This Week

This week has been a pretty fun week for us. I work every day from 8 to 5ish. Spencer works either mornings or afternoons and either hangs out at home or goes into the lab when he's not working. On days when he works in the afternoon I go home during my lunch break to pick him up and he has a nice lunch waiting for me. That's really nice. I don't eat very good lunches some days that I'm on campus all day.

On Monday after work we did some baby-sitting for a couple in our ward, Sabrina and Jacob. Sabrina has been helping me sew a dress and they said we could have their 4 tickets for a Saturday showing of the Avengers if we watched their three kids on Monday so they could go see it. Sounds like a great deal to me! Their kids were pretty easy, and it was fun for me to see Spencer playing with their 1 year old boy. Plus they gave us pizza since it was dinnertime when we got there!

On Tuesday we went for a run after work, made dinner, and then I went over to Sabrina's to work on my dress. The only sewing I've ever done was making a pair of pajama pants like 6 years ago, but it's something I've always wanted to learn. Sabrina volunteered to help me in exchange for some baby-sitting. It's really fun, and the dress is coming along. Hopefully it turns out...

Wednesday was really fun. After work we went for a run, then had our friends Ben and Sydney over to make shish kabobs on the grill for dinner. We don't have a grill, but our church building has a nice pavilion and grills out back. We had chicken wrapped in bacon, green peppers, red peppers, pineapples, onions, and mushrooms. They were so good! And of course we finished it off with s'mores! When we got back to the house we realized that neither of us had the key, so we went back to the church to look for it (in the dark) and couldn't find it anywhere. It turns out I'd dropped it in Ben and Sydney's car, so we waited outside for them to come back and get it to us. We realized that if we ever really did lose our keys it would be almost impossible for us to get in. We live in a basement so our windows are too small to go through if we could even get them open and our landlord doesn't have an extra key. We'd have to go through the upstairs and take out the insulation blocking the stairs into the basement. Anyway, I felt pretty bad about losing the key, but it was a warm night so it wasn't a big deal waiting outside for a bit.

Last night was busy, too. Spencer's lab had a barbecue, so we went. It was at his professor's house. We brought some pasta salad and had a good time eating and talking with people. Sometimes I feel like we have "our" friends and "Spencer's" friends. I don't have just "my" friends. Probably because I work with one other person, where Spencer works with like 7 and there are about 20 other students that work in the lab he's in.

Tonight we wanted to go camping, but we have quite a few things going on tomorrow, so driving out of town and camping wouldn't really be worth it. Why pay 15 dollars for a campsite if you can't even stay to hike or something the next day? So we're camping in our yard tonight! :-) Mostly, I really wanted to use the really nice tent Mom and Dad Thornock got us, and we haven't had a chance to yet. (Thanks, Mom and Dad!) It'll be fun.

So, we stay busy. We try to do things in the evenings, but some weeks are more exciting than others. I've been going to Sabrina's to work on that dress about twice a week, and we're hoping to finish it before we go to Michigan. After our trip summer term classes will be starting up, so we'll be busy with studying and this blog will be even less interesting to read. Let's be real. Blogs about kids are a lot more fun than blogs about students, but this is our life right now. We're really enjoying our time here at BYU, even if all we seem to do is study and work.