Date weekend

The last couple days have been date days. I had a work meeting a couple hours before class on Friday, so we had some free time after that before classes. We went to the campus Art museum and saw a few really cool exhibits there. After classes, before a group presentation meeting of mine, we had 2 hours to kill, so we went bowling. David is cute. I won.

Neither of us did terribly well (as you can see) but we had a lot of fun.

Today, I took the night off work, so we could have a fun evening without worrying about me being tired and getting back on time. We went to Olive Garden for dinner, which was excellent. Our server was really funny and the food was good, even though there was a 45 minute wait. After dinner, we got a movie from Redbox to watch later.

We went to this great place that I got a gift card to (thanks Cami!) for dessert. It is called The Chocolate and it is in an old house. They are a dessert cafe. The house was an awesome design for the business. There were lots of little tables and couches tucked all over both floors. We ended up in a back corner by a window, halfway hidden from everyone else. Their prices are reasonable; excellent if compared to typical restaurant pricing. They have cakes, cookies, cupcakes, mini cupcakes, and this glorious thing called a Cazookie. You pick 2 kinds of cookie dough off a list, and they put each in half a (best guess) 6" pan and bake it until the edges are getting crispy, but the middle is gooey and warm. Then they put a giant scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. So. Good. Hot cookie, melty ice cream, basically awesome. We got peanut butter and chocolate chip, both of which were excellent.

The Carnage

We also got a cupcake each, and we are excited to try them. We highly recommend The Chocolate for a fun place for some really good dessert.

Overall, it has been a great couple of days and I am VERY excited to not be at work right now.

Fridays

I don't like Fridays...

Rice

So, I get home from class tonight to Jamie fearing her worst enemy: rice. She HATES making rice. Now, this isn't a "Oh, rice is mean" kind of a feeling. This is a "Rice is the worst thing ever to have been concocted. I just can't cook it" kind of a feeling. Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE Jamie's cooking. She is a fantastic cook.

I cook this rice in this family.

I'm not complaining. I like cooking rice. But I think we found out the reason why Jamie has a hard time with rice. She's afraid of it. Take this for example.

She was so worried that the le creuset was going to burst into a billion balls of fire full of burning rice balls of doom. I swear mutant zombies from mars would have frightened her less.

EDIT: I forgot to give her hair. I know.

EDIT: And no, Jamie's not that short.

EDIT: And it's a grey shirt.

EDIT: Don't make fun of my artistic abilities.

The Amazing, Super, Fantastic, Beautiful Food Processor of Death

So, this is David. I figure that Jamie posts all the time and I am supposed to be helping out with this whole maintaining the blog thing. (Side note, I feel like I just referred to our blog as some sort of a pet. Just saying).

Today, I'm going to talk about one of our favorite wedding gifts. The Amazing, Super, Fantastic, Beautiful Food Processor of Death. This thing is a beast. Capacity: 11 cups. It comes with a knife, bread kneader, slicer, and a grater. It has numerable safety features that keep you from chopping your hand off. I secretly suspect that it could throw the earth's orbit if left on too long. AND I'm pretty sure that if we transfered the engine to our car the our car would go faster. The best part: it can grate 2.5 pounds of cheese in about 30 seconds. Here is a short demonstration. (Notice the safety features in action.)

In more serious news my current projects are taking up too much of my time. I'm working on two research papers for classes. One of them on early anti-Mormon film. The second one on self representation in blogging. I'm also in the preproduction stages of filming a documentary on technology and being connected and I'm editing another documentary on The Sacred Grove. To top it off my computer is on the fritz and we're waiting on parts to get here so we can fix it.

A head start on Pies

Today, I decided to make an apple pie. Now, pies are great and all, but they are a lot of food for 2 people to eat. (not that we mind eating lots of pie...) So, we invited some friends and family over for pie. We had Cassy (David's sister), Jeremy(David's brother), Rachel(Jeremy's wife), Emily (our niece), Bobby (Friend), and Cambria (friend and matchmaker). Emily showed off how smart she is, and played with the stereo and finger puppets. She also enjoyed looking at our fish. The pie turned out good, and talking with everyone was great.

Pumpkins!

David loves carving pumpkins. I enjoy it, but being allergic to them makes the whole experience a little.... itchy. David says that he tries to make his pumpkin more elaborate than Jeremy's every year. We went over to my family's house to do pumpkins the Monday before Halloween. David carved Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. I had a pumpkin with a wonky stem, So I just made a goofy face. (Sorry, these pictures are off my phone)

On Friday, David carved another pumpkin for our ward party's contest. It was spectacular! He took this...

Added this mess...

And This... (yes that is pumpkin on our ceiling...)

And... well, I just thought he looked cute after making his pumpkin.

He made This!

People loved it at the ward party, (well, those who could figure out what it was.. "It is a... Mom and a dad! and the baby is..... uhh... somewhere" No babies were involved in this pumpkin.)

I had to work both Friday and Saturday night, so we went to a couple parties, but were home by 9 each night. Sunday we had dinner with my family, then went home and watched the Charlie Brown Halloween Special. I hadn't seen it before and really liked it.

Caught up

Of course our blog is behind! You wouldn't expect any less from a newlywed couple who says they will stay on top of their blog! In our defense, we have school. But here I am, writing, just minutes after my 4 credit block class officially ended with an interview. Freedom! I am excited to have free time.

A quick review: We started school at the beginning of September, and it quickly ate up all our time. David was able to get a new job as a video editor for a campus department, which was perfect, because it has extremely flexible hours. I still work weekend custodial, but am trying to find another job that doesn't make me tired all the time.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on. We made a bad discovery: at 7:00PM the donuts go on sale for a quarter a piece. That has been a very bad but very tasty discovery. The coke is still lingering, but is dwindling. My computer finally just died a few weeks ago, so we had to get a new one for me. We were able to find one for $379 or so that was exactly what I was looking for. It is so great to be able to use a laptop on its battery; something I haven't been able to do since last November. We have become addicted to the show Pushing Daisies and are getting to the end of the last season with saddening speed. Highly recommended.

Not a long, or interesting post, I know, but it is something.

Here, have a picture of some flowers.