Birthday

This week was Andrea's birthday.  I'm very grateful for her, and I like to tease her about how old she is now :)

H - Hot
A - Awesome
P - Patient
P - Persistent
Y - Youthful

B - Bright
I - Intelligent
R - (Always) Right
T - Talented - in many things: piano, teaching, music, friendly to others, outgoing. . .
H - Happy
D - Dependable
A - Amazing
Y - A BYU fan!
(It's hard to come up with adjectives for the letter "Y")

We didn't spend as much time together on her birthday as we would have liked.  I decided to change one of my classes from Program Evaluation to Game Theory, but Game Theory is from 3-6 pm on Tuesday's, and then I am a Webelos Scout Leader, so I have Cub Scouts from 6-7.  Before I changed classes, Andrea was going to take Tuesday off from work, and we were going to spend all day together, but after my class change, we only got to spend a few hours.

We went out to eat Cafe Capri, a little Italian cafe in downtown Bryan.  The food was delicious.  Andrea is more adventurous than I am when it comes to trying new foods.  I know what I like, and I almost always order it, while Andrea likes to try new things.  She ordered a lobster penne which was a little spicy, and I ordered Parmesan Chicken.  Andrea joked before going that she knew what I was going to order and she was right!

For her birthday, I ordered flowers.  It's hard to surprise Andrea with flowers because we only have one car:
Andrea: "Where are you going?"
Me: "The store to pick up some things."
Andrea: "Oh, what things?"
Me: "Surprises"
Andrea. . .
It's really hard.  So this year, I decided to order flowers online and have them delivered to her at work!

She said she loved getting the flowers, and some of her coworkers said their husbands needed to take lessons from me :).

She dropped a hint that she wanted to try some peanut butter chocolate girl scout cookies, so like the good and obedient husband that I am, I found some girl scouts and bought cookies for her birthday:

She's very excited!

This week I went to the business school career fair.  This turned out to be a disaster.  Apparently, they already know who they wanted for internships, and weren't interested in talking with me.  Every time I told someone that I was an MPA student, they abruptly ended the conversation and said there might be jobs available online, but they weren't offering any for me.  I was pretty disappointed.  I even had nice business cards to hand out!

I'm still trying to find an internship for the summer.  I just emailed the financial aid office at Texas A&M and Sam Houston State University.  Hopefully I'll be able to find something sooner rather than later so we can decide what we'll do during the summer (i.e. where we'll live, if Andrea will keep her job).

We're excited for Valentine's Day tomorrow.  Andrea's parents sent us some delicious chocolate covered strawberries to celebrate.  Thank you!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

Snow Day

This week I got a day off of school and work because of snow!  I guess I had to leave Utah, to finally enjoy a snow day.  Never once do I remember missing school because of snow; I only remember missing church once.

Well, all week we had heard of huge snow storm coming our way.  On Thursday, Texas A&M issued this announcement:

How does a university shut down because of an expected snow storm?  I can't tell you how many times I've heard while here in Texas: "If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes and it will change."  Nevertheless, campus was announced to be closed until 11:30 Friday morning (Friday morning they sent out a campus-wide alert notifying us that campus would be closed the entire day).

Well, during the night, it did indeed snow:

Yeah, we were covered.  Andrea even built a snowman :). (It was two inches tall)

Here is a picture someone took from the building I work in.   You can see in the front, the huge ring that people like to take pictures by.


I wasn't complaining though, I got to stay at home and work on homework all day.  So if turned out pretty good.  Andrea on the other hand needed to go to work.  I didn't want to let her out of the house, because I'd heard how bad Texan drivers were at driving in the snow.  While all of the roads were very icy, it turns out that no one wanted to go over 5mph.  Even on the freeway everyone was driving with their hazards going super slow.  It took Andrea almost 30 minutes to get to work, when normally it would have taken 15.

Our friend sent us a funny movie:



Tonight we are heading to a couple's house from my program.  We are going to play some games and watch the Superbowl.  Andrea has me rooting for the Packers!