Friday, May 21, 2010

We're BACK!! hahaha

No we did not drop off the face of the earth although sometimes being locked up in the chemistry lab or the library kinda makes me feel like I did. We are finally finished with school for the spring semester. However I am doing summer school so I can take some extra biology courses. This semester was a lot more stressful for me and a lot less stressful for Schyler. He decided to lighten his load for schooling because of work and I cranked it on. I enjoyed this semester but I am SOOO happy it is finally finished, it should be smooth sailing from here on out.... at least I hope.
Some new facts:
I am doing my corporate fitness practicum so I am working at two fitness centers: ASK(Accelerated Kinectics Training) where I train athletes from 7-18 years of age. It has been fun and the best part is I get to workout when I am done so it really motivates me to workout. MSU fitness Center where I train older individuals. I only have one right now but love doing it. In June I will start at a Cardiac Rehab center and hopefully I will be able to see an open heart surgery there.. it will be exciting!
I also have a new job with my others... research for Dr. Bobylev with organic chemistry (leuckart reaction for those who know what that is) and chemistry stockroom. The new job is research with Dr. Schmidt where I will be working with the products of Dr. Bobylev's research and seeing what they do to the body. I am excited to start the new one this upcoming week.
Schyler and I got new mountain bikes... (picture will be coming shortly its not working for some reason) and they are awesome. We went bike riding the other day on a trail you wouldn't expect in ND. N e ways though I crashed twice.... funny story actually so there are some pretty steep hills (short hills) and there is one I just can't seem to get up well n e ways I was infront of schy and of course couldn't make it up it. I always get off of my bike to the left and when I went to go do that I saw schyler coming up on my left side and it scared me so I went to the right lost my balance and fell backwards sliding down the hill. I had to of hit a branch cause it smashed in my Styrofoam on my helmet! THANK GOODNESS FOR HELMETS! Then later on I was trying to go faster cause the trail took me like 45 minutes to get through the first time so I was trying to pick up speed well I came around a corner and realized there was another hill so I went to go shift and it kinda threw me of balance cause of the lower gear....BOOM! My left handle bar clipped a tree and I went sailing through the air. I kinda wish we would have had a video camera cause that one would have been SWEET!!! hahaha N e ways not finished there so we get into the car after "trying" to look for ticks and I am sitting in the car waiting for schyler to get out of subway when i feel this thing crawling on my leg! AHHHHH!!! It was a tick so I flick it off of me and realized I couldn't find the sneaky bugger. So I'm looking and looking only to see out of the corner of my eye another tick waiting to attack me, and then there was another one under my seat. I jumped out of the car and waited for my knight in shining armor to save me from those awful things! I did learn some interesting facts:
1. Those things don't die with a stomp like a spider would you have to freak'n do the river dance on them to kill them.
2. They can live up to a year without eating and only feast once a year... so if you think they are going to die in your house like a fly after a few days you got it all wrong.
3. They can't jump (thank heavens!!) they crawl to the edge of blades of grass extend their arms and waiting for their unsuspecting prey!
4. This is just awful to realize... females lay anywhere from 3000 to 5000 eggs! not cool luckily it has to be an their prey... icky!!! so n e ways At home schyler checked his bike shorts only to find one on the inside... hahaha I know where that tick was headed nasty lil' bugger! lol All in all we are safe now... not so sure we want to continue riding that trail but had fun and enjoyed it!



So many of you know I am the Primary music director. It has been fun and this is my latest invention. Schyler and I struggled with it so much so I was way nervous about the Junior primary getting any balls into the holes. Come to find out they ROCKED!! The senior primary had more of a problem... the conclusion is that if you tap the ball the will roll around and drop in a hole due to the creases in the paper but if you hit it with more force it just lands in the back or back corners and stays there.


We do miss home terribly and wish we were back but hopefully only one more year of this and we can be back in UT... I do love the people here and the warm weather lol