Orange ya glad that it's my birthday!

Today is my birthday. I am a whopping twenty-four years old now, which just seems weird. I don't feel like I should be twenty-four already, I mean it's just that I imagined twenty-four year olds would have to be much more mature and grown-up. Anyway, I'm not going to say anything about feeling old in my social circles, because when it comes right down to it I'm not that old.

My mom asked me if I wanted a cake or anything for my birthday, but cake during the holidays seems like a sugar overdose waiting to happen. I declined the cake offer. My brothers and I then brainstormed other foods we could put candles in (or at least a candle) so they could sing and I could make a wish properly:
a birthday muffin perhaps,a slice of pie,or how about a Christmas orange. The possibilities were endless, but the orange sounded the most appealing in the long run. So it happened that I had my first birthday orange.

Let It Snow!

Isn't snow beautiful! When it's snowing it doesn't feel so cold, but then the sky clears up the air starts to freeze. The only good thing about a freezing clear sky is that it makes for great pictures. Here are a few from today:I didn't have any finals. What else was I supposed to do?

Done and Done

Finals are finally here - I mean - finally over. I finished all my tests and projects last week, and today I plowed ahead and eliminated my last paper. Done and done. Now all I have to do is waltz into a final on Wednesday afternoon, turn in a paper and I'll be free. I've never been done with all my finals so soon. And now that I'm looking back on this semester I realize that it's actually been a lot of fun. Never too stressful (well, it had its moments), but plenty of fun times to balance the work load. The best decision of the semester was probably going to folk dance tryouts the first week. The other great decision of the semester was to sign up for bowling. Between folk dance and bowling I was required to have fun in the middle of the day Monday through Friday. My attendance was perfect.

We moved into a new ward this semester and I am happy to report that the new ward is awesome! Besides the apartment needing some minor repairs here and there, and my car getting dinged while it was parked on the street, this semester on condo row has been superb.

The other bit of exciting news is that I finally got my new digital SLR. I got a Pentax K200D. It's a great camera and it's compatible with all my old lenses. I haven't had much time to play with it just yet, but here's a sneak peek at it's coolness with some pictures I took today.