After Thanksgiving Festivities

My camera was being weird so sorry about the fuzzy pictures. I wanted to share them anyways Last year Jeff and I bought us a little 4ft prelit Christmas tree on like 90% off clearance. We were really excited to finally be able to use it!

Amy- don't kill me for putting up this picture either!! I thought it was hillarious!
The day after Christmas I had to work, and Jeff and Amy tackled the Black Friday crowds. When I got home from work, we decorated our Christmas tree and ate more leftovers. Then Jeff and I headed up the Layton for the weekend where we got to decorate another Christmas tree!!

Theses pictures are from our Christmas cookie/candy competition.

Ashley and Tyler won with their fudge only because they sabotaged our chocolate carmel peacon delights.

My nephew, Zarchary, might also be a part of the conspiracy to ruin our Christmas candies. Look at that sly smile!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I had to work Thanksgiving day so we stayed in Provo and had a fun little dinner just me, Jeff, and his sister Amy. Because I was at work for most of the day, Jeff and Amy made pretty much everything! They are amazing! My favorite? The TURKEY!!!

Carving the turkey!

I must admit, I was REALLY excited to use my vintage china that I got for my birthday this year!

Look at all the delicious food!!!!! Yams, rolls, cornbread stuffing, deviled eggs, cranberries, pumpkin pie, bannana cream pie, chocolate pie, mashed potatoes, gravy.... did I mention what amazing cooks Jeff and Amy are?

Suffering from Post-Thanksgiving Dinner "Meeps"

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Thank you Amy for spending Thanksgiving break with us! (Don't kill me for putting this picture up! I loved it!). We are so greatful for our friends and family! We love you!!!!

Coldplay Concert!

Coldplay-lovin' cousins! These are my awesome cousins (and one cousin-in-law) who came to the concert with us!! Thanks Jamie for the before-concert-pizza party.

I've been talking about this concert since we bought the tickets in July...and it was AWESOME!

Funny/Sad Story

My Dumpster Diving Husband.I am a little late at posting, so I will be putting up a lot today. I thought I would start with a funny story. Well, I think its funny, but really its quite sad. So after Halloween we decided it was time to throw out our jack-o-lanterns. So Jeff and I each grabbed a pumpkin and headed to the big dumpster for our appartment complex. Jeff, of course, wants to smash his to watch it explode. So he chucks the pumpkin into the dumpster as hard as he can and as the pumkin leaves his hand...so does his wedding ring!!! Usually his ring fits him really well, but we think it was because of the cold temperature. (Your fingers shrink when it is cold right???). SO Jeff wants to jump into the dumpster to find it. The dumpster was just emptied that day so there wasn't much in it. So Jeff jumped in! Gross! I KNOW! Don't worry I made him change into his worst pair of clothes and tennis shoes before. But STILL! ah boys will be boys. So then he was out there for an hour going through all the garbage, and I helped seach on the outside of the dumpster. But NO LUCK! We did not find the ring. It totally sucks that Jeff jumped in a dumpster for NOTHING! So we ended up buying a new one. It looks exactly the same and is the same size. I wanted to get a half size smaller but Jeff thought that it was too tight. I guess next time he looses it, we'll go a half size smaller! What did we learn from this? Smashing pumpkins is bad luck!

New Job

Well, as some of you may already know, I quit my job last week. Last friday was my last day. I wasn't very happy there and it was just getting worse. After putting in my notice, I started putting out job applications and interviewing at a few places, but it was a bit stressful not having a job and wondering if I was stupid for quiting my job before I had another job lined up. Thankfully I was only unemployed for a total of 5 days :) I now work for Heritage School, a residential treatment center for at-risk adolescents, as a Youth Counselor. Im really excited for this job- as part of the interview process I had to work with a girl's unit for a couple hours and I really enjoyed it. I will actually be able to do something that I went to school for!!

I also wanted to thank everyone for your congratulations to Jeff for his acceptance to Baylor. We really appreciate of all your support!

Happy Halloween

We did not do anything special for Halloween because I had to work until 8 that night. But we enjoyed carving pumpkins earlier in the week. We named our pumpkins Vitronectin and Von Willebrand (Jeff was studying pathophysiology).

WE GOT IN!!!!

The phone call came today...Jeff has been officially accepted to Baylor School of Medicine!!!! Our top pick!! We are just THRILLED!!! Houston here we come!

Tagged

8 T.V. Shows I watch:

1-Gilmore Girls (yes the reruns, but they are new for me)

2-The Office

3- Seinfeild (again reruns but they are new for me)

4-Lilo and Stitch (6 o'clock in the morning- more as background noise to keep Jeff and myself from falling back asleep)

5- What Not to Wear

6-John and Kate Plus 8

7-The News/CNN

8-Trading Spouses

8 Favorite Restaurants

1-Brick Oven

2-Zupa's

3-Olive Garden

4-Macaroni Grill

5-Bajio's

6-Cafe Rio

7-The Pizza Factory (For sentimental reasons)

8-Taco Time (Only because of Mango Tango Smoothies!!!)

8 Things that Happened Yesterday

1-Worked at American Fork Internal Medicine

2-Ate the most delicous salad for lunch from Wingers (thank you pharmaceutical reps!)

3-Ate a great dinner of scones, that my amazing husband made because he is so sweet!

4-Helped a lady get a refill on her Prozac (man my job is exciting)

5-Helped about a thousand people get their flu shots (Have you had YOURS yet?)

6-Read Agatha Cristi with Jeff before we went to bed

7- Searched my appartment up and down for my candle warmer that I might have DI'ed (WHY did I do that????)

8-Yes my life really is this exciting every day!

