Grad School is . . .

I am done with my first semester of graduate school. What!? I cannot believe how fast it went by. Good thing because if it was dragging along I'm pretty sure I would give up and die. I remember in the summer the second year students were telling us how hard it was but after the first couple weeks I didn't understand what they were talking about. Then about a month in I realized . . . yeah it's hard. Especially when waking up at 5 am every morning so that I could get my hours in at work. I actually think if it wasn't for that it wouldn't be as hard because at least I wouldn't be as tired all the time. 

We'll see how next semester goes because I'll actually be teaching an online class on top of everything else that I'll still be doing. Man. What was I thinking? I just have to keep in mind that in the end, it will all be worth it. For one of my classes I actually had to go and shadow a school psychologist and for the past two or so years I've been so worried that maybe I'm not going to like it. That I've wasted all this time, money, effort, and I've picked something I'm going to hate. Thank goodness for that shadow because of that's what school psychology is . . . bring it on! I loved it! So yes, in the end . . . it will definitely be worth it.

One semester down. 5 more to go!

Forgotten Carols

Jared and I went on a double date to the Forgotten Carols 20th anniversary show at Kent Concert Hall. We went with a friend of mine in my grad school program, Emilee and her date Mike. The Forgotten Carols is one of my very most favorite Christmas cd's so I was really stoked about going. It was a lot of fun! The live show doesn't sound as good to me as the cd, but it's still fun to go and see the show live. 

Halloween

We got to do a few fun things for Halloween this year. More than usual since Halloween is definitely not my favorite holiday. At all. 

We got to go to Thriller at the Kent Concert Hall with Shane and Rachelle, and we set Brett up on a date with Kakoli. We ate at Frederico's beforehand but since we got there late we didn't exactly have enough time to eat a whole lot before heading to the show.

Brett and Kakoli

I'd been to Thriller once before for a class that I had to take my freshman year of college but I couldn't really remember it very well. It was a lot of fun and I think everyone else had a good time too. Jared's favorite part was the werewolves. My favorite part was having Rachelle about jump out of her skin when a zombie came to say hello. I wish I could have recorded that. 

Shane and Rachelle

Shane and Zombie

Jared and Me

Werewolves

Another night we decided to have a Halloween movie night at our apartment with Shane and Rachelle of course, and Dan, Mandy, and Kara. We ate taco soup and watched The Silence of the Lambs (which I love!) and The Shining (which I hated!). Neither of them are scary but definitely creepy. Anthony Hopkins is awesome! And Jack Nicholson is just a creeper in real life so it wasn't a big stretch for the Shining. Maybe one of these Halloweens we can watch a movie that's actually scary.  :)  

Silence of the Lambs

Heeeere's Johnny!

Date Night!

I love going on our date nights. It's usually dinner and a movie, but seeing as how I love movies and I really love dinner, I'm ok with that! Plus, I'm always guaranteed a really good looking date.

This weekend we decided to catch dinner at my favorite Chinese restaurant in Brigham called Hunan Village. My parents took us there to eat all the time when we were growing up and one day during my second year of college they were gone. I was soo sad! Luckily, apparently they were just moving and upgrading so they've opened back up and we love it! I almost always get their broccoli chicken and Jared's favorite is the lemon chicken. But the thing I love the most is their egg drop soup. I always try it at every Chinese restaurant I ever go to but no other place is as delicious as it is here. Sooo yummy!! We also always get us a side of their cheese puffs that you dip into sweet and sour sauce . . . I'm ready to go back again.

We got to Ogden and went to see Captain America! Love love loved it! It is definitely up in my top favorite hero movies. For one thing, everyone miraculously kept their clothes on (minus like one scene with Captain America showing off his new body of course), but all clothes on and still a GREAT movie. -Imagine that.- Also, it really was just a good movie. At the very end after everything is over, they had a little blip for The Avengers. I'm VERY excited for that one to come out!

Weekend Sleepover Party

In celebration of my youngest siblings' birthday we are having them sleep over tonight and taking them out for a night on the town. I can't believe that Erik and Heidi are 15!! Just one more year and they'll be dating and driving and . . . I swear I was doing all of those things yesterday.

We let them pick where they wanted to eat and we ate at a place called Burgerz Exprezz in Smithfield. It's family run and they used to be the burger place that was in the mall for a while. It's Jared's favorite burger joint. Afterwards, we took them to Thor at the theater in Lewiston. Neither of them had seen it yet and I loved it so I of course wanted to see it again. (It's another one of those that we'll add to our collection one day.) We didn't tell them what we were going to see and they were guessing up until the movie started. Good thing they loved it too.

I love having those two over even though I have no idea why they like coming here. We are actually mostly boring. Hence, very little blogging really ever done. Oh well. It's great being able to spend some time with the baby brother and sister.