Pround Mommy of a...puppy!

So 3 weeks ago we pick up our baby....a furry goldendoodle named Cyris! At field camp there was a mastif named Cyris, he was a hoot, so in honor of Cyris the Mastif we have Cyris the goldendoodle. He is soooo cute! He is also a little monster (he loves to chew shoes). The first night we had him he cried and cried so I slept in the crate with him (Greg was threatining to sell him). The second night he was in his crate alone and we slept on the air matress next to him. He cried all night. At this point I was thinking, ah what have I done! Now everything is great. He is quite at night when he goes in his crate. He knows 3 1/2 tricks, sit, lay, shake, and roll over (kind of). He look mostly like a retriver, only his ears are curly oh and his tail....so cute! He hops around and sits in your lap. He is such a good little puppy and I love him so much!! Here are some pictures of when we first got him. He is twice this size now.

Okay so I feel me and Greg are pretty good with money. Well I have realized maybe not. In the past 3 months we have spent ~3000 dollars on things that were not part of our monthly budget. And guess what now I want to buy a dog that costs 500 dollars. How does one decided that they should not spend money? Hum.... thankfully for us we do not do the credit card thing so even though we have spent a lot of money it was all our money. Darn what to do....it all comes down to me not being patient and wanting things now. Let me review what we have spent this money on. Going out to dinner (was spoiled at field camp by not having to cook), our 2 year anniversary, a new computer (our old one died), a new wedding band for Greg, my pearl ring (my graduation, birthday, and Christmas present), and well now thinking about the dog.....ahhhh, Ali you need to help me!

2 YEARS!!!

Wow Greg and I have been married for 2 years as of Monday October 19th 2009. We were married in the Logan Temple on a beautiful fall day in 2007. The past 2 years have been so wonderful. Greg is so good to me, he is so sweet, keeps me on my toes, and loves me. I love him so much. Here are some of our wedding pictures.
For our anniversary we stayed 2 nights at the anniversary in in Logan. We stayed in Juliet's Balcony and Nefertiti's Court. It was a lot of fun!! Unfortunately Greg and I do not have a working camera hence the reason there are never pictures posted. We are getting one for Christmas though!

I was thinking of all the exciting things that have happened and all the things that are going to happen by our 3 year anniversary. Heather will have a baby (my second cousin or first cousin once removed?), I will graduate in December, Greg will graduate in May, We will welcome a new niece/nephew, See our dear friends Mikey and Whitney married, maybe have our own little one on the way, have a puppy dog, and have made a million more memories with each other, our friends, and family!

Going ons

So some good news and some bad news. Last week Greg's grandma passed away. Today my great-grandma pasted away. It was time for both of them though. They are no longer in pain. One problem, are my professors gonna believe me when I have to miss class for another funeral in a one week time span? We'll see....

Good news, cause being sad is, well sad, Greg talked to his counsler today about maybe retaking some classes to get better grades but she said he was fine, so that means he will graduate in May!!! YAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAYYAY!!!!!!!!!

I should really take some pictures and post them huh?

Well I am posting again, amazing huh!! Life was crazy this week. Greg and I get to school at 7:00 and haven't left campus before 5:30 the past 3 days. Monday there was a seminar I had to go to then a geo club meeting and then I spent 5 hours in the OSL lab cleaning seives so didn't get to bed until 2 in the morning on mondaynight, well it would have been tuesday morning actually. Tuesday I had to help a girl in my lab make up a lab and then stay and fix my quantitative assingment. Wedsnaday I had to set up a booth for geo club and then make the lab exam for my lab class. With all of this I did not have time to figure out how to do my GIS lab so I turned it in incomplete!! I have never turned something in incomplete in college, it feels awful!! I am hoping to do the last part of it for a 10% deduction. Ah I feels stupid for not completeing my lab!! THis weekend and next week are going to be just as busy but maybe I will find time to make up the lab.

Look I am posting something after 2 months!! Okay so summer has ended. After I got back from field camp Greg and I just spent the rest of the summer working. I could not wait for school to start, it was a long and boring 2 months. Now that school is started my days are booked from 7 am to 10pm and that is why I haven't updated. Life is busy but good. I have 19 credits this semester, have a senior thesis to write, 3 lab sections to teach, a club to be president of, and a house to clean. I have a lot to do! WOW! Greg is busy with 14 credits and a luner landing project he is working on for NASA with his design class. He had a lot of scary homework and is up late trying to do it all. I love my man, he works so hard but still has time to be with me and make me feel special!

