Missing.

I might be obsessed with this little baby Fischer.

It's true. I already miss Rochester. I never thought I would miss Rochester this much. Mitch and I had the best, simplest, and most relaxed life in Rochester. We played lots of games, even watched lots of TV (I didn't become obsessed with shows until I got married) and made the greatest friends in the world. The people of Rochester saved me. When I moved to Rochester my life went from complete chaos full of work, family, friends, more work and a million other things to a life full of lots of time. I am truly grateful for Rochester. My heart will always hold a special place for my people in Rochester.

Mitch's parents, Paul and Shelley, came and helped us move.

They were so kind to come and help.
We had so much fun with them.

The Kunz's!
We love them so much.
They taught us the ways of Minnesota.
They introduced us to Punch Pizza, Brasa, Lumberjack days and much more.
I really miss them.

The Bedke's.
Basically we laughed the entire time we where with them.
Brent is hilarious and Penn is the cutest little baby.

Sarah, Adelaide, Kris, Penn, Laura and Elli. Cute Sarah threw us a goodbye party before we left.

This is the Black's.
We spent lots of quality time with them, even went on a little trip to Nauvoo last summer.

This is the Swapps.
Jen, the mom, ran miles and miles and miles with me last summer while I trained for Grandma's marathon and she wasn't even training. It was awesome.

This is the Paulsens. I love them so much.

Meet Liam and Kai. I jumped more on the trampoline with them than I have during my entire life. I loved being their nanny. We spent lots of time playing outside and superheros. I was always the evil witch. Liam (in orange) and I had lots of quality time together while Kai napped most afternoons. He has the most precious little voice.

Happy Birthday Bridgett. Her cake is amazing. Her birthday was right before we left.

This cake has nothing to do with us leaving, I just love her cake.
Bridgett's husband gave her this cake and I love it.

Spring is here

It's finally spring. I planted this grass last week and look how much it's grown in a week. It's currently 80 degrees outside and humid, which equals perfect tornado weather. It terrifies me. Thank goodness there is a tornado siren right outside our house. Happy spring.

Tanner.

Meet our current guest:

Tanner.
She has a crush on Mitch.

Ice Skating

Thank you to the Kunz family for taking us ice skating, it was rather enjoyable.

(Sorry for the quality of the picture, taken with Mitch's phone.)

And we are back.

The temperature is currently 4 degrees,
although it feels like -11 degrees
according to the weather channel.

We are so thrilled to be home.

Loves,

sj

A I R P O R T

Last night, most unfortunately, Mitch and I got stuck in the airport FOREVER. Seriously forever. In fact, I was losing hope that we were never going to get home.

Here is a little timeline of our afternoon yesterday:

3:20 pm: Arrive at the airport for our 4:12 pm flight.

4:12 pm: No flight.

5:00 pm: They inform us our flight will leave at 7:00 pm. I am thinking to myself, "This is great, at least we will make our connection in Minneapolis."

6:15 pm: I have been waiting in line for 30 minutes to find our if we can get on another flight. And oh, yes we can get on another flight on Monday at 4:12 pm. Yea, right.

7:15 pm: Our flight is supposed to leave at 8:00 pm. I am losing any sort of hope for making our layover.

8:15 pm: Mitch and I enjoyed a McFlurry, Oreo of course.

9:15 pm: Still waiting. still waiting.

9:20 pm: Our flight has been changed to 10:07 pm. I can deal with this. We will just sleep over in Minneapolis.

10:05 pm: Our flight is changed to 10:47 pm.

10:45 pm: They board the plane.

10:46 pm: They un-board the plane. The crew timed out. Awesome.

10:48 pm: They inform us, that they THINK they will be able to get a crew to take us at 1:00 am.

11:00 pm: The fire alarm goes off. Most annoying sound.

11:15 pm: The fire alarm goes off again. The sound is still annoying.

12:00 am: The fire alarm goes off again. We are still waiting ever so patiently for a crew.

12:45 am: The crew arrives. There are cheers.

1:30 am: We board and leave.

3:00 am: We arrive in Minneapolis.

3:08 am: Mitch and I sleep like homeless people on the airport floor. We also find our there are no FLIGHTS to Rochester until 9:35 pm. Again, yea right.

