Update:

Dave:
Dave has just finished his junior year at Utah State University studying Mechanical Engineering. He was super busy taking 15 credit hours. One of his classes was a design class where groups were formed and they had to choose a project to design and next semester build it. His groups original choice was to design and build a man powered airplane, which had to be approved by several professors because of the difficulty. When Dave and I were dating, he had mentioned many academic dreams/goals but two of which were to attend USU and to build a man powered airplane. So I have been excited to participate and see his dreams come true! At the beginning of the semester I found it fun to see his excitement increase. As the team continued their research, they reached a conclusion that building an airplane was out of the range for them currently. With great heartache, they decided to focus on just the fusil lodge of the airplane and things look to be great. They will start building it come September 2010.
This summer Dave has had the great opportunity to continue his employment at Thermo Fisher in Logan. He loves is there. The people are great to work with and fun the hangout with after work (playing volleyball of course). He is not working as an engineer, but has managed a way to work with several engineers. He has learned so much this summer. He has just recently been saying that he would enjoy working there if a position opens up as an engineer.
Dave is also studying to take the GRE at the end of August. We will be filling out graduate forms shortly for MIT, USU, and others. We will also be filing out job applications come November-January. Wherever the wind takes us we will go. I am so very grateful for Dave and all of his hard work. He is an amazing husband and I love him.

Chelsea:
I have completed my second year of teaching! I am amazed at what a difference one year of teaching can have. My first year was awful. I was positive that I was never going to teach again in my life. Somehow I came back this year and it was stressful at times but overall it was a really good year. I had great support from my co-workers and I was more familiar with the expectations, curriculum and there was not big changes during the school year, such as losing a math teacher and me having to pick up the slack (STRESS). Last year I taught Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, Concurrent Enrollment Math 1050/1060, and AP Calculus. In Geometry 90% of my students passed the end of level test, Algebra 2 is still unknown, the large majority in Precalculus were enrolled is CE and did excellent, and AP results should be here any day now. It was really a good year but still a lot of late, late nights. Next year I hope that it will be even better and once I take my PLT exam in September, will be a level 2 “experienced” teacher.