Sunday, December 4, 2011

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!!!!!!! 

Monday, October 24, 2011

Epic Road Trip: The Beach

This will be the final post on our epic road trip, and will contain far fewer pictures because when your at the beach on a warm day you want to play, not take pictures! I just have to say that I LOVE the beach! I want one in my backyard someday ;)

 This reminded me of my favorite poem, footprints in the sand.






Philip LOVES to build sand castles :) So we always do! 

Oh, and I should probably answer a few questions that I'm sure some of you have been asking yourself.... We're poor right? Yes. So how did we do it? Over consumption of cooler food (sandwiches, bagels, etc.), SUPER cheap (this is code for lame) hotels + some camping, looking for and finding deals on tickets, and using the power of technology to find nearby gas stations with the lowest price. And no, we did not go into debt for this trip. And yes, that money would have been great to add to savings. But you know what? The amount we spent for what we did was extremely reasonable (we actually spent about half as much as we did on our honeymoon and our honeymoon was shorter and we didn't do nearly as much stuff). We are young and hope to start our family soon, and once we do we won't have the opportunity to do crazy road trips like this for a while. There is a season for everything, and this August, it was the season for an epic road trip! 

Epic Road Trip: Sea World

Sea World! I love this place! It's like the one place that I had been before that Philip hadn't. Philip really likes fish and underwater animals, so I was so excited to take him! We had a really good time and really enjoyed all the shows that we got to see! 

This was the best picture of the trip, so I had to put it first!


















We got this painted for us while we were there. It hangs in our bathroom so everyday when we see it we are reminded of our fun at Sea World!

Epic Road Trip: Universal Studios

We ended up having a lot of fun at Universal Studios, more than either of us expected too. The studio tour was really cool, especially the simulated earthquake part, oh and the flash flood. Awesome. The best part was definitely the Jurassic Park ride though. I love that ride! We got SOAKING wet, but it was sooooo worth it! 







 The courthouse in Back to the Future! Love those movies! 

 Who-ville

 There's a nice view of WB from Universal.


 We both love Apollo 13!!!






I wouldn't mind going back someday, as long as I get to ride Jurassic Park at least 3 times!