10 Signs School is Back in Session

Here is my list of things that were observed this weekend reassuring my assumptions that Provo is a different world in the summer time.

10. It takes almost 2 hours to go to the Walmart or Macy's
9. We need to exit the back of our parking lot a lot more now- no more quick turns out onto 5th west
8. The extra 10 minutes added to my drive to work- all of it from home to Bulldog and sometimes University Pkwy
7. Realizing how much older we are than the freshman
6. More often then not, there is a car stopped in the middle of the intersection of 550 W and University Pkwy (the one by Albertsons and Olive Garden)
5. All the mac and cheese, top romen, and pot pies are sold out at every grocery store- yes Evan does still eat like a college student some times and I love it!
4. We can't go somewhere without running into someone from current classes, old classes, old jobs, etc.
3. No more open parking at our complex
2. Seeing all of our old friends that have been gone all summer at internships
1. I lost my husband on the weekends to COLLEGE FOOTBALL

And along with the football, it is always funny to hear what the ESNP announcers have to say about BYU. For example, last night a really good play was made and the announcer said, "Max Hall just said 'Oh my gosh', or whatever they say down in Provo". Gotta love the clean reputation that the town has.

Random Happenings

So Evan and I went down to California to see my family since my little brother was in town on leave from the army. My little nephews never fail to make me laugh. Here is a conversation with the 3 year-old Quinn.

Me: Quinn what color is this? (while holding up an apricot colored crayon)
Quinn: Skin-ish!
Me: What color is this crayon? (Now I had a violet crayon)
Quinn: Well, um.. that's a tricky one. That man (meaning the crayon) is a very big liar. It looks blue, but colors purple, so I think the color is burple-ish.

I think he has been around my mom a little to much by adding -ish to the end of everything if he is not sure.

Good luck this semester babe! I know that you will rock! Te amo mi esposo.

Cooking Group

So I have been thinking for a while about starting a cooking group. With most of our husbands starting school over the next couple of weeks, I know that I need something to distract myself while Ev is studying all night at the library. Does anyone want to start one with me? Here is kind of what I was envisioning. Once a month getting together and sharing a themed meal together. The hostess will provide the main dish then pick the theme, assign dishes to bring (sides, dessert, drinks, salad, etc.), and pick the location- either their home or if your house is not big enough, somewhere like the park. I would set up another blog where we can share the recipes and organize the month’s event.

Some ideas for themes that I can think of are countries, wraps/rolls, finger food, less than 5 ingredients, holidays, really anything.

Let me know if this sounds like something that you would want to do…

Surgery Round Dos

So Evan has another round of surgery on Tuesday. He originally tore his ACL and 9 months later, another trip to the hospital. We originally thought that his meniscus was torn, but he had a cyclops something or other growing in his knee. I don't know, the doctor explained that his knee was not bending properly because of the mass of something growing. Now that it is removed, he should make a full recovery. So moral of the story; this...



turns into this...



I love you Ev! You are amazing and a lot braver that I would ever be.

Thanks Dr. K for not amputating his leg by now!

Boise!

We went to Boise this weekend- also know as the toddler version of Salt Lake. Some day when we grow up, and if Boise grows up, we might consider it home. Evan and I decided this summer that we would go and visit potential grown up towns to live in when Evan finishes school. It was a lot of fun. We stayed at a really nice hotel and were able to visit downtown and drive around to see the city. We took some before photos and hopefully some day- cross our fingers- we will take an after photo in front of the capital when Evan works there.

For those of you that have never been on a road trip with us, you are missing out! I think for about 1/2 of the trip we played our favorite car game two different ways. We put the radio on scan to see how may songs I know, 10 out of 10 every time. Then we played the Evan version, talk radio. 10 out of 10! The theme of our car ride is summed up in one song that we heard I think about 20 times, no joke; that new Black Eyed Peas song I Gotta Feeling. It was a really fun trip. Just being able to jump in the car and go with no plan was a blast.




I had to take this last one picture. The capital is under construction so I couldn't go close. This a picture of the front and right under the stair case is the governor's parking spot! How crazy is that, some day Ev, some day.

Cousin Camp

Every summer Ev's family has a big family reunion. Because there are so may nieces and nephews, they call it 'cousin camp'. We went to Rexburg over 4th of July weekend. It was a lot of fun to see all of the family and spend time with his brothers and sisters. We played lots of fun games and ended the weekend with a firework show compliments of all the kids. Thanks Juliet and Spencer for a wonderful and very eventful weekend.