Work, School, and Play

Quick Update..seeing as how everything nowadays has to be quick!

• Work at the D.I. is getting better, more interesting. We are becoming closer to our fellow workers and are being able to help them more.
  
• Matt is working on graphic designs for two companies and loving it! His dreams are taking off!
• My classes are great. Book of Mormon II is teaching me a lot of things I did not know before. I love my Color and Design class, all of the assignments are extremely interesting.
• With working 40 hours a week, online classes and other responsibilities, it is somewhat difficult finding time to play BUT we are! We have been watching the Harry Potter movies and are trying to read the 7th book before the movie comes out. Last Friday we went on a date to IKEA, it was amazing. The food was great and it was fun planning out our future home!
• Now the GREAT news from this week: With the help of Matt's parents, we were able to invest in a....get ready for this...27" Mac computer! It is AMAZING! Matt is feasting on the Adobe Illustrator program. What a marvelous blessing family is, to be so generous as to help us prepare for our future.
  

Hopefully we can update more often and soon AND with pictures!

Mom took us to the Newport Mansions in RI. They were HUGE! This is only one part of one of the 4 mansions we saw that day. There were 7 mansions all together, but not enough time in one day to tour them all. One of the mansions we toured was called The Breakers and it was once home to the Vanderbilts. This tree we are standing on was planted the day after the dinosaurs became extinct. Now it is enormous and knotty and very fun to climb. We sure had our fun exploring it!

THE BOSTON TEMPLE! This was a day to remember. I was sealed to Dad and Tracy for time and all eternity. Families are forever and I am so happy to have that knowledge and blessing in my life.

Home in Utah

Unpacked and finally settling into our new home here in Utah. It has been almost two weeks since we left MA and it feels like just yesterday we were there. I will be honest, I am a little "homesick". This will be my first fall away from the New England area and I know that Utah will not be able to compare to the outrageous colors found dancing among the many trees in MA. I have shed no tears though because I am finding beauty in Utah. The mountains are remarkable and much larger than I imagined. The air feels so nice. I'm starting to love living here. AND it is super neat to be able to walk to church in 7 minutes instead of driving 45 minutes!

WELL, the main reason I started this post was to talk about some of the things we did in MA and ME and post some pictures.

Here are just a couple of pictures from the day after we got to MA. Tracy's sister and brother -in-law were going back to VA in a few days and so we all went to the beach with them before they left. It was a blast. This was Matt's first Maine experience. For any of those that know Maine's water first hand, then you know that it's ICY. WELL, this day was like bath water! What a perfect way to introduce Matt to Maine...one of MY favorite places.


I had my very first Fenway experience this summer. It was a blast. I'm still learning the ins and outs of the game, but I have the basics down. Not to BRAG or anything, BUT I was privileged enough to witness a grand slam!...I think that's what it's called...







"We did it, we hiked a mountain"- Matthew Beynon quoting my expression in THIS picture.
Yes, yes I know. This is not a picture of us at the mountain we hiked, but it IS a picture of us when we got home from the hike. We hiked Mt. Monadnock in NH. It was so much fun and got us pumped for hikes here in Utah!


We spent three days with Mom at her house in RI. We had A LOT of fun. She took us to The Gardens where we were able to see and explore many animals and neat things carved out of shubbery. In The Gardens, there was an area full of fruits and vegetables. We found these interesting scarecrows there and HAD to take pictures with them! Matt found a cuddly bear and had to give him a hug.