Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

It was a girly girl day. Today was the spring Utah Valley Women's Expo, held at UVU. I saw an add for it and decided I wanted to go. It was only $5 to get in and there were quite a few booths/vendors. Dave got to stay home and work on his programming lessons.

I entered a bunch of the free drawings and of course got some treats while I was there. My favorite part though was that I got make-up done and my hair done up all cute-like. If you know me at all, you know that I really don't wear make-up. In fact, I didn't even put any on for my wedding. But I know Dave likes to see me get all dolled up occasionally and hey, it was free 99!

While it's not really my thing, I do enjoy getting to play Princess from time to time. All in all, pretty good day. :0)

The Wonders of Technology

This morning Dave was trying to print some papers off for school. I have an older all-in-one printer, but it has been struggling a bit recently. Namely, it likes to feed 7 or 8 papers through at a time. Obviously that doesn't produce very good prints. After trying to work on classwork for an hour or so, Dave got fed up and decided that we needed a new printer. So we went out shopping.

Dave had researched some all-in-one printers online and found one he liked at Best Buy. We went to our local store and looked at a few others, but this is the one we ended up with...

We have already used it, and we really like it. It's a wireless printer that connects to our internet router allowing us to print from any computer on the network without having to first plug it in. The printer also has bluetooth capability; so we can print pictures from our phones to the printer.

A couple other features: touch screen, energy star rated, and it can print calendars, games, and various types of paper - music, graph, etc. Although we have grown up in a highly technological age, it is amazing to see the progression of technology during our generation. I can only imagine what future technology will bring.

VBA, SQL, RUBY, ETC.

If you understood the title, you're already ahead of the game. It recently occurred to me that I don't often write much about Dave. He's referred to when I talk about "we," "us," and so on, but this will be a Dave Porter post.

The above noted letter combinations are names of computer programming methods, which Dave is/has been learning about recently for both work and for his own knowledge. I'm really quite impressed at how well he does program writing and how much he's already accomplished.

Dave was offered a promotion at Deseret First where he is now back at their operations center (definitely not the best part of the job - i.e. the commute) and he is writing programs to improve efficiency and fluidity of the credit union's operations. He is very excited about the work he is actually doing and he's enjoying it.

Along with the programming he's working on for his job, Dave enrolled in an online class to learn more about programming through a local tech school. He is absolutely loving that. The only drawback to his class is that he can't skip ahead. He gets so into what he's learning that he just wants to keep going.

Here a sample picture of the programming Dave is learning:

Weekly Update

Once again I have meant to blog and it has taken me a week to do so. Nevertheless, here are just a couple of things that have been going on...

Last weekend we had our spring General Conference for the LDS church. What I heard of it was really good. I usually fall asleep during 1 of the 4 sessions, but I ended up sleeping through at least 1/2 of the 2 day conference this time. As we always do, we had pizza Saturday night. It was good. We didn't however, do our traditional Sunday morning cinnamon rolls, but it was still a good day.

Sunday was Easter of course. Dave and I had thought about going up to visit the parents, but ended up staying home and having a Chinese Easter dinner. No ham, we went for the Szechwan chicken - homemade.

(Not the exact recipe we made.)

We have recently been playing a game with our neighbors called "Dominion". It's a card game, which Dave generally doesn't like because it's sometimes hard for him to hold cards, but he really likes this one. In fact, he likes it so much that we bought "Dominion: Intrigue" ourselves.

Intrigue is cool because it can be played as a stand-alone or expansion to "Dominion". I'm not even going to try to explain it, but it's a lot of fun and if you're in the neighborhood, we'll gladly whip it out and play with you. Also, if anyone has any recommendations on other good board games, they would be appreciated.

No Foolin' Around

The baby brudder is back! My brother Charles just got home from Afghanistan a few days ago and made it back to Utah last night. Hooray! He has been gone about a year. This was his first Army tour. We are all really proud of him for going and serving. His flight didn't get in until 9:45-10:00 PM. Since Dave and I now live in Pleasant Grove, (instead of Taylorsville, which is only 15 min from the airport,) we decided to just stay up in the city. It worked out really well.

We ended up getting to do a mid-week date. Yep, an "actual" date, which we haven't done for a little while. We went to dinner at an Italian restaurant called Chef Tom's, (also in Taylorsville, not far from where we used to live,) and we had a really good pizza. It wasn't too badly priced either.

After dinner we splurged. Being the big spenders that we are, we went to the dollar movies. And, we actually only paid $1.00 per person. It was awesome. We went and saw "The Blind Side" and really liked it. It's a great story and I think they had excellent actors to portray the various roles. Dave spoiled me and let me get some popcorn. Definitely the most expensive part of our night. I only got a small, but it was $5.00. As much as I like popcorn, I think we'll just stick with making it at home.

When we got to the airport, we were informed that family members of the soldiers could go and meet them at the gate. However, I didn't have my license with me; so we just waited for everyone else to come. I thought it was cool though that they let some people go up to the gate to wait. As you know, that's just not the common practice anymore. Genius left her camera home, and amazingly so did my mom. I do have some earlier pictures that I'll post soon.

Below is just a quick news clip about the batallion's return.

ksl.com - Utah soldiers return from Afghanistan

P.S. On our way in today, a small herd of deer ran across the road. It was fun to see.