Saturday, March 28, 2009

COLORS

(Note: I cannot get this thing to listen to me and make this writing a normal size. So sorry, it's just going to stay huge!) Well. We just had a really great adventure last night! Yesterday was our official anniversary, and we decided to just have some fun with it! There's an Indian Temple in Springville, and they were having their annual "Holi," or "Festival of Colors," and we decided to go!!! I'd seen pictures before, but never gone. We drove down with Rebecca and Davis (my cousin and her husband), and walked about a mile from our parking spot to get to the Temple! We got their about 20 minutes before the color throwing began, which was perfect timing :). It was pretty crazy- this band was playing a "Hare Krishna" song, and everybody was chanting all this Indian stuff (we refrained, in case it was some kind of baptism or something lol... and then the band leader announced "Some people have been worried about coming to this because they think we'll want to convert them. But we're not looking for converts, we're looking for friends! And we're so glad we have so many this year!!!" And then everyone yelled and made a hooplah!) and then after a 10-second count down, everyone starting throwing their chalk in the air, and all over each other, and all over everything!!! It was hilarious-- and really hard to breathe!!! We couldn't see anything, and had to cover our mouths with our shirts so we could breathe. But on to the really good part... the pictures....


BEFORE:

AFTER:



We're a mess, and we love it!


Holla!

Align Center


Looks like Becca's makin a pink stink! a chalk one i mean :)



Fruity feeties!



I actually really love this one, too bad I couldn't reach far enough to get Jord in!



The whole gang!



This is probably my fav.



Happy Anniversary!!! Hottie!!!



So I saw a bunch of people with chalk on their faces and I thought it looked ridiculous!!! And I wanted to look that ridiculous too... so, I asked a random girl to give me a nice shot to the face: and here is the result! :)



So that was pretty fun. When we got home we had a shower full of REALLY purple water!!! My hair was draining purple for over ten minutes. Crazy!!!

After that we decided to get dessert, do just a last little anniversary splurge. We went to our favorite Thai restaurant-- Thai Ruby, and got mangos and sticky rice!!! Our favorite.... yummm. If you've never had it, you really really need to try it. Best dessert in the whole world.

Then we came home and looked through all our fun engagement pictures, and watched our wedding videos. It was a perfect anniversary! :)

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Anniversary/Honeymoon Round #2!


So last night Jord and I went up to "Johnson Mill" for our one-year anniversary!!! Our actual anniversary is this Saturday, but the bed and breakfast had 30% on Wednesdays, so.... we decided to ditch school! :) Actually I didn't miss any classes, and Jordan only missed one. We went up around 4 yesterday (it's in Midway, by Park City), and it was SO perfect! We checked into our "Waterfall" room, and then wandered around the grounds for a bit, enjoying the fresh snowfall! There was a lake, a waterfall, a movie room inside, a library with scrapbooks of how the mill was turned into a bed and breakfast, etc. It was so fun! After that we headed back to our room, where we had a bonified indoor picnic! We decided instead of spending wads of money going to dinner in Park City, we'd pack a picnic and enjoy our beautiful room! It was perfect-- we had two walls of windows where we could see the falling snow, a roaring 15-foot rock wall fireplace, and a really tasty spread of food! Jordan cooked a delicious chicken on a portable stove (out on the balcony) and I made garlic bread and a yummy salad at home. After we had milk and some pretty perfectly moist brownies, if I do say so myself. It was a wonderful evening!

This morning we woke up to about 4 inches of fresh snow!!! It was a gorgeous winter wonderland... nevermind the fact that it's March ;).


Our pretty room!


Our picnic!!!


Water Wheel


A sweet wagon we found :)


It started snowing!!!


A pretty view from the veranda on the lake


The waterfall!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Poster Party!

Here it is, the final product! I sent it in to be printed today-- 4 by 6 feet!!!! Wow right!!?? Wow.


Saturday, March 7, 2009

MNCH Poster Presenter!

Good news! I just found out I've been accepted as a poster presenter at this years Mother, Newborn, and Children's Health Conference at BYU (MNCH)! The theme this year is Global Maternal and Child Health, so my research will be really relevant. I'm so thrilled! Now the only catch- I've never seen a conference poster before! Lol. So I'm exactly sure what it is I'm supposed make, so it's lucky I have my mentor! Her name is Stephanie Fugal, she teaches the Women's Health class and she's my mentor for the ORCA project I've mentioned before :). Hopefully she'll know what to do....

Also, tonight Jordan and I are volunteering at BYU's "Hunger Banquet"! It's this amazing event (I think it' in its twenty somethingth year) that helps people understand our blessing/open up their eyes to what's going on in the world. Tickets are like $6, which get you into the event. When you arrive you're taken by an usher (that's me and Jord) to your seat, depending on what color ticket you've been issued. Ten percent of the guests will be given a fancy catered dinner, and have the best seat in the house-- representing the 20% of the world's wealthy class. Another 20% sit on chairs and get pizza and a soda, and represent the world's middle class. The final 70% of guests sit on the floor on cardboard boxes, and have a plate of rice and beans to 5 people... representing those around the world in poverty. On top of dinner, there are dancers, speakers, and when I've gone in the past, it's been really inspirational. All the proceeds go to NGOs and other charitable organizations. My international development class will actually be presenting on which NGOs we think most deserve the proceeds from the event. Pretty awesome! As ushers, Jordan and I are supposed to dress up in international clothing. I actually have a smattering of international stuff, but one of my good friends spent her last summer in India, and lent me a realllly incredible Indian outfit. Here's a sneak peak:






More to come later! We also borrowed a sweet Mexican top for Jordan from our friend Aaron... we'll get pictures up with that later!!!
xo

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Fun with Nathaniel

Well, I've mentioned Nathaniel on here a few times, and I figured I ought to actually introduce everyone to him a little bit! If you haven't read before, Nathaniel is the 9-year-old boy with autism that I do behavior therapy with :). Today we took a break after he did a nice job doing some math equations, and I rewarded (the actual term is "positive reinforcement") him with some fun picture-taking in "photo booth" on my new computer! So here are some of the fun results:







Too fun right?! He really loved it. He kept trying to touch the screen to excitedly tell me which setting to try next, haha, it was really hard to keep him from getting too wild! :) It's fun to see him get so excited about something!

Hope you enjoyed!