Danny and Kristi's Wedding

Yesterday, Kristi and Danny got married!! The temple ceremony was amazing and they had a fantastic reception at the Springville Museum of Art. Kristi was a beautiful bride and spent the day giggling like crazy.

The bridesmaid dresses were gorgeous. Kristi picked a great pattern and beautiful fabric. At the temple a couple girls drove past me and then backed up to talk to me. They said I was wearing a really cute dress and wanted to know where I had gotten it (which is an amazing compliment to Danny's mom, the seamstress). The skirts were full and perfect for twirling. We had the photographer take overhead shots of the five of us twirling, which I hope turned out really well.

I didn't take a lot of pictures on my camera, but here are a few.

Kristi and I. Kristi looks a little distracted. She's probably looking at Danny.


Kristi and Danny dancing.


My handsome husband and me at the reception.

New Lives Exhibition

This semester I co-curated an exhibition at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures. The exhibition is called New Lives: Building Community at Fourmile Ruin. It talks about people living at a Pueblo site called Fourmile Ruin (in Eastern Arizona). The exhibit opened last week, and I think it's amazing! Here's some pictures from the opening:


This is a picture of the exhibition team (Paul, me, Rachel, Rebekah). We're standing in front of the wall of pots that almost got the better of us during the installation.




These pictures are of Jake and Holly hunting for animals with one of our interactives.


Some of my family came to the opening. Thanks for coming everyone!






If you get the chance, go check out the exhibit! It'll be up until April 2011.

Our Graduation Announcement Text

Brigham Young University
announces the graduation of

David Jacob Kartchner
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
with an Editing minor
Cum Laude

and

Heidi Virginia Kartchner
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Magna Cum Laude

Friday, April 24, 2009
Marriott Center

Jake's Convocation: 8:00am
Heidi's Convocation: 11:00am

Law School Decision

We made a decision on where to go to law school!

This fall, Jake will be attending George Washington Law in Washington, D.C.

We'll be vacationing out there in May and then will move there sometime in August!

Rex Lee Run

A couple of days before the race, I decided to do the Rex Lee Run with Holly. It was my first 5k, and I really enjoyed it. Since I decided to participate basically last minute, I didn't have a chance to do any training or anything for it. I went pretty slowly, but Holly was nice enough to keep pace with me. My two goals for the run were: 1. Finish 2. Not be last.
Both goals were definitely met.

This is Holly and me before the race. We both look way too happy for how cold we were.



All of the proceeds from the Rex Lee Run go straight to BYU's cancer research. You can make an extra donation in honor of someone fighting cancer and then run wearing their name. Our cousin Jenny was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer, so Holly and I ran in her name.


Good luck, Jenny. We're rooting for you!

Linguistics Senior Thesis Paper

Jake is currently working on collecting data for his Linguistics senior thesis paper. Please help him out by taking this survey. It only takes about 10 minutes.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OkgdDxHUsWI7_2b9jTXZJ_2f8w_3d_3d

Thanks so much!

Reasons to Celebrate

We've had quite a few reasons to celebrate this month.

For one, it was my birthday! Jake made it a really special day. He took me out to dinner (twice actually...not on the same day though), surprised me with cinnamon rolls at work, and bought me Pride and Prejudice (the really long version). A lot of other people helped make it a special day too.

I applied to present my thesis research at a few different professional museum conferences and we had more reasons to celebrate when I heard back from them . I was accepted by the American Association of Museums and the Visitor Studies Association! Because of the cost of travel I had to pick just one, so I'll be presenting at the AAM conference in Philadelphia this May.

Jake also started hearing back from law schools, which gave us the best reason to celebrate. We've heard back from six (of the ten) law schools Jake applied to. He's been accepted to all six!
So now we just have to decide which one to pick.

Overall, we have lots of reasons to celebrate and many more reasons to be grateful.