Virginia: Home Sweet Home?

Yeah - this whole post is me bragging about Dane so prepare!
Wednesday afternoon we got some BIG HUGE EXCITING NEWS!! The medical school that Dane interviewed for said that they would let him know by the 15th if him getting in was a yes, no, or maybe. So all day he was pretty much glued to his inbox and finally at 4:00 pm while he was staring at the empty inbox an E-mail from Virginia popped up and I think you can guess what it said!!! DANE IS GOING TO BE A DOCTOR!!!!! When he finally got it he sang, danced, jumped on the bed, and of course practiced his new signature with an "M.D" at the end for about 2 hours haha. But I still consider it to be a pretty mellow reaction after the last 5 years that Dane has spent working his tail off to get in to school. Anything I could say to prove how hard of a worker he is would be an understatement so just trust me. But I am sooooo proud of him and happy for both of us haha!! We both know that we have been majorly blessed in a lot of different ways and we're soooo grateful!!!!!

I'm a Quilter!

With A LOT of help from my mom (she had to tell me what to do every step of the way), I made Beck a quilt! If your wondering who Beck is since I haven't made a formal blog announcement (which is the only way to really set things in stone) we're naming our little guy Beck Dane.
And I think I've found myself a new hobby cause I loved making this quilt- all I need is a sewing machine and money to buy fabric - so I guess I have a hobby waiting for me in about 15 years when we hopefully start making money! After finishing this quilt though, I will not only be shocked I will be mad if he comes out a girl!

Washington DC

Last week we took our last vacation as a childless couple to Washington DC. Dane had an interview at a school in Virginia so we called my parents to come along and made a vacation out of it. I LOVED it out there its SO PRETTY! It's a good thing that we have our Utah mountains because Virginia's forest lined roads made Utah look gross.

We saw all of the major highlights in DC Lincoln, Jefferson, Capital, White House, Smithsonian, Mt Vernon and a lot of other things of course but I think that all 4 of us were most impressed by the Arlington Cemetery it was unbelievable, one of the coolest parts was the tomb of the unknown soldiers where you see the guards that guard the tomb 24 hours a day.

We also went to see the temple and it is my new favorite one...it felt so wierd, we just turned of a little road and it looked like we were driving up the canyon and all the sudden the temple pops up, it was SO PRETTY!

The last day we drove out to take Dane to his interview and that place was not quite as impressive as the rest of the vacation had been...I was worried to let him out of the car unarmed and I made a special effort to not make eye contact with anybody all morning because it was in the SCARY part of town, good thing I have a tough husband because if it was me I would have called a cop to escort me from my car to the building. Anyways it was an awesome trip and we had tons of fun together, we were glad my mom and dad came with us...not just so we had somebody to take our picture - we always have a ton of fun together!