Utah?

First of all, I must say I have had a change of heart about dear old georgia this last week. Up until then I REALLY REALLY hated it here. I hated the trees, the traffic, the apartment, the city, the atmosphere, i mean... all of it- I HATED! So, after about 2 moths of hating life I decided it was time to get over it. Ok, I didn't actually decide Shaun did for me.  Poor man has listened to me complain for the last 2 months! Anddddd, i feel bad about that because even though i dont LOVE it here i'm actually really glad we are here. The opportunities for us here are huge! We decided we would move back west at some point but until then good ol' georgia is home.

Here is new positives I have found....

1) We can travel! I mean we are only 4 hours from nashville 5 hours from jacksonville Fl (Cruises) and     super close to Myrtle beach too!
2) There is more people here so that equals more autism which equals more work for me!
3) Shaun gets a free MBA
4) Tons of places to fish and camp around.
5) Our little apartment can feel like home once we decorate it and stuff.
6) We can buy a extremely nice house once we figure out where were going to grad school (housing market is SUPER cheap here).
7) So many fun Concerts!

I can only think of seven, I did try to get to ten I PROMISE!

Anyway, truth is that even though i wont have a horse or a house or a field for a long long time I can do the city life. Its a change but its doable.

Oh, and we went to utah this last weekend. Not the best thing for a recovering complainer. But it was awesome!

Heres a tiny recap.

Friday
6:45 P.m. Get on a plane here in ATL
9:36 p.m. Arrive at SLC airport
9:40 p.m. Levi and Crystal pick us up
12:30 p.m. Arrive in Roosevelt Utah
12:35 p.m. Bang on the door, scare jetson, say suprise
1:30 p.m. FINALLY FALL ASLEEP

Saturday:
9:30 A.m. Wake up
10:00 a.m. head to Shaun's parents house
10:05 a.m. Surprise the rest of the family!
10:30-12:30 Play with little Ansley while Shaun goes to fix semi
1:00 p.m. went to Jetsons farewell dinner
3:00 went back to help fix semi
      **** I drove one of these!*****

9:00 pm Watched avengers and feel asleep

Sunday:
8:00 a.m. Woke up
8:45 a.m. Scrambled to find Shaun church pants... kinda forgot those.. oops.
9:05 a.m. Slightly late to Jetsons talk
9:30 a.m. Listened to a WONDERFUL talk by ELDER Jetson "Toad" Allred!
10:45 a.m Ate Wheat pancakes...yum....
1:30 p.m headed out to SLC to be dropped off.
5:15 p.m. Wheels up- destination Georgia
10:30 p.m Arrive
1:00 a.m. Arrive to our apartment

Monday
6:30 a.m. Shaun wakes up for work
9:00 a.m. Syd wakes up to do "homework" er...blog/revenge/pinterest work.

Just because he's a cop and is eating a doughnut.. not really that funny but.. still took the picture.

just a few more pictures...

 Just a few more pictures outside of CNN...i'm telling you this place was AWESOME!

 This is the inside of the building. All those windows are the offices and then they have a hotel and food court. It's weird that the CNN building has a mall feel rather than a business feel.

 The nicer part of the city. The day we went to the Zoo, Car show and Museum  we walked 11 miles! geesh.

 Vortex!

 Dont see that in idaho!

 My little brothers name is Tanner so we had to take a picture and try it! Food not so great though.

 My little sister on our last ride together up the hill.... I miss her and "my" horse and MY dog!! oh Idaho...

 Our good friend Adam face times with us alot. I love it!

Ok, once Scott sees this im dead... but its hilarious! This is the deal, Have you seen this commercial?

Shaun's Brothers all think its the funniest thing to hit T.V. 

Dear scotty even got caught showing us how a farm boy from roosevelt peacocks. 

I literally watch this video daily. Hes funny! And Shayla needs to see this... so blame her if your mad Scott... 

Cheers Folks!

Just a tourist.

The last 2 weekends we have been tourists. I HATE being a tourist. But this wasn't that bad. Actually... it was pretty fun! We went to the CNN building, Aquarium, World of Coke, Art Museum, Zoo, and the  car show!  busy busy. 

