So long BYU!!!

I am so happy and proud of my hubby Todd. He officially graduated from BYU last week with a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Biology. He has decided not to walk for this graduation considering he still has 4 more years in Optometry. He will for sure walk for graduation when he is finally done and finished with his professional career as a student. The poor kid just feels like there is no end to school but he is almost there. I am so excited for our adventure coming up in a few short months. It's been pretty stressful these last few weeks with looking for a place to live, getting all our "loans" started, and making sure we have all our stuff taken care of here in Utah before we make our big move out to Ohio. We truly are so blessed to have such wonderful support from both our families and all our friends.

A training we will go.....

This picture of a random guy I found on google images will be me in 7 weeks. On June 7th I will be starting and finishing the Salem, Utah sprint triathlon. I know you are thinking to yourself "is she crazy?" I am excited and nervous all at the same time. I have no problem with the biking or running part it's just the swimming that I am rusty at. Really I haven't done a lot of laps in my time but I still know how as long as I practice and have the right techniques. That is where my husband comes into the scene. He was part fish when he was born I swear, he loves swimming and it comes naturally for him. So with that in mind I have him as my personal trainer to help and guide me so I don't drown. I started training a week ago and from the first day I was pretty bad and drinking a ton of water in the mean time. But since then I have accomplished the 1/2 mile swim and did it in like 30 minutes. I really don't care what my time will be on this race because it's my first one and I just want to finish it. Each year I make a goal to accomplish like this one. The last 2 years I did a 1/2 marathon and 3 years ago I did a bike ride to raise money for Diabetes which was 60 miles total. That one was insane also but a wonderful accomplishment. For me, having a goal to work towards that makes me push myself is very invigorating. So here is to the next 7 weeks of training..........wish me luck!!!

(For those of you who are wondering how long a sprint triathlon is it's: 1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike ride, and 3 mile run in that very order.)

Kids are the Best!

Here is my brother's little girl Mckinley on her 2nd Birthday. She is so much fun!!
Aunty Ashley tending my older sister Summer's girls, Abbie on the left and Olivia on the right.
My older sister Summer and her handsome boy Adam. He is the only boy but he has such an energetic personality.
Last but not least, this is Hunter my younger sister Jentry's little boy. He loves getting his picture taken as you can tell and talks up a storm. He is so smart.

Go Buckeye's!!

We are so happy to have our decision made to where we will be living for the next 4 years while Todd is going to Optometry school. It has been such a hard decision for us to make but we feel really good about living in Ohio and we know we will enjoy ourselves there. We already have a few friends out there so we feel very welcomed and loved before moving out there. We can't believe how fast the time is going and to think we will be leaving Utah in less than 4 months. This new adventure will be so much fun. We are just busy getting last minute stuff done while we are here. There has been many things that have fallen easily into our laps with making this decision which makes it feel right. We are so grateful for everyone's advice and kindness in helping us out. Soon we will become "Buckeye" fans and will be wearing red more than we ever have.

More Fun

This was an awesome sun set in St. George, talk about gorgeous!!
My handsome hubby. How lucky am I?
I took a picture of this ice cream cone because I do love ice cream. They have a lot of metal signs hanging around Cracker Barrel restaurant. This was one of them and I really liked it.
All the boys at the end of the girls shopping spree one afternoon. They look pretty tired but they were all such good sports.
Here are two of our guy friends who played I the longest game of checkers I have ever seen. Luckily there was a store in Cracker Barrel that kept the rest of us entertained.

St. George& Vegas Trip

Here we are in St. George at the Cracker Barrel after we had dinner just chilling on the cute rocking chairs enjoying the weather and our fun friends. I have more pictures to post but the battery in my camera died while I was downloading them onto the computer. So l will get them posted as soon as I can. The weather was so nice, we got ourselves a tan which was really nice for a change. We loved the weather and all the fun we had just playin' with two other couples that are really good friends of ours.

What Shall We Do??

I am sitting here at the computer surfing the web and looking at townhomes in Memphis, TN and also in Columbus, OH. I can't belive how cheap the cost of living is back east. Todd and I can't wait to acutally own a place of our own soon. We just need to decide where we are going first. We have prayed a lot about the decision and just can't seem to make up our minds. Both schools are great and everything else about them is awesome. We just need to make up our minds because we know that either of the choices will be a good decision. I guess we were just hoping for some kind of sign that would really stand out to us so we could just say "Okay, that is the school we should go to." But we just sit in limbo for now but we can't for very long. We really need to decide here in the next month so we can start getting stuff ready before we move at the end of the summer. We have been so anxious for the day to come for us to move out of state. Not that we are wishing our time here away but when you see something a head that looks so fun and adventurous you anticipate it. I am already super sad to leave both our families and wonderful friends but it's only 4 years and it will go fast I am sure. We can't believe how fast our first 4 years of marriage has gone. We are coming up on our 4th year annivesary this April. It's crazy to think that when Todd is finally finished with school we will both be the BIG 32 years old!! Now that is frightening to think about so I am not going to talk about that. We look too young to be 28 right now. I have a lot of patients that can't believe my age when I tell them. They always say I look like I am 22. So that young youthful look will be nice when I am in the 40's. Okay, enough rambling on for me. I just had to write what has been on our minds lately. We just sit and wonder which school to go to.......so hopefully soon we will have our answer.