Or some various form of this...
The end...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
First Day of School!
HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!! (At least for everyone that started today!)
Today was our first day of school... kinda. So Dan has lots and lots of classes (17 credits) and I have one class and thesis credits. So really it was only Dan's first day, mine is tomorrow. But I will be working on my thesis this semester doing my research and finishing my plenum design! Yay! Go me! But Dan has lots of classes he wants to take and he is also going to be working on his senior project this year, the rocket team. This means I am going to be an engineering widow this semester. This might be a good thing though cause it means I can get a lot done for my own stuff without feeling like I'm abandoning Dan. But at the same time, we're not going to see each other except at night. Here's a peak at our schedule for the semester.
So ya... we are never going to see each other! Good thing we make dinner a date every night more or less! But overall it should be a good semester!
Some of our goals for the semester include:
-Get better at doing FHE
-Exercising every day (or at least every other day)
-Get my research done and thesis started!
-Rock the rocket team!
-Have fun!
-Go on more dates
-Follow our budget more closely
I hope everyone has/had a great first day of classes! I'm betting I'll enjoy my first day tomorrow!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
August Update
So life has been pretty busy lately. For the last month we've had trips and things to get done all before school starts.
To start the month off, we went on our honeymoon! It was FANTASTIC!!!! We stayed at this amazing little bed and breakfast in Parowan and loved every minute of it. We went to two plays at the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Music Man and Richard III. We hiked in Cedar Breaks, Kanara Falls, and Zion NP. And we just had a fantastic time!
We also moved! We are so excited to be closer to campus! We love our apartment even if it still isn't all together yet.
I also got to go to a SWE (society of women engineers) event! It was SO AMAZING!!!! I went to Austin, TX for a few days to learn all about my region collegiate position that I have this year! (I get to keep up a blog for the region and let them know what's going on and give advice!) If you ever wanna read it, it's the Region B blog on the side!
We also are trying to get as much work in as we can before school starts. It's been a fantastic summer and we are sad that it is almost over but excited to start our last year at school here!
To start the month off, we went on our honeymoon! It was FANTASTIC!!!! We stayed at this amazing little bed and breakfast in Parowan and loved every minute of it. We went to two plays at the Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Music Man and Richard III. We hiked in Cedar Breaks, Kanara Falls, and Zion NP. And we just had a fantastic time!
We also moved! We are so excited to be closer to campus! We love our apartment even if it still isn't all together yet.
I also got to go to a SWE (society of women engineers) event! It was SO AMAZING!!!! I went to Austin, TX for a few days to learn all about my region collegiate position that I have this year! (I get to keep up a blog for the region and let them know what's going on and give advice!) If you ever wanna read it, it's the Region B blog on the side!
We also are trying to get as much work in as we can before school starts. It's been a fantastic summer and we are sad that it is almost over but excited to start our last year at school here!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Easy peasy pumpkin squeezy!
So this has nothing to do with pumpkins but it is really easy. Today we made what I am now going to call the Merkley Easy Enchilada. We again just took stuff that we had lying around to make it.
All it is is chicken, black beans, salsa verde, sour cream, cream of chicken soup, cheese, tortillas and some enchilada sauce from the packets or whatever.
Mix together everything except the enchilada sauce into a bowl and then you can either layer it like a lasagna or spread it into tortillas and roll and place in the casserole dish. Then spread some of the mixture on top of the tortillas.
Preheat oven to 325 and mix up the enchilada sauce. Drizzle some on top and pop it in the oven for like 20 minute and you are good to go!
I've seen this done a lot of different ways but this is how ours turned out and I thought it was delicious and very filling. Add some roasted anneheim peppers as a side and it would have been even better! :-)
Friday, July 15, 2011
Food!
So we love food here! And so I thought I would like to start just taking pictures of the food we make cause I think it looks amazing. I figured why not share it! So if people want any recipes for what we make let me know and I'll get it to you! But tonight we made stirfry with brown rice!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Oregon... how I love thee!
So two weeks ago Dan and I, and Dan's family went to the Oregon coast for a week! I LOVE it there! Seriously, I can't express it enough how much I love the green, the rain, the temperatures, everything! I, one day, hope to live in Oregon, or at least someplace as beautiful and green as Oregon. We had a fantastic time!
The first day we mostly just drove... we drove all day long! But it was a fun drive, whoever was in our car got to listen to The Hobbit! We also stopped at Shoshone Falls on the way and the water was even higher than last time! It was cool to show Dan's family a place I grew up seeing. But we made it to Portland that night and everything was great!
