Happy Birthday Becky!

My cute wonderful older sister had a birthday today! Happy birthday! I won't mention the age because it's a sensitive subject:) But don't worry Beck, I am not too far behind ya. Becky and I are just 17 months apart which has been so much fun. She is seriously one of my very best friends. Growing up we always shared a room and I can think of so many fun memories that we have together as a result. One night, when we were little of course, she dared me to pee on the floor in between our beds. I did of course and then she told on me. Luckily she got in the most trouble since I was the younger sister who was tempted to do wrong;) I did have to sit on the toilet for a little while as my punishment. Most of the time however I was the one thinking of mischievous tricks to play on our younger siblings. Anytime we did have arguments my mom made sure that we made up so we would always be close.
Becky was such a great example to me growing up and I always tried to follow in her footsteps. We had many of the same friends and she always let me tag along with anything fun she was doing. Becky and I were roommates my first year at Ricks college and we worked many of the same summer jobs. The picture on the left is us at Oakcrest LDS girls camp where we both had counselor jobs under the code names of Pepper and Sketch. We both ended up at BYU and then later ended up living close to each other in SLC. It is hard to live so far away but thank goodness for phone and email! She is so smart, creative, and an amazing mom! She still is such a great example to me and I just hope I can be as great of a teacher as she is with her girls and little Tanner. I am so grateful to have such a great older sister. Beck I hope you had a wonderful day!

Still a BYU fan!

For all those concerned friends and family who see me in all those pictures dressed in red I am still a BYU fan! I do feel however that I am mature enough to cheer for the Utes when they are not playing my team:) Unlike my husband however who went to a BYU game out here in the Michigan stadium but had to wear the only long sleeve red ute shirt he had to the BYU game. I guess when it comes down to it, I am pretty neutral when it comes to most sports:)

One for mobility, two for captivity.

After nine exciting weeks on the road Jenny, Madison and I have finally returned to our home in Toledo. All in all we drove 3500 miles, spent 4.6 million on gas and discovered that the finest Quizno's in all the world is in Beloit, Wisconsin of all places.
For the first month I was doing a Pediatrics internship at Primary Children's Med. Center in Salt Lake City. It was a great place for a rotation and I had a great time. We stayed with family and had many good times. Next up we drove to Milwaukee where I did an otolaryngology (ENT) internship at Medical College of Wisconsin. I loved it! So all the months of deliberation on what to do with my life came to resolution in Milwaukee and ENT is it. I have submitted my applications and now we watch and wait for interview offers.
During all this travel Madison had many firsts which Jenny has documented for you. I will add just one that she picked up during our last week in Milwaukee. Crawling! There was no army crawl or scooter stage for Madison. She went straight from tummy time to perfect technique, all fours crawling. She has not looked back since. As excited as we are for her it did not take long to realize that her mobility would lead to our captivity. Within two minutes of arriving home from our long journey she had crawled to the fan and tried to put her fingers in it, crawled to the power cord and tried to bite it and crawled to the radiator to suck on it. A whole new world of freedom for her... perhaps more captivity for us. We wouldn't trade it for the world!