Alberta Clipper

Our experience with the recent Alberta clipper that passed on through:

these folks might have a problem when they decide to leave their house!

Mr. Mikey!

One good thing that did come from the storm: My final got postponed... here's to having some extra time to study and write :)

more than a minute

For those of you who only get the opportunity to spend a minute with us... You can see what enjoying a night with us is like... :)sam apparently is eager to get things started off

our roomates' dog, Pebbles

Enter: the animals.... rubix and his fat belly on the new climbing tree

again, rather large belly

sibling dual

mishap with the whipped topping that was later blamed for near death due to allergies to all things furry.

wario jumping game

me 'n shadow just hanging out

sam decided doing curls was a good idea.....


insert: michael in the background... 10 sam, you have to do 10... 9, 8, 7, 6... this picture was taken at... 1!

As you can see, we enjoy mixing things up a bit. We will be hosting Thanksgiving in a mere 3 days if you're interested in joining the festivities :)

deer.

mikey's two "button bucks" that he shot in 5 minutes.

count your blessings.

image of the home before

this is what the tanya and jason mathers' house looks like now. They and their 4 kids are getting by... Keep them in your thoughts and hearts.

this is a picture of the front of the house, with the four wheeler in the foreground.

what used to be the basement.

history... has been made!

Civic Duty

It's that time of year... the time where you need to invest some time and put forth an effort to educate yourself. I am happy to say that I fulfilled my civic duty today as I voted absentee. I've thoroughly enjoyed becoming engaged this year; it's an incredibly decisive year and I can only hope that Obama comes out ahead. The fear that instills me when I think about Sarah Palin and John McCain is somewhat overbearing. Here's to the right individual getting the ticket!

new look

Well, I decided it was time to update the look of the mathers' web blog a bit. I would love to hear your thoughts :)
-A

Nevada!

me 'n the beautiful bride

I fell in love with the skies of nevada!

rehearsal!

gettin her hair did

maid of honor and the bride-to-be

headin' to tahoe!

can you find me?

my toesies in lake tahoe!

the newlyweds :)

salmon running

the newly weds

beautiful lake tahoe

a little yearling bear that was all sorts of mixed up

nevada state bird!

shot out the window on the flight home

I am sitting in class right now. My day started out nice. It's a beautiful day outside and I got to sit at the coffee shop for a while. My day took a turn for the worse when I had to sit through a ridiculous meeting that involved some higher-ups on the University preaching to me about how "great" things are within our department and how impactful the programs are that we are producing. Insert reality here and understand that they were specifically speaking to a handful of individuals that are eating out of their hands who never push the envelope and who basically do nothing. It makes me so angry to hear words that sound like this: nah nah naaaah nah nah. It's all a big puff of niceness that doesn't translate into reality. Oh, beurocracy and hierarchy... you drive me nuts!

life outside of academia

Believe it or not, sometimes we find time to enjoy life :) Here are some snapshots from recent adventures:



This picture of shadow has quite the story behind it. I had been playing Wii fit until wee hours of the morning (no pun intended), when I decided to run upstairs for a minute. I found the screen door open and all of the animals gone. Rubix and Jaz were at the end of the staircase and I was able to easily grab them. Shadow, however, decided to roam the area and didn't come home until codie coerced him back around 3:30 am when he got off work. Shads was covered in thorns and weeds and was soaking wet. Codie and I were laughing so hard that we had to take a picture :)

Mikey wants an airpopper.... so, rather than spending $20 he improvised and created one with his coffee roaster... oooohhh. engineers!

The big goose... this time, they didn't limit out.... but don't worry... there's more to come!

Rubix, this is the life! We laughed so hard when we found him like this :)

The big day of goose hunting! They limited out; this was mikey's first time ever limiting out with geese! He and I had gone scouting the night before, so I was equally excited to see that they had great luck. The only downer to the day was that it rained all morning, so they were completely soaked.

Mikey and Quinton. They're mutual love for hunting may be dangerous in the future!

I couldn't resist. My birthday present from my parents came today... Happy early Birthday to me :) Thanks ma and pa :)