Work Responsibilities

Hey all, so no pictures for this blog post.  The past few weeks has kept me (Adam) very busy.  My boss at the testing lab has been gone for two weeks on vacation and has no access to his e-mail.  In his place, he has asked me to make sure things would run smoothly.  When he left, he created a list of things to do, which consisted mostly of printing out exams and compiling four exams.  However, as it always happens, there were many unexpected occurrences.  One teacher forgot to let my boss know about an exam, so I had to scramble to create the exam and schedule the time.  I was also asked to proctor a few credit exams on the first Saturday.  Well, a few students didn't show up, so I had to set up another Saturday session for the credit exam.  I was able to manage it all, but I did have a few days worth of work and had to conduct many e-mails worth of conversations with teachers.

In the end, it was a very great opportunity to gain experience and also to impress professors and secretaries.  Tomorrow, my boss will come home, so we shall have to see what trouble I shall get into.  That is all for now!

I have one of the best husbands!! (not to gloat haha)

Hey guys! So Adam and I try to go on a date every Friday if possible. Usually we don't do anything super exciting. Well Adam decided to switch it up on Friday and surprise me a bunch! His goal was to try to make an ordinary day extra special and boy, did he succeed! The day started off with me going to work at noon. On Fridays, Adam doesn't work until 2 so he drops me off. After he dropped me off and I got settled in at work, in he comes with roses!!

 This is obviously not at work but a good picture of the flowers in our kitchen :) Anyways, my job can get pretty boring so I chat with Adam on facebook. He would constantly tell me how excited he was about our date and that it was going to be really fun and special but he wouldn't tell me what it was. After work, we came home and he blindfolded me. He had me pick a piece of paper out of four of them and then took off my blindfold and this is what he had :)

So if you can't tell from the picture the papers say Bingo Dating!! haha so Adam spent his shift in the testing lab creating this bingo dating game for our date! He completely came up with the idea on his own (not even enlisting help from the internet). Needless to say, he's incredible :) So, we started off at our favorite Provo thai place, Thai Mango (the BEST thai food is sadly all the way in Washington at Dok Koon). It was quite yummy. And then we started the game. Basically, the hat is filled with little pieces of paper each with a letter (D, A, T, or E) and a number for the Bingo part of the game. On the other side of each piece was an activity that we had to do. We then had to draw pieces until someone got bingo and we had to do all the activities that we drew. Adam got bingo :P haha so some of the things we drew were eat cookies, arrange a fort, speak only in questions, go to a bowling alley, play name that tune, annoy friends, speak in a British accent, exchange little gifts, taste the rainbow (eat skittles), enjoy the view, play phase 10, and some more!! There were more that he had made that we didn't do because he got bingo so we'll get to do this again! It was so much fun running around Provo together :) I always thought that I would never get a date like that again because that amount of creativity is usually reserved for if you want to impress someone but I got to have that while being married!! We had lots of fun bowling :)

Adam took a bowling class his freshman year so of course he slaughtered me. But it was still fun. We did enjoy the view at our favorite spot at Rock Canyon :)

 And we had fun playing games, eating things, going to the Dollar Tree to buy little gifts for each other, and annoying our friends Steven and Kayla (we made up for it by giving them a Spiderman puzzle though). All in all an amazing day, thanks to Adam. I'm just incredibly amazed that he did all that for little old me :)

 I know that I am one lucky girl to have Adam as my companion for eternity and I don't mind being mushy to say so!!

Love, Ashley <3

Adam's Birthday

Hello everyone!  This year, my birthday happened to fall on Independence Day!  Ashley and I enjoyed the chance to celebrate without going to work.  Earlier in the week, we had been helping our close friends move into a new apartment.  Since they had been unpacking the night before and unable to get everything ready, we had them sleep over at our house.  It was a fun morning hanging out with them.  We decided to go out to a restaurant  where they were offering all you can eat french toast and pancakes.  It was quite delicious and very filling!  Afterwards, my friend and I played a little bit of Axis & Allies. We didn't end up finishing but we had a good time nonetheless.  After hanging out a while, we decided to have our own little barbeque with our friends and we left to get ready.  As we were waiting, my friend and I decided to play a little foosball. (He was kind enough to let me win.)

We had a lot of fun with our barbeque which could be considered a feast with bratwurst, hot dogs (which I did not consume), pasta salad, chips, corn, soda and (later on) cake!  We then started playing a board game while waiting for it to get dark.  We had a bit of fun with the camera as well...

Finally, it got dark enough to head out.   For the first time ever, we went high on the foothills to a spot where we could look out at all the fireworks going up in Utah Valley.  What a sight it was!  The only problem was that none of them seemed really large or booming.  When we decided to head back, we passed by the stadium where they started to set off a few fireworks so we got our big booms and show but we wanted to avoid the traffic so we went back home after a few minutes to have cake.

We ended our evening with a few sparklers, where we got some good pictures.  As soon as we ran out of supplies, we said goodbye to our friends and went to bed.  It was a very fun, if a little low-key day.  I really had a great time though!

Love, Adam

(and Ashley)