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

Wow!  It's been a freaking long time since I've blogged!  I'm so sorry!  I really will get on that again I promise.  I've been meaning to. 
Anyways, what has been going on for the last month plus?  I went to Phoenix for SWE and it was awesome!  I have had a lot of programs and such going on for the month of February so I've been super busy.  During presidents day weekend, I got to go to Rupert and spend and awesome weekend celebrating all my families birthdays!  A couple weekends ago, I got to celebrate my friend, Steve's, 21st birthday at Keys on Main in SLC.  The next weekend, I took Dan with me to Benihana's to go to dinner with my brothers and their wives!  It was a lot of fun. This last weekend, I got to dress up for the south campus Speak Easy (see picture) and go to USU's last home game of the season!  We kicked trash!!!!  And next week, I am going on a caribbean cruise!  We port at Costa Maya and Cozumel!  I'm so excited!  Its going to be a blast! 
Anyways, I really am sorry I haven't posted anything else for a while, I will get better at it I promise.  After the cruise!

Oh, P.S. in case any of you are wondering, I graduate on May 8th from USU.  The big ceremony starts at 9:00 am and the college of engineering ceremony is at 2:00 pm.  (If you are planning on coming, the University Inn has rooms that you can book for $54 for two queen beds but you should probably book soon.) 

Beautiful Cache Valley

Every once in a while, something happens that makes me happy.  Today, instead of doing my availability hours, I took my new camera and went and took some pictures since it turned into such a gorgeous day.  Here is the only one I loaded onto my laptop and messed with on Picasa.  But I like it a lot.  It was a lot of fun to practice taking pictures with my camera.  Hopefully, I'll get better and I'll show some more.  Till then, enjoy.

Ava's Blessing

Last Sunday was Ava's blessing!  It was a lot of fun!  The food was great and the company was even better!  I even got to use my new camera taking some pictures of everyone.  I got this incredibly cute picture of Hannah!  And Carson was hysterical for me to take pictures of.  I love my family and am excited that Ava is the newest member of it! 
 

Ice Skating

A few days after I got back to Logan, Brian and I went ice skating with our friends Matt and Mandy!  They brought their dog Milo along!  He was so totally cute.  It was really fun.  Merlin Olsen park is a park down in the Island that during the winter they will create an ice skating ring.  Its so much fun because you are outside and you are right below the temple.  It was great!  I can't wait to go again!  (Thanks for a fun time Matt and Mandy!)

Back To School

On the first few days back to Logan, a few of my residents thought it would be fun to decorate our RA's door.  And let her know how much we missed her!  It was a lot of fun