Coming and Goings

This past weekend was packed with tons of fun stuff along with lots of studying for Nate. Sat morning we went to the temple to be there with Brittney (who is a friend of mine and is marrying Nate's really good friend and old roommate Justin on Sat) as she took out her endowments. It was a packed session, but it was still nice to be apart of such a special thing.

Following that I went to lunch with 2 of my roommates from my freshman year of collage. It has been so fun to live close enough to still do things together. This was our farewell lunch. Nate and I are moving in a couple weeks to Lake Tahoe and Wendy and her husband are moving to Washington DC the last part of July. It was fun to recall the good old times.Tasma, Me, Megan, Wendy

This was our last get together (Christmas 07) Megan in now in Portland, OR working at an accounting office

Following that, Nate and I headed down to Salt Lake to meet up with my family. My cousin Steven leaves on his mission to South Africa tomorrow so we all got together and had a blast.
Saturday we met up for lunch/dinner at a place called Chadders in American Fork. It is a knockoff of In-n-Out Burger. It was pretty similar, but In-n- Out still is better.
On Sunday we all got together at my aunt and uncle's house for lunch and had fun talking and playing together. Nate and I had to leave the party early so we could get back and he could get some more studying done. Normally he never studies on Sunday, but he has 2 HUGE finals back-to-back today and needed just a bit more.This is my cousin's family

This is my cousin Steven, he will do great in South Africa

This was Nate's and I attempt to get one last picture with Elli(this was the best of 4 tries) since we wont see her until Aug when we get back from Tahoe.


This is my cousin Andrea with her little girl Lexi who didn't want her picture taken, me and Elli, and my sister Jenny with Andrea's little boy Blake.

Jane Austin...

So I found this link on another friend's blog and thought it would be fun to give it a try. I know some of you out there are Jane Austin fans... Em, Liz, Beth.....

You Are...Elizabeth Bennet!

You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone beacon of reason in a sea of ridiculousness. You take great pleasure in many things. You are proficient in nearly all of them, though you will never own it. Lest you seem too perfect, you have a tendency toward prejudgement that serves you very ill indeed.

Now that tax season is over........

I actually have time to play around with things, such as these pictures. In the last two days I have worked 33 hours with most of that dealing with people procrastinating doing their taxes and so I am enjoying the silence and absence of numbers right now.



These are some that I am working on for a friends wedding. I have found just how much fun photo editing is.

In other news... the weather here in Logan is crazy as usual. Fri, Sat, and Sun it was absolutely gorgeous outside. I am talking in the high 60s and 70s. Monday was a bit cooler and then yesterday, what do we get but SNOW!!! Today it was nice and sunny, but a bit cold as I found out on my morning run. I wish spring would just come and stay. Anyone else in favor of that?

The Dreaded FE......

So the last few weeks have been quite stressful in our little apartment. For all you engineers you know just how dreadful the FE really is. For those of you like me, it is the Fundamentals of Engineering test. It is like the MCAT to med students and the LSAT to law student, and all those other insane tests. Utah State requires that you take it and pass by a certain percentage to graduate with a bachelor degree in any engineering field. Well, for the past few weeks Nate has been studying very hard for this test as well as keeping up with all his other class work and yesterday was the day. The test started at 7:30 am and he finished at 5:30 pm. Needless to say that he was pretty fried by the time he got home. To celebrate we got a pizza and just vegged out the rest of the night. He wont know his score for a couple of weeks, but at least it is over with. Now he just gets to finish all his big projects and study for finals. Only a few more weeks thank heavens and then it is off to Lake Tahoe for the summer.

Whoa, this place is HUGE........

So last weekend Nate and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the afternoon session of conference. Neither one of us had ever been so we though we would document it. I will say that riding Trax up from Sandy was the best. We didn't have to worry about finding parking and all the traffic. We just got to sit back and let someone else do the driving. Plus the stop was just a block away.

The tickets that we almost forgot on the fridge and had to come back for.
Good thing were had gone about 20 miles when
we realized that neither one of us had grab them.
It would not have been fun to miss such a great experience.
Nate getting ready to listen very intently.

Our view. It wasn't the best seats in the house,
but we weren't complaining

Just goofing off while we wait for conference to start.
We were there almost an hour early.

This is us enjoying our ride on Trax.