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)

I have trouble taking pictures.

For Adam

This blog post is long overdue.  In December, Micah's brother Adam came to visit for a week and a half.  Since  Micah has a really stupid job (that he get's to quit after his 2 week's notice he puts in next week--YAY!!!!!!!!!!!) Adam and I had some really great bonding time.  We baked, we cleaned (thanks for the help :), we watched Psych, we played games, AND he was basically Santa.  He brought all the presents that Micah's parents had for us.  It was great!

We did do some really fun stuff with Micah despite his crazy schedule.

TOMBSTONE GRAVEYARD!

CAMPING!

Yeah so this is the only picture we got of camping, but we thought it was funny.

Camping was...interesting.  It was pouring rain and making a fire to cook our dinner was difficult.  It was pretty fun still.

MEXICO!!!!

The line of cars to get back into the US.  I'm so glad we weren't in that line.

So after we had our share of Mexico, we walked back across the border. No big deal.  We hopped in our car and 10 miles down the road was a border control check point.  There were dogs sniffing each car to see if they had drugs.  Micah said " Oh man, I hope they don't bark at our car."  Cue the barking.  That dog was going CRAZY!   We had to get out of our car and wait on the side of the road while they drove our car away and checked it out.  Adam got yelled at for looking at his phone.  It was great fun.  Luckily they didn't find anything that had been planted in our car, but when we got back in the car, there was dog hair and slobber over everything. Gross.

THE BIOSPHERE!!!!!

The Rainforest

I think this was the Savannah, but I could be wrong.

The ocean.

The desert

The long hallways we walked through

The lung! The coolest part.  I don't really want to explain it here. Talk to Micah about it if you are interested.

The ocean again. Adam likes the fish.

The kitchen where the people cooked when they were sealed in the Biosphere for 2 years.

A cook rock.

It sure was fun to have Adam in town.  We would have never done half of that stuff if he hadn't come and given us a reason to do those things.

Christmas Gifts

Early in November I found a really good deal on a really nice digital piano.  I practically begged Micah to let me get it. I told him it could be my Christmas present and he didn't have to get me anything else.

Well, it worked.  Boy am I happy.

Check it out!

Since I got an expensive present, Micah felt like he deserved one as well.  He debated with himself for a few weeks.  "Should I get a gun or a recliner?"  Eventually the recliner won.  I was secretly very happy because I can also use a recliner :) Hazzah!

Sadly there are no pictures, but I can assure you that it is sublime.

What a great Christmas!

4.0

This last semester for me and Micah was really hard. I mean, with Micah taking one class in his grad program and me taking 2 online classes (one of them a GE), we were swamped. *note the sarcasm*

Despite all that, we were happy to find that we both achieved a 4.0 GPA! I'm especially proud of Micah. The tests in his class were pretty darn tough and he wasn't sure how he did. But alas, he's a genius. And apparently so am I. Hence, our kids are going to be awesome, I tell you. They'll get 4.0s ALL the time, shoot guns like Annie Oakley or Daniel Boone (depends on gender), and play piano like Asians.

We're almost as excited as this girl.

Searching google images "4.0 gpa" brings up this gem. 

I guess Justin Bieber has a 4.0 as well.

With his vocal cords of gold and awesome dance moves who wouldn't give him a 4.0?

 

For Heather

Sat 12/31 -  10 min. 45 sec.
Mon 1/2- 9 min.
Mon 1/2- 8 min.

You might need to step up your game :)