The Best

Abby is the best. I don't even know if I need to say more. Abby you are my best friend and I thank you for always being supportive. Thanks for being there for me. I really appreciate it. I like when we get time to hang out and play together. You make me so happy. Thanks for being the best. I love you!

Love Mike

The Bigger Picture

I have once or twice in my life been known as a complainer. My sister's and Mike may beg to differ about the once or twice part but I like to make myself sound better than I truly am. Don't judge, everyone does it. Anyway, sometimes, I have to slap myself and take a step away and look at the bigger picture. I was raised in a middle-class family with everything essentially handed to me. Yes, I did chores, and tried to be a good daughter but who says that I deserved all I actually got. I was raised to know the difference between right and wrong and my parents taught me the gospel and were always trying to help me be better. I had good friends growing up that did good things and I was involved in all kinds fun activities to help keep me out of trouble. I have been given some awesome talents in my life that have become such a source of strength to me. I went to college, incurring minimal debt, and am within 2 weeks of graduating. I have an awesome family and fantastic in-laws that are always so supportive and helpful of everything I do. I live in a great area and feel safe where we live. I have a great ward, and the wonderful calling of being a Miamaid Advisor. I have learned so much from my girls and love teaching and spending time with them at activities. I have a good job that pays me good money and even though I can't always say I love getting up and going to work, I don't dread it, which is a good sign! I am healthy, and really haven't had any major issues with my body in my life, and for that I am truly grateful. I have such great friends. What few friends I do actually hang out with every once in a while, I really do love them. I have such an amazing husband. Mike is my sweet prince charming and I am so glad to have a husband who is driven and wants to do something with his life. Not everything in my life has been easy but I really have been so blessed. I feel like life has been handed to me on a silver platter. I am so lucky.

MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, Twitter....Blah

I admit, when MySpace came out, I did not join right at first. I thought it was stupid and did not want to have my pictures plastered all over the internet. But then a friend sucked me in. And I quickly became addicted. I didn't mind it at first, besides the rumors, ruined relationships and absolute lack of privacy, MySpace was pretty entertaining. Slowly, but surely, MySpace faded, and then Facebook became the new hip thing. I told myself and I even told Mike that I wasn't going to join facebook, because, again, I thought it was stupid. But, again, was sucked in. Facebook continues to be pretty popular and everyone I think I have ever known growing up has a facebook but now I wonder, what exactly facebook is providing me. With hundreds of friends, who do I actually have a relationship with? Maybe 30 of those people even know my phone number. So what is the point? Why is it that people crave to be constantly updated with the one guy who was in their Biology class for half a semester and then moved to Illinois? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE GUY! Yet, here I am, just as guilty as the rest of the facebookers. And its just embarassing. I told Mike that I was going to get rid of my facebook, and I even came really close. Yet I couldn't get myself to do it? Why? I have absolutely no idea. I don't mind having a blog. My blog is a good way for my family and certain people to see pics and descriptions of what Mike and I are up to. And it will be good to have when we move to Oklahoma. And my blog doesn't have a description of everything that I do. Just the things that I want people to know. So the blog will always be here, until I forget about it and stop updating. But we all know that one day facebook will fade and something else will become popular. But right now I vow to never begin tweeting or twooting or twitting or whatever the proper terminology is. Because networking sites are stupid. Yes, flat out stupid. Because if you care enough about me and about Mike, you will call me and talk to me on the phone. Because you would have my phone number.

And the winner is...

Well, for all of you who have been so kindly tracking our law school application journey for the past few months, you will be happy to know that we have finally made our decision!

Mike will be attending the

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

this fall for law school!

It was a very hard decision, but all-in-all, Oklahoma had the most advantages and the least disadvantages! Mike is very, very excited and I am pretty excited myself. I mean, I never really thought of Oklahoma as somewhere I would EVER want to live, but it'll be home for three years, and thats what matters. We will miss all our family and friends but we would absolutely love for you to come visit, and we will be back. We love Utah! And don't worry, we still have four months until we leave. We homemade our first Oklahoma Sooner

t-shirts to make the announcement to our families!

Sooner Nation!

Spring Break 09!

For Spring break this year, Mike and I and his brother and his girlfriend (now fiance) took a road trip. We were driving up through Spokane so that Mike and I could check out Gonzaga Law School and then we were driving over to Seattle so that his brother could check out a school there. The road trip was long but when we actually got to Seattle there was so much to do!

We went to Pike's Public Market and saw them throw the fish!

We rode the ferry across Puget Sound!

We went to the Seattle Aquarium!

We walked the Piers!

We went on a tour of Seattle Underground and then afterward

we spent $130 on dinner at the top of the Space Needle!

(Amazing Prime Rib!!)

Needless to say, we had a great time in Seattle and congratulations goes out to Mike's brother and his GF for getting engaged on the beach in Seattle!

To come...

Don't worry everyone, the law school decision is in the works, and will be coming very soon. Oh the mystery! And when I find a moment to stop studying, I will update our Spring Break fun too!!

Letter #7 and #8

We got two more letters last week for law school! And of course, these two were just as exciting as the others! The first one that we received offered Mike admissions to the

University of Oklahoma!

The school is located in Norman, OK, which is right outside of Oklahoma City. He was offered a $7,000 scholarship to go there. And of course, Mike is just loving the idea of going to all the football and basketball games!

The other school that Mike got offered admissions to was, of course, the

University of Utah!

We have to admit, it doesn't really sound that exciting, because it isn't really that exciting since that is where we have been at school all along. But, its still an option and would make everything really easy. But still, kind of boring.

Letter #5 and Letter #6

Well we have made it over the hump. We got Letter #5 and #6 last week. We are almost there! The first letter that Mike received offered him admissions to

Lewis and Clark College!

Lewis and Clark is located in the beautiful Portland, Oregon. It would be very exciting to go there. I've always wanted to go to the Oregon coast and now I could have the opportunity to live there!

Mike got his sixth letter last Saturday, which is one that we have been really looking forward to getting. He was offered admissions to

Santa Clara University!

It is located in Santa Clara, California which is a little less than an hour from San Francisco. He was also offered a $5,000 scholarship. Mike really likes the idea of going to Santa Clara so who knows if we will end up there.

Family Fun and Letter #4

Over the weekend, we were lucky enough to have Mike's brother and his wife and there two kids, come into town from Houston. We haven't seen them in a really long time (I can't really remember to be honest). They have a little girl who turns 2 this weekend and then they just had a baby boy last October. It was so fun to see them and to spend some time with them and their cute kids.

A couple of days ago Mike received his fourth acceptance letter to law school.

He has been offered admissions to

Quinnipiac University!

It is located in Hamden, Connecticut and they also offered him a $28,000 scholarship. That is a lot of money! And the biggest scholarship he has been offered yet, so of course, that makes us think twice about it. Connecticut is just very, very far from Utah. But, Hamden is also an hour and a half from New York City, and two hours from Boston, so that makes it also pretty difficult to turn down. Anyway, now we are up to four letters and he has been accepted to all of them so far. This is going to prove to be a very difficult decision!

Letter #3

Mike got his third acceptance letter yesterday for

Gonzaga University!

I was especially excited about him getting into this school because I would be more than happy to move there. It is located in Spokane, Washington. He was offered a scholarship of $15,500. We are heading up to Seattle for Spring break with Mike's brother and his brother's girlfriend so we will be driving through Spokane to check it out. Three down!