We decided to go for a little bike ride on Sunday and take some pictures of campus for those of you who will probably never make it out here. The campus is really pretty, lots of trees and all the buildings are off white and tan. I can't tell you the exact size but I would guess its two or three miles long by a 1/2 mile wide. The buildings are mostly bunched together and the tallest one is about 10 stories. Each college has its own library, which is pretty cool. I guess you have to do that with 46,000 students.

Joni always finds a good shot, I wonder if anyone else has ever done that before?

My building...looks pretty boring. One of the newer buildings on campus, Joni calls it the wiener building, its actually Wehner (way...ner).

Campus is shady for the most part, I have no idea if the trees will shed their leaves or not. We love all the crooked branches. I attached a video below that hopefully works, we wanted to invite ya'll on a bike ride with us, we tried to switch holding the camera while it was recording on another video but that didn't work out so well. I saw President Bush the first last night which was cool because I have never seen a President in real life. I guess he is here all the time, he has an apartment and his own little fly fishing pond on campus by his library. There are so many cool buildings and hangouts that I wish I could show all of you, but I guess if you want the real experience you'll just have to come. Enjoy the bike ride with us.

By the way, I think there is a mile high city curse. Did anyone else notice that the Rockies amazing streak happened while the Broncos lost 3 weeks in a row? Then the Broncos won, and the Rockies got swept. You can never have both teams be successful in Denver, My money is on the Broncos for Monday Night Football.

Actually it's only Dr Pepper, Texas for 2 weeks out of the year, they change all the signs and the postal addresses. Every other day its Dublin, Texas...population 3,873. If you look on a map you won't find much near it. We drove 2 1/2 hours just to get there and we already live in a sort of small town. Our friends the Carroll's are DP fanatics, or so I think because they made a clock out of Dr Pepper pop cans. Anyways, we went to the original DP factory that still runs once a week. They still make DP with imperial sugar instead of the fake stuff, I can't taste a huge difference, but people travel all the way to this place to stock up on the original stuff...The Carroll's happen to be two of those people. We did buy some DP cake mix, we'll see how that tastes. This town is just like you might imagine a small Texas town, I wish I would have taken some pics of the down home places we saw on the way there...and I saw my first Texas longhorns.

Sean was excited, I think the tour girl had a crush on him. I was just listening intently as always...Joni will slap me for that one.

They gave us some free samples, Joni looks like its already sinking in.

Get in my belly!!! It smelled like poop right there though so the moment was ruined.

We look so relaxed...two seconds earlier Joni was sprinting over to me in order to get into the picture. This picture sreams small town Texas...where's my hat and some straw to put in my mouth? Waitin for Billy Bob to come pick me up in his truck so we can go shoot some rabbits...wait, that's Vernal. HAHA.

I actually like this picture a lot, Joni is so good.

Tomorrow we are going apartment hunting again, that's right, and we just got settled in. Long story, but we never signed an actual contract (not our fault), and we want to take advantage of the moment to move somewhere closer to school and Joni's work but still be in the ward. We live out on the edge of town between the Juvi center and the prison because Joni was going to have to commute to Waco. Now that she has a job in town it makes no sense to live clear out here. I absolutely hate moving, probably because we have moved 6 times in the last 3 1/2 years, but this should be the last time we have to move on our own (I expect my next job to move us). I feel like we'll never settle down and buy a house because all of the places I am looking into for employment have a 2 or 3 year leadership development program that involes a substantial move about every 8 months., oh well. We love getting to know the world...I mean the U.S...whatever.

With all my midterms out of the way, all I have now are group projects and finals to look forward to, its excting. Joni is done with her test, things are getting normal again around our place. We got memberships to Sam's Club yesterday, and now we have a two years supply of Starbursts. I was thinking about buying a bucket of pickles even though I hate them just because of how cool it would be to show everyone my bucket of pickles. Candy is the best thing in the world for a 13 year old Sunday school class, good thing they like Starbursts.

By far one of my favorite pictures of Joel, look at the poster on the wall that Joni is pointing to and you will see he looks exactly like the guy from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This in on our fridge hall of fame.

Joel with a mohawk and burns, just wanted to wish my brother Joel a HAPPY BIRTHDAY from afar. And of course, who could forget Freddy Mike tomorrow, Happpy Birthday Dad! He is the one behind the dufus trying to look big and tough.

I wanted to download more pictures but I can't for some reason, of course I will call you guys later but there's nothing like a little blog birthday tribute. Speaking of tribute, I wouldn't feel right to not mention my boys the Colorado Rockies for keeping alive the most amazing baseball winning streak into the playoffs of all time. I have been glued to the tv when I should be studying, if you haven't already jumped on the bandwagon you'd better get on quick.

I hope you birthday boys have an awesome birthday!

JONI PASSED!!!

Just wanted to let everyone know that Joni passed her RD exam!!! She is an official dietitian. I am not surprised, but this thing has consumed all of her free time every single night for a very long time. I think she may have multiple ulcers from worrying so much, and maybe even pulled out a few hairs...but fortunately for her they will grow back. After my midterms are done next Friday, we will go celebrate, but for now Joni can be normal again. To let you know how stressed she has been, she hasn't even gone running for a week and a half so as to maximize study time...that's nuts if you know Joni. Congrats Jonerface!

Funny stuff

I am really video happy ever since I realized there was a video link thingy. There is nothing like studying all weekend and then watching something funny. I still remember sitting in my dad's lap as a kid watching the Road Runner and Coyote show and he would laugh until he cried, I loved the show just because of how funny HE thought it was. My favorite thing now is during America's Funniest Home Videos when they do the music montage thing with all of the falls without all the commentary...by the end I am hiccupping because I can't breathe from all the laughing...maybe that is an acid reflux problem though, I don't know. Also, the Office is hilarious, I don't care what anyone says about this season, I still think it is totally funny. Pranks are good for laughs...sorry mom. And I absolutely love watching movies with people that love to laugh because it makes the movie so much better...unless you are laughing during the Last Samurai because Tom Cruise's hair is flowing in the wind (Joni's sister). Don't know how I started blogging because I was just planning to post a video but this one of Joni is awesome. You have to turn up the volume so you can hear her reaction at the end when she realizes she was being watched. And in case you missed it, I posted the one of my dad getting hit by a stream of water while sleeping below.

To add to the top 5 movies, we are thinking of soundtracks now. Best ones I can think of are Rudy, Dances with Wolves, Remember the Titans, Rocky, and Top Gun. I know I'll get made fun of for those last two. Have a great week.

Just thought I would try out the video link, this is the one I talked about a few blogs back, enjoy!