Mr. Clean

Jon was a big hit at the ward Halloween party.  I was Mrs. Clean, which gave me license to wear whatever because she does not exist.  Still working on a picture of us together, I don't know how to crop on blog.  So look for an update when I do.

This has been my project for the last two months.  It is finally done and I love it!  I am so happy with the results, I have wanted to paint this dresser since I got it 4 years ago.  So glad it is done.

Jessie's Wedding

My long time friend, Jessie, got married at the beginning of September.  I am so glad that I am living in Utah so that I could attend her bridal shower and wedding.  Jessie and I go way back, we met in Kindergarten, and she is one of those friends that I can always pick up where we left off last time we saw each other.  There were not many LDS kids in my home town, so I was lucky to have another girl my age. She made a gorgeous bride and Collin is a lucky guy.

All the LDS kids in Ponca spent alot of time together from early morning seminary, Wednesday mutual activities, weekend service, Sunday school, Young Womens, at least monthly drives to Stillwater for activities and dances, girls camp, long road trips to Dallas, OKC, Navuoo, not to mention we all went to the same school.  Jon laughs when I remember one of their birthdays or recount stories about them, because we knew each other so well whether we wanted to or not.  Now that I am the 12-18 y/o Sunday School teacher in my ward I see so many similarities.  They are very different kids, but they still take care of each other and "disagree" like we did.

Welcome Back

Sorry for the long hiatus, due to a hotmail spam attack we were not able to sign in to our blog--or so we thought.  But thanks to the nice blogger headquarters we are back on track.  Sorry for all those that received numerous spam email from Jon about Canadian Prescriptions.

Couple of quick highlights in the past 4 months.
Our summer closed with a number of road trips.  We went to Panguitch for a family reunion and celebrated the 24th of July by running a 5k with my family.  We went on to Arizona and had a relaxing few days down there working on business contacts and catching up with old friends.

Our next trip was to Omaha for our niece, Danielle's, Baptism.  From there we went with Jon's parents to Minnesota to visit some great friends the Lindquists.  We enjoyed being right on the lake so we could swim and fish all day.

We had some spare time so we went up to the Tetons and Yellowstone.  We spent most of our time camping in Grand Tetons National Park and then spent a day as we drove through Yellowstone on our way home.

We went on our annual Labor Day Trip to Lake Tahoe.  We went with our friends Joe and Lori and sweet baby Grace.  It was blast and we really enjoyed spending time with Uncle Mike and Aunt Karen.

Then school started and we had to stay home.  Jon has been super busy with classes, business competitions, work projects(I like those cause he gets paid), elders quorum president, and being a great husband.  I on the other hand have had a major slow down as funding for my project got cut, along with my job.  Working for the government isn't all that secure.  Oh well, we are scraping by and I am getting a lot of those "some day" projects done. 

We were able to squeeze in a trip to Omaha last week because Jon had some time off.  We spent time with his parents and enjoyed being spoiled, there is never ending supply of cookies at their house. We enjoyed hanging out with my sister's family, Jon loves being an uncle.

Hopefully we stay in the blogging world, now that we know how to login again.

Picture Review

 

Ponca City Graduation Picnic

Crystal's Graduation

My Birthday in Park City

Wyatt at the Omaha Zoo.

Jon and Austin

Ingrid's Kitchen OKC, the best Reuben ever.  Plus on Saturdays12-2 they have live music and dancing, full of veterans etc,it was so fun.

 

Pops

Adorable Emery 

Rain Forest Cafe

Manti Mormon Miracle Pagent

 

Hiking Squaw Peak

Pho Noodles(pronounced Fa)

Lavendar Festival 

Zedonk, I have never seen that combo before.

Welcoming the New Year

Happy 2010 to one and all.  Hopefully, you are enjoying the new year as much as we are here in snowy Utah! 

Christmas did not disappoint once again this year.  Amber got off a bit earlier than anticipated so we drove across the fruited plains to spend time in Omaha with both families.  You read that correctly, both families.  The Foy's, Glasgow's, and Weber's stayed at the Glasgow hall and we slept at the Poyer's.  It was a great time spent relaxing, laughing, and playing.  Omaha was hit super hard by some amazing snow storms and so a lot of time was spent couped up inside as the roads were impassable and conditions too hazardous to venture outdoors.  Thank goodness for kith and kin to make the cramped confines enjoyable.  It was so nice to see all of the family together in one spot and for so long.  We are excited for Alex to come home this summer so there will be no missing pieces at all. 

We are sad that Crystal and Mike moved to Wisconsin, we were assured a visit anytime the laundry pile got to high.  But we are excited for their new adventure, Crystal student teaching and Mike entering the corporate world at Kohls.  We will enjoy having Alex at BYU for the fall, it is always nice to have family nearby.

A break in the weather allowed us to return to Utah without any incident so that Amber could get back to business.  I have to admit, break is such a wonderful thing.  No responsibility, committments, or real distractions...man, was that a good feeling. 

Business school is going great.  Jon loves the challenge and loves staying up late to work on assignments.  I think that it is a great means to fight off the coming 3-0 that looms like a spector to his already bald psychy.  I have some great classes right now and am doing some real world consulting projects that make it all the better.  Other than that, all focus is on sleeping through the train that barrels through our bedroom every morning and getting an internship for this summer.

So the holidays brought forth some other exciting news for us.  Amber is happily anticipating the tiny pitter-patter of little feet.  That's right, Jon has been running again and has his first intramural basketball game this Saturday.  Please save the congratulations until afterwards as I am not sure how my knee is going to hold up.  But it is an exciting time for both of us indeed:)

Amber has been traveling like a mad person of late from one corner of the country to another.   She has been traveling the past 6 weeks straight.  From small town Utah to Tampa and Miami Florida.  But it keeps work life exciting to be in all these new places.  This next week she is back to her typical SLC commute.  We hope you all got 2010 off to a good start as well.

This would have been our Christmas Card picture if we would have gotten one out this year.

This is the whole crew gathered on Christmas Eve wearing our crazy hats.  This is a Poyer tradition.

Jon is posing with our makeshift Christmas tree at the Poyers.

Our New Years Day Snow shoeing trip.

We went and visited Jon's Grandma while in Florida.  By the way Jon came for the weekend, I was in Florida for two weeks.

This my good friend from BYU Freshman year Princess.  I really liked Tampa.

This was the best view of Miami from my convertible as I was leaving.  Long story on how I ended up with that car.  Needless to say Miami is not one of my favorite places.