Hey y'all

Just a little photo dump from the last couple weekends. Too busy writing papers, composing portfolios, finalizing lesson plans, writing reflections, and detailing case studies to even think about a real blog post. Or even write in full sentences. Best wishes!

(Family photos and Christmas tree shopping)

(Palo Duro)

(Carlsbad Caverns)

(Hueco Tanks)

Monday Shmunday

Happy to be home after a long weekend of hard climbing and hiking. Looking forward to a nice, long break from school and work starting tomorrow afternoon! Couldn't be happier. Have a good Monday!

Climber's hands

This is what they look like. On a good day.

The usual.

Just monkeying around over here. Hope you're having a good week!

Hiya!

I spent a long time trying to think of some kind of "I'm back!" title that was clever without being cliche or hard to understand without voice inflection ... and I came up with nothing. Obvs I've been away from the blogging world for too long. 

Anywho, can I get a "Hallelujah" that this season of life is over? Summers are always somehow the CRAZIEST times for us here. We were both working full time, and taking six+ hours of summer classes, and moving, and trying to be normal humans who have friends and social lives and all that (pffftt). 

So I figured we could do a little picture wrap up of the last several weeks and call it good. Kay?

We worked, we played, we camped in Colorado, we celebrated my birthday, we went to Dallas, we celebrated my birthday again, we were loved on by my sweet parents and sisters, we made A's in all of our summer classes, and now we're getting ready to start a whole new semester! 

And can we just talk about this sweet guy for a sec? He took his first classes at Tech over the summer and has a 4.0 GPA right now. No joke. He's a business genius, y'all, so look out. The smartest man I know.

So here's to a new season of life! My last year of undergrad and Rex's first year at Tech...so exciting! I'm looking forward to sharing it with you!

A Few Little Things

- No real word yet on the computer. No diagnostic issues, but now they're running hard drive tests and that's where they think the real problem is.
- We found out that Rex placed 5th out of nine male beginning climbers, and I placed 3rd out of five female beginning climbers in the competition last weekend! I am so proud of him, some of those guys were way good.
- You know how I talked about going through phases? Right now I'm in a black bean phase. Really.
- There are a ton of really cool routes set up at the gym right now, including a lot of really fun beginner routes. So if any of your Lubbock-ites are looking for something fun to do this weekend, head to our favorite place to get a great workout!

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Happy Monday!

Feet Won't Touch The Ground

We finally took the camera to the rock gym last week, and this is what we've got:

It's funny how anti-climactic they seem. Except for this one, of course:

And we're not even in that. Those are two of the guys that work the gym, and they're both crazy good. Like, tree frog-status, on the reals. 

And there's also this pretty cool one of Rex attempting a dyno (a route with a jump):

But let's be real guys, I'm not that good yet. However, I do have defined triceps now! What what! And we're both getting better every day. We're competing in a competition this weekend and it'll be a blast.

It's basically our new second home!