The first weekend we hit up the stuff right down town. It was fun. CNN was by far my favorite! its amazing how they do those things and Anderson Cooper? He's real! whoa! Well I cant technically confirm that given that i've never actually seen the man but... i saw the studio he films his shows in so thats pretty close to seeing him right? Meh, just go with it. 

Anyway here are some pictures from the last few weeks. Enjoy!

 I told Shaun that if he would just farm i'd buy him a new truck... still didn't take me up on it. DANG IT!

 Great shot eh?

 For lunch we went and ate at the Vortex... Wild wild place but I loved it!

 I had the Fat elvis or something like that.  Peanut Butter, Fried Bananas, Bacon all on a juicy burger! YUM!.... really YUMMMM!

 Red room that actually had a horrible meaning behind it.

 They say the "secret" recipe is in this vault..... lies.

 Shaun and Adam in the kids tunnel.

 HUGE!

This is the CNN room where they look for news. 

Tornado...minor event.

NOT!  Tornados are kinda scary! We had 3 rip through Southern Georgia yesterday around 7 O'clock. WHOA!

Heres the deal. I was driving home when my phone started going crazy. When I got to the stop light I looked to see what the deal was it was an alert that said "All Gwinnett county residence, a tornado warning has been issued please take cover immediately" I got a little excited! I love adventure its fun to have something wild happen as long as no one gets hurt! So I called Shaun to see if he got the alert and he told me he was just going to run at work and would be fine because thats actually where the company has the employees head in a emergency like this. But he wanted to know where i was going to go, I just figured I'd head up to the apartment. sure its on the 3rd floor of our apartment building with lots of windows and nothing to hide under in case evil twister does come to see us but... I was really tired and I didn't really know where else to go.  I headed up plopped down on the couch and turned on the news. For about 5 minutes the were really freaking me out but then all the sudden the warnings stopped for our area and we were just told to stay inside because of hail and sever thunderstorms but down south needed to get to shelter immediately because there was a tornado that would probably be touching down at any second. WHOA!

It was pretty wild and I guess at least one death which is so sad. It's wild here, it can go from sunny and warm to tornado in seconds. Geesh. So much for a warning!

Here's a couple pictures of the damage down south.

Crazy. 

Hello Georgia Rain

 Rain.. So freaking much of it!

It's pretty gloomy here. Some days we see sun but most of the time its cloudy and rainy.  I actually like the rain but the clouds... forget them. It's actually pretty cold too. Weird right!? 45 degrees is freaking chilly when the humidity goes to your bones. But, one thing is for sure it aint no -15 out there so im thankful for that!  :)

Adjusting for me has been really hard. I cant seem to fall in love with this place. I feel like im finally starting to feel at home then all the sudden BANG I want to go home. I'm just not made for the city life.

• I hate the traffic! 30 minutes to go 4 miles? NO THANK YOU!
• Atlanta- as in down town.. SO SCARY!
•  So many Trees!
• No mountains!
• Humidity makes it hard for me to breathe
• And  I miss going to school. Online kinda sucks!
• So gloomy 
• Always busy doing nothing... I dont get it. 

Positives?

• The trees are confining but really pretty. 
• Weather is mild 
• Lots we could  do (time/money)
• Cool places I could run
• Super friendly people

SO... its nice here just not AWESOME here. I want a cow, a horse and a dog. Shaun wants a tractor, some corn and some land to rome. Ha, when Shaun gets home from work we always seem to find ourselves at the computer looking up farming or ranching videos on youtube.   But, this is were were suppose to be. So we'll stay. I'll buck up and his job will take him far. I'm glad to be here I just miss the country... Alot

p.s. I'm not feeling a February update anymore. maybe tomorrow!

Here's the deal. Today, is a blogging kind of day. I have 2 great things to update you on.

1) Update on us as of the last month or so

2) MAYBE just MAYBE get the videos up from when Shaun proposed. Thats a big fat maybe folks!

For now, here's a few videos i've found lately...
                                                                   


                                                               These Girls can Sing!

Scary interesting stuff.... 

                                                                 Funny Funny Boy