I'm not very diligent

So I made the commitment to blog, but I haven't in almost two months! A diligent person I am not. It may have to do with being busy, which is a lame excuse, but I am... Busy, not a lame excuse.

The last couple of months have been kind of fun, a little eventful, and mostly rad because

spring has sprung and is about to turn into summer. It's been a real spring this year, with several weeks of cool weather, and cooler nights, and we have only had to turn on the A/C once. Which means open windows and an aired out house and Jeremy has so nicely kept on the house work which helps me out immensely and makes me even happier to be married to the man.

The most fun time was going to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival with my mom, my sister-in-law Erin, and Tera from work and her daughter-in-law Mari, which happens to be one of my oldest friends who I haven't been able to see in quite some time since she moved to Washington and that's kind of far away to travel. It wasn't so far when I was single, but being married and paying for two people to go on a trip is much less doable than paying for one.

Seeing Mari made me wax nostalgic. Ah, the college days, when we were care-free and could live on $550.00 a month and think we were living large. It's funny how things change. Living in the dorms and affectionately referring to our roommate in Stansbury as "the evil whore", even though she was really neither of those things, she just had different opinions than we did. And a much more conservative sense of fun.

Then living in SLC with Kelly and Aaron and Ty, and having a grand time and a great party house. She not only was my first adult friend, in college, but she introduced me to many people that have become very important parts of my life. I think if she wouldn't have lived in a house we affectionately called "the barn" a series of events wouldn't have been put in place that led to meeting Jeremy, getting married, and generally making my life what it is now.

Do you ever sit back and think "I love my life"? I am doing that right now.

Back to the tulip festival. What a fun time we had! It's located about an hour north of Seattle, WA. We spend two days in Seattle and then stayed at a bed and breakfast in Mt. Vernon, WA. It's part of Washington's farm country, and right next to the Puget Sound. We had

a beautiful view of both of those from the deck of the BnB.

Without going into to much more detail, I'm so happy that we

planned this as a spur of the moment trip. I was browsing

the interwebs one day and found an insane deal on flights to Seattle and called all the gals in my family to invite them. My mom and Erin were able to go, and it was one of the best times I've had. I always enjoy my mom, and always enjoy Erin, but haven't ever been on a trip with just the girls (with them). It's so great to have a family who gets along so well, and to have an opportunity to spend time together without all of the distractions that are remarkably enjoyable, but cause huge interruptions. I'm hoping next time it will be all of my sisters-in-law. I think I didn't get sisters so I could fully appreciate the women that my brothers married. AWESOME women. Great mothers. Talented and smart and funny individuals who put up with the Whiting clan with the patience of Job. Times ten. Maybe fifteen.

And now summer is coming with all of the family get togethers, and friend get togethers, and camping trips, and warm weather, and Memorial Day Weekend, and the 4th of July.

Can't wait!