And it continues... :)

So, here we are. Two weeks into Fall Semester. Can you believe it? Sometimes I can't believe how fast the summer goes by. But, I am very glad its here. Summer was getting a little old for me. Ha. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but I can only do so much sitting around without some sort of responsibility until I get fidgety and anxious. I have this sick need to be busy. So I'm glad to be back into school and work!

This semester is definitely different than any other semester either Scott or I have done before! For Scott, he has started Pharmacy School. It has been insanely busy for him. Kind of stressful. Lots of studying, lots of homework, lots of classes. But, I guess that's expected for Pharmacy School. :) I have been helping him study lists and lists of drugs that he has to memorize with all their dosages and interactions and side effects. Its been interesting. ha. Some of those drugs have names I don't even know how to begin to pronounce! Its good, though. He is doing well. :)

Last Friday was his birthday, and his White Coat Ceremony.

In Pharmacy School and Medical School, they give you your white coat when you start, rather than when you graduate. Its kind of a cool "welcome into the profession" thing. And they have a big ceremony for all the family to come to. Like proud wives for instance...

It was exciting! :) And the start of a 4-year adventure!

School for me is exciting, too. I am down to the wire. I only have 1 year til I graduate, and I only have my interesting classes that pertain to my major left, so I really enjoy going to class. It doesn't feel pointless. :) I really only have 2 semesters worth of classes left, but one of them is only offered in the fall and I couldn't take it this semester. So, my expected graduation date is December 2012!

Along with starting school, I switched from working full-time to working part-time. It has been an amazingly nice change! haha. I have a good job and all, but I really would like to get into the Speech Path stuff instead as soon as I can. So, really, everything is awesome on my end.

We also have moved into our new apartment! We LOOOOOVE it. haha. Its much better than our other one. We are still in student housing, but we are in the Medical Plaza. Its like right across the street form the Pharmacy School and Hospital, which is nice for Scott. He only has like a 5 minute walk (if that) to school and work. And we are on the 11th floor. Which is a nice change with a beautiful view! We also have 2 bedrooms instead of one. The extra room is definitely welcome!

Anyway- Those are all the updates for now. We are doing well, and we are so happy. And IIIIII am excited for fall! Summer really isn't my favorite season at all. ha. But fall is! Bring on the cooler weather, beautiful leaves, sweaters, and soup! :)

Summertime

So, it is FINALLY summertime! :) Wahoo. I love, love, love the fact that it stays light outside until 9:00 or 10:00, and I love the sunshine (when it decides to make an appearance...). And I love having time off work. ha. Who doesn't?

It has been a fun couple of months. For the first time in the 2 1/2 years that we have been married, neither of us are taking summer classes. And its sooooo weird. ha. We kind of don't know what to do with ourselves now that we don't have homework that has to be done all the time. We have been staying somewhat busy, though.

Scott accepted a position to work as in intern at the University Hospital (which is awesome) and is working full-time this summer. I sound like a dorky wife, but I really can't even express how proud I am of him all the time. Seriously. I'll just brag about him for a minute. :) There were only 5 positions open this year for all of the new pharmacy students to the U and the other pharmacy school in the valley, and there were 3 open at Primary Children. He applied to both, interviewed at both, and got an offer from both. He decided to take the one at the U, because he thought it would offer a more diverse experience. And so far, he is liking it a lot. :) He can't wait to get into his 2nd year of pharmacy school so that his responsibilities as an intern have more to do with the actual patients instead of just filling the prescriptions. The internship will last through all 4 years of pharmacy school, and will be very beneficial to not only his education but to his job outlook since he wants to work in a hospital.

I have just finished work for the summer, and am also keeping somewhat busy. I am running the Ragnar Wasatch Back Relay, and the training that I have been doing for that has been keeping me something to do. I am kind of trying to get a job for the summer, but its kind of hard since I would only need a job for 2 1/2 months, and I would have to miss a few weekends. I am going out to Nebraska next week to do some training, but other than that, I don't have anything lined up as far as work goes. Hopefully I can find something flexible enough?

