Updates are just around the corner, or after finals...

We have alot to blog about, but as most of you know, we are not the best bloggers. Eventually we will tell you all about Halloween and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Thanksgiving with Mom and Dad. Until that happens, please feel free to check out our family and friend's blogs that actually get updated.

We are dorks!

Emily decided the blue background we had on our blog was out of date and boring.  So she decided to update it and is now going through all the different templates.  Lets hope she picks a good one. Slowly but surely we are moving up in the blogging world.

The Zoo Wo-Hoo! Continued...

If that isn't a beer belly I don't know what is!  

I'm not much of a photographer, but I thought these pictures with the fence truly demonstrated the lack of freedom zoo animals face.  It appeared as a symbol of captivity.  Ahh who am I kidding, I just thought they were cool, no symbolism was intended but your heart can ponder its meaning if there is one.

We thought this was a funny looking bird and decided that few people probably took his/her picture.  We decided that he/she, although odd looking, deserved to have his/her picture taken just like the rest of the animals.  

The Zoo Wo-Hoo!

One day I want snorkel with these guys!

Don-a, Don-a, Don-a (Thats supposed to be the jaws music)...

Turtle, Turtle, Turtle...

No my dear, thats not Dumbo.

This poor guy made us realize how closely related humans and apes/monkeys/gorillas really are.  It was so funny, as we watched this gorilla it was as if he had worked a long day and now was ready to relax.

My New Toy

My Dell laptop has been on its last leg for a while now.  I began looking at a new computer back in May, but I was waiting for a possible update to Apple's laptops.  The update never came and is scheduled to arrive in October.  Apple offered a back to school promotion where you buy an apple computer and you get a free ipod touch and printer.  I would have loved to waited for the new updates, but I figured they wouldn't come out until the back to school promotion had ended.  Anyways, we went to the Apple store on our little trip to Albuquerque.  I believe we spent about two hours in the store (Thanks for your patience Em!).  I asked every possible question that came to mind, and ended up purchasing a Macbook Pro.  I would recommend a Mac to anyone that either hates windows vista or wants an amazing computer.  I have been told I'm crazy for going Mac, but ya know what I will never go back!

Em was pretty excited about her new printer!  The printer we have now just wasn't pulling its weight for all the scrap booking Em's been doing.

Isn't it SHINY!!!  I it has causes a little "squirrel-ness" for me and my colleagues.

Our Trip To Albuquerque

Emily has really been a trooper this summer.  Throughout the summer Em worked every friday and saturday.  This was done for a couple reasons, one it allows her to not have to work on sundays, second it worked best with her school schedule, and three her work makes them work so many weekend shifts.  When the fall semester was in the midst of starting, Em decided that we needed to get out of Vegas for a couple of days.  We had a great time!  We went to the Apple store, the zoo and aquarium, hobby lobby, other shopping places, and The Dark Knight.  Oh and we stayed at a four star hotel, which was really nice until we had no water to shower.  I thought four star meant hot water...guess I was mistaken.  

Darn car accidents and construction!

As some of you know I am doing my practicum hours with a local psychologist in town.  Each week I observe therapy sessions and complete forensic evaluations.  On Friday of most weeks I go to Albuquerque with him to complete the competency evaluations of juvenile offenders.  On one particular afternoon, we finished our evaluations and headed home.  Little did we know there was a huge accident that blocked the two lane highway just outside of Albuquerque.  In the span of 45 minutes we moved less than 100 yards.  As we putted along the road we noticed an abundance of cars entering the weeds between the highway in order to turn around and pick another route.  We contemplated doing the same thing for those 45 minutes til we decided to go another way home.  The only problem with going the other route is that it would add another hour onto the normal two hour drive.  We turned around and headed through one of the ugly parts of New Mexico (according to my supervisor).   Besides the fact that I can count the driving hours into my practicum hours (we have to have a total of 780) is that I got to see this amazing rainbow!  Other than that, I just wanted to get home!  We later found out that our decision of going the different route had paid off, the accident was so bad that the traffic was only able to pass the accident on the shoulder of the road and the accident was more than just a couple of cars.  

Fourth of July

Ya, this is a little outdated but I decided to post them anyways.  On the Fourth of July we were invited to go over to a friends house to watch the fireworks, but we decided to try and make this a date night.  Emily had to work that day and one of her co-workers told her, the best place to see the fireworks is up on a hill that over looks the city.  We drove up to this hill (only a four or five minute drive) and noticed a couple other cars, but we really know what to expect, I mean we live in a small town in New Mexico so the fireworks can't be that great.  Well they weren't, but they were much better than what I had expected.  As we watched the fireworks we reminisced the good ol' days in Utah of times with family, hamburgers, and fireworks.  All in all we had a good time watching the fireworks.

Tunes

Thanks to Stacey I was able to get some tunes on our blog! So I thought I would explain the tune choice. As some of you know, and for those of you that don't know, Dashboard Confessional is my all time favorite band. I always thought that Our Lady Peace would always be at the top of my musical preference list, but that all changed when I listened to the Dashboard songs that weren't played on the radio. Their music is amazing!
Recently I found a band named Vitamin String Quartet. This band takes all the famous songs and makes them into eh...I don't know if you would call it classical or what but they make the song into orchestra like music. Either way look it up on itunes and you can find tons of their music. Anyways back to my point, I found a couple cd's that were done as a tribute to Dashboard, and they are awesome! This way I can listen to dashboard while I study and what not. Check them out and let me know what you think.
I also added the song from Gavin Rossdale, for those of you that don't know the name Gavin was the lead singer of Bush (ya know the song....gotta machine head, its better than the rest....and the song glycerin). I really like this song.

