Seoul Land

Here we spent the day with Sean's room buddy from the lawfirm, and his family. They took us to Seoul Land and out to dinner. It was a really good long day. We enjoyed it very much. I can't even tell you how much fun Sean had with Emily and Danny, he loves kids and they love him. Running all over and playing together and loving every minute of it. I was only jealous for a little bit of that really cute 9 year old girl that was playing with Sean. They were so happy spending the day together, with the rest of us as well. There were smiles all around. They picked us up at 11 that morning and off we went. It was so much fun, more geared towards the kids but thats what we were there for! We got to see the animals, and even actually got to feed a Giraffe (well a whole family of them, baby included) their tongues were sick... like slimy sandpaper. BUT it was really fun. Emily was to scared to feed them but thats fine cause I got to give them her food! We also rode some roller coasters (and by we I mean Sean and the kids and their dad) I wasn't feeling too good that day. But its fine! We really had a great time. And we are so blessed to have them in our lives. This couple has been on my mind and in my prayers lately... they have taken a special place in our hearts. And the neat thing is her and I have been talking about all sorts of things, she wants to go see the temple in Seoul, and her and her husband asked if they can go to church with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That would be wonderful. We love them and would be so happy to share that part of our lives with them. Anyhow.. Here is our daY!

It was a blast. enjoy the pictures:

ACCIDENT in korea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow.. crap.. so In Korea they have moving ladders, for moving your furniture up into your 25th story apartment.... so it goes up and down the building on the outside with people on it and your stuff... well the wind was really bad on Wednesday this week and knocked one over. It was extended almost all the way and the steel got bent like 25 feet about the truck it extends out of and it all came crashing down. No one was hurt from the looks of it but it left a huge mess. The ladder came crashing down onto the building next to it and scraped the side of it as it fell to crush the entrance to the building we were in. The damage is pretty bad but I will be there today to check it out. Its at the house I am working with at where it fell. I will let you all know.

6 months....

So Sean and I just hit the 6 month mark!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOP WOOOOOOOP! I love that man. I thought I knew plenty about him when we got married, not everything mind you, we had only known each other 2 and a half months when we got engaged but BOY am I a lucky girl. Sean is an amazing husband. He grows more and more apart of my existence, my whole soul "every second, every minute, every hour of EVERY day" He is so funny, and loving, and he fits in anywhere. Everyone we meet loves him, it's an instant thing. My girlfriend's boyfriends fall in love with Sean. Of course not one of them has the same love for him that I do (that's a good thing..) But I understand. From the moment you look at his eyes and talk to him, hear him speak, then crack a joke at your expense, and put you in the vice grip, you are lost. Lost to his charm and his good looks, and his sweet face and quick smile.... anyhow No more mushy stuff... Lets just say I love my husband and I am so glad he picked me. That out of all the girls he knew, he chose to not give up on me. SEAN CHRISTOPHER STEWART I love you. Thanks for marrying me....

love your wife
LAUREN STEWART

pictures from Korea!! number 2

These kids are the ones that I am going to tudor here, instead of teaching a class I am going to be a private tudor! I am really excited about it. And they are so good. And probably 2 of the cutest kids I've ever seen!! Her name is Emily (thats her english name) and his name is Danny (his english one as well)

These pictures are of the lanterns at the largest working temple in Seoul. All of the lanterns have wishes, or prayers on them. They stay up for a month. The colored ones are for their living friends or family. These white ones are for their family or friends that have passed away. There are so many. Its a stirring site.

These are the budda's inside that they are praying to. there was so many people it spilled outside into the courtyard.

PICTURES!! yay YAY!!!

here is the morning we woke up there... at 5AM their time. Its BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! See my happy husband!???in a door way at the palace... This whole place was really beautiful. Hand painted...... take a long time?? bored? maybe.... I wonder if they ever painted funny things that only they knew about to pass the time....

changing of the guards... It was neat!

LOOK at those colors!! BEAUTIFUL!!

They were all very tall.. I wonder where the found them all.No idea what building this was but its BEAUTIFUL...here is an under the Sea themed subway... there were SHRIMP on the ceiling...???

thats all for now! HOPE YOU JUST LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

moving...

