Happy 2nd Anniversary!

Today is our 2nd Wedding Anniversary. I can't believe how the time has flown by during the past 2 years. Thanks for all the you do for me Honey Buns! I love you so much and look forward to many more years together.

Goodbye Butters

Today I came home from work and found that Buttercup had died sometime during the day. It's funny how attached you get to somthing, even if it is a rodent. I had known that this was going to be coming soon because she wasn't eating or drinking or doing anything but sleeping during the past couple days but it's still a shocker. Buttercup was one of my Christmas presents in 2008 so she lived for about a year and a half, which is a pretty normal life span for a hamster.

I will miss waking up in the middle of the night and hearing you running in your wheel as fast as you can. The nights will be pretty quiet now. I'm sure David will love that. Thanks for all the adventures you led us on when you found a way to escape out of your cage and were running around somewhere in our house. You will be missed Buttercup!

Buttercup was quite the acrobat. She was always climbing up her cage and hanging like this from the top. Goodbye Butters!

Welcome Celebration!

Monday evening, April 5, the Weber State Dental Hygiene department had their annual Welcome Celebration for the incoming students. While I was at the meeting they awarded scholarships to the incoming seniors, introduced the class officers, showed a fun video of "An Ordinary Day in the Clinic," and introduced us to our very own peer pal. After all of this we went upstairs to the dental hygiene department and had dinner and got to know our peer pals and the other girls in our class. My peer pal's name is Tiauna Bates and she is so much fun. I met her a few weeks earlier when I was at my interview and I thought she was a fun girl then so when I found out she was my pal I was very happy. I am super excited to have her help me out when needed. After dinner was finished and we had a chance to talk with the people at our table and get to know the professors a little bit we ordered our very own lab coats. I was super excited for this! (Except for the cost but I better get used to it after looking over the list of expenses) My dream is finally becoming a reality and I couldn't be happier!!!!! I've only waited for this since I was five years old. This morning I was able to register for my fall classes. I could not wait to see what my schedule was like. I'm so excited to be going back to school. We'll see what I say about this in about November!

Funny Moment

Remember how in my last post I was saying how our two dogs keep finding ways to get out of our yard? Well I have a funny moment to go along with that. The other night David was at a presentation at school to get extra credit for one of his classes. I was home alone enjoying myself and watching The Biggest Loser. During one of the commercials I decided I better check on the dogs and make sure they were still in the yard. I looked out the windows and couldn't see them anywhere so I hurried and put my shoes on and walked outside. They were still no where to be seen and they didn't come running to me like they usually do when they hear the back door open and close. I checked back behind the shed and still no dogs. "Oh crap. Why don't they just stay where we put them!" I walked back to the house and noticed that they were both in the neighbors yard sniffing around. Well as soon as Josie saw me (she is our cute little chiweiner) she ran back under the fence where they had escaped and tried to run past me. I caught her and then trying to get Sammy (the black lab) to come back home was the hard part. I called her name, told her to get back over here, go around the front yard and get back here, and I called her full name, Samantha, thats when she knows she is in trouble, but she still wouldn't come. Because of this I had to walk across the back yard, then across the front yard and into the neightbors yard to finally get her to listen to me and come home. I then put both of them into the dog run so that I wouldn't have to worry about them and I could finish watching The Biggest Loser. During the next commercial I went to the laundry room window and looked into the dog run and I could tell that Josie had climbed up the chicken wire and escaped out of the dog run. UGH!! I put my shoes back on, walked outside and Josie went running past me as fast as she could. I yelled "HEY" pretty loud and she turned around and came to me. I then picked her up and held her right in front of my face and told her "Stay where I put you!" I turned around to go back into the house and put Josie in the garage and there was our neighbor standing in his backyard with a horrified look on his face. I didn't think anything of the look on his face at the time and asked him if he had found her and put her back in our yard. He said "Yes, she was just right here in our yard. I'm not sure how she got over here." I showed him the hole that the dogs had found and mentioned that we will fix it this weekend, thanked him for getting Josie, and walked back into the house. Later that night I realized why our neighbor probably had a horrified look on his face when I turned around. I'm guessing that when he found her he picked her up and put her on our side of the fence but kind of had to drop her to get her on our side. Then, here I come outside, swinging the door open and closed and yelling HEY without knowing he was out there. He probably thought I was mad at him for touching my dog! Anyways, thats my funny moment. I have been laughing about it all week.

What's Been Happening Lately

So it's been a while since I updated our blog so I better catch up on whats been happening in our lives lately. We've both been busy with work, as usual, and David has been going crazy with school. He's counting down the days till this semester is over. Spring break was two weeks ago and we loved every minute of it. We were able to spend the evenings together, which right now with David's night classes we don't see each other till about eight o'clock. During spring break week we were finally able to get the gates put up on the east side of our yard to keep our two fun loving puppies inside the yard. Sammy loves to wonder off and meet new people and see new things so this new addition to the yard wasn't really welcomed by her and she found another way out of the yard within a few days. Gotta love the curiosity of a dog.

