Rainy Days

This weekend has been pretty rainy. Today we decided to take advantage of it by watching a couple of movies. Josh is more comfortable sitting on the floor for long periods of time (a harder surface). To prepare for movie time, I piled blankets on the floor against the couch so I had something to lean against, and we watched movies while drinking hot cocoa and snuggling. :) It was fantastic! What a fun way to spend a rainy day, just being together. :)

Final Paper for Final Class

Woo-hoo!!! I just submitted my final paper for my final class... the only thing I have left to do in my MBA program is to finish offering the workshops, tally survey results, and write my results and conclusion chapter. I'll be working on that as of Thanksgiving weekend, as I should have had enough workshop participants by then to calculate results and draw conclusions. :)

I'm almost done!!!

Josh and Jaime

Pictures of us are hard to come by. Neither of us loves being in front of the camera all that much. However, at our friends' wedding a few weeks ago, the photographer caught us. :) They got their pictures back yesterday, and shared this one with us. I thought I'd share it with you as well!

Josh and Jaime - September 4, 2010

Broadway in Boise

Every year there are 6 or so Broadway shows in Boise. We hadn't had the opportunity to go to one previously, but a friend of mine had season tickets and was unable to use them for yesterday's show. So, Josh and I got to see The Color Purple! The tickets were amazing - 2nd row, right in the center - and the show was fabulous. It was a little different take than the movie... the vocalists were incredible! It was such a treat to see a show... we're inspired to see more!

This season's shows include Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, and Wicked! We'll see what we can do about getting tickets to some of them... :)

SHC Alumni Barbeque!

This afternoon we had our first SHC Alumni event... as a member of the alumni committee, we planned a barbeque! We fed over 150 people, and had a great afternoon. :)

Myself with Cassie, our Registrar.

It was fabulous to see so many alumni with their families and hear how they're doing. I love working in higher education!

Teaching a Class

I have had the opportunity to co-teach a class this month. We're half-way through the month, and I LOVE IT! Its a professional development class; I'm helping students with their career portfolio's (cover letters, resumes, references, master applications) and preparing for interviews. It's interesting to me how my students (most of whom are older than me) are completely unprepared to write a cover letter, and that the idea of transferable skills is so completely foreign that I had to not only define them, but give specific examples and even help people add to their list of transferable skills because they cannot identify them.

I'm enjoying the class, the grading process, and figuring out how to communicate effectively and help these students position themselves to find employment as they graduate from their respective programs. I'm excited to have more opportunities to teach, and hope they become more frequent!

Yesterday was the wedding. :) I took off work Friday at 12noon so I could handle the prep. By 8pm, I had the salsa, artichoke dip, broccoli salad, and garlic roasted potatoes done. I had the meat cubed and marinating for the kabobs, I had the spice cookies mixed and chilling, as required, the brownies baked and cooling so I could frost them, and the shortbread cookies coming out of the oven.

Then I went to a goodbye-dinner for my friend Cristi. Once I made it home again, I cooked the meat and sliced all of the vegetables for the kabobs.

It took us a while, but Josh and I prepared kabobs until 2 in the morning. 100 of them.

The frig, pre-wedding... I don't think it could have been much fuller.

My space for the food... I had the perfect set-up to set food out, and man the grill. What you can't see is a huge umbrella that provided the table, and me, some shade while grilling the kabobs.

I didn't get pictures when the food first came out... this was towards the end of the afternoon, after most of the platters and bowls were refilled, and people were full but still grazing. The artichoke dip was a huge hit!

The second round of the main course... things were fairly well picked over! :)

Relaxing on Sunday... we were completely worn out from Saturday's festivities! Josh and Donovan wanted to battle it out on the Heroscape board.

Audri and I made so no-bake cookies to go with our afternoon of Disney movies. :)

Good thing we have tomorrow off as well!