We had to buy a new computer on Saturday cause ours went kaput. I will post the pics we took at the zoo this summer and some of my field work so that my blog is actually exciting!

Field Camp Summery

Here is an update of what I was doing at field camp. I will break it down by weeks. Now Scott will have something to read at work!

Week 1
Katie and I arrived in SD and got lost driving to Ranch A, the place we would spend the next five weeks.
I met my roomies Zoe and Emma and field work started right away. This weeks main project: a satratigraphic column of Ranch A Amphitheater and Thompson Gulch. This was tues and weds.
Here is the Ranch A Amphitheater. It took 9 hours to measure the section and collect data on the rock types.
Here are all of us Geo-nerds at Thompson Gulch. Another 9 hour day
Thursday was a driving field day. We drove around to various rock outcrops to become familiar with the diffrent units. The Pahasapa Limestone has the coolest name by far. Some how my name at field camp became Princess Pahasapa (Thanks Zoe, hehe).
Here's me touching the Great Unconformity. A quarter of earths time(~1.5-2 billion years) is missing in between these two rock types (the lower pink one is a metamorphic phyllite of the Precambrian and the upper brown one is the Deadwood Sandstone of the Cambrian).
Here is the Homestake Goldmine. The brown line things are a Rhyollite intrusion. The intrusion turns from a dike to a sill (would you call it a dill or a sike, hehe!!)
At the end of the day we hiked up Look out Mt. to see the view. Look at all the Geo nerds!!
Friday and Saturday are doom days. These are when projects are prepared. This week a Strat column and a 1 page paper about the Pahasapa Limestone. Doesn't sound to bad except the Strat column took ~24 hours to prepare and ink. Ahhhh

Week 2
This weeks project: Map the rock units of Green Mountain (more like Green Hill if you know what real moutains look like, lol). Green Mountain exists due to an igneous intrusion ~55 million years ago (recent in geologic time).

I spent 32 hours this week running up and down this thing to map it. I had tree stumps rock outcrops memorized by thurdays, I could give you a giuded tour of this mountain I knew it so well.
Here's me in my geologist get up.
The cows would follow us around. There was a lot of cool wildlife: deer, owls, different birds, green racers, rattlesnakes, elk, mountian lions (saw there poo and mauled deer so knwe they were around), antelope horny toads.

The reoprt this week was a field map a final map a cross section and an eight page paper!

Week 3
Project: Map the rock types of Crow Peak.
Me collecting data on that there rock outcrop


On weds we did the four mile hike up to the peak and it was raining like crazy and there was mist so you couldn't see a darn thing. Spend 5 hours with the hike up and then down and didn't even get field work done, that was a very cold, wet and annoying day.
The view on thurday was beautiful, here's me and Zoe.
Here's Emma, me and Zoe after we finished our project on thurday. Yes we lost our minds, geology 24/7 will do that to you.
I am pretty much ganster.

Week 4
The worst week because all it did was rain contsantly. Mapping in the rain sucks, so do metamorphic rocks which is what we were mapping. All the metemorphic rocks look the same in the rain so it was basically guess work.
Here we all are on monday getting an intro to metamorphic rocks. We are all lined up drawing a sketch opf the outcrops, we look like dorks, hehe.

I got sick of listening to the pofessors lecture so I caught a frog instead. No pics were taken the rest of the week due to the crappy weather of rain and hail. Not a fun week

Week 5
There is an end to hell!! I thought I would be stuck there forever!!! Only one more week. This week we went to Reva Gap and camped for two nights. My allergies killed me the while time, when I was wearing my sandles at the campfire I walked though some grass I was allergic to and me feet got little bumps all over them which the next day started pussing and then were itchiy and swollen and hurting until firday. Luckly the senery was pretty and the field area was a lot smaller then the past four weeks.
Beautiful, nothing more needs to be said.
Me and Zoe were parteners that week.
My geology glamor shot.


There is my summery. Hiking 32 hours a week with a huge prjoect every week, no cell phone reception, no internet, and little sleep it was good experiance. I learned a lot but would not want to repeat it. Now the next big step is graduation. December, whoot whoot as my minnesota roomates would say!!