First Anniversary

Today is our first Anniversary! Jeff is a complete stud and planned the most fun weekend ever for us. We stayed at the Anniversary Inn in Logan and having never been to one before, we were blown away by the room. We stayed in Aphrodite's Court and I loved it! I'll just say that I was jumping up and down and running around the room in excitement. We had dinner at The Coppermill which was decent and then had the BEST ice cream EVER at this little old place called Charlies. Yum!

When we woke up Saturday morning, we found the Logan River trail and went for our weekly long run. The trail started as a packed gravel road right next to the Logan River and it was just beautiful. Then all of sudden the trail turned into this teeny tiny lane through a massive uphill jungle. It was quite the experience. Eventually it turned back into a gravel road and we were thankful for that. After rolling my ankle a couple of times, tripping, watching Jeff freak out over seeing a snake (hahaha), and being barked at by a ferocious dog, we still completed the 7-miler a few minutes faster than we planned for.


Next on the schedule was Lagoon. So fun! The first time I ever went on a roller coaster was in Disneyland last year on the last day of our honeymoon and I'll admit, I'm quite the baby when it comes to heights. This year I improved. Yes, I still whined about having to go on a couple of the rides, but I had fun on all of them. Jeff was disappointed because Wicked was shut down after about 45 min of standing in line. Lame. But, it was a VERY fun time and a VERY fun weekend. I love you Jeff! Happy Anniversary!

Oh, and today we also enjoyed the top of our wedding cake. Frozen for a year and it still tasted great...very rich, but great.

MANTI PAGEANT WEEKEND

This past weekend was great, my sexy wife and I went with Patsy Anne Johnson aka My mother to Manti Saturday to go to the Manti Temple and attend the pageant. I have been to other pageants and other temples but neither of them in Manti. We started off with some good food from Magelby's Fresh in Spanish Fork which was delic and Dave Atkinson would have been jealous of the chocolate cake we enjoyed.


Then off to Manti. The temple as you can see by the pictures was incredible. "It looks like a castle", was my wife's first words when she saw it and I would have to agree with her. Very beautiful inside and out. For dinner we went to some small little diner in Ephraim which was again delic. The pageant tells the story of Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel through a couples life. As always you have the ignorant anti-mormons that spend their time in life harassing others. Why? why? and why? are the three words that come to my head. What a boring and unsuccessful life they live. It was a fun weekend visiting an amazing temple and a great visit with my mother and wife.

Complementary Alternative Medicine

Today I had the coolest nursing class ever. One of the classes we are required to take is Community Health Nursing which consists of a lot of different things and today we talked about auras and energy fields and chakras. Pretty weird sounding, huh? I was skeptical at first but when we got to check each other's chakras and fix them, it was sooo neat!

I bet you're wondering what the heck a chakra is. It's basically a center of spiritual energy located in a specific area on your body. Everybody has seven of them. Take a look at the picture to see where they are located. Here are the representations: crown=relationship with the Divine, forehead=wisdom, neck=communication, heart=love, navel=I can't remember..., groin=sexuality and reproduction, and we didn't talk about the base but I'm sure it's somewhere on the internet.

Here's how you check each chakra. Get a piece of thread about 8 inches long and thread a paper clip on it. Tie the ends together. This is your pendulum. Make sure the pendulum is 3-4 inches long because this won't work if it is too short or too long. Once you've got your pendulum, hold it 1/2 inch to 1 inch above the center of your palm or someone else's palm. You have to make sure that you're "grounded" which means you need to have both your feet flat on the floor, take a deep breath, and make sure you are in the "present." After doing that, the paper clip should begin to rotate in a clockwise circle. If you have it in the wrong spot it won't move. Weird, huh? Well once you've seen that, then you can try the different locations indicated on the picture above.

Your chakras are in check if the paper clip moves in a clockwise motion. If the paper clip just moves back in forth or moves in a counterclockwise position, then you've got to fix your chakras. Also, if the paperclip doesn't move, then you have it in the wrong spot. All of these spots are right in the center of your body. If you move to the side, the paper clip will stop moving. So weird, I know!

Ok, so here's how you fix them...I think. Our teacher just put her hand in front of the out-of-check chakra and twirled her finger in a clockwise manner. Then she had the student breath orange aromatherapy oil deeply 3 times. When she checked the chakra after "fixing" it, it was totally normal! Seriously so freaking cool and weird.

We learned a few other crazy things but I'm not going to write about all of them. If you're interested, I'll just tell you in person. Give this a try. It's super easy and so weird.

Research this Summer

Well some of you know a little of my schedule this summer. I was able to get a job at a local PT clinic as an aid and gain some hours for my future PA school application plus a little bit of money. They just don't pay as much money as my wife and I need but what job really does. I work about 25 hours a week there. On Tuesday and Thursday I have been able to be part of Dr. James Porter's research team for 8 hours a week. It has been really fun and interesting. Let me give you the down low on what we are doing and his goal in his research. The first day of research we killed 10 rats and removed their hearts, kidneys, adrenal glands, pituitary glands for more research later. He has found that rats whose mom's were given high salt diets had much higher increases in blood pressure under stressful situations than rats whose mom's were given normal salt diets. Right now we are discovering and proving why this is occurring. On Thursday two rats died. We were doing surgery on them to implant a blood pressure monitor into their belly and for some reason there were some complications and they died. Anyway it is very interesting but would not want to do it my whole life and that is why I will be a PA and not a researcher.