typical ramblings about the weather and stuff

this week is spring break for me and scott and this is also the first spring break EVER where i have been totally okay with staying at home instead of seeking out warmer weather, because holy bananas you guys, it is sunny and 50-60 degrees up in here and i die. every time spring rolls around i wonder if i actually suffer from SAD because the instant there are blue skies and all you need is a light jacket my mood just soars. i don't even realize how bad it is until one sunny day and then i'm done for. every year i try to tell myself to hold off on the excitement because this IS utah and we've still got 2, maybe 3 good snows left in us before winter is officially done for, but i can't! daylight savings time isn't helping my case. i get off work at 8 every night and now there is a tiny sliver of sun over the mountains when i get off, so, as far as i'm concerned, spring is here. not in full force, but enough to kick the winter blues. speaking of daylight savings, this years was certainly a doozy. this weekend scott and i went down to las vegas with his brothers and their wives for a boxing match, so on sunday we lost not one, but TWO hours because of the time change. we were out late saturday because of the match and didn't set our alarms because "who sleeps in until 11??" well, we about did. woke up at 10:40, 20 minutes before we were set to check out. after getting home, scott and i got hit with a rough bout of the flu (scott got it worse than me, sorry scotty!) so we've been sleeping until like, noon every day. my sleep schedule is totally out of whack now, but since i think i'm over the worst of that little bug i'm hoping for a more productive second half of the week.

graduation is now less than two months away and i'm in denial about the whole thing. i think after being in college for 6 years (plus those other 12 years of school) you just start to feel like you're going to be in school forever. what HASN'T hit me is the "i'm scared to enter real life" jitters. everybody talks about how scared they are, and how they don't know how NOT be a student anymore. but nope. hasn't hit me. i am ready! and SO excited to be out practicing all this stuff i've learned. maybe part of it is that after graduation i still have to complete an internship before i take the RD exam, so i guess i'm still KIND OF a student. plus i have a plan and know what i'm doing after graduation (minnesota, the henries are comin for ya!) and a change of pace (and place) is exciting!! goll, did i mention i'm excited?!

scott and i  have been unbelievably lucky the last 2 months and i'm wondering what we did to deserve it, or what misfortune is going to happen upon us to even everything out in the universe. in january i won a free night at a hotel in jackson (which we have yet to redeem) and then last month scott went down to the fly fishing film tour in salt lake and won an $800 fly rod. and then yesterday he won another, $700 fly rod from a drawing at a local fly shop. so, mostly it's been scott that has gotten on the luck. but, $1500 won in fly fishing stuff is $1500 LESS that we have to spend of OUR money on it, so. im happy!

and now, some photographic evidence that we do things besides school sometimes :)

  like temple date nights

 this was my younger sister and niece (who was totally disinterested, obviously) at my baby sisters state swim meet

 more selfies that i take out of boredom and scott kindly plays along

 basking in the sun! AND lets hear it for a short haired, beardless husband!

annnnd here we are at the MGM before the boxing match which was mostly a lot more fun than i expected!

til next time, blog world!