Spring is here! Then again maybe not...

So, I was so happy that things are turning green and the weather has been so nice and then this last weekend came! I was not a fan of how cold and rainy it was but I guess I am thankful for the moisture. I feel super bad for my friend Nancy because it was her wedding reception on Saturday and it was supposed to be outside. It turned out wonderful anyway even though they had to move it indoors. Let see what else can I talk about....I was freaking out about my crappy work schedule for next month but thankfully someone picked up the trip I had that went over the time we are going to be in Malaysia so Im super happy about that. I bought my first pair of Chacos today (awesome hiking sandals) and I am excited about them. I have wanted some for like 5 years now and I finally got the guts to spend that much on sandals. My excuse: going to Malaysia for two weeks and needed good shoes to hike around in! We are flying out on May 24th and are really getting excited about it. Kurtis and I are going to try to fit all of the things we pack in our carry-on bags to avoid checking any bags. We will see how that works...I have my doubts for two weeks in a foreign country. Especially when we have the lovely underwear that takes up so much room. :) Flying stand-by and checked luggage doesn't really go along though so hopefully we will be able to fit everything in our carry-ons! So, thats about it with us for now anyway....

A Big Trip Coming Up...

So, there really isn't too much going on in our lives. Nothing really blog worthy but I was told by a good friend or rather threatened that if I didn't update my blog she would be forced to shun me. Of course I don't want that to happen so here I am writing about nothing really. I am really excited for conference this weekend. It seems the older I get the more I count down the days till conference. I love to hear what the leaders of the church have to say to us and things I can take from their talks and improve on. I always need a good kick in the butt for what I need to do better. Next weekend Kurtis and I are going to St. George for the weekend for Nancy and Danny's wedding! That will be really fun and hopefully the weather will be nice and we can get out of freaking winter weather! Probably the biggest news for us is Kurtis and I are going to Malaysia at the end of May. My aunt and uncle are living there right now so we are tagging along with my parents and heading over there. It will take place of our Costa Rica trip we were planning for our 1st anniversary. We figured going to Malaysia and being able to stay with and be taken around by people we know who are living there is probably pretty rare so we couldn't pass it up! Hopefully everything works out okay with the flights and things since this will be our first time going foreign on stand by. If everything goes well we should get first class the whole way! Yay! Well, thats about it for us. Im sure I will write after this weekend all about my favorite parts of conference.

Rock Climbing!

So, as Kurtis said in his last post...we went rock climbing last weekend. Sorry it took a week to put these pics up but I'm slow, what can I say? My sister Meg and her husband Steve go climbing like every week at least and Steve is like Spider Man. They talked us into going with them. It was really fun. I have to admit I didn't realize how afraid of heights I was until I was half way up the wall. I kind of had a freak out. I started sweating and breathing really hard. But, I got over it. Meg was climbing by me and talked me up the wall and it got better and better every time. By the time we were done though, my muscles were shaking! It was a lot of work. Hopefully next time we go I will learn to use my legs more cause I think I pretty much pulled myself up with my arms. I don't think we will be the avid rock climbers that Meg and Steve are but we will go again for sure! So here are a couple pics from our excursion.

P.S. Can I just say how over winter I am?! We got mountain bikes for Christmas and I can't wait until it is warm and we can use them! We also got camping stuff for our wedding so I am so excited to go on road trips and use the stuff we got. Every weekend will be a new adventure when it gets warm enough!

FYI

Just so you all know, we do have some new pics coming. We went rock climbing at an indoor climbing place in Provo and we took some pics. It was rather fun. I really thought I would die because I can barely lift a bag of garbage to put it in the dumpster let alone this tubby body of mine up a wall. It was crazy that I actually did. Like 6 times! It wasn't extremely graceful or pretty, but I did it and had fun at the same time. Thanks to Steve and Meg for the great day! Well that's about it for now. I do have simulator training on Saturday and I am not really looking forward to it. It's good that we have to do it, it's just not that much fun because it's stressful. We sit and fly that thing doing all sorts of emergency training stuff for about 4 hours. I have to study for the next couple days to refresh my memory on some stuff and get up to speed on changes to procedures that have come in the last few months. Anyway, that's boring and I don't want to bore any of you with stupid pilot stuff. Hopefully we will get those pictures up soon and you can see how awesome we are at climbing. Ha ha!

Blog off anyone?

We are having a blog off!! Boys vs. girls. Whoever writes the best post on their blog wins. The readers get to vote. Now I know that most of you will vote for Aubrey, but you have to give me points just for blogging because I am a guy and it seems like most of the bloggers out there are chicks. Anyway, it was this day last year, and many years previous, that I wasn't sure if I would ever have a Valentines Day where I had someone to really share it with. Now that I do, I couldn't be happier! My beautiful wife has completely made my day today. We exchanged gifts, had breakfast together, and I am planning on making dinner tonight (dominos). Yesterday Aubrey, Meg and Wendy made gingerbread cookies to give to family so today we are gonna make the rounds with the cookies. My sisters are like freaking out because this is the first time that I have ever given them anything for V-Day. Sad but true. That's just one example of how amazing my wife is. She thinks of those things. Happy Valentines Day to you all! May all your wildest dreams come true!
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The best husband ever!

Okay, so I haven't blogged in a while and my husband has been doing a lot of blogging. I thought I would just take a second to be really sappy and say how great my husband is. He really is the best. I am so blessed and lucky to have him for my husband. He does the dishes every night, he makes the bed and actually his side of the bed is probably more clean than mine is! And besides all those wonderful things that he does, he is such a good person. He is a really good Sunday School teacher to the 14 and 15 year olds, he has a wonderful testimony and he makes me want to be a better person. Okay, I think I'm done now. He was so worth the wait!

Flying is for the birds

So Aubrey and I didn't get to fly together this week. Unfortunately we don't fly together for the next two weeks either. It makes the trip go by extremely slow. It does make the saying about the heart growing fonder really feel true. So in that way, it's fun coming home and seeing her after being away. Valentines Day is coming up this next weekend and it is going to be very nice I think. I hope I live up to Aubrey's expectations. I mean, in Middle School when I had a girlfriend on V-Day it was like give a cheesy card and a box of penny candy or something and now that I am all grown up I actually have to do something special. I think we will just be spending it at home, but it will be the best V-Day I have ever had. Maybe I will even get her to kiss me! he he.