Third Week Slump

I have discovered a phenomena that occurs to students in college.  I never noticed it before college but during my second year here at BYU, I discovered the third week slump syndrome.

The third week slump looks a little bit like this--

or like this---

It is this strange disease that all college students I have known have shown signs of.  Curtis and I decided that the add/drop deadline is always the second week of the semester because if it was later, we would drop all of our classes.

Symptoms of the third week slump include:

     -Not wanting to do homework

     -No longer wanting to attend class (attendance usually goes down after the third week of classes)

     -Increased desire to play hooky and more often acting on this desire

     -Extreme tiredness

     -Lack of motivation

and lastly, justification for not caring...ha ha ha ha.

So, if you are a college student and some of these symptoms sound familiar, don't worry, it's something we all go through.

Yay, for the third week slump!

Once There was a Snow Lady....

Once there was a snow lady, snow lady, snow lady!  Once there was a snow lady....

tall, tall, TALL!!!!

In the sun she melted, melted, melted.  In the sun she melted....

small, small, small.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas...

The snow is falling all around...

A tree is up with presents underneath...

Gifts for family and friends are being wrapped each day...

Lights festively decorate the apartment...

Christmas movies are waiting to be watched...

And yet, we are trapped inside...

Studying for finals.

Yes, it is beginning to look like Christmas indeed..........

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

So this week we got our first real snow storm and of course, we decided to build a snowman.  But I thought it would be fun to make a snow woman!  We were actually going to make her a husband the next day but we didn't get around to it because well, it is the last week of school and our professors like to pile it on this time of year.  So all we've got so far is the wife....we'll have to work on that.  I think we are supposed to get more snow this weekend.
Along with the snow came some really, really cold weather.  I guess this was some crazy cold storm because I have been in Utah for four winters now and I have never experienced this cold of weather in December.  In January and February, yes, but not December.   It's like booger-freezing cold out there!  When we walked to campus the other day it was only -4 degrees!  -4!!!  That's crazy cold!  I don't think it's been out of the teens for the past few days.  Crazy....and what's really crazy is that I actually want it to snow because that will bring some warmer weather.  I don't like snow...you know it's cold when I'm looking forward to it.
I guess the snow has some pluses though, like snowmen and snuggling and enjoying the warmness and comforts of the inside.  So here's some pictures of our snow woman and us making it.  It was lots of fun and actually the first snowman I have built since I was about 8!

Curt working on the bottom...the snow was really dry so we couldn't use the rolling technique for the bottom.

It kinda looked like an alien at first....

I started working on the head and created a new technique...roll, and...

breathe on it to melt it.  It actually worked for the head.

Us with our snow lady.  I wanted to make her anatomically correct, but Curt wasn't going for it so we just gave her a heart and red lips instead.

Isn't she pretty?

I think the hair was the best touch...spaghetti!  It was Curt's idea

Halloween Fun

I've been slacking on updating our blog and well, Curt doesn't do it, so if I don't then it doesn't get done.  We've been busy with school and what-not, so naturally, blogging gets put on the back-burner.  But, there is some exciting news to share, Curt is an official uncle!  His sister gave birth to a baby girl on Sunday.  We are both very excited.  My sister had the first baby for my side of the family this past July and this is the first for Curt's family and it is very exciting to see such beautiful babies come into the world.  We are planning on visiting Curt's sister tonight and I am very excited to see the baby.
Halloween was lots of fun for us.  Since it was on Saturday we just got to chill and spend the whole day together.  It was nice and lots of fun.  We started the day off with a French toast breakfast.  I seasoned the French toast with pumpkin spice to make it more festive.  I have to admit, I think I have mastered French toast, we didn't even put anything on it.  No butter, no cinnamon, no syrup, no nothing!  Then we took a quick  trip to Walmart to pick up some supplies and more candy and Curt found his inspiration for his pumpkin.  When we got home, we carved pumpkins.  It was lots of fun.  We carved them in the parking lot behind our apartment...it was great!

Here's Curt drawing out his pumpkin's face

And the carving begins and so do Curt's funny faces...just you wait!

This is the funniest expression ever!  I was laughing as I watched him scoop out the pumpkin guts.  I had to help him a bit...I don't think he has quite refined that skill yet.

I love scooping out the guts, weird I know.  But, my pumpkin had lots of them, so I guess it's good that it doesn't gross me out.

Carving away...in the parking lot.

Curt and his pumpkin with angry eyes, like Mr. Potato Head on Toy Story 2..."Say hello to Mr. Angry Eyes!!"

Me and my pumpkin.  It leaned to the side, so I made a leaning skeleton head...the mouth is like that because he leans.

We then made the rest of the cake pops that we started on Friday.  You can see my other blog, chelsbaking.blogspot.com for the details of that excursion.  But, yes, we made the rest of them and then did a reverse trick-or-treating.  We delivered them to some friends in a kind of knock on the door and we provide the treat, backwards way.  It was fun and cool to see people's reactions to the pops.

