LAST WEEK!

This is our last week in St. Louis! I am always so excited to go home and be done for the summer. Since we've been married, Greg and I have moved 6 times and lived in 4 states, Idaho, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Missouri. I've always wanted to spend a summer in Rexburg, but who knows.

I started packing a few things last week, things that we wouldn't be needing (I hope we wont need them again) and am itching to clean and pack up the rest of the apartment. I gave Wallace his last bath for the summer, and cut his hair again. I won't post pictures because believe it or not, it looks worse that the last time we had it cut.

Greg is working hard to get in his last sales of the summer. He is ready to be done! Poor guy works so hard all summer. I feel guilty I didn't work this summer and got to lay around at the pool and he had to sweat and sweat and sweat! while I did whatever I wanted to that was generally in an air-conditioned building.

Greg promised we'll be getting the internet when we get back to Rexburg, so I am planning on doing all kinds of blogging about our super eventful life and our thoughts about it :D until then!

Mikki signing out

Grant's Farm

Grants Farm is another awesome "free" attraction. (You DO have to pay for parking, but if you can cram enough people into your car, you only pay a couple bucks) There is this tram that takes you all around the farm, which is great when you have a way way pregnant lady with you, and is even more great when its July and 90 something degrees with 80 something percent humidity! Its not your typical farm, although they do have horses, steers, and goats. There was a plethora of nearly endangered deer, and they also had lamas, eagles, and camels. We had a great time, however, my advice to anyone wishing to visit St. Louis, is to go in September :D

St Louis Summer

Albert Pujols hitting a home run at the Cardinals game. Caytlin and I scored free tickets from a guy at church. 

We were sitting out in the sun for about 15 minutes before we got way to hot and went inside in the air conditioning. 
We made a trip to Grants Farm to see the Budweiser clydesdales and a bunch of other animals. There are so many fun free things to do in this city! It was super hot, but aside from our makeup melting off, we had a great time.
We got to go paintballing one morning. Turned out I was the only girl that showed up. It was my first time ever, and I had a blast! I didn't enjoy the sting when I got hit, but hitting other people was way worth it!

Trip To The Groomer

Wallace got his first trip to the groomer. He was there for 4 hours! He looks so funny now. And everyone that saw him after he got back laughed at him. Poor Wallace. Even Greg said he looked ridiculous. Yorkie hair grows fast so hopefully he'll start looking cute again!

BEFORE



AFTER

St Louis

We have been in St. Louis now for a month and are loving it. There is so much to do here and its all so close! The zoo, the arch, tons of malls, and best of all, the temple is only ten miles from us! There are 11 wives out here with us this summer and we have formed our own mini Relief Society, with a monthly calendar and everything. We get together almost every day to do something. Lucky for me, a few of them even like scrapbooking. 

As soon as I figure out where I left my camera, I'll upload some pictures from the past few days.

Not Spring Yet

I knew I shouldn't get my hopes up when there was about a week of good, snow-free weather. But that is easier said than done. And I was sorely disappointed when Sunday afternoon we practically had a blizzard. We went into church with clear roads and a strong wind, we came out of church with snow blowing horizontally into our faces. The roads and lawns quickly became covered in snow and parts of I-15 were closed because of all the snow. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? Well I do. And never more than that Sunday afternoon.

The good news? We have one week and three days left of school! Wahoo!!! We don't get a Spring Break here at BYU-Idaho, but we get out a whole heck of a lot earlier than anybody else. So Nanner nanner NANN-ER!!! with love, Mikki

Little Things

I am so grateful for all the little things. Today anyway. I went running and there were puddles everywhere and lots of mud. But my feet are dry and my clothes are mud free. That's just awesome. I got my nike+ to work. I've been trying for a couple weeks to make it work and finally figured it out. I got out of class a little early when I was in a time crunch. I was working out Saturday on the elliptical, which I hate, and was moving along thinking how bored I was when my friend Maggie brought me two magazines that she was done reading - a total life saver! made  my workout go so much faster. I called my mom for a random favor and she was very willing to do it. Greg has been a little sick the past few days. I'm not. Sweet! I was in a group that had to plan an activity for class and we pulled it off Saturday. The teacher even commented on how great our activity went and how organized it was (This was cool because the whole time I kept thinking what a flop it was). Well I'm done now.