Update

I really am horrible on updating this thing, but really what are you going to do? Well the past couple of months have been pretty busy and crazy. In the beginning of July I had the opportunity to fly down to Florida and spend sometime with my brother Justin. We went to the Daytona nascar race, hung out at the beach, and I also got to see him in action at the Miami clinic. It was great to be able to spend sometime just him and me, I can't remember the last time that we got to do that. Love ya bro! Here are some pics from Florida.

Justin and I at the Miami clinic

Pics at the beach
While I was in Florida I was offered a full time job at Monarch dental in bountiful! I love it there! Its great. I love the staff and the Drs that I work with. They are very down to earth and really funny!
The end of july Chris and I went to Lake Powell with his family. We had a house boat and then some regular boats. We both were able to wake board and have a lot of fun. It was great to spend time with the family, but after a week I was familied out.

Chris wake boarding

beautiful views!

Chris and I chillaxin
My dad turned 50 this week and for his birthday he wanted to climb to the top of Mount Timpanogos. He only really invited Chris, but I wanted to go too. So yesterday at 5:30a.m we started our hike. For those of you who haven't climbed it before its 7.5 miles to the summit and then of course you have to climb back down making it a round trip of 15 miles. The climb up was exhausting, but after 6 hours chris and I finally made it to the top 11,700 feet up! It was pretty rewarding to get there. Then the way down sucked! We have so many blisters and aches in our bodies! Every step was the worst pain ever and it seemed longer on the way down than it was up. All in all we're glad we did it, but we both agreed to NEVER do it again!!!

Chris on our way up.

Chris and I at the top!!

Picture of the peak about 2/3 of the way into our hike.

May/ June 2009 update

So May was full of fun things. First off I got news that I had passed all of my boards!!! YEAH! I also received my license in the mail. I'm officially an RDH (registered dental hygienist). Now I just need a job....so keep your eyes open for any jobs.
Mark's birthday was in May (the father-in-law). He turned the big 50, so we went over to his house for dinner and a "party". This is a picture of him faking blowing out his candles.....he's like a 2 year old.

Parker also got his eagle scout award. I've never been to an eagle scout award thingy, so it was kinda cool. They had a guy from hogle zoo who is a bird person and he had a bald eagle there. I've never seen one so close before. They really are remarkable creatures. Congrats Parker we're proud of you!

Parker also graduated from Olympus High School.....I'll forgive him. He graduated on the 4th.

Justin and Cori (brother and sister-in-law) came into town last week. Justin is starting his 4th year of dental school and then is planning on doing a two year residency in pediatric dentistry. He was here doing an internship with the primary childrens hospital, which is a place he's applying. I hope that he gets in so he can come home for 2 years. It would be nice to have him back. I miss him :(

we went to Ruth's diner up emigration canyon. It was really good!

Also Jasmine has found a new favorite place to sleep. Plus it helps that Chris put a blanket and pillow up there for her. She loves to sleep on the cabinets. She jumps up on the counter, then the fridge and then up top. She's up there all the time. I'm sure it does wonders for the sanitary aspects of our kitchen, but she's just too cute up there.

February/ March

Well I know that its been a while since I've updated this thing, but I've been a little bit busy!!! Here are a few things that we've been up to.

We went to the Draper temple opening. I've never been to an open house before so it was interesting to see what it was all about. It's a beautiful temple and I'm glad that we got to opportunity to go through it.


On March 18 it was my birthday. I turned the dreaded 25. I'm officially old. I didn't actually celebrate on my birthday because it was a week before my national boards, so we celebrated after wards. It was a pretty low key birthday but a good one. I got lots of gift cards, some noise canceling headphones, which came in handy and then of course my camera.

Nothing makes you feel more like a fatty then breaking a stair. Well that is exactly what I did one day. Was it lose? Yes, would it have broken with someone else, probably, but it didn't I broke it. Our crazy neighbor felt it necessary to put cones up and caution tape....a little extreme, yes.....funny absolutely. It's fixed now, but it was out for about 2 weeks. Want some motivation to lose weight? Break a stair.


Chris was amazing while I was studying for my exam. He took over everything and really let me study. One of the many things he did was cook us dinner. Chris would cook 2 different things, broiled chicken or broiled steak. Both were really good, but for some reason he never knew that you aren't supposed to poor grease down the sink drain. So after about a month of doing so our drain got clogged. So Chris and our friend Brandon put some horrible smelling stuff down the drain and in the process unknown to us, broke the pipe. We got to deal with a flood!!! Yeah. It's a good thing that my father in law owns a carpet cleaning company so we could utilize their flood fans. We will probably have to replace the floor sometime, but it could have been worse!!!


Well that about sums it up for those months!!! I'm still waiting for my results for the national boards. Their website says 6-8 weeks, so we're looking at about 2 more weeks....I hate waiting!!!

Update

Well now that finals are over I have some time to actually update this blog. I'm sure you all have been in agony. Well rest assured the wait is over. You all may breath again!!!
Well I guess I should start off with November. I was in need of a patient to do a competency on for school and my patient that was scheduled canceled....story of my life. So what is a girl to do? I called Chris!!! He came down and was my patient. He was really sensitive with his lower teeth, and being that this was a testing situation I wasn't in the mood to deal with him being a baby so I decided to give him some local anesthetic. Well being the big baby he is he almost passed out. His eyes starting rolling into the back of his head and I had to sit him up and get him some water. Within a few minutes he was back with me and I was able to finish.
Chris also decided that after a year he was going to finish remodeling our kitchen. He had the week before thanksgiving off so he used a couple days and finished it. It looks so good!!! He finished the cabinets, put in new counter tops and a new sink and faucet!! Who knew that I married a handy man? I sure didn't. I'll post pictures later because I still want to paint it.
We spent thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Stratfords and had pie with my mom. The day after thanksgiving we always go x-mas tree cutting with Chris's family. We had a wonderful time this year and managed to pick out the best tree on the hill. I look forward to this weekend every year because we always have so much fun. We go with a bunch of friends and it seems that we laugh the entire time.

I finished finals this week and it feels great to be done until January. I have one semester left and then I'll be done FOREVER!!! I can't believe how fast everything has been going.
My brother and sister-in-law are in town from Florida until the beginning of January and Chris has next week off!! I'm excited to spend some quality time with everyone.
I got my x-mas gift early this year. Chris bought me a beautiful camera seen below.

I absolutely LOVE this camera!!! I've always been intrigued with photography and have always wanted a camera like this. Here are a few of the images I have taken thus far. Millions of pictures of the girls....but I'll spare you most of those. They do make fantastic models though.

Jasmine

Cairo....very dramatic
I'm sure that there will be more pictures to come!!!