Gingerbread Houses!

It's been a while since I've posted anything; we haven't had much going on and haven't had much time to sit and put things online. I'll try to catch up on some of the things we've done. This last Monday, we got together with the Sommerfeldts and made gingerbread houses. I'd never made real gingerbread before by myself, and that was an adventure. When the recipe says 6 1/2 cups of cake flour, you probably don't really need that much real flour. Be careful. It makes your KitchenAid make funny noises.

This is my best friend, Claire. She didn't make a gingerbread house, but did sample all of the candy to make sure it was safe to eat. : )

Laurel's house was much more artistic than ours.

See our little Santas on top? They even have sleighs. The Sommerfeldts have reindeer. We aren't as cool so we just copied their Santa and Laurel made us a sleigh. Ours is the one on the left.

Stinkin' Jazz

A few weeks ago we got to go to a Jazz game courtesy of one of Matt's patients. It was my first Jazz game, and not suprisingly, the Jazz lost at the last second to the Bulls.

Thanks, Matt

I just wanted to do one quick post and publicly tell the best husband in the world thanks. Thanks, Matt, for being the best person in the world, for being extreemly supportive, for being the one who always knows what's best, and who always knows what to say at just the right time. I appreciate your kindness and love for me even on the hard days. I love you and am so grateful that I was lucky enough to be your girl. Thanks!

They lost his luggage!

At this very moment, Matt is in Arizona heading to his interview at Midwestern. This is the school that we want to get into. Last night, Matt calls me and says, "I'm here at the airport, but I can't find my luggage." The airport didn't put his luggage on the plane!!!!!!! So, Matt doesn't have his suit, his shoes, his tie, his shirt, his razor, his toothbrush, or anything else you would absolutely want to have the day you go to interview. He borrowed some slacks, a shirt and a blazer from his uncle Logan. Meanwhile, I am freaking out. What is he going to do? If I were the one interviewing, I would have panicked and gone to WalMart in search of the things I lost. Matt, on the other hand, won't let this kind of thing worry him. Good thing it's him and not me.

Apples!

Earlier this month, our ward did an applesauce canning activity where we could buy quarts of apple sauce for $1.25. Thinking this was a deal-of-a-lifetime, I bought 12 quarts. The week after, I got a bunch of apples from Matt's grandma and grandpa Bradshaw (and thank you Lori for getting them to us!). There was no way Matt and I could eat so many apples and not have some dire consequences, so I decided to can them. So with my mom's recipe, and Matt's mom's canner, I began the chore of canning the apples. I ended up with 14 quarts of apple pie filling, 6 pints of apples, plus the 6 other jars of apple pie filling my mom gave me last month. Now, we have no where to put our 40 jars of apples. I don't know what I was thinking, but if the stores stop selling apples, we'll be okay.

Matt has been accepted to Medical School!

We've been accepted to AT Still in Kirksville, Missouri! Well, Matt has. We aren't sure if that's where we'll be going since Matt still has 3 more interviews to go in the next few weeks.

The 5K

The morning of the race, it was 30 degrees. Burr. Then, during the race, the weather didn't feel all that bad. It was cool and refreshing. But when the race was done, I got cold again. Then about an hour after the race, it snowed and snowed and got colder and colder.

We were freezing, if you can't tell. The wind always blows in Idaho Falls, so it didn't help our cause.
Hannah is finishing the race here. She walked the first lap, and ran the second, and somehow beat Nicole, who ran both laps. We think Hannah may have cut some corners. : )

My mom beat all of us. Nice job, mom!

Lawrence, Kansas and Kirksville, Missouri

This last week, Matt had a med school interview in Missouri. Matt's older brother and his family live in Lawrence, Kansas, so we got to stay with them for a few days. It was a lot of fun to see the world outside of Utah and remind ourselves that it really does exist.

First of all, come on Utah. Seriously? The gas is 2.49 in Missouri and falling. Let's get with the program here.

This was the tiny plane we flew on. I had to take a picture because I've never been on a plane that was small enough that you had to walk out on the tarmac to board. When we came home, they didn't even put that nice little ramp up. We walked down those little stairs, and I thought to myself, "No wonder the Presidents of the United States have fallen down these steps before. They're tricky."We were welcomed with a lovely sign...

Went to the pumpkin patch,

went on a slide,

and attended "A Night in the Phog"
where we saw Bill Self,
the old basketball court,

the trophy from the Orange Bowl,

and the trophy.

We also got to sample some of the famous Kansas City Bar-B-Que. Needless to say, Kansas City, Kansas is kind of scary. Kansas City, Missouri, from what I hear, is better. We got to see a lovely tour of the slums of Kansas City because of the police officers who kept blocking off the streets we needed to be on for what I'm sure was a sudden slew of simultaneous gang related drive-by-shootings. Or something like that. Whatever it was, we were sure that if we hung around any longer, we'd wind up on an episode of COPS.
I had no idea, but Missouri was beautiful. We didn't take many pictures on interview day, because we were inside the whole day. This is the sunrise coming into Missouri, though. The interview went well though, and we expect to hear from the school late this week.