4 days from now..

We will here here!

We are headed to San Diego on Wednesday for 10 days! It should be an amazing Christmas, and we cannot wait to see the sun! I was fortunate enough to get 10 days off of work, we have not taken this long of a vacation for a long time. On top of the vacation, seeing my family will be awesome! We will not want to come home at the end I'm sure.

Matt finished his 13 finals of last week on Friday. It was not a fun week for him, studying day and night. Safe to say this weekend has been filled with a lot of relaxing and one very happy husband. Christmas shopping is just about finished and we cannot wait to see the reactions on everyone's faces when they get their gifts. This has been a successful year for finding "just the right thing".

Hope everyone has a GREAT Christmas!!

M and M

Harry Potter!!

Being Harry Potter fans (well Matt has read all of the books, but I do enjoy the movies), we could not have been more excited for the new movie. We went on Friday night with all of our best friends here in Portland. My friend Hillary and I went 5 hours early to get a good spot in line for the show, and we ended being FIRST in line. It was awesome! The girls rushed in when the doors opened and got prime seats. We have got the best friends ever, and we all cannot wait until part II!

Anxiously waiting to go in

Our Friends Jeff and Hillary

Sam, Chase, and Mo

My Harry Potter husband

Mine and Kjerstin's sweet glasses ha ha

The dorky couple :)

All our friends after the show!!

This week I only have to work 2 days then we are off to St. George! Cannot wait! It has been getting pretty cold here in Portland, so we just hope all the snow comes while we are gone. We will see how lucky we get. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Teri comes to visit!

This last weekend my AWESOME mom came to visit us in Portland! We had an awesome time. We shopped until we dropped, ate at some amazing restaurants, hung out with good friends, and explored. Doesn't get better than that! We are sad she is gone, but cannot wait to see my family in San Diego in a few weeks!

We are headed to St. George for Thanksgiving to be with Matt's family next week. It will be nice to go home and get out of the soon to be gloomy weather as well as get a short and refreshing break from our busy days. We will also be celebrating mine and my mother in laws birthday. We are so grateful to be able to go home this year for Thanksgiving since last year we didn't get to. Many more pictures and adventures to come!!

Shopping at the outlets. LOVE THEM!

Out to Korean food.

Cosmo loving my mom. Cuties!

Fall!!

Not much has been new with us lately. Matt has been super busy in his 2nd year of dental school and I am busy working. We have done a few fun things lately though...

We went bowling with our friends Kyle-Ann and Scott. Matt bowled a 192, and I was 87. Matt is good at everything in case you didn't know.

We also went out to dinner and movie with our friends the Jentzch's. We saw "Despicable Me", and we laughed harder than a lot of the kids. That is one of my new favorite movies ever!
My mom is coming to visit us next week and we can't wait! We just hope the weather is kind and the rain can hold off for a few more days. Then, in a few weeks we are headed to St. George for Thanksgiving. It is going to be an AWESOME break from our hectic lives. More posts to come soon!!!

St. George Vaca

We got to go to St. George for one week, as both a summer getaway and for Matt to help his dad go hunting for an Elk. We had a fun few days with just the girls (matt's sisters and mom) while the boys were gone. We enjoyed a play at Tuacahn, Massages, Shopping, fun morning in Mesquite playing Bingo, the famous St. George Rodeo, numerous trips to Cafe Rio (had to take advantage while we could), Pizza Factory, and Paula's. Cosmo loved hanging out with his cousins Boo Radley and Henry. He slept the whole way home on the plane and didn't make a peep, we had never seen him so tired. The week flew by, we had been looking forward to that trip all summer break and it ended so soon.

Now we are back in good old Portland. School just started up for Matt on Monday, and he is trying to get back in the groove of things. This second year of Dental School is already proving to be a hard one. I am still working as a medical assistant/ aesthetician at the Dermatologist office and I learn more and more everyday. My job is awesome. But, it is looking like long and tiring days for both of us. Until Thanksgiving, we will be hanging here and working hard.

Miss you all!

With Cosmo and Henry

John and Matt golfing (didn't even plan to match!)

Brenda and I cruisin around in the cart

John and Brenda

Trip to Seattle

Yesterday we decided to be adventurous and take a day trip to Seattle. It is only about 2 1/2 hours away! We went up with our good friends the Heaps. We went and checked out Pike Place Market, visited University of Washington, and explored downtown. The city was awesome and pretty large, I am sure we will visit again sometime!

Matt at the Space Needle

Me and Matt at lunch

At the waterfront

Chase and Matt at the waterfront

Matt hanging out at Pike Place

The big 2-3.

