This Just In...

Richard has received his financial aid offer from the University of Washington, they have offered him a Teacher Assitantship/Research Assistantship that includes...

-Full tuition waiver
-Monthly stipend
-Health, vision, and dental benefits for Richard and all dependents

YAHOO!!!!!!

The other schools now have a lot to live up to! I'm thinking we should probably get used to saying, "Go Huskies!" :D

#4

Richard received his acceptance letter to University of Washington! Not only has he been accepted, but they will be paying for him to visit! YAY!!! We had pretty much given up hope on him being invited up there because their graduate weekend is March 5th so we figured they had already sent out their invitations since there is only 2 weeks left before their graduate weekend. And all of the activities are taking place on the 5th so he will be able to fly home the morning of the 6th and be home by 1:00pm so we can still celebrate my birthday!

That means he has been accepted to all of the graduate schools that he applied to! Hurray! I am so proud of all the hard work that he has put in over the last couple of years and I am so happy to see it all pay off!

I am so proud of him and it is days like this that I wonder if life can get any better.

#3

Richard got into Georgia Tech! HURRAY! However, they are not offering him any funding, so we will not be going there, but getting in is still great and we aren't too bummed, it was not one of our top choices. Now we are just waiting to hear from University of Washington.

#2

Today Richard received an email invitation to visit

Hurray for Virginia Tech. They don't know yet if they will be able to cover the costs of the visit, but they are going to try to, so keep your fingers crossed! :)

PARTY!!!!

So yesterday morning I was just hanging around the house when at about 10:00 Richard called and told me that the smoke alarm and power had gone off in the Clyde Building (the engineering building at BYU where he spends his whole life) and so they were outside not thinking much of it, because as it is an engineering building let's just say they end up outside quite a bit. But they were told that there was a real emergency and that they wouldn't be let back in for at least an hour. So all BYU students get a free game of bowling every year so Richard and a few of his engineering friends went bowling and soon found out that the Clyde building would be closed all day so Richard called me and we felt that it was reason to celebrate...

We started off by going to Chili's for lunch to enjoy their wonderful 2 for $20 deal

Then we went to the Wilkinson Center and went bowling because you can go bowling for one hour for $8 a person. It wasn't very busy so we each got our own lane. We bowled 8 1/2 games! Needless to say we both woke up VERY sore today! You'd be surprised what a work out bowling can be when you go for an hour!

After bowling we were both exhausted, sweaty, and very thirsty so we went to Sonic and got happy hour drinks.

After we felt we had spent enough money for the day we went home, played games and watched movies.

It was FANTASTIC! We hardly ever get days like this, most weekdays we don't see each other til about 6:00 pm and we go to bed at 10. And Saturday's are just full of chores and errands so this day was a very welcome change.

The bad news is that the Clyde is also closed today and they don't know how long it will be closed, the part they need to fix the problem is in Ohio so we'll see what happens. This wouldn't be so bad, except that Richard is going to San Francisco for an Earthquake Engineering competition next week and he has a lot of work he needs to do for it, but all the work is on his school computer, so until he can get in there he can't do anything. He is a little stressed about that. So once the Clyde is usable again I don't think I will be seeing him much at all next week. Good thing we had such a great day yesterday, because he will have a lot of work to make up.

Change

While I was at the gym the other day this song came on my Zune. It is perfect for my life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2AciYjDf3I

Someday I will change the world.

WOOHOO!

Today Richard received a very exciting phone call! He received a call informing him that

has invited him on an all expense paid recruting trip! Yeah! So they will pay for his plane ticket, hotels, and food. There will be a full day where he can get the answers to all of his questions, meet the professors, and tour the campus while ASU does all that they can to convince him that ASU is the place for him! HURRAY! We are very excited!