kissing with my eyes open...yikes
that's all. bye.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Christmas fun
We haven't had that much time for Christmassy stuff yet this year, but we have been doing a few fun things. First, as I mentioned in my previous post, we went over to my Professor's house for a bug/Christmas party! It was great.
We put up our tree and decorated it! It's so teeny...but we love it. Someday when we live in a bigger house we will get a bigger tree.
We awkwardly hung those three ornaments on the top of the tree because we don't have a star...but don't worry, Billy made one since then.
My mom sent us an AWESOME Christmas package!!!!!!!! It was so fun opening it!
She sent these super cute snowman bowls, the candy, and the table runner! So perfect on our table! I love it!!!
She also sent these cute mini stockings
And she sent the heart ornament, tree ornament, and snowman ornament! So cute! (p.s. who knew ornament was spelled like that? I totally thought it had a "d" in it for my whole life. Like ordament...but that is not a word. weird.)
Notice there is a present under the tree...that's from me to billy :) can't wait for him to open it! There has since been another present added from billy to me! yay!
We also got to go to Billy's work Christmas Party last Tuesday. It was fun! They had the Christmas music guy Kurt Bestor come and play for us! Apparently he is a really big deal? I didn't know who he was before then. But it was such pretty/magical music! I wished my mom and dad could have been there...I feel like they would have loved it. Also big news from that party...they gave ALL their employees a KINDLE FIRE!
Can you believe that?? Billy is loving it. His job really is super awesome.
Anyways, I think that's all we've been up to. So not that much Christmas stuff. We want to go see the lights at Thanksgiving Point and at Temple Square, but we're just not sure if we are going to have time this year. So yep. I just wanted to blog right now instead of studying. But I'm almost done with finals and then this semester will finally be over! And we can go to San Diego! Yay yay! So now I for reals should get back to studying. Bye.
OH P.S.! Billy showed me this picture today and I thought it was the best thing I have ever ever seen. So I really need to share it.
Isn't that the greatest thing ever?? Hahahaha
We put up our tree and decorated it! It's so teeny...but we love it. Someday when we live in a bigger house we will get a bigger tree.
We awkwardly hung those three ornaments on the top of the tree because we don't have a star...but don't worry, Billy made one since then.
My mom sent us an AWESOME Christmas package!!!!!!!! It was so fun opening it!
She sent these super cute snowman bowls, the candy, and the table runner! So perfect on our table! I love it!!!
She also sent these cute mini stockings
And she sent the heart ornament, tree ornament, and snowman ornament! So cute! (p.s. who knew ornament was spelled like that? I totally thought it had a "d" in it for my whole life. Like ordament...but that is not a word. weird.)
Notice there is a present under the tree...that's from me to billy :) can't wait for him to open it! There has since been another present added from billy to me! yay!
We also got to go to Billy's work Christmas Party last Tuesday. It was fun! They had the Christmas music guy Kurt Bestor come and play for us! Apparently he is a really big deal? I didn't know who he was before then. But it was such pretty/magical music! I wished my mom and dad could have been there...I feel like they would have loved it. Also big news from that party...they gave ALL their employees a KINDLE FIRE!
Anyways, I think that's all we've been up to. So not that much Christmas stuff. We want to go see the lights at Thanksgiving Point and at Temple Square, but we're just not sure if we are going to have time this year. So yep. I just wanted to blog right now instead of studying. But I'm almost done with finals and then this semester will finally be over! And we can go to San Diego! Yay yay! So now I for reals should get back to studying. Bye.
OH P.S.! Billy showed me this picture today and I thought it was the best thing I have ever ever seen. So I really need to share it.
BUG COLLECTION---DONE!!!!!!!
I TURNED IN MY BUG COLLECTION ON THURSDAY!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I am finally done with that collection! It was so so so so so sosososososososososoosoo much work and I am finally done! YAY! It felt so good to turn it in :) Here it is all finished:
Whole collection
Box #1
Box #2
Box #3
Vials
Isn't it beautiful?? And today I took my Lab final! We had to identify 100 different bugs. It was way hard but now I just have the lecture final and then I will be done with that class FOREVER! Crazy, huh? I can't believe I made it through.
