Back to School

It's about as official as it can get. I'm an Aggie. I had such a range of emotions going into my first day of classes at USU; Excited, Nervous, Anxious, Grumpy, and Sleepy. Ok I realize I started listing dwarves there at the end but it's accurate. It didn't help that I'd been sleeping in WAY longer than I am proud of the week leading up to classes. My schedule isn't exactly what I was hoping for, transferring forced me to fill a few more generals than what I had already finished at The U. I also have a really long break on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I was super bugged about that until I realized that it gives me a window to come home and shower after my Dynamic Fitness class. All in all it's an adjustment switching schools, a bigger one than I anticipated in many ways. I've found pros and cons to the switch but the fact that I'm now married to my sweetie and living about 10 minutes from my family gives USU the win hands down. 

The biggest downside to school starting is the time it takes away from spending with Waylon. On Tuesday and Thursday I have to leave before Waylon gets home from work. If I work either of those days I don't make it home until 9:00 and he has to be back at work by 9:30. So that part is a major bummer but we're toughing it out. We're really hopeful of him being able to move to a day shift soon but will survive if it takes a little longer. 

I'm probably more thankful for Labor Day than I've ever been in my life for 3 reasons. 1) I need to catch up on some sleep big time this weekend and the extra day is majorly helpful. 2) I'm ashamed to say that my Dynamic Fitness, and Jogging classes have totally kicked my butt. Going from little/no exercise to a full out work out 5 days a week was one of the worst ideas I've ever had! I have been walking like a stomping toddler for the last 3 days. I'm happy to say my legs felt way better this morning. I've made it to the tolerable, even slightly enjoyable, dull post work-out ache. 3) Labor Day is the bomb! We spend our Labor Day in Wellsville at the Founders Day celebration. It's a whole couple of days filled with family, good food, and tons of laughs. The last few years my family has been helping to put on the traditional Dutch oven dinner as a fundraiser for the Mountain Crest Girls Softball team. It's a ton of work and my parents are my heroes for doing it but its also a lot of fun. We start tomorrow night by husking about 400 ears of corn at my grandma's house and it just builds from there.  So if you don't have plans for Monday come on out to Wellsville for the parade, sham-battle, dinner, carnival style booths and lots more. 

Hope all you students had a good first week back!

Lots of love

Dan 

1 more week!!

I feel like I'm counting down the hours until the end of the world, while really I'm just counting down the days until school starts again. I wish I was better at school, I really do. I wish I liked it more but I just don't. I hate all the pointless hoops that professors take such joy in making students jump through. I hate spending a small fortune every single semester. It's just not my thing. So I guess I should be wanting this to start soon so it can be over soon but I'm totally dreading it. I'd rather stay home and hang out with my cute husband all day. Granted, when I do that neither of us make any money!

This week was slow but great! I worked a bunch of hours but on Wednesday we got to go over to my Dad's house for his 48th Birthday and for Bailey to open her mission call. She's going to be serving in the Columbia, South Carolina mission and we're so very excited for her.

We did get to spend all of Friday together which was I so thankful for. We went to the temple, did some golfing, and went to a BBQ with some friends to visit with a close family friend that was in from out of town. All and all it was a fantastic night.

This morning we were up early and at a company softball tournament for Waylon's work. It was pretty fun. They only played two games but it was lots of fun for Waylon to play ball with his brother Dustin and our friend Brady.

We don't have lots of plans for this week. We're just going to kind of play it buy ear and hopefully spend as much time together as possible before we wind up on totally opposite sleep schedules for the next 4 months or so!

Everyone enjoy your last week of summer!!

Married Bliss!

Well it happened! I never thought July 27th was going to get here but it did. It came and went and honestly I can easily say it was the best day of my life. We are absolutely loving married life. Our Honeymoon in Jackson Hole was perfect regardless of the rain that came down every day. And now I absolutely love getting to see my adorable husband every single day even if it just for 5 minutes in passing on our way to and from work.

I redid the blog a little bit because it's not just me any more. Hopefully I can stay on top of it and keep this little thing updated with the tales of our adventures over the years.

We're just trying to squeeze out the last little bit of summer that we can before I have to go back to school and life gets really really busy again. Don't get me wrong we're a little bit hectically busy right now, it's kinda tricky to juggle one of us being nocturnal and the other one not. However, it's fantastic. The chaos and unpredictability is what makes it exciting and wonderful.

Waylon's been swamped at work lately so we're pretty excited to go over to my grandma's cabin in Bear Lake with my family this Saturday and spend the night before we head to my cousin Kayden's mission homecoming Sunday morning. I'm pretty excited to see that kid after 2 years serving the lord.

Hope all is well with all of you. Have a fantastic week :) Enjoy the rest of your summer!
-Dan