and his wife Monica invited us to go to Cornbelly's maze at Thanksgiving Point. It was loads of fun! We raced through the long maze... they finished first, but we saw all the signs, so we both won!... and then found some other forms of entertainment, like the big bouncy pillow, and being buried in a room full of corn...

Here's a picture of Me and Steve at the Homestead- we're on top of the biggest hill in the valley, and I just think this is a fun picture. I LOVE Midway! It is the cutest little town in the entire world! And... it has lots of fabulous model homes. (An addiction of mine...)

I think this picture is funny- it's me and my parents, but I look way too excited... :)

Me and my llama friend. This was actually taken a while ago, when Steve and I went to the Hindu Temple in Spanish Fork. They have llamas, peacocks, parrots, and zebus on their property. Awesome! And the temple itself is very pretty! The president gave us a tour, and we even got to watch part of a ceremony. It was really neat!

More recently, here we are at Halloween! Steve went as Murray, the red wiggle, and I went as an East High cheerleader. I can't even tell you how many adults got super excited and asked if I really was an East High cheerleader... :)

Our fantastic pumpkin! Nothing compared to last year's spectacular witch duck on a broomstick, but it was a lot of fun. It's actually an albino pumpkin (the white ones... :D), because all of the orange ones were so big. :D

Even more recently, like Saturday, I chopped my hairs! I also stained them. My normal color is now starting to come back, and I think I'll leave it that way, at least for a while. I do want to get a little bit thicker bangs, but all in all, I love my new hairs!! My two favorite reactions from school:
1- one little girl from across the room: "Where did Mrs. Corry go??"
2- my absolute favorite!! A super cute little boy walks in and says, "Wow Mrs. Corry!!! It looks like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!! But... it will grow back... right??" I laughed really hard. :D

And lastly, this is a really old picture, but I think it's fun. We used part of our gift cards from our wedding to buy a tent and a sleeping bag for me. I got so excited when we got it that I snuggled up in it as soon as we got home to try it out. Steve said I looked like a little cocoon. I really like my sleeping bag... :D

And that's the end! I guess I did write a fair amount in this post... :) I hope you all have a fantastic day!!!

Picture Post. :)

2008-09-24T17:40:00.006-06:00

So--As you have noticed, I stink at updating. So--for your viewing enjoyment--here is a post of pictures since we've moved. So. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!!

Um...we went to 5 buck pizza...and I don't know that we'll go again any time soon... :) The pizza tasted about as good as it looked... haha

Steve quite likes the playhouse in my parent's backyard! And in this picture it looks oddly small... :)

On our way to slc Steve and I stopped by IKEA with my sister. We got a new kitchen table and chairs. Steve enjoyed pushing the cart around and around, and it was rather exciting! So here we are, pretending that we're still moving so Steve could take a picture of us. :)

Yes, Steve's a pig, and I'm a lamb. And we're dancing with a cow at the Utah State Fair!!

I like this picture--we're worms in the apples!! Yay!

Last week we had ward temple night at the Provo Temple. It was beautiful!! I had never been in this temple before, and Steve hadn't been since he was in the MTC. It was a great experience!

Here we have a lovely picture of the ventillation in our apartment! :) For those of you who hadn't heard, our apartment is great...except for the fact that it has absolutely no ventilation. yep. No a/c, and no heating. It's kind of weird, especially considering it's only 2 years old...

At the beginning of August we went to Lagoon with my parents. I like this picture of Steve and I on the swings-- a favorite ride of mine! :)

A few days before school started we got to go to the Manti temple. Another awesome experience! This has long since been a favorite temple of mine, and I loved having the opportunity to finally go inside!! The drive was great too! It's just about an hour, and it's through several beautiful small towns!!

haha- Here's a picture of me and Steve on the first day of school!! It's a family tradition to get a picture on the first day, and this one looks a lot better than the one Steve took of just me. So...here I am- a real teacher!

And as evidence of my new teacher-ness...Here I am with my first paycheck!! It was much larger than expected, and I was thrilled to receive it!!

