Are you all happy now?

So this is my first blog, thanks to all the pressure the girls put on at Bev's the other night. Right now I don't have much to say other than that school started on Monday! So, we are back in the full swing of crazy busy lives now! Sam and I hardly ever see each other anymore because our schedules are totally different. But I only have one more year of this graduate degree and I will have my Master's. Sam also graduates in the Spring, and will be applying for graduate programs in Biomedical Engineering.......we'll see where we end up eh?

I am still teaching violin/viola lessons and loving it! I have 25 students right now, but would like to get up to 30 before I draw a cap on my studio. Sam is looking for a job at a vet clinic so he can get some experience (he wants to go to vet school after Biomedical engineering). But in the meantime he is still painting for our land-lady, Joyce, as much as he can.

We had an AWESOME summer! We played a lot, worked a little and were hardly ever home. We went to San Francisco in May with Laura & Brad and Julie & Jared, and then straight to Cincinnati to visit my sister's family. We also went 4-wheeling down at the Dunes and spent some time at Sam's cabin in May. In June Sam took a Scuba certification class, that we have yet to make good use of. I already have my certification, so now we have an excuse to take an exotic trip! I did Suzuki teacher training classes for a week and a half in June as well. And then in July the party began. We spent the 4th of July weekend up at Sam's cabin and went to the Oakley Rodeo. We went to Bear Lake with my family and had a huge Eyre family reunion in Logan. My sister and I did a 4 day summer fiddle camp with our violin students. We went to Bear Lake again with cousins. I finally met Sam's brother Joe, who just got home from his mission. We went to Sam's cabin again. We hiked King's Peak.....which is a story in and of itself for another day. We took an anniversary trip up to Montana and West Yellowstone. We were supposed to go on a back-packing trip with Sam's family in the rainforest in Washington, but it fell through. So Sam and I went back-packing in the Grand-daddy basin in the Uintas. Then we went to his cabin again! I have done more horse-back riding this summer than water-skiing which is unusual for me. And then we went to Bear Lake again with Andrea & Abe, Laura & Brad, Julie & Jared.

Needless to say, we had fun. Although it was time to settle down for school again, it is hard to stop playing. But we have a trip to New York in October to look forward to, so I am OK!!!

I will try to figure out how to put pictures on here for you all to see. And I expect some major congratulations for breaking down and actually doing a Blog. I can't promise that it will stay too updated with school so crazy right now, but I will do my best!