BIG NEWS!

Well, I guess it's been long enough. I won't be able to hide it much longer (though you can't really tell yet...) and even if I could hide it, I don't think that I could stop myself from blabbing it to everyone.

Erik and I are having a baby!

The Baby is due July 8th and we'll find out if it's a boy or a girl on the 18th of February. I'm so excited! Erik thinks it's a girl and I just know it's a boy. Leave some comments on what you think it will be!

The Gilgal Gardens

Today we had the day off of school. We decided to go to the Gilgal Gardens; a place of mystery and magical monuments. There is not really much of a way to describe in words what the place is so I'll just have to show it to you.




The gardens are located behind some houses where an architect decided to start a very special project of his own in his yard. I started going through the garden thinking that it was just a joke, but as i walked around I think it was more of his architectural interpretation of his testimony...







(but the Joseph Smith Sphinx was a little funny.)


Everything had a deep meaning to it. It was fun to try to guess what he wanted his audience to get from each piece of artwork. What a fun and different place to walk around on your day off! We can't say that it wasn't a little strange, but good for him; putting time and effort into something that he believed in. Here are some other fun pictures that we took there.


Iron Angel Moroni.


Sisters... dare I say they are great KEYSTONES in my life!


We never really figured out the hands grabbing the hearts out of the rock...


I forgot my shoes and was forced to wear my slippers around the garden... Absent minded!

After the garden, we went to prison for lunch! No joke! We went to the county jail where they had some inmates working at a cafe. The food was good and we haven't gotten sick yet! The name cracked me up! The Hard Times Cafe. :)



What a fun day! Hooray for days off!

Look out dental school... here we come!

After hours and hours of studying, many trips to new and exciting places, (lots of money on airfare and hotels) and a whole lot of decision making... Erik has been accepted into dental school!

He got into the University of Florida, University at Buffalo, University of Nevada Las Vegas, and University of Missouri Kansas City! We've been thinking a lot about where to go and it was a really hard decision to make. Florida has some pretty appealing sunshine, Las Vegas is close to family (and we have a pretty amazing friend who live there), Buffalo has Erik's brother Ryan, and... well, maybe the UMKC wasn't so hard to chose between...

Anyhow, we have finally made our decision to move to the great arctic lands of Buffalo, NY. Granted, I am a little nervous to move across the country away from my family. And the winters will be no cake walk for me to handle, but I'm really excited about the people who live there. They are so friendly and just solid. I'm excited to be close to Niagara Falls (maybe people will come and visit...). I'm excited about having an adventure with Erik far away from anywhere else I've ever lived.

This will be quite the exciting adventure!