February '08

Well this February has been a fun filled month for us. To start it off we went to the cabin and when we arrived there was a lot of snow again on the deck and the roof. Our purpose in going there was to find out why the water wasn't working in the basement of the cabin. My dad began digging a hole to the ground to check if the water was accidentally turned off when we winterized. By the time he reached the ground there was about 7 feet of snow. That is a really good year for snow. The last couple haven't been very great but we certainly can use the water. Anyway, Kris dug out around the shed to the generator and then we tried to get some of the snow off the roof. Then we took care of the snow on the deck...there was at least 4.5 feet of snow again on there. Then my dad and Kris climbed on the roof to make a trench in the middle in hopes that the snow would slide off (my dad went up again a week later and he said that nothing had budged). It has been pretty chilly down there. After all that work, we just hopped on the snowmobiles and went back to the truck. Not too much "fun" stuff happened on that trip but it was a help to my dad to have someone there with him to help shovel and such. For Valentines Day Kris and I went to Hoopes Vision Center and I got lasik on my eyes. It was fantastic. I can see so well that sometimes I forget that I'm not wearing contacts. It is an expensive deal but it is worth it. Then for President's day weekend we decided Friday afternoon that we would drive down to Mesa/Gilbert Arizona to visit our friend Janae and her family. It was a very long drive down there but we had a really good time. The way home wasn't as bad, probably because we did that during the day and weren't so sleepy. We stopped at the Glen Canyon Dam to take some pictures then we ate dinner at Ruby's Inn at Bryce Canyon. We did receive some bad news when we got home though, Kris was not accepted into the University of Utah for medical school. Kind of a bummer but he is still on the waiting list at Wake Forest and we should hear back from Duke about his status sometime in the middle of March. So, perhaps North Carolina will be our new home in a few months...hopefully.

Winter bliss

Well, we have been trying to enjoy our winter so far. For Christmas we went up to Washington to be with Kris' family. It was pretty fun and relaxing. We got to spend time with some of Kris' old pals from days past and then of course hanging with the family was nice. For New Years we wanted to go to our cabin and enjoy the snow. My dad was sick and everyone else decided that if there were no snowmobiles that they didn't want to come along so we snowshoed in and invited Josh and Kristin Sheldon to hang with us. It was pretty darn cold that night but we managed just fine. We played a great game of Phase 10 which I won (actually I don't really think we finished and I probably wasn't in the lead when we were done). We even stayed up until midnight. Last weekend we went up there again and this time we had the snowmobiles so the whole family came. It was awesome. There was lots of new snow and the weather was great. Kris also had his second interview for med school up at the U and he said that it went well. He has another interview at Duke on the 31st. We did find out that he is on the waiting list at Wake Forest so I guess we could either be in North Carolina or here when fall rolls around. Well, I guess that is about all for our lives. We'll try to keep you posted on what the outcome is.

Briefly

Well, Wake Forest was neat. The interview process there was pretty low stress. I was impressed with the people I met and the students all seem pretty happy to be there. North Carolina seems like a nice area, Winston-Salem apparently is a family friendly kind of place. One of the physicians I interviewed with said there were more youth soccer games than you can shake a stick at. I also recently scheduled interviews at Duke and Utah, so we are pretty happy about that. At least the want to talk to me. But who knows what could happen.

Also, we had a nice thanksgiving with Jenny's fam, most of them were out of town. So it was quiet but nice. We head out this week to go to Washington to stay with my parents for Christmas. Everyone is coming home so it should be quite a crowd. I guess that is all for now.

6.5 months later

Well, it's about time that we updated our blog. Married life is great! We are both working full time right now and Kris is done filling out his medical school applications. Now it is just a waiting game. He does have an interview at Wake Forrest December 3rd so that is exciting for us. These past 6 months have been fun filled with vacations, hunting, and helping out my Dad with his garden and the other wonderful things he has for us to do down in Moroni. I tried archery hunting for the first time this year and it was pretty fun. I did forget all of the things that I had learned the first time an elk came by but I got better as the days went on. I still missed the ones that I shot at but I remembered that I needed to pick a pin and go for it. So, basically we were unsuccessful in our hunting excursions but we had fun nonetheless. Well, hopefull now that I'm learning how to do this we will be a little bit better at keeping up on this.

First Blog Ever

We've never been married before, but thought it might be fun. It is on April 28th. We will be living in Salt Lake for a year, then med school somewhere. I am interviewing for some jobs and Jenny is working for her dad in Salt Lake.