Smalls impersonating Alex

Alex and I are part of a coed Softball team called Ballaz. (We don't know what it means either.) Alex usually plays left field and caught her first pop fly! We ended up winning that game. It was our second win of the season. She got the final out of the game . The whole team was very proud of her! Her catch was a lot like Smalls's catch on the movie Sandlot.

You only need to watch the first 30 seconds to get the effect.



On another note, we also had a team poster that hung in our dugout that inspired us to win. I have added it to the blog. It is courtesy of Nate Geslison. (I hope I don't get shot for violation of copyright.)


Thank you Nate and despair.com

My new haircut!

I don't know if this represents my haircut well, but I wanted to do something different. So I went to the BYU Barbershop and got myself some new styles!

Before:

After:

I got some bangs and cut off about 4 inches. I know it's not too different, but I'm not that daring! I wanted something new, so Jessica helped me know what would be best. After about 1 hour at the barbershop the girl cutting my hair and I decided we had decided well and I was finished. Funny how hard it is to cut a few inches off! (ok, I just realized these after pictures look awful, I'm going to have to take some better ones when my new cut looks better!)

This is Mike and I because we are so cute! :)

One last view...

Here is one last view of our tiny apartment. We just had to show this to really let you see how spacious it was! It looks a lot bigger now that it's empty!

This is our hall and the last door was our bathroom! The doors on right and left are two other apartments. Ours is just behind us on the left.



This is our half bathroom. The box on the right is the water heater, takes up about 2/3 of the room. We felt a little like we were always traveling... with our airplane sized sink!




This was our room. There is about 3 more feet behind the camera, and this is what we had for our bedroom, livingroom, dining room, and any other room you can think of besides the kitchen and bathroom!

Last Memories of Oregon

Many of you may have heard by now that we have turned down the offer to work in Oregon after we finish school this year. That was really hard for us, but that was what felt right and (to Mom's rejoicing!) we are now looking for jobs here in Utah.
But here is one last look at our Oregon experience. :)

This is Alex and her kids at the park! We had a drummer teacher come to let the kids try many percussion instruments and have fun with rhythm. Aren't they so cute! :)

Alex and our good friend Ashley. Ashely's husband, Todd, was an Intern at Moss Adams with Mike. We had a lot of fun with Todd and Ashley. They were also in our ward!

Mike made me a special dinner with all the foods I like but he doesn't :) Way to take one for the team!



Where is all of this stuff going to fit?!? In the car! And if it doesn't fit there we'll do like the rest of Eugene...



...put it outside for free! It's gone by the next day! Bye bye microwave!

These are the beautiful flowers that Mike had waiting for me in the hotel room in Portland when I got back from Utah. The heart is a big sugar cookie that I made into a fruit pizza for Mike when he got back from the audit in Portland!

Good bye Oregon! :) :(

Utah trip!

Well, as you may have known, I (Alex) just got back from a trip to Utah to visit my family and witness the sealing of my sister Jessica to her husband and baby! It was so exciting to see them become an eternal family! And of course, my sister Chelsy has done an amazing job of posting the wonderful trip. So in my laziness I'll refer you to her blog and you can see her more detailed posting on July 30 :) Thanks Chel :)

Youtube Stars in the making???

Recently at work a coworker said he saw Alex and me on youtube.com. I thought that was a little weird. So I looked it up and found out that if you do a search for Provo, Utah, we are the second listing. We have over 5,000 views. We are thinking about dropping out of school and quitting work to be Youtube Stars. . . Or maybe we won't, but we will keep you updated. Today is a short post, because Alex usually does most of the posting.

Mike

Here is a link of the World Famous video:

4th of July!

Here we are after camping. It smelled of campfire out of the car and since we the only place available was a KOA we took advantage of their showers that morning! We are enjoying some cold Smores!



This is the back of Mike's head looking out over a cliff in a national park on the Oregon Coast. We were talking to a couple who tracks the birds here and they let us look through their telescope at a young Perigron Falcon sitting on a tree. As we were learning all about falcons the lady looked up and said "There is an eagle!" and just 30 feet above us flew a full sized bald eagle!! Happy Fourth of July to us! That was amazing! I had just barely put away my camera, otherwise I would show you all pictures!



This is in the same national park. One of the many Oregon Lighthouses, I guess they are famous for. It was neat to see inside. Also in this park was a tree called "Octopus Tree". It has 6 trunks that all jut out the base like octopus legs!



This is Mike after being attacked by the vicious-hand-eating emu. It likes the food, so it will get it however it pleases! I am feeding the pushy goats. They scare the sheep away, but they are fun because they will jump up or down from the fence at your command!