Pigeon Hunter Strikes Again

Pigeons: 3         Micah: 2          Becky: 1

Adventures of a pigeon huntress

Pigeons: 3    Micah: 1   Becky:1

Micah woke me up the other day because he HAD to show me something.  I went out and he pointed outside to my bike.  In the spokes of the back wheel was a dead, twisted pigeon.  I have no idea how it got there, but let's just contribute that kill to me, because it was my bike. Score!

We're Alive!

Hey there. I'm back to the blogging world.  Here's some of the highlights of the past few weeks:

~Horseback riding and camping!  SO fun...until my horse ran me through some very solid branches.  Shorty and I bonded though and I apologized for calling him stupid. We roamed all around the desert mountains, saw indian drawings and handprints, old houses that people used a hundred years ago, and even part of a piano just chilling in the desert.  I would love to do this again sometime.

~I milked a goat! I'm pretty much a farmer now.  Our friends (the ones with the horses) parent's have a bunch of goats and cows and horses and such and before we went on our trip we got to help feed and milk and herd the goats.  There were a bunch of baby goats and they were SO cute!
~Micah's been studying like crazy for the MCAT this Saturday.  On a practice test he took awhile ago he got a better score than he did on the last test he took! He's so smart. I'm sure he's going to do great.

~We went to Costco on Saturday--I love Costco. Micah let me buy a huge bag of ravioli and I let him buy a huge bag of pancake mix. We're good at compromising.

~Micah just found out that I don't like to talk on the phone. Apparently after a few minutes talking (to anybody) I say "Okay, well I'm going to go."  Don't get offended if I do this to you. I just dont like talking on the phone.  I don't really know why, but oh well.  Micah, the chatterbox, thinks I'm weird.

~I'm not sure what else to say.....maybe I'll post some pictures soon! 

~Oh yeah! Samuel and Stephanie are coming to visit next week!  It'll be good to see them.  It's been 9 months since we left Utah-wow!

~Okay, well I'm going to go now. Bye.

Europe or bust!!!!

In our Institute building there is this huge old-looking map of the world.  Micah and I always stop to admire it and talk about where we would go if we had the money.  The last time we were talking about it we thought about backpacking around Europe.  At the time it was just talk--something exciting to talk about that probably would never happen for a long, long time. 

Well, today I decided.  We're going. Next summer right before medical school. Micah doesn't know yet, but I KNOW he will be all for it.  He probably thinks that I would never actually do it, but I'm going to prove him wrong. I might be a little crazy, but I want to go. I want to do something amazing that we can talk about for the rest of our lives.  I want to be like Loreli and Rory (if you know what I am referencing, you are outstanding). 

Now, I need your help.  There are birthdays coming; Christmas is coming.  Hello people! Perfect opportunity to help us toward our goal instead of buying us another gift!

EUROPE OR BUST!

On a completely different note, why do people always backpack in Europe? Why do you never hear of people backpacking across Asia or Africa or Antartica?!? 

Free Knife!!

For my birthday, my newspaper job gave me a $25 gift card to REI. Well today I decided to go to REI and buy me another knife. I wanted one where you touch a button and the blade flips open by itself. I found some but they were more money than I was allowed to spend. I did find a couple of smaller knives that I liked. I spent a good 20 minutes staring at these knives trying to decide which one I wanted. As I was about to make a decision on which knife to get a lady walks up to me and asked me what I was looking for in a knife. I told her what I was looking for and she told me to hold on for a minute. She started to rummage through her purse. I was wondering what she was up to and then she pulls out a knife! To cut me?! To show me?! NO...to GIVE it to me!!!! It is a Benchmade knife. And it flips open. I do have to give a little push with my thumb to have it flip but its close enough for me. Its a $150 knife!! And she just gave it to me. She said that she likes doing random acts of service and this was her act of service for the day. What an awesome lady! Someday when I can actually afford knives that are expensive and nice, I will do the same thing for some poor young person. Here is a picture of what the knife looks like.

Pigeons: 3 Micah: 1

Enough said... Micah is such a great warrior!

Contemplating...

Tonight we discussed buying a mobile home.  Weird.  My grandparents live in one (or did until just recently). 

