Long Overdue

I should have posted this
about 3 months ago. I got a new job at the end of March at the Utah Museum of Natural History.
I am the Assistant Registrar. They even gave me business cards and I am authorized to sign
paperwork. I'm a big girl. It feels a little weird. The Museum is in a very cool old building,
although very disfunctional for our needs. Which brings me to real point I am posting. Last
Thrusday, the 15th, we had a special function. Very few people knew ahead of time what was
going on. As a registrar I am in charge of the legal side of the objects. We took some pretty
cool and pretty stuff up to Red Butte Gardens. There were some very rich people there. The
Rice family, as in Rice-Eccles Stadium, the Eccles Family, the University President and news
media. There was an announcement for a gift of 15 million dollars to the Utah Museum of
Natural History from the parent company of Kennecott. This is very exciting. We got the
go-ahead from the state to build a new building. That was the second part of the meetings.
They unveiled the building. It's going to be cool. Those who were present got one of these
coins. By fluke I ended up with two so here is what it looks like. They are made of copper. I
have to leave them sealed so they stay that color. It was a neat thing to be able to attend.

Here is link to the story in the Salt
Lake Tribune.

Somebody had a bad day...

On my way to work yesterday I passed an accident that just happened.
Fortunately no one was hurt except a train and a semi truck. So here are some pictures of what
happened.




The
truck made an illegal left turn across 4th South right as the train was leaving the station.
This is why I always carry a camera.

Random pictures

My grandma e-mailed me yesterday and asked if I could take a picture of the
quilt she made me. So I thought I would post the picture of it. She is an awesome seamstress.
She's very good.She has
a machine that does embroidery. She put this on the back of the quilt.

Time Waster

I set out to post to my blog and ended up playing with the look for two
hours. I think I'm on my way to where I want it. Not there yet. But I have an update on my
flowers. My hyacinth came and are on their way out. Sad, but they smelled so good while they
were there.

Then the tulips started coming up. They are
wonderful. My favorite flower.
This afternoon we were at my parents and my
cute sister was getting ready to go to Accolade. A friend of mine, who did my hair for my
wedding, came and did her hair. It looked great. I hope she has fun at the dance. She took
some pictures with my little Winston dog.
You are now looking and the sum total of what I
got done today. I am a time waster.

Happy Birthday!

It was my 25th birthday today. My fun husband called me this afternoon and
told me he had narrowed my gift down to three options but I had to pick which one. He gave me
three vague clues. 1. black and white; 2. soft; 3. plugs in. It made me a little frustrated.
But I decided on black and white. We ran a couple errands and he got me some flowers. Then he
just started driving somewhere and surprised me. He pulled up to Barnes and Noble and told me
I could pick out a bunch of books. Anyone who has been to my house knows that we love books. I
got a bunch of coffee table books with beautiful pictures of Rome, Paris, Ireland, Italy
Medieval art, Florentine art and Royal Palaces. I'm so excited to flip through it all. He's
such a good husband!!

Happy times

Sunday night after conference Daniel said he wasn't feeling well. He was
sick - he ended up staying up till almost 12:00 before it was safe to go to bed. AT 5:00, we
were both dead asleep, there was pounding on our door. I almost panicked. Scared me to death.
There was someone at the door. At first I thought it was our next door neighbor saying her
house was burning down or something - I checked out that window and no. Daniel went to the
door and I heard the lady (neighbor across the street) say something about our car. I looked
at the driveway and it was gone. I thought it was stolen until I saw her pointing at her
driveway. My the park break on my car, a standard, had failed and my car had rolled out of our
flat drive way, across a flat street and into the neighbor's flat driveway and my driver side
had bumped all the way along their trucks back bumper. It put
dents in my car on both doors and took of my mirror. Good Morning! It sucked. At first I
panicked about the park break but Daniel said it was pulled. I must not have pulled it far
enough. Well nothing done to their truck but I get to take my car in to get it fixed. It's
going to cost like 1,000$ and insurance doesn't kick in till after $750. I'm just glad I have
second part time job now.

Happy Anniversary!!

Today marks 1 year. It's amazing how it went by
so quickly. But then at other times I can't believe we've been together for only a single
year. I can't think of life without Daniel. Unfortunately his day started out with a business
trip but he will be home this evening and we are going to the Roof for dinner. He was
thoughtful and had flowers delivered today. They are so beautiful. Tulips are my favorite and
the reason we got married in the spring in the Salt Lake Temple.