A Proper Introduction

I just realized that I hadn't introduced anyone to our new puppy! He was born on New Years Day and he is just the sweetest. He is the only pup out of Pepper's litter, so he is very spoiled and has an unlimited supply of attention and milk. Sometimes he will cry so loud that I can hear him from in the house, but we all know that he isn't starving for food :)

He is two weeks old and his cute little eyes are open and his "land legs" are getting better everyday. It is so fun to have a puppy around! If only I could take my two cute puppies to school.

Have a Good Sunday Afternoon!

First Week of School

So this is how the first week of school went.

Monday:
I had Family Finance, which I decided will be both a super easy class as well as a very beneficial one. That combination doesn't come around too often. I also went to the wrong building and was late to a class with 500 people and I had to sit on the stairs for a while. I felt like a freshman, no offense to freshman, I just thought that I knew my way around campus after four years. Nope. I guess I don't.
Interpersonal Communication. A very interesting class about how we communicate with the people surrounding us. I think this will be very interesting and fun too, the professor seems great.
Billiards. I was completely dreading this class. I took it because I needed something to fit within an hour break I had between classes, it was my only option. However as I scanned the room to see who my new friends would be I heard an old friend call my name and it completely made my day. The class is actually pretty fun now and it is nice to have an hour to talk and relax before one more lecture of the day. p.s. I am very bad at pool.
Aural Rehabilitation is my last class of the day. I think it will be a great class. So far she has just reviewed which has been rather boring but I am sure we will get to the good stuff soon.

Tuesday:
Assessment and Intervention of 1-5 years. This class is great. It is very interesting. The lecture from Thursday was very intriguing and gave me some terms for things that I had observed.
Statistics. Well. Here it is. My last math class. I seriously wish I had taken this 2 years ago but oh well. There are about ten of us Speech Pathology majors that are all in it together. Not to mention so far I am completely getting the info.
Rock Climbing. I was feeling totally inadequate when my friend and I arrived and climbed next to all of the graceful beauties, but we went Thursday to increase our confidence and we had the whole room to ourselves to build some confidence. Plus we went shopping for some cute pants. That always helps.

Wednesday
Just add my Stats recitation to Monday's schedule. Another embarrassing story of being in the wrong building, however this was not my fault. Apparently they changed it after I had printed my schedule out . . . lame. I was late to that class too.
Plus. Dalan left for Colorado early that morning :(
So I stayed in Logan late and had dinner with my sister Kelsey!

Thursday
Just subtract Rock Climbing . . . I wish that it was Thursdays too though, my friend and I went anyway and the manager let me rent some shoes for free!
Dalan came back that night!!

Friday
Just subtract Aural Rehabilitation and Billiards.

Saturday
We are going on a rock climbing date tonight! I can't wait for Dalan to show me some tips! He is a great rock climber!

So that was my week. There is a lot going on around here again. It feels good to be busy and to have my hubby back from a long road trip of hauling Holsteins. I am starting to get excited for this to be my last semester at collage! It is bitter sweet. I will miss the schedule of school and all the sweet girls I know.

By the Way

One day during my first semester at USU I got hit by the long bar that stops cars from leaving the parking lot without paying . . . . what in the world is that called? I have no idea right now. But I thought I would share that embarrassing story. Know for future reference that those things don't stop for humans. . . .

Last First Day

I am so excited to be posting about my last first day of school that will be happening next Monday! As an overall warning for the year, I might be posting about my last first test, my last first of anything basically. I am posting about it today though because I decided I needed to start gearing up for this Spring Semester today. I am doing a deep clean of the house to help ease the stress of the semester. I bought a 2012 calender, a new notebook and a magnet grocery list for the fridge. I am hoping that as I start the new year I will be organized and less stressed. I found this quote on pinterest that I love, and needed today. I thought it was a good theme for my new year and new goals.

I don't usually make new years resolutions. I feel like they have a stigma to them that makes them not last. But this year I have written a few things down that I think should make for a good year.

1. Read More Scriptures
2. Enjoy the Moment
3. Exercise and love my body
4. Be a better wife
5. Serve others
6. Be patient

Last year was a great year and I am excited to be entering into another year with my sweet husband. Here are a few highlights.

