Airplane Safety

Having done several engineering internships for Boeing, and having grown up in Seattle, I have a particular interest in any airplane news. As many people might have noticed, there have been a rash of crashes in the last two months after a long spell of none.  

One incident (not a crash) that most of you probably did not hear about happened last friday. As it turned out, one of my coworkers was on that flight with his two little boys and wife. I haven't spoken to him much about it yet, but it must have been a pretty scary experience.

Being an engineer and having seen the inside of Boeing, I know and appreciate all the details that are considered when designing and building and airplane. Considering how many flights take place each day and how many different planes are in the air, they have amazing records. But when something goes wrong, you don't want to be anywhere near them.

At any rate, happy flying! And just remember, the chances of something actually going wrong on your flight are probably 0.0001%.

Published!!!

After 10 long months I finally got my masters thesis manuscript published! It was a very long and at times painful process and I'm glad its done. Britney is EXTREMELY glad too, she was getting as sick of everything as I was, and she wasn't even the main author. She did help me a ton with it and was a huge support through it all. Thanks babe!

Chile Vacation!!!

We finally made it to Chile!!! 

From Chile

It was a great trip! We had a great balance of tourist/vacation and old mission things. Most of the time was really relaxing and we just went where we felt like going. Here are some highlights:

• Hiking up Cerro San Cristobal near downtown Santiago
• Finding the memorial marker for Omner Pratt, Parley P. Pratt’s infant son who died while he was there as missionaries in 1851
• Eating Berlines (pastries) in San Bernardo like I used to do as a missionary
• Relaxing in the shade reading the Bourne series in various parks and cities (Britney: Bourne Ultimatum, me: Bourne Supremacy)
• Eating excellent Chilean Empanadas
• Finding old friends and reconnecting with them finally
• Getting a chaco tan
• Taking Britney through the beautiful countryside
• Seeing how much had changed and how much was still the same

It was hard to leave Chile again, especially when the weather was so nice and we were returning to frozen Boston. I don’t know if I will make it back again, now that we are starting a family, but it was amazing to get to go back even though it wasn’t as long as I would have liked to be there. I loved every minute of it! I think Britney even enjoyed it even though she didn’t understand a lot. She was a very good sport about it. 

To see the rest of the pictures with a bit of commentary, click HERE.

23 Weeks

I feel like this is turning into baby bump central...what can I say, it's a pretty interesting part of our life right now! (watching the every growing bump that is :)) So here it is in all it's glory!


Now, for the better news...my lovely husband will be making his blog debut and writing about our recent trip to Chile soon!! (okay, so he did post one time previously, but it was short and a LONG time ago) Be excited...be very excited. Pictures and Chilean goodness coming soon...