Law School and Normal School!

While we were enjoying ourselves standing in line for 2 hours for Space Mountain at Disnyeland we found out some news...Richard got a 161 on the LSAT! Yay! That is in the 84th percentile and awesome. Ever since we have been researching Law Schools. Here are some at the top of our list:

1. Temple University (That's in Pennsylvania)
2. Pepperdine (Malibu)
3. Cornell (New York)
4. American University (D.C.)
5. Santa Clara
6. Indiana
7. BYU
8. George Mason (D.C.)

And a few more. We are SO VERY excited :)

As for normal school. My constitutional law midterm (Law, Politics, and War) that I wrote about a while ago got handed back to me yesterday:


This came from the hardest teacher in the department! A positive attitude makes a world of difference!

I love my life.

Can I just take a minute to tell you all how much I LOVE my life!

School is the hardest its ever been. (Can you say, Constitutional Law!?!) But I love it. A challenge, finally. Sometimes I complain, but really, it is such a blessing to be able to do this! I will ROCK the midterm on Monday (with some faith and luck!)

My best friend was married the same summer as me. I love her dearly and her new husband. It was hard there for a while when I was married and she was single, but now that she has joined our ranks, we are back at it again.

The temple is literally 5 minutes away from our house. Being able to go there and work for my family let's me forget about myself for a while.

Richard is awesome. Sometimes being a girl is just sucky. I'm whiney and my hormones (which I picture as little evil people whispering to my brain) tell me things like, "Be mean to Richard" or "Cry for no reason" or "You hate how you look today." Blah. Richard is just a champ. We laugh ourselves to sleep. Randomly when I'm in the car with him, I think to myself, when did all this happen? We are married? Life is too crazy.

Okay enough of this. :) I am just so happy. It took me a while to realize that the Federalist Papers will not kill me. I will survive and I will love it!

At long last!

Sorry we are the worst at blogging, but we finally found some time to blog about the most important day of our lives so far...three months later. We LOVE our pictures, but since we can't post them all, if you want to see more visit annarasmussen.com/blog. But if you are in the SoCal region beware, you might be making up reasons to get pictures taken after viewing that blog.

We love each other. Time is a funny thing when it comes to love. I wonder sometimes why it took me so long to fall in love with Richard, while at the same time, wondering when it all happened.

Richard is perfect for me. We are opposites in as many ways we are similar. He loves to surf, I can't tread water. We both love reading. He is tall, I am short (except in this picture, take that!)

I love planning our adventures together. We will never be rich, but rich with experiences we say! From little trips to keep ourselves from suffocating in Logan, to planning our first real big adventure after we both graduate! Woohoo!

There are so many amazing things about Richard I don't even know where to start. I love everything about him. From his glasses to his willingness to let me change his style. (Loose pants just don't look great on boys so skinny.) There are some crazy things too...like his laugh and the way he mutters in Russian under his breath which kind of creeps me out.

I love that our way of life doesn't bother us. Right now we live in an old dingy, one bedroom apartment. We have no T.V., sleep on the floor, and have Quasimodo for a neighbor. (I will include a pic as soon as I deem myself sneaky enough for the task.) We have a simple life as students, but we really couldn't be happier. We don't have space for all of our stuff, so it's piled up all around us. It reminds us of how fortunate we are.

This picture of us pretty much sums it all up. Amidst school and bills and craziness we can't stop laughing. We are two of the most happy people in the world.

Silly Post

This is a conversation we had earlier today.

9:33 AM Richard: curry for lunch?

9:34 AM me: unless you want something else.

Richard: Hm...

I'm fine with that.

I can also make burritos! That is why I kept the del taco sauce from yesterday.

9:35 AM me: sweet

9:36 AM Richard: yep :)

We can just have curry though.

That is fine.

:)

me: no it's okay.

especially if we're going to eat it again for dinner...

9:41 AM Richard: yeah...

maybe for lunch we can do ramen or burritos

me: yeah that sounds fine

9:42 AM ok i'm going to jump in the shower.

i feel yucky.

if you used up all my conditioner i will kill you.

9:44 AM Richard: I haven't used it at all.

:)

me: thanks :)

I believe I am in the perfect relationship.

Things About Us.

