Almost aDream Weekend

Ever since I started looking for jobs outside of Utah exspecially in Seattle and Portland I looked into when the Yankees were going to be playing Seattle. While I was looking I thought "hey doesn't BYU play Washington this year in Seattle." So when I took the job in Portland I bought tickets to the Marnieers Yankee game and come to find out BYU would play Washington the same weekend.

So last weekend my parents came and we went to both games. It wasn't perfect because first I lost some of the excitement for the Yankees game since they are out of the race for the playoffs and I have been busy finishing school and starting a new job I haven't followed them as much as I have in the past.

Then Saturday afternoon we went to the game with my parents and cousin Rob and his wife. He is a washington fan. It was a great game and was even better when they were playing on our end of the field becaude we were so close. To bad the game ended with the controversy but what ever -- BYU won and it was a good ofensive game. I believe this a picture of the winning Touchdown pass.

I give the Weekend an A- and would only been better if Steve was there, Nicole hadn't left the game at halftime (but that was no big deal -- she doesn't like football), and the Yankees

would have won.

comment from nicole -- We also ate at an amazing restaurant in Tacoma WA and I had cedar plank salmon and rich had mahi tacos. Before that lunch, I would have given the w/end activites a C+, after that lunch and finally meeting people from the Buhler side of the family, definitally A-.

Commuting Sucks!!!

But I guess even when I have stand during the 40 minute un-air-conditioned ride I really don't have it too bad compared to these folks. It's nice to have some dedicated reading time every day anyways - I've already read 4 books this summer - that's more than I usually read in 1 year! I guess I'm just a little bitter because I had to stand two days in a row and there was not one gentleman that offered to give up his seat for me or any of the ladies that were quiet a bit older than me........as a matter of fact, and elderly lady had to ask a young man to MOVE HIS BACKPACK so she could sit down the other day......that's downright wrong. Oh well, life goes on......and so does the daily commute.

Florist By Design

This nice lady in my ward had an enrichment night where she taught us how to arrange flowers. Naturally, I forgot about it, but she was nice enough to save me some flowers and a piece of foam core to make my own arrangement. Here is how they turned out. I think that my ma ma's creativeness has flowed into my cells - thus making me a florist by design. Richard thinks the one in the ice cream dish looks like a funeral spray and that the short one looks like a "grandma arrangement" So much for becoming a florist instead of the dreaded clinical RD that I have become.....What do you think mom?

Now that I'm officially done with school......

I can think about other things. For example, today, after scoring a $2.50 mollie katzen at a garage sale, I was reminded of a conversation Rich and I had last night about the health rider (because they are omnipresent at garage sales). I have three questions concerning the subject that someone might be able to answer:

#1: Why did anyone EVER think that they would get a good workout by squating like a frog on a little machine while watching TV

#2: Why did so many people buy them.......how many people still have one.........and even more importantly, WHY ARE THEY STILL FOR SALE ONLINE (and not used ones either).........are we really that stupid?

#3: Where do all the unwanted heath riders end up??? DI overstock/goodwill? The dump? Health Rider Heaven????

Hmmmm, the world will never know.

Passed

Just so everybody knows Nicole passed the RD exam. For the last month she has been bringing along note cards everywhere we go. For example on our backpacking trip on Kings Mountain, she brought her flash cards. On last weekends river trip she studied the whole time we were on the bus, and last weeks trip to Seattle same thing study, study, study.

Congrats Nicole and now you can bring in the big bucks. Your amazing

Wait for more info from the certified dietitian herself.

Seattle is a Foodie's best Friend!

Getting warshed away

Last Saturday, we rode on a charter bus out past Mt. Hood and rafted the Deshutes river with a bunch of engineers and geologists......it was a cold and wet time.....