Leaving On A Jet Plane

Benjamin just got back from Columbus, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri. He did two of his interviews for medical school and he felt pretty good about them. He said that they were very laid back and very friendly at both schools. He really liked both towns. In a few weeks he has three more interviews and one in November.  A special thanks to Dan and Rachel Adair for housing Benj!

He took this picture for me :)

Crazy Hair Day

I have no idea how this got started. It was pretty late one evening and Emily, my mom, and I were just sitting in the living room talking. Somehow the conversation led to funny hair, which led to this:

We were laughing our heads off, when we decided that I needed a hair due too!

Last but not least, we gave my mom a new look too!

This picture is my all time favorite. We were trying so hard not to laugh!

August

This is the huge dust storm that we drove through on our way to Rexburg from Moscow.

We took Emily and Joseph over to the Romney’s one Sunday afternoon. They loved it there. This is Emily frolicking outside with the cat.

Emily was sweet to hold little Kalina. She kept trying to make the same faces as Kalina. I love both of their great big blue eyes.

I think they kind of look alike in this picture above.

Anthony and Benj were nice to play Masterpiece with Emily and Joe .

I made plum ice cream

I know this picture is from September, but I didn’t just want to post it by its self. This is me at the fair eating a turkey leg. I just had to have one because I had this memory of eating one at DisneyLand when I was little. It was way too big and it started to get old pretty fast, but it was still fun. I felt a little bit silly walking around gnawing and this huge hunk of meat.

What we loved about Moscow!!!

Summer was just too short. We loved our stay in Moscow! We are happy to be in Pocatello now, but we really do miss the little town up North. I thought I would post a few things that we loved about Moscow (in no particular order).

• THE FARMERS MARKET!!!! Moscow had a great farmers market. I think everybody in the town gathered downtown every Saturday to listen to live music and wander through the booths. Moscow had a great sense of community. There were so many little community events, concerts, etc. And the people actually went to them! Even the most random little events had good showings.

• THE PALOUSE- We loved the beautiful rolling hills of the Palouse farm lands. It was a pain to drive up and down the hills, but they are just so pretty!

• The GINORMOUS burgers at the Sandpiper Grill (no,it is nothing like the expensive version in South Eastern Idaho.)

• OUR WARD- We made lots of really good friends in our ward in Moscow. One of our favorite memories with the ward was going to Spokane to the Temple and then out to eat afterwards.

• THE PLANTS- When we first moved there, it was so green with trees and flowers everywhere! Later in the summer if was drier, but a good majority of the time it was beautiful!

• MOST OF ALL: WE LOVED LIVING CLOSE TO LYDIA! She was only there for a month while we were there, but we loved having her so close with her sweet little kids. I loved getting to know Lydia more and I consider her one of my very best friends in the whole world. Thanks for all the fun times!

Benjamin’s Research

Benjamin finished up his internship at U of I  in Moscow. He really enjoyed his work and the people in his lab. Here a a couple of pictures of the Research Conference, at which he presented a poster of his findings.

The interns from BYU-I