What we're up to

Since we don't get to talk to everyone much, and since I can already tell I'm letting this blogging thing slip a little bit, I thought I would update everyone on what we're doing.

Dallin finished all his classwork back in May. Now he is working on rotations at Dr's offices. He starts with 6 six-week long rotations with each one in a different field. Then he'll have a chance to decide what he wants to specialize in (he currently has no clue) and do 2 or 3 three-month rotations. That should get us to August '09 when Dallin will graduate and be able to take his certifying exam. Is it too early to start counting the days? His first rotation was in orthopedics, which he seemed to like pretty well. This week he is finishing up 3 weeks of pshych and next week he will head to Norwich, NY to do 3 weeks of OB/GYN (for some reason, the doctors around here won't let male students follow them).

Soooo, while the cat's away, the mice will play. I'll be taking the kids to my Mom's place in California, but since the closest and cheapest airport was Las Vegas, we thought we would stay and play there for a little while. We will see some of The Strip stuff (mostly Circus Circus) for a couple of days and then we get to hang out on the lake with my brother and his boat! Poor Dallin, wish he could come with. I wasn't really excited about taking two kids cross country on an airplane all by myself, but something tells me it's going to be worth it. Anyway, I haven't been up to much else except for the usual hold the fort down stuff: laundry, paying bills, singing to, reading to, hollering at, playing with, and loving two cute little kiddos, reading magazines, reading books, cooking, taking kids to play dates, trying to plan the rest of my life, trying to excercise, trying to make kids take naps and eat more than plain bread, string cheese, and juice, gardening, watching Oprah, and eating bon-bons. (Just kidding on the Oprah and bon-bons things- it's my joke with Dallin- it's usually more like watching four Disney's and eating brownies- hehe). Can I just say that as crazy as it is, I'm really glad I get to stay home with my kids? Thank you Dallin for letting me!

I have several random posts planned, so sorry if they are just totally out of order, but at least they will be done (I hope).

Also, sorry I don't have any pictures of me and only a few with Dallin, but this is what happens when you put the three-year-old behind the camera instead of in front of it: