Thank heavens for weekends....If only they could be longer!!!

We've had a fun weekend!

Friday night we got together with our friends Nate and Karly. We treated ourselves to some Costa Vida and watched the movie "Bolt." Jake was a little disappointed about the movie when he found out Bolt didn't really have super powers, but now he wants a puppy even more! It was definitely a cute show.

Saturday night we got together with our friends Jeremy and Stacy to play Walleyball. If you've never heard of it, it's volleyball in a raquetball court, which mean you can play off all the walls. We had loads of fun.

The Walley"Balls"

VS.

Team 2

And the WINNER is......

NOT team 2!!!

We killed them in 3 games!!! Ok, maybe they were really close, but we still came out on top!

Afterwards we went to the Yogurt Stop in Bountiful for a yummy treat! We had never been there, but you choose your flavor of frozen yogurt and then add any toppings you want (my favorite was the fresh raspberries and strawberries)! The only downside is that they charge you by the ounce so you have to watch yourself that you don't get too out of control in loading it up!

We are soooo lucky to have such great friends! Thanks to the Foulgers and Larsens for helping us break up the long week of work and school.

This past week was pretty crazy busy. Jake has been slammed with homework. I took my national dental hygiene board exam on Tuesday. It wasn't very long...only 8 hours and 350 questions!!!! It was miserable and hard...I actually think I'm barely recovering from it! I won't find out for 6 weeks if I passed. I just pray I did because I never want to take a test that long ever again!

We also have some exciting news. We have signed on a townhome here in south ogden. Now we just have to make sure the financing all goes through! Hopefully we wont' have any problems with it. If all goes well, we will be closing on May 5th!!!! We are super excited!

To finish off, I have a little story to sum up our week:

Saturday night after getting home and crawling into bed late we kneeled to say our prayers. We made it through our couple prayer, but unfortunately we must have been way too exhausted to make it through our personal prayers. We both woke up about 45 minutes later still on our knees....the last thing either of us remembered was starting our prayer. The worst part about it was when we started moving to lay down, our legs and feet from our knees down hurt so bad from the lack of blood flow that we almost didn't make it back to sleep. It was bad enough we never want to do that again!!! We learned our lesson to never fall asleep when you are praying! Hopefully we will be forgiven. We obviously need to start getting to bed a little bit earlier!

Hopefully this next week will bring some productive days and some early bedtimes!

Catch up!

It's been a while since we've posted because we have been CRAZY busy! School has been running our lives. I have my written national dental hygiene board coming up this Tuesday. I've been studying every spare second I've had since this semester started (it seriously feels like it!) and I STILL don't feel prepared! Since they can ask anything from my freshman year of college I have just come ot accept the fact that there are going to be things I don't know. It's been pretty overwhelming to study for it, and I CANNOT wait until Tuesday night! Then I can move on and start focusing on studying for my local anesthesia written board, which is in May!

Luckily we did have a few days of spring break to enjoy up in Logan. We love going back to Cache Valley and being with our family up there.

My old roommate, Shelly, got married so it was fun to get together with Kelsey and her to catch up a little bit! Congrats Shelly and Jens!

We took our nephew Carter up to Logan with us to give his parents some time to adjust to having the new baby! He is so much fun....we just love him! I absolutely love this picture so I had to post it!

The other stressful thing that has been going on (besides school) is that we are on the search for a town home to purchase. We've found one that we really like here in South Ogden...so the journey begins! Hopefully with all that is going on I can keep my stress level to a minimum considering the circumstances! Thank heavens I have Jake to help me chill out!

Baby Aubrey

Last Thursday our niece, baby Aubrey was born! We are so excited for you Jeff, Tammie and Carter! We think she is an absolute doll! Seeing Aubrey made me pretty baby hungry....but then it kind of scared me to think how little and precious she is. It's such a big responsibility to be entrusted as parents! Good thing Aubrey and Carter have such good parents to take care of them! I only hope I can prepare to handle it when the time comes someday!!!!

The Boys

A few weeks ago Jake's dad and little brother, Connor, spent the night at our house. The next morning we made a trip to Beus Pond to feed the ducks. We had a whole loaf of bread and they were loving us! It was snowy and cold, but we had a lot of fun. I love this picture of them!

Something to make up for the LONG day!

It was a really long day at work today. However, even after those days that are way too long, especially for a Saturday...I still love my job. This is why:

I'm sure a lot of you have already seen this, but you can't help but laugh. I see hilarious things like this every time I work. Kids can be challenging, but oh so very entertaining!

Family Pictures

At the first of this year we went to get family pictures taken with my mom and step dad. They turned out pretty good so I thought I would share a few.

My twin brother Court!

(All the other kids had gotten their pictures taken a few months before)

Another Favorite

I FINALLY did it! I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone!!!! I had started reading it in highschool and decided it wasn't for me. However, after much contemplation I decided to give it a second chance. I'm glad I did! I'm usually not much for make-believe things, but there is just something about this book that is rather entertaining! (I think what made me change my mind and give it a chance is the fact that I liked the Twilight series so much. If I can like a book about Vampires, why not a book about wizards and magic...right?!)

I love to read. It gives me a chance to wind down at nights and try to take my brain off all the events of that day and the days to come.

Over Christmas break Jake had gone duck hunting with his friend, Jerald, which I had mentioned on a previous post. We finally got some pictures of the day so I decided to share one.

Here is Jake with his ducks! You can't tell, but he has like 12 hanging around his neck! His pride and joy of course is the pintail he is holding up! Way to go babe!