Jason's Idea of Fun

Jason is such a busy body. I know its true but I really realized it during the last couple of days. I was sick last weekend and jumping right back into school this week didn't help the recovery process. So Friday I didn't have school, I spent the day "resting" (basically just laying around all day). While I was doing that, Jason worked in the morning, biked 20 something miles, changed the oil on our car, took a bizillion pictures of the car for our soon to be updated website (stay tuned for that announcement), and he managed to take his wife on a nice date that evening (I had rested long enough by that point). I'm glad Jason is the way he is, of course sometimes I wish he could just sit still and have a conversation with me without multitasking but I love him and I appreciate so much everything he does for us. Below is his idea of "fun".




In other news, Jason has officially accepted the offer from Apple (see pic below). He begins June 23, 2008, five days after I finish school (that will be a fun week). We are both really excited for this, although it complicates my life a little because now I have to take the California boards, oh what is two extra tests, I will already be taking like five to get my license. Saturday Jason biked 47 miles with the Utah Velo Club (Velo is bike in French). He loves his bike, he woke up at 6:45 to go on the ride and while it started out nice it was windy and rainy by the end. Which brings me to the other big news, it snowed yesterday for the first time. We went up to Park City to enjoy the beautiful drive through the canyon and the outlets up there. Utah is beautiful this time of year, I will try to get some pictures up for those who have moved and miss the pretty colors of the canyon. Anyway, it snowed really hard in Park City and as we made our way back it lightened up a little but was still snowing a bit in Provo. Those are the Miller happenings of the week, hopefully we will have more exciting things to post about soon.

Jason mailing in his offer

Introducing Mr and Mrs Lee

Today was a very exciting day for the Miller family. Jason's sister Jenny married the guy that we set her up with over a year ago. They had a breakfast this morning, and were then wed this afternoon at the Mount Timpanogas Temple. It was a great day. Jen looked gorgeous and Jeff looked very handsome. We are so happy for them. It was also nice to see a lot of Jason's family we haven't seen in a while, and we got to meet a lot of Jeff's family for the first time. The happy couple will be honeymooning in Mexico for a week...I want to get married again!!!!
Jason and I at the breakfast
The Miller family including both sets of Grandparents
The Miller Family
Michelle and I
Me, Mike (he's single ladies) and Michelle
The happy couple, Jen's dress was so pretty
Michelle and James
Jason's cousins Abigail, Emily, Charlie and Grace
Dallas (Jason's Grandma) and Abigail
Jason and Jen

Bike Fever

Jason LOVES his new bike. He tries to ride it at least a few times a week, and rides an average of 30 miles per ride. He has been trying to convince me that it could be my new hobby as well, so we borrowed his sisters road bike and went on a short 7 mile ride (after he rode 40 miles earlier in the day with Jared). I liked it, it was fun. I hit speeds up to 23 mph (Jason has gone over 44 mph). So we did that yesterday. Last night we went to the Scera theater and saw their production of High School Musical. It was really cute, I wish my little sister Letty could have gone with us. Other than that there is nothing new with either of us, we're just plugging away at school. Although I will say, we found out we are going to PA for thanksgiving (that is where my Mom's whole family lives) and we CANNOT wait. We are so excited to see the family!! Another exciting side note is that Jason's sister Jenny is getting married next weekend to the guy we set her up with, Jeff. We are really excited for them. I love weddings!!

P.S. You will notice that Jason has switched to spandex, something he swore wouldn't happen, I know many of you have been waiting to see the rock hard gluts of my man, well wait no longer!! Now he is just waiting for a Honey Stinger bike jersey from his Dad. Oh and you will see that I wore spandex too! They are padded and my little bum cannot handle those uncomfortable seats with no padding.
Jason and Jared back from their morning ride
Jason as happy as a clam be with his bike
Jason and I after our ride (yes I realize I have no upper lip in this picture)
Me at the HSM play (yes I realize I look like a chunk in this picture, but in my defense we had just stuffed ourselves with Thai curry, Pad Thai and sticky rice with mango...it was worth it)
The cast, it really looked like the movie

