2010 thus far

Let's see...Danny had a birthday. I am pretty sure we took pictures of that. The pictures are still on the camera though. It was a great party. Danny settled on a Star Wars Lego theme. We played What If and Star Wars Apples to Apples. I made him a lego brick cake that looked pretty stupid. Tasted awesome though and in the end that is what really matters, right?

Danny has a super busy semester. Mine is not much better.

The joy of this semester is my senior project. I love it! I am volunteering at a middle school. I work with students who are at "academic risk". It is so challenging but in a fascinating way.

I have been at JCPenney for three years now. Wow. I might be moving out of the suit department. It is just a possibility though.

I graduate in April! I am so excited and so stressed at the same time.

And that about sums everything up. My avid readers are now up to date.

I asked Danny if he would like to add anything about his semester. I told him that I already put that his semester is super busy. He told me, "Can't add anything. I'm too busy"

Love,

Us



I don't know, something about this comic really rang out to me.... :)

Update: Christmas

Let's go back in time a couple months and I will tell you about Christmas!

Up until Christmas I worked, a lot. Long hours, lots of people, and lots of craziness.

Christmas Eve we had our nice dinner. Christmas morning we opened presents and had a yummy breakfast casserole that I have had just about every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember.




This is Danny with his loot. Notice he got lots of Star Wars stuff.

The following Sunday we, along with Erick, drove to California. I love road trips!

California was great. I had a great time not working and not school-ing.




Danny and I went to Seal Beach. I love the ocean.

A Christmas tradition in Danny's family is to have Tamales, Costa Rican style. They are wrapped in Platano leaves and have raisins, rice, red peppers, pork, and cilantro. I helped assembling them and it was fantastic! I maybe got a little cilantro happy on a few of them but they tasted delicious. (I looooove cilantro)



A nice shot of us assembling the Tamales.

And for kicks and giggles here is a sunset picture:




So all in all Christmas break was nice, but as always, way too short.

It was still Christmas...

...on my blog! I just now took down the delightful snowflake paper I had. The blog was like one of those eccentric people that keep Christmas lights up all year round, and turn them on.

Yikes and sorry folks. (by folks I mean, the two people that actually read this thing. haha)

I do not have a lot of time right now to do a major update. I thought I should just drop in though and say that things are good but busy. Danny and I are both "busy busy busy, like really tall bees"

Sometime in the not too distant future I will update..maybe throw in some pictures from Christmas and all will be well. Right? Right.

Internship

Danny has an internship for this summer!!

He will be working for the information/communication department for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We are so excited! It is such a blessing to have this internship.

Danny looked at opportunities here, Dallas, and a little bit in LA. If Dallas had worked out we both would have gone and crashed at my dad's house all summer. That way we would be able to continue paying rent on our place here. Which we really didn't want to lose because we love this house and we would have had to find a place for a semester. If California had an internship Danny would have stayed with his parents and I would have stayed here in Utah. Same idea, to keep this house. I am rather relieved that California didn't happen. I would have been okay, but I sure would miss the guy.

But anyway, with this one, we don't have to worry about any of that! All we have to worry about now is transportation. Yikes! But we know something will work out.

So, that is that. It is kind of fun having our life planned, to an extent, for the next several months but then after those several months we have NO IDEA where will we be or what we will be doing. That is exciting too.

Love,

the Bakkers

1 little 2 little 3 little...

...SWEATERS!!

I just finished cleaning up my closet, organizing, and putting away summer stuff that does not lend itself to layering. I pulled out my winter clothes and counted..I have 5 cable knit turtle neck sweaters and 3 ribbed turtle neck sweaters.

Alright class, today's question is: What is Cali's favorite winter top???

Turtle neck sweaters!!!!! They are so cozy. So comfy. And so many pretty colors.

It felt strange to be getting out sweaters when it was 60 some odd degrees today. Utah weather has been so loony lately. I don't mind it being warmer longer, it is just weird.

This weekend is the Biggest Sale of them All at JCPenney. Work will be long, and busy.

Let's see, I need to put up Halloween pictures but first I need to get the pictures from my camera to my computer.

I got a text message that my good friend, Anna, had her baby. Huzzah!!! I am excited to see little baby Konneker. I don't think we will be able to go visit them at the hospital though. Stupid Swine Flu freak out.

The BYU bookstore had some good books on sale today. I bought them with birthday money. A few of them I am saving in anticipation of a year from now. I will be missing going to classes terribly. So I bought a book about John and Abigail Adams and a book about how people find happiness 'wrong'.

Not much else to report. Danny is doing well. I am doing well. We are happy.

Love,

The Bakkers