Peer Pressure...I thought that ended in High School??

So... for all my friends out there...you win! After months of prodding and peer pressure, I'm finally posting a blog. I'm not sure how I'll do at this or if I'll be able to keep it updated to everyone's liking but I'll try. As someone who writes for a living you would think I would love doing this sort of thing, so maybe I'll take to it eventually. However, please keep in mind as you read our blogs...I'm a writer, not a speller! Thank heavens for editors!

As an introduction, Arnold and I were married last June after dating for almost a year and a half. We are now expecting our first child, a little girl that we have decided to name Reese. I will admit that the name is a battle Arnold graciously let me win. It's still growing on him, and we are still debating the middle name. But we are very excited to become parents and hope we won't do too much damage to the future generation with our lack of experience.

A little introduction. Arnold is a Marketing Director in the tourism industry and I am a partner in an advertising agency. However In all my past jobs I have also been a Marketing Director, so Arnold and I have the rare privilage of working in the same field. This means we can talk shop for hours and bore just about everyone we know outside our line of work. We both love what we do however, and feel very blessed to have great jobs that allow us to enjoy life outside of work.

Speaking of life outside of work, we are both huge fans of the outdoors. We love to camp, hike, ride our bikes and do anything involving water. For that reason, we love living here in Utah. Neither one of us are natives of Utah, however we both have parents from Utah with Pioneer roots. I guess you could say we have finally come home. (Arnold grew up in Kansas and I grew up traveling the word as an Air Force brat.)

We also love to travel and dream that some day we can take our children around the world to explore and experience all the wonderful cultures and landscapes this planet has to offer. That of course will largely depend on the economy, politics and world conditions...so we'll see if that dream ever comes to fruition. But what's life without a dream.