6 months already?

We can hardly believe we have been living here for 6 months now. Here are a few things we have grown to love and not love since being here in Ohio:

Things we don't love:

No U turns permitted anywhere

Garbage day is always changing

People can't drive in the snow

There is really no snow, just rain and sometimes it's freezing rain

Humidity

Missing all our friends and family in Utah

With all the great restaurants we still haven't found a good Chinese one (like the small mom and pop one we loved in Utah)

Things that we LOVE:

The Sports; especially Football - Go Buckeyes

Great Shopping!!

$3 new release movies at the theaters

Dog parks and lots of them

Living in a condo and not renting

All the different and yummy restaurants

Metro Parks and lots of fun stuff like festivals etc. around town to go to

All the new friends we are making

Close driving distance to lots of fun cities ie: DC, NYC, Chicago (just to name a few)

The Name Game

Let's play the name game. A friend sent me this on an email. Some are kind of weird but it's still fun! So...tag you are all it - play along with me I would love to see what you can come up with!

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)- Misty Honda

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)- Cookie Dough Pumpkin (Not a very scary gang name!)

3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)S-Per

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)- Blue Dolphin

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)- Dawn Provo

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)-Persh ( Sounds star warsy right?)

7. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)- The Yellow Mango (I can see her outfit now!)

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)- Jack Wendell

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)- Pleasures Reeses (Interesting!)

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names )-Collette Nelson

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)- Olson Orlando

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)- Summer Lilly

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you're wearing right now + "ie" or "y")-Mango Scrubsy

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)- Hot Chocolate Maple

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + "Tour")- The Music Rain Tour (Come see me soon!)

Reflecting on 2007

What a wonderful year full of so many changes. We just wanted to take a moment to reflect on all that happened. Here is what we were doing in 2007:

Moved out of our one bedroom cinderblock apartment and moved in with Shayne's parents for 6 months to save some money

Shayne graduated with a bachelors degree in business finance.

Shayne traveled the US for dental interviews (Sherri accompanied him for a few).

Shayne was fortunate to be accepted to more than one dental school and finally chose The Ohio State!

Shayne was a Spanish interpreter at the U of U hospital and was sad to quit

Shayne started wearing contacts and was not happy about it at first

Bought two puppies who we adore

Sherri went with Shayne's mom to puppy classes to train the crazy puppies

Traveled the world: Oregon, San Francisco, Sint Marteen, New Port Beach, Canada, Ohio (sort of a vacation at first), Palmyra NY and Niagra Falls

We both celebrated 26 meaning we are no longer mid 20's but upper 20's yikes!

Went wakeboarding for what will probably be the last time for awhile - so sad!

Moved across the country and left our wonderful family and friends behind!

Purchased our first home (condo)

Finally switched from a married student ward to a family ward

Celebrated our 4th year anniversary and 7 years together - wow!

Gained a new nephew (Grant Later), whom we still haven't met, but pics are super cute.

Sherri quit both her jobs

Sherri got another job (just one this time)

Taught nursery together

Volunteered together at Primary Children's Hospital once a week, we were sad to quit.

Shayne now teaches nursery again, Sherri doesn't have another calling yet - Shayne's not bitter about this at all :)

Became instant Buckeye fans while still remaining true to the U!

Sherri fell into the trap and read and was obsessed with The Twilight Series along with everyother woman in the world

Spent our first Christmas alone together since we've been married - it was kind of fun!

Happy Birthday!

We know this is a little late but we had to post it anyway, seeing as we did it for Belle we couldn't leave Zoey out. Our little Zoey is all grown up, she just turned 1 years old the day after Christmas. Happy Birthday Zoe - we love you!!

Goals, Goals, and more Goals!

So I have never been a big one for resolutions. I just try to set goals all year round rather than just trying to do it once a year. However, I have decided that this is a problem. Why you ask? Because I usually set so many goals although realistic in content, there are usually too many in one time frame. So...I end up getting overwhelmed and then nothing gets done. Pretty sad and stupid, I know. With this new year I haved decided I am going to make a resolution. Yipee, we'll see how it goes. My resolution is to only set one goal at a time for myself and then not set a new one until that goal is complete. You may wonder why I am posting about this because you probably don't care but I figure if I blogged about it, it would help me be more diligent about it. Hope you all think of good resolutions and don't make the same mistake as me by making too many goals at once!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!