Smooth Talkers

If any of you have been watching/ reading the news, I'm sure you've heard about the nine year old who wrote a book called How To Talk To Girls. I guess some of his tips have been rubbing off on the younger generation who think they know everything about girls now :) Tonight Richard and I went swimming at the Rec Center where we got free passes from his work (which has been awesome!). A kid who was about ten walked past me on his way to the diving board. After he passed, he turned around and said to me, "You're pretty!" It caught me off guard and I just said, "ummm thanks?" and he walked away. I was trying REALLY hard not to laugh! Needless to say, even a compliment from a ten year old made me feel pretty good :) However, later Richard and I started swimming laps and I passed that kid a second time and once again he looked at me and said, "you're pretty!". Only this time, instead of being flattered I began to be a little creeped out by this confident little Don Juan! I thought Richard would step up and tell the little guy to back off but he didn't hear his "original" one-liners either time! Next time we go to the pool, he'll have to watch my back more closely!

V-Day Fun

Valentine's Day this year was a whole lot less romantic but a whole lot more fun than it probably is for most (although I did get very beautiful roses and my favorite chocolates!). And we prefer it that way :) Richard knows that I have always wanted to go snow shoeing so he decided it would be perfect to spend Valentine's Day snow shoeing up the canyon. It was snowing which made it colder and wetter but it was still a blast! I could not have asked for a more fun way to spend Valentine's Day with the best man in the whole world. Here are some pics of our fun adventure.

Trying to show off the snow shoes

Naughty Richard


We actually found someone else as crazy as we were out in the snow to take our picture

That night, he took me to my favorite restaurant (Ruby River, they have amazing steak!) and then we watched the movie I gave him, The Dark Knight (a very romantic movie...). It wasn't what some would call a good Valentine's Day but it was perfect for us!

Books anyone?

Since I have a lot more time to read after finishing school, I am in need of some good books to read. I've already been disappointed by a book that I thought was going to be good and ended up being dirty (I lost all respect for Dan Brown!) and would really like to get references instead of just picking a random book of the shelf. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Ice Skating

For date night last week we went ice skating. It was PACKED when we got there and so we thought we'd just spend the night avoiding skaters who had fallen and winding through groups of girls holding hands so they don't fall. But luckily, I have a super creative husband who can make anything fun. And by the end, we were two of only 10 people left in the rink, so it ended up being great! At first we just took some pictures of us skating but then we starting taking videos of us doing crazy things. Richard is pretty good and kept trying to show off for me ;) Here's one of the million videos we took of him being just plain crazy: (Sorry they are all sideways, I don't know how to switch videos...)

He even tried to teach me how to skate backwards, though I never got very good at it. Here's my attempt:

And here's what we did for the last half hour- dance like crazy. Most of the time we danced together and it was a BLAST but we couldn't get a video of us doing that... so you'll have to just enjoy watching Richard show us his moves!!!!

It was a GREAT date night- I'm glad we have so much fun together and aren't a boring married couple ALL the time

Fireproof

Richard and I had to put a plug in for a movie that just came out a while ago called "Fireproof" (Thanks Pamela for telling us about it). It has REALLY bad acting and is pretty cheesy but the message is really really good. It's all about a fireman who is struggling in his marriage and finally decides to get a divorce. But his Dad challenges him to put off the divorce for 40 days and outlines a plan for his son that makes him do something different for his wife every day. The cheesiness dies off a little by the end and it ends up being pretty good. It's perfectly clean, really supportive of the sanctity of marriage, and was more spiritual than I thought it would be. You can check out the trailer here or you can look at this link they posted at the end of the movie to get tips on how to strengthen your marriage. So cool!!! Even if you don't want to watch it, I think it's a great thing to support this kind of movie. So go get it from Redbox right now! It's only a dollar and they need all the help they can get :)

Diploma City

Richard and I both got a fun package in the mail yesterday- our diplomas!!!! They both came at the same time and it is so fun to finally have proof of all we did over the last 3 1/2 or 4 years. They are both signed by Pres. Monson (ok, not REALLY signed, but his signature is on there) :) and by Pres. Samuelson, which is pretty cool. Other than the millions of kids who have also gone through BYU, how many people can say that? Ha ha. Wahoo- we're done!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard has a job

This is Richard (Kelli may or may not fully endorse this message). My friend Jason just finally became cool enough to have his own blog and it inspired me to blog about a few things myself (obviously I am not cool enough to have my own but even though Kelli keeps telling me that this is her blog I claim it as mine since it is titled THE HENRICKSEN'S and it contains stories about me).

What I wanted to blog about was my heroic adventure to get a job during this obvious time of economic distress. After a long treacherous battle of unemployment (a month) I am finally done spending my days searching through lists of classifieds, spending hours at the library reading and talking to crazy prophets (there are some interesting people out there), and fighting the horrible monsters of Nintendo. I now have a job! yeah!

My job is at a place called SecurityMetrics (thanks Matt for your help). I don't know all the details yet but basically I will be working in the phone room making sure that all the businesses I call will be up to standard with the credit card security policies. If not, then I will sign them up for what they lack. Since they by law have to meet these standars (or suffer huge fines) the hardest part will be getting them to sign up through us and not some other company. Propably not my dream job and may not be making a career out of this but from what I have been through and heard the last month I am lucky to have even a job. And there are worse jobs out there for sure. I wanted to thank all of you for your prayers on our behalf and especially wanted to thank my Heavenly Father for Him being mindful of me and my family.