8 Things I'm Looking Forward to

1-Getting Health Insurance

2-Halloween

3-Thanksgiving

4-Hearing back from medical schools

5-Figuring out where we are going to be in a year

6-A mysterious package that is going to be coming in the mail soon

7-Starting a family (not for a while, please don't start rumors)

8-Our 6 month aniversary in 5 days! (Can you beleive that it has already been that long?)

8 Things on My Wish List

1-A meat mallet

2-New shoes to wear to work

3-A Bosch

4-A sewing machine

5-flannel sheets

6-A DSLR camera

7-A washer and dryer

8-A Burberry, "Mid Grey Melange" coat

8 People I'm Tagging:

I don't even think 8 people read my blog, so if you read this, you are tagged!!!

Bryce Canyon

I have a list of things I want to do in Utah before we move out of state. One item on my list is to visit Bryce Canyon with Jeff. I love Southern Utah and I wanted to share that with Jeff. So this weekend when we drove down to Southern Utah to visit my grandparents we went to Bryce Canyon!One of the best things to do at my Grandpa's house is go four-wheeling. Jeff is an awesome ATV driver!

Here we are at the end of our hike!


We took a trail that brought us down into the canyon to really see all the beauties of Bryce.



Jeff and Tyler causing havoc

Ashley, her boyfriend Tyler, me, Jeff, and Eric

Bryce Canyon is absolutely beautiful! I highly recommend visiting if you are ever in the area.

Graduated

Yes, I am now an official graduate!!! and best of all, I already have a job! I now work as a "Patient Service Representative" for IHC. Basically, I am trained in several hospitals and clinics in Provo and nearby cities including American Fork, Orem, Spanish Fork, etc. and I rotate between them as needed. So this last week I trained at the American Fork Internal Medicine Clinic. It was fun, I think I am going to like my new job. Best perk? Pharmaceutical Reps...I knew about the pens, notebooks, and such but they also buy the entire staff LUNCH practically everyday! Yesterday they brought us Cafe Rio. YUM.

2 More Interviews!!!

Well, it has been a crazy last week of school, but Jeff and I are surviving. I had my last class at BYU yesterday. Today will be my last day working at the writing lab, and in my research lab. I know that this is the last of everything, but my brain has not yet registered the fact. Someday it will hit me and I will realize "I'm graduated!" Until then, I will study for finals.

Graduation, shmadulation- the exciting news of the day is Jeff received two more invitations for medical school interviews! The first is BAYLOR!!!! and the second is Texas Southwestern! These are both during the first weekend of September. Jeff will fly to Houston and interview at Baylor and then early Saturday morning he will drive to Dallas to interview at Texas Southwestern that afternoon. I am excited because this time I am going to fly to Houston with Jeff! I can't wait to see everyone, and experience Texas in the summer...I hear it's a bit warmer than it was during Christmas.

Clarke Family Reunion

This weekend we drove south to Paraguana for the Clarke Family Reunion! We had the best time, and it was great to see everyone again. As always, it was way too short! Here's my nephew Brain. I love taking his picture. Babies are so photogenic!

Jeff had quite the challenge to learn all of my cousin's names this weekend- I have 39 cousins! By the end he could name off everyone's name, who their parents were, and where they were from. Good job Jeff!

Jamie and Becca

Jamie and her husband Mark. They were just married last week in the Nauvoo temple. Congratulations Jamie and Mark!

Saturday afternoon, Jeff and I sneaked away from the cabin to go for a walk and practice our photography skills. As you can tell, this cabin in out in the middle of nowhere- We loved it!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yea for birthdays! I just wanted to thank everyone who wished me a happy birthday. You guys are the best!!! Jeff made my birthday extra special! He made me an amazing breakfast, surprised me with my favorite flowers- Gerbera Daisies- and cooked up a great dinner complete with angel food cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting! YUM! (Are you asking why all the candles are bunched up on the top there? Well, OBVIOUSLY, they are suposed to write out 22).

We celebrated my birthday a week early because it fell on the Saturday of the Clarke family reunion. So on my actual birthday, my sister Jessica surprised me and made a cake at the cabin- it was awesome. I don't think I've ever had 2 birthday cakes before! (I look disheveled because we are camping- please ignore the hair)

Our First Interview!!

Jeff has his first med. school interview August 4th! We just heard word today. Looks like he is part of the very first week of interviews at UT San Antonio. Med school here we come!!!

Salas Family Reunion

I've been so busy with school that I'm a bit late posting my pictures. About 2 weeks ago, Jeff and I went camping with all of my family at Pine View. We had a blast! We love to camp! We were so excited to use our new tent and sleeping bags! Here we are- I love our matching shirts! My sister Ashley made them. Aren't they fun? The blue shirts say BYU and that brown thing sitting next to Jeff (on the t-shirt) is a rat!

Here's everyone! All in green.

This is my nephew Brian- He is just adorable!

Jeff and my brother Keith made the most amazing sandcastle at the beach.

Yes- that is an alligator protecting their castle!

After they finished they let Zachary destroy the castle- it took about 30 seconds!

Stadium of Fire

Last night Jeff and I worked at the Stadium of Fire. We worked security which meant we got to wear all black with an official bright yellow vest with SECURITY across the front and back, and of course sun glasses to ensure we looked intimidating! Why did we need to look so intimidating? So we can tell everyone they must throw away all their water bottles! (liquids are a security threat). It was great fun, on top of earning a bit of extra money, we got to listen to Hanna Montana (not our favorite) and Blue Man Group (Awesome!) and best of all we had amazing seats for the firework show! We were so close that we were hit with sparks falling from the sky!

As we were doing our security job duties, Blue Man Group walked right past us!!!

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!