Hello all. We've been happily married f0r just over a month and it's been awesome! We've learned so much about each other and about making a life together. In the spirit of learning new things about me and Richard, we felt we would share some things YOU might not know about US. :)

1. The first real lesson learned in our marriage is Weinerschnitzel everyday is no good. Just because fast food is cheap (and delicious) does not mean it will make you (or your tummy) happy...
2. Our two new favorite shows are Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel) and Whale Wars (Animal Planet...thanks Stewart). We watch them obsessively.
3. We have the names of our future children picked out already.
3. We've discovered Epic Pet Wars. (iPhone app. Check it out.)
4. Richard is precisely 10 inches taller than Erika.
5. We try to be fashionable, but we can never stop buying dead men's clothes and elementary school mascot shirts at the DI.
6. Erika can never make up her mind. If it weren't for Richard we would have died of starvation long ago.
7. We both drive our dream car (except neither of them are the right color.)
8. In 3 days we each have a 20 page paper due. We are awesome at procrastination.
9. We've made the long journey to Yogurtland and back.
10. Richard is so strong he cracked his Tungsten ring.
11. Richard gets mad because Erika leaves all the cupboards and drawers open. She is getting better.
12. Richard designed Erika's ring all by himself. She didn't even get a chance to peek at it until he proposed.
13. He tells her he loves her a thousand times a day.
14. The first time Richard came over to meet her family, her little brother shot him multiple times with his marshmallow gun.
15. Erika got REALLY excited when she learned about Hogwarts Land.
16. We are excited to move into our teeny apartment in a few weeks.
17. Erika's love for shopping has resurfaced upon moving to Las Vegas. Richard tried so hard to suppress it...
18. After dating for some time we decided we should get married. Then we moved to opposite sides of the world for 4 months.
19. We both miss actually having a summer vacation.
20. We LOVE being so close to family in Vegas. The heat, not so much...
21. We are so lucky to be able to go to the temple; by ourselves and with our friends.
22. Midnight Pomegranate is our favorite.
23. We love Yasuko, our pizza lady.
24. It rained on our wedding day...but we have amazing pictures! (They will be posted. I know I am SO SLOW.)
25. We love the gospel, each other, and our families. We couldn't be more blessed.

THE BEST SHOW EVER!

Okay, so Erika and I went to a Sherwood show last night and it was AMAZING! At first we were having our doubts. They were as follows:
1. This venue is small and pretty ghetto.
2. There aren't very many people here, maybe there won't be enough energy to make it a good show.
3. The first opening band was the worst thing I had ever heard...I'm not even joking.
4. When Sherwood was setting up we were the only ones standing in the front....and almost the only ones in the room.

But then! Sherwood started to play! And from the first song until the last it was FREAKING AWESOME!!!! Here is a video of end of For the Longest Time, which was the last song they played.



Richard wrote all this without me, so I decided I needed to put my two cents in too!

It was really something spectacular. Going through times of hardship when they acquired thousands of fans, my years of loyalty paid off with an intimate show, playing a lot of their old stuff, and a personal shout out from Dan. It was AWESOME!

I danced like a crazy person but had the time of my life! It made me realize just how grateful I am for these guys and their amazing music. I've taken for granted how I've grown up with them and how much I love their music.

At Tommy's request, I will now post about the worst band I have ever heard, which, interestingly enough, played before Sherwood. It is always darkest just before the dawn, right?

These were the quintessential garage band that should never, ever leave the garage. One looked like the fat Jack Black in the movie School of Rock and the other one looked like Chris Farley from Tommy Boy. The bass player looked pinched like a heroine addict and we didn't see much of the drummer, thankfully. Their music. Let's just put it this way, they had to skip one of their songs because they couldn't get it together, one included a 5 minute guitar solo that was so bad my ears were bleeding, and their final song was a tribute to 2Pac that lasted an unholy 10 minutes.

I'm pretty sure the only thing that could have redeemed that was the one and only Sherwood.

My homeboys...this is how awesome they are.

Update!

Hello all!

Just wanted to update kinda what's going on in our lives. This is my second to last week of work (yay!) and Richard is in class all day from 9 to 4 non-stop. The wedding plans are coming, although we are still trying to pull together all of the little things. Who knew that flowers would cause SO much drama!?

Things on my mind lately:

• Weather. I keep checking the extended forecast for the month of June (like the weather people are ever accurate anyways) and yesterday is gave us this picture for the 20th:

And today it gave us this picture:

So we'll just keep praying for the best!

• We can't wait to move to Las Vegas! I'm not sure exactly what our plans are, but it will be nice to finally have a summer! We are so lonely up here and we are excited to see Zach and Zaira again!

• I am really excited for Bridal+Richard pictures this weekend! It will be fun and we just got Richard's suit back from the tailors and it looks great! :)
  

• The real reason I am posting all of this is because my boss is gone, I'm done training my replacement, and I am SO bored!

• I also really want a pair of these shoes:

Not only are they eco-friendly, they look awesome. And on top of that, whenever you buy a pair of these shoes, the owner donates a pair to a child in need. Sweet! Not only am I satisfying my need for sweet awesome shoes, I am going to be helping a child with no shoes in a third world country. Blake Mycoskie is my hero and there should be more people like him in the world.

The end.