Welcome to Georgia - Athens!

Hey everyone! It took us two and a half days but we made it! We took a Penske moving truck and our car. Brooks' dad joined us on our trip and we all took turns driving different vehicles. Zibby rode in the back of the car and was no trouble at all! He pretty much slept most of the trip and now he really likes riding in the car! I made a log of our trip and all of the places and things we saw along the way:


May 20, 2007
7:00 am Richard (Brooks' dad) stops to save the dragon. In the fields in Salem there is an old tractor thing that is painted like a dragon and has a sign hanging on it that says 'save the dragon.' This was the first time that we lost Richard behind us....he had to stop for the dragon I guess.
8:00 am Welcome to Helper, UT. Wow, this is a crappy place.
10:06 am Welcome to Colorado.
10:43 am Crossed the Colorado River.
1:39 pm Veil Colorado is an awesome place!
3:11 pm Welcome to Denver - Saw a sign for Steele Street! Awesome!
3:43 pm Where are we? It got really flat all of the sudden.
3:47 pm Hardcore rain

















3:53 pm Rain stopped
5:51 pm Saw a sign for Bonny State Recreatioinal Area
6:02 pm/7:02 pm Welcome to Kansas (entered Central Time Zone)
7:08 pm Saw a semi that fell on it's side on the freeway.
8:28 pm Service engine light comes on in the car...!!!!!!!
8:45 pm Spotted some cattle in a field with giant horns.
11:30 pm Finally arrived at our hotel in Salina, Kansas.


Here is a sweet pic of Brooks and Zibby at a pit stop:

May 21, 2007
7:45 am Took the car to Auto Zone to find out why the light came on. Turns out it was just an o2 sensor and we are fine to keep driving and get it fixed when we get to Georgia. What a relief!
9:00 am Hit the road! Goodbye Salina
10:55 am Welcome to Topeka
11:19 am Passed what seemed like thousands of motorcycles - "Ride for the Wall"- There were tons of them riding two-by-two all decked out with their gear. We figure they were riding to the Vietnam Wall. Here are some photos I shot of them from the truck.

11:31 am Finally got through the herd of motorcycles. That was cool.
11:50 am Welcome to Kansas City
11:56 am Welcome to Missouri - Crossed Missouri River
3:31 pm Saw a Nazi Paul Bunyan - a giant statue that had his hand in the air kind of like the Nazis did. Hah!
4:00 pm Welcome to St. Louis - Found the arch AND rush hour traffic - got a few shots from the truck of the arch. Didn't realize it was so close to the freeway....we practically drove in a circle around it.



















4:45 pm Welcome to Illinois - Crossed Mississippi River
7:25 pm Crossed Ohio River
7:30 pm Welcome to Kentucky
7:40 pm Passed a Penske truck pulling a little Uhaul trailer...funny.
9:08 pm Fireflies leave huge squash marks on the windshield.
9:10 pm Welcome to Tennessee!
9:30 pm Welcome to Nashville....heard Willie Nelson wispering in the pines....

May 22, 2007
7:30 am depart Nashville
10:30 am Dipped in to Georgia and then back up to Tennessee again. I wish the road wouldn't tease me like that.
10:45 am The Appalachain Mountains are beautiful! Here is a picture of an awesome lake.



















11:14 am Welcome to Georgia!
11:30 am Saw another semi on its side.
12:45 pm Welcome to Atlanta!
2:20 pm Welcome to Athens!

We made it! here are some photos of our new place...





















So we're doing great! We're trying to get to know the place as much as possible. Athens is beautiful and the campus is especially beautiful. Here are some pics of the campus. This first one is the building where the college of business is located. Its funny because the building is called Brooks Hall.....go figure.

This stadium is something like the 5th largest on campus football stadium in the nation and holds around 86,000 people. Go Bulldogs!















We had some true southern food the other day at a place called Weaver D's. If you know much about the band R.E.M. maybe you've heard a song about this place. The sign outside said: Weaver D's - Automatic for the People. It was a dive of a place but the food was great. You choose your main dish of meat - fried pork chop, steak n gravy, fried chicken dark or white.... and then you choose 2 sides. When the lady listed off the side dishes to me I had no idea what she was saying so I chose the two things that I understood....mac and cheese & buttered potatoes. Later we discovered the other sides: sweet potato soufflé, broccoli casserole, green beans, potato salad.....etc. Everything was soaked in butter and delicious! We also got a dish of peach cobbler with the meal and when the big guy brought it to our table he put the cobblers down and said "automatic for the people." We all just looked at each other wondering what exactly that meant. It was great. We are really excited to try some other southern foods!

