First Wedding Anniversary

Sunday, March 13th was me and Calvin's first wedding anniversary. It's been a great year!! Here are a few of my favorite photos from our wedding day taken by Lee Anne Havens of flowerchildphotography.ca

My favorite from the day! Calvin and I just after we left the temple.

here we are dancing up a storm

a view of the beautiful old rock church filled with our guests!

Me and Calvin in Finn and James's room. Poor Finn was exhausted and we woke him up from his nap to do the photo shoot:(

A shot of the Logan Temple, where we were sealed, at night.

The beautiful and delicious cake that Lauree Myler custom made for us.

Current Affairs

So today Japan was hit by the largest earthquake recorded in their history, 8.9 on the Richter scale. The raw footage that has been captured on the subsequent tsunami is unbelievable. There are also tsunami alerts in Hawaii where my sister-in-law Melissa and her family recently moved. They were evacuated but fortunately no significant damage has been done on any of the Islands. My heart goes out to the people of Japan. Unfortunately they have already suffered hundreds of fatalities.

In other news, superficial, unimportant news, I have the same name as one of Charlie Sheen's girlfriends! Natalie Kenly is her name, so at least the spelling is different. Charlie Sheen is ALL over the news and Calvin has been obsessed with repeating his infamous catch phrases like: "I'm bi-winning".

Last night was an Elton/Harker reunion. Nita was in Seattle with Mary, Treva, Dave and Alyce and Calvin and I spent the evening with Sarah at a karaoke joint in Ogden. Sarah was on fire! I'm telling you. And Calvin's performances of "How Deep is your love?" and some R. Kelly track were real crowd pleasers. Unfortunately, my duet with Sarah of "Independent Women" needed a little work but Calvin said I was better than the super super drunk guy.

Finally, the boys and Andy returned to Logan this week after a very successful trip to Disneyland! James called me a couple times from the park and it was adorable to hear the pure excitement in his voice. It was the trip of a lifetime (as Dad would say) and its been so fun to catch up with them and hear their stories. Finn's favourite ride was the tea cups and James loved the Matterhorn.

Nardwuar vs Janelle Monae

So I guess Nita, Linds and I grew up living just blocks away from Nardwuar the Human Serviette in West Vancouver. Who knew!? The strange part is, Calvin became obsessed with Nardwuar all on his own accord. Than Andrew became obsessed. Nardwuar is really unbelievable and awesome. Calvin showed me this interview he does with Janelle Monae and I love it! She is so polished and he is so good at what he does!



In other news, the Armstrongs are just about to drive to California. I'm so excited to hear about how the boys like Disneyland...

last week...

I had a terrible flu but still managed to have a great week! First, check out a view of the snow covered trailor park you can see from our bedroom window:

On Monday Calvin and I had James and Finn with us the entire day so we decided to take them to Hardware Ranch for a horse drawn sleigh ride tour of the wild elk that hang out there throughout the winter. Finn was especially excited to see the horses. He took the first photo:

Wednesday, I was lucky enough to get to be a guest lecturer in Nita's sociology class. The article I lectured on was entitled: "Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women." It was disturbing and interesting and a lot of fun. It gave me insight into how challenging it is to teach and how much prep work actually goes into it.

I finally sat down and finished reading Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up". I LOVED it! Memoirs are one of my favourite genres and his was charming and insightful. He was inspired by absurdity and novelty and it was another reminder that genius comes from working hard. Check out one of his early appearances on the Tonight show: