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 :)

Early Morning Fun

So I work as a product coordinator for the Arizona Daily Star (the newspaper in southern Arizona). This means that I work during the night. I leave at 9:30 pm and get back to the apartments around 6:30 am. Every night I tell Becky goodbye and tell her to lock the door behind me. Our door has the typical deadbolt but it also has a lock that can only be unlocked from the inside. I try to mention every night that she can't use that lock because if she does I can't get back inside without having to wake her up. This morning I get back to my apartment and I unlock the door and try to open it, but I can't. I thought that the door might just be stuck so I push harder. No luck. She locked the door from the inside and I was locked out of my apartment!! It was probably 20 degrees outside. That is a death sentence for us Arizonans! (To be locked outside in freezing temperatures) I tried to call my lovely wife but she didn't answer. So I try again...and again...and again...and 5 more times. NO LUCK AGAIN!!! I then thought that I could wake her up by throwing rocks at our bedroom window. I must have thrown 50 rocks or so but still no luck. I then begin to look at our 2nd floor balcony and realized that if I could somehow get up there I could use my key to open the back door. Getting up to the balcony without stairs or a ladder was going to be challenging. I noticed that I could use our downstairs neighbors window as my first step, then delicately balance on their fence and jump to our railing, hoping that I don't miss or slip because that would wake them up and hurt me. So I jumped and grabbed our balcony fence and pulled myself up and thought for sure that I would be able to escape the cold and go to bed. I pull out my keys, put it in the lock and it won't turn!! BLAST!! I found out that I don't have a key to our balcony door! Getting desperate, I figured that I could take off the screen to our window and slide the window open in order to get in to the apartment. But as I was trying to remove the screen I noticed that it had screws holding it in! I decided at this point I needed to just give up and become a little popsicle outside. It my greastest moment of despair I see a little figure wrapped up in blankets coming out of my bedroom. BECKY!! She was awake! She unlocked the door for me and I got in. I gave her a big hug for letting me in and I noticed that she was terrified. This whole time, she had been awake listening to all this noise and thinking that someone wanted to kill her. All in all, don't lock me out, or I might scare you to death trying to get in.

Christmas Card

So...I had every intention of sending a fabulous Christmas card to everyone  we know. Seeing as it's too late to get the cards to everyone by Christmas, I decided to post it here and only send cards to the ones who aren't as tech-saavy as the rest of us (a.k.a. Grandparents). 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This year has been amazing!  Here are some pictures of the highlights this year:

Four weddings-including our own!

We both graduated in April. Woohoo!

An awesome summer of hiking, fishing, camping, biking, and making cobbler with the college kids!

Many new adventures in our new town-Tucson, AZ (not to mention being closer to my family)

Happy Holidays!  Love, Micah and Becky Price