Night Of The Living Dead

So let me start off by saying that I am STOKED that NBA basketball has started back up! FINALLY! The Jazz play the Nuggets tonight at 8:30. Can't wait.

Well, let's see what's happened since last I posted...

School is still going great. I got my Torts paper back and I got a B+ which was above the average. I think that there was only like 3 people that got in the A range. I got my closed memo back in my legal writing class and I got an 83 out of 10. That may not seem like that's all that impressive, but there was only a couple of people that even got in the 80's. Everyone else was lower. So I was pleased with that too.

I took my Contracts exam last Monday. What an intense way to start the week! Everybody in my class was stressed. By Monday morning everybody looked like they hadn't slept or bathed in days. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought. It was a 60 minute written essay exam. I don't know how I did, but I felt pretty good about it. In the past, there have been people that have received a -3 on the exam. That's right, NEGATIVE three. I won't find out my results for like 5-6 weeks. Oh, well. At least I don't have to stress about it.

All along, I've planned on trying to transfer to Utah or BYU after this year. I've decided that I will also try to transfer to UNLV. I hate the snow and cold. I'm willing to put up with it if that means we can move back to Utah, but that's the only legitimate justification for putting up with winter. So the only other option is to transfer someplace warm!

We are counting on coming to Utah for Halloween, but the snow has been so bad here, I'm starting to doubt that it will be possible. I'm keeping my fingers crossed because we have been counting on it. I know Heidi will be devasted if we can't.

Let's see what else has been going on. Trey has been learning Chinese by watching his favorite TV show - "Ni-hao, Kai Lan." He won't watch TV for more than a minute or two unless Kai Lan is on. He'll sit for the full 30 minutes and watch. He goes around saying "Ye ye" which means "Grandpa." He walked around saying "Boots" and "Momboo" for awhile, so now we call him "Boots Momboo." We figure it's a good secret agent name. "The name is Boo. Boots Momboo." He also discovered how fun olives are. He'll put them on his fingers and eat them off. Typical kid.

Heidi is still cooking up some GREAT dinners. I always look forward to coming home and eating whatever she has made. She's a natural cook. Sundays are my days to cook. A couple of Sundays ago I made sweet pork burritos and they tasted EXACTLY like Costa Vida! We had the lime rice and spicy ranch dressing that tasted the same too! It was awesome. I've been on this bread kick lately. I've made cinnamon rolls, carmelized onion foccacia bread, soft pretzels, and different varieties of bread. If I wasn't going to law school, I'd go to culinary school. It's a nice stress reliever before the school week starts again

Well, we never got to hang out with Sam and Britney a couple weekends ago because we had our Contracts test on Monday that they were cramming for. However, we went to dinner with Mike and Leslie again the other night. We went to Corona Village here in Laramie. They have some EXCELLENT Mexican food!

There is another couple in our ward, Josh and Miri, that we were going to hang out with this past Saturday, but we had to cancel because we decided to go down to Denver to check out the Zombie Crawl (I'll get to that in a second). Josh is a pretty cool guy that I talk to all the time at school (he's a law student too). Hopefully we'll be able to hang out with them next week.

I went and played basketball at Half Acre Gym on campus last week. It was nice to get out and run again. It was a lot of fun, but I'm out of shape (I haven't played ball in about a month and a half). Some of the LDS law students invited me to come play last night, so I went and checked that out. That was pretty fun too, but not quite as competitive as I would have liked. I'll probably switch off playing there.

Back to the Zombie Crawl... We decided to drive down to Denver on Saturday to check it out and it was pretty interesting, to say the least. They tried to set the record by having 4,000 zombies there (I never heard if they did it). The Crawl was an excuse for all the people who are crazy anyway, to be crazy and not be judged for it!

The zombies all congregated in the plaza and danced to music for awhile (we just watched them), and then they paraded out onto the street. Denver has free shuttles that go back and forth down 16th street, and one got stopped at the stop light right where the parade was. All the zombies surrounded the bus and began rocking it, leaving their bloody handprints on the windows. Creepy, yet amusing.

Anyway, I tried to squeeze in as much information as I could. A lot more has happened, that I don't have the time or space for right now. Needless to say, life has definately been busy.

Anyway, cross your fingers that the roads will be clear on Friday!

Party Like A Rock Star!

Where has the time gone? I don't know if Heidi agrees with me, but I think that time is flying! Maybe it is because I feel like I can never get everything done that I need to!

I'll be honest. I'm a little nervous. I have a Contracts midterm coming up on Monday. I guess now is the time to prove that I really know what I am doing. But do I? I like to think so. Only time will tell. My contracts professor is actually pretty intense. She got really mad at us the other day because she thinks that we don't read or study the cases. She told us, "You all think that you're just a bunch of g** d*** rockstars and you don't need to study or do anything!" I thought it was kind of an unfair assumption. I truly think that most everyone reads and studies. The problem is when she calls on people to answer questions, they don't seem to know the answer. However, I think it is because she is so intimidating! Oh, well. I guess the tests will show who really does know their stuff. The test will cover: offer, acceptance, consideration, promissory estoppel, and option contracts. That's a big load! So wish me luck.

On the family side of things, my little Trey bug is getting smarter and smarter! He blows me away everyday! He can locate his eyes, nose, hair, ears, fingers, toes, cheeks, chin, bum, and...weiner. He walks around saying "mom" and "addy." So freakin' cute. If he has a poopy bum, he'll go into his room, grab a diaper, and bring it out to Heidi so she can change him! Whenever we bless the food he will bow his head until the prayer is done. He helps me do the laundry by handing me clothes from the hamper or I'll hand him clothes from the washer to put in the dryer. He also helps unload the dishwasher by handing me all the utensils, dishes and stuff so I can put it away. He usually won't leave until the job is done! He's the most loving little boy I've ever met. Sometimes I'll whisper in his ear, "go give mommy loves" and he'll hurry off to find her to give her a hug and kisses. There is numerous times when he'll randomly walk up to Heidi or myself, just to pat our cheeks or legs and give us a hug. What a guy. I don't know what it would be like without him. It's been great having him around.

On the social front, things are going good too. This past Saturday we went out to the Indian restaurant with Jared (my school buddy) and his wife Ellen. The service was terrible but the food was incredible! They are both good conversationalists so the evening went well. This coming weekend we're going to hang out with Sam and Brittany from my class (yes, the Brittany I mentioned in my last post). Sam is from Brazil. He's a cool guy. Brittany is one of the few members here. She's from Delaware. So that should be fun too.

Anyway, other than that there's not much else to say. I turned in a couple of papers this past week. A three pager in torts and a ten pager in legal writing. So I am staying busy. I'll let you know how my mid-term and this weekend goes next time. So look forward to that.