Quick Update

Quick Updates on the Arizona Gunthers:

- Loving serving together in Nursery these days.  I'm also on the Gilbert Temple Cultural Celebration Committee for my ward as the seamstress/costume director.   My third calling is as the Girls Camp Director for my ward.  I'm gearing up for a wonderful summer!

- Justus is in his final (crossing our fingers) semester at ASU and will be graduating this year.  We're excited to see what this means for us and how it will affect our lives.

- I'm working as a Project Manager for a Commercial Construction company here in the valley.  I love it for many reasons, including the challenges.

- I'm still sewing up a storm and utilizing it as my way to deal with work stresses.  It's great to finish craft projects while I am working on a long term project at work.  It's just satisfying! (And therapeutic).

- Justus loves his bicycle parts and especially when he can find a great deal.  I can't complain, as I buy my fabric in the same way.  He uses the bicycles parts and I keep using the fabric!

- Other than that, we are pretty boring.  We love hanging out a home and with each other.  Hope you all are doing well!

Changing Service

Through a series of events and one large shift in our ward family, Justus and I are now serving as CTR 7 teachers!  Sadly we'll be out of town this upcoming Sunday.  We are really looking forward to teaching.  When we found out which class we were teaching, I was pleasantly surprised that I could name the kids that would be in our class off the top of my head (or at least 7 out of the 9, two are from the other ward we split into).  Wow, I guess I retained more knowledge from when I was serving as Primary President than I remembered!

It's a great, active class that I already love :)   I consider myself pretty lucky.

Girls Camp - Photo Dump

Great, amazing time at Girls Camp... if you'd like to join me through a "slideshow" you are more than welcome to scroll through the following pictures!

Instead of the Princess Pat, we sang the Princess Platt song :)

We had some "guest" news anchors

An added plus: Sarah got to come with our stake!  She had a blast and I am so glad we got to share this together!

I greatly enjoyed serving as a YCL Leader.  The young women are awesome and really stepped up to the challenge of serving as leaders to their fellow campers.  I kept saying how lucky I was to serve with them!  It was an honor and privilege.

Maybe next year???

And that's why they call me...

I know that I've posted a bit about this on Facebook, but wanted to share more here.  Over the past several years I've earned a few nicknames.  Each of them reflect a different time or project, or even person's favorite nickname. 

For example, "GG", stands for Granola Girl, which comes from one of my electrical contractors.  It came out of a conversation about how Justus and I love to camp and therefore I must be a "granola."

"The Devil Woman" came from a client's Safety Manager (and was completely sarcastic).  Consequently, "The Devil Woman" later turned into "El Diablo." 

"Fognozzle" is actually a part of a mechanical / plumbing system and is one Superintendent "K" loves to call me.

"Terrier" comes from my supervisor, who compares me to a terrier because I'll yip until something gets done.

"Huckleberry" is one that came from Superintendent "G" and I am very humble to have this nickname.  To be one’s huckleberry — usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry — is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission.

In other news, I've recently been given my own office and to help decorate it, one of the people in my office created the subway poster above.  I love it.  Now to find the perfect frame...

Memorial Day Mini Golf

We stole Sarah and Ryan for the day while Mom made preparations for their summer trip.  Golfland was busy, but not too bad and the weather cooperated.

One of the balls got stuck and we had to fish it out

And yes, I really posed for this picture :)

Anniversary Adventures - Pima Air & Space Museum

Yesterday, Justus and I celebrated our anniversary by going down to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.  Justus was in heaven as we walked up and down the rows and rows of aircraft.  If you didn't already know, Justus is a huge fan of airplanes.  He knows all sorts of facts, stories, and tid-bits about each model.

Our wedding reception was at the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force Museum at Falcon Field.  It was great to celebrate our anniversary with aircraft.

We even had the chance to take pictures for the Neil Young tribute band, The Neil Deal.  An awesome group of guys, who were sooo nice.

We also took advantage of the cut-outs for the kids.

We even found a plane with our anniversary as its number.

Justus found a plane he had not seen in person, the English Electric Lightning and demanded that I take his picture with it.

I also learned more about flight including the terms for pivot, yaw, and roll.  I practiced on a few simulators.  You can see me shooting down some enemy in the below shot.  The puckering was from making "shooting" sounds.

Justus got to "fly" as well.  

I took so many shots of aircraft and I am excited to go through them!  There were a lot of cool art / graphics that were inspirational.

The most inspirational was finding my favorite air-craft, the P-51 Mustang.  Can you see the excitement in my face!  It was a great day!

A little service...

goes a long way...

As an introduction to this post, I merely want to document some of the happenings in our lives and so this is in no way intended to be a "my husband is awesome" post.  Although, I think he is VERY awesome.

This past weekend, Justus headed out early to join a group at Veteran's Oasis Park.  One of the scouters in our ward organized a service project to fill in a half mile long ditch with dirt.  It was hard work, full of shoveling and back bending. 

You can see Justus in the picture below, in the far right hand corner, he's the one with a Camelback on his back.

Happy faces of volunteers (Justus in on the back row, right side)

Justus always makes the effort to go and participate at all of our ward's Eagle Projects. Sometimes I wonder why he goes out of his way, pushing off homework and lesson preparations. Then I remember that this is one of the reasons I fell in love with him. He loves to serve those around him without a second thought.  I am grateful for his example of service.