My visit to Oklahoma

So when John visited China, I went to Bartlesville for about a week. Here are some pictures I took while I was there. See if you can tell where they are. :-)

I couldn't get these to turn. Bummer huh?

Our House

So we have been informed that some of our family haven't seen actual pictures of our house, so this is what it looks like now. We just finished the guest room and have started picking out colors for our study. So this is the House!

This is the front room

The breakfast/dining area

The Kitchen!
Our finished bedroom (almost) John let me buy that beautiful picture of the SL Temple with the red leaves. It will be prefect!

The Study. You can see we have been testing som colors in there. This will also be the baby room when that happy day finally happens!

The new guest room

This is the desk I refinished. Isn't it great!!!
So that is pretty much our house! We would like to welcome all who are willing to spend time in good 'ol Texas!

We had guests!!

So Jessica, Mike, Benson, Grace and Sabrina all came to visit us Memorial Day weekend and it was great! We had a really full day on Friday. John had the day off so he went with us to the Sea Center to check out the fish. We missed the feeding but they got to touch some of the fish. We also went to the beach and played in the water.

Saturday morning before they left, I got to take some pictures of John playing with his nieces and nephew. Yes it is what it looks like. They are playing fetch, with some of our tennis balls. What a great uncle!!! :-) We loved having them visit.

John in China --Yes STILL!

Since I'm not very good at getting pictures and words to work really well on the page, I'll just post some pictures of John's fun adventures in China.

John in China

As you may know John left last Friday to go to China. He said he has had a good time so far and is excited for the training the next two weeks. He's had a chance to do some exploring, and while the shopping district had a lot of stores that we might see, Nike, Nokia etc. He finally found a store that had some handcrafted pieces that he liked. He included a picture in the email he recently sent.

The time is about 13 hours a head over there so I will call or John will around 8 or 9am our time. It was nice getting woken up this morning to my husbands voice. I have a feeling that my excitment will increase with every phone call. 16 days is a long time to be apart!

In spite of having one less member at home, I have been able to get some things done. I mowed the backyard and washed the car on Sat. Things that I would have waited for John to do. :-) I got a little pink washing the car and it's a little itchy and I'm sad that there is no one to help put aloe on it! Funny how you notice those things more once there is no one to help.

Anyway, here are John's pictures.







John hanging out in the gardens with a big Buddah

The fish carving that John haggled with. Pretty neat huh?

They have lots of gardens in China!

San Antonio

We have gotten quite a bit accomplished on our bedroom a few weeks ago, and decided that it was time for a break. John and I decided to go to San Antonio for a few days. Wyndham paid for a few things and in return we listened to them for 3 HOURS tell us that it was in our best interest to buy this timeshare from them. We tried to reason with them too much. Next time we will just repeat, " No"..." No, thank you"..."We're leaving".
We did get to eat on the Riverwalk, and John LOVED visiting the Alamo. We went to the Tower of the Americas and took some pictures, We visited a few missions and rode a few rides at Fiesta TX. Here are some pictures from our recent trip.
Oh yeah! I cut my hair a few weeks ago. :-) It's starting to get a little warm here.

John with his glass of strawberry lemondade with lunch on the Riverwalk.

Emily at the Riverwalk.

John in front of the Alamo.

John in the tower of the Americas

John and Lucy making Jigglers. They were dinosaurs eating the gingerbread people!

This is my new project. I finished the desk that I was working on and now to do the dresser! Very exciting stuff, I know!

This is our newly painted bedroom with the new bedspread. We have red pillows that go with it, but they hadn't arrived yet and while I have some time off and John is in China, I'm going to make some window coverings. OH YEAH! John's going to China on April the 11th!

A New Car for John

Actually, it's a truck. We decided that after 8 months of being a one car family, we were finally ready to get another car....truck. We have been looking for about a week and John finally found a truck that he really liked on Craigslist.

The first thing he tells me when he gets home Monday night is that he's found the perfect truck and I have to see it. It looked like it was in good shape and the seller was willing to work with us on the price. So at 6:30 pm we decided to go to up to Humble (about 1 1/2 hour drive) to meet this guy. The truck was great and we signed the bill of sale right then. He has had to brush up on his gear shifting skills as the truck is a manual, but it has been fun riding around with him. It is green with a slight lift on it, and he loves it! I do too! Now I don't have to get up so early to take him to work!

In other news, John and I both received new callings for our church. John is the new Young Mens President. He is excited to get to know the youth better and is hoping to leave a lasting impression on them.

I am First Counselor in the Primary Presidency and am very excited to work with children. It seems that I was meant to be around children.

So that is our news. We'll try to keep you more updated in the future!