Harrogate here we come....

Sampson got accepted into LMU - Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine!!!!!!  We are soooo excited!!!  This was our top choice in schools and I am so proud of Sampson and all his hard work. LMU is located in Harrogate, TN about an hour north of Knoxville...which too me is out in the middle of nowhere.  We are also only about 3 hours away from Sampson's family which is totally awesome.  It is always nice to be close to family. He doesn't start till next Fall so we won't be leaving Utah until July, but it's one less stress that we have to worry about.  Now if the baby would just come early, like right now, life would be great!

This is a picture of LMU from a distance.  The medical school building is the brick building you can see just over the hill.  This area is absolutely beautiful tucked up against the mountains. 

Bored at Home....

This is what happens when I am still sick from being pregnant and bored at home..... 

I take pictures of Phoenix

(I made the dress and the headband while I was in Texas for Houston's homecoming)

Happy Anniversary to Us!!!!!

3 Years....

August 21, 2007

It's hard to believe that Sampson and I have already been married for three years.  We have served and lived at orphanages in Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru.  I have graduated from BYU and almost finished my Masters Degree.  We have been blessed by our sweet little angel, Phoenix.  Sampson has become a certified lifeguard and EMT.  He has devoted hundreds of hours to shadowing, the Timpanogos Emergency Response Team, scouts and Young Men's,  being a TA, serving in Peru and Haiti, working as an EMT at BYU, and studying and taking the MCAT on top of taking all of his classes and working 20 hours a week.  Looking back, I wonder how we did it all, but somehow we just did.   Life has been crazy as we have begun to experience what applying to medical school is really like. I don't think we ever thought I would be 6 months pregnant with our second kid in three years, but we both wouldn't change a thing.  Amidst a lot of struggles this summer we have become closer than ever.  It has been amazing to see the tender mercies of the Lord have such a profound impact on our lives.  We find the examples and lessons that our parents have inculcated into our lives have helped get us to where we are thus far and for this we are forever grateful.  We look forward to see where life will take us next.

Yellowstone

The Grand Tetons

Animals

So we saw this elk grazing along side the road and I was so excited.  Then we saw one buffalo really far away and I was even more excited.  Little did we know that we would see an entire herd (about 50+ buffalo) at our campsite at Bay Bridge.  We couldn't even get out of our cars to check in because the buffalo were walking so close to our car.  One buffalo bumped the car behind us as it tried to make its way through.  One got so close I thought it was going to stick its head in my window.  Phoenix loved seeing her Bison (buffalo is to hard for her to say). The rest of trip was focused on spotting bears and moose because we had already seen so many buffalo.

This is a Black Bear! (You can see it if you click on the picture) If all the cars stopping wasn't enough attention, the bear actually started charging toward the crowd on foot and they all took off running.  

On our way home we finally saw a MOOSE!! Just a cow though, but still a moose!

Old Faithful

So it turns out that we ended up doing more driving than hiking due to me being 6 months pregnant.  We drove around everywhere making stops for our supposed bear spotting only to be disappointed with yet another dead tree stump.  The best part was swimming in the Mammoth Hot Springs.  Phoenix kept wanting to swim into the middle of the river where it was cold and Sampson spent most of the time trying to wash his hair.  He only wore one outfit the whole time and was proud to be a real mountain man. Phoenix was a trooper throughout the whole trip. She loved all of the animals and rocks.  We have quite a few souvenir rocks all over the car since she insisted on taking a rock into the car after every stop.  All in all, it was nice to get away from Provo and enjoy nature.