oh dear.

oh my. It has been a while. I'll try to get around to updating about our summer someday and getting some pictures up on the site.

Basically, it went like this:

• My parents came to visit in June. We showed them around the area and went to a Rockies baseball game.
• At the end of June, Johnny and I drove to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park to meet up with friends Kaylynn, Hannah and Chris, and go camping, hiking and nearly eaten by bears and other wild animals for a week (true story).
• In July I enrolled in a weekly pottery wheel class and spontaneously cut my hair to my collar bone.
• On the 28th, we celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary with cheesecake and a weekend long camping trip near Laramie, at Deep Creek.
• At the very end of July, Jason and I traveled to Washington to attend a wedding and tie up some loose ends for our move back to Washington.
• My bell pepper plant that I bought in May started sprouting peppers out of nowhere! They are about 3 inches long right now.
• In mid-August, Harley was diagnosed with Central Diabetes Insipidus after several visits and tests at CSU Animal Hospital in Fort Collins, CO. He was drinking 21 cups+ of water per day prior to medication!

and now we're to today. The next week will be hectic. I'll be wrapping up my time at work, dropping Jason off at the airport while at the same time picking Meghan up, and then Meghan and I will begin our roadtrip (U-haul and dog in tow) to Seattle! I'll get settled in and prepare for graduate school and my new job (at the Pacific Science Center as a Science Teacher on Wheels! (look at the awesome van I might drive! heh!). In late September, Johnny will arrive with his dad (who is flying to Laramie to drive back with Johnny) and with our cat, Atari.

Both Johnny and I are going through a lot of changes on Sept 25: I start graduate school at the University of Washington in Museum Studies and he'll begin his first day of work at Vintage Customs in Auburn! Shortly after that day, we'll be able to move into our new apartment!

Things are a'changin' and are going to be busy so I'm not sure how often this blog will get updated. My goal is at least monthly. Or at least to be less wordy and post pictures instead. We'll see. :P

Give us a call if you want to get together, we both have 3 day weekends!

and check out my 101 Things to Do list! *points to the right of the screen* I've gotten quite a bit done this summer, although I've definitely failed on the repetitive tasks. :P

well everyone, I got a job at the University of Wyoming Art Museum! I'm helping their development director and museum director coordinate their major fundraising gala, which is November 3rd. So the position only lasts until Thanksgiving (after the gala we have to write thank you cards) but it's something! I'm pretty excited for it!


check it out: http://www.uwyo.edu/ArtMuseum/

ah, my parents say it's time for an update. :P

OH! First, I changed the settings so that ANYONE can comment now. You don't need to be a member of this website. yay! (I'm expecting comments now...)

Not much has been going on, Johnny has been working and going to school full time, so he is pretty much a ghost around here. They finally got out of the classroom and into the shop to work on real cars, so he says it's easier to stay awake now (you'd be falling asleep after 8 hours of lecture, too! Especially from 4:30pm-2am!).

I've interviewed for several jobs and to my immense disappointment have not gotten one yet. Apparently possible employers "admire my education and enthusiasm but have hired someone with more experience". That's what most of my lovely rejection letters say. This was an especially good week, I got 3! oh wait, no I got 4! It's almost comical by this point. But I'm still hopeful. I had an interview today and I have another Monday. I submitted a few more applications so we'll see if anything turns up...

In other news, I have been working on my graduate school application. You all better go knock on wood for me RIGHT NOW. I'm really hoping to get into the University of Washington Museology Master's degree program...now cross your fingers now that you've knocked on wood! I want my application to stand out and really show why I want to be there, so it has been quite stressful. I am also signed up to take the GREs in mid-November...I'm not really looking forward to that.

OH and the other big news is that Johnny and I are going to be famous! Our photographers submitted some of our wedding photos to Seattle Bride Magazine, and one of our photos was chosen to be part of their "Commitments" section, with includes a photo and a short story about us and our wedding. It will be in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue (I'm not exactly sure when that comes out...) and it will be one of these two pictures:

(the magazine *really* wants to use this one)


or


so keep an eye out early next year!

Also, we had a really good dinner the other night, here is the recipe:


"Flavorful Chicken" (real original...but it really is flavorful!)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (5 ounces each)
1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika

In a shallow bowl, combine butter and soy sauce; dip chicken on both sides. Place in shallow baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning, garlic salt and paprika. Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 170. Yield: 2 servings

It is *really* good! And I thought of you when I bought that paprika, Hannah. :)

until next time...(with me hopefully bearing better news about a job...)

Yesterday we made a trip to Fort Collins to do a little shopping. And I promised pictures from our next drive to Fort Collins, and here they are!

























Wyoming and Colorado have some neat land formations. There is this really obvious and neat one where you can see where a piece of the land has been pushed up and it basically jutting out of the earth, with the layers of land exposed. It's really neat. It's a very steep incline, and it's just amazing.

This is going through it.


can you see it here??




this is looking at a break in the land








this is viewing the same formation, but on the way back to Laramie from Fort Collins






















So....I was super, beyond belief excited to find a ceramics shop here in Laramie that teaches pottery wheel classes, only to find that they recently decided not to offer the classes anymore due to not having enough employees (it was a husband and wife business and the husband got a different job). Anyways, I decided I needed a new hobby. I stopped into a quilting shop to buy some fabric to cover this ugly photo album that I bought for our wedding photos. I had to wait some time while the employee (owner?) helped some other people, and I noticed some flyers about different classes. When it was my turn, I asked about taking a quilting class. She said I needed my own sewing machine and to buy my own supplies, but that the classes were about $8 each. So of course I got all excited, and I researched buying a sewing machine. I found one that I had read good reviews about at Target and on sale, so we got it. WOO! We already made curtains and I made a purse.

here's the sewing machine


and.... my purse!!!!!






In other news, I had a few job interviews. I am supposed to hear back from a hiring person at one job this week about an interview (I did some testing first. I learned I can type 95 words per minute!) and another job is making a decision this week. I'll keep you posted....

Johnny's good. He starts school next Monday!!!