New Home...

I moved up to Ogden last week to be closer to school and work. The 3 minutes commute to class (15 if I'm walking) and 8 minute commute to work is absolutely divine! This is my cute little house...

Isn't is just so quaint?! I have one roommate, her name is Madi - she's been great! We each have our own room and lots of empty space. I'll take you on a quick walk through...

This is our very empty front room. I will eventually buy some furniture for here, but I spent enough on my own room this month so it will just have to wait. Also, be prepared for very barren walls... art needs to be purchased.

Next we have our nice white kitchen complete with empty cupboards. Madi and I really only use 2 cupboards and 3 drawers... Our old wooden table is behind me in this picture as well as a washer and dryer! Right on site! Hoorah!

 Here we have our newly remodeled bathroom. It's actually quite nice. My only complains are the nonexistent counter top (how is a girl suppose to get ready?? although this does help keep it clean... hmm...) and the fact that the fan turns on when the light turns on. I've never quite understood why someone would think this was a good idea. The bathroom is not only for the use of the toilet.

I don't have a picture of Madi's room so I will just move on to mine. First we have the before pictures. Notice the lovely blue green carpet... (it's not quite as bad in the pictures)

And of course, my favorite: peach and green wallpaper chair rail...

I HAD to come up with a way to cover this up - without clashing with the carpet. So this is what I did...

You will have to image the colors a little bit better than this pictures portrays. I used a blue-green slate for the wall fabric, chocolate brown for the bed, and rust accents on the shelves and pillows. A few things you will have to overlook: the throw is suppose to match but doesn't right now, the unpainted side of the bookshelf (I may get around to this, I may not), and the missing art. The plan was to have three pieces of artwork hanging above the bed on top of the fabric so as not to overwhelm anyone with fabric everywhere, but it turns out the off center window I was covering up (yes, there is a window hidden behind all that) got in the way of picture hanging. I'm now in the process of looking for a new piece of art. Aside from that... what do you think? Much better than the chair rail, for sure!

I love this cute new home and already feel so comfortable in it! You will have to stop by sometime and visit me, but plan on a lack of seating for awhile ;-)

Leonardo and Deep Fried Twinkies...

On Friday, Jake and I explored The Leonardo; a contemporary science and art museum in Salt Lake, right next to the library. We've been wanting to find a fun museum in Salt Lake (our half-way point) to explore and this one was definitely a good choice. After enjoying the contemporary art and installations, we wandered over to the science side...

We had a lot of fun in this area as the camera picked up on our movements and reflected them as a skeleton on the computer.

One of the greatest pieces of art we saw was a wall of photos where people recreated pictures of themselves from the past. See exhibit A below.

Sooo funny. This one was one of the best. Jake and I may try this sometime with some old photos from our childhood... stayed tuned.

On Saturday we went on a double date with Jeff and Katy. Jake's first time at a State Fair. He was so excited to try the famous deep fried Twinkies. We tried a deep fried Snickers instead - not too bad actually (taste wise, that is. Definitely very 'bad' in the health aspect I'm sure). We had a fun time exploring and playing some of the games and we finally have another picture together! Yeah us!

White Rock...

Another rock climbing / rappelling extravaganza. We went out to White Rocks on the Dugway proving grounds (ya, we're probably getting radiation poisoning or something...). We climbed up the cliff about 200 feet and slept under a cliff overhang.

Of course we chose the weekend of the big thunderstorm that hit Utah - I heard there was golf ball sized hail in Davis county. We experienced the lightning closer than I've ever been. So close, in fact, that we couldn't see the "strikes" of lighting, or a flash of light in the sky. So close that our entire field of vision went stark white and we couldn't see for a moment afterwards. So close that the lighting and the thunder were instantaneous and shock the ground and the rock above use. So close that Jake was afraid we were going to get struck.

The next morning the weather was absolutely perfect. Here's the awesome group getting ready to head down (aside from Christin and I).

If you want to see a fun video compilation of our pictures and videos, click on this link Rappelling Trip