Speaking of my bug class, Saturday night my professor had a party at his house for all of us! Isn't that weird? It was way fun! We all had to bring an insect-themed treat, so I made these cupcakes!
super cute, right?
My teacher had been bug collecting earlier in the day and so of course he brought in the tub of bugs to show us. Typical scene for my class: all of us crouched over a tub full of insects and Dr. Nelson standing over us telling us what everything is. Just thought you would want to see a picture of my crazy professor :)
We made bug ornaments at his house out of salt dough! It was way fun! I made Thysanura (silverfish), Formicidae (an ant) and a whip scorpion, which I don't know the scientific name for since it's not an insect :)
So here is what our tree now looks like with all our fun ornaments on it! There are some new ones that my mom sent me in a package (yay!), those candy canes Jayce made last year and I think they are so cute! and Billy made that star out of construction paper for the top :)
YAY for bug class being almost over! Except I'm secretly going to really miss it....
Whole collection
Box #1
Box #2
Box #3
Vials
Isn't it beautiful?? And today I took my Lab final! We had to identify 100 different bugs. It was way hard but now I just have the lecture final and then I will be done with that class FOREVER! Crazy, huh? I can't believe I made it through.
Speaking of my bug class, Saturday night my professor had a party at his house for all of us! Isn't that weird? It was way fun! We all had to bring an insect-themed treat, so I made these cupcakes!
super cute, right?
My teacher had been bug collecting earlier in the day and so of course he brought in the tub of bugs to show us. Typical scene for my class: all of us crouched over a tub full of insects and Dr. Nelson standing over us telling us what everything is. Just thought you would want to see a picture of my crazy professor :)
We made bug ornaments at his house out of salt dough! It was way fun! I made Thysanura (silverfish), Formicidae (an ant) and a whip scorpion, which I don't know the scientific name for since it's not an insect :)
So here is what our tree now looks like with all our fun ornaments on it! There are some new ones that my mom sent me in a package (yay!), those candy canes Jayce made last year and I think they are so cute! and Billy made that star out of construction paper for the top :)
YAY for bug class being almost over! Except I'm secretly going to really miss it....
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thanksgiving!
I need to post about Thanksgiving before Christmas happens! So Thanksgiving this year was awesome. Well, it was kind of stressful in the beginning because my family was supposed to come up here, but then decided not to, so we were trying to decide what to do and so we decided to drive to AZ to be with Billy's family. But then I took the car to get an oil change and the guy said the CV boots are torn (I think that's the correct terminology). So then I asked him if it would be safe to go on a road trip and he said "well it could break down in a year, a month, tomorrow, 10 years, who knows!" which was extremely unhelpful so we were scared to drive our car (as you all know we have had really bad luck with cars breaking down....) soooo we decided to get a rental car! It was pretty cheap (luckily Billy is 25!) and it would be worth the peace of mind. So we decided to rent a car and everything on Wednesday morning.
We were supposed to leave at like 7 AM but then all the Sutherland cousins wanted to go out to breakfast (Greg was in town!) so they were all so awesome and got up to meet at 7 so we could all have breakfast together before we left! That was way fun. Then we got the rental and went on our way.
The drive was very pleasant except for when we got stuck in traffic a few times and the rental car started acting all weird going slow! It got overheated a few times so we would pull over and just let it cool off until we could get going again. It was really scary and WHY OH WHY do we have such bad luck with cars????!! It makes me really mad. Billy's dad told us we should just buy a Rolls Royce because they hand make every single engine so it will never break down. Not a bad investment I'd say.
Anyways, we made it to AZ Wednesday night! And it was so fun being there!! Thursday morning Billy went on a run with me because in my family we always go running on Thanksgiving morning. Billy was so sweet to go with me because he is currently very out of shape but wanted my Thanksgiving tradition to continue so he suffered through it for me :) Thanksgiving day was great. I got to know Billy's family a lot better and it was great to spend some time with everyone. Jon, Kara and Scarlett came over too! Scarlett is SUCH A CUTIE!! She was so so fun to play with.
Ok sorry this is a lot of words and no pictures so far. Jenny and Jason got in on Thursday night I believe and then we had fun Sierra and Whitney to play with too! I think they are actually the only ones I got pictures of....haha sorry! And even though my mom reminded me to bring my camera...I forgot it :( Here's some pics of the cutie girlies:
Playing in the pool. Whitney kept trying to get in the yucky water. It was pretty funny.
