In Response to Eric's Comment

On my previous blog Eric Peterson asked me "How is summer break going?" So I decided to take this blogging opportunity to answer that question.

First of all I've been tired, moody, and sick. Morning sickness at its best. I haven't actually thrown anything up but I suppose thats because I haven't eaten anything. In fact I've lost weight, which was one of my summer goals, although I have removed it from the goal list since finding out that I need to eat for two.

Just last week I went to Ohio to visit my friend Katie, it was a very nice relaxing vacation, once I got off the airplane. Add morning sickness to motion sickness and it is not a pretty picture, but I'm back in Minnesota in one piece so I can't complain too much. I got a lot of scrapbooking done and even started a new album that will be a record of the events of the next 8 months. So far its pretty cute, I learned some new scrapbook techniques in Ohio and have put them to good use in the new album.

Josh and I have just been enjoying our time together. Once school starts we probably won't see much of each other and then once the baby comes who knows what our lives will be like. We went to Canterbury last Sunday, I lost but Josh won, which more than made up for my losses. We started a crib fund. So far we're about a quarter of the way there. At this rate we only need ot go to Canterbury 3 more times!! Maybe even less if I can stop losing all the money.

After we told Josh's parents yesterday (who were very very excited) we called Grandparents and some aunts and uncles yesterday to tell them the news. I think that my Gramma L and Patric were the most excited. Patric's been rubbing my belly since the day we got married spreading rumors... the new rumor is is that its twins. It was a lot of fun to tell Gramma that she is going to be a great gramma.

Other than that its been pretty quiet around here. Except of course for the jackhammering right outside our apartment that woke me up at 7am this morning.

Now that there are some changes in our lives hopefully I'll have more to post about. I'll try to post some pictures sometime too, once I get fat. Although I doubt they will be as good as Matt's drawings of the squirrels and the tangled fishing line.

Finally Summer Vacation

Today I finished my last final of the summer semester. My first semester as a second year is now done. I get the rest of August off, but I'm going to be working at the print shop so I don't know how much of a vacation it will be. I don't really want to work but I really want some new dressers so that was the deal. Whatever money I make I can spend on furniture- yah!! So if it turns out to be really sucky then I will just quit.

I haven't even started and it already seems like it might be bad. One of the coordinators was mad at Emily because I wasn't there, well I told the other coordinator that I wasn't starting until Wednesday. Its not my fault they can't get their act together. And I'm sorry, but why should Emily have to deal with her anger, she's not my keeper! Idiots...

We'll see how long I last.

Not much to update about

So I know I haven't blogged in awhile but nothing really has been going on that is blog worthy.

The only big thing going on with my life really isn't my news but I guess I'll blog a bit about it.

Friday is Josh's last day in the lab. He is so excited to be done. For the last two weeks he has been working at UPS and actually really enjoys it. So thats good. This fall Josh is going "back" to school to get his teaching license for highschool chemistry. He seems really excited and I think it will be a good career choice for him. Hopefully he will be teaching after two years of school. So he will still be done before me!

Dental classes are going pretty good. I am staying busy with all of the lab work they are loading on us. I think they are trying to get as much in as possible because come this fall they are renovating the preclinic areas and we get booted to the clinic area, which will be hard to do preclinic work in. So we'll see what fall brings us. The way its looking I'm sure there will be plenty of blog venting about it.

Memorial weekend

This past weekend was so much fun. Josh and I did a little bit of everything. On Friday night we went to watch Josh's stepdad race stockcars. I have never been to a car race before so I learned a lot and actually had a really good time. It was really loud and really dirty but still fun.

Saturday we slept in (because we got home so late from the races) and then Emily and Eric came over. Josh and Eric went golfing while Emily and I ran some errands. We took in her wedding dress to be cleaned and then went to the fabric store to pick out colors to make her a quilt. (Shhh its a shower gift so don't ruin the surprise). Then we went to Dairy Queen and ordered blizzards which we ate as fast as we could so they wouldn't melt on us.

Danielle was visiting from Chicago so she came over and we all played boccee ball, which is the best summer game ever. I'm pretty sure I dominated.

Sunday Josh and I went to Canterbury where we were just miserable because it was so hot and way too windy to hang on to all of the papers and stuff. We didn't stay the whole time, which is unfortunate because the last two races were like these crazy short sprints that would have been really fun to watch but the heat wasn't worth it. Plus we weren't winning which makes it not so fun.

Monday was the best day when we went to William Obrien State Park and swam all day with the fam. I have never spent so much time in a lake at one time. Caine and JJ were pretty fun. JJ is one brave kid and kept going in the water up to his neck.

Overall it was a pretty great weekend. One of the best parts about the long weekend is the short week of classes that follow, tomorrow is already Wednesday!

Summer

Summer semester started yesterday. We only have two main classes, prosthodontics and operative dentistry. We have already had a semester of pros so that is not very exciting but I think operative will be. We are going to learn how to do cavity preparations, amalgam fillings, composites, stuff like that. We've already gotten to play with all of the materials in biomaterials but now we will actually get to use it properly. Which is good, because in one year from right now we will be doing all these things on real people!

We also have to take 16 hours of selective classes this summer. One of the classes I took is oral surgery an introduction to sedation. We had a meeting today and we found out what we might get to do. The doctor in charge said we may be able to start an IV, push meds, and watch the procedure which might include implants, bone graphs, or wisdom teeth extractions. That is way cool!

I think its going to be a pretty awesome summer.

The lost Turkey.

So about a week ago Josh and I were driving on highway 280 and we passed a turkey. He looked kind of lost standing up there on the bridge. We chuckled and went on our way. Then yesterday we were coming home on energy park drive and this car stops right in front of us. Josh honked is horn and we passed them on the right. As we passed the car that had stopped we saw why they had stopped. Our friend the turkey was now lost on energy park drive. What a sight. Maybe he is looking for his old farm friend the pig who now has residence at the Saints stadium.

Josh and I are about to go out to a celebration dinner. Josh says that if we see the turkey again we won't need to go out for dinner...

I am done!

That's right! My first year of dental school is DONE! I am now a second year- whoo hoo!

Let the vacation start. This weekend I have my dance recital (seems kind of sillly for me to be in a dance recital again but whatever...) And then on Monday morning bright and early we leave for DC. I haven't even been able to think about the trip until right now. So much to pack and do before then.