10 Things About Andrea

I had to do this for a writing class, but I was so pleased with myself that I decided to publish it on my blog. Ha ha! Enjoy!

My name is Andrea Perkins and there are a few important things to know about me.

1. I am a devout family girl. I love my fam to death, and now that I’m married (for almost a year, woo hoo!) I have eleven more people to add to them.

2. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and believe in every word of it.

3. I am totally into Holistic Health and Healing. Herbs, Energy Healing, Yoga, Pilates, the works.

4. I can’t live without sweets and so I have to restrict myself to one very small helping a day.

5. I love writing and have every intention of finishing several books.

6. I love reading and have finished several books.

7. My interests are ridiculously wide-spread, making it very difficult to pin down a single major, but also making life endlessly interesting.

8. My husband and I are both home-bodies and I am on a crusade to make us more “fun.”

9. I have always been excited to have kids, but around my husband and I’s eighth month of marriage mark I decided I have to have them. Now.

10. I am generally a cheerful person, except for occasional fits of rage when the printer won’t work or the computer loses an entire paper that of course I hadn’t saved yet.

Changes

Wow! Only a few days later and already there's a lot of new stuff to talk about!

First of all, my friend Amanda Stoddard got married to Tim Rowan in the Timpanogos Temple this last Thursday. I'm so happy for them! And I am fully confident they will be happy together. They are perfect for one another.




















Next new thing is that Digi cut several of their employees, including me, so now I too am on the hunt for jobs. It's a little bit scary, but I know that the Lord will take care of us. He has helped us out so much up to this point, we know He won't abandon us now. Perhaps it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Who knows? We're both excited to see how it goes, and to experiment with tightening up our financial belts next month--a lot. ;)

Last thing I wanted to talk about was this site called Blurb.com. It's a website that can "slurp" your blog with all your posts and pictures and make it into a book! I thought it would be a great thing for anyone who's not really into scrapbooking, but does like to post faithfully on their blog. You could slurp your blog at the end of each year and have a family album/journal right there! Check it out!

Summer Time!!!!

Finals are over!!!!!!!! I'm so excited I can hardly see straight! As for Luke, his finals will be over next week, and then we shall both be free, Free, FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But to do what, you may ask? Well...

I will be taking 2 online classes this summer. I know, I just finished school and already it's upon me! But it's not too bad, considering that I wouldn't have anything to do at work otherwise. Besides read. Which, admittedly, is precisely my cup of tea. :) Hopefully I'll be able to do a lot of "just for fun" reading this summer, but it will be alongside my classes. And what fun classes they will be! I'm taking a "Writing for children and adolescents" course, and one on Shakespeare. I'm actually very excited for both.

Luke will spend the first portion of this summer (hopefully only a very short one) looking for a new job. He is quitting his current one and moving on at the end of this month. If anyone knows of any job openings, let us know!

Now on to the fun we expect to be participating in!

We have two family reunions/vacations that we will be taking, one with either side of the fam. The first comes in June and will be with the Wright fam in San Diego, California. Hooray for the beach, the ocean, and Disneyland!!!!! The next will be in August with the Perkins fam at Bear Lake. We are excited to spend some time on those beautiful, pristine shores, do some fun activities (kayaking hopefully) and eat some yummy raspberry shakes!

In July I will be spending a week with the young women of our ward up at camp in Heber Valley. The theme is "There's no place like Home," in the tradition of The Wizard of Oz. The scarecrow will represent building a testimony, the tin man is "Got Heart" meaning service, the lion is "Moral Courage," the yellow brick road is the straight and narrow path, Dorothy will represent all the girls on their path to "Home," which is the Temple, and last of all the ruby slippers represent the atonement. Hooray for metaphors and analogies! It should be a lot of fun, I'm really excited.

We are also hoping to host or help out with a barbecue sometime in August with all our friends, go on some fun hikes with friends and family, and spend many other agreeable get togethers for birthdays and other fun occasions.

Overall, our summer looks packed with fun things of all kinds. Thank goodness it's finally here. With the weather being so nice lately, I don't know that we would have made it to our classes for very much longer! Ha ha!