Baby News

I going to have a baby!!!!! I am only eight weeks along. I should of held it in longer, at least until I got past my first trimester (three month mark) but what the heck! I am really, really exctited!!!!! I am going to have a baby!!!!! I going to be a mommy!!!!!! ....it is a lot to take in and it is still hard for me to believe it myself! Wow!!!!

Biking

Talmage and I are always amazed at the many runners, joggers, walkers and bicyclers there are in Tempe. We just think that this such a "fit" city, at least the area we live in. We even marvel at it's wonder.

My boss was talking about "riding his bike to work" and "going for a 2 hour bike ride with my wife yesterday." I thought to myself, "wow he must be one of those 'fit' people just like everyone else and their grandma in this city."

Yesterday at work, it dawned on me when I saw his bike parked outside work. He didn't mean bicycles, he meant motor bike. LOL!!!

Questions

You can only type ONE Word! Not as easy as you might think. Change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? work
3. Your hair? brunnet
4. Your mother?sweet
5. Your father?Santa
6. Your favorite thing?
7. Your dream last night? strang
8. Your favorite drink? OJ
9. Your dream/goal? Mother
10. The room you're in? office
11. Your hobby? painting
12. Your fear? snakes
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? mother
14. Where were you last night? home
15. What you're not?
16. Muffins? yumm
17. One of your wish list items?
18. Where you grew up? AZ
19. The last thing you did? ate
20. What are you wearing? red
21. Your TV? none
22. Your pets? none
23. Your computer? home
24. Your life? good
25. Your mood? mellow
26. Missing someone? a bit
27. Your car? huyndi
28. Something you're not wearing? sandles
29. Favorite store? none
30. Your summer? work
31. Like someone? Talmage
32. Your favorite color? Yellow
33. When is the last time you laughed? minutes
34. Who will retake this? Hummmm?

New Job

I just started my new job at Gray's Engineering and Consulting. We test stuff for engineering companies. We tell them if the part they send us to test is acceptable or if it is not, in which case, we put our noses in the air and shew them away. Said in our snobby, matter of fact voices, "This is not acceptable, Shhhhew, shew, be gone with you."

One of my favorite things about my job is that it takes me 8-15 min. to drive there! I have never been this close to work, school, etc. It is really great!

New Job

Today is my first day of work (I am on my lunch break right now). I am working at a company that test electrical and mechanical devices

It is not too hard so far. This morning I had to trouble shoot a AC to DC power supply. I figured out that the wrong readings were coming from one of the circuit boards. So, we decided to change the integrated circuits (chips) and see if it works.

I got to see how the vibration tester works, it is loud. Pretty interesting, if you ask me.

No explosives testing or anything too exciting... yet.

R/C Car Project

BrieAnne and I got our car, for our project class, to go forward last week! We were excited that things were finally starting to come together. We just had to get it to turn and store data... and a few other things. The other teams group had a member fall out so we combined forces! Yeah recruits! This weekend some group members worked on project while I worked on the report. Today was are big demo day and we had to have it all working. Well, now nothing works. It doesn't even go forward. Well, sometimes it does but most the time it doesn't!!! We have beening working on this all semester and spending any spare time we had on trying to get it to work and NOTHING! We kept trying to fix it and still NOTHING!!! Thankfully the teachers gave us a grace period but the moral is so shot that I don't know if we even want to try to continue, especially because we have to finish othe stuff.

The most interesting thing about it though was for the first time I experience brianne snap. She was not a happy camper! Sweet, quiet BrieAnne. And Jeff wanted to take a slug hammer to the project.

Anyways, I am a failure. Yah. (Said with the most lack of enthusiasm possible).

For those who car about the technical aspect: We are trying to create an inertial naviagation system in an RC car. We are using an accelerometer and integrating it's output to get position. The data from the accelerometer is compared to an predetermined "flight plane". If the car is off course the program corrects it by sending a signal from a microprocessor to a relay (with a transitor inbetween) to the motor or cervo (which turns it right or left). Data is stored in the EEProm to create a "black box" system that is intended to servive a crash. We are having lots of trouble with our code.

Buying a House

Why we should buy a house:

• Just as cheap as rent! (The housing market is down! Yeah for us first time homeowners)
• Our money will go towards something that we can keep
• Build equity
• Talmage will be closer to work
• I have my eye on a house with a great price out in Queen Creek
• It looks like it is in great condition and the previous owner took great care of it
• We’ll be closer to some of the family. Ex. Caleb & Nikki, McKay & Brandi, Taylor & Erin, Lincoln & Melanie

Why we shouldn't buy a house:

• We love our ward and we don’t want to leave our new found friends
• We like our neighbors and our little house that is like a piece of the country in the middle of the city
• We’ll be farther from my parents and siblings at home, Rick & Alyssa, Jana & Art & kiddos.
• We will be driving with traffic to go to school.
• I will be driving with traffic to go to work (Assuming I get the job that I have an interview for tomorrow)
• We will have to go through the rigmarole of getting financed
  
  Is there anything I’m forgetting?