I will miss you too Amelia!

I can't believe it's tomorrow! You probably won't even read this right away. I will miss you dearly. Thanks for all the Christmas cards you let me take. I loved all of them!

xo-JeriLynn

a new era of blogging begins....

wait...I'm in charge? Are you sure you want to do that? Is that really a wise decision?

AT LAST! MAWAHAHA!!!! Now I can do stuff to your blogs. Be afraid...be very afraid. Okay so I don't really know what I would do to your blogs. But the threat is still there...that I can something and you wouldn't even know. Does this mean that I need to get on here more often? Post random things? Demand taxes? hmmm.....

So happy anniversary to you Chels! It sounds like it was awesome...and you would be the type to treat your dog as your child.

Amelia. I'm going to miss your guts...and try to write to you at least once I promise!!

Belle

Sister Chesley,
I need your address!!! Oh, I'm alive everyone! I've just had nothing to post about for a while. Now, however...I do! Saturday was my one year anniversary. Can you beleive it? I can't. It was glorious. He took me to the Anniversary Inn and suprised me with the Italian Gondola room, since I LOVE Venice. Go to www.anniversaryinn.com. It's the 5th south location and room #30. He made me close my eyes and when I opened them I immediately started bawling. He also ordered the anniversary package which included roses, sparkling cider, cheesecake, and personalized champagne flutes. THEN we went to Bucca di Beppo, because it's Italian and we went there on our honeymoon. After that we went back to the room and I squeezed into my dress and we ate our top tier of our wedding cake...which was suprisingly good. Then we exchanged gifts. I wrote him a book about our first year of marraige and he made me a slide show...available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uabvszBkWS0.

I spent the whole weekend bawling. It was perfect. So then, in the morning, just when I thought it couldn't get any better...he suprised me with this:

Isn't she adorable? Her name is Belle. Send me your addresses...I'm sending out baby announcements and I don't care what anyone says. I'm going to be one of those weird dog people and I don't care! More pics of her are on facebook. Jerilynn, we'll get together soon...but it may be a while...summer's kinda crazy! Much love to all!

Love,
Chels

er...

okay, i figured out how to transfer the admin. powers... and i promptly experimented and gave them away to Elsie. i could've left myself on as and administrator still too... but i just had to see what would happen... and now i am powerless. that's okay, as long as Elsie doesn't mind. but Elsie, if you get sick of it, just log in and switch it to somebody else.

it's easy--
go to the Settings tab, then the Permissions tab, and click on the 'guest' link by someone else's name. you can give it back to me if you like, for a few more days... but that seems a little pointless, since i'm leaving quite soon. bicker about it amongst yourselves. i'll be back in 18 months to check on you.

so, there you go. Elsie is the new boss of this place. for now.

Hawaii? the Caribbean?

So I interviewed for an internship with Del Sol. They make color changing apparel (go to delsol.com to check it out). Basically I would get to go to Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, key west, or etc and work in their stores. I won't know until the 20th if I get the job or not. It's not really technical writing...at all. But I get to go someplace tropical. Plus....I think I need a break from the 9-5 cubicle life. I don't know if I really like cubicles. Speaking of cubicles, I recently read a book that is basically a chick flick called "The Cubicle Next Door". It was a little bit funny and mostly like cotton candy for the brain? Hollie, I think, would enjoy it :)

Anyway....that's what I'm up to. I'm also looking for tech writing jobs...I guess. But if anyone finds any in Europe? That would rock my socks.

I think I want to travel.

ps Y'all shoulda seen Hollie's reaction when I was banging on the window yelling her name as I was passing her. It was awesome. Something along the lines of "what is that maniac doing?" Then she realized it was me....and didn't really look that relieved. priceless really.

jerilynn is right. there's only one week left...

it's time to decide who wants the glamorous job of person-in-charge-of-the-blog. right now it's just me, but i can hand off the power to whoever thinks they can handle it.
speak up now, or i'll have to pick someone randomly.

hrm. actually... now that i look at the permissions, i don't know if there's a way to switch the admin priveleges... so.... maybe you'll have to just manage without. i'll see what i can find out.

i'll post a longer more interesting post later this week.... now i've got to get back to packing.

Hello from JeriLynn

Hey everyone. I decided to post once more for Amelia's sake, since she'll be leaving in a week.

I never told you guys about our trip to the East Coast, other than that I went. In May, Jay and I went on the rock-awesome 9-day trip to DC/Gettysburg/NYC. It was totally fun and I lost the last 5 pounds of my baby-fat. It was dirt cheap, too, since we paid around $900 for the both of us-- and that included EVERYTHING! It was with a military history class at USU, and so we travelled everywhere in 12-passenger vans, and we stayed in barracks (so it wasn't exactly a romantic get-away). We had so much fun, though we missed Liesl like nuts. But obviously we all survived.

We spent two days in DC, one in Gettysburg, one in Philadelphia, one in New York City, one in Baltimore, and then there were a couple travel days and down days in there, too. We were only in NYC for 8 hours, but we saw most of Manhattan. We saw the arrest-scene for The Bourne Ultimatum being shot, kitty-corner to Ground Zero. That was a highlight of the day, since we are Jason Bourne fans. Any of you watching that movie (which comes out August 3rd-- one month from today), when the CIA agent is being arrested and they drive down the street, Jay and I are standing just out of the shot as the car hits the street corner. You won't see us in the movie because we weren't extras, but we were quizzing the security guards on their Bourne Lore.

So not much else is going on for now. Liesl's walking all over the place. She's such a good, great baby. She's in swimming lessons now, and she can nearly get out of the pool by herself, although she can't swim alone.

I haven't heard from any of you in a while. Chelsi, what's up with you? I haven't seen you around in a while. I still plan on having you over for dinner sometime.

Anyway, hugs and kisses.
xo-JeriLynn