If only I ran the world...

It's that time of the year again and what a nightmare it has been! Registering for classes is one of the most aggravating, and most definitely, my least favorite thing to do!! Why do they have to make it so difficult to get the classes you need? For example. . I need to take Cell Biology. It is offered only during the spring and there is only one class which only allows 60 students. Now this class is the key that unlocks every single one of my upper division biology classes. But don't worry! I am only number 107 on the waiting list!!! To the apparently uneducated class schedulers, I thank you, because I just absolutely love college and want to stay here forever! And to those who are wondering, my graduation date will be pushed back... only a year.

Gross!

Why do dead things have to smell so bad? The other day my living room started to get this off smell. I brushed it off thinking that it was coming from upstairs, because let's face it, they stink. After a couple of days it started getting worse and worse. I began worrying that it was my housekeeping skills. I hadn't been that neglectful to my cute little living room, but I guessed it was possible. Then one night I came home, plopped down on my couch, pulled out my homework, took a breath in and started gagging! The smell was overwhelming and revolting. I tried thinking of what could be causing it, but a smell that awful could only come from something dead. That's when I thought of how we live in the middle of nowhere and how we have this cat who loves to bring field mice inside to chase around the house. Well, that is exactly what I found. A dead, stinky mouse under my couch! Ugh!

This is for my mom... Well, this is my house! I must say that I have been spoiled. Every place that we have settled in has been nice and comfy. It has been nice living in Meridian again. I get to see Tay and dad a lot more often . . . (well, in the summer I got to, school has been turning me into a home body with all the studying I've been doing.) Its also been a lot of fun having a yard. We had lots of BBQ's in the summer, I planted lots of pretty flowers, and my favorite part.. I played on my tramp. (Notice the double oven?... you'd think it would inspire me to cook, I think I got that from you.)

(K, so this isn't a very good picture of our bedroom, but i wanted you to see the ceiling. Oh my gosh..The only downside to this place is having to go to bed starring at a map of Ireland, its not really my thing.)
(My amazing bathroom. I pretty much have a hot tub next to my toilet... which by the way there is a real hot tub on the patio... )

Well there it is. I don't know how I will ever go back to an apartment after this. It will be hard giving up my massive walk in closet, beautiful backyard, lots of kitchen space, extra-large laundry room, and my adorable office. But I can do it, right?

NEVER FORGET

The Closing of Summer

Summer is quickly coming to an end. We are a little bummed and a little excited about it at the same time. We are all geared up and ready for a new semester to begin. Our books are bought, school supplies purchased, and schedules set. Some days I get so eager to start, I have to fight the urge of putting all my books and computer in my backpack. Other days I don't want the stress and busyness of school to start. But we have had such a fun packed summer, it is only fair to balance the fun with school. :) Here is a quick recap of our summer, it goes all the way back to May. Since I am such a slacker at keeping this up I think it will just be easier to sum up our adventures through pictures. Who doesn't like pictures, right?

The weekend school got out Tay and I hit up the Taylor Swift concert, she got tickets for her birthday. Neither one of us were huge fans of her before we went but we came out of her concert very much pleased. We couldn't get any good pictures at the concert but here is one in the parking lot, which happens to be in my rental car. The week school got out I was rear-ended at a stop light. Ghetto!The next day I headed down to Utah. A few girls that I went to China with had a little get together before one of them headed to the mission field. It was great to see them again! That night I met up with Greg, Janica, and Daniel and we started our trek down to California. One of my favorite things is driving and stopping at all the pull out thingys along the way. One stop was St. George. We were on the hunt for a Sonic. After about an hour of TellMe, Chacha, and other navigating crap we found it. Unfortunately it was boarded up and abondoned. With much dissapointment and growling tummies we decided to check out the temple and head off to Vegas in hopes of finding an open one, which thankfully we did after another hour search. Why go through so much trouble to find a freakin Sonic, you ask? Because it is the most delicious fast-food restraunt on the planet and when four hungry people crave it, there is no escaping it's grasp. But hey, we got to see many 'fantastic' sites along the way.
The next two days we spent at the highly anticipated Disneyland. If you can believe it, it was Greg's first time! I had a blast showing him around the park and taking him on all the 'good rides.' One of my favorite parts was
talking Melinda into going on the Tower of Terror. She was indeed terrorized. After two fun packed days with Mickey we had a relaxing day at the beach.


