Vacations

Alright shame on me, I need to play catch up. I am bad about this blogging stuff. In June one of my bestest friends and old roommates left on a mission so us besties and roomies got together for a fun filled weekend in Sunny St George Utah. 

 This cutie is Calee's baby boy who was about 4 months at the time, he loved me and was so fun to play with and cuddle with all weekend.

 This picture took 3 attempts before we could get a good one

 We went and saw Grease at an outside theater which was WAY TOO awesome! It was a great performance.

It was such a blast and Kelsey is now gone and is serving in Texas. GO Kelsey!!

For the fourth of July my Honey Bun and I gathered lots of camping gear together and drove to Fort Stevens Oregon for a camping trip with all of Jared's family ( minus one who is serving in Iraq). There are 17 nieces and nephews and 6 siblings with 6 in-laws. It was so much fun! I will let the pictures do the talking.

 We had so much stuff. We had planned to take our gas efficient smaller car but after looking at all the stuff we had we had to take the bigger car.

 Beautiful Beach and Ocean

 We got there a day early before our campsite opened up so we set up at our brothers site and just picked the tent up and moved it  two sites down once ours opened.

Below- our big tin foil dinner which was delicious

This is how Jared and I slept the whole week- eye covers and ear plugs- had a great nights rest the whole week! Loved it!

 Jared was trying to blind the camera with his white legs

 We put on a scavenger Hunt for the Nieces and Nephews using a geo-caching device giving them coordinates to clues to finding the hidden treasure below

 Took a tour at the Tillamook Cheese Factory- I love their cheese and they had lots of samples to eat. YAY!

Here are some random and fun pictures of odd happenings here in California

 Ponderosa's High School Spring Concert- all the wonderful and good choir alumni attended

 Trying to fit the new fridge into the door- it was barely too big maybe 1/16 of an inch- my momma on the side peaking in.

 Jared working hard at his desk/cubicle

 Floor hockey night at the church

Lil Bit loved the smell of the Febreeze we sprayed on the sleeping bag to air it out. now we will have to spray it again to get the cat smell out. 

Dental School

Hello Friends!
    Well it has begun again, applications for Dental School. June 1 they opened and June 1 our application went in done! We feel good this time around and have faith that we will be able to get into the 2012 school season.We applied to 20 schools (all of which take a high number of out of state residents) I was so excited to have the application process done and finished and to have my husband back at his stress free self with nothing to worry about. I did however forget how much it costs to apply to dental school, this time around we applied to twice as many and therefore the cost was twice as much. I think I should take up a second job to pay for it GEEZE do they realize that we are young married and have no money already?  And not to mention that cost is only the application not the tuition or equipment you use once you get in or the flights and hotels you book to do an interview. This Dental School stuff is expensive business, but it is worth it in the end when Jared will get to do what he loves and enjoys the most. Here is the list of schools we applied to hopefully we will be able to attend 1- at this point we could care less where we go as long as we are going somewhere and doing something.
 The school, the state it is in, I do not know what the dates are there for.

Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine	AZ	01/01/2012	06/02/2011
Loma Linda University (LLU)	CA	12/01/2011	06/02/2011
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	CA	10/15/2011	06/02/2011
University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry (UOP)	CA	12/01/2011	06/02/2011
Western University of Health Sciences (WESTU)	CA	12/01/2011	06/02/2011
University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine (COL)	CO	01/01/2012	06/02/2011
Indiana University (IND)	IN	12/01/2011	06/02/2011
University of Louisville (UL)	KY	01/01/2012	06/02/2011
Tufts University (TUF)	MA	02/01/2012	06/02/2011
University of Maryland (MYD)	MD	01/01/2012	06/02/2011
University of Detroit Mercy (UDM)	MI	02/01/2012	06/02/2011
New York University (NYU)	NY	02/01/2012	06/02/2011
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CUL)	NY	01/15/2012	06/02/2011
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine (CWR)	OH	01/01/2012	06/02/2011
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)	OR	11/01/2011	06/02/2011
The Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University (TEMP)	PA	01/15/2012	06/02/2011
University of Southern Nevada, Utah Campus (USN)	UT	12/31/2011	06/02/2011
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)	VA	11/01/2011	06/02/2011
University of Washington (WASH)	WA	11/01/2011	06/02/2011
Marquette University (MQT)	WI

Nicaragua!

