Fall Foliage

I have been on a big kick lately of trying to make some changes to our house. I think I just get bored sometimes with what I have. Anticipating the long cold winter, all I want is bright colors to keep the house warm and cheery. I have never been one for bright green and yellow but now it seems that it is all I want.

I usually don't do this but here is my last project - put together on Wednesday. A fall wreath. For some reason, I have almost no fall decor, people say it's because we don't have children yet but I honestly don't know what that has to do with it. I decided it was time to put one together.

Here it is, with berries (one of my favorite things) and feathers (a new thing I'm trying).


The best part of all, it only cost $8.22 to put together, from wreath to leaves. Hobby Lobby may have just found a new friend. Yup.

A Sure Sign It's Fall

Today I saw these (not too out of the ordinary at USU, especially where I work)

worn with these.

It must be fall.

Community Day

It's almost the end of September. How can I have already been in school for a month? There have been a few things that have fallen through the cracks as far as blogging that I would like to post.

Do you remember back to the post about the community day that I was planning? Well, I want to finally share some pictures. It was a really good day and I was so pleased with how it all turned out. All of the long days, stress and hard work paid off.

The day of the event, back in August, I woke up to rainy skies. With everything going on outside, I was worried that it would all be rained out but it eased up enough to get everything set up and stopped completely just a few minutes before we started. The weather picked up again just 10 minutes before the end of the event. I think someone was watching out for me.

We had activities, skydivers, food and ice cream made with liquid nitrogen. Over 35 volunteers help to make it such a special day. Here are some pictures.





I want to put a special something in here about Heber. I couldn't have pulled it off without him. He was there every step of the way encouraging and helping me, even if it meant stuffing name tags at 10:30 at night. And also a special thank you to all of you who came to support me. I so appreciated you taking the time, especially Mom L., Matt, Whitney and Granny Barbs.

Time Out

Ah, a weekend. It's so nice to relax a little and enjoy what is left of the beautiful weather.

While Heb was doing this....

I was relaxing here, doing some reading. I don't think it counts as studying if you do it in the great outdoors.


And here we are in the park next to the river, yes, the one where we got engaged. Thank goodness for Saturdays!

Early Excitement

I almost had a heart attack today. It was one of those moments that gets your heart pounding and that you know will lead to lots of trouble. It's good to liven up your day with sheer terror, right?

I nearly lost my thumb drive, yes, the newly acquired four gigabite drive that has already saved me once before. I keep most of my work files backed up on it so that I can work wherever and whenever the mood strikes, very handy. When my work computer's hard drive crashed, I thanked my lucky stars that the thumb drive was there for me and had all the information that would have been lost forever.

This morning, I ventured over to the library as a grad student adjusting to the growing work load. I plugged it in and saved the document I was working on. With reading coming out of my ears, I left the computer to immerse myself in Gange's learning theory and other equally engrossing topics. What I didn't realize was that the drive was still there, poking out the side of the screen for anyone to take. I mean, who wouldn't want a perfectly good 4 GB drive?

I remember back in the day when 512 MB was huge. I transitioned over after my zip disk nearly failed on me. I felt like one of the first, and paid a large sum to have the security. Now with memory so cheap, 4 GB was less than 1/4 of the cost of the old "kingston" drive.

Heading over to work, I was chatting happily on the phone with Mom L. I ran some paperwork around and checked my email before settling in to work on the assignments. I reached for the disk, not there. I check the backpack again. Nope. I checked all the other possible places and realized that it was gone and to my horror, probably still at the library or worse.

Running over, my heart was pounding at the prospect that could be before me. "Have you seen a thumb drive here?" I say to the unsuspecting student that I reached around in hope of finding the drive. Nothing. Moving to the help desk, my last hope, I ask for an lost drives. And there is was. Safe and sound.

I promise to never leave you in a computer, ever again. Let's hope for a long and data filled partnership.

It's Been Four Years.

Yup, four whole years since we got married.

In four years we've:
Lived in two houses (an apartment and a condo)
Replaced an old car and repaired the new one
Worked at more than 10 jobs (between the two of us)
Graduated from college and started graduate programs
Visited another country
Laughed and talked together
Had our car stolen and miraculously returned
Survived Logan winters
Acquired one pink computer server
Watched every Office episode
Visited the east and the west coasts
Taken up racketball and road biking
Spent countless evenings with friends
Loved each other even more than the year before

It's been good. I am one lucky girl.