The next day we headed down to the L.A. Temple for cousin Katherine's wedding. It was beautiful and we are very excited for them and the exciting adventures that follow marriage.



On our way home we took a few more detours. Katie's reception was in Apple Valley and near by there is Route 66, which is something that I have always wanted to check out. So, we stopped by and toured a museum and took some pics by the sign.

We also spent the night in Vegas. Daniel and Janica came too. We went to a hypmatist show that night which was hilarious, and decided that the place would be a lot more fun if we were partiers.
So we strolled down the strip and checked out all the cool sites and Dan found the Go Pool. (Don't worry Melinda he didn't go in, he's not yet 21)

The next day we drove up Kolob Canyon, which was gorgeous!

For the Fourth of July we drove down to Utah to the weekend. We camped out in Midway againg this year and went boating with the family. I didn't really get any good pictures.

We were tanning on the tramp on the lake.

Hopefully I will eventually get the rest of our summer up and maybe, if lucky enough, some of our new place.

On May 17, my totally rad sister Whitney and I, went to the Taylor Swift concert. Yeah, neither one of us really liked her or wanted to be there. So the whole time we complained about it. But Taylor got the tickets for her birthday so we had to go. By the end of the night we both ended up liking her, and we're both glad we got to go. I mean how many people can say they went to a concert that sold out in literally twenty minutes.
-Writen by Taylor Rose Clifford.

Year Marks

Oh my goodness, I have been a slacker at updating my blog! So much has happened since my last post! I don't even know where to start!

In the last couple of months we have hit a few year marks. The first, and least exciting, is that it has been a year since my mom left. I only mention this because I want everyone to know that my family is doing SOOO much better. Things are finally feeling 'normal.' I don't know what I would have done without my amazing husband. He has been there through some of my worst moments and no one could have comforted me more than him. When I found out what was happening at home it was less than two weeks before my wedding and I was going to school at BYU-I. I was devastated. I locked myself in my room and cried for days. I quit going to class, I stopped studying, I didn't talk to my roommates... I didn't do anything. I was a mess. On the Sunday before my wedding I couldn't get up for church. I just sat in bed sobbing. (Greg and I were in different wards at the time or I would have gone for him.) But that morning there was a constant knocking at my door. I refused to answer it. When I finally got the guts to open it with my swollen eyes and red face I saw Greg standing there, with tear filled eyes. He walked in and held me as we both cried together. I don't know how he knew I didn't go to church that day, but I was and am so greatful that he was there for me. At that moment I knew I could overcome anything with my almost husband beside me. The last year has been filled with many more moments like this. Thank you babe, for always making me stronger.

A much happier year mark we hit was our 1st wedding anniversary. Greg took me on a weekend getaway to Seattle. We had a blast! We did all of the touristy stuff, including a romantic dinner at the top of the Space Needle.

Here are some pics of the things we did while we were there:

We visited the Seattle Aquarium. This was Greg's favorite part, he loves sea life! We got to pet different creatures and saw many unique animals.

I really liked the sea urchins, they were so bright and colorful!

This huge Octopus was one of my favorites!

Greg and the sea lion. He would only come out for us. :) We thought this fish was rad.

We hit up Pikes Market. Which was pretty exciting. They had tons of beautiful flowers and I love flowers! Greg let me pick out a bouquet and it took me almost 45 minutes, I had to look at all of them and find the best one. :)

When I walked by this fish in the market, it jumped up and had its mouth opened wide. It scared the crap out of me.

We took an underground tour of Seattle as well. We learned that in the 1800's there was a fire that burned down a lot of the city. When they rebuilt the city they built the main level and streets at the second floor of buildings. We got to go down and explore the old first levels of buildings. While we were getting ready to start, our tour guide's speech started to slur and he suddenly collapsed on the floor. We had to wait for an ambulance. It was pretty crazy and as far as we know, he was OK.

