Finals

It was Finals and Graduation this week at BYU. I kept having flashbacks of the last day of Finals in April of 1995. My brother and I were at home watching tv when this conversation happened (something like this):

"Are you done with finals?"
"Yeah, are you?"
"Yeah..........do you wanna go get shakes at Granny's in Heber?"
(we both look at the clock)
"Yeah! We have time to go and come back and pick up Mom from work on time"

So we head up to Heber, get shakes, then drive back in time to pick up my Mom from work, which was 4pm for many years.

By the time we got back home Corey's mission call was in the mail box. I know we got all excited when he opened it up and it was to Japan. I got my mission call four months later to South Africa while Corey was in the Missionary Training Center (MTC). I was working in the MTC cafeteria at that time so we were able to walk over to the big map and take a picture.

I don't have the picture of Corey and I at the Big Map, but this is me with my MTC companions, December 1995.

More Research

In November, my PhD reviewers said I needed to redo my last project. So I am finally collecting data for this project. These are usually the days/times I can collect data. It's been a ton easier than when I was in England. It took 6 months to get 6 couples to participate in England. Now in 3 weeks I've had 4 couples participate! I need close to 18 couples, so hopefully it won't take too long!

This is the Place

 A couple of weeks ago Dave and I stopped by the 'This is the Place' State Park. The story goes that when Brigham Young and the first pioneers arrived in the SLC valley, he said "This is the right place, drive on."

This is a plaque listing all the Handcart Companies. My ancestors we part of the Martin Handcart Company, which is the most famous and had the most deaths. My family was lucky to survive with no deaths or injuries.

Dance Training Room

This is my office through the window. The rest of it is the BYU Dance Training Room. 

This is a wall in one of the stairwells in the Richards Building by the Dance Dept office. There are always opportunities for the dance students to perform and do workshops in the summer. 

Valentine's Flowers

This is the bouquet Dave got me for Valentine's. It's so pretty!

New Cape Town Stake

At the beginning of March the Cape Town South Africa stake was split. I found out the Stake President of the new stake of the northern suburbs ( Bellville Cape Town Stake) was someone I taught on mission Paul Kruger! His wife Betsie was baptized, but Paul waited two years to get baptized. Because of this I was able to finally find them on facebook. Their little boy in the picture is now a missionary in the Durban Mission! So crazy.

Bellville Chapel June 1996 

Interviewing

February was a really busy month. I belong to the Dance Science committee in the BYU Dance Dept. We were doing interviews to replace Ron, my former boss and mentor, after he early medically retired, who was the Head Athletic Trainer for the Dance Training Room. Everyone took the interview process VERY SERIOUSLY. The position was only temporary because of other issues, which I really don't want to type about because I am tired of explaining it to everyone. We would have had to turn around to find a permanent replacement, but Ron was not the only one who made a quick retirement decision last year, then more decided to retire this year, plus a couple of the folk dance teachers had to stop teaching for next Fall semester so BYU wouldn't be violation of Obamacare. Needless to say everyone was burned out of doing the search and interview process, so we extended the temporary contract to August 2015 to give us more time to do a better search. We probably won't be starting until October/November 2014 for Ron's permanent replacement.

Christmas 2013

I know it is April, but I forgot to mention that my brother Corey's family came to visit. One night I watched a movie with the kids and we all fell asleep. I love this picture and I just love my niece and nephew! I miss them tons!

New Provo Temple

I don't know if you can see in the photo Dave took, but they put the Angel Moroni on the new Provo Temple downtown where the Tabernacle use to be. 

Local Favorites

Dave really likes supporting local businesses. An Elder from my mission and his wife started Sodalicious, they make the most yummy drinks! Dave had a 'Castaway' yesterday and it was delicious!

The BYU Creamery makes really good ranch dressing and ice cream!

Plus Dave is an addict of Cafe Rio, we use to go every Saturday.

Home search

Dave and I have been driving around the south end of Utah county to look for a new place to live. 

This is a pretty view of the other side of Utah Lake.

I like this color blue.

It will probably be closer to October before we actually can put a bid on a house/land, so until then we will look for the perfect place for us.

Heber Ice Castles

Have you seen this Alex Boye version of the Frozen song on YouTube? We drove by it in January.

Gilbert Arizona Temple

We drove down to the Gilbert Arizona Temple open house in February. Dave had only been to the Preston England Temple open house while he was on mission, so we had to go. It was a long drive but worth it because it was so pretty.

Knee Surgery

I had knee surgery a month ago. As you can see my knee was gigantic.

It's getting better because of the rehab and icing. I can run and jump without pain, but my running form is still off.