Spring Break in Closing

Well, Spring Break is over. I have few remaining free hours left. We ended break kind of the way we started it. We had a BQ at Chris and Cassidy's house Friday night. It was lots of fun with lots of good food. Saturday the five of us went out clay pigeon shooting. That was also a lot of fun. However, future warning to anyone who meets Melissa, beware when she has a shot gun. For a girl who's never shot anything before she hit every still target we gave her and came pretty dang close to the moving ones. Daren did great as always. Its sad was a good shot he is. I'll never catch up. I didn't do to bad, but as my arm gets tired my aiming goes down the hill. My arm is sore from all the shooting. Today Daren had a store meeting and then came back home and slept the rest of the day. I've spent the day just catching up some unfinished homework. This next week offers a challenge. I have two tests Tuesday, one on Wednesday, and a huge project to turn in on Thursday. The semester is coming to a close and I'm under a lot of pressure to finish up with my classes and my senior thesis project. I'm still hoping to defend and have it published before the end of the semester. So with lots to do, we hope everyone is doing well.

Utah on Saturday

Saturday we drove down to Utah to see Daren's sister Bri. I'd been wanting to do some spring shopping and Bri is one of the best shopping buddies I know. We went down Saturday morning and spent the afternoon in Park City and then we drove over to Cabela's for Daren. These are some of the random pictures we took while we were down there. One is of Bri's dog Sage. She's pretty cool and absolutly in love with Daren. She likes to attack his face with her tongue and enjoys potty breaks when he takes her out. One is of Daren and Brailynn watching tv while we got ready to go shopping. Daren said it was Baby's First NASCAR. The other picture is Daren, Bri, and Brailynn at Cabela's. And the fourth one is Bri and I. We went to the Dress Barn because I'd been wanting a new dress. They had a sale going, if you bought two dresses you got 10 dollars off). We walked around the whole store and found about three dresses we both liked. So we both decided to pick one to get the discount, but we both really like the same one. Well as you can see, we decided on the same one. We thought it was pretty funny, but I don't know how Daren and Dan-O felt about going to church with us dressed the same.

Car Show

Before we went to Lava I took Daren to the car show that was going on at the Holt. These were Daren's two favorite cars. They're both Boss Mustangs.

Lava Trip

We went down to Lava on Friday evening. It was a ton of fun. We all piled in the Mustang and drove down with the top down. It was really funny. At school Cassidy and I decided that we had to take the Mustang. So I texted Melissa and told her to wear her hair up cause we were taking the Mustang. I figured that she'd know it was a convertible and thats why she should wear her hair up. Yeah, not until we pulled in the drive way did she know why I cared how she wore her hair. She was pretty sure I was crazy. So the three of us girls piled in the back seat and let the boys look cool up front. It was so much fun, Melissa kept giggling the whole way there. Needless to say there are more trips in the Mustang planned in the near future. We ate at the Thai place down there in Lava. Daren was so adventurous, he ordered sweet and sour chicken. It was not the kind he was expecting, but he did enjoy it (all but the carrots and tomatoes) It was a great way to kick off spring break. And thanks to Chris, Cassidy, and Melissa for going with us.

Bengal Cake

Check out my Bengal Cake. One of the grad students in the lab I'm doing my senior thesis in ran for ASISU President, so we (we, as in the other girls that work in the lab) decided to make a cake for him. He lost, but we still wanted to give him our cake. So I made it any way and I think it turned out pretty darn cool. It was a lot of fun too.

Crazy Custumes

So I was just removing my senior thesis pictures from my digital camera and found these pics. The middle one is our little buddy Todd taken last Halloween. We sure do miss hanging out with him and his parents. The bottom one is my brother Justin. I thought LaRaine might like to see this. He dressed up as the Joker and Angie's little brother dressed up as Batman (I think) and they went around trick or treating and just generally scaring kids that came to their door. He always does come up with crazy costumes. I remember as kids he went as Two-face and mom sewed this amazing suit that was half normal and half had red strips. I don't have a Two-face picture, but there is this one from the pictures he gave me for his wedding slide show.

Went for a walk

So we finally went on a little walk around campus. They call it the Rock Walk and there is a rock for each county somewhere on campus. Well the whole time I've been there I've never found Fremont County. So we finally broke down and looked it up on the map and went and found it. It was clear up behind the old lower campus dorms. I don't think I ever would have found it with out the map. It was in a place I never would have walked for any class on campus. So there you go, that was our afternoon.

Just another Saturday

So we haven't done anything really exciting lately, but we did go for a walk around old town for a couple of hours today. We walked through the shops there and ate a lot of really good food. It was nice to get out and be able to do something outside. The wind was blowing just a little, but we toughed it out and ran around in just sweatershirts hoping that would scare winter away. Spring break is coming and I hope we get some time to enjoy ourselves. This semester has been one of my hardest and I've had a test or paper or lots of tests every week so I haven't really had a chance just to relax. We do have one weekend planned to go and see Bri in Utah, so that should be fun. Then the other weekend of spring break will be for homework in the hopes that the weekend of my birthday we can go play. So that's what we've been up to so far this weekend. We're hoping to steal an hour or so tomorrow for a hike. I'll post some pictures if we see anything interesting.

New Family Member

So Daren's sister just had a baby in February. Her name is Brailynn. Daren and I ran down to Utah to see her the first week end after she was born. And then this last weekend they brought her up to Chester for her baby blessing. This is her in her blessing dress and then the pictures from when Daren and I went and saw her. If you ask me Daren looks scared to death. So I guess we'll have to do some more babysitting before we have our own. We're both really excited to have a new niece. I think I'm already her favorite aunt, well at least I can get her to stop crying, so that's what I'm saying.

Other than the new niece, not much has happened. I think I successfully failed another Biochem test today. I have no idea what to do about that class, its kicking my butt, and no matter how much I study its never enough. Oh, on one exciting note I mailed my acceptance letter to Iowa State Veterinary School saying I'd take my spot. So unless Biochem wins out its IOWA HERE WE COME.

Snowmachining

So we haven't went snowmachining as much as we would have liked, but we did have one fun trip with Daren's cousin Cayde and their friend Chase. So we set Cayde up on a date with my friend Melissa and this was their second date. Here she is driving his sled. The top picture is of Cayde coming down the hill, and the rest are of Daren.

Just getting started

Hey everyone,
Daren and I have been following everyone else's blog and decide it was a great way to keep in contact with everyone. So here we go, hope you guys enjoy it.