Middle of the Night

2008-08-21T00:39:00.002-06:00

Yep. It's 12:40am. I was sleeping pretty well until just a few minutes ago when I woke up and felt very ill. Like the throwy up kind. Is it just nerves, or am I really sick?? Yesterday was supposed to be the scary day at school--why am I almost more scared for tomorrow! I think I just want to do better tomorrow (technically today), and I'm scared that maybe I won't. I hope I'm not the only beginning teacher freaking out like this. Tomorrow's going to be great...I know what I'm doing...and I really have nothing to worry about. Sorry everyone for this random post...but I had to organize my thoughts a bit, and this is a good place to do that. So now- I'm going to go read Harry Potter while I wait for sleepiness to come back. (And hope I don't puke. :D)

The First Day of School!!

2008-08-20T16:51:00.002-06:00

I wish I had pictures of my classroom--I will get some soon. I had my first day of school today! It was wonderful! The craziest thing that happened all day was a minor confusion with one of my students. I met 16 of the 19 of them yesterday at the open house. So when I saw a strange girl approaching me I wasn't too surprised, till she told me her name, and I didn't have her on my class list. So- I put her in my extra desk I had set up and we went about the morning. A few minutes later my mentor teacher came in with a post it note, left it for me and I found out that this girl was actually the girl who I thought was absent...she was going by her middle name. It was kind of crazy, but all is good now, and I'm great if that's the craziest thing that happened!! I also had recess duty today and we had 2 little boys, one from my class, run full speed into each other. The poor little boys each have goose eggs the size of golf balls on their heads. :) But they're troopers.
Anyway- other than that, the day was pretty calm. I LOVE my students!! They are so cute! They love to talk, and my biggest challenge today was keeping them on task. But they were fun, and I can't wait for this year with them! I heard all of the other teachers talking about how hard it was to fill the day. I was the total opposite!! I had a hard time fitting everything in! I had to postpone a couple activities until tomorrow because I just didn't fit them into the day today! I don't know how I'm going to manage when I'm actually teaching lots of curriculum stuff!! Everything will work out though. :)
Well- that's about it! I'm now sitting...and will be for the rest of the evening. :) I thought my shoes were more broken in than they were, and my feet are sore and beginning to blister. :) So, in short- I love being a teacher!!

To Enlighten the Public Consciousness

2008-07-30T22:28:00.000-06:00

My wife will be proud of me for making another post. Wahoola! I'm going to talk about the gas stations in Scipio Utah. Exciting!...I know. As we all know, gas prices have been very high this summer, the highest ever in all of ever to be more specific (Sure, they have recently began comming down...a little...we'll see how long that will last...probably not long). Anywho, Lindsey and I have taken a few trips to northern Utah this summer and we often stop about mid-way between Cedar and SLC for a break. This stop takes place in any of a few towns, whether it be Filmore, Nephi, or the not-quite-world-renowned, Scipio. I've always liked stopping in Scipio. Back in my school boy days, whenever we took a bus trip up north, it seems Scipio was THE place our buses stopped to refuel, usually at the Sinclair. Whether I was traveling with the band, the cross country team, or the track team, I always enjoyed getting a snack from the Sinclair or from the Texaco across the street. These two gas stations have been in Scipio, serving freeway traffickers for many years. One day, around four years back, some friends and I spent several hours playing card games in the Scipio Texaco. Good times, but that really doesn't have anything to do with my point in this post. Moving on...Scipio's solitary locale has been good to these gas stations over the years. Then came the Chevron. A nice, new, attractive place WITH a Dairy Queen attached and very nice bathrooms. When you are driving by Scipio you are much more likely to take notice of the Chevron than the other two measly gas stations. Moreover, because of the Chevron's prominence on the west side of the interstate, many a nitwit stop there for gas. I stop there for Dairy Queen and the nice Bathrooms, but NEVER for gas! Why? I'll tell you why! Over the course of this summer, Lindsey and I have noted that the Scipio Chevron charges ruffly 30 CENTS MORE PER GALLON than the two stations on the other side of the freeway! OUTRAGEOUS, isn't it? Yes it is! Anywho, we found this little secret out one day when we noticed how exorbitant the prices were at Chevron. We thought between ourselves, 'well, the other stations in Scipio can't be all that different since they are just across the street, and gas stations in the same locale typically have comparable prices'. Nevertheless, we thought we would check the truth of our assumption. So we journeyed to the other side of the freeway to see the other two stations, and frankly, we were 'sore amazed'. A month or so later we stopped by the stations and took these pictures. Because you can't see the other two stations from the Chevron, Chevron can capitalize on the ignorance of people who carry the same assumption about comparable gas prices that we had. Moral of the story: don't buy gas at Scipio's Chevron, go to the Texaco or Sinclair for that. The Chevron is only good for bathrooms and Dairy Queen. Peace.

