Heidi and Jentry Host the Opening Ceremonies...Party

Yay! The Olympics are here again. I love the Olympics, they make me so happy! Jentry and I hosted a little viewing party of the Opening Ceremonies the other night. It was really fun. If you weren't able to watch it, its totally worth it to find some clips on YouTube, they did an amazing job!

Our party was pretty amazing too complete with our own Torch...

Gold medals


Vintage Olympics posters, which are pretty darn cool...

And Olympic enthusiasts. . . at least one anyway.

Oh and don't forget the Canadian and American flag Brownies, delicious!

GO TEAM USA! WE WILL BE ROOTING FOR YOU!

PS Did you see the hats the Americans were wearing and the Canadian's Mittens? So So So cute!

Jentry Gets a Secret Admirer

Yesterday Jentry came home to find that his computer had been completely covered in Post its. Not only that, but each Post It had a LOVE NOTE written on it! Neither of us knows how this happened. He must have a secret admirer. The only thing I can't figure out is, if I was home all day, how did she get in here without me noticing?

Heidi and Jentry go to Gautemala

This is the home of Byan Buchanan, the founder of Jungle Medic Missions, where Jentry and I along with 10 other team members from utah stayed during our medical mission to guatemala.

This is the one room ER on the first floor of the house where Bryan does anything and everything from delivering babies, suturing cuts and preforming minor surgery.

This is Bryan's ambulance. Jentry and I had the opportunity to go with Bryan on a call to a motorcycle accident. It was crazy! It is amazing to see the things that Bryan can do with such limited resources. Everything he uses from the high tech computer communication system right down to every strip of gauze has to be donated from somewhere.

Did I metnion that Guatemala is BeautifuL?

In the mornings we would hop on Bryan's school bus with all our medical equipment and travel to some of the most remote villages in Gautemala.

Here is the bus at a village all set up and ready for clinic.

Over 3 days of clinic our team saw and treated 700 people who otherwise would have NO medical care at all. To us it may not seem like a big deal to get some vitamins, have some skin cream applied, and recieve some tylenol, cough medicine, or tums but to people who live in the remote villages of Guatemala, it is a huge blessing.

This is a typical house in a jungle village. Thatched roof, plank walls, dirt floors, and just one room for a family of anywhere from 4 to 10 people.

They cook sleep and eat all in the same room. The girl here is making corn tortillas. The typical diet of a villager is three corn tortillas and black coffee for every meal. They do not know how to grow anything but corn and are not educated enough to know that the lack of variety in their diet is causing them to be malnourished.

Jentry had fun playing with the kids, he even taught them how to play paper rock siccors.

They also loved to have their picture taken and then be able to look at themselves on the camera. We had a lot of fun with them.

Now I know you are starting to feel a little sorry for us, but before you do just know we did a little more than work work work!

We also

Visisted a hot springs and jumped off a hot waterfall

Visited some ancient Mayan ruins (Tikal aka the "forset moon Endor")

And flew through the jungle canopy on a zip line tour!

We had a lot of fun but also worked very hard. Guatemala is an exteremly poor nation and the remote villages like the ones we visited are even poorer than the general population. If you would like to learn more about what you can do to help, or if you just want to see a little more about what we did please visit www.junglemedicmissions.org

Life is good, smile

This weekend, Jentry got into medical school.

We sat on the couch,

drank sparkling cider,

and ate cranberry white chocolate chip cookies.

Yay.

CALIFORNIA here we COME!

Jentry in a classic car

Me on the Beach

Yet another successful california adventure!

SDR-TRI

Before . . .

Swim 400 M, Bike 9.7 Mi, Run 5 K

After . . .

Yay! We are still alive and Smiling!

Anniversary

I know that our anniversary was over a month ago. . .August 3rd to be exact. . . But I didn't have time to blog about it because we were doing THIS

5 Things I love about Being Married to JENTRY

1. He takes me on tons of crazy cool adventures which include but are not limited to hiking, canyoneering, rockclimbing, mountain biking, and boating, and we have a blast together!

2. He puts up with me when I am grouchy, which is quite a lot, and he is hardly ever grouchy himself

3. He supports me In all my goals, ideas, and projects, even when they are a little goofy

4. He is kind of goofy himself which never ceases to make me smile

5. He thinks I am beautiful and tells me that, even when I have stringy lake hair

Here is to two wonderful years past and many more future ones!