Where in the world are Julie and Brad?

Fairy Godmothers Are So Overrated

Happy Anniversary!!

Wow, it's been 4 years!!!

Through the Years

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

(This weekend we went down to Provo and visited the spots we went when we were dating. Here we are in front of the dorms where Brad first kissed me! Oh the memories!)

Thought for Tuesday

LIFE ISN'T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS,

IT IS ABOUT LEARNING TO DANCE IN THE RAIN.

Hike

We kicked off the hiking season in full gear, boy was I NOT in shape for it. It was a round trip of 6 miles, and the 3 miles up to the peek was on a fairly steep incline - my quads were burning, so although I've been fairly nonactive this weekend (we've been painting) I think this made up for it.

Beautiful scenery.

Taking a rest, our little dogs are such troopers they love hiking.

Syd going to town on the grass.

The view from 3/4 up the trail.

Crossing a few of the streams were these logs. We would walk on the logs and have the dogs walk in the stream to cool off. However, the next stream we encountered after this picture was not so fortunate to Syd, the current was stronger, she lost her balance and away she went. Her face stricken with panic, my heart only needed to drop for a few seconds when Brad jumped in. He grabbed her by the collar but she was slipping out of it so he grabbed the tough fur on her back and pulled her in. Syd came out of the incident unharmed but wary of streams.

And poor Syd again, as if being swept away by the current was not enough, she tore the padding on her paw. She was limping the last mile. Brad and I were switching off carrying her down the rest of the mountain (and when I say "switched off" Brad did the major majority of the carrying my contribution was really quite pathetic).

Funny Randomness

Some have requested “Julieisms” this story isn’t quite a Julieism but it’s down the same alley. When I was in Young Women’s (I was Mia Maid age so I was about 15) for an activity we decided to make scones in the kitchen. (Now, if I’m not telling this correctly Lulu butt in). Everything was going well, we were making delicious scones until we started a grease fire. Our advisor told us to throw flour on it – to our defense we did question her and asked, “Don’t you mean baking soda?” but she said flour would be fine. Well, the flour didn’t work it just made it worse. Going on simultaneously was a cub scout recognition in the gym (which was right across from the kitchen) so I ran into the gym and I yelled (and yes I’m sure I was dramatic) “There is a fire in the kitchen!!!” It went silent then people started laughing (as if they didn’t believe me) then the fire alarm went off, and they knew. All was well (it was Brother Tunbridge who put the fire out for us). My dad was bishop at the time and he was in his office when he heard the alarm so he came out to see what the problem was when I hear the following:

Dad: What is going on?

John Woodman: [Laughing] Your daughter did it.

Dad: She does have accidental pyro tendencies (referring to the time I accidentally lit my parents’ carpet on fire – but that’s a whole different story).

There you go some history about me that you may have never known.

Thought for Tuesday

This picture always makes my day. It makes me want a pig.

(So yeah, no thought today just a pic to make you smile)

Where in the World is Brad?

The first battle of the Civil War was fought in this state.

Did You Know?

The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experiments showed that microwave heating could raise the internal temperature of many foods far more rapidly than a conventional oven.