January

This month is going by SO fast! I'm kinda glad though, that means Spring will come that much faster. Greg got a job, I got an internship, and we have been watching season 5 of 24. Life is good.

Greg is all finished with classes, he needs to do an internship (hopefully this summer) and apply for graduation! Woohoo! I have one more semester after this and then I should graduate in December!

We haven't figured out what to do with the rest of our lives after we graduate, but we are just enjoying NOT thinking about it. We have such great friends here in Rexburg and it will be sad to leave them, I'm sure we'll stick around for a while.

Wallace barks a LOT but is still super cute which helps me to not kill him every time he goes on a barking rampage. I wish it was warmer out so that I would actually enjoy taking him for walks. He seems to like the snow though, but I have to clean my floors way more often to get rid of all the paw prints everywhere. Greg's brother Garrett is getting married in March and we are looking forward to his family coming to visit for the wedding. It will be the first time Greg's dad has come to visit in Idaho. We can't wait.

Christmas With The Youngs

We spent Christmas in Colorado with Greg's family. It was fun watching his little brothers and sisters open gifts. They were so excited about everything. We had a fabulous dinner Christmas day and then spent the rest of the night playing games and Guitar Hero. Turns out there are a few dancers in the family and some wish-they-were-musicians.
Julia
Jacob and John
Greg's Dad, Grace, Angela, and Joshua

We have had so much fun visiting the fam and Greg's had a blast playing with his brothers John and Jacob. We are sad to go, but they are coming out to stay with us in March for Greg's brother Garrett's wedding. We are gonna have a FULL house!

We are headed to Utah Tuesday to visit for New Years, then its back to Idaho to hopefully find some jobs and attend another semester of school.

Soda Pop Stoves

On campus each semester the Outdoor Activities program does a few Survival Clinics where they teach you skills to, well, survive. Greg and I went to one last Thursday and made these really cool little stoves to put with our emergency preparedness stuff. You can use rubbing alcohol, the stuff used to get water out of your gas tank, and even hand sanitizer as fuel. They stay lit for about 10 minutes, just enough time to boil a small cup of water :D I thought these were such a cool idea! Instructions on how to make them can be found at backpacking.net/makegear. (sometime I'll ask Greg how to make those little links to click on)

HOLY COW!

I can't believe its almost THANKSGIVING We are almost done with school! I can't believe it. I just need to hang on a little longer... Saturday was a mini triathalon at school and Caytlin, Maggie, and I raced against our husbands and WON! WOOHOO! Maggie did the swimming (12 laps in the pool) and beat everyone that was in the pool, then Caytlin got on the bike (she pumped hard for 5 miles) and when she finished, I did the running (2 miles indoors, 22 laps). We were soooo proud of ourselves! Teach those bums to think that just cuz they're boys they can win bahhahaha! Maggie and Bryce took all the pictures so hopefully they'll send me some to post :D

Halloweenie

We have been brainstorming and planning and getting excited for our ward Halloween party. We are supposed to bring and then decorate a cake with our ward FHE group. After hours of searching Google for great ideas, we decided to make a graveyard scene with two 9x13 cakes. We went out yesterday to buy all the accessories and after sampling all of them, will hopefully have stuff left to actually decorate with! The party is Friday so I will post pictures of the finished product.

We are also planning a Halloween party. Last night we started decorating and were there till well after midnight. But I'm sure all the hard work will pay off, right? =) Greg and I still haven't figured out what we are going to be, and I decided I'm going to leave it up to him to decide since he didn't really like any of my ideas... (news anchormen, american gladiators, or tourists)

There's only 8 weeks left till the end of finals, minus the week off for Thanksgiving, and we only have 7 weeks left! Its so crazy how fast this semester has gone by!

Another Adventure

Our friends Bryce and Maggie invited us to their grandparents' house for dinner. They have an awesome place and all kinds of fun stuff to play with (Bryce's grandma has this huge scrapbook room that I spent like 25 minutes just looking at). Before we even went in to say hello to his grandparents we saw a little zip line and the boys had to give it a try. The only problem was that it needed to be oiled or something, because they only made it about half-way across before they got stuck!

Bryce was the first to get stuck in the middle, and he had to decide to hang on or just fall in.

I hopped in this paddle boat that happened to be ready for a rescue

Bryce hung on till I could get over there. It took me a while since its been a LONG time since I've been in one, forgot how to steer =)Christian decides to test his luck too.

Then of course Greg decides to join in too!

But he decided he wanted to get in head first

We were worried the boat would sink with 5 people on the boat (Christians date Hyson tried it too)

But we made it safely, with nobody falling in, back to shore! And Maggie was the wonderful photographer. Thanks Maggie! Oh, then we met the grandparents =)

We're Online

Its official! We now have the internet. And its our own too. We aren't stealing wireless from neighbors! Greg's brother Tim is in town for the weekend, so Greg's been taking him to all the good food places in town (Craigos Pizza, Big Judds, the Taco Bus, etc) He also took him shotgun shooting and they had a great time blowing up old squash and apples and anything else they could find to shoot in the garage.

I went on a backpacking trip for a class that was supposed to be for two nights but after the first night everyone was ready to go home. Its snowed on us all throughout the night and didn't look like it was going to let up. So we only ended up hiking about 8 miles total, and didn't get in all the experiences we were supposed to, but I learned a lot. I learned that I like camping but will never do it again in the winter. I also learned that water purifiers freeze, camp stoves don't always work even if you test them before your trip, tents are not fun to put up in the dark, and the food you plan doesn't always turn out as good as you imagined. But I got to meet some fun people and overall we had a good time. Even when we got back to our van and it didn't start. Everyone kept a very positive attitude.