A busy weekend

Troy and I have decided to try new things and to find different ways to have cool experiences. Basically we don't want to be boring:) So this weekend was full of different things. Some of you might remember that I was planning on running a half-marathon in the end of October. Well Saturday morning was supposed to be the big day and we ended up doing a 5K Juvenile Diabetes Walk instead. I trained for few weeks in August;however, my clinicals and working few shifts a week was too exhausting and I didn't have any juice left for training. So instead of a 13.2 mile run, we walked 5K. We met up with some of my nursing school friends and enjoyed a free breakfast,walked and talked and enjoyed a free lunch. So nothing too rigorous, but a great way to spend our Saturday morning.


Troy's company had an open house on Saturday, which meant that I got to see where he works. It was fun to see his cubicle and the different demonstrations and displays of all the missiles that Raytheon makes. Finland actually uses one of their missiles; it's always fun to make connections with Finland since it's such a small country. Troy got to experience what it is like to shoot a missile from your shoulder. It was sort of like a video game, which the army uses to train the soldiers on this missile. Troy was pretty excited about to shoot "the javelin".


We also took a picture in front of an army hummer.


Later on that night, we stopped by a wedding reception and then attended a women's semi-professional full-contact football game. Some of the ladies were big and pretty scary. It was fun to watch the game an spend time with Phil and Christina.


Life is getting busy again as I start my clinicals this week and Troy is studying for the GRE. He is starting grad school in January, which will make life interesting as we are both full-time students again and he will be working full-time as well.

We are so blessed with good friends and fun experiences!

S'mores , giant beetles and great fun!

Troy and I have wanted to go camping for weeks and we finally got our act together and went. On Friday, we bought a tent, a cooler, camping chairs and camping food and drove up to Mt. Lemmon, which is about 45 minutes away from our house. The wonderful thing about Mt. Lemmon is the fact that the temperature drops considerably as you drive up the mountain. I do not like the Arizona heat, so the temperature change as well as the green scenery made me very happy. We had hoped to have another couple join as for some s'mores around the camp fire, but it ended up just being the two of us, which was made it a fun romantic camping experience. Troy made some stew and started a fire so we could keep warm and we made some delicious s'mores. We didn't sleep too well since our neighbors had had too much to drink and thought it was going OK to yell and scream ALL through the night. We went to bed around 11 pm and I kept checking my watch at 3:30 am and 5:30 am as they kept running around and yelling at each other. We ended up taking a nap around 8 am(when they decided to finally go to sleep) after we had woken up to their gospel music at 6:30 am. So not much sleep, but so much fun!

Troy cooking our dinner


I'm slightly excited about strawberry marshmallow
cookies-n-cream chocolate s'mores.


Our delicious breakfast-we love bacon!

On a side note, Troy thought that he heard a bear outside our tent(trying to get to the food in the bear box) and he thought that I would be intrigued by that. I was so scared and couldn't fall asleep for another half an hour. So fear of bears and drunken people can definitely keep you awake. Also these nasty big beetles kept falling off the trees-they were huge and they could fly.