Wintertime

I'm not confused, I know that it is in fact springtime, but I haven't blogged for a looooong time.... so wintertime will be the topic today. I completely attribute this blogging hiatus to school. This past winter semester was insane for me. Definitely the busiest semester I have ever had, but it is finished now! Yay! And today was my last first day of classes at BYU!!!!!!!

So here it goes...... starting with Christmas break. We visited my family in Washington for Christmas break and we had a lot of fun! We were able to visit with family, relax, bake, eat, and just enjoy the season! 

Philip & I on Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve lunch at Lou and Dave's house with Grandma Danz and the rest of us!

Baylee and I on Christmas Eve

Philip on Christmas morning.... he didn't shave most all of Christmas break, so he was prickly!

Everyone at Christmas Dinner! The extra's include Grandma Sandy, Andy, Vincent & Kylie with their kids Myah and Max and Kylie's mom Cynthia. 

 

I may be 21, but Baylee's only 9, and sometimes I prefer her kind of fun :) 

We are just so cool, you don't even know. We made a music video and even put it on youtube. If you can find it you can watch it! =D 

There is a Euro market in TC... we went and found these chocolate wafer cookie things.... we bought these all the time in Russia! They got me through teaching those kids!

This is our family cat Scamper. He is 13 years old now, and I just love him! 

During Christmas break we had my friend Jessi take some family pictures for us. If only Edward, Kate, Ketra, and Will (my oldest brother and his family) could have been there the pictures would have been complete! 

They all look so much like Opal! So cute! I just love them! 

Valentines Day was nearly overlooked this year. We were just so busy with school, and it was on a Tuesday, but we did make these cute cinnamon rolls!

We frosted them with pink frosting after baking. Easy and fun! 

Philip turned 25 this year! Happy Birthday to him! It's also good for lower insurance rates and renting cars if we need to.... and getting the EIC credit on taxes next year!

He got a dinosaur cake from Costco! 

The story of getting the cake is kind of funny..... so a day before his little mini birthday party I kept asking him if he wanted me to make him a special cake or if he wanted to buy one somewhere. We were at Costco getting gas when we were talking about this and so we decided to go inside and look at the cakes. So we go in and are looking at the bakery cakes and there was a cute dinosaur cake, but it was on a white cake and not a chocolate cake and so we didn't get it.... but then Philip still didn't know what he wanted and told me to pick a cake and buy one for him.... and then I said that I would come back the next day and buy one and Philip says that if I come back and there is a chocolate dinosaur cake I should buy it. And I was like, Philip, that is not likely, but then I went back and there was one! 

Easter! I love Easter! It is an amazing holiday and I loved that we got to have testimony meeting on Easter and here so many testimonies of the Savior. Here is some of what Philip and I did on Easter:

Dying eggs! All of mine were ugly, so they are not going on here.... but Philip made a cool one!

Philip made this one to look like one of the spirals on St. Basil's Cathedral, and the X B are initials for how to say Christ is Resurrected in Russian, which is how they say Happy Easter, which is so cool! Can you tell which spiral the egg represents? :)

We also made egg shaped cakes! And for once something I made turned out more aesthetically pleasing than something Philip made, doesn't happen often. But I don't think he was trying very hard. 

Making these cakes was also fairly easy and fun! Cute, cute, cute!

The day before Easter (Saturday) BYU held an Easter conference where they had speakers from the department of religions (specifically ancient scripture) here at BYU as well as some great music. We went and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great way to begin celebrating Easter early. =)

RaNdOm. So just some random things......

Feeding tons of stalker hungry ducks!

In the middle of an intense study session for my theory of analysis final with my friend Melissa.... Fall finals

I was a grader for a college algebra class this semester and one of the students drew this on the back of one of their quizzes =) Funny. 

Autumn 2011

This fall has been really eventful for us!

 The semester began with Philip making a career path change. Previously, Philip was an exercise science major on a pre-dental path. Due to promptings and prayer he decided to switch to landscape management with the end goal of getting a master's degree in landscape architecture. We are both really happy and excited about this decision! He is on path to graduate in August 2013 with a bachelors in landscape management and a minor in management from the Marriott business school.

I am still continuing on my path to graduate in December 2012 (only 1 year! yay!) with a bachelors in mathematics education. I did decide this year though to add a geography teaching minor. This means that when I graduate I will be certified to teach math and geography in middle and high school. I really cannot wait to graduate!

So what were we up to in the month of September? Mainly school, but also towards the end of the month we went to Orangeville Utah to go to the baptism of our nephew Eli Morris. We drove up there with mom & dad Roberts and really enjoyed the whole trip! Here are some pictures!

 Us and Eli, we are so proud of him!

 Hannah and Abby, Eli's sisters! 

Jacob, Eli's little brother. With his cast! 

Philip and I at the stake center.

While there we went up to the Rochester Panel. It was a fun hike and it was really neat to see all of the hieroglyphs!

October was also a great month! It began with general conference, which I love! We were able to go the the Saturday afternoon session with Philip's brother Mike and sister Charlotte along with our nieces Julianna, Ashley, and Hannah. That night Philip went to the priesthood session with Mike and brother-in-law Lowell.. We took some pictures of the fun we had while conference was not going on, but unfortunately they accidentally got deleted off the camera before they got onto the computer =( 

We also went to a BYU football game in October, but those pictures also got deleted. 

The end of October was of course Halloween! We didn't really have time to think of costumes, so we dressed up as milk and milk's favorite cookie. We also made these witch hat cookies... super easy and cute! 

 The red thing on my head is the cap for the milk...

 Philip's carved pumpkin.

 I didn't want to carve, so I painted! And I painted a Turkey so that it would stay in season through Thanksgiving!

Every Wednesday there is the Police Beat in the campus newspaper. This one made me laugh. A lot.

Thanksgiving was great too! We went to visit my Grandpa Burch in Idaho Falls Idaho. My wonderful Grandma Burch passed away this past August, it was strange to be there without her there, but it was wonderful to spend time with my mothers family. 

 Us and Grandpa Burch

 My Aunt Gina's family. Left to right: Sydney, Uncle Jay, Mark (in the back), Derek, Aunt Gina. 

Left to right: Aunt Kaye, Julie, Aunt Gina, Sydney, Me 

Me and my cousin Sydney. We were born in the same hospital room 2 years apart! 

I love my mom's family. They are so awesome and loving and fun. While there we also went to the Idaho Falls temple for the first time. My grandpa is a sealer at that temple and that is the temple where my parents were sealed. 

We also went to a vocal point concert in November. They were amazing! I loved it! 

Well, that has been autumn for us! We are sooooo looking forward to the end of the semester and Christmas!!!!!!!