Above: East side of the freeway, featuring Sinclair, Texaco, and behind them...Scipio!

Above: Prices at Texaco (they were the same at Sinclair)

Above: West side of freeway featuring Chevron

Above: Gas prices at Chevron, 30 Cents more per gallon!

60 things...

2008-07-30T16:13:00.003-06:00

So, I forgot to get the pictures from Steve. In the meantime, I found this fun post on Judy and Stacey's blogs. So...because I really don't want to pack at the moment...again... I'm going to do it. :D

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now? all kinds of junk. I think I have a sweatshirt back there, a t shirt, some little pillows, lots of papers, it's a mess.

2. When was the last time you threw up? I don't remember exactly...but I remember it was since I've been married...because it was the only time in the history of ever that I have thrown up more than once. I threw up twice that night. bleh.

3. What's your favorite curse word? Abra Cadabra!

4. Name 3 people who made you smile today? wow...I haven't actually seen a lot of people today...Steve...Reading Judy and Stacey's responses made me smile too. :D

5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? sadly, I was sleeping. I haven't been sleeping well for a long time, and I tend to wake up about every 1-2 hours. Last night we didn't get to bed until really late, so we slept very late this morning.

6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Haha...I sure was watching Arthur, eating lunch, and thinking of what stuff I could pack before 6...

7. What will you be doing 3 hours from now? I'll be at the Corry's house celebrating Jeff's Birthday! Happy birthday dad in law!

8. Have you ever been to a strip club? Nopes.

9. What is the last thing you said aloud? Um...My dad called and told me that he had emailed me some things I needed...so probably Thanks or See you later, or something to that effect.

10. What is the best ice cream flavor? Oooohh...Strawberry, Play Dough, Right now I'm really into sherbet...I want to try the Wal Mart Peach sherbet.

11. What was the last thing you drank? We've got water...and more water...and that's about it. :)

13. What was the last thing you ate? Some Caramel corn that I made last night. it's yummy.

14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? Yep! I got a crazy fun bright skirt for Nate and Monica's reception on Friday!

15. When was the last time you ran? This is a sad question. I want to get back into the habit of running every day...but it's been at least a week...probably more like 2... :(

16. What's the last sporting event you watched? Haha!! Randomly the other day I watched about 2 minutes of some big horse race...

18. Who is the last person you emailed? Um...that I sent an email to...I think it was one of my professors...Peggy Wittwer...to set up an appointment to meet with her tomorrow.

19. Ever go camping? Yes! And I love it!

20. Do you have a tan? a tan...no. Am I slightly browner than I was at the beginning of the summer...yes!

24. Do you drink your soda from a straw? Sure...if there's one with it...

25. What did your last IM say? I told Steve to have fun at work and I'd see him this evening.

26. Are you someone's best friend? I sure hope I'm Steve's best friend..... :)

27. What are you doing tomorrow? Packing and cleaning like crazy! It's our last day to pack before the craziness of the wedding, and then moving. I also have a meeting with Peggy, and I have enrichment tomorrow evening. :)

28. Where is your mom right now? Somewhere in the greater Salt Lake Valley...probably at either home or work...

29. Look to your left, what do you see? A picture of the temple Aaron Bradshaw gave us for our wedding. :)

30. What color is your watch? My watch is my phone. I don't like to have things on my wrists.

31. What do you think of when you think of Australia ? The didjurie doo thingies...I hear them in my head. :)

32. Would you consider plastic surgery? No. Mainly because the thought of being put out or down or whatever while they do something really scares me! And I'm pretty comfortable with my body as is.

