A Slightly Belated Update

Shannon and I have had so many requests lately for us to update our blog. People can't get enough of us, I guess!?! Hmm? No, don't think that's it. Those requests have a more teasing purpose, it seems, for not having updated it for a while. Even General Authorities are now being quoted to me in order to prompt me to be "technologically competent as are our non-LDS friends".
To the rest of you, here's a new post from me and Shannon; a little belated, but an update-of-sorts nonetheless. We've wanted to get a few pictures up from our honeymoon in Aruba over Christmas break. We loved it! It was such a nice surprise to be able to go there. And we were pleasantly surprised by the country itself, too: no currency, water purification, or food issues for Americans, it was even more beautiful than we expected, and the people were some of the friendliest that we've ever met. Well, maybe it seemed that way because we weren't in New York anymore. Hmm?!?
We loved the diversity of activities that we were able to do there, too. Our favorites were taking a jeep around to the remote part of the island and a snorkel/sail trip.
Oh yeah, while we were there we were also very happy to find a Benihana restaurant on the island! That was a shock. Ever since I took Shannon there in Anchorage last summer we've been on a constant lookout for other excuses to go. A honeymoon is a good one, right? Well, apparently good enough that they even hired her as a cook! It didn't last long, though. Only about 12 seconds in fact. She didn't want to do any airborne egg tricks and egg the customers in the process. But we have those 12 sec. on video! Here they are.

Alright! The last post finally worked so we'll see if I can get another one up here... w/out spending all night on it this time. Yeah, definately not all that "technologically savvy" yet.
New York welcomed us nicely! At the beginning of September every year the US Open (tennis, not golf) comes to Queens. This year Shannon and I were watching a match while eating lunch at Madison Square Park. We love that park: it's pretty, not far from the Empire State Building which you can see over the trees, and I pass through it everyday on my walk to school. And I must mention the people watching. Great for that, too. (but anywhere in Manhattan will suffice for that). Anyway, while watching a little "commercial", I guess, on the jumbo screen a question came up asking some absurd trivia statistic like "which US Open champion won the tournament in '63 and '64 and has 2 kids and drives a VW Thing?" followed by instructions to text your answer (A, B, C, or D). I don't remember what the question really asked, but of course being the rediculous tennis nuts that we are, we had no idea. We sent in our answers anyway. Miraculously, Shannon got it right and won a US Tennis Prize Pack (this included a tennis bag, t-shirt, visor, etc.!!! Cool! Then I got a return message telling me I got it wrong. My consolation prize was a mere 2 tickets to the quarter-finals round the next night!!! Don't know how that works, but works for me. We of course went the next night, saw Venus Williams advance and later saw Federer and Roddick play against eachother! I liked tennis before, but I'm a big fan now. Still have no idea who this "famous" champion is that is responsible for me winning those tickets...???

So like the rest of the family, we're slowly trying to figure out this blogging thing. We want to get at least a couple non-generic pictures up on here so here goes. We don't have a good photo of the inside of our apartment yet (at least not since the suitcases and air matress have been stored away for now) so I'll work on that. But we LOVE our apartment and we LOVE our area (certainly beats Staten Island... Ryan). Anyway, but we do have pics from our apt looking at the city. And that's gotta be the best part. The view is unbelievable! Here's a picture that I took from our complex a few weeks ago.

Hello from New York!

Hi everyone! I finally decided to make a blog for us. Since we are so far away from everyone I think this will be a better way to keep in touch, send pictures, and keep you all updated on the great adventures we're having here in the Big Apple! ;)

For those of you who don't know, we are living in the New York area while Sean is attending New York University for dental school. We don't actually live in the city, but right outside in West New York, NJ. We have an AMAZING view of the New York skyline! :) Anyway, school is keeping Sean VERY busy to say the least and I found a job as a receptionist at a company called Deutsch. The office is located in the Paramount Plaza building on the corner of 50th and Broadway in Times Square. It's crazy working so close to the setting I used to see on TV all the time. This is a picture of my building. CRAZY!!

Anyway, that's all I really have for now since I'm doing this at work anyway! ;) We love and miss you all! More to come...