Back To School

Since we got back we have just been hanging out and readjusting to life. After an eventful summer it is nice to relax, although it doesn't provide many blogging opportunities. I did take a few pictures this weekend. On Saturday Jason and I took a picnic up to Bridal Veil Falls. The weather has been perfect, so it was nice to get out. We also have brushed off the motorcycle (it was out of order for a while) and have been taking it out, I will have to get some pictures. On Sunday since Jason's brother Mike was in town, all his siblings came over for dinner, lots of fun as always, Mike always adds a lot of energy to our home. We have both been completley thrown back into the swing of things at school, it hardly feels like we had a break. I start seeing patients again this week (so anyone in Provo who needs a free cleaning, give me a call), I love seeing patients but sometimes it is stressful trying to see specific patients from specific demographics. I think it will be hard for Jason this year having worked in the "real" world this summer. I think since he has a least one job offer, it is hard to take school too seriously. We are doing well though and enjoying being back together in Provo.
Picnic
At the falls
Dinner
All the Miller children, and me

The Offer/Jason's New Bike

Good News!! Apple officially offered Jason a job when he graduates next year. Jason is very modest about it but the recruiter said that they were VERY impressed with him and feel he has a lot of potential. She said they really want him back and tried to draw up an offer he couldn't refuse. It is a very good offer but the cost of living is so high out there he may try to negotiate a few points. I am so happy for him, he really was starting to like his job and was very sad to leave. It is also good to know we have options. Good options. He will continue to pursue the FBI, but for now we are happy to know something great is waiting when we graduate. Congratulations Jason!!!!

In other news, Jason used his birthday money to buy a really nice road bike, something he has been wanting for a long time. This morning at 6:30am he went for his first group ride and he loved it. He rode over 40 miles and even though he doesn't have clipless pedals or full spandex he is loving the new bike. I am happy for him, although it would have made a lot more sense for him to get the bike at the beginning of summer since he biked to Apple every day this summer on a full suspension mountain bike. Now of course he is trying to get me into the biking thing, stay tuned to see how that turns out.

Alyssa

So I am posting my first video. This is of my super cute niece, Alyssa. I always talk about her, so this is for those of you who have never met her or for those of you who haven't seen her in a while.

Last Visit Home

Before we headed back to Utah (we are back now), we stopped and saw our families one last time. It was only for one day, but we packed a lot in. The highlight of the day was being able to watch my little sister cheer for the first time at the opening night for high school football. It was really fun and she did a great job. Go Fighting Zebras!!!!

My cute Mom
Alyssa "taking my lipstick from me"
Huh? This face reminds me of Jim from "The Office"
Letty in her cute cheer outfit

Teaching Alyssa the moves
Letty being held up in a "full extension", I think that is what it is called

Look Who We Got To Meet...

Before we left for Los Angeles, we made a trip up to SF to meet the newest member of the Henry family, Calvin. He is so cute and tiny!!! I think he is probably the youngest baby I have seen in a long time (2 days when we saw him). They are such a cute family and we are so happy for them. Dan and Ashley already seem like seasoned pros at the parenting thing. We are glad we have been able to spend time with the Henry's this summer and that we got to meet the little guy before we head back to Utah.
Me and Calvin, maybe someday I will have one of my own
Jason and Calvin, doesn't Jason's hand (and head) look really big next to him
The Henry family (I didn't catch Dan at the best moment)
Big Yawn!!
I love this picture of little Cal, he was so awake and alert while we were there
Me, Ash and Cal

Our Tinseltown Weekend

WARNING: This post has a lot of writing. It will start to sound like a journal entry. If you don't care about the details, skip ahead to the pictures!

