Hunting Trip October 2010

We went hunting last weekend with Benji's family. Benji had one of 70,000 deer tags and he was one of the lucky (or skilled) hunters that got one!

This is only Benji's 2nd deer, so the small 3-point is pretty impressive!

He shot it from about 120 yards. This photo is a reenactment; when it actually happened, I had to be quiet, so I couldn't get my camera out (but I WAS there when he got it). The red circle is where the deer was bedded down.

I kept joking that I was going to "shoot" a deer too -- with my camera. I did get a few pictures, but not any good ones (besides those of Benji's deer). But I like this sunset (much easier to shoot because it doesn't run so fast!) :-)

Graduation Pictures

Since I'm no good at blogging.... these pictures are from a LONG time ago. But I thought it's better late than never to post pictures! These are from each of our graduations.

Benji graduated in July with his Bachelor's of Science in Psychology.

And Mikkel graduated in December 2009 with a Bachelor's of Musical Arts, Percussion Performance.

I got to play at my Convocation - which was really an honor.

Now we've moved on from the tiny town of Rexburg, to Logan! Benji's started his Master's program in Sport Psychology at Utah State University. We love it!

London and Spain!!!

There's a whole bunch more pictures than these... but here's just some of my favorites. Hopefully later this week I'll get around to posting some more.

In front of Buckingham Palace

I love this shot of Big Ben... :-)

Classic

Anybody guess London Bridge?? I did too... but I guess not.

This is Tower Bridge. London Bridge is just a normal bridge.

Well, it's a pretty cool bridge I guess, but this one is more photogenic.

A shot of Morocco. If you look close enough, you might spot some satellite dishes...

Benji and a camel! (In Morocco)

Benji demonstrating the purpose of the slanty holes on the ramparts of this castle in Ronda.

(to shoot the people coming, while they can't shoot you)

Cool castle in Ronda!

Mikkel pretending to be a bull about to charge into the bullfighting ring.

Benji pretending to be a bull in the bullfighting ring (with Jason as the bullfighter).

to be continued...

3 months later...

Wow, I really need to get better at this blog posting thing...
I don't have any pictures on the computer I'm at right now, so this will just have to be a text update.

Mikkel graduated (YAY!!) in December and is now working for the Salt Lake Express (the shuttle service between Rexburg and Salt Lake) as a reservationist. If you want a friend discount to ride the shuttle, call me!

Benji has 2 more semesters before graduating. It's coming so fast! He's applied to grad school, and we're hoping to find out in April ish where he gets accepted. Our top choice is the U of U. Pray for us!

TTFN
Pictures coming soon!

October 2009

What is going on in life:

Halloween was fun. Mikkel played in the Halloween concert, so we didn't get to go to any parties. And we didn't even get any trick or treaters. :-( But we wat

ched a really scary movie

called Orphan (edited) with our good friends the Kings, and we carved really sweet pumpkins.

Benji strained his LCL in his right knee and has been hobbling around on crutches for a week and a half. Hopefully it'll be better in a few days!

Mikkel's Senior Recital is two weeks from Wednesday, and graduation is getting closer and closer! We can't believe it!

Also, Mikkel will be in Salt Lake with the orchestra on tour, playing this year's Sacred Music Series - with text by Elder Bednar. There is a performance on the 14th in the tabernacle that will be awesome! Tickets are still available by calling (801) 570-0080.

Oh Rexburg . . .

I've already complained about this on my facebook, but I just think it's so ridiculous and that the sign they put up is so hilarious, I had to post it here as well.Rexburg has decided to change parking stalls on the street to that crazy "reverse angle parking" thing that's apparently "sweeping the nation" (according to whoever on the city council thought it was a good idea). Sure, it would work someplace where people actually know how to drive . . . and someplace where there's not huge throngs of cars for 15 minutes every hour (between classes).

It's kind of hard to see in the picture, but the sign says

"Back-in angle parking

It's as easy as 1-2-3

1. Signal

2. Stop

3. Reverse"

Just out of curiosity, has anyone else ever seen a street sign say "it's as easy as 1-2-3!" hahahahaha.

And guess how many people are actually going to back in? On the day I took this picture, there were 5 cars parked and only 1 had backed in. We'll see what happens when Fall semester starts and all the people come back . . .

It kinda reminds me of the time Rexburg put flashing lights in the road by the crosswalk (incidentally on this same street), and apparently forgot that it snows in Rexburg. 3 guesses what happened after the first big snow when the snow plows came . . .

Our New Place!

We moved in about 3 weeks ago now, but we were out of town for a while, so it's taken us a long time to finally get stuff together. We live in Stonebrook Apartments now, and we really like them. Here are some pics.

It's pretty much just a regular place. We were most excited about the size of the bathroom (unlike our last one where your knees hit the counter while sitting on the toilet . . . ). Our apartment is the handicap accessible apartment so it's even bigger than normal. I'm way excited about the kitchen too - now we have a dishwasher and disposal! :-) Oh the simple joys in life.