Bean Town!!

I wanted to post my top ten reasons why Anna is my favorite traveling partner as well as my favorite partner, period.
10) She laughs a lot (Anna Nichole Smith :)
9) People open up to us and give us free things when they see her.
8) She can ride a bike with tunnel vision.
7) She reminds me that as long as your having a good time, it doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing.
6) She always is having a good time
5) She appreciates little flower boxes in windows ( I don't appreciate them but she makes me want to someday)
4) She laughs a lot (and to make this one different, she loves American history) Ask us anything about the USS Constitution and she'll know it!!
3) She loves good food (this is impt. to me because when I travel alone I usually take a can of tuna with some packaged relish)
2) She's more into people and places than souveniers.
1) She has showed me once more in Boston that as long as I know she's at the end of my literal or figurative 26.2 miles, I will endure so I can see her. Love you bird!

An Ode to My Woman Warrior

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She wakes up day and night,
The pain rises like full-moon tides.
She's the woman who will fight.
Making sure everyone else is all right.

She withholds from pain medication,
to make sure I'm having a good time,
She'd rather suffer while on vacation,
Than take Vicoden, oh, she's so fine!

She's my woman warrior,
the former ms. boyer!!

Just Because it Looks Good

Sixth Months!!

It's funny. I used to love to write, and write a lot. But since Anna does such a darn good job at bloggin' and what not, I have felt like all I do now is get in the way of greatness. She really does do it all, and does it all well. Right now she's making Chicken Parmagiani, slaving away while I relax at the desk. We've had a great weekend. We went out and bought a Mountain Bike so now we can ride together again on the great Southwestern trails. Yesterday we hit "Fantasy Island." Anna braved it down "the shaft," but after St. George this was a cake walk! It's heating up here in Tucson slowly. We're enjoying life. Anna's spending her week at St. Joseph's hospital, and I'm at school. We look forward to a great Spring Break, though it will our first week apart :(

TAGGED!

These "fill in the blank" blogs are some of my favorites to read on other people's blogs because I always learn something new about them, even my own sisters'. However, despite my love for reading other people's, I"ve never actually responded to one of the "tags". So, here goes...

Places I've lived:
-Holladay, Ut
-Provo, Ut
-Laie, Hi (two months, does that count?)
-Uganda, Africa (one month, does that count?)
-Currently Tucson, Az


Hobbies:
-Mountain biking, hiking, trying new recipes, waterskiing, reading novels, applying to different nursing schools throughout the western United States :) and music
(this was our most recent hike in the tucson mountains...we caught a beautiful sunrise!)


















Favorite songs right now:
-Anything Regina Spektor
-Antyhing Matt Wertz
-"King Without A Crown" by that Jewish Rabbi Rapper
-On Sundays, the "Persuading Jane" Soundtrack

What I was doing ten years ago:
-Thriving fifth grader: painting my nails blue, wearing glitter on my cheeks, writing notes in class, dancing, harping, reading Anne of Green Gables, listening to Backstreet Boys, and blushing when I made eye contact with boys.

What I was doing one year ago:
-Preparing for my mission-ha. I was also applying for BYU nursing, teaching Anatomy Lab, learning about anime from roomates, diving for doughnuts in the Provo dumpsters, dating a little, and rejoicing the births of three new baby nieces. There was this nice boy who often took me out, and who I always looked forward to being with--the type I might want to date seriously if I weren't going on a mission (hehe, little did I know...
things aren't always as you plan).

A few of my quirks:
-I get really nervous to talk on the phone--it usually takes a pep talk from Spencer for me to spontaneously check in on someone or make plans over the phone.
-I love to eat the powder mixes of hot chocolate, cake, brownie, jello, even Bisquick. In fact, I usually like the powdery beginnings more than the final product.
-I love FLAT root beer and Dr. Pepper.
-I am one of the few girls who rarely shops by choice.
3 things for which I am SO grateful:
-My Savior and all that His atonement means
-Spencer J!
-Good people who make my life as happy as it is...

Anyway...there's a little about me. Now I tag anyone who reads this (who hadn't tagged me first).

Choices

I got onto our blog to write about my awesome wife and just read her entry. She's quite the woman! And she outdoes Martha Stewart like it's nobody's business. I asked her to stay home today to help me study for my musculoskeletal final. Nothing could have prepared me better than to have BYU's greatest anatomy TA privately tutor me in the ways of muscle, arteries, and nerves. She also made me lunch and dinner, rubbed my back, brought me candy, and cleaned up my dirty dishes. I guess this was no day off for her since she does that, and more, twelve hours a day at St. Joseph's hospital. This blog entry, besides aimed to brag about my wife, is also aimed to begin a discussion of urinals at home. This discussion began over Christmas with the Markhams and needs some fuel again. Fight for the right to put urinals in your home and your bathrooms will be cleaner, nicer smelling, and much more fun to visit! Don't you agree Anna? What better way for a man who has a hard time to make decisions than to walk into a bathroom and say, "Yes, I choose the urinal!"

LIVING

So one of my guilty pleasures for the last few years has been stealing a peak at the Martha Stewart Living magazines at grocery stores and friends' houses. And cute Spencer got me a subscription for Christmas, which I was ecstatic about. But it's funny because I'm really not much of a cook, a gardener, an interior designer, or a seamstress. So why do I like it so much? Looking through my last edition, I figured it out. It's just like on "You've Got Mail", when they talk about choosing what to order at Starbuck's: it's full of easy decisions. Decision-making is for sure my lot in life. It takes the length of a movie just to choose what to watch, it took months to decide if Spencer and I were actually going to date or not, and I'm going on six months of deciding where to get my nursing degree! But, when I open up Martha Stewart, I can look at the pictures and say then and there whether or not I like it: I don't like deep-fried-mushroom dumplings, I do like triple chocolate cake. I don't like the idea of rusting all the medal in my house for an antique look, I do like the look of baby's breath bouquets to brighten up a room. And while I'm not really in the position to grow a Greek-style garden, it is helpful to learn the best way to sew on a button. Thus, by the end, I've made myself (and sometimes even Spencer) think I'm capable of making a plethora of decisions! ...at least until I try to decide what I should do next after reading the magazine...