Dewey Daily

This week DJ and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. We keep telling people that it has been a long ten years . . . because it has! We’ve had our bumps in the road — and plunging cliffs — but how boring would life be without a few “learning experiences”? We have come a long way in ten years.

From young lovers without a clue.

To the seasoned veterans we are today.

We may have a few more wrinkles and gray (or missing) hairs, but we have accomplished quite a bit over the years:

• Lived in four different states (Utah, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Texas)
• Earned two graduate degrees (DJ – Master of Information Systems Management, Kim – Juris Doctor)
• Traveled to eight different countries (Mexico, Brazil, Canada, India, Switzerland, Germany, England, Wales) on four different continents (North America, South America, Europe, Asia)
• Bought our first home (and will have it completely paid off in a couple weeks!!!)
• And our biggest accomplishment . . .

These two are the center of our universe right now!

Life has been kind to us and we love everything about it right now. I would say that we couldn’t possibly be any happier than we are right now, but I thought that when we were first married, and again when we had each of our children, and yet we seem to get a little happier every year.

We have a lot to look forward to in the future and with the love we have, whatever comes will be fantastic!

A little while ago I was headed to a hearing at the juvenile court, traveling on 121, when I passed this . . .

I am pretty sure this guy was on his way to the airport to strap on a pair of wings and fly off to some high-tech place.

And if that wasn’t random enough, as I was leaving the courthouse I passed a Buddhist Meditation Center — it is across the street from the Juvenile Detention Center, oddly enough — and saw a fully-robed monk pulling the weekly grocery ads out of his mailbox. I did a double-take, it looked so odd.
I didn’t have time to get a photo so I recreated the scene below using a google maps image of the center and a random photo of a Buddhist monk in the same orange robes that I saw. It really doesn’t do it justice, but it gives you an idea — just imagine a Kroger ad, a few U-verse fliers, and a credit card application in his hand.

As if that wasn’t enough, when I got home I scrolled through the caller ID and saw this . . .

Now I’m not one to go offering unsolicited advice to just anyone, but if you are operating a less-than-legit phone solicitation gig, you may want to stick to the “caller unknown” option for caller id . . . just a thought.

Here is DJ’s performance of “O Holy Night” at the Ward Christmas Party. He and PJ Kinzler have done a guitar duet for the past two years and it is always a great performance.

This poor blog has been severely neglected. I am doing well to keep up with the blog for the kids and DJ has stopped updating this one so here it sits. I don’t want to link to the kids’ blog from here — security by obscurity — but I will tell you what the address is so you can type it in yourself: http:// baby [dot] deweyltd [dot] us
It is the same as the URL to this blog except you replace “www” with “baby” and then you can see what we’ve been up to lately!

I FINALLY made it through the photos from our trip and they are on my Shutterfly site. You can see the photos * HERE * and read about the memories we made. Just be sure to scroll down to read the captions under each photo. Enjoy!