Not Much Going On

Yeah, not much has been happening these last few weeks. Well, kind of. By not much happening, I mean fun things mostly. Midterm has hit so LOTS of stuff has been happening with school, but that's pretty much it.


p.s. We are excited for my family to come up for Halloween and celebrate though!

Trip to the Zoo!

On Saturday we got to go down to the zoo with my family. I hadn't been for a long time and Chase had never been (shock!) so it was really fun! There were lots of baby animals there this time and I think the funnest part was seeing my nephews reactions to all the animals.

Here's Heidi with Thomas and my mom and Michael in the background.

Chase holding up Michael so he could see the baby elephant.

All of us looking at the giraffes.

Mommy and Baby

Chase and Heidi so thrilled about the giraffes!

Project Bookshelves: Complete

After lots of this...


Came these!


Now we only have one more to finish up! They've ended up being quite the project, but I really like how they turned out. Now we just need more books to fill them up... you can never have too many books!

Uplifted

I finally got around to posting these from last weekend. We were able to go down to Salt Lake with Chase's family on Saturday and hit both sessions of conference. Thankfully we got in on standby for the morning sessions and then had tickets for the afternoon. It was a fun experience since I've never been to a live session before! I would have to say Elder Bednar's talk was my favorite; perfect recipe for a happy family. Conference is always my two favorite times of the year.



We also got to go see John Schmidt in concert last night with some of my family. I love his concerts! They're always so fun. He did kind of play Love Story Meets Viva la Vida, which I was very glad about. If you haven't heard this song, you're missing out! I like how good you feel after his concerts.



Thank goodness for uplifting things! :)

School and Other Happenings

We think we've got it all figured out for the semester. Thank goodness. With moving and everything the week after school started it was a pretty stressful couple of weeks, but know everything seems to be slowing down into a predictable routine, which we REALLY like. We love our new place, we just keep losing things it's so big! We have no idea where the checkbook, my calculator and my graduation application are. (I really need to find that last one...)

Chase has been great to drop me off and pick me up from school and work everyday so I don't have to ride the bus with all the crazy people. (No offense to anyone who rides the bus, but you for sure meet some interesting people on there!) It's been working out really well for both our schedules.

Chase is liking most of his classes this semester and now gets to study in what we affectionately call "The Man Cave" (the 2nd bedroom). He was nice though to give up half of the space and set up my sewing machine and other girly stuff in there too. :)

I like my classes really well too for the most part. I didn't realize that one I was taking was the senior capstone class, so that's turned out to be a little busier than I thought, but not too bad.

I had to have an emergency root canal this last week. Lortab is amazing. Enough said.

I'm trying to find fabric that I like to make some curtains for our living room. I'm trying to find some sort of slate/navy blue... but no luck quite yet. I did get some made for the laundry room though!

Chase's family came up on Saturday to celebrate my birthday by taking me out to Texas Roadhouse. Really good! Although they have the MOST embarrassing birthday ritual I have ever endured at a restaurant. It involved riding a saddle on a platform in the middle of the isle where everyone and their dog in the restaurant can see how red your face is. It was a dang good thing I got ice cream out of the deal!

My family came on Sunday and brought me dinner which was amazing! And my parents got me an ice cream maker! There is nothing quite so good as homemade ice cream at a family birthday party.

Chase's dad also made me some bookshelves for my birthday so our bookshelf hunt is over. We're having a fun time staining and finishing them. Pictures to come when they're all done! I'm quite impressed with how good Chase has made them look.

We got new callings in our new ward as ward missionaries. We have no idea what we're supposed to do but it sounds fun!

Next week we're headed to Salt Lake for Conference. I am really excited since I've never been to a live session! We were lucky enough to get tickets this time.

Well that pretty much sums up what we've been up to! Thanks for reading!

Gotta Love a Sale!

Where I can get cheap stuff to make things like this:



I love fall!

This is what I do when I'm bored at work....

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

I can expand my vocabulary and contribute to the greater good all at the same time! I thought it was kind of cool.