PROS:  nice, clean, safe community with LDS managers who are in our ward
             Our own home--no more sharing walls with other people
             A (small) yard
             2+ bedrooms
             Half the rent
             We'll OWN a home--I can't wait to own something big
             swimming pool, park, basketball courts, and clubhouse
             Right near the river where we like to ride our bikes
             not a lot of traffic

CONS:  We'd have to BUY it--we could do it financially, but that's a big commitment-scary
              A little further away from work and school
              Feels like a senior community despite the children running around
              We'd have to pay utilities--at the place we are now we don't have to pay
              Honestly....not much else


A couple in our ward told us about it and I'm excited about it.  I drove down there and it sure it a nice community.    Now all we have to do is get out of our current contract.  Anyone want to rent our apartment?????? :)

Birthday boy!

Micah's birthday was a few weeks ago and it was a blast!   My sister and her family (a total of 8 people!) had slept over the night before his birthday.  They are doing a fun tour of AZ in honor of the 100th birthday!  It was REALLY packed, but SO fun. Every inch of our floor was covered. 

Since they slept over, it meant that we had a much more exciting birthday party than we would have had with just us two.  The kids were all so excited and wrote him litte notes and made him cute crafty things.  They even helped with his birthday cake and dinner!

Do you see the fisherman and fish? These guys were on Micah's cake at work and I decided to re-use them.

I got Micah some random things, but the biggest present was this:

We're going to FLY!  How cool is that?  We're going on March 31st. Stayed tuned for an epic blog post.

Overall, Micah's birthday was so fun!  I'm so glad that he was born 25 years ago!  Kudos, mom and dad Price, for making such an awesome, caring, loving, handsome son.

New hoodie

So Micah has this sweater. It's his favorite.  He wears it every. single. day.  At least on the days he works at the newspaper (which used to be every day).  After months and months of getting ink on it, it looks like this:

Seriously, these pictures don't even do the grossness justice.  It needs to go. 

Which is why I made him a brand spankin' new hoodie with his new school on it!

It's not done in the picture, but it is now!  I really like how it turnd out.

Too bad Micah still uses his old one because "the one you made me is TOO new"

I feel so American

I voted for the first time yesterday.  You may ask "Why has it taken you so long, you're already 22!" Well, when I was 18, I had just moved from Arizona to Utah for school and I had no idea how to get a mail in ballot from AZ.  So missed the 2008 elections.  The next 2 years didn't really matter to me. I wasn't a Utah citizen and I wasn't even in Arizona so I didn't feel the need to vote. 

Last year, however, I was determined to vote.  I was quite excited about it.  I was a citizen of Utah (I'm so glad that's over) and I wanted my sticker.  You know the one.  It says "I VOTED!"  I wanted one bad.  So I went on down to the library to vote.  Well apparently they had no record of me being a registered voter despite apply almost a year before.  I never had got a card....maybe my info fell through the cracks.  I was pretty distressed about it, actually.  Micah had to comfort me.

This year I KNEW I would vote.  I mean, it's a really important election coming up.  The GOP primaries are the 28th of this month and Micah and I got our mail in ballots last week.  As of yesterday, they are officially in!  It feels great to finally vote! The one downer to mailing in our ballots was the fact that we wouldn't get a sticker. At least, that is what I thought.  I was just about to throw away the superfluous papers sent with our ballot when I saw this:

I voted early in Pima County!

Oh happy day! I wore it for the rest of the night.  At that moment, I was indeed proud to be an American.

Adventures of a pigeon hunter: part 3

This guy's name is Franklin. I just made that up, but I like it, so that will be his name.

Franklin LOVES to perch on our light and poop a lot.

Apparently our light is the coziest one because he comes back every single night.

No joke!

He's seen us so much that our presence does not scare him away like we would hope.

You've got to admire his diligence. 

We've both been REALLY close to catching him with a small crate, but we're not quite there.

Pigeons: 3     Micah:0       For now...

Soon, very soon, we will catch this little guy.

For now, enjoy our light, Franklin.

You have no idea what's coming.

My husband the beautician.

So on Thursday I was not having a good day.  Micah, being the awesome husband that he is, came home early from work to surprise me and be with me.  He ended up walking in on me wrapping his birthday presents that his mom sent (shout out to Mama and Papa Price for the sweet Valentine's/birthday package!).  I quickly shoved the presents under the couch and asked why he was home so early. 