Meanwhile, I have been keeping busy by actually cleaning our apartment (ha. It needed it), and cooking new things, which I love doing. And running, and just getting small things done that we've been meaning to do for a while.

Also, we finally got a 2-bedroom in the Medical Towers, which is awesome. We have been given July 14-16 to transfer apartments. We are very excited. This will be right across from the hospital and pharmacy school, so it will be WAY more convenient for Scott, and it will be closer to all of my classes, too. And I really do like change. And a change of apartment will be nice. And hopefully we can just stay there for the next 4 or 5 years while we get through school. :) So if anyone feels like helping moving us... just let me know. :P ha.

I will try to write sooner next time. Maybe in a month, instead of two months, you'll see another blog. And maybe it will have pictures? Only if I stop being a slacker.

Decisions...

Decisions have been made! :) Which is very exciting. ha. I really should post more often, but.... here we are.

We'll start with Scott's news. He interviewed and got accepted to all four schools he applied to: Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and here at the U. Which is pretty exciting in and of itself. All of them are good schools. Baltimore is actually #8 in the nation, so that pretty exciting. (Can you tell I'm a proud wife? ha. ) As we considered each program, and what it would be like to live in each place, we were 90% sure we were headed to Baltimore. I was getting a job lined up, we were looking at housing, and everything. But, things changed, and we decided staying here is what we should do. :) So, Scott has declined Baltimore, Pitt, and Buffalo, and has accepted his seat here at the U. So, bonus, we won't have to spend lots and lots of money moving across the country! haha. And we really are VERY happy and excited about staying here and starting this whole new chapter of our lives.

And my news... :) One huge plus about staying here is that I have decided to stop working full-time this next year and finish school. I have been working full time and schooling part time, since I have quite a good job, but its time to drop it and finish. And I'm very excited about it! As much as I love my job, its not what I want to do for the rest of my life. ha. So, I have about 59 or so credits left, but they are all major classes since I've finished all of my Gen Eds. So, they will all be interesting and exciting. I will finish my degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences, which is the degree you usually get to go into Communication Disorders graduate program.

Even though we will be staying here, we will probably be looking to change apartments. We'll stay near the University, but want to move into a 2 bedroom. Having a room we could stick a desk and stuff in would sure be useful, as it would actually mean we had a study space. ha. Also, just the extra room would be nice. We are currently looking into the Medical Towers, since it would be suuuppper convenient for Scott to be right across the street from all his classes and the lab that he works in. And it would be closer to my classes, too!

In other news... I have become something of a running junkie. ha. I actually haven't been able to run for the last 3 weeks (apparently I'm supposed to rest my leg if I injure it.. pshaa.. :p), but I'm starting up again next week. I have recently made it my long-term goal to run a Marathon next year. It just one of those things I want to do. I just need to conquer it, you know?.... ha. Maybe not. One of my brothers tells me that I need to see a psychologist. haha. But I really do love it. And its just nice to feel healthy and active all the time, you know? Who would have guessed that I would have ever liked running... not me. But its just a little more convenient that swimming. :)

I think that's pretty much the extent of the new development in our lives... We are pretty excited about it all. Starting Pharmacy School, actually getting to finish school, switching apartments. Exciting stuff. I'd say that I'll write again soon to keep you posted, but we all know that's not going to happen. So I'll probably write again in a few months.

p.s.... isn't this spring weather super fantastic? I think so. :)

p.s.s. sorry for the lack of pictures. I'd post some nice recent pictures of us, but we suck at remembering to take pictures... ever. ha. someday I'll post a something new and exciting.

January Madness

Well, it looks like my new blog writing is not any better than my old blog writing. haha. I'm lucky to get a post in every couple of months. :)

First of all, December was great. We had a great Christmas and celebrated our two-year anniversary. :) For our anniversary we went to a little Bed and Breakfast in Logan, and it was really fun. It had an awesome bathroom, which I am weirdly obsessed with. Picture below.



