Fall?

I am still undecided on whether fall even exists in Arizona! It was 98 degrees today--but it feels so much better to be in double digits instead of triple digits.
Our Daewoo has passed on from this life and we are owners of a new to us car. We tried to go start it on Thursday and no cigar. So, Rob tried to replace and fix some things and no change. So, I didn't go to work on Friday because I couldn't get there and we thought we might be able to fix it on Friday morning. So, we went and traded in the unstartable Daewoo and got a Toyota Camry, 97. It has 66,000 miles on it and drives like a dream! I hope that this will last us a while. We are on car #4 since we have been married--ridiculous!! So, hopefully this car lasts us until we are out of school, etc.
So, that is our story! Living in Arizona has proved to be expensive!!!

Well, that is our story--sorry the blog only happens once in a while. When you don't have kids it isn't as exciting and I don't have as much news.

Major League Baseball Game

Rob and I got to go to an Arizona Diamondbacks game last Saturday. It was awesome to be in that huge stadium at a real Major League Baseball game. I think it is something that everyone should have to do once in their life. It was really fun and we had really good seats for free. One of our couple friends had two extra tickets so they invited us to go. The Diamondbacks lost, but it was still really fun to be there and see it in real life.

Rob is surviving his first week of school--trying to get back into the swing of things. Every first week of school is an adjustment to get back in the groove of things.

We are both enjoying our callings in the ward. It is fun to be needed in a ward and that you feel like you make a difference. It is also nice to be in a ward that is so diversified. There are young and old and in between and those with ten kids and those with none. It makes us feel more like we belong because everybody is in a different place in life so it is not like we are behind or stand out because we have been unable to have kids so far.

I did get the okay from my boss to have a couple of days off of work after Christmas, so we are coming home for a week. We would love to see everybody while we are there!! We are very excited to look forward to coming to cold Idaho for Christmas!

I have gone jogging in the mornings this week at 5am. This morning when I left the house at 5am it was 89 degrees. They broke a record yesterday by having 29 days this year that were over 110 degrees. They think we will have a few more days above 110 as well. Craziness.

Well, that is the Semon Family news this week.

(Sorry I don't have very many fun pictures to look at. When you don't have kids, you don't take or have as many cute pictures!)

Rob started school!

Rob FINALLY started school yesterday. He was SO excited to finally get it started. He has been bored this summer since we moved to Arizona so it is really good for him to start and be excited about school. They had a family BBQ yesterday that I left work early to go to. It was fun to be on campus with him and feel the first day of school excitement. He is one of only two boys in his program. They told us most of the programs at his school have more girls than boys which I found interesting because it is all medical field related so I thought there would be more boys.

R0b and I were talking about how surreal it is to finally start. We feel like we have been waiting and hoping and waiting for this moment the whole time we have been married and it is finally here. I asked him if he would still remember me in December of 2009 when he is done since I am going to be a graduate school widow!

My mom wrote and asked me if it had cooled down here at all. My response was that it was 93 degrees when I watched the news this morning at 5:45am. I would daresay that it hasn't cooled off yet. Some people were telling me yesterday that it doesn't really get cooler until November-ish. That seems crazy to me.

Well, that is the Semon Family story today.

August in Arizona

I decided to give this blogging thing a try. My friend Ashley does it and I really enjoying reading her blog and catching up on her life, so I decided to give it a try.

We are doing good, hot but good. It had only been getting up to 100 the past week or two which was a nice change. But, now it is back up to 110 and above. We are liking Arizona most of the time however. As long as we stay inside during the day we are okay. One thing I am not liking is the sitting in traffic for two hours a day. The other night it took me two hours to come home (which is only 25 miles). There was a huge wreck on the freeway which is seven lanes wide. They had blocked 5 of those seven lanes so all seven lanes had to squeeze through two lanes to get by. It was a total nightmare.

We are really loving our ward and all the people we have met. We have made some good friends already. People are really friendly and we feel really at home. Every other ward we have been in we have felt kind of ignored so it is nice to have people care that you are actually there.

We really enjoy the scooter. Rob is really liking it. His school is only 4 miles away so he is excited to be able to drive that to school when it starts on the 22nd.

We both have new callings in our ward.
I am the Miamaid Advisor and Rob is the Blazers Assistant. We both start on Sunday (tomorrow). We are excited to have callings that require some real service, time, and energy.

I am enjoying my job most of the time. I am hoping to start my Masters at ASU in January since I can go to school for $25 a semester since I work at ASU. If I take two classes every semester I can be done with my Masters at the same time Rob is done, so we shall see what happens with that.

We are excited to be starting this next chapter of our lives. It is fun to be in a new place to explore and kind of start fresh again.
Here are some pictures from "Waite Family Fun Days " in June right before we left to come to Arizona. Also a pic of Rob's graduation in April.