"So I could be with you!"  How could I be mad then?  He's so cute :)

Well, to cheer me up, Micah decided that he was going to give me a makeover. At first I resisted, but then I thought it would be pretty funny to watch him try. I was surprised how much he knew about makeup. I only had to give a few hints. It actually ended up looking better than when I do my own makeup!

The hair and nails, you ask? Well, let's just say that I will leave the hair to Kathy and I can do my own nails if I want. But he gets an A+ for effort! He sure did cheer me up!

The before pictures:

Micah straightening my hair: 

The after:

Hair........:

See? Pretty good makeup:

Pink nails:  

Happy Everything!

Hey, Arizona. You are pretty great. You've treated me well, as a 100 year old state should. I just wanna take a minute and say Happy Birthday!

Why, yes. This IS the state song--rap style.

 Well, today's not all about Arizona. It's also about LOVE!  Happy Valentine's Day to everyone out there. Micah made me breakfast this morning. Or maybe I just surprised him by waking up before he left for work for once and he felt the need to share his eggs. I mean, it is Valentine's Day after all.

I LOVE YOU EVERYONE!!

For my mom and dad

Have you noticed that those that visit us usually get a post dedicated to them (with the one exception of Hannah--sorry! I don't believe I got pictures of you. I will remedy this if/when you visit again:)?

*And now that I think about it, Kathy too. Sorry I didn't post about cleaning your teeth...

Well my parents randomly told me a couple weeks ago that they wanted to visit us. Cool! I'm desperate for human interaction, so I was very excited.

Little did I know that they would bring a TV and DVD/VHS player (Very old things. I mention this because my siblings think I'm spoiled all because my parents felt sorry for me and got me a car, which I'm paying off.  And didn't Heather get a car in high school? Oh yeah. She did.). Cool again!

Micah had to work that day, so my parents and I chatted for awhile. Then we decided to go visit Micah at work.....which turned into this:

Yup. We helped Micah fold his newspapers so he could be done earlier.  Thanks Mom and Dad! You're the best.

My mom saw the post with the snake bridge in it, so she wanted to go see it.  She loved it! I can't say the same about my dad--he HATES snakes.  He was a good sport anyway.

We can always count on a free meal when the parents are in town, and they did not disappoint this time.  The women went for Paradise Bakery and the men got some burgers. 

So basically my parents trip consisted of working, walking on a bridge for5 miunutes, and paying for our dinner.  Did we mention we love you a LOT?! Because we do.  And next time we will not make you work, ok? Deal!

Crunching the numbers

Micah and I had a long chat today about finances.  We both have students loans and recently I've been paying a little, tiny bit of my paycheck toward paying mine off.   Well, today we got serious and decided to get these loans paid off more quickly.   We don't even have to start paying these babies off until we're out of school, but we wanted to start early to avoid interest. AND we want to be debt-free by medical school.
Being the math geek that I am, I just spent a good 2 hours of my normal reading time making up 3 different loan repayment plans. Tomorrow we'll choose which one we want to follow.

Micah, though asleep, was thinking about finances as well.  He mumbled something like "Let's split it to get the money." I told him it was a good idea, to which he responded, "I know. It means more money." 

I'm just glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about money at 11pm.  Micah is such a good husband--he supports me in everything.


Well, wish us luck! 

For Stephanie

I dare you to eat a banana right now.

Animal lovers

Micah and I are animal lovers. Well, I am at least.  Micah just likes the weird/freaky animals.  Like this:

It's adorable, right?

And Micah wouldn't even be allergic!



These are a few of my favorite things

Ok maybe a little more than a few.  Try DOZENS! And this isn't even all of them; I have many more in the laundry basket. 

The point is that I love socks.  With a passion. 

You see, I have chronic cold feet syndrome.

Never heard of it? It's becuase I just made it up. 

But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Especially for me.

Anyway, I diverge.

Back to socks.

Anyone who knows me well, knows I love socks.

My roommates used to give me socks on birthday every year.

My mom used to put them in my stocking every year. Now it falls on Micah to do the same (and he did not fail this year).

My mom even sent them in a random package a few weeks ago.  It made me SO happy.

Socks are the go-to Christmas/Birthday gift if you want to get something cheap and easy for me.

A word of advice: Target. $1 socks. My absolute favorite kind.

Now go, stock up. Buy all you want and give a few pairs to me every year on my birthday.

I will be absolutely thrilled if that was all you got me.

It can be any type of sock.

I am no respecter of socks.

