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.

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.

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!

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!

We are having a...

BOY! 

We are so excited to have found out what we are having. Now instead of calling him "it" we can be gender specific. Also, we have all but decided on the name. It was really a cool experience. The ultrasound tech. went through and showed us that the baby is developing normally in all aspects (we even got to see some blood flow in the baby...so cool). When she finally told us what we are having (25 min. later) Tammy and I both felt that we this baby is our baby Gideon. Obviously we still have 4 months left, but we are somewhat sure about this name. We are probably going to go with the name Gideon Carl Herring. I really want to name our first son Carl after me, my father, and my grandfather. The legacy in the name is a big deal to me. Also, since my brother Mike has named one of his kids after me (Cody Matthew), I don't really care to use my name as much.

It was a great experience to have another ultrasound. Tammy and I agree that having them makes the pregnancy seem more real. We also found out why I am not able to feel the baby. The placenta is between the baby and the outside world. I don't mind too much since that location is a good location for the placenta to be in for birth.

Another piece of good news is that the head on the baby is growing normally (no huge head like the Herring's have). Tammy was really happy to hear this. 

Finally, I have been invited to three interviews so far. One in San Francisco at UCSF on December 8, and two in New York. One at NYU on October 23, and the other at Stony Brook on October 27. Tammy is going to come with me to all these interviews. As she said on her blog, we are going to see the play Wicked while we are in NY (since her birthday is on October 22). We are both really excited. Also, when we are in SF she is going to have a baby shower in her home town since it is so close to SF.

Life is great. We love and miss you all. We hope to hear from you soon.

Having Some Fun

Life has been great for the past few weeks. We have been having a great break from school. School starts in just over a week. I am excited because this fall is my last semester of classes. All I will have left is an internship. Tammy and I are both so excited to be finished here and move on to dental school. We are waiting to hear from schools for interviews. We should start hearing from them soon.

One great thing that happened this week is that I felt the baby move for the first time. Tammy and I were standing in line to get a Redbox movie and I was holding her tummy. Suddenly I felt a small push on my hand. It was so cool. I cannot explain how excited Tammy and I are to become parents. I am really excited to start putting together the baby's room, but I know that we need to wait a little longer before we do that. We will find out at the end of September what we are having. 

So life is great. Our stake just was split, but I am still on the high council and Tammy is still the primary president in the stake. We are staying busy, but loving every minute of it. We hope that you are all doing well too.

An expansion to our school

So now that all of our families know, I can tell everyone else. Tammy and I are going to be parents beginning next year. Tammy is due on February 12, 2009, with our first. We are so excited. We have wanted a child for the last two years, but have not been able to get pregnant. We cannot express how excited we are. If you want a picture of the ultrasound or to watch the entire thing, check out Tammy's blog (on the right).

Other than that, we just got back from the Herring Reunion in AZ. We camped on Mt. Graham for a few days, then spent a few days in Gilbert with the Welch family. Congrats (or our condolences) to Jared for being called as a new bishop in his ward.

We also spent our 3 year anniversary in Las Vegas. We did a tour of the dental school there and then spent the rest of the day celebrating. We had a lot of fun walking the strip.

As far as the search for a dental school goes, we heard from the University of Washington this week, as well as UCSF, and the University of Colorado. We are busy filling out secondary applications and are really praying to know where we should go.

We hope that you are all doing well, and loved seeing all the Herring family. We love you all.