Our Life Together

Rexburg, ID, United States
We've been married for 5 years! We met here in Rexburg, Idaho where we lived in the same apartment complex, volunteered with similar church callings, and attended the same university. It was only a matter of time before we'd bump into each other! Kelly graduated with her bachelors in psychology and has since been working with mentally ill adults and children. She has been accepted to Drexel Univeristy for her Masters in Higher Education Administration and Organizational Management. Sam recently graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho with his bachelors in English Literature. We've had so much fun and so many growing experiences in the past 5 years, and have weathered so much good and bad during our young marriage. And we love each other so much more as a result of the happy and sad experiences that we have gone through hand in hand with each other and with the Savior. Our life is a simple one, but it's ours and we're glad to have it.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Oceanic Dreaming

Happy Birthday Jules Verne! Today the author of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is 183 years old. Google created a design logo in his honor, and you have got to check it out today if you get the chance. It's awesome!

As I am an avid lover of the sea, and creepy things that go bump in the night, and in honor of Jules Verne and his famous oceanic sci-fi novel, here is a short list of random marine life facts that I consider either cool, creepy, or best of all, both! And since this is not a school paper, sorry guys, I am totally not citing my sources! Well, I won't cite following any kind of APA or MLA guidelines ;)

1) Bull Sharks can live in salt or fresh water. Those guys have been found in the Amazon and even in our own Mississippi River. These 200-500 pound beauties have even found their way into Lake Nicaragua, by leaping upstream in the Amazon rapids and into the lake. Happy swimming :)
(National Geographic)

2) And yes, all joking aside, you can have fun swimming in the ocean! Did you know that people die more by dog attacks each year than by shark attacks? Yup, according to the Shark Attack File there were about 18 human deaths by dogs to 0.4 human deaths by sharks annually in the 1990s (www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/attacks/relariskanimal.htm).

3) Cookie-Cutter Sharks latch onto their prey, twist, and pull off a nice round chunk of their prey's flesh, thus receiving the name Cookie-Cutter. They grow to only about a foot-and-a-half (www.flmnh.ufl.edu).

4) Contrary to what we believed in our elementary school science classes, not all life gains its energy from the sun. In the oceans' greatest depths, some life-forms survive off of sulphuric compounds (seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov).

5) A blue whale has a heart the size of a small car! (seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov)

6) Coral is similar to human bone, and for that reason has been successfully used as part of bone grafts. Let the sea become a part of you, that's what I always say (seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov).

The ocean and its menagerie of life are a wonderful part of our world!
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