Catching Up

Evan and I both graduated with our Bachelor's degrees from BYU Idaho! I can still hardly believe it's true. I have practically been a student my whole life, and I have loved it! Now I have to figure out what to do with myself in the real world.
Evan graduated in construction management with a minor in business, and I graduated in art with a minor in communications. Also, somehow I managed to graduate in the top 5% of our class!
The week of finals was one of the hardest of my life. Despite getting the flu shot at my last OB appointment, I  didn't manage to escape the bug. For over a week, I am pretty sure I exceeded the maximum amount of Tylenol, just trying to find enough relief to function. But I survived! And I was able to finish all of my work (miracles happen).
Besides the flu and finals, that last week was made even more chaotic by our recent decision to move to Boise. The Wednesday before graduation,we made the 5 hour drive to Boise to look for an apartment. We found one and we love it! But I'll post more about that later...
Thursday we drove back to the burg, and Friday we spent the day packing up everything we own before attending graduation that night. My parents came up to support us, and on Saturday they helped us finish packing and cleaning our apartment (they SAVED us!) By noon we were on our way back to Boise! Monday we drove to Utah to catch our flight to Pennsylvania for the holidays. (20 hours driving in less than a week).
I didn't document our time in Pennsylvania very well, but it'll suffice to say that we enjoyed 10 days of much needed R&R. We had an endless supply of delicious foods and we got out and did some fun things! Probably my favorite was going to see the Longwood Gardens [photo dump]

We had a VERY merry Christmas, and hope you did too!

SF: Part One

So hey guess what? I went to San Francisco!

I went at the end of September with one of the travel study classes. Art students are actually required to take this one-credit course, which forces us to take 5-days out of school so we can travel some place awesome, walk through beautiful museums and eat delicious food.... Yeah. BASICALLY the best idea the school ever had.

We did and saw SOOOooo much, but I only caught a few things on camera. Basically, my plan to be a cool photographer chick (shooting everything manually) backfired. Auughh. Curse my pride! When I came home I discovered that most of my pictures were blurry and/or exposed wrong. whoops. :( But don't you worry, I fully plan to upload each and every decent picture I have.

Starting with... Part One: Museums

[Don't forget to check out Part 2 & Part 3]

SF: Part 2

Part Two: Japanese Tea Gardens

SF: Part 3

And... Part 3: The Beach

I forgot to mention (but now you've seen) how the ENTIRE time we were in San Francisco, a dark foggy cloud covered the city. We never even got to see the Golden Gate Bridge, other than the 5 feet in front of us as we drove across it. I'm not complaining though. The fog was pretty mystical and awesome. Once we got across the bridge, the skies were clear and blue (go figure). We made sure to stop by Muir woods and Stinson Beach on our way out.

3 days in San Francisco was NOT ENOUGH! I can't wait to go back with Evan in the hopefully near future.

Scanography Freebie!

I've heard it referred to as scan art, scanner photography, or scanography; I don't even know if it is considered to be an official form of art-making, but it should be, because it's sawwweet! We had a "scanography" assignment in one of my classes and I loved it so much that I convinced Ev to buy a fancy little scanner for Christmas! This is part of the first piece I created with it. I pulled this stuff out of my Mom's front yard, arranged it on the scanner glass, and scanned it at some ridiculously high dpi... (then threw in a little bit of creative editing) and voila! Easy peasy. Seriously, you should all try this. It is addicting.

I designed this poster set in two different colors. If you like 'em, you can have 'em! Download your favorite color in an 11x17 poster format, and don't forget to leave some love. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated! 

Been a while...

I know it's been a while, but believe me, our life has not been very noteworthy as of late. I'll try and cover a few main points to get you back up to speed.

September 6 through December 15 (Fall Semester) was, without rival, the hardest thing I've ever had to endure. But despite my frequent mental/emotional breakdowns, I knew that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.... 

DECEMBER 16!!! *Cue angelic chorus*


Not only was December 16 the last day of the semester from Hades, it was also the day that my best friend/sister Jenny Webre returned from serving an LDS mission in the Philippines.

^ This was the last piece of an originally 6-month long paper chain.Needless to say, I was one ecstatic girl.

We spent Christmas break at my parents home in Brigham City, UT. Everyone came home and we had a BLAST! We also had some family photos taken.

Winter semester was 10X more bearable than the Fall, though I signed up for 6 extra hours of class. It flew by without a care or worry and NO all-nighters. That's right --NONE! I found that the trick was dropping out of graphic design. Who knew life could be so good? We ACTUALLY had time for friends and fun.

In February, Evan went to Florida to compete in the National Association of Home Builders competition, as part of the team representing BYU-Idaho. He worked so hard and did a great job :) They didn't place this year, but we're looking forward to kicking butt and taking names next year.

In March, I joined my Mom, Grandma and Aunt Julie on a trip to St. George to visit Jenny (who was staying in the Mariott hotel while training for a nursing job). It was a lovely girls retreat.

More recently, we spent the weekend in Pocatello with our friends, Matt and April. 

We stayed the night in a hotel room and next morning headed to Lava Hot Springs where we found a natural hot spring in the freezing cold river!

What else can you do (for free) in Lava? Well....

So NOW, we're out of school for the next five months, and searching for another internship for Evan. I don't know what the future will bring, but I have a suspicion that it will bring something WONDERFUL :) Stay tuned.