Fall is back again

Fall is back and you know how I know, because of the beginning of another football season and school year. I don't have to go to school, it is wonderful being done, but poor Sean is busy busy busy again with the joys of homework and long assignments. He is such a trooper, I'm so glad he works so hard at everything he does. We started off the BYU season with a game last week and they did great, except for in the third quarter. Today we spent a lot of time watching all the NFL games and checking Sean's scores on Fantasy football, fall has officially begun, even the weather is cooler. Now I am starting to worry about having another long cold winter, it is just not my favorite time of year. Goodbye summer and sunshine, hello changing leaves and pumpkins. I am really excited for Halloween this year though, I am hoping that since it is on a Friday we can go up to the Hartley's in a real neighborhood and see all the cute little trick-or-treaters, they are the best. Anyways that's what's going on now, I'll update you with pictures as soon as I have some.

I did it!

I made it!!!! I somehow survived this crazy semester of 18 credits and working 20 hours and I passed all of my classes and am getting a college diploma. I can't believe it. It went by so fast. It was so fun to celebrate with my family, my parents, Sean's parents, Mike and Marci, and Quinn and Marianne. I was actually nervous about walking, I have no idea why, but I was. I had my cute new dress on from the Gap and I was there on time and I think I looked alright. I'm so glad I'm done. We went to Costa Rica Last week to celebrate, it was the best trip ever. I will post my thoughts and pictures from that soon. Hoorah for Graduation!!!!!!

Graduation

I have 7 days left as a BYU student and I can't believe it. It has gone by so fast and I can't believe it. I never thought I would make it to graduation, it always seemed so far away. One week from yesterday I will be done with finals forever, and then a week from tomorrow I will be walking in my hopefully new dress and cap and gown and getting my fake diploma (they mail the real one to you). Then I will go on my dream vacation to a tropical paradise in Costa Rica, which I am not in shape for like I had planned. I am so so so excited. This just all seems so surreal. After I get back from my trip I will be working full time, which I have done before just never as a college graduate. Maybe they will give me some more responsibility, I doubt it though, they all treat me like a kid that doesn't know anything at work. Oh well, I am excited to be done and anyone who wishes to join us at my convocation is welcome. My make-shift announcement is below.

I'm so tired

School is exhausting. I am so tired all of the time, and no I'm not pregnant. That is usually the question I get when I say that I am tired. I have been going to bed earlier than normal and not waking up to go to the gym for the past week. I have also somewhat neglected school which is not so good. I think I need to get back on the school train. Only 9 weeks left and I really really really can't wait. I can't wait to not have to worry about assignments and tests and passing classes. Life will be so blissfully peaceful when school is over. I can't wait for Sean to be less busy with classes. Summer is so much fun. We get to just hang out in the evenings and not worry about homework assignments.
It is also 9 weeks until Costa Rica. We are going to kick it up a notch in our diet and exercise, which for me that means actually going to the gym everyday and staying on the diet. Normally I just don't care what I eat as long as I'm running 3 times a week, but now I'm going to try a little harder and maybe I will see some results. I'm the worst dieter in the world. I just wish I had the metabolism of a 16 year old boy, they can eat whatever they want and never see the consequences of it. I love food way too much. Which leads me to my ice cream issue, I always want ice cream. I am the worst at buying ice cream when I am on my own and angry. I went to get my favorite flavor at the creamery yesterday and they were out and everything else sounded nasty to me. So I went to the grocery store which is further away, and I was swearing the whole drive to the store. This is a sign that I should not have bought ice cream, when I'm in a mood like that I just cannot seem to pick out good flavors. I ended up coming home with cheesecake ice cream with brownies mixed in, what was I thinking. It is so gross. The only time cheesecake ice cream is good is when it is with berries at cold stone. I don't want to eat it and we have a half gallon of it left, and Sean won't touch it either. Now we have a nasty flavor of a million calories that no one wants to eat, but it will have to be eaten if we are ever going to get another good flavor in the house again. I'm a lunatic, I should have stuck to cherry garcia from ben and jerrys and never even looked at the 1/2 gallon dryer's ice cream.

Nothing New

Nothing new so far this week, just busy busy busy as usual. I really can't wait until graduation. I just feel so tired all of the time because I have school and work and school and work constantly. It will be nice when I can come home from work and just relax and not have to worry about tests and homework. I have decided that I do get stressed, but it is not a frantic stress where I work hard and get things done, it is a stress where I am so overwhelmed that I just give up. I need to stop doing that or I will not pass my classes. I am trying to stay ahead this semester and get things done on time. Hopefully I will be able to remember how to do things and what I learned by the time I get to my tests and that way I can ace all my classes this semester. Believe me, I am trying.

I am so excited and I don't know why

I am so excited and I don't know why. The reason I am excited is because things are going amazingly well. Sean is loving school, I'm only 3 months away from graduation, and in a couple of years we are going to be working in the real world.
Sean spent today in Salt Lake and Earnst & Young, an accounting firm, getting to know the way accounting jobs work. He learned more about how the internships work and was able to make a good impression on a recruiter. He has applied to two mini internships for this summer where he would be spending a few days with the firm I guess shadowing or something. I'm not quite sure, but I know that it would be a really great experience for him. I'm really excited about all of it. For the interview for one of the mini internships for KPMG there is a get to know the spouses thing on Wednesday night next week. I'm really excited to go, this is my first business dinner type of experience. I have to look like a professional and make a good impression on the recruiters just like Sean does, they are not only recruiting the workers but the wives as well. So they will be judging me just as they are sizing up Sean to see if he is good for the job. I think it is really neat. I think I'm a pretty sociable person and can make a good first impression, at least I hope so. My MComm class talks all about these situations, there was a whole chapter on proper etiquette which I am prepared to use. I just hope that I don't ruin it for Sean.
We were talking about the places that he would be interested in working at and he mentioned that Houston is one of the two top choices. I would be so so so so so excited if we could end up there. I have friends there and we would only be a few hours from my family, and I really just loved growing up in Houston. It would be a dream come true if we could live there. I know that it won't be set in stone for a while, so I'm going to try to not get my hopes up, but that is very hard. I'm so excited about it, and I don't even have reason to be excited yet.
Another exciting thing is that we found this really cool apartment that we might be interested in. We would be neighbors with one of Sean's friends from the accounting program, and we would have a washer and dryer. We could possibly have a dog there too. We will be looking into this and figuring out whether we will move or not. If we do move I will be sad though, as excited as I am to have a dog and W/D, I would miss my ward. I really love the people here. I have made so many great friends. It would be sad to not go to church with them and see them every week. I think that this is something we will have to consider carefully because I want to make sure that we are happy.
On a side note, today at the gym my shoes were wet and I slipped off of one of the machines and almost landed on my butt. This guy had to help me lift the machine back into place because I couldn't do it on my own. Sean didn't even notice he was so into his workout.