Well, it was a year ago on the 24th that Ryan and I got engaged so we decided to go back to the spot where he popped the questions...Sandhollow State Park, and of course go fishing. It was actually a lot of fun, I probably caught 30 or so fish! Huggy, Ryan's fishing partner is in the back ground, we went out on his boat, i kicked their butts in catching fish!!! I also added pictures of Calli and Dixon who just moved to Philly, i miss them like crazy! Isn't Dixon a cute kid!

Nsync???

Does anyone else think that NSYNC sounds a bit odd on the blog? I think it is a cover band. It is sad that I realize such a minute difference but what can I say? I loved NSYNC. We are headed to Utah over Labor Day weekend...anyone else gonna be there? I am excited to see Sarah and new baby Mason.

Jeff & Katie's new baby boy

I hope he doesn't mind me sharing the great news for him, but today we got this email from Jeff Peterson about their new baby boy...

"Well, Friday was an eventful day for the Peterson family. Katie called me at work and said she thought her water had broken. Short story shorter, we had a perfect, beautiful little boy about three hours later. Due to the fact the he came about 5 weeks early, we were somewhat surprised...and for that reason haven't given him a name yet. Katie had some complications after birth.. They were released from the hospital on Sunday night, but we had to take her back Monday morning and re-admit her. She spent the night again but was able to come home Tuesday morning. She seems to be doing better and is hopefully on her way to recovery.

Love - Jeff, Katie....and the little dude"

Go Sabra it's your birthday...wait I mean you won SYTYCD, we gonna party! (ha I'm such a nerd but at least I make myself laugh!)

Ok so now that my summer TV addiction is over I don't know what to do with myself! I must say I was pretty pleased with the results...what about you Kari?

The fall shows better come back soon cause there is nothing to look forward to in my life anymore...hahaha

Bat Craaaazy

...Hopefully Sarah got a chance to hear her birthday music by now because I decided to update the tunes to the top songs of 1999 - the year most of us met :) Enjoy!

Here is a picture of the Doug and I from last week. We went with Derek & Emily (the in-laws) to see one of the biggest tourist attactions in Austin, the bats. They live under the the dowtown bridge during spring and summer and each night at dusk the cloud of them goes south to get food in the night. It is really quite the incredible sight. Unfortunately because of the weird weather we've been having, they didn't all come out at once the night we went, so the sight wasn't as spectacular. We were all disappointed.

Check out their sight: http://www.batcon.org/home/index.asp?idPage=122

P.S. If you enlarge the pic, you can see my psycho red bat eyes! Ha!

This is for Brooke...

Well here's another Six Flags pic for you...


So I'm still working at the University of Texas and going on my 4th year...wait maybe 5th - o no I'm losing track of time! Yikes! The job is a job but I do enjoy working on campus, I love the campus feeling even though it's nothing like our old beloved campus, believe me. I'm also enrolled in a Master's Program - Master of Public Administration (MPA) to be exact. Now I know you are all wondering what that means and what I'm going to do with it. These are all very good questions to which I don't really have an answer. The MPA is basically the public sector version of the MBA so I'll be prepared to boss people around in federal and state agencies - something I'm sure I'll be excellent at - ha! Anyway my first session just finished up a few weeks ago and I got myself a big fat 'A'! I was pretty excited about that considering I honestly had no idea what I'd get - freaky feeling. While going back to school has been really exciting I had forgotten how hard and annoying school can be sometimes. Staying up all night to write a paper is really not my favorite thing to do!

Anyway, other than that things are pretty much the same. My lil twin brothers are about to get their driver's license which freaks me out every time I think about it. My mom is still dating a Jew (which is weird for a whole lot of reasons) and I'm still single in the singles ward...but there are a lot of fun people to hang out with down here so it's be good times.

O and on the funnier side...I totally write the advice column for our ward newsletter. It's anonymous and called 'Ask Red'. When we gave it that name I thought for sure people would know it was me right away but they don't - it cracks me up all the time. Anyway people submit questions about anything and once a week I answer one in the newsletter. I must say I'm pretty dang funny sometimes - ha - but seriously it's been a lot of fun. I'll try to remember to send you some of the better samples.

Later,
Steph

One year older

Thank you Lizzy for the birthday song and thank you everyone for the nice b-day messages. This has been a great summer off and I am sad to go back to work. I return on Aug. 22. On Aug 5th Brad blessed Mason, and the Friday before that we took the boys to Lagoon. Wyatt was unsure about the rides and freaked out when we would put him on the ride by himself, but Noah had fun. We have gone to our cabin a few times this summer and will go more in the fall when there are not as many bugs. I took the boys to get their pictures taken this week which is a major accomplishment for me. Little boys getting pictures taken in a lot of work and very exhausting. Well a lot of work and very exhausting sums up my summer. We have had a good time playing in sandboxes and swimming pools.

Okay I wrote what you just read a few weeks ago. I am now back to work and I am sad, but we are looking into the possability of my quiting in October and hopefully being able to get a part time job. Everyone pray for me that it will really work out.