Movie and Podcast

Hi all! James and I watched a great movie last night called "The Dish" It's all about the satellite dish in Australia that helped broadcast pictures when man first landed on the moon. Also, I recently discovered the podcast "Radio Lab". It's pretty entertaining. It talks about science and stuff. I really like it. So you'll have to check it out!

Grades

So grades were supposed to be posted yesterday at six. I am such a worrier that I couldn't sleep the night before etc. and I waited with breathless anticipation until six o'clock, turned on my computer, went to the site, clicked on the link and....

DISCOVERED THAT ONLY TWO OF THE GRADES WERE POSTED AND THREE OF THEM WERE STILL MISSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was not pleased.

Plus the grades that I did see were two measly B's so I was not happy with that either.

Long story short I got the rest of my grades today and happily they are better than the ones I got last night.

I ended up with a cumulative GPA of 3.48 which should be good enough to put me in the top third of my class and on the dean's list. (I won't know for certain until Friday)

Anyway that is the story of how I almost had an aneurysm because of the registrar's office.

Ezra is standing!

Hello all,

This week I have started packing, and Ezra has started standing!  I haven't made a huge dent in the packing thing, but I am glad I have at least started. Here is a video of Ezra standing up with us today.  Love you all.

Hot Hot Heat!

Hey everybody. Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. We have had Karen's family out here visiting this past week. It was really nice to see them, but it decided to get crazy hot just in time for them to come out and see us. It was like ninety six degrees and crazy humid. Not cool, in more ways than one (wink). (typing puns is not as fun as saying puns). Karen's family went home today, and she took tomorrow off as well, so she gets an extra day off tomorrow. The professor I am working for is going out of town starting next week so I won't have to meet with him for a while which will be nice (it is kind of stressful to meet with him) Other than that we are just working hard to stay cool.

Haircut

Last week Ezra had his first official haircut.  We have had to trim his little tuft in the back a few times before, but this time we got his whole head of hair.  Here is the first part of his haircut and a picture of the final product!

Random

But funny.

Bored on Sunday...Again

James told me I need to post on the blog. So here is my post. I'll try to do better, but there are no guarantees :o). So...I'm sick. Yuck! Everything makes me nauseous. Even someones breath. Thank goodness they say this will go away. Liz asked me if my sense of smell had become super human. Well, it's now happened. I like plain pasta, rice, rye crackers and water. Anything bland is super. So there is my rant on morning (all-day) sickness. But I must say that James is fabulous. He has cooked dinner and done dishes and cleaned out the fridge. On a happier note, we wen to see Indiana Jones last night. James thought it was pretty stupid-which it was. But would you really expect any less from an Indiana Jones movie? For those of you who have not seen it, there is a funny twist at the end :o) My family is coming to see us on Wednesday. I'm excited to see them! It will be extra nice not to have to go to work.

cool website

This is pretty cool

Names that whisper love....

Hello All,

As you can tell from the title (maybe) I have been reading "Here at the Scenic View Motel".  I finally bought it and I am glad to have a copy of my comfort book around.  It is much better to read at 3 am when I can't sleep as opposed to "A Thousand Splendid Suns"...which isn't so relaxing.

On a different note, here are some videos of Ezra.  He has just started pulling himself up on things.  Mostly just my hands and legs, but yesterday I found him standing up in his crib and today he has been pushing himself up on his toy basket.  Great Grandpa Parsons visited on Sunday so Ezra got to hang out with three greats.  Hope everyone is doing well!

Finals Are Over!

Finally!!

this is pretty funny

Hey there

We are bored on Sunday so here is a picture of us. I hope everyone is doing well.

One down, three to go

24 hour property take home + James = one gigantic headache

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Hey guys,

Here are a few videos of Ezra for your enjoyment. For awhile he has given us a definite cue of twisting his wrists and ankles around for when he wants something....here are some examples.   As you can see he does it when he wants anything, be it Dad or food.  Joe is playing his guitar more now, and is taking lessons from his cousin Leah.

I guess Ezra has decided that the traditional knee crawling is just not exciting enough for him so he does a bear crawl around.  It's pretty cute.

Love you all!!

LIke a Frog in a Pot of Boiling Water...or not

turns out it isn't true I wanted to try out for myself but mom suggested looking on Snopes who would have thought too bad for all those mutual lessons and new era articles i suppose they will have to think of a new metaphor

I guess it was funny!

Hello Siblings,

This is a video we got of Ezra one night last week (I'm not the best camerawoman).  He was really tired, and for some reason Joe decided to start barking at him. This was the result!

but yet

This has been bugging me for months now, so I have decided to vent. I swear at least 3 times a day I hear someone say blah blah blah, but yet blah blah blah. Isn't it just but or yet? One of my dumb pet peeves. Love you all. No ifs, ands, buts, or yets about it.

Scary

This is scary, buy a shredder or use your fireplace.

Coolness

Coolness

Death By Printing

Trauma at the Bates household this morning. So I printed my take home exam last night thinking that I will wake up early this morning, look it over one more time and turn it in. I woke up at about six forty-five, read it one more time and found a few errors that I needed to correct which I marked with a pen. I then decided to replace the ink cartridge in the printer and print it. When I replaced the cartridge and tried to print it wouldn't work. I kept trying but the dang thing wouldn't print. It is now about seven o'clock and I have to turn the exam in by ten. I get docked a full grade for every five minutes that it is late. I decide to save it on a jump drive and go to the local copy place and get it printed there. The dude tells me it will take about an hour to get it printed. I wanted to punch him, but I didn't. So we decide to take it up to Karen's office and get it printed there. I just about blew a gasket on the train but we ended up getting to Karen's office in plenty of time and she printed it just fine. I just turned it in. It has been an exciting morning.