The Semi-Annual Update

It's a miracle! We are updating our blog and we would like to thank Grandma Morgan for inspiring/threatening us. Quick recap since our last post: Cougars beat the Utes 17-10 and we are still celebrating!

One of the mottoes for BYU is "Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve." The other night we saw a T-shirt that said, "Enter to Learn, Go Fourth... and Eighteen." In case you didn't know, we barely won the game thanks to an AMAZING play on fourth and eighteen.


Thanksgiving was full of family, food and fun. We went to Salmon and visited Grandma Bills at the ranch. We have the same tradition as the Griswold family and hiked in the mountains and cut down a Christmas tree. We did remember to bring a saw!


On to December: We went to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert with Mom and Dad and Kent and Mavis. We really enjoyed the King's Singers and cheering on our brother-in-law Barry in the orchestra. After that, we survived finals and enjoyed going home for the break.


January. New Year's resolution: take more pictures and update our blog more often. Yeah - doing great so far! We went to the Hillams and celebrated our nephew Neal's 12th birthday. We love those kids.



February. We celebrated Jennifer's 23rd birthday and her family came down and partied with us. This semester has been a difficult and fun one. Jennifer is enjoying her floral design class and made this Japanese design in her lab. Clay is taking a ski instructor class and got to ski every Friday at a very low price. Here is a smashing video of his progress.

Clay is still working at BioMedics Plasma Center as a phlebotomist. He enjoys getting to know people as he's sticking them with a 15 gauge needle. Jennifer is still working at the library working with the online database and they are still paying her. She is excited to graduate in August.

This has been the fourth semi-annual update of the Ogden family blog. Comments and pictures have been provided by the members of the family. We hope you look forward to the next post whenever that may be. Don't give up on us. We love you guys!

Halloween

Okay, so it's December and we are finally posting stuff from Halloween, lay off. But after you see the pics you'll see that it was truly worth the wait.

These are our pumpkins in the dark and in the light. Jenn's happy one turned out better, but Clay sure tried with his version of Jim Halpert.(You might have to look real closely)

Later, we went to Clay's work party. Conveniently, the plasma center where he works used to be a three-story club that was shut down because somebody got stabbed there. I can't think of a better place to have a Halloween party.As you can see, we were the life of the party. Jenn was a Christmas tree and Clay, well, we don't know what he was, but check out that sweet suit. Lucky. And the mullet isn't too bad either, but Jenn's hair isn't a wig, that's impressive.Of course Kevin and Aaron, our best friends, didn't look too shabby either. Nice legs Aaron.

DJ Chu, was nice enough to let us work the turntables. We don't want to brag but Jenn was pretty good. She had the place hoppin' in no time.

Happy Halloween!

Summer Vacation

Summer is over for us now and we are back in school, but we did manage to find some time to play before hitting the books. We had plans to go to Yellow Pine for a week, but the fires didn't allow it. Luckily we were able to find other fun stuff to fill our week instead.

We just happened to decide to start out our vacation at Lagoon on 2 for 1 day. Ahh, the blessings of tithing. We had a great time, and were able to hit the water park and all the rides we wanted before the rain ran us out. Jenn even got a nice nap on one of the benches after lunch!

We ended up in Idaho Falls and were able to spend a few days with Jenn's family. We went biking with her parents at Herriman State Park. It was a sweet ride! Almost as sweet as Jenn's new Specialized Rockhopper (handlebars shown at the left of the picture). Clay managed to work his way up "Heart Attack Hill" while Jenn tackled "Coronary Bypass."

The only thing that got us to the top of the hill was knowing that there was a Big Judd waiting for us on the other side.

On Saturday, we went four-wheeling on the Mackay Mines trail. Even Jenn's brother, Michael, was able to come with us and drive a 4-wheeler for the first time. He probably had the most fun of all and was sure to mention that he would be available to go the next time anyone went. We had fun with all the family. Thanks moms and dads for the fun filled, much needed summer vacation!

Introduction

So we didn't really want to share our lives with anyone, even those we love. But when the whole fam went and got blogs, we had to try and keep up. (Plus they wouldn't get off our case until we did). So here it is, The Clay and Jenn Ogden Family Blog.