We moved into our new house in St. George on May 3rd. It was a very busy day (Logan graduated that day as well). Here are some pictures.
Outside our house.
This is the living room and Logan setting up the TV.
These are my babies. I love them SOOOO MUCH!!!
Our bedroom. Notice: There are two windows and a door that goes out to the back patio.
The kitchen.
Our backyard.
And everyone should know that Logan's stereo equipment has been reunited. This is Logan setting it all up.
Logan's long awaited graduation day came on May 3rd when he graduated from Southern Utah University with a degree in Integrated Engineering. He graduated Summa cum Laude and received the outstanding academic award in his department.
Congratulations Logan! I am so proud of you and I love you so much.
Hey everyone
I found out that I didn't need to walk in the morning part of graduation so I decided not to. What I've planned is to drive to St. George and pick up a Uhaul and bring it to Cedar City and load it up before the convocation exercises at 2 then take it back to St. George and unload it that night and Sunday morning. I plan to drop it off Sunday morning before my 24 hours is up. I've priced it and it's cheaper to pay for the miles and the gas than it is to rent it for one way from Cedar to St. George. So, if anyone reads this and is willing to help us load up our Uhaul on Saturday morning or can help us unload it Saturday night please let us know. I don't know the exact times yet but I'm guessing it won't be earlier than 9:30 am in the morning.
Thanks Logan
Sorry everyone, I understand something weird has been going on that is not allowing anyone to comment. This all has a very long story about someone (Logan) experimenting with the settings. It is all fixed now (at least I think it is) so you may all comment anytime you like.
-Sydney
It's official, we signed the lease. We are so excited that we finally found a place and the keys are in our hands. We would have posted pictures but be completely spaced out bringing the camera. It's a two bedroom, two bath triplex with brand new carpet (the last tenent, wherever you are, thank you for trashing it!). We are super excited and the landlords are awesome! I must say thank you to Grandpa Blake. Our landlords know him and didn't run a background check because of that, saving us $25 and a couple days. YAY! The uncertainty was killing me!
I was just thinking about school almost being out for the summer and about what I was up to a year ago. I couldn't help remember that it was around a year ago that I found out that Logan Blake is crazy.
He took me to Zion's with his roommates and their dates to go hiking. (You all must remember that in my family we never did any "hiking" that involved more than a short stroll down a paved trail. )
We went to the Emerald Pools, which I totally can handle. I did it in 8th grade and came out just fine. What I didn't take into account was that I was dealing with a serious hiking fanatic.
He had told me that a girl had thrown up hiking with him once in the past, this concerned me a bit since my body's reaction to just about every feeling is to puke.
We started out just fine, but it didn't take long for me to realize that I was way in over my head with this guy. Picture me, if you will, literally being dragged behind Logan by the hand at an unnatural pace. We encountered a retired couple in the exact same mode. (I silently wondered to myself if that would me my future, I know now it is.)
We were just about there, and I had an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I tried to be a good sport. I really did, but Logan had to leave me behind so he could see the pools and then come back to retrieve me. The picture was after I had sat alone for a while and got a bit better. But if you look, you can see what had happened to me. I had been drug up a trail by a madman.
I have always wondered what the big fuss was about when women complain about men leaving the toilet seat up, and then I fell in....
I never had men around the house much growing up and when I did it was Marshal (my nephew) who would neglect to lift the toilet seat all together and dribble all over it. Now that is a shock to plop onto. I never complained at all when Logan would rarely forget to put it down, because the way I saw it, he had to lift it up when he went, and it wouldn't kill me to put it down.
Needless to say since the incident my views have changed a great deal. There is nothing like the shock of falling in, it's even worse than sitting on a dribble. I am pleading with all men everywhere, please PLEASE remember us when you flush and put it back the way you found it.
As you probably all know Cash planned a back packing trip this last weekend. I was fortunate enough to get invited. The route was to hike to the back of Spring Crick 
climb out of the canyon 
and then come down the Kanarra Mountain trail. 
It was fun and there were many adventures and obstacles that we had to deal with that we didn't know about or expect. for instance all of the deep snow that was in the bottom of the canyon that would give way when you walked on it.
Just to let ya'll know we decided not to take the house off Diagonal Street. We were looking at our budget and we think that right now in our life the cost of the house with out any of the utilities included would be just too much to take on. We want to find a place for less that has water, sewer and garbage included, and we're sure we can find that. So we will keep looking. We did get approved for the rent and the Property Management place said we could lease something else there with out having to re-apply.
