I'm engaged!!!!

I'm not even kidding!  I'm officially engaged!  And if you are reading this and didn't get a message or something from me, I'm sorry.  There are just so many people to tell.  But its exciting!

Here is the story.
July 14, 2010
After we both got done with work, we made dinner.  It was delicious!  We made open faced grilled cheese sandwiches.  Swiss cheese on rye bread with tomatoes on top!  Then we went to the zoo!  Logan's zoo is pretty sweet.  Its based on donations so its not too big but it has some cool stuff!  My favorite is the wallabies!  They are just SO cute!  Plus there are a lot of baby birds there right now!  Which are also incredibly cute!  After the zoo, Dan started this zombie application on my phone.    So we were heading to some destination and we ended up getting stuck in a dead end.  But there was this awesome park there that we decided to walk around while we waited out the zombies.  Well the zombies got too close and started chasing us so we had to run back to the car as fast as we could.  We almost had to peel out of the parking area!  Well then we ended up finishing our route to the amphitheater on campus!  This is a place where Dan and I have gone many times and talked and looked out at the Logan temple.  It's kind of "our place"  so it means a lot to us.  Well, we got there right at sunset and I was taking pictures of the sunset with my phone (while Dan was digging around in his pocket haha).  Well I turned towards him and he got down on one knee and told me that he loves me and that he wants to spend forever with me.  And then asked me to marry him!  I, of course, said yes!  And we hugged and kissed (gross I know) and then took a few more pictures!  It was perfectly us!  I love that man!  

 

Life is Fantastic!!!

It has been an awesome month so far.  I can't even tell you how great it has been so far.  I've been working on my thesis somewhat, mostly trying to get things figured out so I can actually make some progress on it later this summer.  And my professor is back from his Uganda trip which is great.

Earlier this month, Dan and I went to Rupert to meet up with my whole family!  It was nice to hang out with everyone!  We played some new games that Dan and I introduced to my family and played some scum as well.  We also got to go FISHING!  It's been so long since I've been fishing, 5 years in fact, and I don't really count that because it was at a planted pond.  But it was fun.  No one caught anything but it was fun to help the kids fish and we roasted these AMAZING marshmallows!  They were gigantic!  Not even kidding, its like the size of at least 4 marshmallows put together.  They were so yummy!  (Yummy yummy time!)  It was great!  On the way home, we stopped by Shoshone for ice cream!  I love the ice cream from there!  It's soo good!  And huge!
Here is Dan and I with our cones!  He got the large and I got the small!

The next week I got to spend in Rupert dog sitting!  It was nice because I got to go and visit with friends I haven't seen in a while, like Kristin!  And I got to play with baby Slade, (Ash's cute son!)  I also worked on my old bed.  I scrapped off the old stain that was on it and then painted it white and started to distress it!  It looked soo good!  I'm excited to use it this fall!  I still need to distress it some more but it was a lot of fun!  I want to work on more things like that!  There's this fabulous website that Brian introduced me to that shows you step by step how to do different things like that!  Its so cool!

Happy Birthday!

To Daniel!!!

I sure hope he had a great day.  I know I did. 

This weekend, we spent Friday night burning up almost ALL of my homework from the last FIVE, not kidding, five years of school... It was fabulous!  We had friends meet up with us at second dam and just burned it all!  We roasted marshmallows and had smores while we were at it. 

Then on Saturday, we went to Ogden to his grandparents, the Shirley's, 50th wedding anniversary.  It was a lot of fun!  I met almost all of Dan's family at it and can remember everyone name, even if I can't remember their faces.  The went to Lindon for the rest of the weekend.

On Sunday, Dan's birthday, we went to church and then came home and took a fabulous nap!  (Well, Dan did, I read.)  And then Dan's brother Kyle made dinner for the whole family.  Granted everyone helped but it was his ideas.  Dinner was amazing!  It was a Mediterranean type dinner.  Greek salad and such.  It was great.  Then we ate homemade ice cream and toppings and Texas sheet cake!  Then we played a lot of games! 

On Monday, we drove out to Tooele to spend Memorial day with Phillip and his family!  It was a lot of fun.  Phill cooked us burgers for lunch.  Then we went outside and played baseball for a really long time!  And Dan and I even raced on the wiggle cars!  That was awesome and I totally beat Dan!  Then when we went back inside, Dan and I made some cookies for the family and we played Sorry!  It was such a close game!  Phill ended up beating us though, but just barely.  Then Dan and I headed back to Logan.  On the way, we stopped by Zupas, which was Dan's first time.  He really liked it, but ended up getting food poisoning or something from there.  Which kind of sucked but he's doing a lot  better today. 

Overall, it was a great weekend, except for Dan getting sick.  I'm excited to see what this weekend brings because this will be the first weekend we've been home for the whole weekend this summer so far.  Should be fun!

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!

All Grown Up and Graduated!

It's hard to believe that after 5 years of college, I finally got my degree.  I am officially a college graduate.  On May 8, 2010 I received my degree from Utah State University in Civil Engineering!  I could go out and be a real engineer now!  It's crazy to think that!  Anyways, it was a fabulous day.  The weather was great and the commencement was too.

Danny Glover, the guy who plays in Lethal Weapons and Angels in the Outfield, was the speaker at commencement.  I thought his speech started out well but got a little boring but whatever.  In the afternoon I got to go to the college of engineering graduation ceremony where I received my diploma, well sorta (the thing that holds it at least).  It was a nice day.  And most of my family got to be there!  Too bad Cole and Brandi had to work, they were missed!   But here are some pictures from graduation!

Cruise!

Oh my goodness, a cruise was just what the doctor ordered.  I had so much fun on the cruise!  We were on the ship the Grandeur of the Seas and it was awesome.  It had a rock climbing wall, a casino, a spa, a theater, a couple of pools.  It was great!  My favorite part?  Dinner!  You have no idea how great dinner was.  We had the best table. Our waiter was great and the food was AMAZING!!!!! I can express how much fun dinner was.  It was made up of a basically a bunch of parents and their graduating girls.  We had me and my parents, the Jilek's (mom, dad, Amanda (college grad), and Lauren (high school grad)), and the Wallace's (mom, Leslie (college grad) and their cousin.  And the funny thing, we were all from Idaho, Iowa, and Ohio.  What are the odds that all of us would be from the states that everyone gets confused about!  It was a really fun trip though!  This picture makes it look like we are all one big happy family, and by the end it felt like we were!  It was fun!

It's Official!!!!

I am going to grad school!  I'm so excited!  I got my very first acceptance letter today! 

Dear Wendy,

With the approval of the School of Graduate Studies, the Civil & Environmental Engineering department is pleased to inform you that your application has been approved and you have been accepted to begin graduate study at Utah State University.  You are to be congratulated for your achievement.

Your acceptance details are as follows:

Student Number:	Starting Term: Fall 2010	Advisor: David Stevens (david.stevens@usu.edu)
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering	Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering	Degree: MS
Additional Comments:

Please inform the SGS of your intent to accept this offer in order to attend Utah State University, by e-mailing to: kami.mcneil@usu.edu. Please allow at least 24 hours for processing.  Please do not attempt to register until you have informed the SGS of your intent.  When you contact them, please include your student number.

You can log into http://www.usu.edu/myusu/  to access your own student records and class schedules using your new student number.

We wish you success in your academic pursuits and trust that your experience here will be both pleasant and rewarding.

Sincerely,

Civil & Environmental Engineering

cc: The School of Graduate Studies