Europe or Bust

So...I'm planning on blogging our Europe trip mostly every day, so anyone or everyone can see what we are doing...so we flew from Dallas to NY & had a 3 hr layover at JFK. We then had the longest 9 ish hr flight ever into Zurich. I barely slept, but tried to...ha. We got to Zurich, got a car and drove to the black forest! Holy cow...super beautiful...kind of a winding roaded journey, nonetheless, an adventure..super, quaint villages...tall, majestic winding hills...I can see where the Grim fairytales came from. Probably The Lord of the Rings trilogy was inspired from these forests...I feel asleep a few times during this adventure...but had donner kebabs in Frieberg, (a cute, little town,) and was happy to be in Germany! Then knew we had a long way to Bacharach to drive (near Frankfurt,) so we headed here in this adorable, romantic town...cobblestone streets, buildings all close to one another=love and now are ready to sleep at 7 p.m. Germany time! Ha

View from our window of the Rhine

Mid-Jan

Well It's always fun to start off a new year.  I always feel like I need to be more grateful and better.  Lately I have been thinking about how wonderful life is, and how I'm happy to be where I'm at.  Quin and I were discussing this idea and we really feel so blessed. 

I was super sick recently with a 101.5 fever and it made me reflect and be so grateful for the small things in life and tender mercies from the Lord.  I'm so glad I'm feeling better, and wondering if I maybe should get a flu shot? lol!  The holidays were great though, and we're looking forward to the new adventures ahead.  With moving to TEXAS! and planning EUROPE!  We're just pumped!  I feel like there's so much hope, excitement and opportunities in life.  SO let's take it! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just found this, but it was a few months ago at the REAL SLC game- really fun!

Provo's First Snow....
(from the car!)

I can't believe November is almost over!!! It's crazy! WELL things are great here, and I'm so excited for school to be off for 3 days!!! I am excited to do some fun things like hang out and read the whole time.  PLUS, go to the women's soccer game on fri, because they are in the ELITE 8!! GO COUGS!  Honestly, I'm so grateful for all that I have in my life and the blessings we receive daily.  We are so happy for all the new changes coming up in our lives.  Quin is done in April and WE'RE OFFICIALLY moving to TEXAS!  So it's kind of crazy!  We're excited for all that will come for us in the future!!! SO much to be thankful as Josh Groban says.  We hope to travel this summer to celebrate us both being done with Undergrad!!  We hope to go to Europe and explore Quin's mission and go to my much favorite place in the whole world that I've never been to before-ROME!  So we're looking forward to that and budgeting a ton!  So we're excited for the holidays and time to spend with fam!

Happy Halloween

So it's such a fun time of year, with Quin's b-day yesterday and all the fun of fall.  WE had a blast dressing up as Katniss and Peeta from Hunger Games for our Ward Party.  THEN at school, our team did the whole Hunger Games cast.  It was awesome, I was clove, the one who throws knives and who totally rocks.  So I just wanted to say again, how much I love this time of year!

Fall

Kay so I love fall, and I love how it smells and all it offers.  Today was fun, I went for a run as Quin took a test in Provo Canyon and loved it.  This is by far my favorite time of year.  Life is good, and we're doing well, just deciding what the future holds for us.  We were thinking of teaching ESL in China, serioulsy, but now we're not so sure.  Other that that, Quin is finishing up school and teaching at the MTC and loving it.  I'm teaching at Freedom Academy, (a charter school in Provo,) and ESL at UVU.  It's a lot of fun and keeps me busy.  Lately, I have been assisting v-ball at Freedom and I swear it's made me a better player, as I now am on the ward team! =)  Well that's about it... we're good, getting ready for the holidays! oh and here's some extra pics, at the BYU black out game, and a pretty rainbow just this week coming home from work!

School Time

Well luckily, I found a sweet part-time teaching job at Freedom Academy, and thus far am loving it.  It's amazing how things work out.  Nonetheless, I'm still working on another afternoon job, which is hard to find that fits your hours.  I have been turning down jobs just because they don't pay enough or they have lonnnnggg hours.  So that's been fun.  Otherwise, life is feeling good, more stable then it was.  It's an exciting time of year with school starting and all of these new changes.  Even though, I don't exactly get excited for this time, I kind of do once I'm in it.  So all is well here with Quinlyn.

And P.S. Didn't go to vegas- got a job instead! ha

Aug=birthday month

So it's my birthday uhh right now... and it's just so exciting to have birthdays!  We're thrilled just to go see Fiddler on the Roof for free!! HAHA  But Aug is always so fun because it's nearing the end of summer which is a bummer, but new options and things always begin.  It's also our 2 year anniversary in a week.  Amazing how time flies.... we were so young just 2 years ago.  I'm so grateful for Quin and being here at BYU and hopefully leaving in a year =) haha.  But we have been so blessed lately.  We just got back from Bear Lake and are going to Vegas for a few days to visit Dad.  So things have been good even though job searching basically stinks.  Well whoever reads this!  Go AUGUST!