Wandering Browns

So friends, this week has been really hard. I think I saw Austin (from Monday-Friday) for 6-7 hours that were not sleeping hours. However, these 6-7 hours were homework hours for both of us. I thought I had anticipated the bad week when I heard we had 7 am classes for 3 days in a row, but it did not stop there. Monday, I have class at 8:00, but it is at the medical school, so I take TRAX on that day and must be in Sandy, UT by 7:00 to take the train. That means waking up before 6 and leaving by 6:20 to get there on time. Monday afternoon, I had to do laundry and went on a short run in the bitter cold. Tuesday, I had class from 7am-4pm with nothing more than a 15 minute break at any one point. This meant waking up at 5:30 to leave by 6 to get there by 7. I hate commuting. There were 3 classes, but they were scheduled in close succession. Immediately after school, I had work at 4:30. 17 kids (there are normally no more than 10) showed up to swim practice and I was the only coach. 5 new...

Austin and I went on a relatively cheap, and AWESOME date last weekend. We went to Terra Mia , an authentic Italian pizzeria for dinner. This place makes fresh pizzas with very thin crusts in an oven imported from Napoli! Austin loves speak Italian with the Neopolitan* employees and eat pizza that reminds him of Italy. Also, they have coupons on restaurant.com that allow us to buy $25 worth of food for $15. That means a pizza each (leftovers!) and gelato all for $15! On top of that, we are trying to earn airline miles so that we can go to Italy when we graduate next April/May. Terra Mia is a restaurant that helps us earn miles for every dollar we spend. Basically it's great food and an awesome deal. We love Terra Mia. *Neopolitan= people from Napoli! I learn something new every day! Christ and the Young Child Christ in Gethsemane Next, we went to the BYU Museum of Art's current exhibit, "Carl Bloch: The Master's Hand" . This exhibit requires tickets but t...

Answer: find ridiculous deals online on a cabin 5 minutes from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. Since we were going to Denver, CO for Christmas this year, we decided to fly out right after school let out, and go on a 2-day getaway to Estes Park, CO in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. In Denver, it was 50 degrees every day the week of Christmas! Up in the mountains, it was a little colder, but when we arrived, there was no snow. Our cabin was off of a highway leading into the Park, and we could look out our window and the Big Thompson River, complete with ice chunks, was RIGHT there. The wonderful woman who made our wedding cake offered to make a cake to eat for our first anniversary. She reproduced our wedding cake in miniature, and it was just as delicious as it was last year. If you ever need to order a cake for anything, ask for buttercream frosting with coarse sugar crystals pressed into it. It makes it look like snow and makes the frosting crunch in your mouth. See: ...

I am the opposite of creative with words, and have no idea what to name our blog. So, I came up with the lamest name ever: Elise and Austin Brown. Please comment and give better ideas. Thanks!

I have managed a blog to record my OUTRAGEOUS dreams for some time now. I thought with many close friends deserting me in Utah while they go on other adventures, that I should start a blog that actually records significant (and not so significant) happenings in the life of our family. As Austin is way too busy with school and ESPN.com to "journal" on this blog, all 2 of you readers out there will have to deal with me(elise) and my sub-par writing skills. Here is an update on our lives: We were married about a year ago in Denver, CO. Austin is studying Chemical Engineering with a minor in Italian, and will be done in April of 2012(unless he decides to get a masters). I am in my 2nd year of physical therapy school at the University of Utah, and will be finished with all of my classes in December of THIS YEAR, but will graduate with a doctorate in PT in May of 2012. We are living in the wonderful city of Orem, UT, and can't wait to graduate and move on with our lives (else...