The next day we went to OMSI, which if you don't know what OMSI is, its the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry! It was basically a big nerd fest! Loved it! While we were there, we watched an OMNIMAX movie about the Hubble Space Telescope. (Omnimax is basically a big imax theater that is dome shaped instead.) We also got to take a tour of the USS Blueback (SS 581) which was really cool! I don't think I'd ever really want to live on a sub but it was really cool to see how things were. (Dan would love to go into a nuclear sub now and so would I honestly.) It was really a neat place! After we drove to the house we were staying at. Along the way, we stopped at Cannon Beach and walked on the beach while we were waiting for everyone else to catch up with us. (We had to take two cars..)
The next day, we got up early and went to the Newport Aquarium! I like aquariums and zoos (if you haven't noticed) and this was a great one. Not only was it a neat aquarium with a tide pool where you could touch some of the sea creatures, but they had an entire portion that was outside! How cool is that? The had these birds called Tufted Puffins that live along the coast and was one of the birds that we were hoping to see while we were out there. (Sadly we never saw a tufted puffin in the wild.)
After the aquarium we drove to Tillamook to go to the cheese factory!!! Yay cheese! We got to sample some cheeses and everyone got ice cream! They had one of the most delicious ice creams I've ever had! White licorice! Yummy!
The next day we stayed closer to the house. In the morning we went on a hike up one of the mountains nearby and got to look out over the beach and ocean! It was beautiful! After lunch, we went back to Cannon Beach to see the tide pools and play on the beach! It was a lot of fun! I built a sand castle on the edge of a lake... which was fed by another lake, which was fed by the ocean. (It was a little complicated haha) But it was a lot of fun. My castle withstood a lot more of the tide coming in than any other structure we build along the way. It only died when I jumped on it! That night, Dan and I went down to another beach (I don't remember the name) and watched the sunset on the coast! It was gorgeous!
The next day we went to a cute little branch nearby for church. It reminded me of how much I love going to church outside of the Mormon Belt. While we still are taught the same doctrine, church outside of Utah/Idaho/highly LDS population, is more focused on being an example to others and missionary work which I really love. It was also fun to be in a church with older people as well. They always have entertaining insights.. (For example, apparently if you are a Gemini, you don't really like being told what to do unless you are explained the why.)
Monday we went to Astoria! We went on another little hike from this cathedral tree to the column (technically I didn't walk it because I needed to move the car but I hiked back down after getting to the column). Then we climbed up the Astoria column and tossed our airplanes off the top. Dan's lost his tail and pretty much just crashed to the ground. Mine, however, flew on for a really long time. It went farther than everyone's plane. (Unless you count Kyle's but I didn't see if fly so I don't believe that it went farther than mine.) After lunch, we crossed the Astoria bridge into Washington. Dan's parents were planning on getting some fresh salmon for dinner that night so they went off to find some on their way back, but Dan, Kathryn, Matthew, and I went on to explore a little bit of the Washington coast and Cape Disappointment. We even went up to a lighthouse. It was a fun drive and we enjoyed it! That night we had salmon and crab with dinner! Delicious (well I really only liked the crab but the salmon wasn't bad definitely better than most fish)!
The next morning was the day we were leaving, so Dan and I woke up really early and packed everything up and went to Ecola State Park for the tide pools there! Man they were awesome! We saw some large crabs and about a billion starfish! It was really fun to climb around on the rocks! We also saw our black oyster catcher there! And another bird but I can't remember what it was right now! If you ever are going to the northern Oregon Coast and are wanting to see tide pools, I really recommend this place! There was practically no one there and they were really cool! It was also only $5 for a vehicle so it really was worth the money. On our way back through Portland we stopped at Multnomah Falls! It was really full this year! Then we drove back!
Overall this was a fantastic vacation! We had a lot of fun with the family and seriously enjoyed being in such a beautiful place! I love it! I'll do another post with pictures!
The first day we mostly just drove... we drove all day long! But it was a fun drive, whoever was in our car got to listen to The Hobbit! We also stopped at Shoshone Falls on the way and the water was even higher than last time! It was cool to show Dan's family a place I grew up seeing. But we made it to Portland that night and everything was great!
The next day we went to OMSI, which if you don't know what OMSI is, its the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry! It was basically a big nerd fest! Loved it! While we were there, we watched an OMNIMAX movie about the Hubble Space Telescope. (Omnimax is basically a big imax theater that is dome shaped instead.) We also got to take a tour of the USS Blueback (SS 581) which was really cool! I don't think I'd ever really want to live on a sub but it was really cool to see how things were. (Dan would love to go into a nuclear sub now and so would I honestly.) It was really a neat place! After we drove to the house we were staying at. Along the way, we stopped at Cannon Beach and walked on the beach while we were waiting for everyone else to catch up with us. (We had to take two cars..)
