summary of the past 5 months...

I know, it's been forever since I've posted. Scott and I have been so busy and haven't had as much access to the internet as I would have liked this past summer. But now that things are starting to settle down, I think its time for an update!

April ended with a trip to Peru! Scott and I both interned at the Area Office for the Church there. Scott worked in the HR department and helped create surveys and update information. I worked in Travel and helped train area travel coordinators and missionaries on how to use the Church's travel programs. I also helped plan the Mission President's Seminar that's taking place this October.

Besides working, we got to spend 2 months with my family...and we even got to travel a little bit! :)

The highlight of the trip was probably our trip to Cusco. We went to Machu Picchu and took some different tours around Cusco and the surrounding cities/ruins. We spent a week there with my whole family. (Katie and Rory came down just for that trip and were able to spent a couple weeks with us).

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of our other trips, but we were able to travel around Lima a little bit and we took a trip to Ica. In Ica, we stayed at a resort called Las Dunas and had a lot of fun swimming, playing basketball, and dune buggying/sand bording. I will have to upload pictures when I get some!


We got back from Peru towards the end of June...just in time to start Summer Term at BYU. I signed up for one class at the Salt Lake Center at 5pm every Tues and Thurs. Other than that, I am taking 2 online classes...my last undergraduate classes ever! My plan was to graduate this past August. BUT, while I was interning in Peru, the Travel Department at the Church Office Building Headquarters in Salt Lake offered me another (this time payed) internship in Salt Lake. So, because I am now working full time in Salt Lake, I didn't finish my online classes in time...which means I don't technically graduate until December. However, I was still able to walk in August--which was really fun since I got to walk with Katie. :)

Here we both are after Commencement.

Katie after her Convocations.

Me with my Geography buddies (minus Stephanie).

The family after my Convocations.

The rest of the summer consisted of spending a lot of time with both my family and Scott's family (including an almost successful camping trip). As well as several of my friends getting married. The most exciting of which, was my old roommate/bridesmaid Sami!

All four of us old roommates. I can't believe we're all married now! :)

P.S. I stole this picture from Kate. :) Thanks!

As of recently, I am still working at the Church Office Building. They are hoping to hire me on full time before December...hopefully it will work out. I'm also working on my finishing up my classes. Scott is back in school full time and working part time at the Provo Library. 

We recently moved into a new apartment that is much bigger and much nicer. Thanks to Katie's in-laws, we're getting a great deal on it and we feel really blessed. I'm now working on decorating! :)

On that note, I should also mention our new callings! With the change in housing, we moved into a new Ward and got new callings. I am a visiting teaching supervisor, and Scott and I together are the ward emergency preparedness leaders. We are really excited about it! I have been thinking about how we need to start a food storage and all of that a lot recently so this calling is perfect! 

Anyway, this post is getting a little long, so I'll end it here. Hopefully I'll be better at keeping up with things for now on. (I'm also making a new resolution to take more pictures). But I can't promise anything...