Year in Review!

2008 is officially gone and now that 2009 is upon us and like a guy in our ward said today in his testimony... "as of 2pm today the year will be 1% over" So I thought I would spend a few minutes reminiscing about what happened with us over the past year. We just started blogging a couple months ago so we figured since there aren't any postings for most of the year we would do it this way instead. We didn't do a christmas card either so I think this will count for that too!

Today is our anniversary too! We have been married for two years, it's crazy that it was two years ago that we were truckin thru a massive snowstorm up in bountiful digging cars out in our suits and all sorts of fun stuff. It's gone by so fast! We've had great fun so far and we both look forward to the many many more fun years ahead of us!

The things that happened in our life can probably be boiled down to a few categories: Jobs, Vacations, and Hobbies.

Jobs:
I started out the year working at a fabulous car detailing establishment here in Sugarhouse I quit in April and moved on to my next adventure which was doing a graveyard shift delivering fine german pastries to downtown coffee shops. This was a fun job but when the opportunity came up to work at my current position at the Freedom Fast Track I quickly shifted jobs again. If I stay till May that will mark 1whole year at this job which would be a world record for me. I fully anticipate this happening because unlike all the other jobs I've ever had, I haven't got hideously bored yet! Sweet! I really like it there, I'm learning tons and look forward to the events of the upcoming year.
Sharlene: Worked at the American Red Cross for most of the year, packaging and delivering blood all over the salt lake valley. She quit in September to start working more at the local yoga studio. She just recently quit that because she is starting school full time tomorrow but will still volunteer there often because she loved it so much there.
I guess school isn't a category but I will mention that Sharlene is starting tomorrow at the Utah College of Massage Therapy! We are both way excited she is going to love it and I am going to love helping her with her homework for the next 7 months!

I guess you could call a church calling a job, in January we got called to teach the 7 year olds of our ward, we got really luck we gotta pretty big primary and all the classes except ours have at least 10 kids but our class only has 4! They are great kids we really enjoy teaching them each week. Countless games of hangman, simon says, pushup contests, and loads of candy have been essential in teaching them:)

Vacations:
We had some fun vacations this year: Lake Powell over labor day, Park City on Christmas Eve, St. George on the 4th of July, a couple camping trips, and our biggest one was probably going to California for a couple days in April to see my Dad and Kelly get sealed in the Los Angeles Temple. It was a great experience one we both won't forget for a long time. We even got to see Mckell for a few minutes so that was cool too. The big trips were fun but we probably had more fun just doing small one or two day excursions to park city, logan, local mountains etc. We're planning on doing more of those types this year.

Hobbies:
Sharlene got way into yoga this year, we have a yoga studio just down the street from us and she loved it so much that she started volunteering there and then it turned into a job. She loves it and tries to get me to go but i'm intimidated cuz I can't even touch my toes! She still wants to someday become a yoga teacher so that is on the list of her goals.

I started running alot this year, which was really weird cuz for as many years as I can remember I have always laughed and made fun of the people who were running in the cold, early mornings in silly looking tights with goofy hats and grimaces on their faces. Somehow I got convinced to seriously try it out and I got hooked and now i'm one of those guys with goofy clothes and a sweaty, grimacing face running all the time. I've had some fun experiences running: the Logan 1/2 marathon, running a 5k with a guy dressed in a full out spiderman costume, running in the snow, almost getting hit by a car, becoming best friends with the treadmill on the first row on the left side in the cardio cinema at golds, making the mistake of eating 2 spicy McChickens right before running at the gym and soon after clearing out the whole row (sorry!) Now my goal this year is to convince other people to join since it's funner to run with friends.

We both love to read, and watch movies together many nights of 2008 were spent either watching movies together on the couch or reading together on the bed. Sharlenes favorite was anything by Wayne Dyer and my favorite memory was the inaugural movie marathon where I woke up at 9am one day and watched 6 movies straight, only taking eating and bathroom breaks. It was awesome.

I think that about does it for what happened with us in 2008. It was a fun year and we look forward to more fun and adventure in 2009. I think for the next post i'll put up our resolutions and goals and stuff like that so you all can help keep us accountable:)