Back to school, back to school

Ryan and I have both started back to school. What's that, you thought I already had a degree and a growing career. It turns out that apparently my degree from a certified University is not good enough for some states. (New York and California I'm looking in your overly annoying direction) To work at ARUP you have to be New York certified to work on cases from New York and apparently they have some arbitrary law that says every third new hire has to take another class to supplement their degree. For the life of me I can't figure out what class I didn't take in my undergrad that half my coworkers took. Now I'm enrolled in Medical Microbiology. (Mind you I already took micro in my undergrad, but once again not good enough for snooty New York) Now I get to give up my precious free time to study and take tests for a class that I obviously wouldn't choose to take or I would have taken it in my undergrad. I know it won't be that bad, and the class looks half interesting, I just hate being told what to do by work when I'm not at work.
I really shouldn't complain, Ryan has so much more going on. He's in physics +lab, chemistry + lab and stats. Another semester of working hard for my man. It's a good thing he's a lot more dedicated than I was in my undergrad. He rocked the summer semester (all A's!!!!!!) and I know he'll do great this fall.

What was I so busy doing?

I feel like I've been very busy doing something, since I haven't had time to post, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. I tried to go through my camera to see what I had pictures of for a possible explanation. This is what I found.
Ryan and I had three days of summer together. I switched around my schedule a little so we could spend a few days living it up. The first day we slept in, it was wonderful. The next day we slept in and took Ryan to the optometrist, hence the nice sunglasses on the left. Then I'm sure we did something fun on the third day like sleep in. Then Ryan started teaching the drumline again for ten+ hour days. He was a busy, tired boy as demonstrated by the picture on the right that I took the night I brought him dinner. (The best enchiladas ever, made by Jenny and Mom. I'm glad someone will cook for my husband, because heaven knows I try to avoid it.) Now he's started school again and is working hard to be able to go to more school. Yea.

During this period we also went on a picnic with Becca and Brent and their adorable children Roxy and Cozet. Cozet is still very young, but Roxy is older and loves to pose for pictures. She is such a cute kid I have no problem taking a zillion pics. I also remember that we had a picnic with Brett and Betsy and Ethan. I must have left my camera at home though because I don't have any pictures of it. Just picture a nice warm summer afternoon and all of us enjoying hamburgers/veggie burgers and Ethan being super cute.

We also visited Jonathan working on his Eagle Scout project. It looked miserable and I'm super happy that I'm not a 16 year old boy. He was painting a pavilion behind the stake center...in the middle of August. It's a good thing that he is such a good person and had a wonderful attitude, because I'm sure I wouldn't have.