The Cook's: Defended & All :)

A little over two weeks ago-Seth successfully defended his thesis! He was very very nervous and very very cute :). He practiced several times before his defense, and lucky me got to listen through each of them.

One of his practicing moments.

Setting everything up for his defense.

Looking over his slides & asking me how they look.

In all the commotion of things, I didn't get a picture of him before or after his defense in his so cute tie & slacks. I didn't even get a picture of us. :( We were both pretty nervous that morning--and were rushing about. Him nervous to speak in front of everyone for forty minutes and get questions thrown at him, and me nervous for him. I attempted to make him a yummy breakfast of raspberry pancakes that neither of us could eat.

Although, Seth wasn't expecting many people to come to his defense, he had a pretty good turnout of about 12 people. As many of you know he did beyond well--better than either of us could have imagined. I was a very proud Wife of Graduate Student (WOGS-made up my own acronym). He spoke very well, was totally knowledgeable, answered questions without any difficulty, and just looked darn good throughout the whole process.

I could brag about him for days on end, but that would embarrass him and I don't want to do that. I will say this though: his adviser/professor for this project bragged on him during his introduction and afterwards, and I heard several of the professors that came to the defense how much work went into this Master's thesis and they haven't seen anything like this from a Master's student.

While hearing these statements from other academic folks-I totally sat in my seat with my legs crossed smiling and saying in my head--'That's my Man :)'!!

This is all totally true-but Seth doesn't like to hear such things about himself-so let's keep this hush hush :).

This is Seth the afternoon of his defense-look at him totally relaxed and enjoying being outside :).

Well I'll end this little gushy session of how great Seth is by just simply saying--He did it! He worked so hard for the past two years and has finally successfully defended his work and will soon publish two articles and submit his final thesis :).

Whoop Whoop!!!!

Moving along to other things....

The other day Seth & I went on a little hike. It was beautiful and we saw several snakes during our hike.

Logan Canyon view.

On our little hike, we saw 3 snakes-----Yikes!!

A view from our snack location.

Pretty.

Seth & I.

Last weekend, Seth and I went to Bear Lake with some friends of ours and their youngins'. We went for raspberry days, but it was pretty packed and looked very crafty-so we rode on by to settle in at a picnic area for lunch and then to a beachy area to hang out. We had a great time!