Next... Finals

Finals week came and left! I'm so glad its done. What a painful week it was! I had six finals with only five days to take them... but I survived. Wednesday April 22 was the last day of finals and the last final I'll ever take (for my bachelors at least!). At 11:00 we had a 130 question final that was a beast... so afterward it was time to celebrate!! A few of us friends got together for a little Mexican food!

Here we all are, full of relief... and food!

Melissa and Matt... graduating together!

Ally and Cristina... moving away so soon!

Me and Shari... the only two staying in Utah!
Me and Kapu! Kapu just graduated from BYU Idaho and is moving back to Africa and getting married! She just happened to be coming through town to catch her flight and got to hang out for a few days!

So much to update... first

I wanted to say "thanks" to both my mom and Nate. On April 9th (just a few weeks before finals) I had my first surgery ever, and hopefully the only one I'll ever have! They had to remove a HUGE cyst that was actually causing me no pain but it needed to be done. Mom came up to help out and help she did... so thanks mom!

And Nate.. well here he is chowing down on cookies right in front of me when I wasn't allowed to eat for the past 12 hours or so... such a sweet guy!! But besides the cookies he is pretty wonderful, thanks Nate for all you do!

Here is the so very cute bracelet they made for me, even had my name engraved on it! :)

basking in the sun, on a snowy mountain

The day before me and Nate took our trip to Sundance I was talking to Jennifer on the phone. She mentioned that they were getting reading to go camping. So I told her our plans for the weekend were to go snowboarding. She acted shocked for a minute then said "thats weird... we're going to lake and your going snowboarding"! We really do live in two different kind of places. But dont be fooled, even though we were on the top of snowy mountain it sure was warm! But not exactly warm enough for a swimming suit! :)

Nate has been working a lot up at Sundance, doing some engineering mumbo jumbo that I dont always understand! But one thing I do understand is the benefits! they gave us two free passes... sweet! So whatever he is doing it must be great!

I've never been snowboarding with a skier! Nate skies and I snowboard and this is the first time we have ever been together so I had to snap a picture of our gear.

We stopped for a short break on one of our trips down... enjoyed the warmth, ate some peanuts, took a few pictures... it was great!

Every time I try to take a picture at the same time as trying to be in the picture I always end up looking like an idiot!! :)

Nate did a lot better job when he was in charge of taking the picture!

Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition!

Earlier on this semester I was looking through my planner and realized I was going to have one of those "I want to die" kind of weeks at school. It consisted of taking 5 test and doing a 45 minute presentation. Well that dreaded week showed up last Friday! So I've been pretty busy doing one thing after another. I wasn't home as much and when I would call Nate he would answer by saying "my long lost wife, how are you?!" But I made it, I survived... now I only have one test left do on Mon or Tues and it feels so good to be, for the most part, finished with Midterms!

It was in my pediatric audiology class that I had to do a 45 minute presentation. Me and my partner were given the topic of "Literacy in the Hearing-Impaired". It turned out to be pretty interesting learning about how the hearing impaired and/or deaf child learns to read and write. In our presentation we had to include the normal development of reading for a hearing child to help understand why it might be difficult for the hearing impaired child. So for the presentation I decided one night when we went to Nate's sister house that I would record their little boy Hans reading. Here is one of the clips we ended up using, I thought it was cute and funny!

Belly Laughs!

When you have those long, hard, stressful, tiring or however you want to explain it days... sometimes you just need a good laugh!

A game of twister, anyone?

During our trip down to Arizona over the break we got caught in a game of twister! Never thought I would be playing this game again (even though it was my idea to try it). I wasn't very good at it and was always the first one out! So during this game after I had gotten out I sat to the side taking pictures of the boys (Nate, Mike and Cord) playing while Whitney was the "spinner". And there was nothing they could do about it either! There hands and legs were all tied up!

Here they are while all three of them are still in...

but Cord was down and out quick!

Nate and Mike are still going...

and still going, until...

the winning shot!

And that was it for Mike!

Candle Light Breakfast!

Today is our three year anniversary!!!!

Because we decided to get married in December... every year we get to celebrate our anniversary, Nate's birthday, and Christmas all within a couple of weeks of each other! Which then pretty much leaves very little to celebrate for the rest of the year! But what can you do, what is done is done!

Another thing we've noticed is that every year finals always seem to mess up our anniversary! Today I spent the evening in the lovely testing center cursing my professor for giving us so much to study for one test! But I had anticipated that this is how the night would go... so this morning I made breakfast to celebrate the big three years!! It was still dark out so I turned on the Christmas tree lights and set out some candles! That was our romantic breakfast! But with the table set all nice and the candles lit we sure didn't fit the part having our PJs on, hair a mess and morning breath! But I guess after three years that works! And what a great three years its been!

Nate made dinner for me, which I had to heat up because I got home so late. And he bought me my favorite ice cream! We also have plans for the weekend to officially celebrate it but you've got to actually do something the day of right?! Well we tried to anyways!!

Here is a few pictures from the big day!