Two and a Half Years

It's crazy to think that as of yesterday we've been married for 2 1/2 years. It's been amazing! On our first Valentine's Day we realized that our half-year anniversary was the day after, so we figured we'd celebrate our "Halfiversary" instead -- anything we would buy would be a whole lot cheaper. Anyway, this year we decided to take a day off work, and head to the Temple for an endowment session. We did some other fun things too -- like eating out at Olive Garden (it was Elissa's first time there). I think that was really the highlight of the week. Here's a bit about the rest of the week though:

This last weekend I hosted my first candidate for NI (National Instruments). For those of you who aren't familiar, they fly their candidates down for a weekend and have 3 interviews on Friday (so the candidate can show they're worth hiring) and the host shows them around town and answers questions (so NI can show they're worth moving to). Hosting definitely has some perks -- like free dinner, but it is a drain on free time and can be stressful. Sometimes candidates are married and I would get to bring Elissa with me to dinner. Anyway, it was pretty fun. The guy who came down to interview was a BYU student who came from Beijing and is majoring in computer science. Lucky for me he was a nerd, so we had things to talk about.

I don't really know what else to talk about this week, but know that we're alive and happy down here in Texas.