Our Life

Things in the land of Logan have been good. I feel like I've actually been pretty busy this week, so thats refreshing! Jordin had midterms this week and I had my conference call this morning for my internship so we've been staying busy. I know I said that I was doing an internship, but I don't think I ever said what it is. I am working for American Public Television. I am one of two interns that is doing a competitive analysis for their channel, CreateTV. These last two weeks I have been looking at the competitors annual reports to try and find a connection between their total sales of e-commerce and their advertising for their online shopping. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find too much info that I wanted. But the conference call went well this morning and I think I have a new angle to find some of the information that I want. This stuff may not sound interesting to any of you, but I have to tell you... I love the research part of advertising. Who knew? I took two classes last semester both dealing with advertising research and they have been some of my favorite classes! I never would have guessed! So I am glad that I was lucky enough to find an internship that lets me try and do those things we learned. :) Happy day to me! I don't know where I will take this new-found enjoyment of advertising research, but we'll see.

So I've finally sent out the invitations to the Utah baby shower! Took long enough, but its done. :) One less thing to worry about... but I can't wait! Except I can wait for all the comments of "Are you sure you're pregnant? Do you eat enough? Blah Blah Blah..." I am really tall and the baby hangs out near my back versus my belly button. So yes, I am pregnant and yes, I can eat more then a teenage boy! haha. It's all good, really. I've just been hearing that a lot and its getting old.... maybe its the hormones. Oh! One random pregnancy thing that I think is funny. I have been LOVING pickles. Such a stereotype, right? But they are just amazing! I always thought that was just something everyone jokes about but no one really desires pickles, right? wrong. I love them! Jordin and I got dinner at A&W last night and I asked for extra pickles on my burger and was a little disappointed that there were only about 8 dill pickle slices on it. haha. Oh well, there are worse things I could be craving... :)

Jordin and I are getting new cell phones! yay! We share a family plan with my sister, mom, and dad and we're all getting new ones! We're not getting anything too fancy, (The price of data plans are ridiculous!) but new nonetheless. The most exciting thing about this is that we're getting texting back!! Happy day! I am so stoked! Sometimes texting is just so much simpler.

Another thing I've been thinking about: Costa Rica! Jordin and I are in Logan because he networked with an older LDS couple that do philanthropic work in Costa Rica and they have been working on getting some construction-type work going. So they love Jordin and helped him find the internship that he is currently working at. (We are also renting their basement apartment from them.) But anyway, they are leaving today for Costa Rica for a couple weeks to try and set things up so work and training of the locals can begin. There is a possibility that we could move there when we are graduated and work there for a couple years. I want to so bad!!!! I don't know if it will actually come to fruition, but I gotta believe in the power of positive thinking, right?? I wanna go! :) And that also means I could finally become fluent in Spanish! wahoo!

Okay, enough random thoughts for now. Adios!

Hello Blogging World!

Well, it looks like the Boyd family has finally succumbed to the idea of having a blog. Really, it is more because I have been too lazy to make one. Until now... That's probably because nowadays, my to-do list is pretty small. Not being employed is one of the weirdest things! I have been working almost constantly since high school, but now because we are only living in Logan for a few months and at the end of those months I will be a gigantic 9 months pregnant, its too difficult for me to be working somewhere. I am doing a virtual internship which has been keeping me fairly busy. Jordin is doing an internship right now too, hense why we are in freezing Logan. He is working for Neighborhood NonProfit Housing. It is a business that builds affordable housing for people. I'm sure he could explain it better, but oh well. He likes it so far. He works hard and the most impressive thing to me is that he has his own office! Joy in the small things, right? :)

The worst part about being here in Logan is that we don't have our dog, Dash. He is living with Jordin's parents right now. But we'll be going down there at the end of the month for our baby shower so I can see him then! :) Speaking of baby shower... I'll be having two. One in Colorado and one in Utah. So my latest hobby is putting things on my baby registry at Target.com. I am afraid I have become a little obsessed and I keep adding things and then realize I have way too many things on there and so I take a bunch of things off. I need to hurry and send out the invitations to the Utah reception so I stop tweaking it. :)

Well, I guess that is a short update on what we've been doing for the last month or so. Adios!