Congrats to the Hubs!

My wonderful hubby has snagged a very awesome job! I am so proud and so excited for him to start this new adventure. He will be working for Save Our Canyons!!! (applause, applause).

A little background on what's going on with Tyler. Though it may seem that the only thing going on in our life is Milo (which, let's be honest, is mostly true), Tyler has been very busy with a strong passion in his life. Ever since he redirected his focus to school, a change has come over my husband. I have never seen him become so passionate about anything like he has with environmental sustainability. Going to the U has broadened his scope so much and now it has brought on almost a change of lifestyle for us. Simply put, Tyler is going to save the planet :)

I must admit that I am still working on converting over to this lifestyle that my husband would like his family to live. But I have made some small steps! We no longer drink bottled water, we have about a million reusable bags for grocery shopping (still trying to remember to bring them with me to the store...), only organic and trying to buy just local fruits and veggies, started our own vegetable garden and have stayed away from pesticides, and that's just to name a few. Tyler has made a huge leap and brought our car use down to one instead of two. He takes public transportation EVERYWHERE.

There have been lots of environmental issues in our neighborhood. The biggest that most people know about is Stericycle. Tyler joined many people in our neighborhood and all over Utah to 'Fight for Clean Air' that brought on moving Stericycle away from our neighborhood. The current issue right now is our city wanting to put PCE in our irrigation water. Tyler is sure to let everyone know the effects of PCE and is fighting against them putting it in our water.

It is truly a blessing that Ty got the job with Save Our Canyons. It is something that is in his field of work that he wants to pursue and will definitely be good experience for him to have down the road. So, what is Ty doing for Save Our Canyons? He is in charge of coordinating a study on the use of the Wasatch Mountains that is to be used as part of the Mountain Accord Project (MAP). The MAP will be used to help make decisions involving the use of the Wasatch. He is so excited to be doing this work!

So now that you know all of this is going on, don't be surprised if later on down the road we have solar panels on the roof of our house and our landscape changed to conserve more water, it's all part of the process :)