We went down to St. George friday after school to look once again for a place to live. We were only able to look at three that night before 5 o'clock. We looked on the internet that night and found some targets for the next day. There was a house I wanted to look at through Preferred Property Management and someLogan wanted to see from Jensen Property Management.
Jensen's opened first so we went to look at a really nice house on Indian Hills and we loved it. Really nice, big, clean, and most importantly, good neighborhood. We got back to the office, filled out the forms and the lady tells us, "I'm so sorry but someone bought it yesterday." "THEN WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL US?!?!"
So we go over to Preferred and basically sit there for an hour and no one ever showed up even though they were supposed to open. I was pretty much in love with this house (which is just off Diagonal by the way) from the pictures on the website and we had driven by friday to see it (after dark). I was so afraid that someone was going to snap this up before next weekend, and I am not letting another actual house get away from me, so I decided to drive down this morning before school and take a look. Logan is sick from his little excursion with Cash and Adam, so I made him come with me.
The yard is in much worse shape in the daylight, if you can even call it a yard. Regardless, we loved the house and all its potential, and we applied! Maybe this is why that incredible apartment slipped through our fingers, and the super-nice house.
The yard looks a lot worse now .
It includes:
Logan has been named the recipient of the Integrated Engineering Academics Award for the 2007-2008 schoool-year by the faculty of the College of Computing, Integegrated Engineering and Technology. He will be recognized at the college's Recognition and Awards Banquet on April 17. Congrats Logan!!
Okay, Anisa got me all paranoid about people we don't know looking at our blogs, so I put a permission on ours. The funny thing about me writing this is that you wouldn't know it unless you already found out and had to sign in. Anyway I have been looking around and I would like to ask you all nicely to remove anywhere that it says our last name next to Logan and Sydney on your blog links. Also I think we should get rid of the email listings on the family blog and on Jessica's blog. I think we should do this because there is a little to much information (TMI) on the blogs, that I don't think others should be looking at. - Logan
Last Saturday Sydney and I, well I came up with the idea, decided to go to the Grand Canyon. It has been a while since either of us had been to the Grand Canyon and I saw something on the Travel Channel that said it was the most visited natural wonder in the world with over 5 million visitors each year. We left with a packed lunch and drove all day it seemed to get down there and back. I picked to go to Tuweep because it is free and it is a lot closer than the North or South Rim. I like Tuweep because you can go right up to the edge and it is also cool just the shape of how deep it is to its width.
This is me drinking Bear Grylls style. - Logan
P.S. Okay, this picture needs an explanation. The toilets at Tuweep were the worst toilets I have ever smelled. They were WAY WORSE than the usual "hole in the ground" toilets. These were composting toilets. The idea is that you go, and add a scoop of wood chips in afterward. It said let the wood chips do their job while you do yours. I went in and immediately ran out gagging. The only way I could go through with this is by stuffing my nose full of toilet paper. Logan thought this was great. Just to give you guys an idea about the stink, it was like a human store. You know how pet stores smell like pet pee and wood chips? This smelled like human pee and wood chips. That is all. -Sydney
I am counting down the days ‘til spring break, I have been for so long now! I am completely lacking motivation to do anything school related and all I want to do is nap and talk to Logan.
My mom and I have been planning to spend a day or two in St. George over spring break since Logan announced that he would be leaving me over spring break again this year. His plans have since changed, but mine haven’t! I want to be somewhere warm and as far away from SUU as I can get. If I can just hold on for two more days I will have made it. Spring break! I have waited so long for you!
We were in Provo at about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon desperately looking for a Taco Bell. We finally found one and Logan decided to take me up past the MTC since I had never been there, and he wanted to reminisce. While there he had this grand idea of going home on Highway 89. I thought that it sounded like fun. At about this same time I remembered that I had brought the camera. This is us at the beginning of our adventure. 
This is where we were.
We stopped to say hi to my mom since she practically lives on Hwy. 89. We visited for about a half hour and we hit the road again.
By the time we made it to Circleville, Logan was looking pretty tired.
By the time we made it to Bear Valley we were both tired. (I had a lot of Pepsi at Taco Bell.)
Home sweet home. Well... back in Cedar City.
