Mahler's 5th: Day 1

This semester, USU's symphony is playing Mahler's 5th Symphony with UofU. We played our first concert in Salt Lake this week. After the rehearsal, we had 3 hours to kill before the concert so Patrick's dad took us to the Clark Planetarium. We had a grand time.

"Newton's Daydream " in action.

The Pendulum

An image of Earth was projected onto the sphere by 4 projectors.




A sweet shot of the Solar System Model.

Patrick doing his weather forecast.



Patrick on the news!

The Moon model.



Patrick on Mars doing his "Mars Walk"

Me on Mars.



Me on the Moon.

An inside shot of "Newton's Daydream"

For all you hard-core Trekkies out there...

After the first killer concert.

We had some car problems so we decided to stay the night in Salt Lake rather than face the prospect of breaking down on the freeway in the dark. We got a really nice hotel room for pretty cheap. The bed was a king-size and it was like sleeping on a huge cloud! The next day, we took the car to a shop and it's only going to be a very minor repair! Whew! We were able to drive home safely, and thanks to many prayers and some amazing divine intervention, we won't have to spend too much to fix the problem. We were even able to get home in time for me to take my Geology test....

Concerning Deer and Crockpot Stew

Here in Logan, it's common knowledge that deer have free roam about the city. One herd in particular basically live in our back yard and wander around our block and neighborhood. Well, last Thursday, I just happened to be doing homework when I got up and went to the kitchen for a drink of water. When I came back, I looked out our back-room window and lo and behold, there was a deer standing right between our building and the neighboring apartment building, just staring back at me through the window. Needless to say, I grabbed the camera and snapped a few shots. Then I noticed there was another deer so I snapped more shots of the two together. The deer around here are fearless. I was knocking on the window, moving around and moving the blinds up and down just to see if it would scare, but it didn't. It's very unfortunate they've become this way becuse many of them get hit on the road :( But for now, the deer continue to coexist peacefully with us, their human neighbors.

The first deer outside our back window next to the other apartment building.







The other deer was just a few feet to the right of where the first deer had been before it walked over. You would never know this photo was taken out a back window of an apartment building and there's another apartment and other buildings and houses all around. It looks just like I took a picure of some deer in the middle of the forrest, but those just happen to be the bushes seperating our building from the house next door :) cool effect though....I got a nature shot from the comfort of my own home. Well, that's living the American dream for ya... :)

I don't exatly know what deer #2 is doing....stretching?...mooing?....swallowing....?.......burping....? Haha, You tell me.




Now here's an interesting story. I made crockpot stew today which has a layer of peas on top. I used a whole bag of peas not even thinking about the fact that Patrick hates peas and will do anything to get out of eating them, even if he has to resort to taking 15 minutes of dinnertime to sort them out of his entire serving. By the time I was nearly finished with my stew, he hadn't even tasted his yet, but had come up with this pile of peas that was almost as big as the rest of his serving itself. Now THAT'S dedication. The other half of stew was a big hit, so I will definitely be making it again sometime soon.....just with less peas the next time around. :)

Haircut!

I got a new haircut! :) hee hee! that's all :D

Christmas Posts!!!

Our Christmas posts are up! check them out! They might be just a little out of order, but hey, they're up :) enjoy.

I was in charge of decorating the tables at our Relief Society party. These are some edited photos of the actual decorations on the tables. The bows were HUGE!








We went into the canyon past Mink Creek with my Grandpa Durrant, my sister, and my dad to get our tree this year.

Patrick cutting our little tree.





Taking the tree to the truck.

Setting up the tree in our apartment.

Cute little multi-colored tree :)

Chess game in Preston the sunday after Christmas.

Bowling Rematch with Matt and Brittany.

Matt's ball "Carole" and Brittany's ball "Lenore".

Patrick with the "Big" Man himself. Santa was in the foyer of the Bowling Alley! :)

More Christmas pics

On Christmas Eve, we had a fun little jam session. Dad played his guitar and Patrick and I took turns on bass.

Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.

The Hat of Awesomeness!!

Cool shot of the pool table.

Me, Patrick and sister-in-law Brittany played a fun game of Pool at the bowling alley.

Casualties of the Epic Spoons Rematch between Jill, Matt, Brittany and me.

Late Christmas

Ok, so I know that it's February, but here's what we did for Christmas.

We went up to Preston to stay with my folks for two weeks this year. It was a great firts Christmas as a married couple. We did a lot of really fun things and my brother Matt and his wife Brittany came down from Boise and stayed for a couple days. While there were here, we had Xbox competitions, played spoons, and had an epic bowling rematch.

Patrick enjoyed bringing out his "farmer" side in doing some chores around the house like chopping wood and feeding animals. We played tons of games, read books and just relaxed the whole time. Here are some fun pictures.

Loot!

Squeegie decided to stand guard over the presents.