Always busy..

Apparently I'm not feeling the whole blog thing as much lately. Which is sad because I really enjoyed writing this for the longest time. I think part of the reason is I had to blog so much last year for SWE that I didn't take much time to write about what we were up to, and when I did it was only updates.  It also might be that not much has changed in our lives. 

Dan started his master's program at USU in Aerospace engineering and I'm still working on mine.  We love the summers in Logan and we spent as much time outside as we could.  We started up fall semester and I started a weight lifting class that I'm liking a lot!  We've been working on getting in shape and running a 5K.  We're making good progress on both of those.

We've had a lot of fun lately. We've been camping, hiking and hanging with friends.  We've been to Lagoon, City of Rocks, Bear Lake and many other places.  We've gone mini golfing and star gazing, done gardening and canning.  We've celebrated holidays, birthdays and families.  And we look forward to what the fall is going to bring us! 

So excited for Halloween... now if only I could figure out a good costume to wear.

Pocket Ninjas.... Attack!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL!
Yesterday was Dan's 24th birthday!  I keep teasing him that he's getting old, but then he just reminds me that I'm older than he is.  Dan seemed to have a great birthday!  We woke up late, ate delicious food for breakfast, he took a nap during the day, we went out for dinner at Fire House, went to the ZOO (our FAVORITE PLACE!!!) and then finished the evening off at our apartment just having a relaxing evening!  Overall it was a fun day!

Here are a list of awesome things that Dan has done in the last year:
-Went on many fun trips to: Oregon, Craters of the Moon, Zion National Park, New Mexico, Arches, various trips to Lindon and Rupert and Alabama!
-Was the chief engineer for the USU Chimaera Rocket Team
-Celebrated our first anniversary!
-Celebrated our first Christmas with his family
-Graduated from Utah State with his BS degree
-Participated in the NASA USLI project and went to Alabama to present his team's rocket to big NASA people
-Won Best Vehicle Design in the NASA USLI rocket project
-Won FIRST PLACE in the NASA USLI rocket project
-Decided to continue on to graduate school at USU
-Played laser tag at the Fun Park after hours throughout the whole park
-Went on the 1st annual boys camp with my family down to Moab where he almost died on the four-wheeler (not really)
-Experimented with many different things while cooking

All in all, I think Daniel has had a pretty fantastic year!  And I look forward to spending the next one with him!  He's a fantastic man and husband.

Here are the things he is looking forward to in this next year:
-Beginning grad school and starting research
-Experimenting with cooking some more
-Spending time with family
-Going on adventures


Just a friendly note for our neighborhood pocket ninjas for Daniel's birthday.

Happy 1st Anniversary!

So Dan and I celebrated our first anniversary yesterday!  We had a great day and enjoyed the time we got to spend together.  For part of the day Dan had to work on rocket team stuff, which was good and bad.  It was sad that he had to go work on that during our anniversary but it was okay because it gave me the time I needed to finish his present!  When he came home (with beautiful roses!), we enjoyed cheese and wine (okay it was really sparkling cider) for appetizers before we went to dinner.  We exchanged gifts and went out to dinner!  We spent about an hour in Best Buy before we went to dinner because Tandoori was really busy.  But we enjoyed a very peaceful dinner together and a nice evening at home afterwards.  (We made a quick stop at the amphitheater first  because that is "our spot".)

For gifts, I made Dan (and partly for myself) a book that included all the poems that Dan has written throughout our time together {special thanks to Mallory for helping me with it!}.  It also included pictures from our times together and all the adventures we have gone on.  And because the traditional gift for your first anniversary is paper, we decided to get each other paper.  By this, I mean we are going to get our passports.  Dan doesn't have one and mine says my maiden name.  We decided on passports because then if we ever wanted to go on any adventures outside of the USA, we could!  I think it is a fantastic idea!

Here are a list of things we have done over the last year!
-We got married
-Spent our first Thanksgiving together with Dan's family
-Spent our first Christmas together with Wendy's family
-Bought our first car!
-Went on our first SWE adventure together (in Palm Springs)
-Went to Vegas!
-Went to the WAC championship game in which the Aggies WON!
-Went on lots of hikes, alone and with lots of friends
-Went to Oregon with Dan's family
-Went to Craters of the Moon
-Spent 4th of July in AWESOME Rupert!
-Went to Bear Lake
-Went on our honeymoon to Zion
-Hiked Angel's Landing and a slot canyon
-Went camping in Idaho
-Went to Four Corners
-Went to Arches
-And many many trips to the ZOO cause we are awesome ZOO MEMBERS!

One Day...

I'll get back into this whole learning to blog thing again.  I don't know why, but my desire to blog has immensely decreased since I started blogging a few years ago.  But one day, I'll get back into it.  Maybe I just need to have a set time/day that I blog and keep everyone updated on my life.  I'll work on that.

Anyways, here's what's been going on in my life.  I graduated!  If you didn't notice that from my last post.  I also moved down the hill into my new apartment.  And I started working last week.  It's been a great summer so far because I haven't had to do a lot but play and go to weddings.  I've had 3 weddings in the last 2 weeks.  And this weekend, I have a 50th wedding anniversary to go to!  Woohoo!  I think that's super cool!  You know what else is this week?  Daniel's birthday!  He turns the big double deuce.  And he even got another job!  Which is exciting because he's been looking for one this entire month.  The ironic thing is, the project he is going to be working on is the same one I'm working on.  Just different parts of it.

Speaking of which, I can actually explain what I'm doing for work now.  I'm basically trying to get three machines to tell me the density of particles in the air.  So right now, I get to just sample air with the machines and try to correlate them to each other.  It's a work in progress, especially since one of the machines keeps having issues and not giving me much information.  I think it just needs cleaned.  (I'm at work right now, which is why I'm thinking about it.) 

Other than that, life is fabulous!  Dan and I went to the zoo last week, it was a lot of fun.  We also got to go on a hike down in Provo Canyon.  And hopefully this weekend, we'll get to go play with Phill and Allie's family!  Not sure what we're going to do but it will be fun! 

I'll try to blog more!