Sad news

Look at how pretty our rings are on our wedding day!
Today at work I was playing with my ring and if you look closely you can see that I lost one of my diamonds. Sad day.

Update on schools

So to recap from last post, we have heard from George Washington University (D.C.), Creighton University (Omaha), University of South Carolina, Rush University (Chicago), and Eastern Virgina Medical School.
Since then we have heard from Virginia Commonwealth University, Wake Forest (North Carolina), University of Louisville (Kentucky), Michigan State University, Loyola University (Chicago), A.T. Still Missouri, Des Moines University, A.T. Still Arizona, and Loma Linda University (California).
We have a total of four rejections (Eastern Virginia Medical School, Wake Forest, University of South Carolina and Louisville). Of all the schools that are listed Reid is still working on two secondary applications. A.T. Still in Arizona and Rush University. To give you an idea of how long it takes to fill ones of these applications out, the last one Reid did was two questions and it took him about 3 days to do.
We've heard at least something from 14 schools and that's half of them. It would be quite awesome to hear from 23 schools for interviews, but we'll have to keep waiting, but we'll keep ya updated!

Here is our recent rejection (from today)

A post with no pictures

Sorry guys, there are no pictures with this one, but I've had a lot the past two days, plus this is day 3 of blogging, so that's pretty awesome!!

This is more of an update on Reid's medical school applications. For those that don't know how it works applying to med school here it is. First you take the MCAT, then a month later when you find out your score, you do you primary applications. Then come secondary applications and then interview and then hopefully acceptance. Or if you don't get secondary applications, then it's the rejection letter.

So here's the story. May 1st, Reid takes the MCAT. June 1st we find out that he got a 27 out of 45 (28 is the national average), so he did well. He applied to 27 schools all across the country (see map below; the yellow and pink pins are the schools.)

We (Reid) has already heard from a couple schools asking for secondary applications. In order of receiving it goes: George Washington University (DC), Creighton University (Omaha), South Carolina University, and Rush University (Chicago). Today Reid actually received his first rejection letter from Eastern Virginia Medical School. We decided that we are not going to finish applying for SCU because they will only look at applicants with strong ties to South Carolina which we do not have. So with those two schools, it saves us like $200!! So we are only waiting to hear back with interviews from 25 schools instead of 27.

A lot of schools send out for secondary applications because it is money directly to the school. However we were quite surprised to hear first from George Washington because that was actually the school that our current doctor attended and he wrote a letter of recommendation for Reid, so maybe we'll have a little advantage with that!

We know of one school (that we wouldn't mind going to) that doesn't start "talking" to the applicants till December, so this could be a really long process. But we know that where ever we do get in, it will be a wonderful growing experience. (It would be REALLY nice though to get in near family for obvious reasons.)

Anyway that's what's going on with that! Sorry to bore you with no pictures; there will be more later I'm sure.

Freedom

Happy (late) 4th of July everyone!

We had a great weekend! On Saturday, we got to see Lena and Scott's new little guy that was only two days old, then I went to work. Lucky dad and Abigail got to stay home together. We were really excited to take Abigail to see her first fireworks, and I would have pictures, but I forgot the camera in the car :(. Anyway, Carrie Underwood was performing in the Stadium of Fire, and we found a nice little spot on the stadium grounds where we could hear her (and even see a little bit on the big screen) and then watch fireworks! Last year we watched fireworks from above on the mountains, and both Reid and I decided we like watching from below. Poor Abigail was so tired, it was way past her bedtime. She actually fell asleep during the grand finale in her stroller! Sunday we went to church in the morning and had a wonderful dinner at my manager's house (thanks Darrin and Jenn).

Monday was the Freedom Run and my dear friend Jenny and I ran the 5K! That's right, I did a 5K!! Not only did I participate, we actually ran a lot of it!! Thanks again Jenny, I wouldn't have done it on my own. Reid watched from the sidelines (it would have cost too much for us both to do it) and surprised us at the finish line. But here are some pictures of the race. Oh yeah, Abigail did the 5K too!

At the beginning. It was actually pretty cold at 7am!

The starting line

Water stop, Drink that water Jenny!

We were actually running at this point!

Me and Jenny (she's blocked by the guy) crossing the finish line

We got medals!!

Abigail holding up the medal!!

It was a lot of fun and maybe we'll do some more 5K's in the future.

3 years since a little bling

Like the title says, it's been three years since Reid and I got engaged on top of the "Y".

It all started back in March 2007, boy meets girl at work. Girl thinks boy is way cute and that their kids are going to have the prettiest eyes ever (while not even dating yet). The first "official" date, boy and girl hike up the Y at 11pm. Boy and girl holds hands. 3 months later (6-19-07), before boy takes girl to meet his parents, he takes her back up the Y (girl wasn't too excited about that idea) again around 11pm. Boy asks girl to marry him (she said yes). 3 years later (6-19-10), boy, girl and baby go back up the Y.

It was really beautiful out and since our time here at BYU is almost over and we didn't know when else we'd have an opportunity to take Abigail up the Y, we figured it was the perfect day to go. Reid carried Abigail all the way up. What a trooper they both were. Reid had to listen to me ask "are we there yet?" and "can we stop and rest just a little bit more?" the whole time. It was really fun and I am glad we did it. Maybe we'll go up yet again before this summer is over. Here are some pictures...

Reid and Abigail at the beginning of the trail.

Family shot

Abigail on the Y (at the bottom)

heading back down

poor little angel was so tired by the end

I promise I'm still alive.

I'll have to post more later, someone is causing terror at the computer, but here are a couple recent pictures

Swimming

The weather has finally started to warm up, thankfully! To celebrate, Ashley and I took the girls out swimming! Abigail LOVED playing in the water; she kept splashing herself in the face. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of her enjoying the water, but here she is in her cute swimsuit (thanks Nana!)