Update- long overdue

For those of you who were wondering, we are still alive-despite the apparent lack of blog posts I thought I'd better update you all on how we are doing. Obviously we are back together now, after a long 3 months of separation, and we are doing great. In fact, we have added another member to our family. This is Annie, our perfect little puppy.
Becky has since graduated and is working as the office manager for a chiropractic clinic in Lindon. Spencer is officially retired from summer sales, but still sells alarms on the phones part-time for APX. Other than that Spencer is still hard at work in school. After next semester he will have finished all of his classes and will only need to finish an internship to graduate with a double major in Economics and Political Science. The exciting part is that the internship may take us to Europe for four months. Although the application process hasn't started yet Spencer will be applying for internships in London working for an economic advisory firm and in Brussels working for the EU parliment! Other than that we are pretty much just working and schooling around here.

Lonliest summer

This has been the longest summer of my life. I wasn't even this lonely when I was single! It has been a little awkward every Sunday finding myself sitting on the bench by myself in our family ward full of young married couples, but luckily we have made some good friends in the ward who don’t mind me sitting next to them without my other half. We have both been working a lot so we don’t have a lot of time to think about how much it sucks being apart. When I got home to Utah after spending three cherished weeks with Spencer in Kansas, (yes, I know it is weird to think that any time spent in Kansas could be cherished) I had to immediately start my internship at a Chiropractic clinic. Unfortunately this internship is not a paid internship so I also had to take up a job as a server at Brick Oven Pizza. I graduated from Stevens-Henager College in the middle of June, and just as I finished my internship hours a full time job fell right into my lap as the office manager at the chiropractic clinic. Wheew – lucky break for me. Since then it has been nice getting paid for my work, but it hasn’t been easy juggling a full time and a part time job. Having to work so much has made it so I have to be around a lot of people, which has been a good thing. I have made a lot of friends and we have had a lot of good times. So, I haven’t exactly been alone, but being without Spencer has still made it a very lonely summer.

For Becky...I miss you

For those of you who don't know, Becky and I are currently forced to spend the rest of the summer apart from each other. It pretty much sucks! I new that I would miss her but it is pretty much driving me crazy. In an attempt to both give me something to look at and to score points with my lovely wife I put together this slide show of her. I hope she likes it and that she knows how much I miss her.

Kansas to Iowa

Well, it has been a while since I wrote anything on this so I figured I should post something for all my fans out there. I have officially left Kansas-hopefully for good-and I now find myself in Iowa. Now before you start thinking that I simply went from one corn field to another I will point out a few facts as to why Iowa is superior to Kansas.
FACT- tornadoes in Iowa will only kill you whereas a tornado in Kansas will hurl you over the rainbow and into the land of Oz where you are forced to sing a song about everything you do...I'm going to write a blog now this wonderful blog about me
FACT- Iowa has about twice as many people as Kansas, therefore I have to use both hands and toes to count them all
FACT- Iowa is home to the world's largest truck stop

FACT- Kansas is home of the world's largest statue of Johnny Kaw, don't know who he is? don't worry, no one else does either.
FACT- John Wayne is from Iowa...and he could beat up Dorthy
FACT- Iowa is home to the largest Amish community this side of the Mississippi except for the entire state of Kansas
FACT- Kansas' state song is 'Home on the Range'...not kidding
FACT- In Kansas it is still illegal to eat vanilla ice cream on cherry pie
FACT- people in Kansas don't even like Kansas. ie- I was in Kansas and I didn't like Kansas
FACT- the Oregon trail went through Kansas and the Mormon Pioneer trail went through Iowa
FACT- both states consist of mostly nothing and since Kansas is almost twice as large as Iowa it therefore has twice as much nothing.
I hope that I have been able to fully help you understand how much Kansas is not fun, and although I do not claim that Iowa is fun it is a fact that it is more fun that Kansas.

Theres no place like home...theres no place like home...

Well...here I am in the middle of Kansas knocking on the doors of people I have never meet before asking for their personal information and bank account number so that I can set them up with a security system. This will be the third year that I have ventured into the dismal wildness referred to only as "The Mid-West" to knock on doors selling, oh...I mean advertising, alarm systems. I have know idea how I got talked into doing this again...oh yea, now I remember, money.
So far I am on track to having the best summer yet; I am averaging two sales a day which keeps me right on track for my goal of selling a total above 200 by the end of August. Although I absolutely hate this job I have to admit it does have its advantages...and I mean other than money! Man, how shallow do you think I am?
Just the other day I had an amazing conversation with a Jehovah Witness lady about the LDS church and committed her to accept the missionaries over for a lesson. I then committed her to an activation fee and 39.99 a month for her new system, but the religious discussion was great.
Basically I have realized that I have to enjoy it or I will curl up in a ball on someone's porch and mumble obscenities until the nice men in white suites come and take me away. So here I am in my apartment with some shiny red shoes I stole from an old lady today after hitting her with a house, and I'm about to wish my way home or at least for the strength to make it through these next few months. Well wish me luck...theres no place like home...theres no place like home...