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!

mashed potatoes

Over two years ago, an eager little nineteen year old went to the grocery store. It was her turn to be in charge of apartment Sunday dinner the next day, and she was going to make a roast, mashed potatoes & gravy, and asparagus. She had a crush on this guy in her ward and hoped to invite him and his apartment over to join in, so instead of buying just 6 potatoes, in faith she bought 12. After Church the following day, the invitation was extended and accepted, and shortly thereafter, the six boys arrived for dinner. This girl had worked really hard with all of her roommates to make a yummy dinner because she really, really wanted to impress this guy. Afterwards, he did all of the dishes.

Today, this same eager girl, now twenty-one years old, made the very same dinner for the very same boy. And he did all of the dishes. Except this time, he was her husband!

Dreams come true! :)

wendy's

Wednesday evening, Da Ducks had their last intramural basketball game before the tournament starts! They went 4-1! Afterwards, the whole crew met up at Wendy's for a late night snack in honor of DJ, who is visiting the Provo area for a few days. It was so, so wonderful to see him and so, so wonderful to have everyone together! We love our friends!!

You might notice two shakes in front of Ben & me - well, let me tell you! The manager of Wendy's brought out several of the new peppermint shakes (woo!) and distributed them to those in our big group who could answer a Wendy's trivia question correctly. I guessed right that Wendy's first opened in 1969 - does that mean I watch too much TV and have seen too many commercials? I don't know. Ben also won one by guessing what street the first ever Wendy's is on, and we enjoyed them from the freezer the next night!