The Man of my Life

No really, He is.

Happy Birthday to my hubby, my best friend, my study buddy, my hard worker, and my great snuggler. You know I could go on forever, but really he is my Mr. Wonderful. We have had a lot of fun birthday's together and have many more to come. Dear Dugan I am so happy you are mine.

Baby Dugan

Toddler Dugan

Kid Dugan

High School Dugan

Traveling Dugan

(The British Museum 2004)

College Dugan

(with nephew Liam)

Last year Birthday Dugan

(Ice Cream Cake)

Career Dugan

(The Firm he works for designed this building. This is pretty much the only thing he has worked on at work for two year. )

For all you Mothers...

This is wonderful please read it.

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES

Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.
Each kid will play two sports and take either music or dance classes.
There is no fast food.
Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget enough money for groceries each week.
Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time--no emailing.
Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Emergency Room.
He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a school function.
Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside, and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.
The men must shave their legs,
wear makeup daily,
adorn themselves with jewelry,
wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes,
keep fingernails polished,
and eyebrows groomed
During one of the six weeks,
the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, backaches, headaches,have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings and church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.
They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:30 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks,and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size, doctor's name, the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear, and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance.

The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.

If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years, eventually earning the right to be called Mother!
*thanks nicolette!*

Why is it that I go Crazy AFTER it's all over

This is a question I often ask myself at the end of every semester. Between a few days and even up to a week after my big Studio project is finished I go CRAZY. This usually consist of me having a complete melt down which may or may not happen once, twice or maybe even three times. I have decided that it is just my bodies way of coming off the severe stress. It is not fun. This time it even feels a little more intense because there are extra emotions present. On Friday I will be graduating. Which is wonderful but also means that there are people who are not coming back for there Master's. It is crazy to live and breath with the same 43 students for TWO YEARS and then in one day we all wish one another good luck in there life and then they are gone. Maybe if I write about this now I will be better prepared for Friday. I know I am a nerd and get close with almost everyone I meet. (I should say if they let me) It makes me think back to High School Graduation (which was a long time ago) I was very happy that day but Change can be hard and it was then too. Well anyway it has just been one of those days when the emotions are running high and I am just not sure how or what to feel. But the Sun will come out tomorrow (this is Utah so I should say) I hope the Sun is suppose to come out tomorrow. I have fun things happening tomorrow that I will share later.

Studio is Finished for another year

It has been another wonderful year at the U. I am even a little sad that this year is coming to an end. But I can already feel the weight being lifted off my shoulders. One more Theory paper and then Graduation. The house is clean and Dugan and I are having lots of fun together. Time to move all our stuff back from the school. It's a good thing we have a week. : ) Lots of fun summer post to come. (Well that is if it stops snowing and the wind stops blowing). I will count my blessings and name them one by one.

What has been happening?

I have had a lot happen since the last post but I don't think I have very many followers and those I do will probably already know these things but I will post it anyway.

On March 24th I found out that Dugan and I were both accepted to the Masters Architecture Program. We are so excited and are grateful for all the prayers that were said in our behalf. Thank you, Thank you

It was close to my Birthday and I will consider it one of my best birthday presents ever.

It was over spring break so two days after we found out we headed to Vegas for our traditional trip to Vegas.

I went and saw "How to Train Your Dragon" with my beautiful niece Emma.

Spent lots of fun time with Family.

Did lots of Homework.

Ate delicious birthday cake.

Didn't want to come home and start school again on Monday Which happened to be my birthday. Had a bad day at school. My sweet Friend Jen was there to go with me to dinner and make the night special. (Dugan was really busy at work)

School,

School, School,

School, School, School,

School, School, School, School,

School, School, School, School, School,

School, School, School, School, School, School,

School, School, School, School, School, School, School,

Today

Teaching 6th graders about Architecture

(We need Art back in the Elementary schools these kids made me want to CRY)

Final Structures Test

(Bending Stress? Bending Strain? Shear Stress? Eulers Formula What? Columns Slenderness Ratio?) I survived

Grocery Shopping and house cleaning

Getting ready to start final process for Studio tomorrow one week from Sunday at 6:00 pm and Counting

Well next stop Graduation

Carrie Clark

Here is to my BFF Carrie.

I Love her to death and hope she had a wonderful Birthday.

I won't rewrite about our weekend because I already did but happy Birthday BFF.

Portland and Seattle

I had a little time and thought I should post about mine and Dugan's trip to Portland and Seattle a few weeks ago.

Triple Chocolate Donut from VooDoo Donuts in Portland

(Yes those are coco puffs on top)

This beautiful waterfall and Gardens is on the corner of one of the blocks in Seattle.

Char and Dug

Steven Holls Chapel

The Space Needle

Dugan is in love with Corten Steel. There was a large sculpture made of Corten so we thought we would take a picture of us in it.

Frank Gehry's Music Project

We had a wonderful time and saw more things then we could ever share.