Thanksgiving in Wyoming!

Hello everybody!  This is my first official post on our new blog. (this is Kaile)  Thanksgiving this year was in Wyoming with the Myricks.  We enjoyed the whole week that we got off for school and the relaxation that followed.  We had some extended family come up from Las Vegas and with a couple of Grandmas, we had a full house.  It appears also, that I am incapable of enjoying a vacation without having a massive canker sore in my mouth during any given holiday.  (I am writing this during our Christmas break and you guessed it, I have a canker sore now too)  I think it is voluntary pain, I like to eat oranges and it just so happens that the citric acid can cause canker sores.  Oh well.  

During the Thanksgiving break we enjoyed a couple games of Risk (I'm still the reigning champ, much to Rustin's dislike) went spotlighting for rabbits, played some mad guitar hero, and Cambria shot her first gun!  It was a .22 cal pistol.  She liked it so much that she went on to shoot a couple bigger guns including a 9mm and a .223 pistol called a "Thomson Contender."  That last one is one of the huge guns you see the hero of old west movies carry around when they need to kill the giant grizzly bear.  We had a lovely time and enjoyed my family's company while resting and getting ready for finals.  

For those considering vacationing to Wyoming, we recommend it to anyone if you want to get away from it all.  Its very peaceful, but if you don't like the cold, don't go in the winter.  We love you all and we'll report on our Christmas fun shortly, including our cruise to puerto viarta.  

Happy Halloween!

I know it's not Halloween yet... but it is time for Halloween decorations and Halloween cookies! I wanted to start a Halloween Phantom around our apartment complex so I made ghost and black cat sugar cookies and delivered them to 2 unsuspecting neighbors... It was a lot of fun! On Saturday, Kaile and I are going to a Ward Halloween Party. We are going to go as nerds and we are both really excited.

             I just wanted to say that my mom is the best! She sent us a Halloween Package with all sorts of goodies in it! I got Halloween socks, a scarecrow door hanging, cookie cutters, and other treats and Halloween items. My mom came up for Mother's Weekend at BYU-I about 2 weeks ago and we had such a great time together. We went shopping, got my haircut, I showed her all around campus, we went out to eat, went to some really good seminars and a cultural performance.  I am always so sad when I leave my family after seeing them in Salt Lake or when they have to leave after being up here in Rexburg. I miss them all so much, and I always cry when they leave! Kaile and I are going to be up in Wyoming for Thanksgiving so I won't be seeing them until Christmas! 

            School is going really well. It was midterms so we have had a lot of tests and papers due but we both survived. I have to take this hard algebra test online by the end of the semester in order to pass my elementary math teaching class and studying for it is killing me! I hate math! I really love my major though and after this class I will never have to do "hard" math again. I am really looking forward to being a teacher, I changed my major from Elementary Education to Early Childhood and Special Education and my next semester is going to be really fun! 

Other news, Kaile got a job in Idaho Falls working with children with autism and other behavioral issues. He likes everything but the 30 minute drive every day. He is so patient and good. He really cares about people and I am so proud of him for going into the field he chose. Being a counselor/therapist is not an easy job, but he is great at it!

            Well that’s our Halloween update, Love you all, Cambria and Kaile

 

Conference Weekend

Hey ya'll.  We got to go down to Salt Lake this weekend for General Conference and Cambria's cousin Liz's baby shower. We have had a good time watching General Conference, eating good food and visiting with family.  The drive down was good with some rain storms here and there. We tried something new and took two passengers down to Salt Lake for a little fee of gas.  One of them was a one-way and the other we are taking back in a couple of hours with us.  

We are pleased to announce that we have been married for 81 days!!  That's so awesome.  We love our new life together in Rexburg, but don't like Rexburg as much as marriage.  School is good and things are going extremely well... this view will change a little when the snow starts to fall.

We have both been trying to find jobs in the job-barren town of Rexburg and haven't had that good of luck, but remain optimistic that things will turn out.  Cambria is the best cook that I have had the privilege of eating from in some time (I haven't had my mom's cooking for like a month and a half, and I'm kinda partial... you know).  She made some mean skillet lasagna.

Mmm!!  

Lately, I have had the awesome experience of participating in intramural sports and having a blast doing it.  I am on a flag football team and a pretty competitive basketball team.  So far, I have failed to play a game without getting punched or cut in some way.  Ha-ha, that's church ball for you.  Our B-ball team has lost one and won one, and our football team has won three and lost none so far.  

General Conference has been very good this weekend and I would recommend listening to it for those who are reading this and have never had the experience.  We love you all and thank you for your comments!  God bless.

Cambria and Kaile Myrick

The Myrick's

On July 16, 2008 Kaile and I were married in the Salt Lake Temple for time and all eternity. We had a wonderful wedding dinner and reception up at Millcreek Inn that evening with family and friends. 

  We then went to Las Vegas for our honeymoon! We stayed at the Luxor... the big pyramid hotel for 5 days. We had a great time eating sushi at the Paris, watching the Bellagio Fountains, visiting the M & M factory, playing arcade games and going to the Cheesecake Factory. 

Kaile served his mission in Las Vegas so he loved being back. We even saw one of his mission companions Nick Anderson and his mission treasurer Brother Zobrist.

  When we had to come back to real life so that Kaile wouldn't fail his summer classes or get fired, we lived with my Grandma and Grandpa Carter. We basically took over their entire basement for a month... Thank you Grandma and Grandpa... you are the best! We absolutely loved living there with them.

Oh, I almost forgot... on July 30th I got my tonsils out. I moved back home for about 10 days and my great mom took care of me while Kaile finished school and work. It actually wasn't as bad as I anticipated. I healed quickly and I was very grateful for pain killers... mmmm percocet! Kaile was such a good sport... we had only been married for 2 weeks but he would tickle my face, run to get my throw up bowl whenever I yelled, and tell me how pretty I was... even though I looked awful! 

After I was better Kaile and I took a huge van full and trailer load full of furniture, (dressers, a king size bed, chairs and a couch), clothes, wedding gifts and more up to our 1 bedroom apartment in Rexburg... we had quite the adventure. I was amazed that all of our "stuff" fit in our very tiny apartment. We then headed back to SLC to tie up loose ends and prep for school. 

Over Labor Day we went with my family to Bear Lake and had a really fun time. We watched movies and played games. Never play Risk or Axis and Allies with Colin... he is brutal and he always wins! 

After a tearful goodbye my family left for Utah and Kaile and I left for Wyoming to visit his family before school started. We had a great time in Wyoming. Kaile's brother are so funny! We played Wii, went fishing, ate great food and just had a nice relaxing visit. We went through Yellowstone on the way to Wyoming... we saw a moose, some elk and Old Faithful. On the way home we came back through the Tetons and stopped in Jackson Hole to have Mile High Pizza Pie.

BYU-Idaho started on September 8th and classes here are a lot harder than they were at LDS Business College. The first week of school is always stressful but we are both getting the hang of things now. We know our way around campus and really like our ward and neighbors! We go to Wal-mart on a daily basis and I am having fun learning how to cook. I have even made home-made ice cream!

                                Love you all, The Myrick's