MOLARS!

This is the video that Dr. Weiss (our awesome Oral Anatomy teacher) used today to start off our discussion about molars!

White Coat Ceremony

Laura's White Coat ceremony was Monday the 21st of September and it was a nice night. For all of you who insist on pictures and blog updates, here you go.

Top 10 Things We Love About Our Apartment in Ohio!

We love Ohio. Here are some of the reasons why: (these are in no particular order)

10: The weather here is not too much different from Utah, except for the humidity. So far, we don't think the humidity is too bad: we put on chapstick less and don't use nearly as much lotion! (Although we look really sweaty when we go outside, but I guess it could be worse!)

9: We love our apartment! The front room is one of the favorites. We haven't put anything on the walls yet, so they will look better when we do so :) We saw the couches while we were running one morning out on the sidewalk in front of a house. The guy who lived there said they were moving and we could have them, only problem was that they were soaked because it had rained the night before. We borrowed someone's SUV to go pick them up, let them dry out most of the way outside, then completely dry under the air conditioning inside. Once we bought covers and pillows for them, they turned out pretty nice, says us!


8: We have grass in the front yard and grass in the backyard. The backyard also has a playground where kids from around the complex play. There is also a pool! This is a picture of the front of the apartment. Ours is the green door on the left. That brings us to number 7...
7: The apartment number is clearly visible from the front of the apartment (although I don't think you can see it in this picture) Haha


6: We found somewhere to put every kitchen item in the kitchen, although the kitchen is very small! Here is a picture of the kitchen in Cedar City (left) compared with the kitchen here (right):
I really don't know how we fit everything in it!













This kitchen table was at JC Penney Furniture Outlet. We got it for a really good price!!

5: We love having the extra bathroom,


the extra bedroom (the office for me to study in and Shawn to work in until he finds an office in Columbus),















and the extra balcony to store our bikes between rides:

4: Our neighbors are wonderful! Actually, we have not met anyone yet who has been less than loving. Our apartment complex is full of LDS dental students, so we fit in great. Our ward is wonderful...everyone we have met has been more than willing to help us out in any way possible! The moving committee in the Elders Quorum had our moving truck unloaded in ten minutes flat. It was wonderful to have so much help!









3: The temple is really close! It is one of the smaller ones, but very beautiful. We drove to it and around it on Sunday after dinner, so now we know where it is!



2: Having a dishwasher, air conditioning, washer and dryer has been so nice! We feel so spoiled!




























1: Our bedroom is a lot bigger in this apartment than it was in either of our other apartments! We actually have two sides of the bed, which allows the bed to be made much easier! Check out the comparison:


















We have a balcony that can be entered from our bedroom. We have been throwing all our empty boxes out there as we unpack.








We love the fact that our bedroom is a true master bedroom with a bathroom and walk-in closet. The shower head in our shower is actually high enough! I hate it when they are so low, I have to bend over just to get my hair wet!

It's been a month! sorry about that, but we saw pretty much everyone up at Wolf Creek, so that can count as a blog. I thought I would update everyone on our move, so here we go. We are less than two months away from going to Ohio and have started to worry a little more about things we need to get rid of, sell, and take with us. We have a truck reserved, which is a huge worry off of our shoulders, now we have to pack and all that stuff. So when August 10th gets here we can be completely ready to get the truck loaded and begin our drive to Ohio, which will take a few days.

Apart from the move Laura and I have less than two weeks of class left for the summer, which is just awesome because I'm tired of school and ready to concentrate on other things.

So far the summer has been really nice, I don't think we have reached 90 degrees yet, the clouds keep us cool, and it rained the other day :-) I am looking forward to some nice thunderstorms before we go because I love lightning and can just sit outside and watch it, hopefully on a metal chair to bring it in closer! Just kidding.

Well this has been pretty random, no pictures or anything, I just wanted to update the blog because it has been so long. Sorry for all of you who sit on the edge of your seat hoping and waiting for a blog to show up so you can read about the fantastical lives of Laura and I, I will try and do better next time. See ya!!

As most of you know, I spent a few days this week up in Logan to do some training and learn from a friend of mine, Cris Guymon. It was a very good couple of days, but talking about insurance training and meetings is not the most fascinating thing to put into a blog. so for all of you who decide to read this thing, I tried to make my trip home on Thursday a little bit more interesting.

I left in the morning, and the first thing that I decided to do was go to the Logan temple and take a couple of pictures because I had never seen the place in person. I didn't go in or spend much time there because I needed to be on the road heading home. Anyway, I got there and took some pictures from the parking lot, and here is one of them that turned out pretty nice.

After leaving the Logan temple I drove for about an hour, with my music and a nice cloudy sky to a small place in Roy. Laura and I were watching a show on Food Network one day that showcased a place called "The Burger Bar." So when I got there it was about 10:30 in the morning and I was not even close to hungry enough to eat a big old burger. So I got some onion rings and a snickers shake. The show said that the onion rings were great and awesome, I've had better. The shake was ok, but I could have gotten the same thing pretty much anywhere else. Here is a picture of the sign, the place has been around since like 1956, and it was cool to eat there, just not as exciting as I thought it would be.

After leaving the Burger Bar I headed south and was going to stop by my friend's house, but I couldn't find it, despite my directions and google maps, so that was a little bit of a waste of gas and time. I had also expected to stop at Danny J's apartment to play some guitar hero, but he had to be in class, so I just kept on driving. Something that I did see, which was awesome, was the National Guard tribute bike built by Orange County Choppers. There is a show called American Chopper and it shows a business that builds extravagant thematic motorcycles and I finally got to see one in person, at 75 miles per hour. I did manage to get a shot of it, because it was awesome!

After passing this by, I decided to take a couple of pictures of big signs, for cities that mean absolutely nothing and that nobody cares about. I took two pictures, one of a sign for Scipio, and the other the sign for Beaver.

If all that excitement weren't enough I saw a pretty big dirt devil and took some pictures of that, one of which I will put in here.

That is last of my pictures, I also counted 9 dead animals on the side of the road. I know that is a little gruesome but oh well, it kept me busy while driving forever through nothing. to tell the truth, I saw 11 dead animals, but 2 of them were so rotted and gutted that I decided not to count them because they looked like smudges, not animals. Well I hope you all enjoyed the ride home from Logan with me, it was so exciting that I just can't wait to do it again someday!