6:0o am: Wake up. I really love waking up in the airport.

6:48 am: We take a shuttle to Rochester as the snow welcomes us.

8:30 am: Arrive at our home, sweet home.

Happy Monday.

Guess Who Came to Visit?

If you guessed Rach and Ash, you are correct. Rach and Ash came on Monday to visit, it was a complete surprise. Mitch was in on the entire plan. I was so happy to have them here. They left tonight and I was sad the second Mitch and I dropped them off at the airport. We had a great time. We went to Chicago to see Rach's new niece, went to St. Paul/Minneapolis, went to Oxbow Zoo with Megan and co., Rachel took a billion pictures and I showed them around wonderful Rochester.

I already miss them.

Happy weekend.

Happy Halloween!

We had a little Halloween party last night with some friends. We carved pumpkins, Mitch and I carved a Jazz pumpkin for the third year in a row, and ate delicious treats. It was great. Here are the costumes:

Mitch was email (the letter E + he is a male) & I was a clock.

Nate & Briana

Mike & Andrea

Cute cute Ava. We are so glad that the Kunz are back.

Shad & Audrey

Happy Halloween! I hope that your Halloween is very scary.

Sulli

Meet Sulli. We hang out Monday-Friday in the mornings. He is my partner is crime. He is so cute. He loves to share my cereal with me and make sure all the doors are shut. He goes on long walks with me and doesn't even complain, he usually ends up taking a short nap. Sulli is the greatest.

Sunbeams.

This is the conversation I had with my sunbeams(4 year-olds) today in church.

Sunbeam - Josh: Why don't you have kids Sarah?

Me: I just don't.

Sunbeam - Maddie: Did they die?

Me: No.

Sunbeam - Maddie: Are you married?

Me: Yes, you know Mitch.

Sunbeam- Maddie: Then where are your kids?

Me: I just don't have them yet.

Sunbeam - Josh: Maybe you should pray to Heavenly Father and you will get kids.

Me: That's a great idea, thanks Josh.

Sunbeam - Josh: You should pray really hard and then kids will come.

Me: Yes. Yes. (I was trying really hard not to laugh.)

Happy Sabbath. I love my Sunbeams.

d a n c e.

Dance.

I have been thinking about dance a lot lately, mostly because I have been racking my brain to come up with dances for toddles and 13 year-olds. I am teaching dance in Rochester. I really enjoy it. I have forgotten how much I love dance and how much it still means to me. I owe a huge thank you to my parents for paying month after month and driving me year after year to my dance classes.

I think that once you start dancing and learn to love it, dance becomes a part of you. I was never the best dancer and usually not the worst, I was always some where in the middle.

When I was younger, to be more specific in high school, dance was how I learned to express all of my feelings whether is was joy or sadness.

I remember after I stopped dancing in college, I felt a huge void in my life. The void was not dancing every day. Eventually I started dancing again weekly and have been dancing on and off ever since. I still love dance and hopefully always will.

Loves,

Sj

(Image found here)

Mom

My mom came to visit last weekend, it was fabulous. She was on a mission to go to every single antique store in the southeast corner of the state and I think we pretty much accomplished it. We went to Stillwater, Lake City, Red Wing and of course the Cities.

We took my mom to Brasa, my favorite restaurant in the cities, and to St. Paul's Cathedral which is beautiful. She loved the entire trip. We can't wait for my Mom to come back, we miss her already. We sure do love you.

Primary Election Day.

It was primary election day today.

We are in a whole new ball game here in Minnesota.

No longer amongst all Republicans.

There is an open Governor's race.

The last Governor was Republican in a Democratic state.

E X C I T I N G I tell you. EXCITING.

I was an election judge today and loved every minute of it.

But I will be honest, I miss Utah politics. I felt so much more involved and educated in Utah politics.

Happy election day.

T O M A T O

Our tomato plants are growing.
I think it must be the weather because I had HORRIBLE luck last year in Salt Lake.

Happy weekend.

W E E K E N D . . .

Last weekend we went to a Honkers, Rochester's local baseball team, game with Audrey, Shad, Breanna and Nate. We had an excellent time and the Honkers even won.
We are loving Rochester summers.