After delivering the pops we decided to watch a movie and hope for trick-or-treaters.  We didn't get any and are still enjoying the candy that we didn't get to give out.  I was sad we didn't get any but I wasn't really expecting to since we live in an apartment building.  But, we had fun watching The Corpse Bride with our pumpkins lit up.  Probably wasn't the smartest thing to like them up inside, but we wanted to see them and nothing burned down so it's all good, right?  

I personally think they looked pretty cool, so I was just fine with lighting them up.  It was a fun Halloween.  I love Halloween; it reminds me of being a kid.  Nothing like dressing up in some wack-o costume for some candy.  And while the trick-or-treating days may be long since over, I find myself enjoying the sugar-filled holiday even more than I did as a kid.

Now we are getting ready for Thanksgiving.  I love this holiday too.  Good food and family...what could be better?  My sister is coming down from Idaho and with my other sister and her husband, we are going to have Thanksgiving together.  I already have plans for lots of baking...I can't wait!

Hair and Hike the Y

This morning I discovered the true meaning of bed head.  I love my short hair, because when I sleep on it, even slightly wet, it usually turns out very wearable the next morning.  I might have to put some hair gunk in it to calm some crazy pieces down, but it is always fixable.  But, oh no, not this morning.  This morning, I experienced, for the first time in my life, real, genuine, crazy and wild bed head.

Yes, I have horns and all.  I didn't know my hair could get this crazy!  I mean, seriously, what do I do in my sleep to cause my hair to go in practically every direction possible?  It's an amazing feat, I have to say.  Curt woke up before me today to watch the ESPN game day thing because it took place in Provo and when he came back to wake me up before we went to study, we had some good laughs about my hair.  In my half-asleep, half-awake state, I could tell that it was a little crazy, but I really underestimated it's craziness.  I mumbled to Curt that my hair was crazy and when I sat up, he realized what I had said and laughed and was like, "You're hair is so cool!"  I crawled out of bed to look at it and I was like, "I bet you wish you could have hair like mine, don't ya?"  But yes, I had some crazy hair this morning; hair that I didn't think I could have!

This week we also did Hike and Light the Y.  It was lots of fun.  It was my third year doing it and last year, I had invited Curt to hike it with me and my roommate because I was interested in him.  So yes, a year later we celebrated that and hiked it together, again.  We got there early and happened to be the first ones on the trail. It was nice to hike it without the hoards of people.  It was such a cool view as we hiked up the Y because it had been cloudy all day and then the sun decided to come out and we had a total J.M.W. Turner, sublime scene.  It was so cool!

Curt got a really cool picture of me that I like a lot.  We took the hike not too fast because we had gotten there early and had the time to take our time.  It was nice and so much better than doing homework!

When Curt and I got to the top, we realized that we were pretty much one of the first ones there.  So, we picked out the best light...the one right in the middle and the one that gets turned on first!  I figured after 3 years of doing this, we deserved it.  So now, all we had to do was wait for it to get dark and the rest of the hikers got there so we could light the Y.

Finally, the time came and Curt, being the great guy that he is, let me turn on our light because I let him do it last year.  It was really cool to turn on the first light and watch all the other ones go on, though it took them a really long time.  Usually they tell everyone that there is a race and whichever side gets to the bottom first, wins.  But, they didn't do that this year, so it took a while for them to get all the lights on.  But, they eventually did.

Here's Curt with our light.  I thought this picture was so cool because it looked like something from a scary movie.

But that was our excitement for the week.  Yes, it's homecoming week and we were going to go to the parade this morning, but we forgot...next year, I guess.  Sad news of the week, my fish, Indy (previously known as Edward) died.  We buried him yesterday in the little area next to our apartment.  It was sad and now we are down to one fish, the one I inherited from my best friend who moved to Oregon.  I think we will just keep this one and maybe when it dies we'll get a new fish.  I miss my fish though.  My dresser looks empty without him swimming around in his bowl.

Fall Fun

So we have been greatly enjoying the fall weather as of late and this past weekend we decided to go up the canyon and have a picnic.  Sunday invited us out with beautiful weather and lots of sunshine and time to spare.  So we went up the canyon and to our usual place that we have now visited in every season.  We first went there while we were dating and Chelsea was having a particularly bad day.  Curt took me there to get my mind off all that was going on and it worked and ever since we have been going there to just enjoy ourselves and each others company.  It was very beautiful in the fall.  I loved going up there in the spring when it was all green, but the colors of the leaves were really fun to see, especially the yellow leaves!  They were so yellow in comparison to the other colors.
 

This is what it looks like in the Fall...

In the Spring...

And in the Winter.

It really is a nice place, well, when the weather is nice.  Ha ha.  But yes, we have had lots of fun there and I really liked it in the Fall though Curt seems to prefer the Winter.  Crazy...I know, but he just loves the snow.

Here's one of me with my short hair...

And one of us being silly, as usual.

So I was going to write about doing hike and light the Y, but that will have to wait for another post because I have to study for a midterm.  Oh what fun, gotta love school, ya?