• Took a vacation with the Ag Club to Boise
  
• Had fun with Flat Gracie
• Started playing Bunko
• Went to Kelsey's High School Graduation
  
• Dalan graduated from Utah State with a degree in Animal Science
• He started working full time for his dad
• Dalan's slow-pitch softball team won first place
  
• I completed a summer semester of school and caught up with the rest of my class
• We took a vacation to Jackson. Saw the Bar J Wranglers and went White Water Rafting
• I got my wisdom teeth out
• Rode Trax for the first time
• Went to Lagoon
  
• Had fun at the fair and rodeo
• I won a first place & second place ribbon from some pictures that I took
• Pepper had two batches of puppies!
  
• We got to visit my family for Christmas
• I've taken 1 family photo shoot, engagements, 10 month baby shoot & a wedding
  

I hope this next year is just as good. Good Luck to everyone!

A Christmas Novel

It is time to recap on our awesome Christmas vacation! For us Christmas started on Thursday. Dalan and I did our own Christmas and opened presents together. We ate waffles, bacon and eggs. It is so much fun to spoil Dalan, but he spoiled & surprised me as well. He bought us a new laptop! And for me the prettiest shirt and cardigan, earmuffs to survive Logan's cold air and the book & movie The Help. Which he may have regretted when I was a super boring passenger as I read & finished The Help on our way to Idaho on Friday :) I tried to be fun, it just kept pulling me back. We got to Idaho in pretty good time and it was so great to see my family! I met up with some of my friends at Moxie Java to reconnect and I realized how long it had been since I had seen them. It was so much fun to chat and catch up on each others lives. Those girls are friends that will last a life-time. P.s. If you want to try a great winter drink at Moxie, try the hot cholocolate with the roated marshmellows in it MMmmmm. So good. but I can't remember its official name . . . .

Christmas Eve we had a huge shopping day. The boys went one way and my mom and I in another. It was so much fun to go shopping with my mom and find great presents for my brothers and sisters.

That may have been one of my favorite days! That night we had a great Christmas Eve dinner with my Grandma Gayle. Wrapped some presents and we all ran around excited for Santa to visit.

Christmas day was so great. I got up super early to beat my brothers and sisters up, got ready for church and Dalan and I went to the house to wake them up. It was so fun being there as they first woke up Christmas Day. Everyone was so excited that Santa had come. My family's Christmas tradition is that we had to sing Christmas songs to wake up my parents before we could leave our room. It is hilarious. Singing is more shouting and it is so fun. Santa bought me some dang cute boots and a new pair of jeans! and brought Dalan a nice wool coat he had his eye on.

We went to church and they had a great Christmas presentation. Came home and played with our new toys and left for Mountain Home for an amazing Christmas dinner and more present opening! And a dance competition with the new Just Dance 3! My awesome sister Grace got me a cute scentsy with Blueberry Cheesecake aroma. I love it! It has been going all day :) I also got tickets to Lady Antebellum!! Ah! I can't wait!

Monday we went Bowling! It was so much fun to be with everyone cheering and laughing. My Mom is the champion bowler followed by Dalan and my Dad. I am somewhere farther down the line . . . . It was so much fun.

Tuesday was our last day and it made me sad. We packed up our stuff and after lunch we headed back to Utah. It was so much fun being with my family. They are the best ever. I can't wait to go back up to visit for Grace's baptism! We are so excited for her.

Our Weekend.

This past weekend is worth blogging about. I got to spend the entire weekend with Dalan and it was so great. Friday we were a tiny bit spontaneous and we bought a car that Dalan had his eye on! It was a little crazy. Now, realize that I say spontaneous, but it wasn't that spontaneous. It was just that I never imagined buying a car. We had been looking and preparing for a while but it seemed a little surreal to me. Neither of us had ever gone through the "car buying process" before. But we love our new purchase. It is a 2007 Nissan Altima, and I am fast forwarding 14 years into the future with all of its fancy gadgets :) It is so nice to have something with good gas milage. This picture below is what our car looks like . . . but is not our car. Our car is sitting outside in the cold and in the wind. Yes. I am that lazy right now, and nice and warm in our house. I figured google image search would do.

I am loving it!

