Cover up your Full Moon

This is Will! So the other night I went to bed setting my alarm clock for the odd hour of 2:30am. That's so I could get a good glimpse of the moon pulling up its pants (ie full lunar eclipse). I caught the last crack before he had his pants up. Check it out! I only had my binoculars. I wish I had a telescope!

I totally got stung by a bee today!

So today as I was walking over to a unit on my property that we manage, I stopped to talk to a friend, and suddenly, I felt like something was crawling on my leg. I shook it. A few minutes later, I realized something was crawling on my leg!!

Then all of a sudden I felt a sharp stinging sensation. So I screamed, shook my pant leg out...and out fell a dazed bee. In total shock of what just happened, I stood there and curiously watched the bee clumsily wabble around the sidewalk while my thigh throbbed with pain.

Then I came to my senses and smashed him with my shoe.

It's so weird, I don't think I've been stung by a bee since I was 10 years old. Those little buggers hurt!

Jenni

Theater Play and Family Play

Last weekend Will went camping with some of his guy buddies, and I was stuck home working all weekend. Yes the wives and I did have fun at the Cheesecake Factory, but I still went home and was sad I had to sleep alone all night.

This weekend, the original plan was that Will was going to come with me to "Young Frankenstein" with Erika (because Erika's husband was going on a scouting trip), but at the last minute Aaron convinced Will to come along on the scouting trip and leave the musical theater to us girls.

Lindsey, me, and Erika at Seattle's Paramount Theater, during the intermission for

"Young Frankenstein"

It was a tough decision, but Will couldn't just let Aaron be alone in that vast forest with all these boy scouts! What shame! So he had to help out!

"Should I go to the musical with Jenni, or go camping? It's tough...I really love those darn musicals, but somebody's got to keep an eye out on those boyscouts so that they don't get into too much trouble!"

It's all right, Will was really sweet about it and said he would come with me on Friday to the play, but I knew he would have more fun camping. So he went with Aaron, and then I slept over at Erika's this time so I wasn't alone. We watched chick flicks and ate ice cream and stayed up talking until 2am.

Saturday and Sunday we spent at my parents house - as my younger brother, Stephen, was up visting from Utah with his wife, Ileana and baby daughter Mackenzie.

One little baby just loved being in the kayak!

Mom and Dad

Will and I

Stephen and Ileana

We're just so healthy...

...that our doctors cannot find any reason why we aren't getting prego. LOL

Okay for all you confused people out there - please scroll down and read previous blog entitled "Fishing for Fertility" and then nod your head and say "Ahhhhh okay I get it." Thanks.

I just wanted to give the update. This week I underwent some more testing - blah. Can I just say I'm really tired of getting poked and prodded?? Will felt so bad for me, he told me after my last test on Monday that he would take me wherever I wanted to eat. Duh - the only thing I could think of, off-hand, was a DQ cookie dough blizzard. Wish granted.

Testing done:

HSG (ouch), ultrasound, pelvic x-rays, swimmer count, blood tests, paps, oral, etc, etc, etc,

Results:

Healthy, healthy, and healthy! In fact, we were both healthier than like all of my dr's patients combined that come in.

So....there can only be a few conclusions. The big one that pops into our heads is that the man upstairs isn't ready to send us children yet.

The other one is that vague unexplained reasoning why many people don't get pregnant: STRESS. And yeah I do sort of have a very stressful job.

At this point, we are very happy to hear that we are both in great health though. So at least we know that there isn't something "wrong" with us. In the meantime, I have a busy fall coming up with several concerts, some film-scoring projects and Will and I have been considering investing in some real estate. I would love it if I could replace my management job with my music, which is why I'm booking up my schedule to perform a lot this fall/winter - to see if it's even possible.

Till next blogging,
Jenni

Guys Night Out!!!

This weekend I went backpacking/camping up in the Alpine lakes area with two new friends from the Benson Hill Ward: Colton & Chris.

Colton & Chris

In order to sneak away on a Friday night of all nights, we had to agree that our wives (Jenni, Jen, & Jenny, how ironic) could get together and indulge in tasty food and to die for deserts at the Cheesecake Factory.

So, while they were being served on hot plates and later winding down to chick flicks and gossip, we the guys were hiking up the side of what seemed like Mt. Everest with enough gear to make sure we would survive a week, if the good chance that we got lost just happened to take place, eating our dehydrated powdered dinner with lake water that we were boiling to make sure we got rid of any bacteria that would cause us to be up all night ridding ourselves of any food that had enter our system in the past 48 hours.

And the wonderful thing about this Guys night out? We wouldn't have traded it for what our wives were being treated to for anything. We were as happy and content as a bunch of boys on their first Boy Scout outing.

After arriving at our destination and setting up the tent in the dark and warming our chilled insides with a watered down powder dinner, we slipped into our tent to enjoy a night sleeping on the ground.Chris supplied the 4 person mobile shelter, enough room so the three us didn't have to wake up too close to one another.

I'm not sure if I wanted to be up for the sunrise or if my body was just too sore after rolling from shoulder to shoulder all night. Maybe I was being kicked out for snoring, either way I ended up being up for the sunrise. It turned out to be a beauty.Grizzly Adams at 5:30 am

After some more powdery, watered down breakfast we took off on a small hike (this time without the packs) to view some more lakes. It was really pretty.

Colton & Chris soaking in the view above Rachel Lake.

Will on top of the world (or at least Rachel Lake)

Will falling off the top of the world (or at least pretending)

Pretty Flower

More Pretty Flowers

Lots of Pretty flowers (I must have been missing Jenni about now)

After our little day hike it was all down hill to the car. It's a lot easier hiking DOWN Mt. Everest, then UP it.

We stopped at some waterfalls.

Chris even found a hornets nest.

Lots of different Fungi

We made it back down to the car covered in dirt and sweat and enough outdoor memories to plaster smiles on our tired, overworked bodies only to realize we were the lucky ones who didn't get our window smashed in and car stripped of all valuables left inside. What a welcome back to reality other campers where going to get.

We then headed home, with the hopes of sympathy and compansion from our wives to nurse our wounded bodies back to health.

Awe, the perfect ending to a perfect guys night out! Thanks Chris & Colton!! We'll have to do it again next time the Jen's are craving gossip, chick flicks, and chocolate deserts!