33. What is your birthstone? A pearl and a pink diamondy thing. I like the pearl better.

34. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Depends on who i'm with, how long we have, etc. I don't eat a lot of fast food though.

35.How many kids do you want? At the moment...3-5. But I'll take whatever God gives me. :) I am getting excited! No kids yet...but I bought some little girl things today for a friend's baby, and it was super exciting!! (Thanks for giving me that opportunity Christie!! :D)

36. Do you have a dog? Um...at my parent's house...but not with me and Steve. We have fishies!

37. Last person you talked to on the phone? My Popsio.

38. Have you met anyone famous? Lots. Mainly figure skaters.

39. Any plans today? Go to Jeff's birthday dinner, and pack and pack and pack!

40. How many states have you lived in? California and Utah.

41. Ever go to college? Sure did! I finished my last actual class just a couple weeks ago!

42. Where are you right now? On my bed...the one place we get internet in this house...I'm so excited for our new apartment where we actually get good, secure internet!

43. Biggest annoyance in your life right now? Packing. Bleh.

44. Last song listened to? Let me check...I'm just listening to the songs Stacey has on her blog...right now it's...Ninety and Nine by Stephanie Smith. I quite like it. :)

46. Are you allergic to anything? Nope

47. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? I wear my flip flops a lot because they're easy. I prefer to be barefoot.

48. Are you jealous of anyone? Not really...I have so much to be grateful for, I try to just focus on that.

49. Is anyone jealous of you? I don't think so.

50. What time is it? 4:32pm

52. Do any of your friends have children? Lots of them. And lots are expecting! Jenna, Christie, Lindsey, Brityn...

53. Do you eat healthy? I try to...not this week though. We're living on frozen corn dogs!

54. What do you usually do during the day? This summer I've spent most of my days in the Block Classroom or doing homework. Then I spent a week doing orientation. Last week was super fun and relaxing, and this week I've been packing! Starting next week, I'll be in meetings, working on my classroom, and then teaching!

55. Do you hate anyone right now? Nopes

56. Do you use the word 'hello' daily? I sure do!

58. How old will you be turning on your next birthday? 22

59. Have you ever been to Six Flags? Nopes

60. How did you get one of your scars? Um...I got a scar on my arm when I took some cookies out of the oven for my sister and I accidentally touched it on the hot part of the oven...but it's kind of hard to see now. :)

I tag......YOU!

Moving

2008-07-29T20:24:00.002-06:00

Bleh. I am supposed to be packing at the moment, but I'm sick of it. So instead, I'm going to write here. :) My boxes are filling up very quickly...and I'm hoping I'm organized enough. I hope nothing breaks, and I hope none of the boxes are too heavy. I don't like this moving business. I'm very excited to be in Spanish Fork! But I wish I could just wave a magic wand and it would all move itself! I think unpacking will be a little more fun, because I'll get to decorate our new apartment too!...but I don't like the packing part.
Anyway- here's some other fun stuff that makes me happy! I think I can graduate with University Honors!! I've been an active member of SUU's Honors Program for the past three years, and I realized this summer that I was 5 credits and a thesis short of graduating with honors. But I am pretty sure I can do it now! I registered today for the Honors Thesis class next fall, and I need to start on that right away! I'm going to write a reflection journal of a first year teacher. I have to do something like that for my supervisor anyway, but this one's going to be more aimed at future teachers. I am going to write part of it now, part of it after all my meetings but before school starts, part of it after about the first week of school, and the last part after about 2 months of school. I'm super excited! I think it will be awesome!! But that's my happy news of the day. I have Loved the honors program here at school, and I've been a huge part of it! I worked for them for 2 years, and I have gone to tons of activities and helped plan a good chunk of them. I love it so much, it's a good feeling to think that I can actually graduate from the program.
On another note, I'm gaining another sister-in-law this friday! I'm really looking forward to Monica and Nate's wedding! It will be the first wedding I'm actually somewhat involved in since my own. And I'm looking forward to having Monica in the family! She's awesome!
Well...hopefully tonight I'll remember to get the pictures from my hike from steve and onto the computer. I really want to blog all about the Narrows...and what an awesome and difficult experience that was! But I'll wait until the pictures are available. So...be alert- post coming!!
I hope everyone's summer has been lots of fun! Love to all!!

