Trying to remember one year from the next is getting to be pretty hard. I am so glad that I started blogging for my Libby’s sake. I know that I am not a good journalist but this really helps me, making sure that I remember the important things and the little things.
Our second year of marriage had me working at the car dealership all by myself. Marshall had left and found a wonderful job with the company he is currently with. The only problem is that he worked the graveyard shift. He also went back to school. That was really rough I never saw him. I was so used to seeing him the entire work day and then when we were at home, this schedule was a difficult one for me. I also knew that we wanted to have Marshall finish school, and he had to go back at some point. So we made the sacrifice of time and he went back taking several general classes to finish up his degree.
My brother Joe Was married in July to his wonderful wife Lindsay. She is a good women and puts up with all his joking and they make a wonderful couple. My brother lance left for his mission 2 days after the wedding. We all will forever laugh at the story of how when we showed up to the airport we jokingly said look there is your plane leaving now we missed it. But when we got to the check in point we had missed it (unknowingly of course) and it probably was his plane.
That year we had a plan to try to get out of debt. We paid off our 4 wheeler. YEAH! We successfully sold Marshall’s Toyota truck and bought with cash his 1998 GMC Sierra. We were so excited because this meant we could pull our own trailer and 4 wheeler camping. We loved the space of the truck and all the bells and whistles. But by the end of the summer we had sold our little orange camp trailer for a bigger better one and it cost us 500$ but it had a shower. Ohhh can I tell you how wonderful a shower is after a long day of riding in the dust and being able to be clean. It was a very smart purchase.
We had some fun callings when we were newly-weds. Marshall was called into the young-mens with his best friend from upstairs. They had a ton of fun. Marshall taught the teachers. I remember that they went on a week long camp out and had a blast. I was called to the primary as the music chorister. It was one of my favorite calling that I have held. I enjoy singing and being able to see how music can touch the souls of the children. I held that calling until we moved out of the ward.
For our second Anniversary we decided to take a trip to Las Vegas. Let me tell you a bit about our trip goings. When we went to Canada we thought we had great map following directions… we didn’t. We thought we could follow signs to get us to where we need to go. The signage was horrible and we were lost for 2 hours trying to find the right road to get us to where we needed to be. So now on to our story about Vegas.
We had this wonderful plan to go to Vegas and walk the strip and see all the cool stuff in the casinos. We bought tickets to the Excalibur tournament of king’s show. This was what I was excited about. I had seen it as an 11 year old and Marshall had never seen it. So we were really excited for our trip. I had bought everything online, our hotel, show tickets and looked at all the sights to see… but I failed to make an itinerary, so we would know where we were going and when. I also didn’t get a map. SO we head down to mesquite, Nevada (that was where I got our hotel). We get to St George and I realized I didn’t remember for sure what our hotel was called (I think it was the oasis). I tell Marshall I will know it when I see it (I hoped). I also don’t know how to get us to the unknown hotel. Bad start to our wonderful weekend. When we finally pull into the hotel at midnight (I remember it was so late because the jazz were in the playoffs that year and it was the overtime game where fisher came in at the end of the game and made the really awesome shot that will never be forgotten at least not at our house). Well we got up the next day and headed to Las Vegas. Once we finally found the strip we started by the Excalibur since we were going to end our day there with the show. We went to the shark’s reef at Mandalay bay, the Luxor, the New York-New York, the coca-cola store and Marshall had a coke. I think the farthest we made it to was the New York- New York. The M&M store was closed or we couldn’t find it I know we wanted to see it but our luck was not so good.
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scene from the show it was
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We headed back down the strip to the show we were going to see. We went and picked up our tickets and went down to wait in line. Well some how in the 20 min before the show started we misplaced out tickets. Neither Marshall nor I remember who had the tickets last because both of us had them at one point in that time. But he was upset I was upset but the nice customer service person remembered us and gave us new tickets and somehow found the ones we miss placed too. Not our finest moment, but it sure makes for a great story.
We loved the show and Marshall thought it was much better than he thought it was going to be. The food was great and we got a virgin pina colada and started our mug collection.
The next day we thought it would be nice to go to the temple. So we got dressed in our Sunday best and headed back into town…without directions. We got lost, could not get our bearings, and when we stopped to get directions from a fast food joint they would not let us use their phone book and no one had any idea on how to get us to the Temple. So after 3 hours of searching we gave up and headed home. We at least knew how to get there.
We really enjoyed a lot of laughing and good times. We don’t know when we will go back but next time I will have a map and know what and where we want to go and hopefully not get lost in the process.
I love being able to remember the stories you sometimes forget. Memories are what your family is made up of. Anything you can do together no matter how small brings your family closer together.
