More Crazy Weather

I woke up last night at about 4:45 AM (I guess I could say this morning. I heard lots of thumps on the roof, and looked out side to see what it was. Much to my surprise there were quarter-sized balls of hail falling from the sky. It was pretty light to begin with, so I decided I was going to move our car in to a covered parking spot hoping to prevent damage. As soon as I got dressed and found my shoes, the hail was coming down in buckets, and I decided not to go out for fear of my life. It lasted for about 10 minutes, and then it turned to pouring rain, which once again flooded a good portion of our "yard" within 5 minutes. Once the hail stopped, I decided to see if there was any damage to the car, which there wasn't thankfully. The weather here is crazy, which makes life a bit more interesting. The lighting last night was going crazy as well. There were lightning strikes literally every couple of seconds. I've never seen such sustained lighting.

In other news, NASA announced that my rocket team won the USLI competition that I was in Alabama for. That means that I get an invitation to the next shuttle launch, which will probably be in October. My first week of work was a bit boring, I just had to go through a lot of orientation and company policies and getting to know people and places, but I think I am really going to enjoy working there. My boss seems pretty cool. Talk to you all later.

So I cut my hair again yesterday. I was getting bored with it. I went to a local hair college, which is supposedly very good. The girl who cut it did a good job. I brought a picture of what I wanted and she listened to me and didn't stop until I liked it. The haircut took forever! It's pretty short, even for me, but I'll get used to it. I thought you all might like to see it:


Also, the weather here has not been great the past week or so. If it's not rainy, it's muggy, although still warm. We've had more severe weather warnings since we've been here than I've probably ever seen, but don't worry. We're safe. Mostly, we've just had a lot of thunderstorms. For instance, this is some of the flooding our apartment complex encountered after one day.

I have also been doing some job searching. I've applied at a few places, but we'll see. I am keeping myself busy running errands, decorating the apartment, doing homework, and filling out applications. Oh, it is so much fun! But I really do home to get a job soon, or I'll start getting bored.

Our New Home

Okay, I've been working on getting this video slideshow put together for a few days. It's finally done. This is our new home, Wichita, Kansas. I probably did not do the city justice with my pictures, but it is a beautiful place. Most of the city pictures are of the downtown area. I should have taken more pics of all of the shopping places to show that Wichita really is a pretty big place...housing just under 500,000 people. Well, I hope you enjoy.

Just click on this link and be patient if it's slow...it's the only way I could get it to work:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4441813440322812747&hl=en

I should mention that Mike graduated from Utah State University on May 3rd, with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Doesn't he look cute! Sorry that the picture is blurry. He was so excited to be finished with school. It kept him EXTREMELY busy, and he deserved the break, and now the job and accompanying salary that he has earned. The first picture is us after Mike's graduation with all of his siblings (except Ben and his wife Wendy, who live in Alaska).
Hooray for Mike for graduating!!

I'll put up some pictures of our apartment as soon as I can find our camera cord. I'm painting today, so hopefully it will look great!

Sorry, he did not get the job on Tuesday. He starts working on Tuesday.

We now live in Wichita, Kansas because Mike got a job working for Cessna Aircraft on Tuesday and he's pretty thrilled. We really like it so far; it's beautiful here. We're working on getting settled in right now, trying to empty all of our boxes and do some painting. The latter is the part I'm most excited about.
We've decided to join the blog world to keep in touch with our family and friends. It's easier and more fun than emailing, I hope...