Turkey Day

Thanksgiving was fun this year. I started out the day at Ogden Regional Medical Center for the Thanksgiving Day run with Aimee, and Lara, Sam, and Andrew. It was a fun event that hundreds of people come to every year. This was the 26th annual run, admission is nonperishable food items that you place directly into Salvation Army trucks. JD and I went to both families this year. My grandpa came to the Hewlett feast where we learned all kinds of Thanksgiving trivia such as: turkeys can run up to 55 miles per hour if threatened, turkeys pardoned by the President live out the rest of their days in the happiest place on earth: Disneyland, Thanksgiving was started in 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln, and the largest pumpkin pie ever made weighed 2,020 pounds. We then went to the Miner Thanksgiving. With the family being so large, they set up tables in a church and passed the different food items around the table. It was kind of fun waving to people across the gym. We finished out the day at both of our families houses once more, this time for pie and watching a movie. It was a fun, but busy day. It is weird to think that we probably won't be here next year.

Here Fishy Fishy Fishy

I got a tour of the Barker Fish Farm yesterday and it was SO cool! I felt like a little kid on a field trip. It was fascinating to see him gather the eggs, process them, and to see the result in all of his tanks. Fish farmers now have to sterilize their fish, to do so they take the eggs they have collected and stick them in a hollow tube. Pressure equal to two full size cars is then applied to the eggs changing their chromosomes so that they are trisometric=can not breed. He said the containers in the top right picture contain about 50,000 of these eggs each, so can kind of see them in the clear containers, but the black ones have them too. If you ever have the opportunity to have a tour of a fish farm, I highly recommend it.

Oregonian

Yet another interview completed for JD. This time he headed up to Portland Oregon. He loved it up there and really likes the program so we will see what happens with this school. A bonus of this trip was JD did not have to come home the same day as his interview and stayed with one of his fellow Indian missionaries. Ben has been a great friend and recently moved up to Portland for work. In anticipation of JD's arrival, Ben dressed up in a traditional Indian dhoti and made a special sign. In India, they don't have the "th" sound so JD went by Elder Spet the whole time. They had a fun time, he loved the school, and he likes Oregon. And now.....one more interview left to go this year.

Las Manzanas

I have had a thing for apples lately. I love going to Winco and buying one or two of every kind of apple they have. I have learned all kinds of new apples the picture includes: Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Gala, Fugi, Sonya, Sweet Tango, Granny Smith, Braeburn, Jonagold, Pink Lady, and one I can't remember and the sticker fell off. I get bemused looks from the checkers when the multiple bags of apples come along, but I don't care it has been my funness the past couple of weeks.

Florida

JD is back from LECOM in Florida, another very quick trip down. I dropped him off on Wednesday at the airport and picked him up Thursday night. One more to go this week...as in we will be heading back to the airport today after his lab final. :) The weather was 80 degrees and he got to see drive across the Gulf of Mexico on the Sunshine Highway Bridge which I think is pretty cool.

A little bit of cheese

Ok, advanced notice, this is going to be cheesy, and I don't care. You can stop reading now and wait for the next post, or you can just deal with a little bit of cheese every once in a while. So you have been warned.
I miss JD, I know it is lame and everything, but I do miss him. This is the first time since we got married that we haven't been together and simply put, I do not like it, not one bit. Thankfully, we will hopefully be at the end of this craziness by the end of the month. The end.

Running on Ice

We went to Disney on Ice last night. I have to admit that the first number that consisted of a 'running on ice' warm up for everyone with the Incredibles had me questioning if even the WSU discount tickets were worth coming, but it turned out to be pretty cool. They did parts from several movies including: Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Tangled, Aladdin, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Frog Princess, and Peter Pan. I loved watching and listening to all the kids; the biggest screams of delight came for Lion King and Tangled. It was a fun, random night.