back to reality

I love my family vacations--they are so great! But it always feels nice to be back home. We spend the week in Cortez, Colorado, visiting several sites with ancient indian dwellings. It was pretty amazing to see the cliff dwellings built back around the year 1200 in Mesa Verde national park. It was pretty hot, but it felt good to get sweaty and gross while climbing up mountainsides and 32-ft ladders and through tunnels. We always have so much fun!

New Camera

So...I am looking for a new camera. Mine has never worked well and I just got a bonus at work so I have starting looking around, but I am curious: what kind of cameras do you all use? And what do you like or dislike about your camera? Leave me a post!

Finally!

I got a few wedding pix off my grandma's digital camera..here is a sneak peek:

Life...

Well, I still don't have any pictures from the wedding. I am just feeling a lack of motivation when it comes to contacting people about them. I do want to see the video that my friends did, though, but they are in Oklahoma for a while. So here is a brief list of happenings in my life as of late:

-My apartment is still a mess--we are slowly unpacking boxes as we need the items in them.
-I love strawberries! Hmmm..can't stop eating them.
-I officially have three weeks off work because I broke my arm. And at least it happened on work property and while I was on the clock so worker's comp will cover it.
-Peter and I are addicted to the Chronicles of Narnia. Books on CD are great for a one-armed someone who can't do a whole lot and doesn't have much motivation anyway.
-I am almost finished with wedding thank you notes.
-I am excited for the weekend: a Kelly Clarkson concert tonight, family get-together tomorrow night, cattle drive on Saturday. Maybe I will get pictures to spice up this blog a little.

No time...

I'm now married!! Mrs. Clement! yay! I have so much I wanna write and pictures I want to post, but just no time!

Seven Days

Tonight is kind of a wierd-feeling night for me. That said, I am sure next Thursday night will be even more wierd, thinking that when I wake the next day I will getting ready to get married. But back to today--I spent the day packing up my room and then this afternoon Peter and his brother came and loaded everything into cars. They drove off with a pick-up truck full of furniture and a car loaded down with boxes. My packed car will be leaving with me tomorrow. How on earth did I accumulate so much stuff?? The crazy thing was when I was packing the food from my kitchen shelves I realized that a lot of it I had hauled up with me six months ago when I moved from St George. Those are obviously items I shouldn't be buying. Tomorrow morning we are moving all my stuff plus all our other furniture (which is being stored at Peter's house) into our new hang out. I am definitely excited to get it all situated and looking like OUR house. That will be fun. Although, I am not very creative so here is a shout out requesting any cute decorating tips!!
After packing, we went to The Pizza Factory. Our bill came to about $30.00, but in the end we only paid a little over $5. Why? Well, we had a buy-1-get-1-free coupon, Peter used a gift certificate he got from getting 2nd place in an ice cream bar eating contest, and then we called and took their company survey for an extra $5 off our meal. Cool. :)

Here is Peter, eating away at his ice cream. It's blurry cuz I took it with my cell phone.

Bridals

I had an emergency bridal photo session today. I had it scheduled for next week, but due to a forecast of rain, rain, and more rain clear through the end of April we moved things up. I wasn't as prepared as I would have liked to have been but I think things went ok anyway. We had pretty good weather, but with quite a bit of wind. And it was a good run through of what things to be prepared for on the actual wedding day-like bringing tons of bobby pins and safety pins and making sure to fasten my slip tight enough so it doesn't fall off. Anyway, here are a few of the shots. Thanks so much to my sister, Em!! I couldn't have done it without her!













My favorite part of the whole experience was all the little kids oogling me. The little girls: "Mama, did you see the princess?" "She looks just like Gizelle!" "Is she a statue or is she for real?"