Update

Me and Jord's life has stayed pretty much the same. Jordan is still working and going to summer school. Im still working too. I was able to go to a pretty cool conference at Thanksgiving Point a couple weeks ago. I never had the disire to go vist Thanksgiving Point before, but i really found it enjoyable. We were able to visit both the adult and children's gardens, and the dinosaur museum. It might not sound like crazy fun, but it was a cool trip and the gardens were beautiful!

-A water feature at the Gardens

-A shark at the museum (that is a look of true fear)

After the conference Jordan and I went to see 'Miss Saigon' in Salt Lake. My mom had bought tickets for us for my birthday. We loved it.

Grandma Gardner also passed away. She was such a great woman. and definately an awesome grandma. We love her so much. Jordan and I were able to make it to St. George for the funeral. It felt great to be around family again and it reminds me how blessed I am to be part of the Gardner family.

-Jordan and his Grandmas

Otanjoubi Omedetougozaimasu!!

Happy Birthday Papa-san! I love you!!

What I Do

I get asked a lot about what I do for my job. I'll answer with "Im a GIS Specialist for the UACD and the County" but the inquisitor will usually still follow with a "What's that?" or "So... what do you do?". Its actually a pretty hard question to answer.

I could answer this question two ways:

1. If the person asking the question has had any experience with GIS then I would say "Im doing an irrigation assessment for Cache County."

2. If the person asking the question has not had any experience with GIS then I would say "Its kinda like google earth but its not a "read-only" type of software. You can update, edit and create your own data."

ESRI, the producer of the main GIS Software, states that: A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

Blah Blah Blah. This post is probably boring everyone to death, but there it is. Its what I do

Since we GIS people believe a "picture is worth a thousand words", here is what my computer looks like at any given time:

Oh yeah. And Im thinkin that I will be going PRIVATE with my blog pretty soon. Probably in a couple weeks, so if I dont already have your email address then please leave it as a comment!

Mission Reunion

Yesterday Me and Jo took a special trip to Bountiful for Jordan's first mission reunion (I guess it was my first mission reunion too!). We had soooo much fun. It started at 7pm. They started off with spaghetti dinner and some yummy dessert. There were a lot of mingling and hugs during this time. They had a program after dinner with quotes and their "special mission song" then everyone introduced themselves and what they have been up to since the mission. There was also songs and testimonies in the program. We ended up leaving around 11pm! I really enjoyed myself. It was fun to see Jordan with his old mission buddies. They all love each other so much!! haha they were so goofy all night.

As the family historian I couldn't help but snap a few pictures of Jordan and his friends.

-Picture: Mike Rasmussen, Pete Bennett, David Olsen, Clayton Wilson, Jordan, Kirk Bean

Alright single ladies the good-looking Pete Bennett and David Olsen are single and looking! Take advantage of that!

Reuben Hood

Eden's Keep

here are some pics from the eden's keep/funny face photo shoot. me and jo had a lot of fun!

Spring Break in St. George!

Although me and jo were taking a "break" down in stg, we both worked...

I was pretty stressed for a couple of days in stg about a grant paper i was putting together for work. Ive never written one before and the section i was working on was suppose to be 15 pages long (yikes!). Besides the grant, i was also presenting at the Utah Water User's Workshop at the Dixie Center.

Jordan had decided he would work for the ranch.

Since jo was working at the ranch Ryon (jordan's cousin) said he'd take me out on the horses. We went on a hour ride and afterwards i wanted to run the horse in the arena. I guess it had been too long since the last time i've ridden cause the whole rest of the trip my butt felt broke...not a good feeling...

Anyways...we did a lot of relaxing and hanging out with family. It was so nice to be in sunny, warm st george (while we were gone it snowed 2 ft in Logan). We had such a good time!! We even got to stay in this new bed n' breakfast place in Washington called Eden's Keep for free (its kinda like Anniversary Inn)! Check out the website this place is amazing!!!

This is the room me and jo stayed in. The story of how we got to stay there for free is kinda long, but basically we were asked if we would be the props for some photographs by Funny Face Photography in this space. As soon as i get those pics ill put some up.