Saturday we were able to drive our new car to Twin Falls, Idaho for one of my best friends wedding! It was so beautiful. I was also lucky enough to take pictures of the newlyweds! It was so fun and I was so glad I was able to steal Dalan away from work for a second day in a row :)

I have known the lovely bride since Kindergarten. We have literally grown up together.

The pictures turned out great and I can't wait to hand over the copies to her.

I love this picture! She looks gorgeous.

I hadn't been to the Twin Falls Temple since its open house and it is so beautiful.

Now, we are about to have our own Christmas and start packing for Idaho! I can't wait or a Christmas in Kuna :) Merry Christmas Everyone!

Thinking Christmas

Now that I can think stop thinking about the human ear and voice I can focus a little more on Christmas! I made myself refrain from wrapping presents all weekend, until each final was over and then came home to wrap all the gifts in the beautiful paper I found the second it was over. I also refrained from blogging, and yes that actually applied to almost the whole semester. There are just too many distractions. But I am free now to live a normal life for a few weeks and I have to share pictures of our gorgeous tree :)

I bought these pinecones for a Thanksgiving day centerpiece and then wrapped some twine around it to re-purpose it to our amazing tree.

I love how it turned out, very simplistic, country and very much our style.

This star is my favorite. I spotted it online and I could not find anything around that was like it. It seems like the style is leaning away from a Christmas Tree Topper, but I feel like the star is a very important part of Christmas and the true meaning that it brings. Plus it is just so darn cute and rustic.

I also made these sweet stars for the tree. They are made out of applesauce and cinnamon. They were so easy and I loved how they turned out.

And this is how I see our master piece of a tree as I sit on the couch watching the pretty lights. And, yes. I am in love with this tree. I think it is the best ever.

And I cant leave out our stockings. Of course I couldn't help but add some sparkle to my stocking. Now it is easy to tell which one is mine & which is Dalan's.

Here is an up close view of my jean design. Wrangler might want to hire me. ha ha

Anyways. Thanks for being so patient as I go on & on about our tree and our stockings. Christmas is just so much fun. And I love decorating for the holidays.
May your days be Merry & Bright.

She believed.

Alright! Finals are finally over. So far, I have gotten great scores back and I am super happy. I love this quote that I found on lovely pinterest. (isn't it the best?) It was great motivation for this week and for life in general.

Have I mentioned that I am so happy to be done with this semester? This Christmas break will be the longest break from school I have had in a very long time and I am going to capitalize on every second of it! So far I have cleaned the kitchen, done laundry, cleaned the living room, wrapped presents and all sorts of great stuff.
This semester although a little crazy and super busy has been fun. I took, Assessment and Treatment of Communicative Disorders in the Pediatric Population - it was a pretty good class. A lot of what we learned I had learned through working in ABA therapy already and a lot was expansions from it.
Audiology, a very informative class. I learned a lot about audiology and a lot of testing. Speech Science it followed Auidiology a little bit, but I learned a lot about the voice, how it works, pathologies and other great things. Space Exploration, long and boring but I passed and if I ever go to space I will know a few things. & lastly, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Communicative Disorder. This was probably my favorite class. It was very interesting to learn about different cultures and their views.

So even though I sometimes complain about school, I really love it and I have learned a lot & I have met a lot of great people and great professors.

My Brag Session.

Well. Blogging has been put on the back burner, as well as many, many, many other things this semester. It has been so busy! However, after all of the studying and reading and lectures it all paid off last week when I got my test score back from an entire test of True/False questions from my Basic Audiology class. I feel a little weird posting this, but seriously, this will never happen again, and it has never happened before! So since this is my blog I figured I would think of it less of bragging and more as documenting. Proof that maybe I am learning something from these classes :)

Above is the email I recieved back from my test with a score of 98%. And as great as that is, the best part is that I ranked #1 out of the 36 smartie pants girls in my class, and the one boy who is also smart. Awesome right! I was so excited. Dalan took me out to dinner at El Parral to celebrate and we had a great time chatting and being together. He is so great!

Moving on from school, we have set up our adorable Christmas tree and pulled out our Christmas decorations too. It makes me so happy to sit on our coach cuddling under a blanket sipping hot chocolate and looking at our tree sparkle. I just love this Christmas season. I will have to blog about the cute ornaments I made and our new tree topper one of these days :)

Happy Sunday! Good Luck on finals fellow college kids!