HAPPY 8 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

We made it to 8 years - it is hard to believe. I joke with Nick we made it 8 years and nothing to show for it, we are like newlyweds still (oh well life doesn't always go as you plan). We are still having fun and doing fun things, for Memorial Day we went to Colorado (Denver/Colorado Springs/Grand Junction) for a little get-away since we are probably not going to Pennsylvania because flights are so expensive and because of money reasons. We are trying to get out of debt except for our house - so just Nick's car and one student loan left and we are close. My parents may come out to visit in February, so I hope they can do that. For our anniversary we went to Spark Restaurant in Downtown Provo in the Wells Fargo Building. It was trying to look like a club in NY or LA - it was expensive but had good food and luckily I had a buy one get one free coupon which made it cheaper. Then we went to Cascade Driving Range and drove some golf balls (we had a coupon for that too.) Then we went to The Chocolate in Orem for dessert (I got my birthday cake there this year) they have the best desserts - we just shared a slice of chocolate cake mmmmmm! Then for some bigger plans we are going to downtown Ogden for a night and staying at the Marriott (because I got a great deal on priceline.com) and we will go to the Ogden Temple before they tear it down. We are going up for Nick's cousin's wedding reception and thought we would make a weekend of it. We will probably also walk around 24th street I think it is called, it looks like they have a lot of fun shops.

I AM FINALLY READING A BOOK!

I am finally reading a book for interest reasons (which hasn't happened for I can't even remember in how long). It is a book called Fall to Pieces by Mary Forsberg Weiland (who is the ex-wife of rock star Scott Weiland). This book tells all the things famous people like to hide about their lives - childhood, depression, wild fits, drug use, metal illness and how things came to be and what all was happening at different points in their lives. It has always been a "dream" I guess you could call it to have a rock star boyfriend/husband (if that is possible ;) ) So this showed me the dark side of it - but not completely dark - I was surprised at how much he truly loved her (because most just love their music and truly never really love someone and also he seemed pretty faithful to her according to the book). This book is really interesting to me. Nick comments about me wasting my time reading it when I could be reading more important things (I am also finishing up Elder Holland's book) but I can really relate to this book and the author and Scott (which is weird). That must be why I can relate with his music so much. I never really felt I fit in anywhere (in this world) school, never really had any best friends, I am still kinda a loner. The only difference is they took drugs to escape it all where as I hate to even take pills for headaches and would be terrified to stick myself with a needle. I also had the gospel which helps - even if no one understands me God does. I am happy in my life - Nick is the closest thing I can get to a rock star with out having one - we like the same music, he use to have the facial hair like one, and he thinks he is one and acts like one! ;)