Hey there, stranger!

Hey! Long time, no see!

 I know, you saw us pop up in your blog reader or facebook feed and thought, "Wow, I don't remember the last time they blogged..." My good buddy Aaron even said, "Yeah, you're blog died a horrible death." I couldn't agree more. We are sporadic bloggers, I admit. I commit to being better....at least until medical school starts. If all you did was read our blog and nothing else, you just  re-read that last sentence. Medical school?? Last time we blogged we said that we got a new dog, Sunny. An insane amount of stuff has happened since then! It is going to be an arduous task to try to recap it all. I will blog separately for a few of the main points, but the main gist of the past 9 months has been as follows (picture me saying it all in one breath): we got our little Sunny girl (and she really has been our little best friend), I got 3 medical school interview invites. I went to one of those (out in Erie, PA) and was accepted! (Yeah, I still have to pinch myself to make sure it's true.....more about this topic later), We surprised my family up in Utah for the Christmas holiday. We spent the New Year holiday in Kerrville, TX (just outside San Antonio) to be with Joan's family as her grandparents passed away :(. I got a job at a pediatric clinic here in Fort Worth. Joan visited her best friend Tamanna in Seattle (we miss them). I witnessed the marriage of one of my best friends, Dusty. I believe Joan has finally subdued the beast that is: deciding on a career that she loves (as opposed to the one she is in now that she doesn't love). Joan went to Norway with her mom and sisters for 9 days. I finally finished all my undergrad and pre-reqs for medschool (Halle-freaking-lujah). So, we're all caught up now, right?

Part of the reason why we wanted to revive the blog lately is because of our summer plans. They are insane.... The above picture is an illustration of where we will be throughout the next two months. You just tried to look more closely at the picture and noticed the red lines going over the big blue part... right? Europe?! O....M.....G...... Yeah, we're pretty excited too! Let's slow down though. We'll get to that. In fact, I think I'd rather post solely about Europe in the next post. So, relax. I wanna talk about where we are going to be for the next four + years... Pennsylvania!l

Wooh! PA is just as exciting as Europe?! Okay, probably not exciting for you. But it is for us! I was accepted to LECOM (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine).

The school is the biggest medical school in the nation. It has three branches (Erie, PA; Bradenton, FL; and Greensburg, PA<-- where I'll be!). We're stoked. We will be moving our stuff up there at the beginning of July. So, if you are able to follow the dots on the map, this is our itinerary:

End of this month: Drive down to Houston to drop our little Sunny off at Joan's parent's place (not for good, just while we move and are in Europe). We're also going to try to make a stop at Schlitterbahn (it's like the Disneyland of water parks).
July 2: We're off!
July 2,3: We stop in Louisville, KY to hang out with our good friends Jeremy and Kim! We're glad they are going to be close to us. (And by close...I mean 7 hours away...)
Once we get into Greensburg we'll unpack the Uhaul into a storage unit for a month.
July 4th: Our flight leaves from Pitt to Boston to Chicago and finally to Dublin, Ireland!




Welcome back to our blog! Stay tuned for the Europe trip details soon...