MCAT

As many of you know Glen is currently applying to Medical School. The MCAT is a standardized test that you have to take before you apply and then schools decide if your smart enough or not based on your score. Glen took it the first time back in June. He had spent 2 weeks doing research in Puru, came back, studied for 2 weeks and then took the test. The MCAT was a swear word at our house after we got that score back. It wasn't terrible but definitely not what we wanted, but for how little he put in he did pretty well. He contacted a few schools and they recommended he take the test again and see if he could get a higher score because even one or two points could make a difference! He signed up to take it again and for the next 6 weeks he seriously studied his A$$ off! I was basically a widow and picked up extra shifts at the care home. Well....we got his score back this week and we are SO ecstatic! He improved his score by 5 points which is HUGE! This is the difference between getting into Med School or not. I am so proud of his large brain and dedication. He put so much work and effort into studying that It's nice to see our hard work paying off. I made a banner and cookies so when Glen got off work we could celebrate. The next night we went out with a couple friends to Gaucho Brazilian Grill for a nice, and expensive dinner! We enjoyed every second of it! So proud of you Glen. We're one step closer to Med School.

 

Brazilian Grill with some of our Favorite couples! David and Mara, Michael and Branae

Birthday, Halloween, and Good Company

The past few weeks have been so busy and I keep taking a look back and wondering how I got this far! September 23rd we celebrated Neal Harlan's 23rd birthday! I can't believe he has been gone for 5 birthdays! I forgot that morning and then when I realized it was his birthday I couldn't stop crying the rest of the day...but never fear, cupcakes are here! We stopped by and got 4 delicious cupcakes then spent the night with our favorite Zolman family playing croquet, eating way to spicy jalapeno poppers, and a good movie!

This is the only picture we have of Neal's last Birthday with us!

Cupcakes make everything better!

 I also decorated my house for Halloween! HOORAY! I couldn't wait to break out all my stuff, I love this holiday way to much, even though It stresses me out because I never know what I'm going to be until a few hours before I have to be somewhere in my costume! Cheers to freaking Halloween and Cheers to all of it's goodness!

We started out Conference Weekend with a bunch of sealings of important people at the Bountiful temple, pics to come? Eh probably not because Camille has them all. We then spent the night at Glen's sisters house in Layton. We love the Thompson Family! We headed to SLC where we met up with Ryan, Glen's brother and his cute wife Jordan and baby Blaire. We enjoyed a nice lunch at Pei Wei and some good shopping at Nordy's Rack! We ended with a divine dinner at the Bennion's and headed down to the Harlan's where we mostly slept and ate and Chloe, bless her heart, did these pregnant lady's toes! I think Chloe could join the ranks of an Asian she is so good at nails! It was a successful weekend!

Glen and Blaire

My amazing toes Chloe Noel did! She has to have Chinese in her blood!

On October 13th we went to Idaho Falls so Glen could participate in blessing our new baby niece Ivy Mae Leavitt. We loved being there and the good food and company. It's so crazy to think that in a few short months that will be us. I don't know if I'm quite ready yet.

This is cute Ivy Mae on her blessing day! (I gave her that headband!) Check out Karly's blog She's an amazing photographer!

St. George and Stuff

We had such a fabulous weekend down in St. George with the whole Harlan crew, minus Chloe. Glen finished taking the "test that shall not be named" (MCAT) so to celebrate we left town early and skipped class and hitched a ride with the Harlan's. I love vacations but the worst part is knowing what you have to come home to. We came home to school, cleaning, homework, tests, and worst of all a stinky house because I forgot to take the trash when we left so it smelt like a bunch of dead pets filled out house. I took my first Chemistry test and  I'm pretty sure I did decent thanks to my brilliant husband who makes more sense in 5 minutes than my professor has in 10+ hours of class, but my professor does have one thing going for him and that's his voice, it sounds like he's straight off of a cartoon of some sort. But hooray that that is done. We enjoyed some great tennis watching thanks to Kelbie Emma, good Thai food, pool time and of course a good caving experience, although it is getting harder to crawl through small spaces with this belly that is forming.

This is us in the deep dark cave, apparently my shirt is a little too small

Looking at caves

 Me attempting in the background to get into the cave

It was a fun successful weekend! Thanks Camille for letting me steal your pictures :)

I also had the most ridiculous assignment for Interior Design, which I was taking for a "fun class", but turns out it's adding a little too much stress to my life and I'm not so sure that it's going to be enjoyable like I thought it was when I signed up for it. We had to take pictures of the Alphabet letters in architecture or nature. It was freaking hard and I suck at binding books, so I found out, I thought maybe everyone else had the same problem I did with binding, but when I turned mine in everyone else looked like they were professional book binders. Where did they all learn to do that? Not YouTube cause I tried that!