Care to Unite? Okay!

Attention one and all, this is our first combined blog post! Be excited!

Bradford will start us out...

So we had the most mysterious thing happen to us this past while. Let me take you back, back to a time when we were babysitting my siblings while my father was away on business. The year was 2010, the month, April, the weather, warm. We, being the sneaky couple we are, brought out our laundry to do at their house to save us money. This included our sheets and all of our bedding. After a fun week of babysitting, the parents safely returned home and we departed to our humble apartment in the heart of Salt Lake City. We then commenced with the folding of a gazillion clothes. We finally put the sheets, duvet cover, and pillow cases...wait, where are the pillow cases? To this day we have yet to find our pillow cases. We have been sleeping on our pillows this whole time. Upon discussing this, my wife suggested we make a blog post about this. If any of our readers happen to find our pillowcases, please, with all sincerity, return the pillowcases.

The Gap

Jenessa here...

Sad about our pillowcases right? We look like slobs sleeping on just pillows...please don't judge us! On a lighter note, we have a Super Nintendo! We temporarily borrowed it from Bradford's sister and lets just say, it has changed our lives for the better. Last night we stayed up until 1 a.m. playing Donkey Kong. It was so great! We'd highly recommend finding and playing a Super Nintendo system.

Also, this weekend (June 18 & 19) is the Chalk Art Festival at the Gateway! I've been interning with the Utah Foster Care Foundation for the past few months as the Chalk Art Festival intern. There has been so much planning and preparation that has gone into this event and I'm excited it is finally here! So everyone come out to the Gateway on Friday afternoon or anytime on Saturday and party with me at the Festival!

That ends our first combined post. Expect more of these in the future...

Love Always,

Bradford and Jenessa

An ode to FRIENDS.

Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Joey, Phoebe and Monica...

Those names mean so much to me, and now my husband as well. I have loved Friends since I was about 13 years old. I own the complete series, had a poster in my bedroom and can honestly say I have watched each episode 20+ times. It never gets old. How could you get sick of a show that brings so much joy into your life? I don't think I have ever watched an episode and not laughed out loud; it is that good.

When we got married I thought Bradford would struggle with my whole Friends obsession. He knew I had it, but I don't think he saw himself getting roped into it. During our first week of marriage (post honeymoon) we watched quite a bit of Friends because we didn't have internet and I wanted the show to grow on him. The first episodes were bumpy, and I could tell he was wavering. Then, something happened. Bradford turned the corner and realized just how great this show is and how happy it makes you. Ever since that day he will now turn it on whether I'm watching it with him or not. He now asks me if we can watch friends :) The greatest sound to wake up to is the Friends theme song coming from the living room and my husband laughing. I love it! I knew I married him for a reason. Just FYI though, I know he would want me to clarify that LOST is still his favoirte show and the friends characters will never replace his LOST characters. Its understandable, they are both great. But Friends...anytime, any mood, you'll find me watching my favorite show.

So thank you Friends for being there in the good times, the bad times, and everything in between. I'm serious when I say I will always love my Friends.

The End

Jenessa

One last word...

For some reason everyone lately has been saying how much they hate camping and it has been making me way mad! Not to diss on anyone who has said this in the recent like day, but I've gotta stand up for camping some time. Where would be my principles? To set the record straight, camping is the best thing in the world. I have yet to have a negative experience while camping. Yet on vacation in, lets say, California you have lots negative experiences. So according to Daniel Faraday's theory, camping is better cause no negative things happen. Yes non-campers, I realized that there aren't bathrooms, yes, I realized that there aren't credit card machines. Thank goodness for "Lost"and their theories or else I would be stuck with all the "Others" saying that camping is the worst thing ever.

In lue of this, I think I'm going to go camping soon. Thank you pessimistic people for helping me get outside more.

The Gap

Alright, So...The honeymoon

Basically I was just jonesing to post something...So here is a few pictures from our honeymoon

Salt Lake Airport the day after the wedding. Our flight left at like 6 so we were up at the crack of dawn. The peanuts on the plane helped wake me up.

This is where we were for a week. Way better than commuting to Provo. Instead, We just commuted to the bar for pina colada's.

Wow

At the resort. To be honest, we did nothing. We woke up, went to the beach, ate, went to the pool, ate, watched the Colbert Report, and ate. That was the week. The best week ever

Cute Wife...

Dinner at a local restaurant. Way fun. It was sweet, they would have local musicians come in and play which was my favorite part. Reviewing over this...Why am I still here in Utah? Hawaii is so much better.

Well, guess I'll go enjoy Friends and clean up a bit till my wife gets home from work.

The Gap

Bradford

Ramblings of a kindergarten teacher/student/intern...

Something is taking over my body and driving me a little crazy. This little something I like to call a mixture of stress and busyness (if that is even a word). The combination of work, interning, and school is creating this weird/emotional person that I don't quite want to claim as myself.

The other day I found myself reading a blog that I found through a friend and I was just bawling while reading it. That is not like me at all! I am this pathetic mess right now because all my stress is releasing itself through tears.

Luckily, I married a very patient man. He laughs at me sometimes, but most the time he helps me put things in order to not feel so overwhelmed. He is very good to me. I do feel bad for him though because we see each other for about 40 minutes after work, then once I get home from class around 8:30 or 9. If anyone would like to volunteer to make him dinner that would be great. Our frozen chimichangas can only go so far. Poor guy. We love Tuesday nights though because my class that night hasn't started yet so we head to our local Alberto's and get a burrtio and free horchata. We love Tuesdays.

Don't worry, I am in a meditation and stress class right now so hopefully my daily meditations start to make a difference soon. My professor swears on his life that meditation is the key to a peaceful life...we'll see. Life is so much fun, just a little crazy right now. Come June 20, i'll be a new woman...who makes dinner :)

Love Always,
Jenessa

P.S. I have to post about this...While I do homework, Bradford writes "Thank You" cards so he is being productive as well. Isn't he great? The answer is yes.

Previously, On Lost

Yesterday was the last time we will ever be able to hear that. The series finale was of Lost was on last night and we watched it over at a friends with a bunch of other Losties. It was one of the best finales I have seen in any series. It left it with a great ending but with some untied ends to ensure that there are theories that are created as to what really happened. This is what the producers have been doing the past 6 years so it is appropriate that they ended this way.

In my opinion, this was the most well written series on television. The characters had so much depth to them that you could not help but grow to like them. And the plot was unpredictable, yet not random and off the wall. No offense to the "24'ers" out there but compaired to 24, Lost blows it out of the water. Jack Bauers always saves the day, there is always a someone corrupt in the system, and the bad guys always lose. Then the next season starts over the same way. I can say this cause I used to watch 24.

In Lost, You have no idea where it is going to end up. That is what makes it so much fun, its not just something you turn on, watch, like, then turn off and go on with your life. It's something that you turn on, watch, like, then think about it all day why this certain event happened. It requires the viewers to do much more than just watch, but the writers provide certain things to happen to get you to figure it out. It's basically like a sudoku but series. Word to the wise however, do not start in the middle of the series. you have to start, as I did, at season one. Anyways, I've spilled enough about lost in this post and I don't want people to think I am too weird. so I better stop now.

Peace, Love, The Gap

Bradford

We Have Internet!

It feels as if we have just gotten out of a huge famine. We now have wireless in our apartment so you can be expecting some serious blogging going on now.

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