3 Years!!!!!

Well I can't believe I am saying this already, but it was 3 years ago today that Carly became the biggest sucker in the history of the world because for some reason she married me. I might be the luckiest person alive to have been able to trick Carly into marrying me. I really did literally trick her because I didn't propose in any kind of traditional way. I simply got off of work late one night went over to her apartment and had her roomies let me in so I could go put the ring on her finger while she was asleep and then get outta there before she realized. See she had no choice because by accepting the ring it counted as a yes in my book.

Anyways I can't believe she went through with it, but it has been a great 3 years. We have had a lot of laughs, fights, watched numerous sporting events, learned that I am always wrong, and pretty much just have had fun. I am very lucky to be married to a beautiful woman who makes me a better person. Carly is perfect for me and I don't know what I would do without her (I would probably be eating out of dumpsters and still wearing my clothes from high school).

I can't wait for the years to come because these last three have been so good. Maybe during one of these years I will be right in an argument and it will be a miracle. Carly I love you very much and please don't realize that you married a huge dork.



Besides how could you not love someone who would pose like this to make another couple uncomfortable.

First Things First

I realize many of you are anxiously awaiting posts about our trips to Texas and Cancun, but I will first address the significance of today's date: the third anniversary of our marriage. Don't worry, I won't do the typical boring post about how amazing our marriage is or how my husband is the best guy in the world. Nope, today I am going to take the opportunity to tell Daniel, and the blorld (blog world) the things I DON'T like about him.

TOP 5 THINGS DANIEL NEEDS TO IMPROVE IN ORDER TO STAY MARRIED TO ME:

1. Athleticism- He's just not that good at sports. As you can see from the pictures, he is constantly playing on teams that come in second place (or worse!).If he is going to keep my heart he's got to start winning, or at least coming in first. Like me! (See picture of my softball championship team) Perhaps Daniel could make up for his lack of athleticism with a ridiculous knowledge of sports. If he could tell me where every NBA player ever went to college and the school's mascot I may let the unathleticism slide.

2. Competitiveness- Maybe if he just had a competitive drive Daniel would be better at sports. I am a little worried our future children won't take athletics seriously enough if they spend much time with their father. I'll probably have to coach their teams!
3. The nag factor- Daniel constantly nags me! Either that or he corrects me when I tell any detail of a story slightly wrong. He tries to tell me what I should or shouldn't do constantly. (Special thanks to Whitney for capturing this moment)
4. Sense of humor- Daniel=not funny. Sometimes I wonder, "When is this guy going to lighten up?" He needs to learn to take a joke and even make people laugh once in a while. Life isn't meant to be so serious Danielson.






5. Spending habits- Talk about extravagant! You see the swimsuit he is wearing in this picture? $14!! Yeah, I guess a bathing suit is useful in Mexico. Useful, not necessary.

So, just to recap, the type of man I want is athletic, competitive, funny, and cheap. Feel free to remind Daniel of the areas he needs to improve in order to make me happy. Maybe we'll make it a few more years.

But I do really look up to Daniel. Of course I do! He's a foot taller than me.

Live from CVG

Now I know you are wondering what the heck CVG is, well let me tell you because for the next few hours it is my home. CVG is the code for Cincinnati airport and I get the fantastic opportunity of staying here until my next flight of my trek to Cancun. Here are the pluses and minuses of my situation at the moment.

Pluses-
Right now I essentially have the place to myself which is great because I don't have to carry my bags all over the place if I want to walk around for a minute. And if my bags do go missing then they would be pretty easy to find considering that either one of the three janitors walking about or the other guy who appears to be sharing my plight would have to be the people that took them.

Unlike at our apartment I was able to find free internet here in the airport. I am not sure how, but I was able to avoid the 15 bucks that the t mobile hot spot was trying to charge. So take that t mobile.

If I begin to smell (which is very possible) then no one is around to complain about it, unless the janitors have a keen sense of smell.

CNN is on 24/7 which means I am catching up on all the fantastic jabs that our potential future presidents are taking at each other. How about they work together to help the country actually move in a better direction instead of worrying about resumes and who is a hero and who isn't. Politics are really annoying. There is an interesting show on the Dali Lama so I got that going for me.

Minuses-
I am starving and there is not a food place open in the whole joint. How do I know? I know because I asked my friend Raul the janitor mere moments ago and to put it simply I would think Raul knows what hes talking about when it comes to finding food.

I may get into a fight with my friend who appears to be sharing my same situation (unless he is a janitor who carries around luggage) if we both need to charge our computers. I say this because it seems that there is exactly one outlet in the entire terminal and I refuse to let this computer die because without it I might go crazy and have to build a fort out of all of these chairs. Maybe my friend would want to help.

