All done with residency week

Well, I survived my second year of residency week at school. For residency week they require us to be at school from 8am-5pm for a whole week. There's nothing like using up vacation days at work to go to school.

I was not looking forward to this year's residency week at all and I actually dreaded it during the entire month of July. All I could remember from last year's residency week was sitting through eight hours of class every day for five days straight and feeling so tired and overwhelmed by it all. But this year's wasn't so bad and it turned out being a whole lot better than last year's.

The first three days were spent doing a business strategy simulation which was a lot of fun. And the last two days consisted of strategy classes and a field trip. For our field trip we went to visit the new Harley Davidson dealership in Lindon. It was awesome, except now I'm itching to get a bike. It's so sad to think that it will be awhile before I have the time or the money to ride one.

Kristin, will you . . . ?

Well, it's official -- I'm engaged. I asked Kristin to marry me Saturday night. We hiked up Battle Creek canyon to a large open meadow in between the "G" mountain and Timpanogos. I had my brother Greg set up a table in the middle of the meadow with a table cloth, flowers, candles and dinner, so it was all there waiting for us when we got there. I proposed to Kristin and then we ate dinner there in the meadow as the sun was setting. It was perfect. We are planning the wedding for November 7th in the Salt Lake Temple. I can't wait!