I like...

Black socks, white socks

Striped socks, dotted socks

Star socks, heart socks

Socks with bows

Or socks with RAINbows

Mismatched socks are completely fine

Boy sock are sublime

Socks with moons

And ARGYLE, yes argyle.

My personal favorite.

Sparkle socks for fancy events

Socks of all sizes

Knee socks, tall socks, medium socks, ankle socks, and short socks.

My choice today? Why the mismatched puma socks, naturally.

I remember the day I bought these. Who I was with, what the weather was like, what other things I bought along with these.  Yes, it's a little crazy, but I love these ones.

And I love ALL my socks. It pains me to throw away socks that have served me so well just because there is a hole. Or when I lose one! Oh, the anguish!

Well, I'm guessing you all are a little socked out for today.

Now don't get me started on BOOKS.

That's another post for another day.

Till next time...

Emotions

                                                  

This picture, in addition to being humorous (to me at least), shows 4 common emotions people feel.

Since I'm cool that way, I decided to recreate these pictures. Enjoy.

I don't know what it is...but lately I've been very emotional. Most of the day, I'm perfectly happy.  Then as the day wears on, I become overcome with emotion.  This tends to happen when it's dark and Micah is either gone at work or asleep (which is ALL. The. TIME.)

Anything can set off the tears.  A song from the Glee soundtrack. Jane by Design, the juvenile TV show about high school drama. A memory about some good friends.

I probably look like this when the emotion takes over:

Oh, wait. I do (see previous picture)!

I hope nobody is concerned about me. The emotion isn't really sadness. It's just...overwhelming.

When I get this way, I feel melodramtic. And the truth is, I kinda like it.  Sometimes I'll go to the piano and play a really sappy or melodramatic song and really get into it.  I feel like I am in a movie when I do that. I feel inspired by my emotional break down.

This isn't new. A few years ago, I was reading in the Book of Mormon about Captain Moroni on the bus on my way home from school. When I got home, I was bawling. My roommates asked what was wrong and through the tears I said, "Captain Moroni is just so AWESOME!"  They looked at me like I was a crazy person (seriously, I was crying pretty hard....not normal).

Sweet, well that's me.

Finally, finally, finally!

Micah applied for a new job as a reseach assistant and HE GOT IT! I wasn't surprised at all.  He is a good person for the job.   This means that Micah gets to put in his 2 weeks notice for his newspaper job.  Hallelujah! I will have no more nights of being alone in our apartment, which I am SO excited about.  Micah won't be tired every waking minute of every day.  He will get paid more.  We get FULL benefits.  He gets basically free tuition.

The list goes on and on and on.  I think I'm more excited than he is.

In other (less exciting) news, I have a job too.  Data entry for sign makers isn't that cool.  And the pay is equally uncool.  BUT I do have a little extra money to make Micah's next birthday awesome.

For Matt

So a few weeks ago my brother Matt and his girlfriend, Brittany, came to visit us (since when did hanging out with his little sister become fun?)! Well it was fun!  We went shooting and we went to see the Titan Missle Museum.

Matt was really anxious to have a blog post about him. I wonder why....

Look how cool the Barney siblings are.  If I don't look like I'm aiming, it's becuase I'm not.  I figure I have just as much chance at hitting the clay pigeons without aiming as I do with aiming.

(*since this trip, Micah and I have gone shooting 2 more times.  I DO aim now & I can hit the pigeons!!  Just do not ask me to shoot a rifle with a scope.  "I had a bad experience!" 10 points to the person who can name that movie.*)

Aww...how cute.  Matt and Brittany.  Isn't the hard hat lovely?  Matt, remember that one time you didn't think you'd need a hard hat, but then you hit your head (twice) on the door frames in the building? Good times.

I can never take pictures without me barely making it into the lower right side of the picture.

The missile. It's huge!

How cute.  Matt and Micah are BFFs.  They even like to take pictures of each other taking pictures of each other.

Down, down, down we go!

That door is 6,000 pounds!  I think.  Anyway, it's heavy.  Brittany is the hulk- she opened it with ease.

The control room!

The missile!

Cute couple. 

Matt and Brittany, you are welcome to come back any time! There are lots of things to do here.

That goes for anyone reading this, too. Come visit!!! (Samuel, Stephanie, and Hannah- is there a trip in the works? I heard rumors, very exciting rumors)