Congratulations Seth!

Da-dum dum dum duuum dum, dum dum-da dum dum.
I've been singing this song to Seth for over a week now and it was so great to finally hear it for real! He's done--he's done!

Seth graduated with his BS in Health Science on Saturday and I am so proud of him. These past couple of sememsters have been absolutely brutal, but he has pushed through and finally finished!
Thursday night: Thank you to the Godfreys for the Craigos gift cards. As soon as Seth was done with his last final he and I went and shared a cookie monster. We ALMOST finished it, but in the end it beat us. Thank you to all of you who have sent such nice cards and gifts!Walking....he told me he has been practiing all his life to not trip on Saturday.

Getting the diploma cover. Of course he couldn't get through the dignitary line without a few hugs. Everyone loves him.
Us and Seth's parents. It was so awesome for them to come such a long ways to celebrate the big day with us. One of my favorite memories though, is playing the New Moon board game with them the night before. If you know Joe you could probably picture how funny this would be.

Seth and his mom.

Us and my parents. We were also so thankful that they came all the way to celebrate! Michelle and Douglas also came, as well as Grandma and Grandpa Chatterton--but for some reason I don't have a picture with them on my camera. Thank you guys!
We love BYU-Idaho! We are both so thankful that we ended up here. It was never in the plans for either of us, but I guess thats the great thing about life. Seth is very relieved to be done, but also very aware that he has another 3 years of grad school ahead of him...

I think the greatest part about the whole weekend though was lunch after the convocation with Elder Scott. Seth was the one student from the Health Science department to be nominated to attend the official graduation luncheon with President and Sister Clark and Elder Scott. (Told you they all love him). There were 19 of us students and spouses. 5 BYU-Idaho Vice presidents. 1 Elder from the 1st Quorum of the Seventy (I can't remember his name right now), President and Sister Clark and of course Elder Richard G. Scott. 28 people total! It was a very fancy lunch and the best part was that we were invited to ask Elder Scott and President Clark questions the whole time.

First we went around the banquet table and introduced ourselves and Elder Scott was making a lot of jokes (he is a dang funny guy!). Then the questions began--it was a life changing experience. I brought a notebook--my little rule of thumb whenever I am having lunch with a prophet of God :) ---and I wrote frantically the whole time. I did eat so it wouldn't look wierd, but I was wishing I could just sit in the corner and take notes! He is so wonderful, one side of me was thinking, "He's just like Grandpa Godfrey," and the other side of me was thinking, "Holy moley--I can't believe a prophet is looking at me talking to me." It was an awesome hour and a half--ask us about it some time!

Anyways, it was a wonderful weekend and Seth and I are so excited for the next chapter in life. It is easy to get into the mode of "We'll be totally happy when ... (i.e. grad school is done)" but we are working on enjoying this part of the journey--wherever it leads us!

Seth's First Interview Invitation!!

Wahoo!!!


Seth got his first physical therapy school interview invitation today! I am so so proud of him! All you Washington people will be happy to know that it was Eastern Washington University to invite him! It's not until February 6th, but at least we have a date to look forward to! (Have I used enough !!! to express how happy I am?)

The buck shot by Mr. Buck

Exactly 3 years ago on Halloween this cute single guy brought his all-to-agreeable girlfriend hunting. She had a deer tag that he was determined to fill on the last day of the season. (Don't ask her why she had a deer tag, she had never shot anything in her life, ask her father.) Anyways...he stopped the truck, loaded the gun for her, pointed to a doe and told her to shoot. Through some miracle, the girl shot the deer, one-shot-kill through the heart. The deer rolled down the hill to their feet next to the car. The guy and his friend gutted the deer, cut it up and packaged it. The girl thought...hmmm....hunting isn't too bad.

Fast forward 3 years.

This is Seth and I hunting near Rexburg. (Please excuse the delay, life has been a little crazy lately.) This is us once the darn sun decided to finally get up and thaw my fingers. Holy cow we walked forever, most of the time in the dark that morning. I really was spoiled 3 years ago. Hunting is a lot of work!

We saw a moose. It wasn't scared at all, I guess it knew we were after deer.

My cute hunter Seth

And finally. Exactly 3 years later. Halloween 2009. I guess Halloween is a good hunting day for the Bucks. (Or we are just extrodinary procrastinators who wait until the last day of the season to finally bag a deer.) Seth is pretty darn proud of this buck. Notice big B little b :). It only has little tiny little antlers so technically he thought it was a doe when he shot it, but it is a buck afterall.

Deer before.

Deer After.And if you haven't lost your appetite yet :)

This was my Halloween costume! Guess who? Yep. Lucille Ball, my favorite TV character. Seth was Desi--I am so mad we didn't get a picture of him, we sprayed his hair black for it and everything! We even won the ward halloween costume contest. It was way fun.

Lions and Tigers and Bears!

Oh my!

On Saturday Seth and I went to the zoo. Seth told me I could choose what we were going to do and I couldn't waste a perfectly opportunity like that. The Idaho Falls Zoo isn't what I would call a world renound zoo, but it was cute and fun to be there together!

Okay here are your fun facts-they are some of the things that I learned--or re-learned at the zoo.

It is a test and you all have to take it and then tell me your scores!

(5 Points) 1. Why are flamingos pink?

A: Because of the shrimp they eat! If they didn't eat the shrimp they would just be another white bird.



(15 Points) 2. How can you tell the difference between a grown male or female CAPTIVE penguin?

