Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

We left as soon as we could.

That was Saturday afternoon, around noon. The drive was hot, but thankfully not as long as the trip back.  read more »

We had quite a full week, mostly full of play time and celebration. :) Summers are nice. We made it over to play games with our friend's Chris and Alyssa Sunday evening, and Wayne played some World of Warcraft with artist friends Monday evening while I read. We played games with Karl and Angela both Friday and Saturday (and probably tonight) since they were in town this week. It was fun, especially all the bunny mayhem that happened when we played Killer Bunnies. Some bunnies tragically died in horrific ways (in the game, of course), and we all had a good time.  read more »

Summers are full of lazy days without much to do. Maybe we should be planning more interesting events in our lives, I'm sure there is a lot more to do. But frankly, it is the summertime and I don't know if I ever grew out of the summer time laziness that school bred into me. We do have other big events for later in the summer months, but we can enjoy this lull while we have it. [and read lots! :)]  read more »

We learned this week that the "competition" is nothing to be afraid of. Hehehe. We went down to Santa Cruz Friday night to see an exhibit by the graduating MFA students in UCSC's digital and new media area, to see how they compare with SJSU's. The first observation I had was that poorly lit galleries make it hard to figure out what's going on. They had turned out all the lights so the only illumination came from the exhibits themselves.  read more »

Welcome back to us! It feels to me like it has taken us a week to get back into continuing with our lives after a long and fun weekend in St. Louis. For those of you who were there with us, we apologize for the reiteration of everything you were there for. If you'd like, you can jump down to the marker identified as This Week and continue reading. The same thing goes for all you who don't want to read over my family's adventures in St. Louis. In fact, you could take the photo tour and experience it better than I could write about it. However, since this email doubles as our journal - I'm going to write about it and there's nuttin' you turkeys can do about it. [/Mulan]

Last Week  read more »

Every time the end of a semester comes along, we have a week like this one. Assignments pile up and end-of-semester presentations need to be cleaned up and polished off. Add to that a unique twist: even though Rebecca is out of school, she was put into a week long training class with a design firm in San Francisco by her company.  read more »

There's not really much to talk about this week. We played games with friends Sunday evening. Rebecca worked during the week days. Wayne worked on school projects pretty much whenever he wasn't sleeping. Rebecca met Wayne on campus several nights and read while he worked on projects. There really wasn't too much else to the week. Even Saturday most of the day Rebecca took care of errands while Wayne worked on school projects.  read more »

There are only two more weeks of this semester left, so naturally that means procrastinating things until the end. Half of the nights this week, I got home at around 9, which meant making dinner, talking with Rebecca and then going to bed. Between that, and reading books until late, and watching more movies than we have all semester...  read more »

Yesterday was lovely weather. Wayne thought it was Hot, but I thought it was just about perfect in the 80s. So when Wayne got home from helping someone in the ward "move" (and helping paint their house for them because they weren't packed when people showed up to help), he told me he wanted to go swimming as soon as I got back from the primary activity.  read more »

Last time we left off, we were up in the Santa Cruz mountains at camp Lehi, getting lips punctured, 25 foot flames and dropping off logs that weighed 500 pounds plus. We were sore Sunday and tried to catch up on that trip while preparing for this weekend's trip.

It was Rebecca's birthday, but thanks to my graduate studies, I only actually saw her for a few hours on her birthday. So, we celebrated mostly on Tuesday by going to a mediocre (not our fault!) mexican restaurant and then on Wednesday, Rebecca celebrated alone with a pizza while I was at a lecture. Rebecca got a lot of ecards, phone calls and birthday wishes and she was happy for that [thanks for all the cards and birthday wishes! -beck].  read more »