A job well done

After months of studying, a long 8 hour test, and weeks of waiting, the results of Nate's board's are finally in...HE PASSED!! And did really well!
On Saturday I was in the kitchen cleaning up breakfast and Nate grabbed his computer and was looking at something, I had no idea what, then I heard a sound come out of him, it is really hard to explain the sound he made but it was somewhat an exiting sound. For those who know Nate he doesn't express his excitement, or any emotion. I looked over and asked him if he got his score and he, somewhat sounding out of breath, responded saying, "yes, it's good, really good" I am so proud of him, all of the hard work and sleepless nights stressing about it really paid off!! Congrats Nate, I love you!

Memory tag

Just for fun...

I read this on Heather's blog and thought it might be fun to re-live some good old memories, so give it a try and see what you can remember about me and you!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is actually pretty fun to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I will assume you are playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or you don't have a blog, I will leave my memory about you in my comments.

So sad...

I couldn't believe it, but I about cried today when we gave brynlee a haircut. I have considered having it cut before, but quickly talked myself out of it. Nate had mentioned a few times, earlier this summer, that we should cut it short and I thought it was a bad idea. Brynlee didn't want to either. I just love her long, blonde, wavy hair, and it is also so easy to do.

Brynlee has some issues with summertime and eczema, and the long hair wasn't helping the situation. She gets a rash on the back of her neck and shoulders and scratches like crazy. My first solution was to put her hair in a ponytail or pigtails every day to keep it off her neck. Of course most days she would pull it out or it would fall out and we were back to the problem of her being too hot with her long hair. So this morning when we were getting her ready and I pulled her hair up I noticed that her rash was starting to get bad again, about an hour later her hair was pulled out of the pigtails, and she was sweating. I decided then that we better get her hair cut.

I dreaded it all morning and afternoon, serious sadness about this.

I have no idea why I am so attached to her hair. I am not at all attached to mine, and I have never cried over it before. So after naps were over we went in and had it cut. We wanted to see if it is long enough to donate and when I told the hairdresser that, she asked how short we wanted it. I told her about to her chin or jawline. She asked me if I was going to cry... I had to kinda laugh inside about that while at the same time I was holding back the tears. I told her I would be okay and then she took the scissors to it. And this is what we got...

She lost 9 inches of hair, we are going to try to donate it to Pantene, they will accept it if it is 8 inches or longer.

She seems to be okay with it.

And she still looks so beautiful...I really do like it! It turned out really cute and will be so much better for her this summer to stay cool. When we came home and I was styling it a little she looked in the mirror and said "I want my long hair back." I told her that we could let it grow long again and that it would be nice and cool for her this summer. She has been okay with it ever since.

Side view... I asked her if we could trade hair, and she said in her "silly mommy" tone of voice, "No, it won't come off to trade". I am happy for her that she didn't inherit my flat hair.

We made it!!

We finally got our phone and internet hooked up today so I just had to sit down and update my blog. With our move to Ohio and all the things we have done in the past 2 weeks I just keep thinking "I need to blog about that" and then I remember "oh, that's right, we don't have internet yet." Well, now we do, so here's the update!

On Tuesday June 24th Nate took his boards! Yeah, we are done with 2 years of med school, and all of the stressful studying and sleepless nights of stressing are behind us, for now anyway :)

We would have celebrated that night but Nate was beat, he didn't sleep much the night before, so I went to a fun girls night party with some friends(I wish I would have thought to bring my camera), and had fun! Then on to packing for the big move to Ohio.

On Sunday June 29th, Nate's parents and Brother Jason and his wife Kate and their little Bracken got to Iowa. We were so excited to see them, and have them there to help us! Monday morning, bright and early we headed to Ohio.

After a long drive and a horrible construction detour, I was finally able to answer the question Brynlee had asked about a million times with a "yes, we are in Sandusky, finally!" I told her we had to stop at the store before we went to our apartment so we could get a pizza for everyone to eat. She didn't want to get out of the car at the store she wanted to just wait with Grandma, she said, so in trying to get her to be excited about getting out we were telling her that we could stretch our legs and walk in the store for a few minutes. Just before we got to the store Brynlee said "I need to get out of the car to stretch my elbows" we couldn't stop laughing at her, silly girl!

Everything went well with getting the truck cleared out and the apartment was cluttered with boxes. On July 1st we decided to take a break from unloading and go see Lake Erie. It was perfect timing for the sunset and it was really beautiful looking out across the water.

Nate's family was so awesome to come and help, we really enjoyed having them here with us!

On July 3rd we went out to see Kirtland. It is such a pretty place, really green with lots of trees. We did the tour of the Whitney store, house and mill first. Then we went to the temple and through the tour that the community of Christ church does. It was really interesting to hear about the Kirtland Temple through the eyes of another church. It was a neat experience to be there and see the place where our church has so much history and where so much work had taken place.

Next came the 4th of July, I love this holiday! It is always such a fun and happy day! We did some more unpacking and later that evening we went with Nate's family and our friends the Schwendiman's out for ice cream at a place called Toft Dairy. It was good ice cream :) Then we went to see the fireworks out on Lake Erie. It wasn't as good as I thought they would be because they were too far away to get the full effect, but it was still fun!

Here is Heather and Mark getting a feel of what life would be like if they had twins!

We had to start the evening out with sparklers, is it safe to give a 3 year old a sparkler? I was starting to get nervous that she would run into somebody with it, but she thought it was great!

Brynlee loved playing with Kate and Bracken, she got spoiled with lots of attention from them while they were here.

I love this picture of Gracen, he is such a sweet little boy!

Happy 4th of July!!