Houstonians

Can believe that is what they call themselves? I guess what else would you call yourself if you lived in houston texas? Houstites? That would be weird. But whatever you call them...we are soon to be one. I know crazy, i literally researched hurricanes for like 2 hours this morning. IKE was bad last year, but they have been pretty few and far between. I guess we will just have to make friends in Austin, and we already have friends in WACO...so hopefully we will survive the storms if they come. This is going to be a huge move for us, can't really say I am excited to move...but I am excited for adventure. We all need it right?

Friends are Friends forever

Love these girls (and others who could not come).

We made it

So...don't know if you all watch the news, but DENVER received 12 blessed inches of snow the day before we got there. Thank you earth. Anyways, we got to Denver on Saturday, and low and behold the architecture school at university of colorado, denver was having an open house for an event called "DOORS OPEN DENVER." We happened to come on the perfect day and sterling was able to see tons of student work and talk to professors, actually, thank you earth for real for giving us terrible weather, allowing us to stay in a shady motel in laramie, and come on the perfect day.

We then ventured to albuquerque, what a city. Very much more culturally diverse than pocatello, and on our first night there we stopped at pizza hut for some gourmet cooking and I felt like I might get shot. But the next day was great, I had an interview at the hospital that went well. The facilities were amzazing. They have a new children's hospital there which is phenomenal. Sterling loved the building where they house the architecture school, brand new, but we are still unsure where we will go to school. So no questions/announcements yet. I will probably entitle my next post as...GUESS WHAT IT IS or ANNOUNCEMENT...so people think I am pregnant, and then we will totally spoil MO-bloggers wishes and announce where we are going to school. HA HA-take that.
Well... that's us.

"road trip"

stayed in rock springs wyo all day due to road closures, now stuck in laramie in a shady motel, can't wait for it to warm up...and reach our destinations (denver and albuquerque). Oh well, gotta love the weather of the west.

Changed my mind

I had a post that ranted and raved, but I decided to erase it. I am a chicken. But hope you are all doing well.

Hades

Well, Let's just say we had a rough weekend. Which is good for us, because we need humbling every now and again. We decided to venture up to my parents cabin for the weekend. We arrived at approximately 10pm friday night, only for sterling to find he had to hike in snow to his waist to get to the cabin door. He was greeted with a massive amount of chill inside the cabin. We dared not try to turn on the water that night so we turned on the heat, watched a movie, and fell asleep. Day 2 of vacation from Hello, Sterling spent the day trying to pry open the frozen shut garage and dig out a well. I ventured to Alpine Wy to find winterizer because I was convinced we were leaving and this was all not worth it. Sterling finally opened the garage, crawled in the well, but no water to the cabin. AHHHHHHHHHH so annoying. Needless to say, we went without water for three days. I melted a crap load of snow so we could do dishes and flush the toilet (two times the whole weekend). We did stay warm however which was grand! Sunday we woke up with fresh spirits and attended sacrament meeting in Swan Valley. That ward is great, we always enjoy it when we go there. Probably 75% of the ward came up to us and said hello.
We decided to venture home after returning to the cabin for some breakfast! We were loving our drive home from the cabin and even had the sunroof open. Sterling gave me a new pair of sunglasses recently that I love and I was eager to wear them (sidenote, sorry). We were just commenting how blessed we were and how much we have when all of a sudden we came around a curve, and due to the melting snow and excellent weather, there was a ginormous rock in the road. Sterling could not swerve because we were going around a corner and he didn't want to have a head on, and to the right were more rocks, so we went straight over it. I heard the loudest crunch under the car and we immediately pulled over. OIL EVERYWHERE!!!! There was so much fluid leaking under the car it was unbelievable. We called roadside assistance and they said our insurance would only cover, listen to this, NINE miles! We were a hundred miles from home. Disaster. Needless to say my amazing parents came to the rescue, found a trailor, and drove two hours to tow our car home. Getting the car on the trailor was another disaster in itself. We hitchhiked, yes hitchhiked back to the cabin so we didn't freeze in the car waiting three hours for my parents. What a weekend. Good news, insurance is covering the cost of the accident so we only have to pay our small deductable, thank goodness!

On a better note, Sterling was accepted to the University of New Mexico for architecture graduate program. Sterling found this out on the Friday before his huge senior art show. That weekend he pulled 2 all nighters, and slept a total of 4 hours. He to conduct sacrament meeting, on four hours of sleep, poor guy. The show was amazing and I am sooooooo proud of him. He is an incredible artist.

I have three more weeks of clincial education and then I AM DONE FOREVER!!!! I cannot wait. I have been trying to study for boards, but I have been extremely busy which is so lame-o. So that's us, we have had a wonderful couple of months, busy but wonderful!