3 Years Down (Eternity to Go)!

We just celebrated our third anniversary! I cannot believe how fast time goes by! It's crazy! We decided to keep it fairly simple this year and went and spent the day at Lagoon. While we were there we had a bit of a surprise when we saw my youngest sister Heidi there with one of her friends and their family. She is so sweet. She came running up to us while we were sitting in a ride to wish us a happy anniversary. I love that girl!

By far one of the best rides ever at Lagoon! Love Wicked!

Afterwards, we went to the theater in Ogden to watch Super 8. We love going to the theater in Ogden (and Salt Lake) for the pure and simple, beautiful reason that you get reserved seats and we don't have to wait in any lines! We really liked Super 8 and that's one that will probably end up on our movie shelf. By the way. Has anyone tried the D-Box seats at the theater there in Ogden? What it is, is the seats themselves move with the movie. Kind of like a Disney World type thing. We just did the sample they have sitting there where you by your tickets and I think it would be so fun to try out for a whole movie! So when we do I'll let y'all know if it's worth it.

It was a great day! But I love any day that I get to spend with Jared. Yup. I think I'll keep him.

Grad School Here I Come!

So after a very long, very stressful year of studying for the GRE, writing a letter of intent (painful to say the least), taking the GRE (Ugh. That is all.) . . . I am in! I'll be starting grad school this fall!

This is what I felt like when I found out that I got in!

I've decided to go into School Psychology EdS. and (hopefully) School Counseling as well. I'm actually really excited and scared at the same time. Just the idea of finally getting closer to being done with school . . . and into real life, real job, etc. It seems a little overwhelming if I think about it too much.

My program will be 3 years long with 2 years of classes and my third year will be a full paid internship. I've heard rumor that after I get my EdS, if I go to the U it's just one more year and I can get my PhD . . . Now if that's true it's definitely something I will look into. But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Until then . . . YAY!! I'M IN!!

~ Our Weekend Getaway! ~

Jared and I decided we needed some time away from everything for a weekend. Just take some to reconnect a little bit away from family, friends, work . . . and just spend time together. So we booked a room at La Quinta in Salt Lake and headed down. For dinner we stopped at Outback Steakhouse in Layton which we'd only been to once before. It is soo yummy! Jared is in love with their baked potatoes. They are probably so horrible for you but they are delicious!

The next day we decided to head over to Hogle Zoo. Which I've never been to any other time than summer so going in March was a little chilly. I guess they're building an entire new section at one end of the zoo. So they didn't have the polar bears or penguins since they're going to be moving them into the new section. We're gonna have to go back when they get it done! We ended up spending three hours there anyway and had a lot of fun.

Finally, we ended our day by going and spending a little bit of time at the Clark Planetarium. We were too late to make any of the good films they have there so we just walked around looking at all their displays and pictures. We also spent almost an hour trying to defeat Level 4 on the games they have by the planet display. We were bound and determined! In the end, we were finally successful. Our reward . . . a picture of space. :) So worth it!

By far one of our favorite parts about the zoo were the all the tigers. They are so huge and so beautiful! We loved them.

We were lucky enough to be able to watch these two in a big race! The little one, who we were cheering for, won!

My other most favorite part was the elephants. They were so cute! We watched them for almost a half hour because the zoo had the radio blasting and all three elephants were dancing in time to the music. It was so awesome!

Meet Mr. Grumpy Pants. He did not move or blink I swear for like 15 minutes. Even with all the little kids smashed up against his window, nothing fazed him.

I think Jared might be a little bigger than the natives who made these little dwellings were. I'm just glad he didn't get stuck.

This is Jared's "determined" face.

And of course . . . our amazing reward. :)

~ZuMbA~

So I decided to try zumba tonight with a couple of the girls from my work and I invited my sister in law to come with us too. So much fun!! I'm not really into dancing but I seriously need to start working out so figured why not? I would definitely recommend it to everybody. You don't have to be good which was definitely a plus for me. Funnily enough, the Latin type dances came a lot more easily to me than the stupid line dance one. I could not figure that one out! I ended up just spinning in circles and jumping around now and again. Other than that . . . Loved it!!

P.S. - Is anyone else as super excited about the super cute new fonts you can use on here as I am?! About time!

It's My Party . . .

Had a great birthday!! Even though I still had to work that day, it wasn't too bad. My awesome sister in law brought in the nieces as well as some delicious chocolate covered strawberries for me. I also have some pretty awesome co-workers so it wasn't too bad. Earlier in the week we went to Firehouse to get some dinner.

And my boss bought a cake. I also took the kids donuts to get them to be extra extra nice for the day. Ha!

Jared took me to Ogden and we went to dinner at Rooster's. The food there was so good! Jared got the salmon and I ordered the rack of lamb. I was worried about ordering something new but it was very yummy. After dinner we went to the theater and watched The Green Hornet. I didn't have super high hopes for it going in, but it was hilarious! I laughed so hard I cried a little bit.

Jared bought me a new camera (since I was kind of stupid and broke my last one) and I love it! It's tiny and still has 14 mp. It also has a lot of fun features that I've been playing with. I can get it to highlight one color in the picture and it will turn everything else black and white. It's awesome!

We'll get to celebrate Jared's birthday soon and I'm trying to think of super fun things to do . . . Can't wait!