Tag

2008-07-17T18:17:00.005-06:00

So...I kind of got tagged by Stacey... so here goes this tag...it looks fun! You have to answer all of the questions with pictures... :D

::My Age Next Birthday::

::My Favorite Holiday::

::My Favorite Food::

::My Favorite Color::

::My Middle Name::

::My Major::

::A Place I Want to Visit::

::One of My Favorite Places::

::A Bad Habit of Mine::

::My Favorite Animal::

If you read this, then I tag you. I'll be back soon with a real post. :)

the end!

2008-07-08T21:31:00.002-06:00

The block comes to an end tomorrow...and I am so excited!! It's been stressful...long days...lots of work...and lots of fun! I'm going to miss the people...not so much the projects and the work. I just thought I would share with everyone! Tomorrow is my last class on SUU's campus...unless I get a master's one day. :D Anyway, this is a very short post, but I hope everyone's doing well...after I'm done with school I'll try to post more. :D This weekend Steve and I are going to his family reunion...and I can't wait! Then, the entire next week I'll be doing orientation. And then...SUMMER!!! YAY! Have a great day everyone!!

Response to tag... :D

2008-06-19T21:55:00.003-06:00

Christie tagged me...so I get to list three joys, three fears, three goals, three current obsessions or collections and three surprising facts about myself. :D

Joys
#1 Days when I get to play with Steve and he doesn't work late
#2 Curling up with a good book (Anne of Green Gables is the book of the moment.)
#3 Baking and making yummy things to eat

Fears
#1 Medical issues
#2 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
#3 Pitch Black...It really scares me

Goals
#1 Finish the Block!
#2 Be a great 2nd grade teacher
#3 Constantly become a better wife

Current obsessions
#1 Reading. If I had my way, I could read all day
#2 Preparing to teach next year...hunting down books and dinosaur stuff...it's good times.
#3 The crickets outside my window. If I didn't hear them one night, I would cry.

Surprising facts
#1 I love the smell of laundry detergent, and especially Downy Fabric Softener.
#2 I very strongly dislike wearing shoes.
#3 I still enjoy watching Arthur every afternoon. Good times... :)

I don't really know if 5 people even read this blog...so if you read it, then consider yourself tagged!! Have a great day everyone!!

Pictures Added By Steve!

2008-06-12T22:39:00.004-06:00

You See below some pictures taken by none other than Steve (the husband of the wondrous women who authors the vast majority of posts to this blog). Being aware of my wife's desire that I add pictures which are in my possession, I am doing that here. Below you will experience some visual samplings of the past 3 months we have been wedded. They are as follows: 1) Immediately below-Lindsey standing in front of the San Diego Temple during our 'honey-moon' as they call it(why do they call it that?). 2) Next-this is Lindsey in Zion National Park a couple of weeks ago (we went on a short hike with some friends and bought a park pass, wahoola!). She is sporting a hydration pack which was purchased by us with some of the moolah donated to our cause by generous individuals. 3) After that you will find an image of the two of us eagerly anticipating the start of Relay for Life. Walking around and around that track was actually quite satisfying. We strongly support the cause! 4) My wife, she makes great cookies, and I really, really, really like to eat them! 5) The oldes picture of the bunch. This is on our honey-moon at the Las Vegas Temple. 6) Me at the beach with a weed. 7) Yummy! That was a big dog. I ate it at the Harley Davidson in Las Vegas Nevada--another honey-moon shot. That is all for now. Peace.

