Burley!

For memorial day weekend, Dan and I took a trip to Burley, Idaho to visit my sister Ashley, her husband Andrew, and cute little nieces Rylee and Reese. My sister Tara, who is living in Rexburg came up as well. It was fun to see them all and spend some time together. We went to "the city of rocks" and climbed around on these huge rock formations, which was really cool to see. We watched some movies, ate lots of Ashley's good food, played princess games with Rylee, and today we went and saw Shoshonee waterfall, which is just right out of Twin Falls. It was a fun and relaxing weekend! Thanks Ashley and Andrew!

Primary Children's and New York!

This past week I finished up my second clinical rotation at Primary Children's hospital is Salt Lake. It was a really good experience, and I got to see lots of cute little sick kids. It actually made me paranoid to have kids because I saw how many different diseases affect childen! I spent time on the infant unit, neurotrauma unit, and the ICU. I gave a case study presentation today and turned in a huge report, and it feels good to be done! The next two months I just have little rotations at the State health department, a WIC clinic, Salt Lake aging services, and the food stamp program in Utah county. At the end of May I will be all finished and ready to take the RD exam!
In June, Dan and I are going to New York City for a couple of months! We are sooooo excited. We are going to be working for the same company that we did last summer, auditing daycares. The fact that we will be doing it in New York makes it so much cooler! So if anyone wants to take a trip this summer, you can come visit us and have a free place to stay in New York!

Yay for school!

Dan and I both got some good news this past week. Dan found out he got into the Business program at BYU! He is super excited and has worked hard for this. Hopefully just another year and a half and he will be done! I would be looking forward to that moment because I might be able to see him a bit more often, but the plan is medical school after that so I should probably cherish the time we get to spend together right now. Since Dan will be in school for a while, I figured I might as well go back and join him, so I am going to start the Masters of Public Health program at BYU in the fall! I'm hoping we can get done around the same time. I'm actually pretty excited about starting the program, I just hope it won't be too incredibly hard or busy. So that is our exciting news for the week!

Disneyland!

A couple of weeks ago we took off a few days and went to Disneyland with Dan's family. It was so much fun! We drove down on Wednesday and went to Disneyland on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and drove back Sunday. It was warm and sunny, and a much needed break! It was really fun to spend time with Dan's family. They are huge Disneyland fans and I thought is was so fun to see his little nieces and nephew get so excited about everything. We all stayed in the same hotel next to each other and it was good to catch up with everyone. Dan's little siblings Matt and Annie came back with us and stayed for a week with us in Provo, which definitely wasn't as exciting as Disneyland, but still fun!

So Ashley asks me every time I talk to her if I am going post anything anytime soon. At first my excuse was that my camera broke, but Dan got me a new camera for Christmas, so I couldn't use that one anymore. But now I don't really have anything to take pictures of. Well since Ashley has never come to visit me in Provo, I thought I would post some pictures of our cute little apartment she has never seen. It is really little, but we really like it!
Dan just started a new semester and is really liking his classes. He has started some of his business classes and is still working on all of his pre-med classes as well. It keeps him busy! I am half way done with my internship. Right now I am at Primary Children's hospital in Salt Lake. It is a neat place to be, but the commute gets a little old! We are looking forward to our trip to Disneyland with Dan's family in February!

Chicago!

For those of you who don't know, I am doing my Dietetic internship this school year through BYU. I am doing different rotations at different hospitals and clinics until May when I can take the Registered Dietitian exam and be a real Dietitian. So far I have really really enjoyed it. For the first couple of months I managed a little cafe on campus where I ordered all of the food and helped with developing recipes. For the past couple of weeks, I have started my clinical rotation at Utah Valley hospital. It has been really cool, and makes me excited to be able to work in a hospital when I am done with my internship. The most exciting thing of my internship was my trip to Chicago a couple of weeks ago with my Dietetics buddies. It was the American Dietetic Association's annual conference and expo. BYU paid for us to spend a few days in Chicago, and although I missed Dan a ton, I had lots of fun with my girlfriends. We went to the conference during the day where we learned lots in classes and got tons of free food and random junk from the expo! There were so many free granola bars and food samples, we fed some of the homeless people in Chicago with our samples while we walked down the streets! By the end of the conference, we knew what stands had the best samples, and who gave away the neatest pens, vitamins, and teaching tools! Needless to say, we only ate out for dinner, which included Chicago style pizza and hotdogs. We went on a boat tour through the city to see all of the neat architecture. We stayed right across the street from Grant Park (where Obama gave his acceptance speech) There is the really neat reflective bean as well as other kind of weird pieces of "art" in the park that we took pictures at. We also went to a Natural History museum and did some shopping on the magnificent mile. It was freezing cold in Chicago and super, super windy. I was glad to come home to 70 degree weather in Utah, and Dan of course!

Happy Halloween!!

So I have been a slacker at updating my blog because my camera is broken. However, we spent Halloween with Chelsea and Cody, so Chelsea took some cute pictures that she let me borrow. We went to our ward's Trunk or Treat. I have to say our trunk was the coolest! It was a monster mouth and we made the kids reach in his "mouth" to take a piece of candy. Cody has a sub woofer (spelling?) in his trunk and it was beating which made the monster even scarier. The night before halloween our home teacher told us that he had an alligator suit we could borrow. Of course we couldn't turn that down, so I was an alligator and Dan was Steve Irwin the crocodile hunter. After the trunk or treat we went to a party and carved pumpkins and ate treats! It was really fun. I made the witches brew which included a green ice cube hand!