Sunday, January 18, 2009

Way too long

So I realized that it has been way too long since the last time that I posted on my blog. So here goes... This may take a while.


So soon after the last time I posted Shaun Meng and I tore out our entire kitchen. It was so much fun working with Shaun. I will not go into details (check out Tammy's blog for those) but it has been a nightmare since that day. We still do not have a functioning kitchen. Tonight we went to the Mengs and made dinner at their house since we don't have our oven yet. I won't say any more or else this post will all be about the anger I feel towards the contractor who is almost finished with the cabinets.

However, we have had a great time since Dec. 10 as well. We went to AZ this year for Christmas. It was so much fun. It was great to have my brother and 4 of my 5 sisters for christmas. We even got to have Bridget (Welch) and her family at home to open presents with. I find Christmas so much more enjoyable when there are young kids opening presents. Their faces just light up. Santa came to Tammy and I both. We had a great Christmas.

We came back to Rexburg to find a snow pile taller than our car blocking our driveway! Luckily there was a guy with a backhoe clearing a driveway next door so we hired him to clear ours too. New years was spent with the Mengs. We had a great time.

Since then school has started. I have had my internship waived since I was not able to find one in such short notice. My internship that I had planned with a dental office was not approved so I had one month (with Christmas in the middle) to find a new internship. I applied everywhere but no one wanted someone that would only be there for a few months. So, the business department was great and waived it for me. So now I am taking histology and Spanish 1. We have decided to go to UNLV for dental school and UNLV requires all their dental students to take Spanish during dental school so I though that I would get a little head start. We are so excited to be closer to all of our family!

Tammy is now in her 37th week of pregnancy. On Jan. 22 Gideon will be considered full term. Any time now he could be born! We are so excited to welcome him into our family. We can't say that we "know" how much he is going to change our lives, but we have seen how children have changed the lives of family and friends so we have a little idea. Either way, we are so excited and willing to change in any way for him.

This week we are going to put our house back together and get our nursery ready. School is going great and is really easy since I only have 8 credits. Tammy is doing great. She is getting more and more uncomfortable, but loves life none the less. She is the perfect wife.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ACCEPTED

So just a quick post to update everyone. I have been accepted to both the UNLV and NYU schools of dentistry. We are hoping to be accepted to the University of Colorado, but if we are not then as of now we are leaning towards UNLV because it is so much cheaper. We love NY a lot more than Vegas, but $120,000 says otherwise. Either way, I will get a great education and am for sure going to be a dentist! We are so excited to have been accepted and feel so blessed.


The most exciting thing in life right now is that Tammy is now 7 months pregnant! We are so excited to welcome Gideon into our family. Tammy had a baby-shower in Pleasanton over the weekend. It was a lot of fun and we received many great gifts. Thanks to everyone for all their love and support.

School ends in 3 days and we could not be more excited. Life is great. We hope that everyone is doing well too.

Monday, December 1, 2008

School

Today is December 1! Wow, I cannot believe that this day has come. Starting today dental schools are allowed to send acceptance letters out. I hope to hear from some soon.


Life is great. Tammy is doing so well with the pregnancy. Gideon is moving a ton! It is so much fun to sit and hold Tammy's belly and feel him move so much. You should check out her blog to see some pics of how her belly is growing.

School is almost finished, only two weeks left. We can't wait to be done and go home for Christmas. 

Our new car is great. We love it. I still look at it and have to catch myself when I think "I would like to have a car like that." It is a lot of fun.

Overall, life is great. I know that I don't post that much, so I invite you to check out Tammy's blog. She is good at posting, and does a lot of pics too.

Oh, my other blog (the fishfools one) is no longer. I had a problem with my computer and lost it all, so once I create a new one that one is gone. Enjoy it while you can.

Monday, October 13, 2008

UNLV

Today I found out that we have an interview at UNLV School of Dental Medicine! We have already done a tour of the school there. We were able to go through Vegas on our way home from our trip to AZ. It is a great place because it is between our families and there are a lot of things to do there. Tammy isn't a huge fan of the heat, but is willing to go where ever we are supposed to be. One other thing that would be great about being in Las Vegas is that our friends the Mengs might be there too for law school. It would be great to have friends there with us.


Because of interviews, these next few weeks are going to be crazy! Next Tuesday we leave Rexburg to start our trip to New York. We will be there for five days. We will come back on Monday, October 27, but then leave Rexburg again on the 29th to go to Las Vegas. On our way back from Vegas on Halloween, we will get to Salt Lake and fly to Denver for an interview there on November 1. I cannot believe how blessed we are in having so many interviews now.

Tammy is doing so well with the pregnancy. She isn't sick at all anymore, but is just getting bigger and bigger with child! It is so awesome. She has to be the most beautiful pregnant woman ever. Baby Gideon seems to be doing very w
ell too. I finally am feeling him move on a regular basis (the placenta is in the way, so I only feel really good kicks 
and punches). We are so excited to meet him.

Life is going so well. We couldn't ask for more. I am so ready to be done with school. Only a couple more months of classes and I will be done.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Another Interview


So, yesterday I received another invitation for an interview. This time with the University of Colorado! We will be going to Denver for the interview on November 1. I cannot say how excited I am to interview there. This is our second invitation for an interview at a western school. Obviously we would like to be near the west so we are near family. Also, the University of Colorado has recently finished an orthodontics school. This means that we might be able to stay in one place for all of dental and possibly specialty school.


As you can tell, we are very excited to interview there. Wish us luck.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Tammy at 21 Weeks


So, I said I was going to not be so lame... so here is Tammy at 21 weeks. Isn't she so beautiful?! She is so happy that she doesn't look fat now, but instead pregnant now. We are so excited to have baby Gideon join our family.


Also, we are so excited for Stephanie to have her boy very soon too. We can't wait to meet him!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Lame


So I have been looking at a lot of blogs recently and realized that I am lame in my posts. I don't do cool pictures or anything, just words. I don't keep pics on my computer so I don't have any to put on. I will try to get some new pics on my comp. so Tammy is not the only one that has the sweet pics of our family.


We are so excited to go to NY in a few weeks. We are going to be there for five days! Tammy is calling it our "Baby-moon" (I think that is a cool name for it). We are so excited to have a break from Rexburg by getting to see the real world. I think that we are in for somewhat of a rude awakening, but I am looking forward to it.

Life is great!

Chuck

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