28 Days and counting...

Only 28 days left of school for this semester. Here's what I have to look forward to in the next 4 weeks: 2 papers, 1 final project, 1 presentation, 6 quizes, and 2 tests, 1 comprehensive and 1 not. Both tests are April 28th, and everything else is due either the 14th or the 16th...awesome. At least I'll have the big stuff done before Boston, then I'll just have to study for my 2 finals! yay. Shawn will be done by the end of April too. Then he'll be done for a while, but I will hopefully be doing summer classes. Oh the fun and the joy, I can hardly contain it all........

Diana! and a bike

Shawn and I did our taxes early this year. Yes, I even got them in before the deadline in April, be proud! Anyway, we decided to treat ourselves with some of the money. Of course we turned to ebay for a good deal. Shawn found a bike and I found a Diana camera. The Diana was first made in the 60's but didn't sell. It's a dinky plastic camera that gives out soft pictures. Because you can't control every aspect of the camera you never know what you're going to get. I hope to post pics within a week. Marci has a Diana, to view some of her pics click here, here, and here. Wish me luck on my new adventure! As well as Shawn, but his bike isn't here yet.

Happy Valentines Day!

For our first Valentines Day as a married couple Shawn took me to the Mandrin. After that we had a nice evening at home ad watched a movie. I gave Shawn an ihome for the bedroom so we can wake up to music at 5 am instead of his annoying phone alarm. When I got home from work I walked into clean apartment and beautiful flowers on the counter. I picked a keeper!

Christmas time!

our first Christmas tree

crazy Sara ruining our picture

"Non" (as Lucy affectionately calls Shawn), and Lucy

Lucy watching the Navtivity

Shawn called these two the 2 Charles's

Shawn took me snowboarding for the first time. I rocked it.

Sorry it's been a while since our last post. My sisters have been giving me crap b/c I gave them a bad time about not posting very often. So here are a few pics from the last month. Although, we have not had much time since we both have been working over 40 hours a week at Costco....wonder why we didn't have time to post? Hmmm weird

"No other gang of college men dare meet us in THE MUSS!"

Last February Shawn and i decided to join the MUSS (Mighty Utah Student Section). $120 for season tickets for the two of us, a MUSS tshirt for both of us, and seats on the 11th row, totally worth it! This season has been great. We got to sit by some Chios during some of the games, and enjoyed the spirited crowed around us. Last night was the cherry on top. We picked up Pace's, and headed out to the game. We had to kick some girls out of our seats so they stood behind us with their friends. They drank half the game, and fell on me for the other half. But that was the only downer, we cheered on the Utes and had a blast! Although we had to stand through the whole season it was too much fun, and we're planning on signing up for next year too! GO UTES! BYU - Shawn's first live Holy War experience TCU Blackout Weber maybe? Not sure which one this is

Fun with Filters

In my photography class we are learning how to play in Photoshop. I already know most of the stuff we are going over, but I have learned a few new tricks. Here is our most recent assignment, fun with filters! The first is the original picture and the rest are the fun times I had in photoshop.

Happy Birthdays!

October is filled with Birthdays on both sides of our family. We have Payton, Lucy, Grandma Billie, Joe, JD, and Shawn. So happy birthday to all on their respected days. To celebrate Shawn's birthday we started with dinner with his parents last night at Texas Roadhouse, yum. Shawn and I both had to work today, but we were off by 5:30. When Shawn got home we opened his gifts. He is now all set for the upcoming snowboarding season with a helmet, gloves, goggles, coat, and snow pants. All found at great deals, which all together cost less than the coat at regular price! Go me. After presents we went to Tucano's, the Brazilian restaurant at the Gateway. It was really good, topped off with a nummy snickers cheesecake. We've had some fun celebrating all the birthdays this month, we love you all! Happy Birthday Shawn, I love you! PS Our camera died so here is a picture of our first venture to Tucano's a few months ago

New Departments!

Exciting news on the working front in the Cochran home. Shawn has been promoted to full time and switched departments. He is now in the maintenance department instead of the food court. This means he won't come home smelling like old hot dogs and grease, yay! Now I can give him a hug when he comes home without saying "you smell like food court go shower and then I'll hug you." Not that I don't love my husband, I do, I just hate the smell of the food court. So now he gets to work more hours, work at his own pace, take his breaks when he wants, better schedule, and more money. Although this also means he has to open, cleaning the store before we open at 5 AM. LAME! 

I also applied for a new position, in the photo lab....and got it! I applied a few months ago and didn't get the position, but the manager had me do some cross training so I could help when they were busy. So I have been working over there a couple days a week for a month or so. When the new position came up the manager told me to apply and out of 4 applicants I got it! So now I will be in the photo lab from now on. I have a better manager, better hours, and better work. Plus our benefits will go up with Shawn working full time. So it's a win win all around for both of us.