Sam and Stacy Wood

We finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince today!!!!! Now on to book 7 and our lives will be more complete! I have also signed up to do facepainting at two shows this summer: Springville Art Days (June 10-14) and the Cedar Hills Family Day (June 27). In between I am going to CA for Taylor's graduation. Where is Sam in all of this? Well, he will be working unless they change his schedule. Then we will be looking for another job for him.

What a crazy, wonderful life we live!

Sam would like to let everyone know that we are currently obsessed with listening to Harry Potter on CD. It has become our new hobby and we love it. We listen to it during the day when we are out and about running errands and at night when we are falling asleep. Right now we are listening to the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince We'll finish it just before the movie comes out next month. After we finish this book we will most likely start from the beginning and zoom all the way through the series.

Hooray for Harry Potter!

I really desire to be good at this blogging thing, but to be honest, I just haven't got the blogging bug. Facebook is enough for me to handel. Well, lets just take it step by step and see how long I can keep this streak up.

So about today:

Sam and I took up Oprah on her offer on giving everyone a free meal at KFC. We traveled to two different KFC's due to the hugely long lines. Alas, the Orem KFC seemed to have the shortest wait and we tried the new "grilled" chicken. Our overall opinion was that it was only ok. They must have pre-indented grill marks on their chicken. Out of this experience, though, we got a chance to chat with a guy about food and life. I learned that Velveeta is a cheese food; whatever that means. We enjoy talking with strangers.

I am starting to compose a research paper with a few classmates and a professor for a communication conference in November. Its exciting to embark on this project because hardly any undergrads have an opportunity to go to a conference and eventually be published before they graduate.

Sam is working at Teleperformance in Lindon. He's doing tech support for Verizon Fiber Optic. His work hours are really late. Hopefully those terrible hours will be done soon.

I still work at BYU Broadcasting in their Membership depatment. I work with some crazy people but it sure makes work fun.

In our future:

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in SLC 5/9/09

Kelly Clarkson Concert 6/11/09

Taylor's Graduation 6/17/09- 6/20/09

I figure we should be better at blogging. So, I'm going to try to write at least one new blog a week.

Well Sam and I have been married for a little over 5 months now- and how time has flown by! Life just seems to be going along seamlessly and ever so happily. We love each other; what more could you ask for?

Over the past 5 months we have had numerous adventures. One in particular was going to my cousin Shane's beautiful wedding in Phoenix, AZ. It was a long 10 hour drive, but Sam and I had so much fun! We stayed at Sam's aunt and uncle's house in Tempe. A day before the wedding we had the opportunity to attend a session at the Mesa temple. It was a beautiful session. It was the third time I've been to the temple and it was amazing! After the temple session we went to treat ourselves to some Jack In The Box tacos and oreo shakes. Well, they didn't have any tacos! How can you call yourselves Jack In The Box and not have any tacos! Needless to say, we were very disappointed and confused.

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving we went to my cousin's wedding. It was an outdoor wedding that took place in a beautiful turquoise tent. As my cousin is a Sikh, his wedding was performed in a traditional fashion. We wore head coverings and threw flowers at the end. At the reception we heard traditional Indian music from sitars and drums and even some Bollywood music. The meals were all vegetarian (I read the menu out loud and mistook beef for beets. The other Sikhs were not happy when I hinted at a trace of meat in their food. It was embarrassing and funny!) It was fun to spend time with so much of my family and celebrate with my cousin. It was also a great cultural experience that we will never forget.

In the next up coming weeks Sam and I are planning to go to the Draper Temple open house, Walking with Dinosaurs, the Sundance Film Festival and a Jazz game for Sam's birthday. Hopefully I'll remember to report! Aloha!

There were a lot of interesting events that led up to us meeting.

Stacy sold security systems for Platinum Protection in Washington DC in the summer of 2007 with a few of Sam's high school friends. When she came back one of those friends had a birthday party and that was the first time Sam and Stacy met. Sam caught Stacy's eye because he was wearing a shirt that said Kailua on it. Kailua is the small little town in Hawaii where Stacy grew up. Harldy anyone knows where it is unless you've lived there. It turns out that Sam served his mission in the Hawaii Honolulu mission. But, not only that, he served where Stacy's mom grew up and in Stacy's old homeward from when she was little. They found out that they know A LOT of the same people from a tiny little island. Coincidence? We think NOT.