Visiting Grandma and Grandpa

Ethan and I are in Utah for the weekend while Eric and his brother drive across the country. Ethan is loving it here, and is sleeping amazingly well (which is rare for him).

He loves his uncle Sam and watches everything he does. Today I walked into the room and saw Ethan sitting on the couch by himself waving the Wii remotes around. Which is basically what Sam does all day. Kudos to Ethan for putting the wrist strap on... safety first. (too bad the TV was off)


Spokane is supposed to have similar weather to Utah, but it is so much warmer here. I hope it warms up for you guys up in Spokane soon.

Yea for Sprinklers!

Graduation Day

Radiology here we come! No more pelvic exams, No more manually disimpacting old ladies, No more patients dirty looks!

The road to Doctorhood is a never ending one. When you finish Med School you are called doctor, but you can't practice on your own until you finish your intern year and pass your boards. Then you have the rest of residency and dare I say it... fellowship. It's hard to see that far ahead. We've had a lot of graduations, so it seemed silly to me to have a graduation from his intern year, My sister joked that it's kind of like a Kindergarten graduation. We still have a long way to go, but it is a milestone that is worth celebrating.

These are Eric's fellow Transitional Year Interns:Eric getting his diploma. It was nice to see him get recognized. He has worked really hard this year. I'm so proud of him.

My friends Carly and Carrie that I'm going to miss so much. It is so nice to have friends that are going through the exact same thing.

Congratulations Eric!

Almost Summer Time in Spokane

Fountain in the park
Time to go home Ethan.

Bonjour Paris!

What a month it's been! We've been so busy with Eric taking his boards, trying to sell our condo, trying to find a place to live in Florida, and planning a trip. I haven't had the time to blog.

We got back in town yesterday after spending a good 38 hours traveling home (at least).
I have been doing laundry for 2 days straight. As I am waiting on another load to dry, I thought it would be a good time to post some pictures of our trip.

Eric and I took a little trip to Paris last week. Leaving our little guy with Grandma in Utah. I was a little worried that he would be okay, but I took him down a few days early to acclimate him to the new surroundings. By the time I left, I was pretty sure he wouldn't notice if I was around. My mom had so many fun things planned for him he didn't have time to notice if I was around. She did a great job and I'm sure she needs a vacation herself now.

Here we are on the Champs Elysee in front of the Arch d'triumph.

I was a little hesitant to stand in the middle of the street to take pictures. Luckily we didn't get hit. After we crossed the street, we walked over to a bench to rest. A few minutes later we heard a huge thump and Eric saw a lady flying through the air with her feet above her head. She had been hit by a car. Eric ran out to her in the middle of the street. She was amazingly still conscious and talking with only a very broken finger and a huge bruise on her head. Eric checked her out and when the police arrived they told him he could go. It was the craziest thing!

I must say that I am always filled with pride when I see Eric go into doctor mode. I don't see that side of him very often at home and I love that he is cool in a crisis and knows exactly what to do to help. I always feel safe when he's around. I'm so proud of him! (okay cheesiness over)

After that fiasco, we walked over to Angelina's for some hot chocolate. It is supposed to be one of the finest cups of hot chocolate in Paris. It was like drinking a candy bar. Delicious! Eric makes a better one though. :) **And thanks to Andrea for teaching me how to order water in a restaurant without getting an 8 dollar Evian bottle**

Paris is full of amazing buildings everywhere you turn. -Hotel De Ville Notre DameVersailles-- Hall of Mirrors
Versailles has acres of gardens that we walked through. Here is one of the fountains.

We saw some great art at the Pompidou Center like Jackson Pollock and Kandinsky

And some not so great art... I think this one is called three white squares.

We went to a ballet at the Paris Opera House. It was beautiful.

A fuzzy picture, but it was such an amazing room

At the Louvre

They don't know who carved this center statue but they think it must have been a kindergarten teacher. :)
Eric's best Easter Island impression

Rodin Museum

As you can see Eric was very into posing like the artwork. He really wanted to do "the Kiss" too, but unfortunately we didn't know the French for "will you take a picture of us while we make out like this statue" otherwise I totally would have done it....

We loved the Metro. Especially when our feet hurt from all the walking. Here we are about to get on our last train ride to the airport. Doesn't Eric look sad to be leaving?

When we saw Ethan after being gone for a week, he wasn't mad at us or super excited either, he just had this sweet content smile plastered on his face the entire day. It was quite heart warming.
We are glad to be home, Thank you Eric for taking me to Paris. I guess this means the next trip is Tibet.

I turn my head for two seconds

Ethan has become a very quick climber. Every time I turn around, I find him

getting into something new. I was impressed that he got this tower so high. And very thankful that he didn't think to open the spices... that could have been a disasterous (not to mention expensive) mess.

Rapper Snoop Dogg converts to Mormonism

Is Snoop getting his BOM on?











Click here to read at CNN



The link doesn’t work sometimes but if you keep trying it should eventually put you through to the article.

This is just an April fool’s joke, but the article is pretty funny. I am not sure but the article might be belittling towards Mormonism as well, unless it was written by a Mormon.