So I decided I needed to make a list of things that I need to blog about, eventually.

1. Summer School: both of us are taking classes and well summer school isn't the funnest thing.
2. My adventures of telling my teacher what I really thought of her class...
3. Practicum: This summer I began my first therapy practicum. What that means is I am working with a psychologist in his practice seeing clients and doing forensic evaluations on juvenile offenders (simply put we are doing competency evaluations in order to determine if they are competent to stand trial).
4. July 4th: Who would have thought our little town of Vegas would have fireworks.
5. I can't remember the other things, but I'm sure I will remember them.

Time with our Best Friends!

The Monday before we flew home we were able to spend an evening with our best friends in the entire world (Ryan and Jen McGary we are talking about you!) We had a little BBQ on the barby (thats reduntend I know). It was fun to visit them because this was the first time that we were able to see the new addition to their family. Paxton Thayle McGary is the little guy that can be seen in the pictures below. The little guy is such a great baby. As we held him it made us more baby hungry than ever before. Emily made the comment that she loved being over at their house because when he cried she was able to pass him back to his mother. I in turn made the comment that we should keep him and never give him back...haha. Ryan and Jen we wanted to thank you for allowing us to be part of this special addition. We miss you guys and cherish your friendship.

I think this is my favorite picture of Emily EVER!!! Doesn't she look like the cutest mother? I can't wait for the day when we have a little tike or two of our own. Te amo mi Smoochie!
How cute is he? And the baby too!
Just another cute picture of Paxton.

Our Four Wheeling Adventure

Ya gotta love the four wheeling gear, thats us in the back and Mom on the right.
Stupid googles and helmets. We stopped to eat some lunch and me being the nice husband I am went to help Emily with her googles and helmet and the stupid things got stuck. The whole time Dad sat there laughing at us.
You can't tell but we are smiling for the camera.
How do they expect you to kiss with a face gaurd? Who was the genious that invented that?
Me playing in the mud!

I promise the hill was alot bigger than what it looks like in the picture. But I have to give props to Mom cause she went down the bigger one, but than again she tried going up one that she shouldn't have and could have had bad results but we won't go there. Love ya Mom!

Gettin Ready to Ride

Emily, Mom, and of course the other child Abby, getting the four wheelers ready.
Here's Dad pretending to know what he is doing.
That same evening Mom and Dad took us to Tempenyaki's. For those of you that don't know its one of those restaurants where they cook the food in front of you, throw sharp cooking instruments in the air, and then offer to fling shrimp your way to see if you can catch it in your mouth. Lets just say I was successful.

Utah Vacation Continued...

The day after Thanksgiving Point my mother-in-law made the suggestion of going to the temple. I am grateful for her example to always keep us on the straight and narrow. We had an amazing time at the temple and it reminded us that even though the nearest temple is two hours away, its a place that we need to frequently visit. Thanks Mom!
After the temple we went golfing at West Ridge (which should be called windy ridge). The three of us could have played better golf but it was enjoyable none the less.
The next day Emily continued her shopping spree...(Love you Smooch)! That night we met up with the old gang from high school. We met up with Chase, Kyle, Summer, Benton, and Melissa at Red Robin (Yum!!! just like the commercial). It was fun to visit with everyone and find out what everyone was up too. Oh, and those bottomless fries...amazing! Just a side note here: Summer taught me that once you sit down and are looking over the menu, you can ask the waiter or waitress to bring out fries. This way while your deciding what you want and while you wait for it to be prepared you can be chomping down on fries!

Our Vacation to Utah Continued

I thought these bath tubs were a little random but very cool looking.
These waterfalls were all hand made.
I made an attempt to roll down this hill but the bumps in the grass haulted my efforts.

We are cute!

Our Vacation to Utah

After the dreadful week of finals we had the privilege of going home and visiting our loved ones in Utah. We flew out on May 12th and stayed with Em's family for a couple days, then went up to Layton to spend some time with my family. The first couple of days, Em spent searching for home decor (since we only have a walmart here in Vegas). I believe she found all that she wanted and more!

We had the oppertunity to go to Thanksgiving Point, which I have to say is an amazing place. I would recommend the Dinosaur Museum to anyone with little ones and the Gardens to anyone who needs a romantic date.

The Dinosaur Museum and The Gardens

Us trying to be like the little kids playing in a cave.

As I walked around the corner, I saw her eyeballing me and it was love at first.....well death I guess. I think I even heard the band playing.

This was on of Emily's favorite dinos.

Never had a brother, so I decided to pick on the newest edition to the Halversen family.Use at the Gardens.

The Garden flowers were amazing.

A couple pictures of the fam. Aren't we all so cute?

If you cant MOON your family, who can you MOON?

Happy Fathers Day Dad! HAHAHAH

After 55 acres of flowers I got a little thirst....is she trying to push me in?