And it also came with complimentary breakfast in bed, which I also love. Its really pretty crazy that its already been two years! Love it. :) And it was very nice to get away for a day, even if it was only an hour and a half away.

Besides celebrating two years, this has been a pretty exciting time for us! Scott finished putting his applications to pharmacy school at the very beginning of December. He applied to 4 different schools. After applying, you wait to hear back to see if you get an interview, and as a general rule, they accept about 50% of the candidates that they interview. So far, he has 3 of the 4 interviews, and will be flying to various locations in the next few weeks to do them all. Very exciting!

He will be interviewing at Buffalo, Baltimore, and Pittsburg. I will be going with him to Buffalo in a couple of weeks to see what its like there. The last school we are still waiting to hear back from is the U, but they are taking forever. ha. We have high hopes for an interview there as well, though.

Its kind of crazy to be doing all of this! haha. I mean, we've been married two years, and the whole time the plan has been for him to go to pharmacy school (which is great! (: ), but I just can't believe its already here! haha. I love it. Its also kind of crazy to think that we may be moving across the country. I love it here, but being somewhere else would be fun, too. So we'll just have to see what happens!

Anyway, that is the biggest development in our lives. We are still doing very well, just working and going to school, and getting ready for the next phase of our life. And we are pretty much loving it. :)

Hopefully I'll write another post before another 2 months slides by to keep everyone updated.

Post-Thanksgiving

Well, all of the events that I blogged about last week turned out to be pretty fun. :) I would post a nice picture, but I am really horrible at actually taking pictures, and don't have one that matches. So, oh well.

All in all, Black Friday Shopping was kind of fun. :) I don't know that I would wake up at 2:30 ever again to go, but waking up at like 6:00 or 7:00 is definitely an option and would be fun. We didn't get the main thing we were going to get. Which is a bummer, because it was a gift (that had a HUGE discount) for somebody else that we were really excited about. But, we still found a way to make it happen. So that is good.

We ended up going to Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and Gamestop. haha. We left at about 2:30 am, and got back around 8:30 am. We waited from 2:50-4:00 to get into Target, then made our way over to Walmart which was across the street. Surprisingly, Walmart really wasn't too bad. Target was a nightmare. And by the time we got there, Best Buy wasn't too bad, either. We decided to get a Wii for ourselves for Christmas since we found a great deal on one. And we're pretty excited. :) Now we just need to figure out what small things we are getting for each other. Which we are both actually struggling with. haha. We both already have everything we want (that is plausible). We are super excited, though. :)

Thanksgiving was great, too. We spent it with my family this year. We take turns every other year going to each family. It was a great meal. Really, though, my favorite part is just being able to spend the time with family! I am soooo lucky and blessed to have such a great family. Both of them! :) Scott's family is great too, and I love spending time with them. Most of all, though, I am thankful for my wonderful and loving husband. He's pretty amazing. Always there to love and support me, and comfort me when I feel so stressed or overwhelmed that I feel ready to explode. Life is so great with him, and I don't even know where I would be without him. Cheesy and cliche, but so true.

I am also thankful for our jobs and the opportunity we have to be here, getting an education. We have a great apartment (despite the fact that is is made purely of cinderblock). And we are truly and genuinely happy. Which is all that really matters in the end, right? I think so.

Also, a bit of exciting news... Scott has turned in his application for Pharmacy School. So we should be finding out in the next couple of months if he gets in (and if he does, where we will be going). We applied here, Boston, Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburg and Maryland. So now we just have to wait... and wait. But it will probably go by very fast, seeing as life never seems to slow down.

Anyway, I should probably get going. Our apartment could use a good cleaning after such a busy week. :)

Snow!

Well, I looked out the window this morning to see a ton of snow! And let me just tell you, I think this is very exciting news. Ha. :) I was getting a little depressed. It is the end of November, and we still had not had a real storm. It just doesn't feel like its time for the Holidays if there isn't any snow. So- even though I have to drive the freeway to work every day in the snow and its kind of a pain when you have to clear nearly a foot of snow off your car in the morning (like this morning), I am very happy about it all.