This was in an old bank that they said was haunted. They have had a lot of weird things happen there and even Ghost Hunters did an episode on it. One thing that they said would happen is that any pictures that were taken past that door would be blury. We thought we'd test it out and took a few. Creepy enough, they were all blury.

Here is one of the pictures we took. Coincidence? Maybe.

The Space Needle was a favorite for both of us. Greg surprised me with our anniversary dinner at the restaurant on top of the SN.

Overall we had a blast. Seattle was beautiful. The weather good. And the company couldn't have been better!!

Another exciting mark is Myles' 1 Year Mark! In fact, as of yesterday, he only has 11 months left! He is doing so good! I will have to post some pics of him on here soon.

I have many more exciting events to blog about... Our Cali trip, my car wreck, moving and more but they will have to wait until a later time.

Jokes for the Republican

I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats,were standing there, so I asked her,'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?' She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.' Her parents beamed.

'Wow! What a worthy goal.' I told her, 'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?' I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.' Her parents still aren't speaking to me.

Do you know what happened this week back in 1850, 159 years ago?

California became a state. The State had no electricity. The State had no money. Almost everyone spoke Spanish. There were gunfights in the streets.

So basically, it was just like California today; except the women had real breasts and the men didn't hold hands.

An Israeli doctor said to me at a medical conference, "Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take a kidney out of one person, put it into another and have him looking for work in six weeks!" The German doctor stood up and said, "Well, medicine in my county is so advanced, we can take a lung out of one person and put it into another and have him looking for work in 4 weeks" The Russian doctor got up and said "My country is even more advanced, we can remove half a heart from one person, put it into another and have them both looking for work in just 2 weeks!" Not to be outdone, the American doctor stood up and addressed the conference, "Well", he said, "My country is so far advanced in medicine, we can take an Asshole out of Chicago , put him in the White House, and have half the country looking for work in 24 hours!"

Enjoy!

Education, WHY!!??!?!

This semester I decided to just leap into chemistry. I have never in my life taken a chem class, which, by the way, I now regret. I didn't think it could be that hard and I didn't want to waste my time taking a class that wouldn't count toward my major, so I enrolled in a class much higher than most would recommend for someone with my experience. As a result I have to put in double the work than I ever have had to put into a class, but it is worth it when I finally catch on. I actually love chemistry! As a kid I always wanted to be a 'scientist' (along with a million other things), so.. check. One goal down.

"I Have Before Me...

A Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda." (The extraordinarily long title of the play that we went to.) I am taking a theatre class to cover one of my area courses for school and we have to go see a couple of plays, which Greg and I both enjoy. So Friday night we headed out to the Boise Contemporary theatre and watched this fabulous play about a girl who survived the genocide. We then went to the adorable Goody's shop in Hyde Park for some
of their amazing ice cream. It is in the historic part of Boise so the shop is old school. I love it!! It was an awesome night to start off our Valentines weekend.

We spent most of Saturday with my family. Greg made me a yummy breakfast and gave me these gorgeous flowers! I have to brag about him because he picked the flowers out himself (he wanted me to make it clear that he did not arrange them, a nice lady did that for him) Didn't he do a marvelous job? Lilies are my favorite too! I'm proud of him. They are just starting to bloom so they will be around for a while. Im excited.

My dad took us out for a Valentines lunch at one of our favorite Restaraunts, Red Robin and we then hung out at the house with them. It was a great weekend with some pretty fantastic people!

It's been a while.

We have started another semester at Boise State and are loving it. Besides the crazy liberal slobs, we like it much better than Rexburg. Although it is keeping us both super busy, we have found some time to play.

We live right next to Camelsback and love to go hiking in the foothills. It has been pretty warm these last few days so we took a stroll.


On Saturday Greg and I spent the night in Meridian and hung out with our families. Taylor and Greg and I wanted to have a video game night. So we set up camp in my dads living room with a blow up mattress, some snacks, a couple of Tvs, and our PS3 and an old N64 (my favorite). We had a blast as we usually do. Tay and I were up until almost 5 playing and laughing.

I LOVE Donkey Kong!!!

Tays new favorite game is Call of Duty.

This is what happens when you drink too much.