Winning Prize

Congratulations, your prize is a beautiful white rose and a kiss from this cute little pig. Ok, this is kind of lame but i can't really find any pictures on the internet and unfortunately we can not post any of our own pictures for awhile.

MARK'S COMING HOME!!!!!!

I'm so excited Mark is coming home this weekend. I haven't seen him in two llllloooooonnnnngggg weeks. Unfortunately he leaves on Sunday to go back to Sioux Falls, but i'm so excited to see him I just had to tell everyone. :)

Mark's Surgery

I thought I would write a quick entry because Mark had a really exciting morning and I want to tell everyone about it. He got to see two total hip replacement surgeries today; Somehow he and another student arranged so that they could actually watch a surgery. Mark said that it was so cool. The surgeon made only a three inch incision and was still able to replace the whole hip. I just think it is amazing. He also said that the surgeon accidentally cut open a blood vessel and blood started spewing everywhere. He said it was really gross. He also mentioned that the smell was horrible, burnt flesh!! The surgeon was so nice to Mark, he took him to the surgeons lounge and feed Mark. He is also going to let Mark watch a knee replacement also. Mark thinks it is awesome. I don't know how well I could stomach it. :)

Ok, I'm finally creating a new post. I just hope I don't get introuble because I'm at work, but there is seriously nothing for me to do.

Anyway, i'll just quickly update everyone on what is going on in our lives. As you all probably know Mark is in South Dakota right now. This is his first of five clinical roations during the 3 year Physical Therapy program. He is liking the experience for the most part. This rotation is Acute Care, so he is working in a hospital. He is working on the cardio and pulminary Floor, so he sees a lot of elderly patience that have heart problems. The one thing that he really does not like about working in Acute Care is that sometimes he has to change dirty diapers . He has had some pretty nasty things happen. One persons cathedar spilled open all over the floor, one person can't control bowel movements and has to be constantly wiped and changed, there have been a couple other instances where he has had do deal with nasty body fluids. YUCK!!!! Also in a couple weeks he will be moving to the burns and wounds unit. That will also be quit the experience dealing with bed sours and other gross wounds.

Me, i have a new job at Fogg & Associates, patent law firm. I like it for the most part. There are some hard things about it but every job has those. It is so nice to have the weekends and nights off, although as soon as i have the weekends and nights off Mark leaves for SD so we don't get to spend time together anyway. We figured out that when he comes back in August it will have been 8 months since we have been able to see each other at nights and on Saturdays. Crazy!!! All i know is that i can't wait until August. It will be like a vacation everyday being with Mark.

The last couple of weeks have been super hard without Mark, but i think i'm handling it fairly well. I sleep on the couch, but other than that things are normal. I just try and keep myself busy so i don't think about being alone. Although, one of the most depressing things is getting on the train to come home from work and realizing Mark won't be there and i'm going to an empty appartment room. That may sound really sad, well it is, but i'm doing fine. Mark is able to come home most weekends, so it is fine.


(I'm really sorry about the poor spelling and grammer, i was never good at it and i really don't feel like going through and correcting all of it)

Happy Birthday

Mark's hair was getting so long. I just cut it this weekend but these are a couple of pictures before the hair cut. A couple weeks ago the YMCA had their annual "senior" prom. Mark and I helped out. These two pictures are of Mark right after the prom.

I turned 23 on May 14th. I can't believe I'm that old. Life is sure flying by way too fast. Most of my birthday morning I was getting stuff prepared for primary. I had to give sharing time that Sunday. Mark did make me breakfast though. After church and opening presents we went to River Falls, WI to celebrate Mother's day with Mark's family. It was such a fun day.


Mark caught me doing this on camera. I guess we have now proven that Isaac isn't the only one that rubs his hands together next to his face when he is excited.

Sorry, but these are the only pictures I could find to put on the blog. We really don't have very many recent pictures. We have both been so busy we don't even see each other in person let alone have time to take pictures of each other. I have been babysitting for a lady in our ward who is trying to finish her PhD and work at the YMCA in the evenings. I leave at 6:30 in the morning to babysat, go straight to the YMCA from babysitting and don't get home until 10:30 at night. Mark has been extremely busy with school. He has a few more weeks left of class then he will be going to Sioux Falls for the summer for his first Clinical experience.

I have recently been offered a really good job at a law firm downtown so I will not be going with Mark to Sioux Falls. We have had mixed feelings about the whole situation. We just felt that it would be best for me to take this job to help us out financially the next couple of years so we will not have to take out so many loans for school. (plus I won't have to work nights) So.......I'm not really looking forward to the summer anymore. The excitement of a new adventure was short lived. I'm stuck in Minneapolis for the summer by myself!



Mark bought me flowers a couple weeks ago when I came home from my surprise vacation to Kaysville. It was so nice to come home to a clean apartment, flowers and especially to Mark.

I have been looking at everyone elses blog and man ours is boring. Sorry, once again i don't have any pictures. I'm in kaysville right now helping out with the kids while my mom is in the hospital. It has actually been a nice brake for me not to work for a week. I have been feeling burned out. I babysit in the morning for a lady in our ward and then work in the afternoon and evening at the YMCA. It makes for long days. So i have been having lots of fun playing with the kids here. Poor Mark is still in Minnesota going to school. Well, that is about all that is going on in our life. Mark has a few more weeks of school before we move to Sioux Falls for a couple of months. We are moving the end of May. It is coming up fast.

Sioux Falls, SD

Oh, and just as a little update from us, Mark has his first Clinical for Physical therapy this summer, June and July, in Sioux Falls, SD. We looked on a map and it is really close to Ponca Nebraska, and sioux city, Iowa. We are really excited for the new experience.

Jackson Hole, WY

I thought that i would post this picture in honor of Minnesota Winter. Actually it really hasn't been that bad of a winter. I was really happy about that. It has been really warm the last couple of weeks. Raining quite a bit but still nice out. This picture was taken on our Honeymoon in Jackson Hole.

Dancing

Now, Here is some dancing pictures of me. The bottom picture is of me doing a yoga move. Mark and i had fun playing with picture on the computer.



Over Christmas brake Mark didn't shave much....but when he did he decided to have a mustache, a sweet mustache. I came home from work on our one year aniversary and Mark had this long mustache. I dared him to keep it for our dinner and play date, but he eventually shaved it.