First Week of School

I have never had a busier first week of class in my life. And it's mostly because of one class. It's called "Basic Structural Design". There's nothing really "basic" about it. The first PRACTICE assignment had 26 problems on it and the first real assignment had 10 parts to it, due January 19. And we had a tutorial. We NEVER have tutorials or labs the first week. I finally finished both assignments about an hour ago, except the formal title page.

Here's a page in the assignment. Looks fun eh? We're asked to draw the normal force, shear force, and bending moment diagrams and draw the deflected shape of the beam. Ya, no one has ever taught us about hinges before. The prof just expects us to know. How thoughtful.



Now it's clean house time for our company this weekend. But I have to display my new purse first! I saw it at The Trading Post (I think???) in Fernie and really wanted it, but it's not exactly cheap. Then we received a very generous gift of the money variety so I could get it! Unfortunately, it wasn't at the store anymore. Then Leif found it on sale somewhere in Saskatoon with free shipping! And it's purple. Perfect.



Hope everyone had a nice holiday season full of pretty things!

Photo contest

One of our wedding pictures has been chosen as one of the top 15 that 6:8 Photography has taken all year, and we are in a contest on their blog. The couple who's picture gets the most votes will win a 12x18 canvas of whatever picture they want. And we want it!!! But we need your help! Please go to http://68photography.ca/blog/ and scroll through the pictures until you get to the place where you vote for your favourite. We're the fourth one down and we hope you'll pick us as your favourite. But, if not that's ok too. Their pictures are all awesome. Once you vote, it will say the voting is closed, but don't worry because your vote will have counted! Voting closes December 31st, 2009 so please hurry! Thanks so much everyone! Have a wonderful holiday season!! Love, Leif and Laura

Happy Birthday Hubby!

It's Leif's 26th birthday today! To celebrate, we went to the Saltlik for a lovely steak dinner topped off with amazing cheesecake! I kept it a secret as far as Crowchild but I don't know exactly how to get there or where to park, so Leif had to be the driver. For his birthday, I bought (or really he bought himself) hockey gloves and I got him batteries for his lego technic gift from his parents. But he has to save that for Fernie! My parents got him a chin-up, push-up, dip, sit-up contraption like Wade and Tara have and I'm just as excited about it as he is!

We both had a good day, with me being officially on Christmas break and with Leif getting to shuffle hangars twice! I went for a massage today and wow can that woman push hard! I'm going to be very sore tomorrow I'm sure, but it's worth it. I also went to see a naturopath in the same clinic and I really like her. I think I'm going to get some good, natural doctoring.

In other news, Oswald now will sit on the rock even if we're moving around him. And both of them are starting to eat better now that we have a heater for the water. The mitts that I'm knitting for Leif would have been done if I hadn't have run out of yarn half way though the last thumb! Grrr. Hopefully Naomi at Heaven Stitch and Design will be able to help me with that on Thursday. http://heavenstitchanddesign.com/home.html

Almost all the presents are wrapped, Leif is packed, and we're ready for the family holidays to begin!

Hooray!

New Tools!!

Yes I know. It has been for ever since I have written on here. But alas here I am. So my wife came to me and said "dear We need to clean out the guest room closet before we have company over to stay." So I turned to my wife and said "sure that sounds like a great idea. But I will have to go to Home Depot and buy some tools". (Yay for new tools!!!) She looks at me, rolls her eyes I and says "really???" I said "I need these tools so I can build us a new shelve to put all our stuff that is in the closet in the garage." I'm so glad I bought a honda becasue it turns into a truck so fast!!

I will do a before and after picture of my garage when I have my shelve built and its all CLEAN!!!

Good Night ya'll
Leif
P.S. Yes I know my car is dirty. Last time someone staying at this house washed their vehicle it snowed.

The Most Cheery Sound...

... is a little girl laughing while being tickled by her mother.


And then between giggles saying "no sank you" followed by "amemee one".

Artsy

Instead of doing homework and other productive-like things, I'm having fun being artsy. Or letting other people be artsy for me!

Here's the painting Shelby gave us from the blog game (which we still have to do)...


... and she recently painted us a matching one, on request, so they can go on either side of the window above our fireplace. Now we just need to get them framed.

They look great hey??

And our other art addition is a window frame piece from a lady in Fernie. The picture frame is from Quinn and Zoe for my birthday.

This is Leif not wanting his picture taken! And our rosemary plant from the craft/farmer's market in Fernie.

And my artsy contribution... I just finished crochetting this hat. Puts some happy in winter I thought!

Sneak Preview

The house is not near photo worthy yet but I'm so excited about our new area rug that I just have to post a picture of it! The flash makes it look a little more textured (aka. not vacuumed all nice) than it looks in real life, but you'll get the idea. Woot!

Monday...

Today was Monday. Enough said?

Got up early with a sore throat and other signs of getting sick.

Rode a PACKED bus and then a PACKED train and then another PACKED bus.

First class was pretty good.

Got totally stumped on the first assignment I was working on in my break.

Got to the next class "not early" and the class was PACKED with almost no seats.

Endured a professor who likes to ramble about irrelavent things and not teach the course material at all.

Heard about an internship meeting from my friends that I should have got an email about on September 4 that was TONIGHT! (Or Thursday thankfully). Stupid name change in my email.

Rushed home to eat lunch.

Rushed to my first filling EVER at the dentist. One of the WORST experiences of my life.

Thought I got a flat tire on the way home, but actually didn't.

Skipped grocery shopping because my cheek felt like it was the size of grapefruit. But started laundry.

Then my wonderful husband came home and tried to cook us suppper on the barbeque. Cue the barbeque COMPLETELY dying. He cooked supper on the stove instead. Hooray!

Wrote some thank you cards and filled out more name change forms and started filling my new shoe rack (that I'm estactic about) that Leif put together for me.

Ate supper and watched our turtles eat too.

Rushed to a Retirement 101 course. Yup, definitely the youngest by far there. But got coffee out of the deal!

Went to Walmart to get Cold-FX for both of us.

Bedtime. Finally.

Hopefully Tuesday is better. Happy 4 months hubby!

Happy Note...

We had this note left at our house one evening. It made me smile!

Our House: Before

Now that we have internet in our house (well actually at the parentals) we can show you our new house! These are pictures of the house when we took possession. The place came with all the furniture... and a few extras.

The outside of the house. We have the front half, top floor (so all three sections of windows) and the left garage (19). On the left is our bedroom with the spare bedroom behind that you can't see. The deck is in the middle with the living room right there and the bathroom behind. And the right window is in our eating area with the kitchen behind. Our door is to the left of the building and the stairs go up behind the second bedroom and bathroom. Make sense?


This is our front (and back I suppose) door.

Looking in the front door and up the stairs. The other door you see is to the garage and there's a closet to the left.

The lovely garage my husband adores.

This is the laundry room at the top of the stairs.

Kitchen with a pantry and the linen closet is just to the left. The laundry room is just behind and to the left of where I'm taking the picture and the stairs are behind me.

The living room. The deck is right outside that door.

The eating area. The kitchen is to the left.

The tiny bathroom.

The second bedroom.

Our bedroom.

View from the deck.

The beautiful chair in the bedroom. It's now on my grandparents' deck. And the Hello Kitty quilt. It's in a bag for Value Village.

Our closet with our hanging clothes in it already. That's the bathroom on the right.

And the wonderful shower curtain. We got a new one.

The house looks a little different now. Including two new sets of shelves and a piano! Once I have it all cleaned up and organized we'll take after pictures.