summer loving...

ok ok, i know, its been forever since we have updated this thing-SORRY! we (read that Alex) is going to try to keep this thing more updated, though brian will always be adding his special touch too. since our last post, we have done alot, so ill just highlight the biggest things: we bought a car-brian's beloved Suzuki Samuri dubbed Stanley which we take rock crawling and is just a fun car. in june we also went back to Danville, CA where brian is from to see his best friends from high school molly and steve get married...we kinda started the wedding barrage with his friends bc another got married just this week (congrats libby and david!). it was way fun to see his friends and to get away from utah for a few days. we also went to nj for a week at the end of july to see my grandparents with my mom and dad and little brother. it was fun but not quite what brian was expecting haha. besides spending a whole week with inlaws, my grandpa is not the docile-old-man type. more like the iron-man-that-cant-be-stopped type. and when you are around, he expects you to help-which is fine, but there is a difference between vacuuming the pool (a chore usually preserved for the girls) and lets go chop down 5 trees. it took some getting used to, but we were pretty busy besides that and at least didnt have to accompany my grandpa when he had a lamb slaughtered....

so, as summer is winding down, i am counting down the days left of work. its not that im-so-super-stoked-for-law-school-that-i-could-pee-my-pants, its more of a no-more-brainless-work and freedom-from-call-center type feeling. thoughts on law school: wow. weird that im even saying that im starting law school in a week. yeah i am excited. but im also really scared! so many people and books and professors say that the first year is the hardest, and since highschool my track record for good grades has been lacking. brian thinks im nuts...i know its going to be hard but im sure in a few weeks i will agree about my level of sanity. i guess there are two things that comfort me: first, this is something ive always wanted to do; yes i want to help people, and yes its decent money, but i dont know that i can point to anything in particular that has propelled me this way. because of that, im hoping that i have no expectations that will be let down, and ill just be working towards this thing that feels right to me. second, having brian around. i know that when i get stressed i do two things-work feverishly until i cry, or abandon all hope and homework and go do something else-neither of which are all that productive...i know that brian will be there to tell me to chill out, snap out of it, and for the times that i will have a break, ill have him to distract me and encourage me. ::sigh:: i get all nervous butterflies whenever i think about it. but i start next week and brian is so supportive so i guess i have to admit...im getting excited... :) alex