Nervous, but excited

I'm headed to Taiwan this summer to attend the Global daCi/WDA Dance Summit 2012.  Whoa.

And the schedule is out.  At this link, click on the Presentations at 11:15.  Bottom of the yellow box, Section 38... What?!

I officially have serious butterflies (not to mention serious work to do...)

I'm so excited!  And equally nervous! Like good ole Troy in High School Musical 4!

Things We Love

1. Getting a paycheck! Grant is on his fourth week of work at Fidelity Investments and it's going well! We are especially grateful to have a consistent income again. So much so that I've had the song "Just Got Paid" by NSYNC stuck in my head for a while now. Good one.

2. Quailman! We're on disc four out of eight in our Doug collection. Our favorite episode was "RoboBone" because it had both Quailman AND the Beets. Quailman: "The superhero who always wears clean underwear over his pants!"
3. BBQ Pizza! We found a great recipe a few months ago and have deemed every Saturday night "Pizza Night." Yum!
4. Blossoms! It's been a very strange last few weeks with the weather in Texas. But the blossoms are appearing and its beautiful! We are trying to enjoy the good weather before we are liquified by the heat this summer...
5. The BYU speeches website. You can download any devotional, forum, and other speeches given at BYU for free. I have been listening to them on the way to and from school. My favorites include, "Decisions Determine Destiny," by President Monson, "Forget Yourself," by Gordon B. Hinckley, and "The Nature and Character of God," by Andrew Skinner, my roommate Suzie's dad!

Also, I think having to grade so many students on their citations is making me feel a little guilty for posting pictures without citing them. So no, I did not use MLA or APA or Turabian, but in case you were wondering, here are the links to my images:

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http://freshandvintage.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/04/19/blossoms1.jpg

http://speeches.byu.edu/images/podcasts/2.jpg

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So Much Fun, So Few Pictures...

We've been up to a lot in the last month! Both of Grant's parents came to visit, we went to Boise for a weekend, Grant got a new job, we went to the Draper temple open house, we had a painting party at my aunt Gina's, I went to a dance workshop, Grant whooped our Bishop in raquetball, I had a freshman hall reunion, and I wrote WAY too many papers. However, we don't have pictures of any of these things... (though I suppose writing papers is not worthy of pictures anyway).

However we do have a few pictures of other things that have happened so here they are:

Hermana Malena came to visit! She is a lady from Grant's mission and was in the States visiting her kids. Luckily she drove up from Vegas for a day to see us.

They went to go visit Elder Wood as well. I didn't attend this little trip because I had no idea what anyone was saying... Hermana Malena didn't speak English...

We went to visit Gina and brand new Bridgette in the hospital! She was a perfect little baby, complete with bird legs and skinny little fingers!She was just over 6 pounds, a tiny little thing! Holding a perfect little baby made me realize just how important (and therefore a bit frightening :)) parenting will be.We've been spending a lot of time with our friends, the Garners and the Nebekers lately. This is a picture of the men after their "Saltine Challenge." Zach is moving to Boise soon and the rest of us will be leaving the Nebekers behind at semester so we've gotta get in all the fun we can!

Coming soon: Tanner Ceramics!!

3 Jobs in Three Weeks!

The month of January was a kahrazy month. After graduation, I had a paid full-time internship all planned out at a place called Cost Segregation Authority. After working there for two days, my boss said they had only budgeted 8 hours a week for the intern: ahhh, WHAT? So I was out on the job hunt again. I then found a job at Funding Universe helping entrepreneurs get financing. After working there for four days, they told me that my department was being relocated to South Jordan: ahhh, STINK! So now, starting tomorrow, I will be driving all the way up to almost-Salt-Lake-City everyday. And the job position will change a lot. So yeah, the job market it pretty thin right now. Other than that, Kelsey and I have enjoyed skiing Snowbird every weekend. We're excited that Dad will be out here this weekend.