Cutie!!
Oh yeah we brought my bug catching stuff to catch some last minute bugs :) Sierra and Whitney loved helping!
Too cute
Tickle action shot
Scarlett and Whitney in their favorite place to play- the pantry
I had to document this moment. Scarlett was being so so sweet and just sitting so happily on my lap! She kept getting scared because we were playing with dominoes and when we would knock some over she would crawl all quickly up onto my lap and it was the sweetest thing ever!! She is such a cutie. Oh Kara put on a big birthday party for her since she turned 1 and that was one of the main reasons why we went to AZ! It was on Saturday and it was a blast. I didn't get any pictures :( But I borrowed some from Billy's dad's facebook and Kara's facebook. Scarlett looked so so cute and it was such a cute party! Happy Birthday Scarlett!
What a cheese face! You should hear her grunting. It's so funny.
She didn't really know what to do with the cake...
We had so much fun in AZ hanging out with everyone. I wish we could have been there longer but we will be there again for Christmas in like a little over a week! I can't wait!!
So on the drive home we had a few more scares with the car overheating, and we got lost once, but we eventually made it home safe. Also the sky was so so gorgeous on the drive!
Once we got home I remembered I had an assignment to do and Billy tried to do homework too but conked out like this...
Hahaha
We were supposed to leave at like 7 AM but then all the Sutherland cousins wanted to go out to breakfast (Greg was in town!) so they were all so awesome and got up to meet at 7 so we could all have breakfast together before we left! That was way fun. Then we got the rental and went on our way.
The drive was very pleasant except for when we got stuck in traffic a few times and the rental car started acting all weird going slow! It got overheated a few times so we would pull over and just let it cool off until we could get going again. It was really scary and WHY OH WHY do we have such bad luck with cars????!! It makes me really mad. Billy's dad told us we should just buy a Rolls Royce because they hand make every single engine so it will never break down. Not a bad investment I'd say.
Anyways, we made it to AZ Wednesday night! And it was so fun being there!! Thursday morning Billy went on a run with me because in my family we always go running on Thanksgiving morning. Billy was so sweet to go with me because he is currently very out of shape but wanted my Thanksgiving tradition to continue so he suffered through it for me :) Thanksgiving day was great. I got to know Billy's family a lot better and it was great to spend some time with everyone. Jon, Kara and Scarlett came over too! Scarlett is SUCH A CUTIE!! She was so so fun to play with.
Ok sorry this is a lot of words and no pictures so far. Jenny and Jason got in on Thursday night I believe and then we had fun Sierra and Whitney to play with too! I think they are actually the only ones I got pictures of....haha sorry! And even though my mom reminded me to bring my camera...I forgot it :( Here's some pics of the cutie girlies:
Playing in the pool. Whitney kept trying to get in the yucky water. It was pretty funny.
Cutie!!
Oh yeah we brought my bug catching stuff to catch some last minute bugs :) Sierra and Whitney loved helping!
Too cute
Tickle action shot
Scarlett and Whitney in their favorite place to play- the pantry
I had to document this moment. Scarlett was being so so sweet and just sitting so happily on my lap! She kept getting scared because we were playing with dominoes and when we would knock some over she would crawl all quickly up onto my lap and it was the sweetest thing ever!! She is such a cutie. Oh Kara put on a big birthday party for her since she turned 1 and that was one of the main reasons why we went to AZ! It was on Saturday and it was a blast. I didn't get any pictures :( But I borrowed some from Billy's dad's facebook and Kara's facebook. Scarlett looked so so cute and it was such a cute party! Happy Birthday Scarlett!
What a cheese face! You should hear her grunting. It's so funny.
She didn't really know what to do with the cake...
We had so much fun in AZ hanging out with everyone. I wish we could have been there longer but we will be there again for Christmas in like a little over a week! I can't wait!!
So on the drive home we had a few more scares with the car overheating, and we got lost once, but we eventually made it home safe. Also the sky was so so gorgeous on the drive!
Once we got home I remembered I had an assignment to do and Billy tried to do homework too but conked out like this...
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