Cabins, Shakespeare, and Scarlett O'Hara

This weekend Brian and I went down to Cedar City where we met my parents and my sister Karli. On Friday night we went to see Julius Caesar at the Shakespearean festival. It was a very good production. The actors spoke the lines from the play as they were, but they were dressed in modern clothing (ie. wearing business suites while at the capitol and wearing fatigues while on the battlefield). I thought this would really bother me, but it was actually a very good production. I didn't even notice the costumes after the first 20 mintues.
Then Friday night we went up to Duck Creek to stay in a cabin that my parents had rented. It was a very cute, cabin-y place and we had a blast there once we found it! Heading up the mountain in the dark, we had trouble finding the cabin because the cabins are not numbered in order! On the road Heavenly Dr., it goes #575, then #596, and then #566, which was the cabin we were staying in. Now that's good Utah sense right there. So after almost breaking in to the wrong cabin we finally decided to head back up the road and we found the right one. Thank goodness we figured this out before someone saw us trying to break into their neighbor's cabin!
Saturday afternoon we headed back down to Cedar City and saw another play called Moonlight and Magnolias. It was a farcical look at the week during which the screen play for the movie Gone With the Wind was written. It was very funny. These three characters are locked up in a room together for five days trying to get the screen play done. They start to get a little crazy towards the end and I couldn't help but think, "Hey, this is like me writing my thesis!" I could really empathize with the characters.
We had a great weekend, but it's back to real life now. Hopefully my attempts to finish my prospectus will turn out better than things turned out in the play!

This Sums It Up

For the past two weeks, Brian has been receiving more and more interviews for dental school. We are so grateful for all these opportunities. BUT this also means that we've been trying to schedule all the interviews and buy all the plane tickets to get there. We're trying to find flights that will work with my schedule (so I can take him to the airport), with our friends' and family's schedules (for those people who live in the cities where he'll be interviewing), and Brian's schedule (so that he doesn't miss too many school days in a row and flunk this semester, making all these interviews somewhat pointless). It's a little hectic.
Meanwhile I'm trying to work on my thesis at break-neck speed. I'm about halfway through my Review of Literature section and I'm trying to finish the other half by the end of the week. It's getting a little hairy, but at least it'll be over soon! Things are a little crazy right now, but life is still wonderful. Brian and I have so much fun together. It's so nice to be able to come home from a stressful day and just crack each other up while we cook dinner and do the dishes together. Thank goodness for having fun with the small things in life. It's like President Hinckley's quote about how you can't wait around for life to be perfect or you'll spend a lot of time feeling ripped off. You have to find joy in the small moments. Just a little philosophy that I'll slip in between all the craziness.

And Another One

Last night Brian got an invitation to interview with UNLV! We're very excited. That makes 6 interviews, and that means that he got invitations to interview with our top four choices. Life is sweet right now. Paying for all the flights and missing all that school, on the other hand....not as sweet....

And Another Interview

Brian was recently invited to interview with Loma Linda, a school in California. That makes 5! Isn't this guy amazing?

Timp Hike

This weekend we hiked up to the top of Mount Timpanogos. It was a long, steep, and challenging hike, but it was a lot of fun. Brian and I went with Brian's two little brothers, Todd and David. We had fun spending the day together and having so much time to talk. It was 7 miles up and 7 miles back, so after 14 miles of hiking, our legs were shot. My favorite parts of the hike were sliding down the glacier at the top, eating lunch at Emerald Lake, and climbing down a little 10 foot rock face when we went on the wrong trail and had to get down to a lower area. This is a picture of the waterfall that is along the trail about 2 miles up.


We are very sore today and we have nice little sunburns on our faces and necks. But what a beautiful hike!

Dental School Interviews

Congratulations to Brian! He has now received 4 interviews for school! There's still a possibility that he may receive more, but we're so excited that he already has 4. So far he's been invited to interview at Nova in Florida, at Case Western in Ohio, at USC in southern California, and at Midwestern in Phoenix, Arizona. We could be anywhere in the country next year, so we're excited to see how the interviews go and to see what schools he's accepted to. We are starting to feel more confident that we will get accepted to at least one school. Hurray for Brian!