UTA

Unlike all the other blogs I love reading, I won't be talking about our new baby that just learned to sit up on his/her own, but I will be talking about our exciting life! (insert sarcasm here). When you don't have jobs (or money) it's hard to do really awesome things. (That's probably not true, but currently that's our excuse!) But we're both in school, taking tons of classes, so mostly we just study and do homework on the weekend. Oh, and I just thought of my other, more important excuse on why we don't do awesome things: I don't have a camera to document them! What's the point of going skydiving if I can't document it with a picture? Ok, ok, we have no plans of going skydiving anytime soon, but you get the idea.

So last weekend we went to the U of U (Adam's school) all day Friday and Saturday. In an effort to save money on parking Adam takes the Trax into the University each day. So on Friday I took the Trax with him. We woke up around our usual time so we could get out of the house by 7:30am to get to the Trax stop on time. We drove to the 7200 exit and parked the car, then waited in the cold for the train to show up. (Adam had a sweatshirt and jacket on, and he gave me his sweatshirt so I'd be warm.) The train finally came and it was a 45min ride to the University. By the time we got to school I felt like we had already had a full day! Adam does this everyday and never complains about it! He's awesome! And I love him! Oh, and one more thing...this is Adam on the train...and he's also awesome because he hates taking pictures, but will let me take his picture anytime I want to! =)

Vegas

This weekend we went to Las Vegas to "work". Adam has never been to Vegas really. We've driven through it every time we visit my parents in California and we've stayed a night or two in Vegas on some of those trips but we never really had the Vegas "experience". Well, we had enough of it to know that Vegas is not for us. But since we're here working and we have nothing else to do, we hung out in a casino...we didn't gamble, but it sort of looked fun. Although we saw people losing their money soooo quickly it was crazy! And people are allowed to smoke in the casinos so the smell sometimes kills me. We had to go outside and get some fresh air. Plus the weather was super nice.

Adam is listening intently on how to play Roulette. Just kidding. We watched these two guys play. One did really well, the other not so much. It's an interesting game based purely on luck! Risky! But if you win, you could win big! I guess that's the idea that keeps people playing!

The Heat

This morning, right after we woke up, we're laying in bed and Adam turns to me and says, "I feel bad....for Dwyane Wade." What? "Well, Lebron is just gonna take the ball and try to score as many points as he can, blah, blah, blah."

You think about weird stuff first thing in the morning.

Road Trip

Recently we went on a little trip up to a small town in Idaho to visit my Grandma. We had a good time driving around with my grandma as she pointed out sentimental places in that small little town. It's the town my mom grew up in and I can see why she left. If you like small towns, then you'd love it there, but if not...well, get out when you can.

My uncle (my mom's only brother) still lives there too. He's an incredible guy. He's very handy and willing to help anybody! Adam's car needed some work so after breakfast on Saturday we went over to Uncle B

rett's house and he totally fixed Adam's car. Brett has every tool imaginable! Seriously! And he lives by a junk yard so he can go and get any car parts he needs--he has all the tools and equipment to take it off the junk car and put it on the car he's working on. It was actually pretty impressive!

While Adam and Brett worked on the car I played with Uncle Brett's grandson. He's five and doesn't get to play with a lot of kids his age that often. He has a lot of energy--as much young boys do. H

e really liked Adam! He didn't want me to push him on the swing he wanted Adam...it was cute...then the little boy came up with a brilliant idea (all on his own). He took this rope and tied it around himself and pretended that he was my dog. He even went so far as to tie himself to a cement slab. That was towards the end of the day and I was getting tired of playing...so having him tied up was perfect! lol

The kid also made this contraption and trapped Adam on it. If he moved it would fall over.

Eclairs

I love baking and cooking! Although I'm not very good at either...yet. But I guess it just takes practice and trial and error. So, yesterday I found a recipe for mini eclairs on Allrecipes.com and since we had all but one of the ingreidents I decided to make it.

They came out good, I guess. Adam ate them.

(But like a good husband, he eats everything I make...I know he really likes something if he asks me to make it again!) Actually, I liked them too. I got the sugar free vanilla pudding (the filling) on accident, but they still came out pretty good. I thought they tasted like eclairs and that's all that counts! When I first put the dough together it was really sticky, and consequently hard to handle, but they cooked just fine. Anyway, I'll probably try to make them again.

Blueberries!

So as it turns out Adam loves, loves, loves blueberries! (This was one of the first things he told me when we met..."Hi, I'm Adam, I love blueberries." j/k) But he does love blueberries and until I met him I only liked blueberries. But since he loves them and I love him I've come to love blueberries too! (Not to mention they're one of those super-foods, so they're supposed to be extra good for you!)...Well, while we were in North Carolina there was alot of places that had pick-your-own-fruit...unfortunately we didn't go until close to the end of the season...so we onlygot to pick blueberries, which was fine with Adam, but I would have liked to also pick blackberries (which were the two fruits they had there.) Since our work schedule was super crazy most of the time we had to look around for a place that would be open at a time and day we'd be able to go. We found Dr. Young's Pond Berry Farm and woke up early in the morning to drive out there...it should have been about a 30 minute drive, but we got lost and it took almost an hour! But we had a good time picking blueberries!

And apparently for his birthday his mom usually makes him a blueberry pie! He was still in Utah during his birthday this year and I was in North Carolina; but I got a great recipe for blueberry pie and went to the store to get all the ingredients and I planned on making it for him as soon as he got to NC...well two months later I still hadn't made the pie! So I few weeks before we were supposed to go back to Utah we started clearing out our cupboards and refrigerator and we found two cans of blueberry pie filling. (Which I don't remember buying but the pie I was going to make called for fresh blueberries) I still had the pre-made pie crust so I made a blueberry pie with that and the blueberry pie filling. I added a sweet crumb topping to try to mix it up a bit. The result was super sugary and good pie. I wouldn't make the blueberry like that again, I'd use fresh blueberries, but Adam ate the whole thing!

My New Camera

I would hope this post would be all about my new camera...but I don't actually have a new camera to gush about...You see, no matter how financially stable you were before you got married, after you have no extra money to spend. haha...or at least that's how I think it works.

I bought a Cannon 4MP camera 5 years ago that has served me well. It was cutting-edge when I bought it, but now, 4MP seems so out dated. But truthfully I would keep the camera and use it but recently the flash stopped working. (It's probably something that's easily fixable.) So I figure my only recourse is to buy a new one. So I'm doing what any normal person that's strapped for cash would do...buy it off of ebay! I've been checking ebay for the past week for a good deal on a nice camera...and by nice I mean 6MP...haha...well, we'll see what happens. I'm sure I'll get one eventually...then I'll post tons of awesome pictures on here! =)