Poem

At the end of the summer, we sent this poem around to our families to update them on our life here in Provo. We thought we'd share it with you.

Around here this summer

It's been quite chaotic.

Though last year we

Went on trips quite exotic,

This summer we've spent

Completely at home--

Though Courtney wishes

We had gone to Rome.

We've had fun with movies

And finishing college.

There are many things

On which we've increased knowledge.

So now we prepare for

Sam's last college spree,

And then will come April

When . . .

a) We tour Italy.

b) We play monopoly.

c) Baby makes three.

d) Sam gets a Wii.

If you guessed C) Baby makes three, you would be right. Sam and I are expecting our first child to arrive in the spring, and we are very excited.

Teddy

This is Sam, and my first time writing on this blog. As you may have heard I worked on a feature film this summer but I don't want that to be overshadowed by my first actual film making experience. Due to technological restraints I haven't been able to share this will many people. But thanks to youtube, my current distributor and Allen's camera shop, my transfer house, I am able to share this with the masses.
A little back ground information- This was filmed with a super 8mm film camera, like the opening credits for the wonder years, or home movies before video cameras. In order to edit it, I cut the film and taped it together, definitely old school. It stars the wonderful Whitney Anne, Courntey's sister opposite the bear, Pierpont. enjoy.

Music Lessons

Today Sam learned something about me that he never knew: I took guitar lessons in high school. I never mentioned it before because I think I only took two lessons. I wanted to be really good so I could play along to my Indigo Girls CDs, but then, after my two lessons, I realized it was really hard, so I quit. :) So then I had Sam list all the music lessons I ever took, and succeeded in guessing all of them!
1) Piano
2) Clarinet (Sam did guess flute first, but then he got it. I was impressed because I only played for like 6 weeks.)
3) Cello (I actually played the cello for two years and would have played longer if we hadn't moved to London, but they only had two people in their orchestra there.)
4) Guitar
5) Voice

Sam then had me guess what lessons he had taken, and I also succeeded in guessing all of them:
1) Piano
2) Guitar
3) Saxophone

The highlight of this was when Sam told me that he decided to play the saxophone because he wanted to pick up chicks. How old was he at this point? Fourth grade. That's right. Cute little fourth-grade Sam wanting to pick up chicks. I love it!

Farewell to . . . oops, I can't remember what we named our car

Around the time Sam and I got engaged, Sam bought our car. It is a sprite little ford escort-- the sport edition with two doors and a spoiler. It has treated us fairly well, even when we would forget to change the oil and not replace the tires when we should have. Well, I should say it treated us fairly well until Christmas. Then we had to replace the battery, the starter, and the tires. And when we took it in to get fixed, we're pretty sure the mechanic cracked the fly wheel. This was really the beginning of the end for our poor little car. Now the odometer is starting to show some depressingly high numbers. When we got it back from the shop today (don't even ask about these problems-- all I can say is that a car with an automatic transmission should not stall) the mechanic said we should get rid of that car as soon as possible-- and don't spend too much time on the freeway. We had been planning on buying a car in the next six months or so, but now I think we will be forced to buy a new car this weekend. There's nothing like a dead car to make you need a new one. And so, we say farewell to our car (why can I not remember its name?). Farewell, car. May our next car not break our hearts as much as you did over the past nine months.

This is Sam's "new car face" shortly after we purchased the car back in May 2005.