Geese Poop and Osmotic Diarrhea

We are alive!

Finally settled down in our house, after a year or so of wandering in the wastelands of the West, so, now it's time to get moving again? Right? NO! Not happenin'. Back to the subject at hand.

We went to Encanto Park today! It's finally cooling down some so it's nice to get out. Sophie has tons of fun feeding the geese, until she got bit a few times! She still loved to run around though, well at least until she biffed it and scraped her forehead in the dirt, dirt that geese love to walk and poop in. Hmmm maybe we should have washed her hands (and her forehead) afterward.....

Note to those interested, Apple juice, when not dilluted will give your kids some nice osmotic diarrhea. (It's due to your body not absorbing the fructose in the apple juice very well, in case you wanted to know, though I know you probably didn't---that comment's from the captain of the "nerd herd" my hubby).

We've moved to Phoenix!! Well, not completely. This is our home to be! Sort of. We are moving into one of those custom built home areas where you can choose all of your flooring, cabinets, ect. So, what you see in the video is just the standard do-dad. Our house will have some bigger tiles that go into the dining area, a cool suedeish colored carpet, mocha colored cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and of course blinds. Brad starts school in August and Ashley starts work next week at Kindred Hospital. We don't get to move in until July 18th so until then we are slummin' it in a month to month apartment (eating off of a card table and sleeping on a blow up bed, good times.) Sophie is terrorizing our life, she has discovered the beauty of quesadillas, I think we created a monster! Besides that we're just trying to get by, more to come later

See ya,

movie for brad

I love you babe! I'll make a blog for you tonight and put more family clips on tonight!
we love you!!!!!

medical school = reality!

ARIZONA HERE WE COME!!! Brad got accepted to 3 med schools and has finally chosen to attend Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. He will start in August, Life is good!

New pics for the Soph-aholics

Yes, that is a little curly pony tail!!!!

Crappy Commercial

I'm usually not big on politics, but I thought this commercial (click on link below) for "no on Prop 8" was HORRIBLE and it really makes me mad that people make things like this! I think dressing up like missionaries to make a fictional point about the LDS church is just wrong on so many levels.

Click Here to See the Monstrosity

Medical School Here We Come!

Congrats to my sexy, smart husband who has been accepted to his first medical school- Western University of Health Sciences (in California)!!! The good thing about this school is you can spend the last 2 years of school in Milwaukie, Portland, or Vancouver (yea for Oregon!) Mr.Genious has 2 more interviews this week, we'll keep you all posted with the results! Finally, we have dirrection in our lives!

Trip to L.A.

We went to L.A. (Pomona) this week for Brad's first medical school interview. I thought Utah drivers were crazy, but I now know California drivers are insane! The speed limit was 55, we were going 70 and cars were still whizzing by us on both sides, I felt like the turtle who likes everything slow on the comcast comercials! Brad's interview went well, although he had Mr. intense interigator as in interviewer. The girl who was interviewd before him walked out with bugged out eyes looking like she just saw someone get shot and almost triping over her own feet- bad sign! We'll hopefully find out soon if he got in. As of right now he has an interview scheduled for Kansas and Pennsylvania so if this one was a bust we're covered! Pomona is the GHETTO! Their polite way of acknowlging the environment was to say "it's not dangerous here but many people choose to live in the surrounding cities and commute daily".

Proposition 8

Being temporarily Californians now we have had the opportunity to help with proposition 8 (it would change the constitution to read that marriage is only between a man and woman). Last weekend we stood on the corner and held up "YES ON 8" signs. A new experience to say the least. I was surprised at how many people honked in support. We did get a few fingers, and I'm not talking about a thumbs up, but it felt good to take part in local politics. The wards and many of the local churches around here are taking a stance in this measure, it is really neat to see everyone come together. Our bishop put this little picture together, kind of funny

Guess I'd better take out the trash more often...

It's hard to see but those little dark spots are millions of ants marching after a piece of ham in the garbage! There were no ants when we went to bed, but when we woke up they formed a line from the garbage up the wall all the way to the ceiling, then around the corner, down the hallway, around the 4 corners of the entry way all the way and finally into this tiny hole in a corner next to the ceiling- yuck! I should have checked, but I think we could have set a world record for longest ant line. By the way the best way to kill ants is bleach, it kills them instantly, you just have to wipe up their annoying little carcasses.