B-day/V-day

This has been a pretty good week. Jason and I played our first racquetball game together on Monday. We’re in a mixed doubles racquetball tournament. The other couple was actually pretty good and the girl had played on the BYU women’s racquetball team a couple years ago, but we still beat them two matches in a row. Jason’s tennis skills come in really handy. He’s so quick and agile that there’s not much that gets past him. We won the first match 15-3. The second match they were winning 10-3 for the first part of the game, but then we came back to beat them 15-10. The girl was a little frustrated! We play our next game this week.

It was Jason’s birthday on Tues. Feb. 10. He said he wanted a low-key day so I tried to keep it semi- low-key. I gave him some new gloves since he lost his other pair during finals week and a new shirt that we’ll probably return to the store. We ate dinner at his brother Steve’s house and almost everyone came over for dinner. We had a delicious dinner from Mom B. and Sally with pasta, salad, and bread. Since Jason doesn’t really like cake, we had Puppy Chow (kind of like Muddy Buddies) for dessert. Jason’s parents gave him the game “Ticket to Ride” which he liked. My favorite birthday present to give him was a new memory foam pillow. I replaced his old pillow with the new one during the day so he didn’t find it until he went to bed. He was happily surprised. He also got calls from several of his brothers and both of my brothers. Emily and Mike Rogers left a really cute happy birthday song on his phone.

Friday I babysat Sally and Jeff’s three kids while Jason took his test and played basketball. I left my cell phone on the kitchen table. One of the kids slid my phone across the counter and on to the floor that apparently broke it, because I could never receive anymore calls after that. I took it into the Sprint store on Saturday and they couldn’t fix it so they gave me a new phone for $35. It was kind of a sad experience, but I’m glad it got taken care of quickly.

Jason was good about making Valentine’s Day special. He bought me red roses and we ate a heart-shaped Papa Murphy’s pizza for dinner at the Tanner Building on campus. He brought my laptop and played music from when we were dating that brought back good memories. We played a lot of “Remember when . . .” Afterwards we stopped by our Stake Valentine’s Dance and danced for a little while. I went to the grocery store that day and bought him a Maple Bar doughnut, which is one of his all time favorite treats.

December 2008

Happy Holiday greetings! We just wanted to give you a quick update on what we’re up to.

Jason just finished another semester at BYU. He’s planning on graduating in another year and a half in Marriage, Family, and Human Development and possibly pursuing a career working for CES as a seminary or institute teacher or director. He stopped teaching at the MTC near the beginning of the semester but will start working part-time again starting Christmas break in the behavioral coding lab on campus for the Flourishing Families project. He was also just sustained as the ward clerk in our ward and has been busy with meetings and tithing settlement the past few weeks.

I am finishing the first semester of a master’s degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology. I really enjoy the classes and the professors so far. I had the opportunity to teach Educational Psychology to Elementary Education majors this last semester and will teach it again next semester along with another class called Instructional Technology for Elementary Education majors that I will teach as part of an internship. I was just released from being the sacrament meeting pianist and Relief Society instructor and called as the Primary President in our married student ward. Fortunately the Primary consists of two children: one in nursery and one in Sunbeams!

Aside from school and church we are enjoying our little apartment a few blocks from campus. We just finished taking a Country Dance class together and Jason survived it, although there were a few times I wondered if he would. ☺ On good days he even admits that he likes it. Really, I just think he doesn’t like the test aspect of it because every once in a while he will suddenly declare that he feels like dancing and we’ll try to waltz or two-step in our small front room for a few minutes.

I think we’ll both be relieved to switch to volleyball this next semester. Jason is definitely an athlete and is naturally good at most sports he plays. I’m not a terrible racquetball player but there is no competition between the two of us until I started making him play left-handed, and even then he still plays a decent game! We’re planning on playing in a doubles racquetball tournament in February and possibly on an inner-tube water polo team. It will be a busy but fun winter semester!