Yay Nate!

Nate has had a really exciting semester, and I must admit I am pretty proud of him!!

First off, he won "Best Overall Poster Award at the IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium" (I copied that from the article about it-so I didn't just have to say "he won best poster at a conference he went to in May").

http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1139

He also received a patent on the "sprinkler project" (I call it) that he worked on as an undergraduate at Utah State. Here's what the article calls it: patent for “Methods and Systems for Wireless Communication by Magnetic Induction.”

http://tco.usu.edu/htm/in-the-news/articleID=10996

He also won best paper at the conference he went to in October (no article to quote from-yet.)

And he recently won an award from the school for excellence in research. He gets to have his name on a plaque in one of the buildings at school.

Most of all he is a wonderful husband and Dad, and takes good care of his girls.



I love you Nate!!!!

Camera Unhappy

I've decided that we are "camera unhappy" because we always forget our camera, or when we happen to take it somewhere we forget to use it.

Therefore, we don't have any pictures of our fun Thanksgiving with Bruce and Brittney Richards and Dale Kirby.

And we don't have pictures of our awesome trip to Milwaukee last Saturday-Sunday to see Cody, Jocelyn and Talmage Pehrson and Lake Michigan.

But, that's what has been going on with us recently.

We did take pictures on my birthday...



Nate and I have played a lot of Ticket to Ride since he got it for me-hooray!!

I also had fun experimenting with gum paste and using it on my birthday cake.

Halloween

We had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween this year!

We picked out pumpkins at a pumpkin patch.



I kind of procrastinated on the Halloween costumes, but was still able to get them done in time-Hooray!
(Several people when they saw Jessica said, "Of course she's Snow White!")




Nate had a lot of fun carving his pirate and it turned out really well! Jessi and I just did the simple pumkin face.

Growing...growing...gone

I guess after our exciting summer I haven't found anything to blog about. Life has been simple, but wonderful. Our girls are so much fun-I'm afraid they will grow up too fast!!
We have had a lot of fun this beautiful fall going outside to parks and around the neighborhood.

Scooting

Now if Emily wants something she can get to it!! (The shiny, springy doorstop is one of her favorite toys!)

Ecola State Park

We made our last trip to the coast last weekend. We are sad to leave the ocean. We went to Ecola State Park and hiked in the mountains and amazing forest! We saw some pretty huge trees, but it was too foggy to see Tillamook Rock Lighthouse from the viewpoint. Afterward we hiked down to Indian Beach. Goodbye beautiful coast!!

Mt. Saint Helens

We got to go see Mt. St. Helens on Saturday!! It was amazing! We went to the West viewpoint (the Johnston Ridge Observatory). We hiked around for a while and got to see different views of the volcano and the changed valley and surrounding mountainsides.