Hello all! And by all I mean the VERY few who actually take time to read this. Sean and I moved from one end of Seoul right into the heart of th city, from hotel to apartment. We had a large room with AC and right by the subway and maid service, and a gym right in our basement. NOW we have a bed...and a glass walled bathroom (NO joke, look RIGHT in) and we share a kitchen with EVERYONE else on the green floor (that is what they call it. not sure why) which is code for the 17 floor, the top floor that the elavator doesn't even go to! AND I LOVE IT! WE LOVE IT! I never knew when I moved to Utah last year I would be spending my next summer abroad, with my wonderful husband eating cow blood (or hiding it... PRETENDING I ate it) and smelling like kimchi. This is the life and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sean is learning how Korean law works and I am seeing a part of his life that made him who he is today.
Since I last wrote, Sean and I made a trip down to Junju (NO idea how to spell it) where he served his mission. Here are a few emails I wrote home about what is going on here:

(MONDAY THIS WEEk)
Hello from Seoul, in the lobby of our hotel on a SUPER rainy day! So today is Sean's first day of work. He looked wonderful in his new suit that we got made TO FIT HIS SHOULDERS and narrow waist! I was so proud of him. He looks the part. This last weekend we went down to where Sean served his mission. In Junju, Korea. and I have to say I liked that more then I do up here. There is something of a small town feel to it and the people are nicer. (If that is possible. Korean's are EXTREMELY polite) And the kids loved us. We stayed with a man he baptized and he married a lady from their ward and they have 2 little girls now. One is about 3 and the other is 11 months. But in korean time that is 4 years old and 2. I will explain later how they get old so fast hahahaa. We went down saturday afternoon and we walked ALL over the town. Looking at EVERYTHING and talking to everyone. We had SPEGHETTI for dinner!! Funny thing is ALL the american food here makes me sick. NOTHING Korean does.... SO we have to eat that. A family he loved very much took us out for dinner before we headed over to that man's house he baptized. And they ordered more food then I thought any of us could eat. There was only 4 of us and we had two tables with two grills going full of meat that they kept reloading. AND THAT was only the "meat" not the meal. AFTER that comes more. HUGE bowls of rice or noodles. The lady tried to feed me cow blood and Sean went along with it but her daughter who speaks VERY good english told me what it was and stopped me. SHE SAID NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! its BLOOD!!.... um... cow blood!!??? so I hid it in my plate!


(MONDAY this week)
Hey there daddy of mine! YOu will not believe what I just did! I did the SUBWAY ALL THE WAY downtown to Sean's work by MYSELF! and I did it PERFECT! I definately have your sense of direction, I think you would be proud of me... And all my eating! I AM REALLY DOING IT! KOREAN STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm GOOD! Kimchi and EVERYTHING! The only think I haven't eaten was the cow's blood! BUT besides that I am doing GREAT! I hope you had a great time with the girls! I bet they are loving you so much! Their FAVORITE grandpa. Miss you!
LOVE YOU
LAUREN
ps SEAN is the one that wants to eat McDonalds!!!!!!!

anyhow.. I gotta to get my laundry, our whole floor shares 3 washers so I gotta be quick. More later and some pictures too!!! TONIGHT!!
PEACE OUT FROM KOREA!!!

my mommy told me....

to pick the VERY best one and YOU ARE IT!!

So being over here in Korea I forgot one little thing... Mother's day. OF COURSE I didn't forget my mom, but here I am all confused and I never know what day it is. But I managed to find a calendar and today... OoPS! Sorry mom.

I just wanted to tell you how much I love you. So much. Who was there from day one!? EVEN on the bad days? And who is there still, waiting by her computer to hear from her CRAZY daughter who moved to Korea for the summer? My mom... PAMELA ANN FLOYD I LOVE YOU! Thanks for being my mom... Thanks for marrying dad so you could be my mom and raise me the way I was, in the church, with loving parents, knowing who I was and where I am going. Thank you for being strong, strong enough to choose this life for you, and because of that for me too. I am who I am because of you. I live how I do because you showed me how. I love as deeply as I do because you did. I love you because you are honest and straight forward going no crap to nobody and taking none either. I love you all the way to Seoul and back... and that is far (for you) Miss you. and I am thinking of you...

LOOK at your beautiful family!! This is because of YOU!!!!!!!!!!love your daughter LAUREN

KOREA!!!

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!

