Since Kim made me feel guilty

So what have we been up to? First of all i need to defend myself. We dont have internet access anymore. We used to go to the school and use it, but now we have to drive to Santa Clara. All the way across town.

Well, ixciting things since we moved. I went with Logan and Lucas and met Ron and Debbie out at the Ranch for round up. This was very interesting for me. I held up remarkably well to the branding and ear cutting and such. The only think that got to me is the extreme stink of the branding. YUCK! And I also hated that Logan was the one chopping the ears and he looked like a murderer. I got a sweet farmers tan that I will spend the rest of the summer trying to blend.

I am still looking for work. I am being a little picky since I got totally spoiled at Storytellers with my own hours and great people to work with. I applied recently at a really cute scrapbooking store, Barnes & Noble, and a drycleaner. I will confess that I would prefer B&N but who knows? I have heard that employees can get books a day before they come out, and I simply cannot resist the idea of getting Breaking Dawn just a few hours before the rest of the Twilight gang.

Logan is really happy at work. He is doing some really exciting things. It's getting hotter in St. George and I'm fighting it. I will survive I swear, though sometimes I doubt it. I have heard that if you can make it through the first one you will be just fine.

I just remembered that I registered at Dixie. EXCITING!!! Yay!!! Anyway, this is long and I'm not that interesting.

Ants

Has anyone ever heard of ants living in a dishwasher? Well, you have now.

I tried to wash them down and steam them dead, but to my amazement. They are still there.

So we went to visit good ole' Cash at Steve Regan this morning and he hooked us up with some sweet ant killer. Let's hope that it works.

Our New Home

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.

Graduation Day!!

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.

Moving Day

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

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

We have a Home

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!

My Crazy Husband

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.

The Toilet Seat

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.

Spring Crick Over nighter

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.

Ladders to climb, thick brush to fight and cold nights to endure. Some things might have been easier with a guide, but that wouldn't have made for a good story. One thing I did get to try out was something I learned from Bear Grylls. Bear was in Patagonia walking a cross a frozen glacier and it was really treacherous and slippery. He said if you didn't have spikes you could put your socks on you're shoes and that would give you some traction. That is what he did, he pulled of his Smart Wool socks and put them on his shoes and then he could walk. Well on the way down the Kanarra Mountain trail there was a lot of steep icy snow and i was slipping all over the place and I remembered that show so I put my dirty pair of Smart Wool socks over my shoes and I could walk a lot better.

I just thought all you non-believers out there would like to know that there is good stuff being taught on Man Vs. Wild. - Logan

Didn't Take 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 Applied

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:

• Room for our cars and the work truck.


• Nice non-renterish neighborhood.


• Oodles of charm.


• Washer and Dryer!!!!


• Room so we can have BBQ's with the family (pretty much Logan's dream).

Congratulations to Logan!

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!!

P.S. Can you beat that Tanner?

Paranoia

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

Tuweep! Tuweep!

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