Congratulations to Mark

Mark was awarded the outstanding undergraduate teaching assistant award yesterday from the Mechanical Engineering Department! He is such an incredible T.A and there is always someone asking him for help. It's nice to see his hard work acknowledged.

The past few weeks

Since I can't keep up with blogging very well lately, this is an update of the past couple weeks. :)

We went camping! We took our parents trailer and found a nice little place up grover park. It was good to get a little wilderness time. Mark is an excellent fire builder.

I was in the Logan Herald Journal with my Pal, Aubrey. It was a great opportunity! I have had a ton of parents and students email me about wanting to be in the program. We fed the ducks at first dam in this picture. What you cannot see is our fear of the geese (well you can see it a little, because we are on the table). These geese had 8 little babies and were chasing us around barking at us. Terrifying. Click here for the article.

This is Jasper....he is a boy... in a family of lots of girls.

Poor dog. I love having awesome sisters!

Bear Lake with the Walker's and new cute swimsuits! I like this picture!

Carla's kitchen part dos. Mark raised their cabinets 9 inches! He put crown molding around the top and new shelves in below and in the bathroom. I LOVE the shelves. They are free standing, so no supports on the bottom, so cute! All that is left to do is paint and hang the doors again. Click here to see Carla's kitchen part uno.

More work on the trailer! It looks amazing. Detailed pictures to come. He just finished putting in a shelf and the dust collection system.

ALSO, Thanks to the genius Thorups, Matt and Carla, Mark has an awesome new "business"/blog name --- Mark's Traveling Toolbox. It will look great on the side of his trailer! His blog is now travelingtoolbox.blogspot.com.

Almost Done

Mark has now transformed this lowly little flat bed trailer into.....

A traveling workshop. It is almost done. These are some of the pictures of the process. There will be more later once it is completely finished. Now he has a place for all of his tools and a perfect work station.
Both sides flip out and he has some nice tables to work on.

This is the whole thing closed up
And painted.

He now has the outside and main structure done. Just little conveniences left to construct, like shelves, locks on the outside, a suction system for keeping it clean of saw dust, etc. It looks amazing though! Perfect summer project.

Congratulations to the 2010-11 ASME secretary for Utah State

Mark has been chosen to be the new secretary for Utah State's ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for the 2010-11 school year! I am so proud of him! He is excited. Yay Mark!

This picture is actually from our trip, when we were on a ferry. Pretty much the same level of excitement though.... almost. Yay!

My Wonderful Husband

I am so blessed to have found such a amazing person as my eternal companion! Anyone that knows him knows what a talented and smart man he is. I am continually amazed at what he can do and rarely find something that he is only mediocre at!
This Monday he had a test in his Instruments class (not musical instruments, but instruments that one may have to learn for mechanical engineering.... leave it to the wife to explain) and he got an 89! Which is absolutely incredible for an engineer! And better yet, he was the class high! Out of almost a hundred other super smart mechanical engineers, he got the highest. I am so proud of him and am amazed at his hard work and dedication to his school work.

Plus, he is extremely handsome. How did I get so lucky?!