Ok, so this is April 26th, I believe, of this year. It is the day Karen went to the temple. You can see a picture and her and me at the top on the way in. Then there's one of all of her siblings in Utah and Britta and me. I believe you know all of them. Afterwards we forced everybody to spend about an hour stuffing announcements. We had a ton to do and i don't think it was everybody's favorite activity but they were very kind in helping. I put in a picture of Reesy and Britta and also Nikki and her husband Mike (holding the fan of temple announcements - way more than we needed). He wasn't able to make it out to California for the wedding so you all didn't meet him. They are tons of fun.
On later news. I've begun my research with my professor. So far so good. I'm working on two studies. One is an update of a study on solidarity in remote Mormon villages. My professor went to Escalante, UT in May and did over 40 1-2 hour interviews with a variety of residents there to learn about different aspects of life there (its waaaay out there in the boonies). I am now transcribing those interviews so that they can be read and then we can look for different types of trends in the answers. The other interview is about marathons in Utah and how they affect the families of those who run them.
This morning Karen and I went with her Uncle Ron and her brother Nate and Mike and some of her cousins out to do some target shooting. It was very early but it was fun. We shot .22's, .38 revolvers, some shot guns, and then some other big nasty guns. It was fun. Later on in the summer Ron is going to invite us over to do some canning, they have a huge garden with plenty to spare so we are excited.
Oh and last night was July 4th. Reesy, Anita, Karen and I had an awesome Mexican bbq. I cooked up some thin steaks and made some awesome guacamole. Reesy and Karen made some classic "Carol's bean dip" and Karen made Reesy's famous brownie recipe. It was amazing. Then we watched the fireworks out at Sugarhouse park. It was a delightful evening and it was great because I hadn't seen Anita in forever. Well thats all, this may not have been funny but for the mean time you know what we've been up to. I'll still be posting some wedding/honeymoon pics soon so wait with bated breath.