Hello Friends... well we are almost done with our stressful period we will be applying to dental school on June 1st in only a few short weeks!! Yeah for us! My wonderful husband has been gone all week to Nicaragua on his Dental Humanitarian trip that he organized. He had so much fun pulling teeth, doing injections, cleaning and teaching the children how to keep good oral hygiene. Here are a few pictures

 Arriving in Nicaragua- there were two dentists, 1 dental student who is almost finished and several pre-dental students, a few from BYU-Idaho!

 Here he is helping out- he said so many of these children's teeth were just so badly decayed that when they tried to remove them they would just crumple. yicks, makes you want to go floss and brush really good.

 Doing an injection/extraction i can't really tell

 Jared loved the children, and he had a great time but is excited to get back to prepare his application again.

My younger brother Kevin married the most wonderful girl in the world a few weeks ago- Gracie. We were privileged to go down to the San Diego Temple to be a part of their sealing. Here are a few pictures...
never mind it wont let me take some pictures from facebook so i have to wait to post those till Jared gets home. But we had a great time.
We are now looking forward to our camping trip coming up in July for a whole week with Jareds Family! Any cool camping ideas we should know about. This will be my first time planning and doing my own camping trip. YAY! I love it.

BUSY

Hello yes we are still alive- after moving to California it has been go go go.
I got a great full time job that has kept me busy and I love it. It is such a relief having a job that I like as compared to the last one I had ( yuck). Jared has been studying away to take his DAT in a month, he is also heading up and organizing a Dental Humanitarian trip to Nicaragua. He is extremely excited about it. He is keeping busy with his night class of physics his part time job studying for the DAT and organizing a trip- I am glad we do not have any childrenat this time because I can't imagine putting any more distractions or stress on my poor hubby.
He is the new Young Mens secretary which he is so excited about. Perfect calling for him. I am the primary pianist- so FUN! The days go by fast and the weeks are flying by. My brother will be getting married in a month and we are looking forward to that. I do not like a lot of words on my blog so here are some pictures...

On the beach in the Caribbean

 Waiting for the Blue Man Group to start- it was great!

 When we went zip lining they had this really cute monkey there and we got to play with him

 Here is Kevin ( my brother) fiance Gracie, Isn't she so cute!!!

 The weekend after we got back from the cruise we went Whale Watching with my Aunt Julie! It was freezing cold and super rocky but we got to see some whales up super close and it was so awesome

 We celebrated Jareds big 25!!!! His birthday presents were themed on Mountain biking. He loved it!

 This is the fmaily pet Lil Bit he really liked all of Jareds brithday wrapping haha

 Jared returning from a muddy bike ride with my dad and brother he loves his mountain bike!

This is the usual scene in the morning the cat comes to our door meows and waits till we open the door then goes to the window and looks outside while we get ready for the day... haha weridie cat.
We booked an entire week of camping up in Fort Stevens in Oregon for the 4th of July I am so looking forward to it and wish it was tomorrow!
We miss our friends from Rexburg and all the fun CHEAP stuff there is to do there everything is so super expensive here Yikes!
Until next time our friends...

Blah Blah Blah

WOW!!! What a slacker I am, when was the last time I posted? I can't even remember good thing it keeps track for me on here. Here is my excuse- too much is going on and everything is so busy. since my last update my brother got engaged, Jared graduated from BYU-Idaho, we left Rexburg Idaho forever, we went on a Christmas cruise to the Caribbean, we moved in with my parents in California, Jared and I both got jobs, Jared has a night Physics class, Jared is planning a Dental Humanitarian Trip to Nicaragua in May and preparing to apply to dental school in June. WOW! Like I said too much change in such a short time I have yet to get into a routine that fits me best let alone remember I need to blog.
So until I get more time to post about all these wonderful things that are happening this short blog will just have to suffice for now. We are loving LoViNg LOVING the weather in California, who knew that you could wear shorts and a short sleeve t-shirt outside in the middle of January. I really enjoy my new job and enjoy having my nights and weekends free. Jared is enjoying preparing to take the DAT and organizing and heading this Dental Humanitarian trip.
More to come on a later day when I have my sanity back.... Until then here are some pictures to enjoy.

Our new family picture with those who have or who will be joining the family.

 Enjoying our evening dinner on the cruise

 Had the whole spa to ourselves, love it.

More to come later, thanks for hanging in there with us.