Thats about it for Georgia so far. We miss everyone and everything but we're having a great time in a new place. Here are some other photos that we have been wanting to share with everyone: (mostly pictures of Zibby and how cute we think he is :) )
This is a picture of Zibby on the couch looking out the window at our new place. He loves that he can see out the window and he sits like this on the couch all the time. We think it is really cute. When he hears the neighbor kids outside he has to jump up on the couch and see them. He especially loves to go out and play with them. We also found a dog park just down the road that he loves to play at. He usually ends up taunting the other dogs to get them to chase him and the other dogs usually give up cuz Zibby never gets tired of running. We love the dog park.



This is another great one of Zibby back in Utah. I was taking a nap on the couch and he had to join me. It was adorable when he climbed right up behind me and threw his arm around my stomach.









Zibby was such a good boy on the trip. We were so proud of him.

Here we go!

Hey everyone! Well in case you all didn't hear the news Brooks got accepted to the University of Georgia. We are both really excited and scared at the same time. The school is located in Athens Georgia, which is just over 1900 miles from Salt Lake. We start our cross country tour on Suday the 20th. Brooks will be working towards his MBA, and will be graduating in one year.

Zibby

Here are a couple pictures of Zibby as of April 2007.

He is a pretty awesome Dog!

Our nephew Cooper (2yrs.) wanted Zibby to wear his sunglasses.




Brooks and Zibby chillin' in the shade.

Chicago & South Bend

Well South Bend was sweet! It is such a beautiful campus, and we had a great time. Here are some pictures from the Cubs game we went to, Touchdown Jesus, #1 Moses, the Dome, and the rest of the campus.

First pitch of the game!

The famous Wrigley scoreboard & flags.

Derrek Lee!

This lovely mural faces the football stadium at Notre Dame and is known as none other than Touch Down Jesus.

Chicago cityscape across Lake Michigan

#9 - we named our dog zibby after this guy, Tom Zibicowski

A tribute to Virginia Tech at Notre Dame's Grotto

Doing the heisman at the College Football Hall of Fame.

South Bend Trip

The Grotto. On Notre Dame's campus






This is #1 Moses. Notre Dame is #1 cuz Moses said so.

The Golden Dome

More Zibby!

Scroll down for a bunch of pictures of Zibby. He is so cute. This is a picture of him as of today January 30, 2007.

More Zibby!

We taught him how to shake!

Here is a closer look at Zibby...he's getting bigger!

Zibby had his 2nd round of booster shots and had an allergic reaction. We had to take him back to the vet and they gave him another shot and we brought him home with a cute blue bandage on his leg.

Here is our sweet puppy Zibby. We got him when he was 6 weeks old. This is when his ears were still floppy and cute.

Christmas

Here is a great pic of us with our first Christmas tree. We had a great time picking out our first tree and decorating it. We actually had a Notre Dame ornament! Our first Christmas together was great. We spent some time with the Steele's and some time with the Llewellyn's and some time in the car. It was great. We hope the rest of you had great holidays as well!

Zibby!

Hey everyone! We had a great Christmas. We visited with family and friends, and relaxed. It was very nice.

The puppy seen in the picture is actually a late wedding present. His name is Zibby, and he is a Siberian Husky. He is now about 2 1/2 months old. Bonny has trained him to sit, shake, and lay down. I get the privilage of waking up at 3 in the morning to take him outside. It is a great trade off! He is a lot of fun, and we love him.

Go Irish

Bonny and I at the Notre Dame vs. Air Force football game in Colorado Springs. Notre Dame won the game 39-17. Go Irish!

Yeah we are married Yeah!!!

Well we think the title says it all. We are married and so happy. Check out these wicked awesome pictures of us at our pre-wedding party, brunch, and temple. Thanks for all your support!

Hello ! ! !

We finally updated our blog with some new pictures (see below). Also we just wanted to give everyone a heads up on our lives. We moved into our new apartment over the weekend. It is so nice being in our own place. Brooks will be living with his sister until the wedding which means that I get the apartment all to myself...not really, he practically lives there right now anyway. It was lovely weather for the move. It rained the whole time. We ended up using tarps for most of the big items and luckily nothing got very wet. Moving is such a pain. The wedding is only 3 weeks away and we are wwwwaaaaaayyyyy excited! I think we have most of our announcements mailed out (announcements are a pain). We hope to see you all at one of our parties! I had my bridal pictures taken a couple weeks ago. They actually turned out really nice. My mom made my dress and she did a wonderful job. I feel weird posting a bridal picture before the wedding...so if you are interested you'll have to wait a while.

OUR place!

This is us in our new living room! we love the red walls.

Jackson Hole!

Here is the whole gang left to right: Bonny, Brooks, Sarah, Billy, Mark, Alicia, Tina, Jiyon and David Stratton, on the porch of Mark's Cabin
This is us at some store in Jackson Hole....a toy store. Notice Brooks is wearing trojan hat and some purple wings and strattling a stick horse.
This is us...getting ready for a long car drive to Jackson Hole with our Salt Lake friends.