last day

Today was the last day of classes! I celebrated by getting a beautiful sun-burn during tennis class! Ha. Actually, Ben & I celebrated by an afternoon outing to the Creamery on our walk home! Then I read on the couch (The Help) and fell asleep for a solid two hours.

We'll hit the books tomorrow. ;)

Ben & I have absolutely loved this semester! We are so happy. Our life is filled with so many blessings - being married to each other being blessing number one! We love BYU so much and we are both grateful that we have one more semester here!

charity

As I was walking to class this morning on the dead-worm-littered sidewalk, I saw a girl stop, pick up a worm that was still alive, and return it to its home in the dirt and flowers.

what kind of king are you?

We recently acquired a big, new bed - for free!

We thought that we were moving from our full to a king, but it turns out we moved to a California king!

(Notice the difference in bed to pillow ratio and bed height to lamp height ratio.)

We can't decide if, with our old bedding on it, it looks more like a hamburger in a bun that is too small, or a bald man with a tupee. Either way, it has provided us with a lot of laughter. This bed is huge!

Don't worry - new, Cali King size bedding is on it's way!

Also, Ben is really grateful that his feet don't hang off of the end anymore. :)

some pieces of good news

piece #1 - We have an apartment for this summer in San Francisco! We are going to be living in the Inner Sunset district, pretty close to the Golden Gate Park, and in the same ward I was born into!

piece #2 - I got an internship for next Fall Semester! I will be interning at the Courtyard at Jamestown Assisted Living Community! I volunteered there earlier this semester for my aging class and just loved it . . . it's a special place and I am excited!

piece #3 - The Management Communications teacher that Ben TA's for absolutely loves him. She told him the other day that his name has become a sort of noun among the other MCom teachers. When they hear about all the things he can do - like grading the research papers and holding grammar test reviews - they all say that they want a Ben, too!!

sides

The blankets . . . the pillows . . . can you guess who's side is who's?

basketball & a birthday

We've recently been attending quite a few basketball games. Wouldn't you, if the POY was on your team and for one whole week you were ranked #3?! We have had so much fun cheering, stomping, screaming, analyzing, . . . you get the picture. GO COUGARS! We got a pair of free tickets the other day and decided to sell them and use our all-sport passes to get it - so, we used our profit as spending money for treats at the game! Hoorah for roasted almonds, hot dogs, and dip-n-dots!

This is Kate, my study abroad director's daughter. She joined us in the student section for the BYU vs. Wyoming game and helped us score awesome seats!

During the last game of the season, the student section prepared something a little special. How fun is this?! We loved it.

Click here to watch.

We have also celebrated a birthday here in the Myers household! My wonderful husband turned 24 last week! On Friday, we had his favorite dinner - "Ben's Birthday Fiesta!" followed by Rocky I (a birthday tradition we plan to continue for years and years) and red velvet cupcakes!

On Saturday, I threw Ben a surprise party with some of our best friends. It was so fun and he was totally surprised! (You should have seen him answer the door - his eyes were still on the basketball game on TV and he didn't even look at us until we started singing!)

I got the idea out of Martha Stuart to do a colored layer cake - here is my attempt at two blue layers. Needless to say, her rendition was much better, but I still had fun making it! And it tasted good.

Here is my happy, happy birthday boy!! Right before the party, he ate two cupcakes from the previous night . . . little did he know! Clearly, he decided to end the evening on a high note with one more cupcake and another serving of cake and ice cream! Now that's what I'm talking about!

what the heck do you expect?

This semester, I have a class every Thursday night - SFL 498 FLE Methodology - where we learn to be FLEers: Family Life Educators. I'm taking this class, among others, so that when I graduate, I can have a bachelors degree and be a Certified Family Life Educator. Woo! Our big project for the semester has been, in groups, to develop a curriculum concerning some aspect of family life education and then to teach it to the community in a two-hour workshop.

My group, Carrie, Whitney, and I, have been meeting every Thursday evening for about one hour at the end of class and every Friday afternoon. We have worked hard, and I think it paid off! Our "big" workshop was this past Tuesday evening!

Our workshop was called "What the Heck do you Expect?" and it was for LDS engaged couples. The focus was on creating realistic expectations for marriage. Our workshop was split into three sections - Whitney did "realistic expectations for yourself," Carrie did "realistic expectations for your partner," and after a break where the students got to decorate their own sugar cookies, I covered "realistic expectations for you marriage."

The workshop was full of mini-lectures, group discussions, role play, and multimedia examples. We had a great turnout and wonderful participation, and we are so excited that we did it!