The next week it was back to school and our usual routines. Tuesday night we were invited to go snowmobiling with a group of friends and family on Saturday and we were both looking forward to that. Thursday David's boss came to him and of course, because we had something planned, he asked him to work on Saturday. I wasn't very happy to miss out on the snowmobiling day but by Friday afternoon David had talked me into going anyway and riding the snowmobile by myself. I was very excited to go snowmobiling for the first time this year but nervous at the same time to be maneuvering the big, heavy M8 on my own without David there to help me if I needed it. I knew that the other guys who were going would take good care of me so I figured I would be okay to go. I had so much fun and did a lot better on the snowmobile in the powder by myself than I thought I would. I was definitely sore afterwords! I thought I wouldn't be able to move my arms for a week but after a few days my arms and shoulders were back to normal. Thats a glimpse of our lives during the past few weeks and hopefully I will keep the blog more up to date now.

Acceptance Letter

Last Thursday (March 11) I finally received the letter that I have been waiting to receive for the past four years. I have been accepted to the Weber State University Dental Hygiene program! I am so excited to start school in August. I know it will be tough but I am ready for it. On April 5 they are having a welcome celebration and I can't wait to go and meet the students who I will basically be spending the next 2 years of my life with. Besides this news David and I haven't had too much else going on. David is on spring break this week and we have been enjoying the time that we are able to spend together after work.

Dental Hygiene Interview

At the end of January I turned in my application for the dental hygiene program at Weber State University for the fourth time. Since then I have been patiently waiting for the letter that tells me that I have been accepted for the graduating class of 2012. I thought that this would be easy this year and that I would be in the program for sure since I was an alternate for last year. At the end of February I received an email from the dental hygiene department that I had been selected to advance in the application process and that I needed to call and schedule an appointment for an interview on March 1, 3, or 5. I immediately had butterflies fill up my stomach. I didn't think that they still did interviews for applicants, I thought it was all based on points. I got on the phone and scheduled my interview for Wednesday March 3. I had a week and a half to wait and worry about it. The day finally came and as I got ready to leave work early for my interview I again got butterflies and I couldn't keep my hands still, they were shaking because I was nervous. By the time I had gotten home and changed my cloths and was backing out the driveway to go to my interview I had calmed down. I got to the school and had to walk what felt like five miles in high heels up hill to get to the dental hygiene department. When I went inside there were three girls there to greet me. They introduced themselves and told me that they were first year students in the dental hygiene program. They got me checked in and then took me on a tour. I have been wanting to see the dental hygiene area and the operatories for a long time and it was so much fun to see where I will be spending all my time for two years. When the tour was over they took me back to the area where they were having the interviews and I had to sit and wait for them to call my name. After a few mintues of sitting there trying to stay calm a lady came out and called my name. She took me into a room where there were three other people sitting at a table. They introduced themselves to me and told me what to expect during the interview. They each asked me one question, I only remember three of them but here is what they were and what I answered (the best that I can remember). Q. What has made you want to be a dental hygienist? A. I have wanted to go into dentistry since the first time I went to the dentist when I was little. Dental hygiene has always intrigued me and I enjoy helping people. Q. Why do you think that you would be a good addition to the dental hygiene program? A. Like I said earlier being a dental hygienist has always been a goal of mine and I feel that I am very motivated because of this desire. I have found that while working at a dental office for the past three years as the hygiene assistant I really do love the job and love helping people. Q. If I was asked to do something by a supervisor that wasn't the way I would do it what would I do? A. I face this kind of situation a lot in the office that I work in now. I always will go and try to accomplish the task the way that she has asked me but if I know of a way that is more efficient I will go to her and discuss why I think we should do it the other way and try to come to a compromise between the two of us. After I gave this answer the same lady asked me what would I do if I was asked to do something that was unethical. This is where I really got uncomfortable. I answered by saying I wouldn't even try and they all kind of snickered at me and the lady said "You wouldn't even try?!" like I was crazy. This is where I thought the interview went all down hill. I explained myself and told them that I want to always be ethical. I told them that I would go to that person and explain why I wouldn't do what they had asked me to do because I believed that it was unethical and try and find a way to complete the task in a way that is ethical. After this they asked if I had any questions for them and they told me that they will be sending out the final letters next week. When I walked out of the office and started making my way out of the building I was fighting back tears. When they laughed at me I was crushed. I thought that I had totally blown the interview. As I thought about the questions and how I answered later on through the night I started feeling better about the interview and I think that I did do a great job, I just hope that it was good enough. I can't wait another year to start the dental hygiene program. I want to get on with my life. Now I just need to wait another week and a half or two to find out. Wish me luck!!!