In the last month and a half we have been to St. George, UT (southern Utah where it nice and warm compared to the mountainous area I'm living in near Salt Lake), Oregon, and have done a lot of new little adventures around here as well.
A few weeks ago G and I went to Oregon so I could show him around the rainy state and visit my family. He has already met my mom when she came out to Utah a couple months ago (and she LOVES him), but had not meet anyone else in the fam. I was a little nervous about it (because family can be embarrassing!), but he had a great time and they all reeeally liked him. No matter how much embarrassing home videos my mom had to play and stories they had to tell, he came out feeling more love for me than before. We did a lot of sight-seeing--all my favorite places growing up around the area. We hit up Newport, OR, where I lived for 6 months and studied gray whales, climbed the lighthouse and went tide-pooling, ate local clam chowder and watched the sea lions.
The next day we went to Silver Falls State Park and checked out a lot of the big waterfalls (and with snow melt coming down, there was a ton of water! We got soaked!). We attended church on Sunday and took a drive to Portland. What was so great about it (other than spending every second of the 5 days together... haha), was that it was supposed to rain all weekend, but every time we would step outside the house or a car, the sky would open up for us and the sun would come out. Amazing. We had a great trip, great road trip conversation, and next time we'll have to hit up southern Oregon and see Crater Lake, the Oregon Caves, among other things.
Recently here back in Utah, we also attended the Festival of Colors together, which is always a fun experience. We got chalkified and colorful as ever. The weather here is so bipolar we didn't know what that day was going to be like (last year was freezing and a little snowy) but it was about 75 degrees and sunny!
[Let me tell you about this Utah weather... Seriously every time we have an 80-degree day in the spring, we know that we will have SNOW and freezing weather again in just a few days... it's been inevitable. The other day I went running in the sunshine, 80 degrees, and the next day it snowed 4 inches and was a high of 44 degrees. What the heck. I can't wait for summer.]Speaking of summer... Great news! Garrett is no longer going out to do summer sales in Chicago like he was. Instead he is going to be staying around the Salt Lake area, working with BOTH his window washing company and sell pest control out here. We are both very happy with this decision. We still have not gone a day apart since New Years when he was on his cruise, and we'd like to keep it that way. Things are continuing to progress, and we are happier every day. I had no idea I could be this happy with someone. Seriously.
