September Happenings

We went to a good bye dinner party for our friend, Beau, a couple Sundays ago. It was at this sweet penthouse in the city. It was amazing. I wish I could live there. The food was delicious and the company awesome. I actually felt kind of like an idiot among the author (who knew and wrote about Mother Teresa), gentleman farmer (Napa...hello), start-up founders, and venture capitalists. "Hi, I'm Liz and I just quit my job in corporate finance to go to a community college" just doesn't sound as cool. Oh well. Everyone was really nice.

Danny and the Bay Bridge on our way to the dinner party

The Bay Bridge at night

View of the valley from the design studio classroom.

"Shopping" for my residential class project at the San Francisco Design Center. Not as fun as it sounds.

Stanford vs. San Jose State (Labor Day Weekend)

Danny's boss gave us his tickets for the Stanford vs. San Jose State football game. We'd never been to a Stanford game so we were excited to go. Even better we found out that there was a Food Truck Festival before the game. Of course we had to go. Luckily we live about a block from campus and could walk to avoid all the traffic.

 Waiting in line for my grilled cheese

Stanford has a lot more entertainment and stuff to do before the game than BYU. This is Stanford's mascot. Fear the Tree!! I thought Becca would love him!

Pat and Jordan's $5 froyo. Patrick liked it!

Our $5 froyo. Who are the fatties? That would be us.

Getting burned.

Our pretty awesome seats.

Back to School

I started school in the middle of August. I'd been talking about it for a LONG time and Danny finally told me to man up and do something about it. It was surprisingly difficult to register and I will never again judge someone who says they didn't start school because they couldn't get registered. It basically took me 3 months to get registered for classes. Applying wasn't hard. They take everyone but their online registration system for classes is a nightmare. Almost everyone has to meet with a couselor to have them register for you and it took 3 different trips and over 6 hours of waiting in the office to get it right. State schools! Ugh! It really made me appreciate what a wonderful education BYU offers for so little money. BYU's RouteY system 10 years ago is state of the art compared to what California colleges have. I almost gave up when they gave me a hard time about transfering a BYU class. Luckily my neighbor told me she went to the same college after graduating from Stanford and they gave her a super hard time too. So lame!! She told me not to give up.

I was really nervous about starting school again after 5 years and especially about trying Interior Design. I didn't know if I would be good at it and why would I want to try something I might be horrible at. I finally decided I was just going to do it.  No harm in trying right?

 My trusty backpack finally gets to go back to school!

The beginnings of my first project for my color class.

After recieveing the hundreds of red magazine pieces my mom cut for me. I had cut quite a few too.

Finished project! Inspiration came from my history class that day on ancient Greece.

This was only the first part of the project. The second part I stressed about and re-did about 15 times. Finally I had about 5 different options and I let Danny chose the one he liked best. Guess who has BOTH projects hanging on the classroom wall? Yep. I'm a little proud. Too bad I'm not as great at hand drafting.

Food Trucks - Trip #4

Danny's work wanted to order food in and guess who happened to be at the food truck gathering? It worked out great. The lines were short and since the company was footing the bill I was able to get a good variety of food for everyone to try.

Eat on Monday. I got beef taco and cheese steak. I hear the cheese steak was okay. The tacos were good.

House of Siam maybe? I'll have to double check. We tried the roll and curry chicken. I believe both were delicious.

The Peruvian truck! They are new so we were excited to try them out. They did not disappoint! We had the Chicharron which was good. We also tried the Wontons and Fried Plantains which were amazing.

I also got the blueberry cobbler from The Shack but it was gross.

Other August Happenings

Liz is addicted to finding food on Pinterest and makes this deliciousness.  Too bad she was the only one home to eat it.

Danny eats a smore for dessert and watches TV for an hour before being informed he has chocolate leftovers on his face.

Thank You, Danny!

Thank goodness Danny works so hard or else our lives would be really boring and we'd never be able to do fun things. As a reward for my patience while he was away on some business trips and my understanding when he failed to communicate correctly his transportation home from the airport, I got a night out to Alexander's.  A culinary experience this fine cannot go without documentation.

We started the night with Parmesan and Truffle Fries and the Tempura Beef. The fries were amazing and they may have almost ruined our dinner. We ate all of them. The beef was just okay.

 My fillet. For the sides we selected Truffle Mac & Cheese (amazing!) and Chessy Fingerling Potatoes (also amazing).

Customary Cotton Candy. Tonight's flavor was Piña Colada. Yum! Danny was embarrassed I took the part we couldn't finish home with me in the car. It was too good to leave behind!

Raspberry Souffle with Vanilla Compote. Delicious.