Finally, a new entry!

It's been a while since Josh and I have been able to post something new, but finally it's here. The last month has been quite a whirlwind with lots of wonderful trips home and fun happenings. I've been substituting pretty much everyday and Josh has been working on three papers and a big presentation for the end of this semester--I'm not a fan of universities that make it easy all semester and then bomb you with tons of assignments. Luckily, I'll be in Utah for a week again next week. Cafe Rio and Mama Chu's here I come. I miss Mexican food, never thought I'd say that. We spent Thanksgiving with Josh's family this year-it was tons of fun especially because everyone was home. The turkey (and everything else!) was delicious-DElicious. Josh's mom and dad brined the turkey this year and it was absolutely succulent. Before Turkey, though, there was some football fun. What's Thanksgiving without football? Josh, Greg, Taylor, Ben, and Josh's dad all went to the local middle school to play some football with other men from the ward. It was really foggy and wet but luckily they were finished by the time it started raining again. Thanksgiving night was spent jamming at the Masino's house. I don't think I'll ever be as stunned as I was that night. We walked in to my Uncle Paul jamming out to Rolling Stones on the mike and the other guys playing guitar, bass, and the drums to Rock Band. Needless to say we ended up getting hooked and Josh actually got really good. He ended up being the resident front man. My personal favorite was the drums, but Netti and Bry were the best.
Earlier this month Josh and I went to the New York State Museum. It was free and we hadn't been in the city that much so we decided to make a day of it. There were a lot of cool things there but my favorite was the 9/11 exhibit. Here are some pictures we took there:

Here is a "bombed out" fire engine that responded to scene

This is some of the steel that that was bent from being so hot after the plane crashed into the twin towers.

Above is a tribute to Seneca Falls--who knew?!
This is a really neat WWII memorial outside the museum and they had all the locations of the major battles listed and we took one by Leipzig, Germany, Josh's mission.

Hopefully you all had a wonderful holiday-we hope you all have a great Christmas, too! Christmas is in 27 days!

More good dreams

So I have good dreams tonight.

BOO-YEAH

Andy Dalton just fell down...better not be related to JD. 1st and 10, BYU ball, all we need is a first down. 1:50 in the game. 2nd and 3 on the TCU 17. 1:20. Harvey Unga first down. Did TCU's coach give up? No timeout? wierd. Looks like the game is in the bag. Tonga to the 4? WE WIN. Yeah. What the heck? Patterson calls a timeout with 11 seconds to go? Casey you are going to have to update me, i know you are at the game. I think we should put it in right now. Enough with this victory formation. WE HATE TCU...finally it's over.

Heart-attack anyone??

Holy cow. I have been listening to the game online and my heart is about to pop out of my chest! Nixon just made that sack, big loss, YYYEAAAAAHHHHHH. come on guys. Anyway, it really seems like we should have been winning this game by more...seems like that is a common theme throughout this season. Max Hall is good...I'm glad that he is playing better than Beck did his first year or two, but he has got to get rid of those interceptions. 2:03 to play, TCU ball 4th and 8.

Funny too

Been a while

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Wow almost a month has gone by! Nothing too exciting has happened here. Halloween was SUPER lame. Well, I mean, we went and picked our own pumpkins, then carved them and even dressed up for trick-or-treaters. Fran was a witch and I was Dr. Acula...hopefully all you Scrubs fans remember that from JD's screenplay or I just look like a wierd clown-nurse. So we had the apartment all decorated, scary music playing and we got...one trick-or-treater. LAME. So all we ended up with is a whole bucket of candy that neither Fran nor I need!! hahaha.

School is going well for me. I just got through mid-terms. Public Health is definitely an interesting field, but I am glad that my plans are to go on to medical school and not to go work in a county health department or something. I think I would be really bored.

Fran finally jumped through enough hoops and is substituting as well as still doing her research work with BYU. She landed a long-term sub job in her hometown from the end of January through April, so that will be lots of fun for her. Now we can work on all those tests that she has to take in order to get NYS certification. It is really stupid that we have to do that, but we can thank Utah's education system for that. If it wasn't so horrible, then maybe NY would accept their licensing program.

I guess that this is enough for now. I'll make sure fran gets on here and gives some updates as well.

Oh yeah...I thought that this video was really funny. Fran always used to talk about the "guy" language that Casey, Rye, JD and I would resort to when we were around each other.