Now I know I said CNN is a plus, but it might become a negative since it just loops and repeats itself over and over. Besides why can't they break the rules once and just turn it to ESPN.

Well that's all I have for now, but if any of you read this soon, or I guess ever, go ahead and give me some ideas for good activities to kill time. Seriously do it...please.

Progress

We are making progress folks. No we don't have the internet yet, but instead of posting from outside the fieldhouse I am posting from my office which is in the fieldhouse. This means that I don't have people looking at me like I am crazy. I would like to thank David for his comment about us going green by just using other peoples internet. I think we have saved 32.43 trees by not having our own internet. Now don't ask me how I arrived at that number, but I am pretty sure it is accurate.

This week so far has been fairly productive for me. Of course that doesn't take very much since I am usually a bum. I golfed on Monday with Nick Cottle since he and Lexie are moving to Oregon (jerks) and I actually didn't do too badly. For those of you who have seen me golf that only means that I lost like 2 balls instead of 10 and managed to look like a complete idiot once or twice instead of 5 or 6 times.

Yesterday I reluctantly helped move Nick's stuff into a truck and marveled at his dads tetris skills as he packed the truck. After that Carly and I had a co-ed playoff softball game against the number 1 ranked team and somehow won. Probably because Carly was catching fly balls like a pro. Normally I am quite confident in our intramural skills and our ability to go far in the playoffs, however we have 3 pregnant women on our team along with the slowest person on earth (me), so the fact that we beat a very good team with a couple of college softball players made me happy.

The rest of the week we will be getting ready to go down to Cancun for a week with the John clan in all its glory. Originally I wasn't going to go, but thanks to Carly and her persistence in trying to make me find a way I was able to find a fairly cheap ticket to leave this Saturday. Now you may say that I got lucky in finding a decent price the week of the flight, but I will be earning my trip as I have two connections and get to spend the night in the beautiful Cincinnati airport. In other words I take off on Saturday and arrive on Sunday, but hey it will be worth it.

So if we don't post again until after Cancun all two of you who read this don't get upset and know that we will have two trips worth of pictures to post when we get back.

Live from the Fieldhouse

The reason we are coming to you live from in front of the fieldhouse is that our old friends and neighbors, Jen and Phil Singer decided to up and move to Boston. Along with our friendship they took our internet that we split with them. And for that I will never forgive them, ok not really, but we are in the process of getting the internet again so more posts and pictures should be coming up shortly. It is kind of funny sitting here in our car though because everyone that walks by looks at us like we are crazy. Maybe we look like the cops that sit in vans on a stake out, but everyone knows they are there (I watch too much tv. I have also realized this week that I use the internet way too much.).

This last week we haven't done much of anything. We have pretty much just been hanging around and watching Arrested Development mixed in with a couple of afternoons of tennis. We did go to a Fletcher family reunion where Carly's grandpa on her mothers side had all of his siblings along with all of their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids there. I am sure that was just really confusing, but the gist of it is that there were tons and tons of people there.

Blood Family Reunion

The Blood family (Daniel's mother's side) had their every-other-yearly family reunion in Midway over the 4th of July. Daniel's mom (Carolyn Nielson the first) and sister Whitney came up to Utah for it.

Stewart Falls

We hiked up to Stewart Falls on July 5th. Look how photogenic we all are.

Courtney and Whitney tried to take a nice, scenic sisterly photo. I ruined it.

This is not just a picture of the falls. Daniel and his cousin Aaron are up there by it. You have to climb a pretty steep incline and then down another one to get there. Daniel tried to be the tough older cousin, but he is kind of afraid of heights. He ended up slipping and getting covered in mud.

Aaron got down much quicker. Daniel blamed it on his chicken legs.

Family Cookout
This is Daniel's mother's whole family except three.
Carolyn and her 4 siblings with their spouses.

Leader of Champions...Almost

This week I had another basketball camp, this time it was 10-18 year olds, and I decided to make Carly tag along to coach a team in one of the younger gyms. At the beginning of the week Carly wasn't too sure about her team being able to win even one game, but after a week of superb coaching and inspirational leadership she led her little band of misfits to the championship game. After arriving there her team ran out of gas and lost, but not without a fight to the finish as they lost in overtime. They were the only team to beat the champs this week in regular season play, so they have that memory to look back on. Anyways I just felt that after such an accomplishment Carly should be recognized as one of the all time greats in the coaching ranks, right up there with Red Auerbach.

Not too much has gone on in the last little bit, just a little bit of this and that. We went to my family reunion last weekend to watch the fireworks and hang out with the family, but pictures and details of that will be posted shortly so no need to go into detail. Anyways we are driving to Texas tomorrow with my mom and sister and then flying back in week. It should be a good time.