ode to my brothers and robyn too actually...

so i was in math today and our teacher passed around uncooked spaghetti noodles and told us each to take three. we were then supposed use the spaghetti to explore different options of information to make a triangle sss, sas, etc. and i did.. for a little while then what do i do? why i put the spaghetti between my fingers and make a fist and pretend to be wolverine OF COURSE!!! hee hee hee i guess all of those episodes of x-men that i have seen have sunk in hee hee

we have our closet back!!!

so a few weeks ago our coat closet accidently got locked and we don't have the key for it so we filed out a maintanence form for them to come unlock our closet and they never came so a little while ago we were sitting on the couch wishing we could get something out of the closet and we were so sick of it that we decided to figure out a way to... so then i started thinking about the movie ever after... and if any of you have ever seen that movie you may know where i'm going with this... hee hee (and if you haven't you totally should go rent it!) so we went and got the hammer and we took the pins out of the door hinges and managed to pull the door off! hee hee hee! so we took the door completely off unlocked it and put it back on =) hee hee hee we were very proud of our ingenuity =) so if any of you were wondering, yes it actually does work =)

we shall forever be known as the people who opened a door =) hee hee hee

hooray! we figured out employment for the summer!!!

Roller Coaster

Well well well. what an interesting life we live! Life has been a very uncomfortable roller coaster these last few weeks... anyone that knows me knows that generally i hate rollercoasters that go upside down and the one we have been riding won't stop doing that!!! It turns out that our plans for the summer have drastically changed. We will not be working for Playmill theatre afterall (not our choice.. we've decided to blame the economy) but we are planning on living in West Yellowstone this summer anyways. John and Trudy have been generous enough to let us live in their cabin this summer which means that we will be saving alot of money on rent so it just makes more sense than anything else. We're not entirely sure what we're going to be doing but we do atleast have one significant prospect that we are going to further explore. We're going to go up tonight and then walk around and talk to people and fill out some work applications tomorrow so that we can try to beat people in getting a job so that we can get Sunday's and Donald's wedding off.
We're both staying ridiculously busy with school... i really have no clue how we manage to do what we do but we are definatly being blessed because if it was just left to us we would be failing right now. School has been and continues to be really intense. We had midterms a couple weeks ago and now we are at the point where we have about a month of school left so teachers are freaking out realizing how much we still have to get done and just pilling it all on us. One thing that has really started to bug me is teachers not being clear and blaiming it on us! Like for one of my classes today no one could figure out where we were supposed to find half of our homework because on the syllabus the teacher had put the wrong textbook so we all spent forever trying to find it in that textbook and never succeded and then she said in class that we should have just known...uh HOW? seriously... very frustrating. And we usually try and clarify the assignment the class before because teachers aren't clear but we didn't have class on wednesday because she was sick... does anyone else think that it's unfair that when a teacher is sick they can just cancel class but if we are sick then we end up in major trouble and half of your teachers won't let you make stuff up so you just have to go to class anyways?... and teachers really should remember that when they tell you that you can meet with them on friday if you're teaching on monday then they can't get after you for not meeting with them on thursday.... BLAH!!!!!!! goodness me life is crazy and stressful..
Well we are pretty much just always super busy, the theatre building on campus has become our dinning room most nights but we are grateful that Joe has a job working for the theatre department and the play is coming along really well, it's crazy to think they open in a couple weeks but he'll be wonderful =)

wowsa life is crazy!!!

alot has happened in our little world since i last posted and i don't even know where to start. Last sunday was Joe and my 6 month anniversary and it was fun to think about the time that we have been married. it has been a crazy rollercoaster but wonderful and we look foreward to many many more together =) eternity in fact =) Joe's been keeping busy with school, work and the play he's in. As for me i've been keeping plenty busy with school and trying to keep our heads at least partially attached. We've started into the midterm world and it seems to cause insanity... I'm starting to enjoy my early field class more (i go to a 1st grade class twice a week) and on monday i team taught a lesson on poetry- i felt kinda bad after the lesson was over because i realized i kinda took over more of the lesson because the other college student i was teaching with wasn't really that with it and when a classroom of first graders are staring at you you can't just stand there not doing anything. Saturday was valentines day and my wonderful husband got me dove dark chocolate promises (the heart shaped ones) and 6 roses for the 6 months we've been married and 123 daisies (my favorite flower)... isn't he so sweet?! =) Saturday was mostly an interesting day for us. We had Playmill auditions and call backs and so most of the day was spent with that. It was an interesting day and i can't really think of any other way to decribe it right now. We're not entirely sure what our plans are but when we do make any decisions we'll let people know. Life has been pretty crazy for us and we feel like it's all a bit of a whirlwind but we'll make it through it all somehow!

Here are some pics from our way super awesome ablsolutly we're the coolest chinese new year party we had at the end of Jan. and the flowers Joe got me for Valentines day

first date

A year ago today was Joe and my first date together... wow.. it is really crazy for me to think about because it seems like so long ago because of everything that we have been through in that time =) I'm so blessed to have Joe in my life and it's interesting to think back to before we were dating and it really is like night and day of how much better things seem to be for me. I remember going back to dreary miserable rexburg after Christmas break last year and just being miserable and not understanding why on earth i was there and being extremly frustrated because i had had confirmation that i was supposed to be but i just couldn't figure it out. on top of all of that i ended up being really sick for about the first three weeks i was back.

Joe and i actually met at a ward FHE activity for those of you who don't know the story, he and his friend Jake had a tradition of going to a movie after FHE every week and they saw my roommates and I and invited us to join them so a couple of us did- it wasn't a date i paid for myself and actually thought Joe was kind weird... which he is but now i know him and love him for it =) Not surprisingly nothing happened between us then but Jake started dating one of my roommates. A couple weeks later Joe had a solo in ward choir and they happened to be singing my favorite hymn "O My Father". He has an amazing voice which i wasn't really expecting out of him and being a music lover i tend to take notice of such things so i leaned over to my roommate and said he had a good voice- she immediately jumped on that and decided that she and Jake were going to set up Joe and I. so they all planned throughout sunday school and then i suppose during priesthood Jake convinced Joe to ask me out. After church Jake brought my roommate home and then Joe came over and asked me what was doing the next night (he was so cute and shy... it definatly worked in his favor) and i said FHE... imagine that... FHE at a mormon school!!! hee hee then he asked if i was doing anything after FHE and i said no so he invited me to join him and becca and jake to play some wii and watch a movie. and thus came about our first date and then mommy and papa's fears hee hee... i'm sure when i have kids going on dates and in relationships my parents will just remind them of what i did to them but they just need to remember that i will always be their little princess (#1!).
I'm so grateful to have Joe in my life... =)

random pics from christmas break