Final Days of 20-hood

2008-06-09T21:26:00.002-06:00

It is my final day of being 20. Yay! This has been a very good year for me! I married my best friend, lived in the same house for 10 months straight, (!!) did very well in school and am almost ready to graduate, was offered an internship, and have pretty much just had a wonderful year! But I think 21 will be even better! I have so much to look forward to in my life- I am so blessed!! Steve and I have a wooden plaque hanging in our living room that reads "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be". I love that quote! (for several reasons... :D) But one of the reasons is that I love thinking that things are only going to get better! I may be extremely happy now...but just wait until I start teaching, have children, have grandchildren (!!), and keep growing old with my wonderful Steve! Things are going to just keep getting better! I can't wait to see where life takes me!
ps (Look at me go--3 days in a row!!!)

What I love

2008-06-08T09:39:00.002-06:00

I just wanted to mention a few things that I love today.
1- of course, Steve. He's amazing and does so much for me! I am such a lucky girl, and I love him so much!
2- I love that I can hear crickets outside our bedroom window at night. We sleep with our window cracked open, and I love to hear the crickets as I am falling asleep.
3- Cookie dough. I made chocolate chip cookies yesterday, and I remembered just how much I LOVE to eat the dough. Yummy!!
4- Our new plecostomus. He's funny, because he's been in the tank for 3 days, and still hasn't made it over to the dirty part of the tank that actually needs his assistance. It's like there's a whole feast just waiting for him...but he hasn't found it yet.
5- Our Buddha we got in Las Vegas. He sits above the TV and smiles at me all day long. :D
6- Blogs. I love that I can just click through blogs and see how people are doing in their lives! I feel kind of like a stalker, but it's fun!
Well, those are some random things that I have been loving the past day or two. :D I really need to keep slowing down and noticing the little blessings I see in my life every day!

And we're back!!

2008-06-07T08:57:00.003-06:00

I think Steve and I need to coordinate a little better here...I do the writing, but Steve has all the pictures on his phone. Hmmm... one day maybe that will change and our posts will include more fun pictures. :D So- we have returned from Las Vegas, and it was wonderful! Steve spend the mornings at the park, at the hotel, wandering around the World's Largest Gift Shop, etc. I spent the mornings at Tom Williams Elementary School. And it was amazing! I was put in a 3rd grade class, and they loved me immediately. They were the cutest kids, and LOVED it when I would eat lunch with them or play with them on the playground. I never got to teach, because to teach in Vegas you have to be fingerprinted in Vegas (the FBI fingerprints just aren't good enough...), and so I just sat in a corner and observed for 3 1/2 days. The observation may not have been the most thrilling thing, but the kids were absolutely wonderful! I want to go back already!
Anyway, the day we got back we went to our cute nephew James' first birthday party. It was great!! Judy- I'm going to want lessons on making cute birthday cakes. :D It's crazy that he's one year old already!! Steve and I started dating again just a week before he was born. That means we've been consistently together for 1 year! Yay!!
Now, it's the weekend and I really should go be productive. I still have a little homework to do, and lot of Thank You notes to finish...yes...it has been almost 3 months and I'm still working on them... Today will be a good day for that though. From yesterday afternoon until tonight, Steve is working 25 hours...so I won't be seeing much of him today. Well, I hope everyone is having a great weekend! The weather is Beautiful, and Steve and I discovered a fun trail over up Nichols Canyon on Thursday. Go have FUN!! Love to you all!

Just for Jenna. :)

