College!

Hey everyone! So, I moved to Utah State on Saturday and had my first day today, weird, I know. I am loving it so far. I am already learning so much and having fun. My apartment is on the top floor and, tell you what, four flights of stairs after a full day of walking and biking campus are not fun. My roommates are awesome. They are all so nice. We are all really different but we get along really well. My room roommate is Kelsey. We knew each other from high school. I went to the student ward for the first time yesterday and it was fun. The funniest part about it is that our ward is about 90% girls. We had good lessons though. I had my first day of classes and I am worn out. I have 4 classes on Mondays. Busy but fun. I start with Math 1060 then to History of Jazz, Chemistry, and I finish the day with English. My chemistry teacher has already blown something up so that's a good sign. I am so excited for my jazz class, just from today I can tell that it is going to be so interesting and well... awesome! I have a Women in Engineering Seminar on Thursday I think that will have lots of cool stuff to learn. Fun stuff. I am really liking it so far. I love you guys and miss you a lot.

Oregon!

Just thought we would share a few of the many memories we have already made here in Oregon.

 Ellie's 4th Birthday!

 We love the beach

 Happy Fourth of July!

 Hike to Silver Falls

 We were able to complete about 2 miles of a 10 mile hike.

 Ellie Avenue

 Ocean!!

 Thanks Grandpa for the best present ever!

 Building a birdhouse.

 We sure do miss our carpool buddy, Terser

 Yeah for Oregon!

 Ellie's new favorite part of the zoo.

 Chris loves to talk about how the birdie pinched his arm.

 We have picked a lot of berries!  

(blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries)

And we have baked a lot of delicious breakfasts with them!

We love it here, but we do miss our family.  Love you all.  Hope you enjoy the pics!

Emmalee is alive! even though she is a senior.

So I am trying this blog post thing. I figure since I am terrible at talking on the phone or even talking to people in general, I should let you know that I have not died. I have just been living it up as a senior.
My life has pretty much consisted of playing the bass, school, internship, and trying to keep up with the awesomeness that is my family.

A few of my friends and I didn't get asked to prom so we had our own dance. Tacky pictures and Just Dance making it way more fun than the actual dance was.

As I mentioned before I am doing an internship. I am an engineering intern at Chromalox, Inc. I do whatever the engineers tell me to do. Most often that means that I am making 3D computer models of the heating elements. I just started doing the calculations for flanges. Which basically means that I do math to figure out how thick to make something so it doesn't explode. 

I even have an official badge. Also, random fact, one of the engineers used to run with Kristi. He remembered me being at the track meets because he thought it was weird that someone in high school would have such a young sibling.

In January I got the opportunity to play in the Utah All State Orchestra. It was awesome! Two full days of playing the bass without anyone telling me to stop. It was so cool to play with so many talented musicians.On the second day we had 8 almost continuous hours of rehearsal. I loved it! and what made it even better was that we performed in Abravenel Hall on my birthday!