1 Week Closer and Expectations Growing!!

One more week down!  Done!  Marked off of the calendar!  Tomorrow will be the three week marker until Jordin and I wed!  The past few weeks...well the past month or two has been a really interesting experience because we are both anxious to be married and start our life together there really hasn't been a steady growth of excitement.  I think a really big part of this is the fact that we've been engaged for 5 months and have known that the marriage is coming up.  We also do a lot together already...we shop together, cook together, go to school together, do homework together...we spend a lot of time together so really...the excitement that is coming with marriage is to have our own apartment (OUR OWN APARTMENT! NO ROOMMATES JUST US!  AHAHAHAHAHAHA!) and to not have to say goodbye at night or wait until noon (darn curfew!) to come over to each other's apartments because we'll have our OWN APARTMENT!  hehehehe...I'm really excited about that part. :)  Anyway, its a really crazy sort of feeling...excitement but at the same time it all feels so normal.  Oh life!  What have you done to us!


School so far is going really well.  Poor Jordin has been so busy this semester!  We both are working 18-20 hours a week, going to school full time, and trying to make sure everything is good for the wedding/life after the wedding.  Jordin also has some classes this semester that are really time consuming.  He's taking Anat & Phys, Social Work, Sociology, and Social Statistics just as a taste of his exciting schedule.  His Sociology class sounds sort of cool though.  This week his class was split into groups and each group had to create their own culture.  They then presented their culture to the class and the winning group received extra credit on their test.  Jordin's group was the winning group and it was a culture that worship hedgehogs and trees. :)  I'm glad I've had such a positive influence on him.  Hedgehogs really are adorable though.  I mean how cute is this little guy?!

Or his little buddy taking a bath

I think that hedgehogs are adorable.  Clarification: I think that LIVE hedgehogs are adorable. *Cough, Cough* Bridget *Cough Cough*  :)  Anyway some other things about Jordin's culture.  Everyone owns a hedgehog because they are a religious animal.  The rite of passage for all youth is teaching your hedgehog to swim across the Snake River, trees are representations of departed spirits, I can't remember all of the rest.  I'll ask him and post it later because it was very creative and funny.  But school is going well...slowly but surely we're pushing forward.

So I have an opinion question for everyone.  Jordin really wants to go see The Avengers tonight so we're going to see if we can get tickets to go out to the Roxy.  Has anyone seen it yet?  Is it any good?  Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 93% but I'm a little hesitant because Iron Man is really the only Avengers movie that I've really enjoyed or would consider purchasing.    The Roxy is a pretty cheap theater so we'd only be in $5 per ticket...but is it really worth it or should be just wait and see it at the Dollar Theater or rent it through Red Box?  I'm just curious for feed back. :)  You know what movie I still really want to see but haven't had a chance to yet?  THE ARTIST!  But I think Jordin will probably win out with The Avengers tonight.  Oh well I guess.  :)  I do make him watch Once Upon a Time with me all the time so I suppose I can tolerate Avengers.

Tomorrow I have an opportunity to do something kind of cool.  I'm going down to Idaho Falls to teach the music portion of an audition clinic. Kids ages 10-18 (I think) are coming to work on audition techniques.  I get to help them find their vocal range so they can choose appropriate music, work on movement/expression of their piece, how to introduce yourself and the piece to the judges, etc.  I'm kind of excited about it!  I'm also very fortunate to have the lovely Moom Wilcox helping me out so I don't have to do all of it by myself.  At the end of each session the kids are going to have a mock audition.  So they will sing the 16 bar selection that we learned in the music portion and also do a cold reading while the teachers (That's me!!!) will evaluate them and give them constructive feedback about improvement that they've made and ideas for further improvement, etc.  It should be kind of fun.  Jordin is coming down with me but he's just going to work on homework in one of the other rooms.  We've been trying to stay ahead of our homework so that next week when we go down to Logan we can just relax and enjoy time with family as well as the temple!  Eeekkk!  This Sunday I'm having my first interview for my temple recommend (with my Bishop) and on Tuesday I'll meet with the Stake President.

Well, I think that pretty much updates you on what's going on in our lives right now.  I'll probably post again on Sunday and let you know how awesome our homework party was this weekend and give a a report on the Avengers.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!  For everyone back home, we'll see you in a week!  Oh!  And just a quick reminder, the upcoming Curtis Family blog is in the design stage.  PLEASE take a minute to look it over and let us know what you think.  The address is erinandjordin.blogspot.com.  Also, The Curtis Family blog will most likely be the blog we use in the future, I haven't decided if I'm going to continue my personal blog or not but you'll want to use the new blog for family updates after May 26th.  Thanks everyone!