We'll miss you!

Today Nicki left to teach English in France for the next 8ish months. I'd give anything to go visit her. Why do all my siblings have to leave?

Back to school

I never thought I'd say this, but this is the first time I've felt jealous of everyone heading back to school.

I feel like my entire college experience has been a waste of time. I have enough AP and college credits to be a senior but I don't even have an associate's degree.

My first year at BYU I had no Idea what I was doing. I didn't have any guidance or advice when registering for classes so I had an extremely heavy load including economics (with 850 people in the class), geography, physics, business, and comparative politics. I thought I wanted to go to law school, but that first year really burned me out. I was also working 40+ hours a week and teaching gospel doctrine. It was really a bummer because I had wanted to go to BYU my whole life and that year really spoiled it for me.

I dropped out 3 weeks into my second year when Danny and I decided to get married because he was going to school at Weber State. I went back to school the following year, but since I was working full time and busy I took all online classes, hard classes, and we did't even have the Internet! I had decided to get a business associate degree and so I took the classes to fulfill that path. 2 years later I decided to just get a generic associates so a lot of those classes were a waste, but I just wanted to get my associates so that all of my hard work wouldn't go to waste, and I was about to have Caydence. This is when I finally went to talk to a counselor and they told me I had ONE class left to graduate! It is a computer class that everyone is required to take that teaches you about excel, power point, etc.

That was almost 3 years ago and I still haven't taken the class. I looked into it once and it was going to cost me $700 for that one class! The kicker is that I can test out of the class for $50 but I am so computer illiterate that I am too afraid to take it! Stupid, I know.

I see all the people my age getting masters degrees and "real jobs" and I feel so left behind. One day I will finish. I want to so bad! But for now I'm happy to have Caydence and Danny to fill the void.

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Terrible 2's

This kid gets into everything! It's a good thing she's so cute!

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We're still alive!

I know some of you have been worried, ha ha, but we're still here! The last month has been INSANE!! I am excited to post, when I have time, and I can steal every one's pictures (since I never take any of my own)

1st, 4th, and 100

I can't believe it's been a month since I've posted. Te be honest, I was a little intimidated to post because this is #100, and I thought it had to be something big and grand, but my life is pretty boring, so I've decided to finally post so I can get over it, ha ha.

For the 4th of July weekend Nicki planned the first bi-annual Preece family reunion. We went to Idaho/Jackson Hole for the weekend and we had so much fun!

We camped at a little place called Victor, Idaho, and in just 3ish days we:

-Helped at the hot air balloon festival

-Played a round of frisbee golf at Grand Targhee ski resort (I stopped half way because I was the ONE person to get my frisbee stuck in a tree that was irretrievable)

-Went to Bar J Wranglers dinner/show

-Explored Grand Teton National Park (and got to go to the ward that meets there)

-Floated a river with 11 people

-Saw Toy Story 3 at the drive in

-SMORES

-Swam in a pool the size of our bathtub

-Ping Pong

-Fireworks

-And much more!

Danny and I are in charge of planning the reunion in 2 years. Any good ideas?

D-H-S!

On Friday we went to Michael's graduation. (I call him little Mike, but he is by FAR the tallest person in the family. Notice who the shrimp is? ME! Other than the 10 year old...)
It was pretty weird to think it's been 6 years since I graduated! Crazy.

I decided to try out my new skills and make dessert for the fam. We were all so full from dinner at Texas Roadhouse that we took it home, and Michael never even got a piece because he left for the all night party and everyone else ate it! I didn't have any either, but I heard it was good :)

It's the Davis "D" just in case you don't recognize it. And, yes, our colors are brown and gold :)

Last week of cake class.

Last night was the last cake class (until I start fondant next week). This was my final cake. It's a lot of fun, but I really want a real occasion to try out my new skills, I just had to pawn this one off on my grandma to serve at a presidency meeting she's having tonight.
And I just had to post these pictures of Caydence. We went out to ride her new scooter last night and it just kills me how grown up she is! It makes me so sad that she's not my little baby anymore! She's a little person!