Nickel City Date Night
A couple of date nights ago, Robert and I went to Nickel City. It’s basically (especially now that it’s been remodeled) Peter Piper Pizza, but the tokens only cost a nickel instead of a quarter. When we first arrived I scanned the prize wall for what would be our goal for the evening and spotted it immediately – Neon Fedoras! Right away I decided that we each HAD to have one. They were 200 tickets a piece, so we had our work cut out for us. Through much blood, sweat, and tears, we triumphed at last!
Robert scored a ton of tickets on the Baseball Jackpot Game.
I was a master at the Spinning Sonic the Hedgehog Game.
And here we are sporting our beautiful prizes. We even had some tickets left over to get some candy :) If you can’t tell, Robert felt very awkward when I made him take this picture with me while a huge group of people that was eating pizza was staring at us. But I was so excited about our winnings that I couldn’t resist. What a good sport!Robert’s Spring Research Conference
Some of you may not know, but Robert has spent the past year doing research for the IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Mentoring Program in Analysis, Computation, and Theory) program at BYU which is funded by the National Science Foundation. His focus (which was assigned to him) is Gaussian Markov Random Fields for Climate Model Assessment. Do you know what that is?... Me neither. The way I understand it is that basically there are these different models that climatologists use to test different things about the weather and Robert's job is to find out why/what makes these models, which test the same thing but produce different results, different, and what adjustments can be made to make them the same. He presented his research at BYU's Spring Research Conference this past Saturday. I went and although I didn't understand a single thing he said (or that any of the other presenters said for that matter) I thought he looked really cute while he said it and that he did a great job. I am constantly amazed at how brilliant my husband is. Here are a couple of slides from his presentation so you all can witness his amazingness.
When this "Quest For That Which is Real" slide was put up my first thought was that I was amazed that everyone else in the room knew exactly what it meant. BUT it turns out that since Robert is rare breed of statistics major that also has a strong mathematics background, he was basically THE ONLY person in the whole room that knew what this slide meant. Typical genius Robert.Primary
I taught a lesson in Primary this week about being a missionary. The only boy that was there didn't want to dress up, and since Robert already looked like a missionary, I was elected. It's a bit out of focus, but you get the idea :)
Robert's Awesomeness!!
Robert is my hero. He really has gone above and beyond lately, even more so than he usually does. With how crazy his work load has been with school, work, tutoring, and getting his presentation ready, he still has managed to do all the ridiculous things pregnant women make their husbands do. For example, the other day I had a craving for green grapes, chocolate milk, and Poore Brothers' brand salt and vinegar chips. Robert went to 7 DIFFERENT STORES trying to find Poore Brothers' brand chips before he called me saying that he failed and wanted to know if a different brand would be okay. We found out later that Poore Brothers doesn't even distribute in Utah. And that's just one of the THOUSANDS of things that he has done. I am so lucky. I LOVE HIM!!And that's it for now. We are going to Mesa, AZ this weekend to visit our families one last time before the baby comes and to have a baby shower. I can't wait!!!
P.S. We have made some decisions about where we will be the next few years. It's different than I had planned, but we know it's right. And the more we think about it, the more right it becomes. I'll post details on that later.
Toodles!!
