I read blogs and think maybe I should quit my day job and become a blogger. I could read people's book reviews and never have to pick up a book. I can get my daily dose of tongue and cheek from "seriously so blessed." I can realize that my life is average every day with a little high school reality check from MLIA. It could be really fun. But, seriously, as I read blogs I start to self talk in blog format. Who will read the blog? No one, surely. But this is the way the world thinks that they are being social. Social networking! Yay! I can talk all I want on a webpage and people know me and I so totally know them! Woo hoo! Really? Ha. Here I am. Doing it to. I should have just written in my journal.

Try a Google and Yahoo war. Type in the beginning of a question like "what to do if" and see which search engine gives you the better answer. I'm pretty sure that you will like Google's. I do.

What else is going on? Well I'm crocheting these days. I'm on square five in a lovely reddish color that is called goldfish. Here is my question. How do they get goldfish die? Do they...oh let's see...collect the goldfish that are swimming around...or rather floating belly up in the sewer system, skin them and make them into a stew that becomes a die for my yarn? Oh yeah! I find myself being a little sarcastic on things like this blog page...but ya know. Continuing on...

I'm becoming crafty. Sometimes I am crafty in baking other times I am crafty with yarn. Sometimes I like paper. I went to the Cotton Shop with Mom. Oh the patterns on the fabric there are just my favorite! I wish I had a million dollars and million minutes to make something cute with every single pattern in there! Yep yep. But I don't. That's why I do not buy stuff there. Ope! Neighbors are vacuuming above me. I hope I don't get sucked into their swirling vortex.

Phone Books and Family

For President's Day weekend, Ben, Claire, and Porter spent the night. We played lots of fun games including hide and go seek in the dark, Boggle, and SkipBo! We also ripped phone books in half. I have a pretty muscular family!
Ben managed to rip a large phone book in half. Watch out, ladies! He's hott stuff :)
Porter took his hand at a smaller one...
Erik tackled a large one!
Claire helped out with the thick ads!
I guess Erik's desire to keep not only our phone books, but also our neighbor's phone books wasn't such a bad idea. We had fun with them for at least 20 minutes.

On Monday morning we made sugar cookies. Here is the crew before the cookies were baked! They did a wonderful job making lots of pretty shapes.
It was fun having everyone come over. We definitely will be doing it again soon in the future!

Summer Time

It may be only February, but Erik and I are starting to finalize our plans for the summer. We are going to Livermore,California to work at Livermore National Laboratory! We are excited. Erik will be working in the area of emergency management and I will be working with microfluidics. It will be a great opportunity for us to get out and explore a little bit. We are also headed to Peru in April! We have been working on with BYU Global Engineering Outreach to design water heating systems that will help improve the lives of the Peruvians! Yippee!