This time of year is exciting in general, but its EXTRA exciting for us because our anniversary is coming up pretty quick! On December 26, we will have been married for 2 years. How crazy is that? Two years definitely went by fast. And as crazy as everybody thought we were for getting married the day after Christmas, I absolutely love it. We both always have work off and have lots of free time to spend with each other. So its works out perfectly.

I have this whole week off of work. Which is pretty crazy. haha. And kind of nice. Although, I will spend a lot of the time doing homework and final projects for my Spanish class. Thursday, though, the fun begins. ha. We will be going up for Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house, and then that night/early Friday morning, we are going to brave the crowds to do some Black Friday shopping. This may be a little crazy. Ha. But hey, you've gotta try it sometime, right?

I don't know much about Black Friday shopping. So I don't know if we need to go over at like midnight and get in line, or if we will be okay going at like 3 am. Ha. We'll see. Either way, we are going to be zombies the whole rest of the day Friday as we celebrate Scott's cousin's wedding and festivities all day. Sure will be glad when we finally get to crash Friday night. :) It will all be fun though, I think. I'm excited.

Then, on Saturday, we get to go dip homemade chocolates with Scott's family. I love doing this. I really have been getting more into cooking and baking. Mostly baking. Probably because I think desserts are way more enjoyable to eat. haha. So dipping chocolates is definitely a highlight of the holiday season for me.

And after that, the Christmas season can commence! haha. Which I am also excited for. Shopping for gifts for other people is always kind of fun.

So, this was probably kind of a pointless blog. Mostly I just wanted to tell everyone how excited I am for this time of year. :) Hopefully I'll get another blog in (a less pointless one) before Christmas!

The First Post...

Well, I decided I would jump on the blog boat again, and create a blog for our little two-person family. :) But I have to begin with this disclaimer: Our life is not extremely exciting at the moment. haha. So, we'll see how many people will actually want to read this.

The picture above is the most recent picture of us. :) Last weekend we took two of Scott's friends from Japan around Salt Lake while they were here visiting for two weeks. It was pretty fun. They wanted to see the Great Salt Lake, so thats where that picture was taken. :)

So I guess I'll have this first blog be about what going on in our lives right at this very moment.

Right now both Scott and I are students up at the U, and its been pretty good. Scott is a full-time student and when he's not in class, he's usually working up at his research lab. So that keeps him pretty busy these days. Its definitely been great, though. His job has been a real blessing, since its brought about a lot of great things that he can put on his Pharmacy school application. We are very lucky.

He will be applying to the U of U pharmacy school in December, and we will find out in the Spring of 2011 whether or not he gets in. If he does, he would start in the Fall of 2011. Which would be super awesome! That's what we are shooting for at this point. :)

I am currently mostly just working. I work about 40-45 hours a week, so I only have time to take one class this semester. And that class is Spanish 1010. haha. I really like it. Language classes keep you pretty busy, though! whew. I really wanted to keep taking Japanese, since I took Japanese all through high school, but decided that not only was Spanish way more useful here, but the times Spanish was offered was much more flexible for my work schedule. So there I am. Other than that, I am about half way through with my major. haha. But it will take a while, as I am working full time. For those who don't know, I switched my major to Linguistics with a TESOL esndorsement (Teaching English as a Second Language). And I am loving it. :) Love, love, love learning about language.

So everything that I just wrote about is what takes up the majority of our time. Plus, homework for both of us means we basically only have free time on the weekends. Sometimes. :) We are happy though. Being busy is better than sitting at home being bored.

And we are doing very well. :) We are nearing our 2 year anniversary! Crazy! I can't believe we've almost been married 2 years. Time has seriously flown by. And, we only have one baby. And it is in the form of a car. haha. No real babies for a while, I think. We're pretty content for now. :) But we do love our new car.

Well, I don't know how interesting that was for a first blog. But... there it is. :) I'll try to write at least somewhat regularly to keep people posted on what going on in our lives. :)