WOW!! There went the Summer

So I am not very good at this blogging thing. I wasn't even caught up with one summers events and now another summer has flown by. Luke and I finished our first year of medical school. Spent a crazy day packing for the summer and drove out to UT. We got out just in time to see my little sister, Kylie, graduate high school!! Congrats Ky! We had a fun filled summer. Luke got a job for a month spraying pest control. We spent our summer hiking, and doing anything outdoor. We visited one of my favorite spot Posey Lake. It was a fun summer but we were happy to get back to TN.

So funny thing is that I started this post over a year ago and never finished it. So here are some fun pictures of summer of 2010! EEk that was a long time ago. We didn't get very many pics this summer because we couldn't find my camera charger and we never had enough power on our phones to take many pictures.

Raspberry Patch

After a few days in TN, my family and Luke and I drove up to NY to visit my brother and his wife. While we were there we went to a farm and picked raspberries. I think we ate more than we took home. It was a ton of fun. I have decided that when we do settle down that we will have raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries. This farm had tons of bushes. There were different types of raspberries some were more sweet but tended to be a lot smaller. This was definitely my highlight for the trip.

The Move

So I finally decided to blog about the big move, even though it has been over six months. It was a long drive. The first stop was at Lex & Jessi's house. We had so much fun just hanging out and talking with them. And getting to spend some time just relaxing. We got to go see the temple there it is bigger than I remembered. My parents met up with us in Alberqurque the next day. We drove for a few more hours to the border of New Mexico. Where my fam went and found their hotel we searched
and searched for our KOA campsite. We were following the handy dandy GPS but it was really confusing--I can't remember if it took us on this dirt road or if Luke decided to(I am pretty sure it was Luke) So we were going along this road and on both sides it dropped off really steep and it was just wide enough for our truck & trailer to drive on. We didn't know were this road was leading us to or if we would even be able to turn around with the trailer on behind us. Luckily we found a way out and I convinced Luke to follow the GPS and we finally found our campsite. It was well past dark and almost morning when we finally crawled into the tent and fell asleep.

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The next leg of our journey was probably the worst. We were out of their by seven. It was a really long and boring drive. I don't know what people like to live in Texas--the part we drove through was ugly and HOT. We were going along and our truck started to overheat. We would turn the AC off and the temp would fall. But as soon as you turned the AC back on it would heat up. We were dying it was at least 105 degrees outside, no AC, just the cool wind from outside. It was miserable. Luke and I talked about just driving straight to TN that night just so we wouldn't have to drive the next day in the heat. We made a pit stop for the dogs. They were so hot they wouldn't even eat or drink. It was bad. That night we had planned on staying in Little Rock, AR at another KOA in our cute little tent.When we arrived around 10 pm we canceled that plan since it was still 90 degrees with 90% humidity. We sneaked the dogs into the hotel my parents were staying at. The next morning we were on the road by 5 am. We didn't want to have another day without AC. We wanted to be at the house by early afternoon before it got too hot. We didn't have any problems the rest of the trip with the AC. We were very grateful for that. I even convinced Luke to stop to go shopping for a few hours.
We got to the house and quickly unloaded everything because it was so hot and muggy outside. And the next day or two we spent unloading boxes and boxes and boxes with the help of my family .

Big Dogs

If you are ever thinking about getting a big dog there are some definite advantages to having them around. Like keeping people out of the backyard, eating all the neighborhood cats, and digging up all the gophers in your backyard. But these all have to be out weighed with the negatives. Such as chewing up Luke's shoes, chewing up the garden hose, killing all the plants in the backyard. So next time you see an adorable little puppy just remember that they will eventually grow up to chew up everything you leave laying around.

Spider Webs

So the other day I was out walking Cholo and saw these crazy spider webs. It kind of freaked me out wondering how big the spider was that spun this web. I guess there was so much water in the air that morning that it could stick to the webs. When I got home I found some lovely webs in the bushes in front of our house. I quickly got Luke out there spraying them down with pesticide

That day we saw tons of spider webs all over the place. It was really neat.

odds and ends

So I just figured out that I had two seperate blogs going on--that I actually thought was one. I know look what med school has done to me. Anyways here are some old posts.



Before we left for TN we spent the evening with Breck to celebrate his B-day. We started off with Fiesta fun with the bumper boats and miniature golf. Where Breck showed us his new moves he had been learning from the golf pro. We had fun spending some one on one time with Breck.

I was bummed the bumper boats aren't nearly as fun as I remember as a kid. We both got nice and wet from the nasty pond water. After fiesta fun we went out to pizza at 2 Fat Guys. Afterwards, we went to watch Kylie play soccer in the all star game for the camp she had been going to for the week.
A few sunday's before we left, Luke's aunt Marvalee (thanks Marvalee) asked us to speak in a fireside. On the way there we say this truck and Luke fell instantly in love, almost faster than he did with me. So we had to stop and get a few picks. No worries it is only 14,000 so if any of you are wondering what to get us for graduation present for medical school, there ya go. Just start saving now. I am sure we will eventually have to buy some cool looking trucks like this when we actually start making money.