2008-05-29T20:18:00.002-06:00

This is just for you Jenna. :D Okay...and because I've been a slacker and haven't written anything in over a month. I'm committing right here that I will become a better blogger...I hope... :) This past month in a nutshell, or everything I can remember... :) I started the block, which has been great, but lots of work! I did my practicum in a 2nd grade class at Fiddler's Elementary, and I absolutely loved it! At the end of my three weeks, the kids in my class all wrote me letters and put them together into a book!! They were adorable, comparing my name to a "corry reef", and telling me that I was appreciated because I helped the teacher "while she is in her office doing something that is really important." I'm going to miss those kids! Now, I just finished the classroom management class, and I'm in science/health every day from 8:30-4. They're long days, but lots of fun! Steve's still been working at Chrysalis and being an amazing husband! Last weekend we were able to go to Salt Lake and spend the weekend with my family to celebrate both of our birthdays! (Steve had his birthday on May 5 and I will have mine on June 10.) We had a great time! We went to the Bees game...one of the few that they've won!...had dinner at my cousin's grandparent's house, ran a 5k in the rain, ate yummy cake, and we each got a new ipod nano! We've had a lot of fun playing with them...and we're both getting pretty good at Solitaire... :D
Next week we're going to be in Las Vegas! I have to do a diversity practicum for the block, so they're sending us to three inner city schools in North Las Vegas. We'll be there for 4 days, and I can hardly wait! I think this is going to be a great experience, although I am slightly nervous...
I'll let you know about all our marvelous adventures when we get back. :D
Oh- I want to post a picture, so here's the story that goes with it. Steve and I were invited to go hiking in Zion with our friends Tom and Jentry. So, we went to Zion and decided to buy a national parks pass. (If anyone wants to go to a national park...just let us know!) This is a picture of us before we actually went into the park. Steve has better ones on his computer, including a 2 minute video he made, documenting our hike to the three Emerald Pools. I'll have to convince him to add a blog and add those pictures. But here's one for your viewing enjoyment. And maybe I'll be better at this thing from now on... :D Have a great day everyone!

Spanish Fork, here we come!!

2008-04-24T21:08:00.003-06:00

It's official!! In August, Steve and I will be moving to Spanish Fork! I got the phone call today from the principal of Larsen Elementary. I'm going to be teaching as an intern in 2nd Grade!! The crazy thing is that I wanted to teach upper grades...and now I'm in 2nd grade...but Totally excited! Yay!
On another note, we got a tent last saturday...and set it up in our living room...and it was probably the most exciting thing ever! well, almost. But it was really fun!
Okay...I'm out of cool things to say, and I am getting tired. Next week is finals...school is getting slightly crazy... :D Anyways... I hope everyone has a great day!!

Wonderful things

2008-04-17T20:14:00.002-06:00

I am excited. Yes, I got a sleeping bag! and it's warm, and soft, and it makes me happy. :D I just wanted to let the world know that I am officially ready for camping, and for Relay of Life this Friday...it's going to be a cold night... :) Anyway, life is going good for the Corry familia. Steve's still working, I'm still being educated, and we're still happily married! Yep. That's about it. And that is the end of this small little post. :D

A good cause

2008-04-11T20:12:00.003-06:00

So here it is. Steve and I are participating in the Relay for Life in Cedar City next weekend. (April 18-19). It's an awesome activity put on by the American Cancer Society. It's also a great fundraising opportunity! So...if you would like to donate any money to our team or to us individually for our team, here's how to do it. Go to www.ironrelayforlife.org . Click on either Donate to Participant, or Donate to Team. Our names are Steve and Lindsey Corry. :) Our team name is Almost Intellectual. (It's for the SUU Honors Program). Any donations are welcome! I think that pretty much everyone has been affected by cancer in one way or another, and this is a great way to, as the website says, "celebrate survivors, remember those lost to cancer, and to fight back against this disease." On another note- here is a picture of us...I tried to put it on with yesterday's post, but it didn't work out too well. So- here we are!!

The beginnings...

2008-04-10T20:41:00.003-06:00

So, here we are. Yep. Introducing Steve and Lindsey Corry!! We officially have a new blog...hopefully one that will be updated more often than our old individual ones. :)
Here is a quick and brief summary of us! We were married on March 15, 2008. We are currently living in Cedar City, Utah. Steve graduated last May with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Political Science. He works for Chrysalis, a home for disabled men. I am still attending SUU and studying Elementary Education. But I'm almost done! And in August, we'll be moving up north so I can take an internship in the Nebo School District! A city will be posted later...right now all we know is that it will be somewhere between Santaquin and Springville. :) Life is grand, and we love this whole married life business! :) So- here we are, and hopefully we'll be back frequently. :D