LYNDEE LAND

Our Hancock reunion in Cali was so fun! We camped on the beach with a smile on our face. We loved the beach, doing a session in the beautiful San Diego Temple, visiting the Mormon Battalion museum, and spending time with missed family. In one week we will head to the Beus reunion....river rafting down the Grand Canyon. Our families are so fun!!!!

The winter in Salt Lake this year has been very mild but still cold. Here are some things we have been up to in the past few months...




Merry Christmas...here is the reef Chad made me out of scraps from our tree!





Christmas lights at Temple Square! It was sooo cold that night!!!




The snow looks like the cotton is Safford!



Our snow hike!



Snow Angels!!!

Yup the days are getting fewer. Less then a month till I am a married woman...well 29 days to be exact. There is so much to do and so little time. Ready or not I will still tie the knot!

I haven't posted in forever....but my main news is I am ENGAGED! Mark your calenders for a wedding on October 8th in the GV temple!!!I have finally found my prince charming and he is everything I could have ever hoped for! Here are just a few pictures of what me and chad have been up to...

I went to Hawaii like a month ago with my family. It was a blast!!!!! A whole week off from work and an escape for the winter weather. For more pictures see my facebook page. I did not want to leave but all in all it was an amazing trip in Paradise!!!!

So a few weeks ago I flew down to Phoenix, AZ for the long weekend. It was a trip devoted to visiting with family and friends that I have not seen in many many months. My friend Katie took some of us on a tour of the jail where she works. It was good to meet Amy's boy toy finally and yes I do approve. I was glad I got to visit with all of you and was sad to go. When I stepped off the plane in Utah the cold slapped me right back in the face. Thanks dad for my plane ticket! I love and miss you my friends, family, and Arizona (my one and only place I call home).

My company moved to the corporate office in Sandy, UT so instead of commuting 30 minutes a day I moved to Sandy also. I found a really nice house that I love and the best part is it 4 minutes away from work. I have 3 roommates, a piano, big room, big closet, washer and dryer, big back yard, a microwave, and so much more. Starting over again in a new place is hard but the nice place is worth it.

Here is the outside of my new house:


The kitchen:


My big room:




My closet that magically fits all of my clothes and shoes:


My big bathroom that I share with only one girl:


Here is our piano, it is so fun to practice again. Oh and notice our "real" Christmas tree in the background:


Yes we have a dog...his name is Ky and we are best friends now:

A few weeks ago I woke up to a winter wonderland on a Sunday morning. There was more snow on the ground and in the sky than I had ever seen in my life! It was fun but thank goodness the weather has been warmer and the snow has melted. It was a good welcoming to Utah!

*Driving 3 hours with the parents and brothers from Safford to Mesa
*Running the Turkey Trot(or saying I will and then sleeping in)
*Waiting for the Thompsons to get there
*Picking between the aunts' whole wheat or white rolls( both we amazing)
*Tasting Uncle John's smoked special turkey
*Running with Amy, Emily, and Bethany to be the first ones to get Grandma's pie
*Sleeping like babies after the meal on any furniture or floor that we can find
*Getting $20 worth of junk food from Grandpa at Walgreen's after we are still so full

This is how a typical Hancock Thanksgiving goes every year without fail.
Looking back on these memories and not being able to make more this year I realize what an amazing family I have esp. at Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving just isn't the same without your family no matter how good the pumpkin pie is.

I love you Hancocks and miss you this year!

Daylight savings time:
This was a foreign term to me until a few days ago. This is something I had only read about in books or seen in movies. I have loved my Arizona daylight savings time ban my whole life. This ban came to an end on 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning in my humble new home of Orem, UT. I, being fore warned, turned my clock back one hour on Saturday night to wake up on time for church the next day. I woke up at the correct time and thought well that is the end of daylight savings time till next year. All went well and it was actually nice going back an hour because I got to sleep an extra hour.

Then this morning an unexpected daylight savings time disaster hit.
I set my alarm for 6:30 a.m. on my Iphone but it did not go off at 6:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Some how my body miraculously woke up at 7:00 a.m. Monday morning and I thought to myself I don't remember my alarm going off on my Iphone...that was wired. I checked my alarm and it said 6:30a.m....so I thought I must have sleep walked and turned it off or something. I booked it and got ready having not much time at all and was almost late to work. Then at 7:30 a.m. my set at 6:30 a.m. alarm goes off. I thought again that this was weird; it was supposed to go off an hour ago but I was in a hurry to get to work so I didn't have time to figure out what went wrong.

When I finally arrived at work( in a frantic not to be late) a co-worker asks me how I woke up this morning. I said, "you know what... my alarm didn't go off...did yours?" He said, "no...Apple had figured out they had a bug in their system and the alarms on Iphones and Ipods were not adhering to daylight savings time on Monday."

I WAS SO TICKED!!!!!!! Seriously Apple you couldn't have sent me an email, text, or anything notifying me of this "bug." They knew about it and just let American Iphone users show up to work late. AAAHHHHHHHH freakin Apple.

Therefore I officially dislike daylight savings time and let it be on record that I miss you Arizona. waaaa

Thanks for letting me complain. I will try to be positive now but I had to get this off my chest. This is Lyndee signing off.

P.S.
here is an article about it if your would like to read about it:
http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/06/apple-fails-to-fix-iphone-daylight-savings-time-alarm-bug-for-us/