It’s hot in Yuma…

Posted September 8, 2011 By admin and has no comments yet.

Apologies for the delay in the update as we have been quite busy of late, and when we are not, Jess is too tired to update.

Neal has been keeping busy with his class load. He is taking a significantly higher number of hours this time around in order to finish up his degree a little sooner. Jess has accepted her 2012 graduation date from her MBA program with bitter sweetness. She is frustrated she cannot get it done sooner, but also enjoys having time to do other things, such as update the blog!

Unfortunately, we haven’t gotten to see much of each other as Jess is now working 55 hours plus on the weekend schedule. So, the times we are both home are rare and often filled with conversations about house maintenance, bills, etc. Once October comes, though, we will be back on relatively the same schedule and have weekends off together.

The last weekend Jess had off we traveled to San Diego. There we enjoyed Stone’s 15th Anniversary Brewery festival. We got to try beers from all around the U.S.! It was pretty fantastic. Afterwards we headed to the San Diego Zoo for a short jet around. Finally, we finished the fantastic weekend on Sunday with a snorkeling trip on La Jolla beach. Cold but quite enjoyable! Sometime soon we would like to get scuba certified…perhaps we will see.

Neal has been enjoying ultimate Frisbee with a ‘club’ team of Friday nights. Jess has joined a Young Professionals group known as NexGen with her first event occurring this Friday.  The two of us also joined a triathlon club for beginners where we will train with a group and be taught the very basics of transferring between swimming/running/biking as well as improving your techniques in all 3 areas . We are definitely trying to keep busy and branch out.

Our most exciting news is our Disney Cruise in October!! We are traveling to Mexico this time around. With all of Jess’s Disney Points from her Nemo card, we basically get our excursions for free. It pays to Nemo! :) The countdown is 31 days, 5 minutes.

Let us know what’s going on in your world, or if you even read this!! Hope all is well…

Ready for October…Jess and Neal

Categories: Breweries, Relationship, Social, Travel

The photoshoot

Posted April 29, 2010 By Neal and has 1 comment.

So, Jess and I got to have a photoshoot done on Tuesday.  Back in February, Jess bid on a photo package donated to Jason’s Friends Charity in a silent auction, and she ended up winning it!  We finally found the time to schedule our session with Bruce Nichols at Mountain Sun Photo, and headed down town on Tuesday to see exactly what we had gotten ourselves into with this photo package.  Bruce was extremely nice and we ended up having a great time.  Since the weather was beautiful, a one day break from the rain/snow/cold we’ve had since our last post, we took advantage of it and went to Nancy English Park and got some outdoor shots.  We changed outfits 3 times and Jess even got to wear a southern belle outfit that Bruce had in his vast collection of “costumes.”  We’ll be sure to let you all see some of the pictures once we get them!  As for me, I actually enjoyed not being the one behind the camera, or having to settle for our standard couple shot taken from an arm length’s distance.  :-)

Other than that, we’ve been pretty busy around here.  Jess has been working non-stop (she was on call last weekend), and I’ve been trying to keep myself busy with a variety of projects from housework to programming.  We have found a church that we really like here in Casper, United Church of Christ.  Their tagline is “Offering a progressive liberal voice in Casper,” so how could we not try it out!  We’ve gone the past three Sundays, and we’ve really enjoyed the services and the messages we’ve heard, so I think we’ll be going back some more.  I’m sure we’ll have more to tell about later.

Well, that’s it for now!  More to come soon…

Photogenically yours,

Neal and Jess

Categories: Relationship