What are you doing? Its 1:30pm here in Seoul and I was just thinking about you. Sean and I toured the city today finding lots of places to eat and shop... We got a few cute things, and found a GREAT place to eat! Lunch for both of us for only $7.00 PLUS you don't tip them here. AND I am sure they wouldn't have earned a great tip. Shouting and telling us to get our own water any how but that's fine. Its been good. We got up at 5:30 am here WOW shocker huh! and headed to the gym.... WELL its 2:30PM your TIME so really we were being lazy. But that is fine. Its been nice to not have to share Sean with school and the library. He is all mine BUT I do feel like I miss out on information being told to us in conversation with the locals, Sean is not great at relaying it back to me. They talk for 5 minutes and he only tells me a 15 second summary. "let me esPLAIN, no wait. There is too much. let me sum UP" that is what he does all the day. Its been fun. He really loves it here, just talking and showing me what is what and ordering my food so I have no idea what is coming for me. Its been so interesting watching him interact with the people here. He loves the culture so much. I will try to get you guys some pictures but I don't know how we will do that now that we are here. We have been taking them but we can't use our laptop we have to use a community computer and I don't want to put a bunch of pictures of Sean and I on it. Out hotel that we are at is nice. Just perfect for us. THE only thing is the air conditioning doesn't work. They keep saying it will but our room is almost 80 degrees right now... So we shall see. There are slippers (plastic ones) that we wear in the bathroom and a place to set our shoes before we put on our house slippers. Sean thinks its funny how I forget for just one second BUT very quickly correct my mistake by leaping off the house floor in my outside shoes not wanting to do something I am not supposed to. I want to do it right and take in all the culture. When we go home I am sure we will have a NO shoes rule in our own home. It makes sense. I think I like it. HOUSE SLIPPERS it will be!!!O today, I got a BEAUTIFUL skirt for $3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS IT! Its so cute and I will look KOREAN for sure in it. maybe... Sean and I also got a pair of korean walking shoes that are cute and black... and will match everything. We got him 2 suits made just for him. TAILORED to his big shoulders and TINY waist. THey should look awesome! I can't wait to see them. We get to pick those up on Friday @ 7:00pm. They man was really nice that is doing that. He speaks self taught english and he is wonderful at it. He calls himself the jokeman (its on his business card!!!) He said when he retires from making suits in 5 years he will go on tour telling jokes like Jim Carey and he listed off a bunch of others, Jamie Fox.. hahahaha, stuff we really don't listen to, but he was VERY enthusiastic about it. Sean and I told him we will come back in 5 years and sit on the front row and cheer him on. He tailored suits for Bill Clinton and his brother. Had a bunch of pictures up in his office of it. He was very proud. He did 30 suits each. Impressive. (he was very proud) He told us jokes about our home town.. I didn't really understand them but Sean laughed hard and when he laughs I end up laughing too. And the man was so goo at delivering them I had to give him a standing ovation. We came back to the hotel where we are staying for the afternoon. Sean is going to try and teach me Korean. And I am going to go try it out someday (when he is at work and I am bored!!!! hahah NOT) I can't imagine being bored here. There are so many things to see. anyhow.. I am going to run across the street real quick and grab a snack. LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!! I will write more to you later.

Miss you lOVE You

LAUREN STEWART
P.S. don't feel bad if you don't want to hear all about our trip! just let me know! I will make sure to not fill up your in BOX!!

welcome LONA LEE FLOYD!

PICTURES FINALLY! HOW BEAUTIFUL! she has light HAIR!!!!!!! Crazy... her sisters were so DARK! as you can tell the girls love her lots. Mady kissed her then poked her right in the eyes!! OOOOO sisterly love. The baby will get used to it I am sure! Mady did when Emma was the only big sister! NOW Mady gets to be in charge of something smaller then her too! AND she wants to be I am sure! Well, enjoy my tiny nieces!

HELLO everyone LONA LEE FLOYD was born Sunday, March 19 at 5:59am! She was 8 lbs 7 ounces, and 19 1/2 inches long...Healthy and with a head full of LIGHT brown hair with blonde highlights... That was a suprise because the other 2 girls had black hair! I will have pictures of my little BRAND NEW baby niece as soon as I get some. They haven't sent pictures out yet. But boy are we excited about getting those! O YEAH!

She is not a very loud baby but loves to eat and sleep and poop. AND SHE IS A MAMMA's GIRL already. She was born within 9 minutes of arriving at the Swedish Hospital on Capitol Hill in Seattle!
LOVE YOU LITTLE LONNIE!

the NEW baby is almost here!

GWEN called me and told me she is 70% e-faced? hahaha you can tell I have never had a baby cause of how I wrote that huH! And 3 centimeters dilated. And she is on her way grocery shopping, so HOPEFULLY we will have a little niece here in the next couple of days! That will be wonderful! I can't wait! I just want to meet her!

WELCOME TO THE FLOYD FAMILY LITTLE ONE! (soon..)