Nov 28 2010

The Thanksgiving Post! (The first picture is on on my birthday though. :] )

Our delicious breakfast casserole. Our first new tradition for every Thanksgiving. :]

We made two pumpkin pies this year. One the regular way, and one with half Apple Beer and regular milk instead of the evaporated. The Apple Beer one turned out to be our favorite! :]

Since Troy had to work this Thanksgiving, and we didn't go home I set up this dinner for us to surprise him when he got home. I went through a lot of hard work to get that table set up! :]

I even made name tags for us, just in case we forgot who we were. :]

(You can't tell, but my salad is really pretty.)

This was my Turkey wings! They were beautifully cooked. Really. I was shocked. :] I used all sorts of lovely spices, and I think all my hours of the Food Network is getting to me....

The final set up. Lit candles and everything. It was so much fun. :] We really enjoyed being together. (Notice: our table is in fact Logan and Troy's bedroom desks. Good thing I'm a muscle woman and carried them out in to the front room for a real table!)

Yay! Troy came home from work and I was EXHAUSTED.

This is Troy's Thanksgiving dinner. He ate a ton! :]

Another new tradition we started. We wanted something sweet while we were watching Lost so we made Muddy Buddies! They were delicious. :]

This whole Thanksgiving was hard at first, I didn't like being away from home and Troy's roommate (that I don't get along with too well, and kinda does nothing all day) was looking like he was going to crash my romantic surprise. But the Bishop came and brought him to his Thanksgiving, so we were able to celebrate by ourselves. I was glad, because I didn't want to spend my whole day away from family with someone who I had trouble getting along with. In the end, everything worked out. Even my cooking. :] I was very proud. Lately, I have been quite the chef. So I had faith I could pull it off.

We got so much snow this Thanksgiving Break too! The great "Blizzard" seemed to only bring snow to us up north, and it was actually pretty scary. They sent us home from work early, and a bunch of places were closed. Everything was basically ice, and driving still isn't that great. We are surviving though, and counting down the days until this semester is over!! :] Happy Holidays.

Nov 17 2010

I have gotten lazy. :/

This past weekend we went home so I could attend a couple of bridal showers that were going on. It was a lot of fun! I loved it. :] It was a great time to see everyone and get to catch up. We were lucky enough to have Lindsay and baby Eli! It was so good to see them, and I'm super glad she was able to come and do wedding stuff with me. :] Look how cute. :]

We have started the crazy work life. I'm working two jobs, which has me working every day. Sometimes, if I'm real lucky, twice a day. :] It's a life I'm none too fond of, but I'm looking to the future and hoping that it will pay off. Quickly! :] Troy is also working two jobs, just not quite as intensely as I have been. But it will pick up, and four jobs between the two of us (five if you count the Statesman) is none too shabby, so I have nothing to complain about. We are hoping for a comfortable life. Ha. :] We are both trying hard to figure out what it is exactly we are going to do with our lives, and that is a problem. I'm hoping by after the summer we will have everything figured out, and will be good to go. We will see. :] We are open for suggestions, we are thinking of starting a contest. "Find careers for Whit and Troy. Prize for the winner." Consider your suggestions carefully, your'e deciding our lives.

I have hit the wall on school things. I want to be done. I just want it to be over! I'm trying to push through for these last few weeks however. Pray for me. And my grades. :]

We went and saw Morning Glory and I am highly recommending it. Very good. Very funny. See it! :]

Nov 11 2010

This week has been slow.

