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The Catch Up

Let me tell you! Things have been nuts!

I am absolutely loving EMT. Love, love it. Although, I have not had a serious situation yet, and who knows (I could pass out when I see blood and guts yet haha).

This was my first day of clinicals:



Austin has gotten into the groove of law school, and feels much more secure in his second semester. I cannot believe he's almost done with his first year. He'll be a 2L this August! We got to attend Law Ball too. We didn't really get photos because we were having too much of a blast and forgot. It was a masquerade theme, and a fun dance... and a whole lot of law jokes I didn't get lol. But Austin did, and all his friends and him enjoyed themselves. I love seeing him happy! After Law Ball, everyone goes out to the bars. I love going to bars to get a shirley temple and hang with my friends, but we were an old fart married couple and had a movie and gorge-fest date. 










A good friend of mine unfortunately was going through some rough stuff, and so I spent a day making boat-loads of food for she and her family. It makes me sad when people are down, so yes I will make you food because I don't know what else to do!



Juno's still our little bestie, even if we torture her with robo-dog. But I mean, it was well deserved since she keeps torturing our Jackalope.



From our last post, you probably gathered a temple trip was in the making for Kristine. We headed to Billings, Montana where she got her endowments. It was kind of neat because not only did we get to take her through, we got to do two sessions in our time there. Lets just say, more time for answers to prayers.




When I came home, I had work at 4am. It was surprisingly awesome despite being so early haha! And when I got home, I got my nursing acceptance! In the temple I read a scripture that said something about waiting, and awesome things happen if you wait. I took that to mean I was going to wait some more, but I think it meant to say that the good things were coming! I've waited since the end of BYU-I for this! Austin took a video and I had no idea he was... the video is embarrassing because I was crying lol. Here's some screen shots and the letter :D




Lots of good things to catch up on!

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