So true.

"The Hotness Menace" - a very good point. You should check it out. The last paragraph is the best. I love it! "Hotness is stuck idling in the 'what.'" Enjoy!

A day on the job

Well, Mal and I are on break right now. We have an entire week off of school! For some that translates to sleeping in, lots of movies, and lots of football. For Mal and I, that means no school work and extra time to earn money at work. Mal said she can work between 20-30 hrs this week, I can work up to 40 at my job. Today I got rewarded for working during the week long break. We got the opportunity to drive up to Teton County to check some fire extinguishers at some of the lodges that the school/church owns. We own three properties with many lodges on each! It's pretty amazing actually. Here is a photo album of some of what I saw today.

Here is one of the barns owned by the school that we checked. There are a few cabins, or 'camps' as they say back east (new terminology I learned this last summer), right near here.

A 'vintage' covered wagon...they actually manufacture them at this warehouse for some reason.

Buddy decided to spend some time with us today. He is a nice looking Collie, owned by the care takers of one of the lodges we checked. Looks like he is just trying to stay warm on top of a hay stack.

Peering through the aspen trees.

A funny little "Java the Hut" cafe in Driggs.

A closer look at the Grand Teton, standing almost 14,000 ft. above sea level

Here is a great picture of the mighty Tetons.

A bit of good news

This isn't a huge deal, but I was able to find my camera again! I thought I had lost it about a month ago while printing some pictures at Walmart. I had no idea where it was, I thought maybe I had left it somewhere in the store and someone picked it up and decided to take it home with them. It's a nice camera, and takes great shots. AND I had just taken on the "Picture Spouse" role (the one who takes it upon themselves to take pictures at certain events)! So a month passed, and we were on our way to a BYU football game party (they handed the victory to Utah btw), and I glanced down by Malie's feet and saw it peeking from underneath her seat. I reached down and picked it up...I honestly felt like Charlie when he discovered he had found the last golden ticket! I was so happy I probably could have jumped out of the car and pranced around our parking lot singing "I've got a golden ticket!". Anyways, more pictures are coming your way. I'm sure Mallory is absolutely thrilled that I have my camera back...as you can see on her facial expression in the picture below. 

Martian Child? Seriously?

So Mike and I rented a movie last week called "Martian Child" with John Cusack, Joan Cusack, and Amanda Pete. I remember when it came out, and although I love John and Joan Cusack, and Amanda Pete's not bad, I was kind of like, "Martian Child? Are you kidding me?" But a friend of mine (studying sociology, go figure) assured me it was very good and that she would recommend it to everyone. I said I was sure she was right, but I never did actually go out and watch it.

Last weekend, too tired to plan anything with friends, Mike and I hit up the video store. I saw it and told him what Aileen (the friend) said about it. He was like, "Seriously?" I said I'd only watch it if he was interested, and that I could honestly take it or leave it, but I had heard it was really good. After another couple of minutes, we finally concluded there was nothing else really worth renting anyway, so we got it.

She was so right. It is so good! The whole time it has you thinking that the story could really go two ways, right up until the end, and when it decides it's just like, "Ooooh! I see! I like that!" I really liked it, the whole way through. It's been out for a while, so I know some of you have probably seen it, but it didn't have a huge opening - it was only in theaters here for a week or so. So yeah, I just figured I'd suggest it to you all in case you haven't seen it.

It's rated PG for "thematic elements and mild language." (No language sticks out to me specifically, unless you count "stupid." They do say "stupid" a couple of times. Other than that, I really can't think of anything.)

The computer's working! Yay!

OKay, so I got my computer back a few days ago, and now I have time to actually tell everyone... not that it's a crucial piece of knowledge, but hey, we all scrounge around for something half-way interesting to blog about from time to time.

Luckily we have most of our wedding pictures on backup and Mum is going to see if she has any from the Maine reception saved on her computer. I also have all my important essays, short stories, and poems I've kept and re-written since high school on my jumpdrive or in hard copy, so we've got those. However, all my recipes - gone. All the pictures of old friends, roommates, parties, and Mike and me dating - gone. Every system converter I've downloaded so I can read .docx files, etc, - gone. The list of Latin words in their different declensions I'm supposed to have been keeping throughout the semester - gone. All the music I've been given by Mike, Jym, Josh, Angela, Celeste, and Levi, along with all the music I have purchased myself - gone. Worst of all, the video Alexa put together for our wedding - GONE!

Anyway, you get the picture.

Slowly, partly-surely, I will rebuild what I've lost. If anyone has the wedding video - AHEM, ALEXA! - I'd sure like to have a copy. Frankly I feel a little entitled to it, considering it's is my wedding video.

Winter has arrived

Winter is finally here! Our weather has been holding off for so long, these past two weeks we have been enjoying 65 degree days with cold nights and lots of sun. It has been raining lately, and last night...the rain turned to snow. It was beautiful.

The Latest and Greatest

Here are some of the latest pictures. Since my computer broke last summer, and Mal's just broke on Sunday, we have been having a lot of issues getting assignments and blogging done. Anyways, here we go.

On Saturday we went to Jackson Hole. It was really fun. We didn't really plan it out, otherwise we probably would have seen more. We just kind of woke up and decided to go. Jackson is famous for the wood-plank sidewalks and overly expensive shops.

Here is Teton Pass, 8,441 ft. above sea level.

We decided to get out at the pass to walk around. It had just rained, and there was a little bit of snow around. It smelt so good.

Here is a quilt Mal made for one of her projects for her Robert Frost class. Each square has an element from a Robert Frost poem, which includes quotes, pictures, symbolism, etc.

A few days before Halloween, we went to the Haunted Mill. It was really fun! All of the "monsters" in there really just targeted the women. I won't lie though, I even jumped a few times. We invited a lot more people, but we had so many couples turned us down because the wife had some traumatic experience last time she went (wet her pants, ran back to the car crying...I couldnt' believe it!!).