Once there was a Snowman...

So Thursday night Julie and I went out to have our weekly girls night, which we haven't had in a awfully long time. We of course went to the Wicked theater to see if we could get tickets in the lottery there. I believe it was our 4th time going and we still have not made it. sigh maybe someday. So we went and saw Yes Man instead. It was fantastic!! We'd both read the book and were a little worried about how Jim Carey was going to pull off the wonderfully witty British humor but the movie is different enough from the book while still maintaining the core idea that it was really great. I highly recommend the book and the movie. But I warn you, it will change your life : )

Saturday night, Dan and I were going to play games with our Barney friends and us women were gonna kick some man trash to the curb. However, it poured snow all day long and it was a bit treacherous to go out even a few streets away to their house. Instead we decided to play in the snow and build my first ever snowman. 
Here is Buster (because he's a bust, not a full figured snowman) Corncob. Jan had this little snowman kit which was awesome. The snow was very powdery and wouldn't stick very well so we just made a bust.  
I also made a snow angel for the first time. Dan made a snow man to accompany my angel. 
Oh that Dan always getting into trouble : ) 

I hope everyone has a great week!! Wish me luck as I head back to my internship after a 3 week absence, should be interesting!!!

Update

My group came in 3rd! wa-hoo! apparently the prize is "memories." That's why I'm paying $30,000 in tuition, to receive memories for a prize. awesome.

Oh Capstone

So I turned in my capstone paper yesterday. We were way ahead of schedule and the lady we turned it into was very impressed. Today we had our presentation, and apparently my group made it to the final round! Amazing! So in a little bit we'll be competing against a few other groups to see who has the best plan for Casa de Esperanza. Winning is no big deal really. I heard that last year the winners received paper weights. riiiiiiiight. But anyways, it's kind of cool that my group got into the final round. Go us! : )

Sigh

If I had an extra $750 laying around and I could handle the thought of wearing such heels for an entire day of standing. I would totally get these to wear on my wedding day and I would be blissfully happy. 

And I'm back in the game...

Picture from the date night Dan and I had on Saturday. We went and ate Mexican food and saw Seven Pounds (the new Will Smith movie). Wouldn't really recommend it. You know how the trailer is super confusing? Well the movie is like that up until the last like 10 minutes... and I guess it's a good message... but then again kinda weird and not really a good message... a weird movie after which you will want to play Wii Fit to get your endorphins going again : ) 

Dan and I played Wii Fit at his friend AJ's house and now we're obsessed. We want one. We are registering for one. If anyone wants to spend that crazy amount of money on us, please buy it for us, and know that we will then be the absolute happiest newlyweds in the entire universe. end of story. 

Tomorrow. I start capstone which is my replacement project for a masters thesis. Upside: I don't have to write a really long paper which I don't enjoy doing and I know nobody will enjoy reading. Downside: We're in groups of 18-20 people and we have 2.5 days to write an 8-10 page paper and compose a 10 min. presentation which will be presented as part of a competition. Ummm 18-20 people writing a paper together in 2.5 days? This will be interesting...

Wish me luck!

Well Hello 2009

AJ amazed us with his awesome dancing moves. Some titles: the shopping cart, doing the hair, volleyball... you get the idea of his amazing-ness

dancing with streamers

The boys

The gals

yeah we're totally cool

Saying Goodbye

la madre
el padre
los padres
on the plane which we boarded early in an effort to be helpful only to be told once everyone was settled that we wouldn't be taking off for another 45 minutes. awesome.
Dan trying desperately to open our recently purchase headphone splitter packaged in that ridiculous plastic that not even superman can open without a pair of scissors. Thankfully my fiance is more amazing than superman and opened it for our listening pleasure. 

The holidays were lovely. I will miss my lovely warm California, my boring ole Fres-yes, my crazy looney family, and being constantly adored and loved. I am so glad that Dan and I got to go home for a little while and he and the fam bam could get more closely acquainted. 

Top 5 amazing things about Dan during the holidays:

1. He got Spencer to laugh and smile more than anybody in the family.

2. He let my darling little cousins pile on him day after day, hour after hour.

3. He only snuck out of a wedding conversation once (I'm taking your phone away when we talk about weddings from now on)

4. He was chill and laid back about me ditching him multiple times to go do wedding dress junk

5. He was just amazing and fit in so well : ) love it, love him.