We spent this last weekend living out my dream weekend. We left for Los Angeles on Thursday morning. When we got there we went and checked out the Greek Theater (where Michael Buble was playing that night) to see if it was within walking distance of our hotel. It wasn't, it was about 2.3 miles, and way up in the wilderness. We decided to take the bus for 2 reasons, 1- Jason hates paying for parking (sometimes it can be a little ridiculous the lengths he goes to, but everyone has their quirks) and 2- we were pretty sure getting out of there would be hellish. So we rode the bus, it worked out great on the way there. We both thoroughly enjoyed the concert. Especially me, my crush on Michael Buble is now bigger than ever (don't worry I think Jason understands after seeing him). He is so charismatic!! I mean he was almost as entertaining when he wasn't singing as he was when he was. Which made the entire show totally fun. When it was over Jason looked at me and said "Wow it is already over, that went by quick". I guess the old saying "time flies when your having fun" is true. Needless to say I will make every effort to attend future Michael Buble concerts, and I suggest you all do the same! Ok back to the transportation saga. As we were walking down to the bus stop Jason mentions that he just saw one go by and that they only come every half hour this late at night, so we decide to start walking to the next stop. Long story short we never caught the bus and ended up walking the 2.3 miles back to our hotel at 11:30pm in Los Angeles and I was not wearing anything that even resembled walking shoes. It wasn't really the ideal ending to our wonderful night but oh well, we got some exercise.

Friday we got up and were planning on doing a session at the Los Angeles temple. Those plans were thwarted when I called to get the session times and found out the temple is closed for cleaning. We were really bummed. We try to attend the temple whenever we are away on vacation in an attempt to maybe someday visit half of the beautiful temples on the earth. We decided to go see the temple anyway. It was beautiful, and big, really big. After that we walked around Rodeo Drive and to my disappointment we didn't see any celebrities:( We then headed up to Beverly Hills to admire all the ginormous (my new favorite word) homes. I was looking at a website yesterday that had the addresses of celebrities and we were on some of the roads that they live on we just didn't know it. We stopped on Sunset Blvd and ate at Frankie and Johnnie's Pizza, it was delicious. They had celebrities signatures all over the walls, kinda cool. Then we went back to our hotel, watched a movie, got ready and went back out. We walked along Hollywood Blvd to Grauman's Chinese Theater and the Kodak Theater (were they have the Emmy's and various other award shows). I must admit I have a little bit of a fascination with old hollywood. You know the Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner hollywood. It was neat to see their hand and footprints in the cement and imagine them on the red carpet at their movie premieres. Anyway after that we headed to the Pantages theater and saw WICKED!!!! It was amazing, everything I hoped it would be and more. Jason liked it as well, in fact we had Wicked in our heads the rest of the weekend. I thought I would be disappointed because I have always wanted to see the original cast but I wasn't. This cast was great, many of them did perform their roles on Broadway, just not in the original cast. I would highly recommend this play for anyone who likes theater. Get the soundtrack first so you can sing along in your head.

Instead of staying Saturday night in LA, like we had planned, we picked a town along the coast and stayed there. We ended up in Morro Bay, a very cute little town on the ocean. It took us quite awhile to drive there since it is along Highway 1, which is right along the ocean, very scenic. We checked in, got some recommendations for dinner, actually it was more like Linner because we were starving and it was only 3:30pm. We ate at the Great American Fish Company. We enjoyed our table as much as the dinner. It was a window seat in the corner so we could see outside all around us. After that we walked around the little shops along the water. We went to the grocery store and got things for a picnic on Sunday. Came back and watched a movie. Very nice relaxing evening. Sunday we went to church. Then had our picnic on the beach. Then headed back. We opted to continue on highway 1, which in hindsight was probably not the best idea. We left around 2pm and didn't get home until about 6:30pm. It was a beautiful drive, but it took considerably longer. Overall we had a delightful weekend. The perfect end to our summer.


Los Angeles here we come
The Greek Theater, what an amazing venue!
Don't we make a fine pair!!
But I think I look better with this guy
Jason enjoying the show, can you see the trees in the background, we were seriously in the wilderness
Jason at the LA temple
Me on Rodeo Drive
Jason was obsessed with the old school Beverly Hills sign
WICKED!!! I was very excited!
Jason at the Kodak Theater
Jason with the Hollywood sign, if you look really hard you can see it
Jason and I at the Great American Fish Company
Jason and I in Morro Bay with the pretty boats
Me, excited for the picnic
Jason and the ocean
Jason and our spread