Fanksgiving!

It would be terrible if I didn't take five minutes and write the things I am grateful for. Isn't that what Thanksgiving is about? Recognizing everything we have and taking a moment to step back and look at our loved ones around us. Life is so good.

Thanksgiving this year was spent at the Harlan's. Small and perfect. We had All the Harlan's-minus Bri, Ty, and Baby Han unfortunately, but everyone else was here! Douger, Barb and Justin joined us for the feast. I think being pregnant I didn't quite enjoy Thanksgiving like I usually do, I think it was because after not even eating half of the things on my plate I felt like the baby was going to explode out of my abdomen with a BANG like in the comic strips. I have to say the Sock-it-to-ya salad and the yams alone about did me in! But I prevailed and ate to my hearts content.

After we finished dinner Grammy and Grandpa and the Morris' joined us. We sat and talked and laughed. I was so overwhelmed with a sense of love for my family around me. I sometimes forget what a big difference they really do make in our lives. I thought a lot about Neal too. I miss him especially when we're all together like this, it just doesn't seem right. But it is alright.

Since I'm 20 I will write 20 things I'm grateful for....

1. Toilet Paper (i'd starve before I would go without it)
2. My own family! (BABY COME SOON!)
3. New computers so I can be a better blogger (Got a MAC)
4. My clothes in my closet, since I haven't been able to fit in them a new appreciation has risen.
5. Marshmallow Maytey's
6. 2% milk
7. My family of course!
8. Martinelli's because it's the closest thing i'll ever get to a alcoholic drink
9. Crown Moldings
10. Education
11. Instagram and all it's glory.
12. My amazing bed, this is an understatement, I love my bed.
13. Tea, Hot cocoa, and other hot things!
14. The sun
15. Glen being successful and being SO close to getting into Med School!
16. Glen tutoring me in Chemistry, I would be failing if it wasn't for you babe!
17. Friends and all their hilariousness, kindness, and excitedness for my new baby.
18. Fur, I just love fur right now.
19. Gimli, he's too cute to not be grateful for him
20. Razors, because otherwise I would be a part looking monkey woman.


I really am grateful for a lot of things. Our lives almost seem too perfect, like it's almost been too easy. Glen and I are so happy, yah a little stressed about a new baby (what's new??), but overall we have an great life together full of laughs hourly. Times are hard but times are good and for the most part these are good times and I should appreciate them because you never know what's around the corner. So for that I am thankful.

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Med School Interviews

Well Glen has heard back from 3 schools. Rocky Vista in Denver rejected him, but we don't like them anyways because his scores were way above their average so I think he's too good to go somewhere like that anyways! (we keep telling ourselves that so we don't feel to bad ha!) But really the only good thing that came out of Colorado was The Lumineers and people only know them because of a one hit wonder that personally has gotten so old as far as I'm concerned my grandmother listened to it. Yes, they're from Denver, and now you have another piece of useless information in your brain.

 Midwestern in Arizona put Glen on a wait list which isn't a bad thing. He still has a chance of getting an interview especially as they are rolling enrollment which means as someone drops out they add someone. 

Pacific Northwest in Washington state is so far our favorite because get this, GLEN GOT AN INTERVIEW! We are so excited because I've always loved the northwest and could seriously live there. He flies out January 9th (hopefully the baby is here by then, if not just kill me) He has his flight booked and we are seriously praying our hearts out that it goes well. I was so excited that I started researching the town that the Medical School is in. Yakima. let's just say I'm not quite as excited as I was..... See for yourself.

 As you can see it looks exactly like Utah, which is exactly what I don't want. But I'm still happy that Glen got an interview. And it's nice to know that the picture on the left is only an hour drive away...

We were so happy Glen got an interview that we stopped an got some Martinelli's and had a toast (ignore the ugly scrubs)

Baby Shower

Last weekend my beautiful family threw me the prettiest baby shower I have ever seen! They had a Fall theme and the food was absolutely divine. Briana and Hannah came out all the way from Delaware and were able to be there! Here are some of the beautiful pictures from the shower, just to give you a taste of how perfect it was! Thanks to all the beauties who made it!

 Yummy Ginger-Ale & Apple juice concoction

 

Pumpkin cheese balls!

Pumpkin rolls and tarts

Family Pictures :)

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!