My cute husband had his 23rd birthday on Sunday! We went to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate the night before, played tennis for a few hours, and ate cake of course! It was different having a birthday without family around and most of our friends were our of town for the summer or having babies the day before ha ha. So we had a quiet birthday to ourselves but enjoyed every minute.

23 Reasons why I love Matt:

1. He is the hardest worker I know.

2. Would do anything for me.

3. He is my best friend.

4. He gives great back scratches.

5. He is the best golfer and is a great teacher.

6. He has a great sense of humor.

7. He loves to speak with a russian accent with me.

8. He loves family.

9. He is going to be the best dentist ever!

10. He loves scouting for deer.

11. He always smells yummy.

12. He knows how to stand his ground.

13. He is petrified of heights.

14. He could eat Panda Express or Cafe Rio for every meal.

15. He is a major perfectionist. Good if you are going to be a dentist right?

16. He kicks my butt at any game we play, unless he feels bad and LETS me win.

17. He is a good snuggler.

18. He is good or the best at anything he tries, I swear.

19. He is a good example.

20. He loves Harry Potter.

21. Would be happy spending an entire day in Best Buy.

22. Awesome cook!

23. And last but not least, the best husband!

Summer Time!

Matt finally started his 6 week summer break from school this last week. He had been in school continuously for 12 months and was SO ready for this break to come. We are going to be going home for 1 week to St. George in September, but will be staying in Portland for the most part. I will be working and Matt was hired at the school to do research. Although our summer will still be busy with work, we will be fitting in as much fun as possible while there is a chance to escape from studying and lab work.

To celebrate the break from school we went to dinner with our awesome friends Markus and Dayloni. They brought their buddy Nick who happened to be having a birthday. It was a blast, and hopefully we will have many more adventures to come.

1 year down, 3 to go!

So proud of my Matt!!! He is officially finished with his first year of Dental school! The school puts on a "white coat ceremony" that is done when they start the 2nd year because they will begin doing more clinical and patient work. The ceremony was awesome! Matt's parents came out for the event and really enjoyed it. Matt's Dad even got to "coat" Matt. Pretty awesome moment. It's was crazy seeing Matt in the coat, made him look so sophisticated and made this experience and dental school seem so real. Pretty Crazy! This second year is supposed to be the hardest and most time consuming so we are excited to get going and see what it brings.

The Dental Wives(-Mo) Love these girls!

The whole crew.

Way to go boys!!!

John and Brenda

John and Brenda Visit!

This past weekend we had our first visitors in Portland!!! Matt's parent came up for matt's "white coat ceremony" (post to come). They got to stay the whole weekend and get the grand tour of Portland. We had fun showing them around the school and Matt loved showing his dad (who is a dentist) all his crowns and preps. Saturday we got to spend the day at Cannon Beach which turned out awesome. We had good, sunny weather and enjoyed just hanging out. The town has some really cute boutiques and lunch places so we got to explore those as well. We had fun and can't wait for them to come back!

Jackson Hole

Seems like we have been super busy and always gone lately. Over the 4th of July, Matt, Cosmo and I drove to meet my family in Jackson Hole. We had quite the drive, but we had alot of fun. Matt drove the whole way and was a trooper. It has been a while since I have been to Jackson Hole, I forgot how much I loved it. It was awesome weather and we stayed in a nice, cozy condo. (much better than camping ha ha).

The first night we were there we went to a Chuck Wagon dinner and show. They guys in the show were pretty funny and the food was yummy and filling.

Second day we went Horse back riding in the morning. I have always loved horses and riding, but it had been a while. We thought we could handle 2 hours, but none of use realized how sore our little bums would be. Mine is still sore! That night we went to the Jackson Rodeo and had a blast. Bull riding and mutton busting is always a favorite to watch.

Sunday we went and explored Jackson, did some shopping, and saw a ton of wildlife. We saw Moose, Black Bear, and some Elk. If you know Matt and how much he loves that kind of stuff you can see just how much fun it was. The moose was a huge deal, he has always wanted to see one. It was like Christmas Morning ha ha.

Monday we had the long 12 hour ride home. Cosmo was pretty good but got a little antsy just like us. Of course as we got off the exit to finally get home our road was closed. We had to take the long way home and thought it was a night mare. We finally made it and are still getting re-settled in.

Matt officially started his 2nd year of Dental School yesterday and he is feeling really good about it. They are starting to work in mouth a lot more (instead of table tops) and he LOVES it. He came home after the first day and kept talking about how much fun it was. I am glad he likes what he is going into, and I know he will be an awesome Dentist.

For now we are just back in Portland, and back to real life. Summer is finally here and we are loving the sun! More summer adventures to come....