Update Time...

So I haven't posted in a while but school has been keeping me really busy. I have a little time now so I thought I would update how things have been going.

Rich is working away as usual. Just recently he hit his 1 year anniversary for work so he was pretty happy for that. People have been asking him about his job in relation to the economy, and he is doing great. The company he works for has no shortages of jobs to do and has quite a few jobs still lined up, so no need to worry there.

I have been going to school and working. I work in the international student office in a specific department called the English Language Institute. It just work at the front desk and do a lot of copying and filing and answering the phones along with odd jobs here and there. I enjoy it though. I also learned that pronouncing Korean names is so much easier than American names... ha ha! School has been going well. I have about a week and a half before the end of the term and I have three finals at the beginning of the week after. Not too bad! That will give me almost 2 weeks for spring break and I can't wait. I am in the process of filling out the application for the interior design program. I am also still taking the classes to get into nursing school. I figure I have time for both of them and at least I will have a plan B this way. I am hoping to get into the interior design program this year and start my classes. At the end of next year I will apply to a nursing school and if I don't get in, then I will already be a year into the interior design program. If I do get into nursing school...well, it's still a ways away so we will just wait and see.

Other then that, not much is going on around here. I will post a few things that we have been doing the past 3 weeks now :)

Snow

I don't have much time this morning but I wanted to give a quick update. We woke up this morning to ...SNOW! It's February and it is still snowing outside! So...I've got to go get bundled up so I can get to school. I hope it snows all day...I like the snow.
Hopefully I can write some more later about what's been going on around here lately but I have to get to work and school soon.

Christmas

I just realized that I didn't put up any pictures from Christmas. For Christmas Rich and I went up to see our families. On Christmas day we were with Rich's family and we opened presents at around 10:30 pm or so which I guess has always been one of Rich's dreams that finally came true! (it's a long story about why we didn't open presents until later, and it involves lots of snow!) During the day Ryan, Rich and I played in the snow for a while. Rich and Ryan did some snowboarding down the road because there was at least 2 or more feet everywhere! After that, the three of us played on the neighbors steep driveway and did some sledding, tubing and a little more snowboarding by Ryan. It was so much fun! I tried to build a snowman but the snow was a little more icey than fluffy. So we opened presents and we all had a good time. Then we went down to see my parents and family and opened some presents with them. It was really fun and we got a popcorn maker and popcorn! We were pretty excited, we both like popcorn. It was just a fun weekend to spend with family and actually have a white Christmas!
Here are some pictures from Christmas Night!

I made these for everyone. They were chocolate chip cookies in a jar!
Our First Christmas as Husband and Wife!

Notice my face when I saw all of the CHOCOLATE!! Thank you Robbie!

And notice that I'm still eying the chocolate later in the evening?? And Rich thinking, "oh man..."

Rich opening some presents
Me opening some presents (super cool knee high socks!)

Wedding Pictures

Rich and I have been planning on getting some wedding pictures printed and framed so that we could have some for our walls. Well, it's been a while but this past weekend we finally got them up. I'm so exited to have the pictures up. I think that the photographer did a great job and I frequently see Rich standing in the "hallway" just staring at the pictures. He usually says something like, "we should submit this picture so some picture frame place" or "we were so lucky to have so many good pictures. People usually are lucky to just get 6 good pictures at all and we had to narrow it down to just a few!" He's really sweet.
Of course when I went to hang up the pictures I had to get the level out and the ruler and the pencils. Notice that all the pictures are exactly 2" apart?! I think I might be slightly OCD. I don't know.

Gymnastics!

Last night Rich and I went to a women's gymnastics meet at OSU. It was called a tri-meet because it was OSU, Cal and Arkansas. We had a lot of fun but Rich was having a hard time seeing. I guess we will just have to get there earlier next time so we can get better seats. OSU was ranked no. 13 and Arkansas was no. 5 and it was really close through the whole meet. At the end OSU won by .025 of a point. It was good. On the floor exercise one of the OSU girls got the best score with a 9.975 and the routine was amazing! One of the other girls on the OSU team is ranked number 17 in the nation for all-around, so it was cool to watch her on all the events. Here are some pictures from the night. Sorry for some of them to be blurry but they were moving really fast.

OSU on the Uneven Bars

Cal on the Ballance Beam

Arkansas practicing on the Floor Exercise

I would have put some pictures on of the Vault but from where we were sitting it was hard to get a good picture. And they go so fast it probably wouldn't have turned out anyway. I can't wait to go to another one!!

Oregon Coast Aquarium

Today Rich and I decided to go to the aquarium over in Newport. We had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures and two video clips from our day.

Here I am in front of the Seals. One was biting the other one's flippers.

One of the birds in the aviary stealing a fish from the bucket.

Here is a short video of some puffins playing in the water.

Rich with one of the Otters. He played by himself most of the day while the other one slept.

A cool fish in a big tank.

Cool fish that sat on his feet-like fins.

An eel in a glass jar with a shrimp cleaning him. The white and yellow fish was getting cleaned by some other shrimp too!

Here is another short video of a little jellyfish swimming around.

Thank You Meg!!

I just wanted to write a big Thank You to Meghan. I got my package in the mail on Monday and I was so happy! I hear it's an oven mitt but I've seen a picture of Emily using it and thought it looked better that way...


Seriously though, thank you so much Meg. I've already used it! (and so has Rich)