Girl Time!

For the past few weeks Kelsie, Mariah and I have been getting together at least once a week to have lunch and watch chick flicks (so far we have watched Sydney White, Penelope, License to Wed and Eclipse!) Last week we decided to take a break from movies and do fondue! We melted chocolate and dipped strawberries, pretzels and we even made oreo truffles (which we found are a little bit addicting) to dip in it! It was super fun, even though a little bit messy. We even were nice enough to take some home to our husbands. : ) And Kelsie and Mariah--the ultimate homemakers--decided to take some pictures. We didn't take any pictures of the oreo truffles because although they are delicious, we couldn't figure out how to make them look anything but gross. ; ) It was a super fun day....but we missed our chick flick, so now it seems that we have to get together twice a week--once for homemaking and once for our movies!

My Quilt

When I got to Houston I was looking for jobs and trying to get interviews, but I also realized that I was going to have a lot of time on my hands while John was at school. One of my new friends here, Mariah, talked about how she loves to quilt and joked that she would teach me how if I wanted to. She was probably surprised when the next day I was like--Ya, I do want to learn. Teach me! And I think that day we went and bought fabric. And it actually went pretty quick with Mariah showing me what to do...and letting me use her sewing machine. : ) I was working on it mostly everyday until I got to the binding at the very end, and then it took me like two weeks...to finish one side. ; ) I guess I figured it was done enough, and I would get to it eventually. But now it is done, and I think it looks pretty cute! John confessed that when he first saw the colors for the middle of the quilt, he wasn't sure how much he liked it (too pastel! But of course he didn't tell me...) But now that it has the borders and it is all done he says he likes it. I like it too! Although I might wait a little bit to start another one. John also might not have been too excited by my quilt, because it is a BABY quilt...and he doesn't want me to get any ideas. haha. Just kidding. ; )

White Coat Ceremony

August 13th was John's White Coat Ceremony. It is actually a pretty big deal in Med School--the next big thing like this will be his graduation...in a few years. :) It is a ceremony where the older students put the white coat on the new students signifying that they are now official medical school students. John had to go early to get pictures taken and things, so I ended up driving over with Kelsie Peterson, who happens to live in our complex, is LDS, just came from BYU and whose husband is in John's med school class. It is nice to have someone to hang out with who is in my same situation! Anyway, I thought the white coat ceremony would be kind of boring (like graduation) but it was actually really interesting. The faculty speaker was chosen by the second year students and she was really good. Then there were 5 student speakers from 2-4 year. They were all really interesting and funny, especially the last one. He kept telling the 1st years how they could become a handsome, funny and amazing second year like he is. :) (Side note to that-the speaker was talking about being a intimidated 21 year-old first year, which means now he is 22....and John and I are old! There are a few other things that John has encountered with his classmates that remind us that we aren't at BYU anymore!) It was really a cool experience and got everyone excited to be in medical school (or wives or families of people in medical school) and for what is coming!

John with some other LDS guys in his class

All of the first year med students

Us with Mitch and Kelsie