The next day, we got up early and went to the Newport Aquarium! I like aquariums and zoos (if you haven't noticed) and this was a great one. Not only was it a neat aquarium with a tide pool where you could touch some of the sea creatures, but they had an entire portion that was outside! How cool is that? The had these birds called Tufted Puffins that live along the coast and was one of the birds that we were hoping to see while we were out there. (Sadly we never saw a tufted puffin in the wild.)
After the aquarium we drove to Tillamook to go to the cheese factory!!! Yay cheese! We got to sample some cheeses and everyone got ice cream! They had one of the most delicious ice creams I've ever had! White licorice! Yummy!
The next day we stayed closer to the house. In the morning we went on a hike up one of the mountains nearby and got to look out over the beach and ocean! It was beautiful! After lunch, we went back to Cannon Beach to see the tide pools and play on the beach! It was a lot of fun! I built a sand castle on the edge of a lake... which was fed by another lake, which was fed by the ocean. (It was a little complicated haha) But it was a lot of fun. My castle withstood a lot more of the tide coming in than any other structure we build along the way. It only died when I jumped on it! That night, Dan and I went down to another beach (I don't remember the name) and watched the sunset on the coast! It was gorgeous!
The next day we went to a cute little branch nearby for church. It reminded me of how much I love going to church outside of the Mormon Belt. While we still are taught the same doctrine, church outside of Utah/Idaho/highly LDS population, is more focused on being an example to others and missionary work which I really love. It was also fun to be in a church with older people as well. They always have entertaining insights.. (For example, apparently if you are a Gemini, you don't really like being told what to do unless you are explained the why.)
Monday we went to Astoria! We went on another little hike from this cathedral tree to the column (technically I didn't walk it because I needed to move the car but I hiked back down after getting to the column). Then we climbed up the Astoria column and tossed our airplanes off the top. Dan's lost his tail and pretty much just crashed to the ground. Mine, however, flew on for a really long time. It went farther than everyone's plane. (Unless you count Kyle's but I didn't see if fly so I don't believe that it went farther than mine.) After lunch, we crossed the Astoria bridge into Washington. Dan's parents were planning on getting some fresh salmon for dinner that night so they went off to find some on their way back, but Dan, Kathryn, Matthew, and I went on to explore a little bit of the Washington coast and Cape Disappointment. We even went up to a lighthouse. It was a fun drive and we enjoyed it! That night we had salmon and crab with dinner! Delicious (well I really only liked the crab but the salmon wasn't bad definitely better than most fish)!
The next morning was the day we were leaving, so Dan and I woke up really early and packed everything up and went to Ecola State Park for the tide pools there! Man they were awesome! We saw some large crabs and about a billion starfish! It was really fun to climb around on the rocks! We also saw our black oyster catcher there! And another bird but I can't remember what it was right now! If you ever are going to the northern Oregon Coast and are wanting to see tide pools, I really recommend this place! There was practically no one there and they were really cool! It was also only $5 for a vehicle so it really was worth the money. On our way back through Portland we stopped at Multnomah Falls! It was really full this year! Then we drove back!
Overall this was a fantastic vacation! We had a lot of fun with the family and seriously enjoyed being in such a beautiful place! I love it! I'll do another post with pictures!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Happy Early Birthday Daniel
So Dan has been getting all his birthday presents early this year. His parents had the bow for his violin rehaired! Now he can actually practice!
From me he got a map of the world. That may sound like an odd gift but he loves being able to see where things are in the world with news and such. It also spawns a lot of interesting conversations around dinner since it is hung by the kitchen table.
Anyways, I knew he as going to be very excited about a map and I was trying to keep it a secret. It came on Tuesday when we were both home and there was no way I could have this long tube without giving it away so I just let him open it early! He was soo excited to get the map! It was fun to watch him open it and then have us stick it up on the wall!
Happy birthday Daniel! I love you!
From me he got a map of the world. That may sound like an odd gift but he loves being able to see where things are in the world with news and such. It also spawns a lot of interesting conversations around dinner since it is hung by the kitchen table.
Anyways, I knew he as going to be very excited about a map and I was trying to keep it a secret. It came on Tuesday when we were both home and there was no way I could have this long tube without giving it away so I just let him open it early! He was soo excited to get the map! It was fun to watch him open it and then have us stick it up on the wall!
Happy birthday Daniel! I love you!
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