HELP... I am surrounded with no where to go!!

School offically started on Monday, all the students are moved in, Mommy's and Daddy's have all gone home. and teachers have handed out the first round of homework assignments. How come on a campus of approx. 18,000 people I can't get a good set of neightbors to save my life? They let their kids run amuck all over, they are up at all hours of the night, banging on the wall, parking their toys in front of our door, looking into our house and our cars, standing behind us while we are trying to put Faith in or take Faith out of the car. As if that doesn't drive me crazy enough...they all talk to eachother and glare at me. What did I do? I have always been nice, said hi to them and smile at them, even when I don't feel like it. So, why is it that we are the minority and looked down at? Why can't I make friends? I am hoping that this will change once we get plugged into a church (yes we are still working on that). So far my boss and professors at work, Faith's daycare teachers, Faith's daycare director, the check out people at the store and Garratt are the only people I get to talk to. I am so over it. I am starting to feel a lot of depression starting to surface and I am getting very HOME SICK. Oh, well I will get over it. Any who...hopefully next week when we go to the Yakima Apartment BBQ social I will find some sort of connection to someone in the complex somewhere. Well, until next time...

P.S. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JON!!!!!! (that's my brother-in-law...today is his birthday!!!)

Birthday Girl

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY GIRL!!
Mommy cannot believe that you are 1 years old already!!

Yes, I know that my daughters Birthday was yesturday I just didn't get a chance to post on my blog yesterday. I barly got her post on her blog up. SO yes this is being posted a day late but who really cares??

The First Night of the Lentil Festival

For those of you that don't know, Pullman is the Lentil Capital of the World. So, this whole Lentil Festival thing is a big deal. So, we decided to go out last night and check out the downtown street fair that is the kick off of the festival. It was very cool. There was a kids area that had a bounce house, giant inflated slide and some other inflated play thing, there were clowns and of course the WSU Athletcis group with BUTCH!! This is when we found out that faith is not a fan of Butch like we thought, She SCREAMED!!! It was interesting. She is not very fond of dogs either. Faith's daycare is also hosting a lentil bean play area in the Kids Zone so Faith got to see her director Miss Cassi who she absolutly adores. There were a lot of food booths, live music, a beer garden, and different vendors. Then there was highlight of the night, a 200lb vat of Lentil Chili. Sadly we didn't get to taste it because by the time we got back around to it, all the chili was GONE!! Yes people 1 1/2 hours into the event and 200 lbs of chili was gone!!! It was funny!!

200 lbs of LENTIL CHILI

All Campus Picnic

The All Campus picnic is a free picnic for all Faculty, Staff, Students and Parents. The picnic is held at Mooberry Field, which is the Track field. It is suprisingly very well done. Yes, when you are feeding 5000+ people, there will be some waiting but that wasn't bad at all. They kept everything moving very well and there was plenty of food for everyone. There were no incidences either, at least none I saw. There was live music and there were booths all around the track for different groups/clubs on Campus, Athletics, and even some other local companies. Faith had fun people watching and dancing with the music it was super cute.

University Convocation

The picture below is the new Provoist Dr. Hoch. He has only been the provoist for 21 days.
The picture below is President Floyd.

The University Convocation was alot of fun. We got to meet the University President Dr. Floyd. We got there a little eatly to get seats and he was going around introducing himself and greeting people as they showed up, then we saw him again at the end of the convocation. It was really cool. The Convocation lasted about an hour and included 4 speakers, the President, the new Provoist, one of the Professors and a student. Everyone got a program that included a bookmark with tassle, and a year pin. The whole thing was done very well and ended with teaching all the new students and parents the WSU Fight Song (with the help of the Marching Band and Butch). For those of you wondering who Butch is, he is the WSU mascot. Ironically he is a Cougar named Butch...I don't quite understand that one?!? Oh, well. The whole thing was really interesting and this will probably be the only year we attend it because it is really just an introduction to the University and great as a new incoming student, parent or WIFE.

Let the Fun begin!!!

So, today is the start of 2 1/2 weeks of fun around WSU campus and Pullman. Today is the first day of WOW(week of welcome). Tonight we have Bash in the Grass (If it stops raining...otherwise it becomes bash in doors???) Pullman Business Bingo starts today and goes through Saturday (this is just a fun game for the WSU students to play and get cool prizes). Tomorrow starts the Campus Sacavenger Hunt (more fun prizes). Tomorrow night is also game night, Comedy in the Nuthouse (Daggy Theater), Shopping Blowout at ShopKo and Ice Cream Night at Dairy Queen. Friday (besides being Faith's birthday!! 1 year old...YEAH!!), we have the Univerity Convocation and All Campus Picnic. Friday night is the big party night, the opening of the new 18+ club, dances, movies and so much more. Friday night is also the starting of the LENTIL FESTIVAL. The major events for the Lentil festival are on Saturday and we are looking forward to checking that out. Sunday is a little slower there is just a Backyard Bash at the Student Rec Center. Then Monday is the start of the Semester. During the week there are various activities put on by different groups on campus. Then it's Labor Day weekend. We all have Monday off...yeah! Then that week is the Grand Opening of the CUB (student union). There are activities all week leading up to the Ribbon Ceremony on Friday. So there will be lots of posts about the fun happening, as well as some pictures ( more on Faith's blog for those who have access). Well, talk to you soon!!!

Weird Washington Weather

So, we have been here for 3 months now and the weather has been fairly normal. Then last week it felt like being in CA again. It was in the high 90's and then Friday, Saturday and Sunday it was 99, 100 and 102, and we don't have air conditioning...yuck!!! Then Monday morning was nice it was in the 80's with a nice mild breeze. I was happy. Then, that night within a matter of 2 hours, the wind picked up massively (like knock you over, tree branches down wind) then came the massive lightning show, thunder and rain. As a result our house had to be closed up to keep the inside dry, but that resulted in a yucky hot night. Then yesturday was beautiful, low 70's all day again a nice breeze. By 5:00 pm it was 69 degrees and felt great. I woke up this morning to some rain...like November CA rain...CRAZY. Oh, well I guess this is just what it is like when you live in the corner that get all the highs and lows.