Answer: The males grow larger and fatter beaks when they are in captivity but nobody really knows why. Its really the only way they can tell other than DNA testing. (We really went for a walk with these penguins. Apparently they like getting out and walking around! They were like cute wobbly little dogs.)



(2 Points) 3. What color can lemurs get other than back and white. (If you don't get this you didn't look at the picture below very closely).
Answer: Red (although it looks orange to me) (This little guy/girl loved Seth and wouldn't leave the window when he was there).



(23 Points) 4. What is the potential wing span of a Golden Eagle?

Answer: 7 1/2 Feet!

(5 Points) 5. What is the average size of a lion litter?
Answer: 2 cubs

(7 Points) 6. Y/N Is the Lion the biggest cat in the world?

Answer: No, they are only the second biggest cat in the world. (I was wearing red and this lion kept following me with his eyes. Kinda creepy but they are gorgeous animals!)

(3 Points) Y/N Is this a real tiger CarolAnn is sitting on?

Answer: No, but when we turned the corner and saw it my poor heart thought it was when I jumped 3 feet!

Total Possible Score: 60 Points!

Now doesn't this inspire each of you to go to the zoo?!

I have proof the LDS Church is true :)

Anybody who knows me well knows that my favorite thing in life is a bag a wintergreen lifesaver mints. They are straight from heaven—literally. I have a theory, but I’ll share it that another time :) (I'm completely confident that manna is flavored wintergreen.)

The only problem is that when I eat them I can’t stop until the entire bag is gone. It happens every time I get my hands on a bag, but it makes no difference, the stomach ache is worth it. It’s not their fault though, it’s the fault of the company that packages them, making bags that large should not be permitted, how is a person supposed to stop?

Example A: My birthday. Seth surprised me at work with balloons weighed down with a bag of wintergreen mints. He never ever encourages and rarely “allows” the addiction but since it was my birthday I think he thought a little charity was in order. I promptly ripped open the bag and was done with the entire thing before I could even get home from work. Ouch. A few minutes after arriving home I started throwing up…excuse the imagery, but it happens every time. I just can’t stop myself—they are so good. Seth’s dry “comforting” words were expected as he leaned against the bathroom door…. “You finished the entire bag didn’t you?”

Anyways, last night Seth and I’s ward cleaned the temple from 10 pm-12:30 am. As I was dusting the clothing distribution closet our supervisor came in and showed me a hidden entire basket of…yep, you guessed it, lifesaver mints. My eyes immediately widened and when I could finally rip them away from the basket I looked at Seth. There he was grinning from ear to ear trying to anticipate what I was going to do. I of course acted nonchalantly while the temple worker was there offering them to us and continued dusting, commenting that it was quite the basket, but immediately the wheels in my mind started turning. What if they were the Peppermint flavor? I believed that the true church would have to have the true heavenly flavor of lifesaver mints...wintergreen.

As soon as the worker was gone I opened the mint and discovered much to my elation once the mint hit my tongue that yes, the temple has entire baskets of wintergreen mints hidden under desks, in closets and through doors that nobody usually opens. I didn’t even need another one, much to Seth’s not-so-well-hidden shock.

In my mind I was hearing the hallelujah choir. I already have a testimony of why we are on this earth, of the restoration of the gospel, of the Book of Mormon and of the blessing it is to have a living prophet on this earth, but I now have proof that the LDS Church, with its hidden baskets of truly heavenly wintergreen mints in the temples, really is true.

Happy Last First Day of BYUI Seth!

So this morning I totally shanghaied Seth and took a picture of him before I left for work. (Goofy Smile Explanation). I wanted one with his backpack on but I didn't know how to swing it.

Anyways....Happy Last First Day of BYUI Seth!

Our Labor on Labor Day!

For my birthday last week I asked for a bunch of tupperware in order to get our condo more organized. I know--really random but since we are moving somewhere in 4 months. (Be it Idaho Falls or Georgia or SLC or somewhere else? Not knowing is killing me by the way!), I have been wanting to get on top of all our junk.

I finally got Seth recruited and committed to help me on Labor day and it was so much fun. We didn't know if we wanted to do before and after pictures or not, because we dont' want everyone to think we are slobs, but they are just too cool!

We decided that we wanted to rearrange our bedroom, since it has been this way for more than two years. I really liked it the other way but Seth wanted a change. So...after we worked solid for 11 hours...here are the results from around the house!
Before:
And After! I haven't slept well since we changed it because 1. the air conditioner now either freezes us to death or when we turn it off we die of the head, and 2. because I am completely convinced that some crazy person is going to reach through the window and kill us. At least we had some notice with the old way! (Yes, I realize how silly that sounds, and yes, I realize we are on the second floor!)

This is Seth's closet Before:
And After! (I did mine a couple weeks ago)

Under our desk. Before:

And After!

This part was the part that took the most of the hours in the day. Our office storage closet. It used to drive me absolutely insane. We couldn't ever find anything and you just about died every time you opened the doors because of all the stuff that would fall out.

So....Before:

During: This is the point where we wondered what the heck we had gotten ourselves into. It was such a huge job!
The other side of the room during the process! How did we ever aquire this much junk?

And finally...After! It's probably pretty obvious how much we love it all! We fit everything plus a bunch from the other rooms in it and it doesn't even look as full! (Grant it we did bring a whole truck load of junk to DI adn practically filled half the dumpster). We can now find all our stuff since it is all easily accessable and completely labeled. Wahoo!

Now you all need to do it too! I'm completely addicted, all I have to do is the bathroom and the kitchen and our house will be perfect--and it will be so easy to move!