blurb

ok so I just made a Wedding book for David and I using blurb.com and it's sweet. You download the book making program thing and custom make your book, easy and it has cool features. Our book has 88 pages and it'll only cost 40 dollars to print and get it shipped to me. Let me know if there are other book making site things that are cheaper...but for what you get this seems like a pretty good price. i love it!

www.blurb.com

Well, I've been too busy to hardly get online, but now that it's christmas break and I am free from school until next monday...I can get on the internet! Woohoo!

Lots has happened...

Before david and I went to texas, Todd and Kristi moved out and in preparation for China...dispersed their things among friends and relatives. David and I ended up with their big items: their tv, futon, all their dvds, a keyboard piano, and lots of other stuff we really don't have room for. But we enjoy getting free stuff for a few months. However we will miss having todd and kristi around, bring me back a t-shirt! =)

I feel like a truck driver across country this past week. We drive the 2 days all the way to Lumberton, then to Houston to see Erin and Juli, then to Austin, then to Sweetwater, TX and then all the way back to Utah. I thinks it's safe to say we're not going anywhere for a while. At least not until we get some more audiobooks.

David just got a job at the MTC. He's teaching the senior missionaries. It's the perfect job for him and he loves it so far. Imagine teaching your Grandma Margie, that's what he does and it sounds hilarious. Their sincere and sweet, but set in their ways and some are hard of hearing. It comes with interesting challenges for them since senior missionaries only spend 1 week in the MTC! It's like a shotgun training before they head to the mission field. It's nice we work in the same place, we get to each lunch together in the MTC cafeteria....all you can eat.

This coming semester will probably kill me. I think I've taken on more than I can manage healthily but I'm gonna try it. Right now I have 17 credit hours, 20 hours of work at the MTC, and I'm a Teaching Assistant for an elementary ed class. Oh ya, and David and I are going to train for a half marathon. I think we might be crazy. But we have each other and I think we'll survive.

I wish we could have seen everyone while we were in texas! I think everyone should just come up to utah for skiing trip (or snowboarding for Chris). There is lots of fresh snow! We love ya'll!

Ok so tonight our jar show goes up and it's gonna be great! I'll post some pictures later, but my class was very excited to have a big article thing written about us in the Daily Herald (the provo newspaper). Apparently they thought it was a really good story. There was a big whole page dedicated to it. Here's the thing to the article online:

http://heraldextra.com/lifestyles/article_3a01477e-df67-11de-901c-001cc4c03286.html

love you guys!

art in my heart

This semester I have finally learned how to oil paint. I had an oil painting class before but it was frustrating and my teacher didn't teach squat. So I have been grateful to have that prayer answered this semester by a wonderful teacher. I'm in an advanced painting class which my teacher realized the first day none of us were very experienced and had only done 3-10 oil paintings, making us very inexperienced! SO he changed the whole curriculum and assigned us to paint 20 paintings of mason jars. Throughout this whole thing he taught us different techniques etc...and now I am best friends with my mason jar. I've had to stare at it for many hours.

We've all improved drastically and on Dec. 3rd we are having a show in a gallery to exhibit all the beautiful jar paintings. Each will sell for ten bucks eat and the money will be donated to different charities and food banks around utah. We have 322 jar paintings so if each one sells that's 3200 bucks made for charity. I think that's awesome. I'll post later my first awful painting compared to my later ones. I'll have to scan them first but this is our flyer:

art busy-ness

hey ya'll, I just posted an art assignment up on my art blog so please go check it out and let me know what your reaction is. It's for a project I'm doing =) thanks! love you!

www.artatchinn.blogspot.com

happy birthday david chinn!

modeling his new backpack ( i made him)

Yesterday was my dear husband's birthday. He got breakfast in bed, presents, dinner, a visit from jessi, todd and kristi, and the day to be his own master. I got him a new backpack which is flipping awesome if I do say so myself. He's 23 years old now so we'll be the same age for a few more months. I love him SO much, he is so patient and understanding when I do stupid things like get our car towed from parking in a red zone. He's also the smartest, most honest, handsome man I know. I love to see him with our nursery kids that say funny things and have stinky diapers, he knows how to make them happy. I am grateful he agreed to spend eternity with me. Here's to you my special birthday boy.

happy yellowstone day

The weekend of halloween we skipped out of town and drove to yellowstone which is only about 5 1/2 hours from here. Most of the park was closed because of black ice on the roads but we were able to see old faithful, boiling mud pots, lots of steaming gysers, elk and lots of other cool stuff! Halloween night we hung out in our hotel in rexburg and watched the longhorn game on CABLE! in our apartment here we have "cougar cable" we basically means no cable ha. It's local news channels, food network, tbs, and like 25 different language channels including japanese, russian, french, german, whatever you want! We don't time to watch tv anyway but david misses ESPN, Versus, FSN, and those that allow him to watch longhorn games. But we survive =) Anyhow it was nice to get away for the weekend and have some fun.

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