But I did get to do a really cool thing on Tuesday! My Intro to Deaf Education class had a trip planned up to Gooding, Idaho to visit the School for the Deaf and Blind there. We left early early Tuesday morning and drove up there. (3 hours driving mind you, not fun.) It was the coolest experience though! This is a residential school, unlike the one in Salt Lake, where the kids stay at the school and go home on the weekends. It is the coolest thing. It was interesting for me to actually be there and to see that, because in class I know that that type of school is so much better. However, it made it real for me to see this little 3rd, 4th, 5th graders living on their own basically, away from home. They all loved it, but it was hard for me to see. But I still advocate going to a School for the Deaf as the best, especially if the parents don't sign. It was so fun though! Me and Emily, a girl who I have gotten to know really well up here, were a group so we wandered around the school together and visited the classrooms. At the school, they use the Sim Com or Total Communication method. This means that while they are signing ASL, they are speaking English. It was really really hard to get used to at first, and we didn't like it at all. But as we were there longer throughout the day, and got to know the kids better, we realized that it was necessary. A lot of the kids are hard of hearing, or have hearing aids/cochlear implants and their ASL skills are not very good, if they even have them. So the Total Communication is helpful because they are understanding, and getting that exposure to ASL that is needed. The coolest part was that our van driver, Curt Radford (who is a teacher up here, and went to that school when he was growing up) pretty much hooked me up. :] His roommate from the school in Texas is the principal at the New York School for the Deaf. We were talking about how I would love to go to New York, and he told me that if I wanted, I could have a job there tomorrow. It was exciting, and now I'm even more confused on what I want to do with my life. We will see how this all plays out however.

Nov 7 2010

My last post as a teenage girl.

Whoa. :]

I'm so ready to be twenty. It will be great. I will make sure to post tomorrow, after I feel so different and mature and great. Yeah...right.

This weekend was pretty chill. Friday I had to work, and that was really lame because I thought for sure I would get off early, but I didn't, and that made the last two hours drag on forever. But then it ended and all was well. Me and Troy just watched Lost and he made me dinner. Mind you, my dinner was great. What Troy made for himself...well, not so great. (Sidenote: this blog post will not have any pictures of food, because I have realized that in posts of late I may have been making others feel hungered. Seeing as it is fast Sunday, I will do what I can to not stir these feelings.) We had an interesting experience in the apartment however Friday night. Right as we were going to sleep, we heard this extremely loud bang from the kitchen/living room. One of my roommates was out there with a guy that was visiting from home. Hearing this loud noise, my first thought was to just ignore it and lay back down. But despite that, I got up and went to check it out. I heard yelling, and was a little concerned. Parker came out with me, and eventually knocked on Dixie's door to make sure she was okay. They were fighting or something, and apparently the guy had kicked her door in. We saw the evidence when we were leaving the next morning. Pretty scary I'm not going to lie. :/ But it turned out alright. Thank goodness.

Saturday we went down to Centerville for the Page Bridal Shower that Ranae held for me. It was really fun, and it was good to get to see everyone. After we went and picked out our cake flavors and seeing the cake lady. That was pretty fun. :] We headed back up to Logan and then went to Chilli's with a bunch of friends from here for my birthday. It was really fun. :] I loved it. It was cool to get to go out with everyone. After dinner we came back here and ate the cake that Troy made for me, and played a bunch of games. It was good. I got to see Tori, April and everyone. I love my birthday weekend. :] The best thing ever, is I know know the entire alphabet in Portuguese (for real this time, I memorized the whole thing) and I can count. All the way up to over one hundred. I'm very excited about that. I'm so proud, and Troy is too even if he won't tell me. :]

Nov 4 2010

So I have a new job.

Woo. I now work at a Crepery. Very exciting. We will see how this goes. :]

Plus we signed our lives away to the new contract. Yay apartments.

So we will see how this new life goes. It's beginning to kick off. That is crazy. I'm very excited. Hopefully we will survive this life. I think we will be fine. I think....

From cookies to crepes, who would have thought.

Nov 2 2010

So I turn twenty in six days!

Plus, we have an adorable new niece, Avery Ann.

I interviewed at a Crepery today so we will see how that goes, I might be having a new baking job!

Troy is now employed at the infamous KMart. Yay Troy!

I got an incredible grade on my recent Astronomy test. Yay me!

Apparently, I am the best almost-wife in the world. Yay me again!

We have an appointment to look at an apartment tonight, so maybe we will have somewhere to live.

We both sold our contracts, so that is good. We are getting so close!

Also, I made this tonight: (Taco Soup) and it was delicious. I'm the greatest chef.