University of Houston

GOOD NEWS!! BUT NOT GREAT NEWS.... I just got a call yesterday afternoon from the admissions department of University of Houston College of Optometry. They asked me to come for an interview on one of the two first weekends of their interview process, so either the 4th of September or the 18th of September. So I am actually going the same weekend I am heading to Illinois to see Grandma Sloan, the 18th. The funny thing about getting an interview is that they don't even have my optomcas application (this is the centralized application process that will be sent out on September 7th to all of my schools). So all they have is my OAT scores and one essay that I sent directly to their school. Anyway so I already bought my flight and my rental car and Kirk's sister is letting me stay at her place in Houston for two nights. So wish me luck.

Beat the Toaster!!!

In Rexburg there is a radio station called 105.5 "The Hawk". Every morning at 6:42am they do a contest called "Beat the Toaster" where you have 30 seconds (how long it takes for the toast to pop up) to answer three questions correctly. Well that is the time that my car pool is always on the way to work so through out the summer I have beat the toaster 3 times and my carpool has won around 11 times. This was one of the prizes that I won. I forgot how good ice tea tastes!!!

I thought that it would fun for me to post the questions that I had to answer to win the prizes: For this one the questions were... 1) What state is home to the painted desert? 2)What U.S. city is home to the cable car museum? 3) What city in Europe are all 4 "Beatles" from? (I thought Meg would be very proud that I got this one right) The next prize that I won was 4 tickets to a cage match in Rigby Idaho: The questions were... 1) What does Miss Piggie and the Mona Lisa have in common? 2) What did Little Bo Peeps sheep lose? 3) What shoe do people put over their front doors for good luck? The last prize I got this summer were two tickets to see X Games 3D, and two tickets to "Post Grad": The questions were... 1) Spell Eee-j-i-pp-ed ( I can't spell out the question so this is a country in Africa) 2) Is the last scene in the Wizard of Oz in color? 3) Would you wear a chronometer on your body? And what is it? I hope you all do well...

It's about time.......

...Krew earns his keep!

Usually when I'm doing the dishes Krew will just stand in front of the dishwasher and pulls out the silverware as I'm putting them in and throwing them on the floor(we don't use our dishwasher to wash our dishes we use it as a drainer). He has recently been pulling himself on the dishwasher door and standing on it so he can get to the dishes on top. Well I started to get sick of that it wasn't safe and it was annoying to have to wash dishes multiple time so I put him in the sink as I washed the dishes and he kept reaching for the sponge to wash the dishes so I let him wash a little bit. You would have thought I gave him the best prize ever, he LOVED it .

We did it

We have applied to optometry school. It is now up to the schools. Here are the 5 schools that we applied to out of the 20 schools in the country:

Southern College of Optometry - Memphis, Tennessee

Southern California of Optometry - Fullerton, California (30 min away from Anaheim/Disneyland

Pacific University College of optometry - Forest Grove, Oregon

Pennsylvania College of Optometry - Elkins Park Pennsylvania

University of Houston College of Optometry - Houston Texas

We are excited and nervous at the same time!

Here is the moment that we pressed send......a moment that will determine the rest of our lives!!

Optometry school applications

Last night Brandon and I finished up his application for optometry school. It's really nerve racking, oh it makes me so nervous. I Believe in my husband so much!! I know that he will get into optometry school it's just a matter of where. We have our top two schools, Southern college of Optometry, in Memphis Tennessee and Southern California college of Optometry.A Part of us only wants to apply to only these schools (since it's EXPENSIVE to apply)But we want to make sure we aren't to cocky so we are trying to decide how many other schools we should apply to. I'm just afraid that we are going to be too confident in Brandon's OAT score, since he did so well, that it will bite us in the butt and we wont even get in and we will have to wait a whole other year before could apply again. I can't wait for all of this to be over with and know for sure where we will be next year.

one year photo shoot

My baby is growing up!! He's walking every where now it's crazy!! I can't believe how fast he is growing. Here are his stats (since I forgot to put them on earlier.)

Weight: 19.7 lbs = 8th percentile

Height: 29.5 in = 37th percentile

Heard circumference: 18 in = 29th percentile

So he is on the smaller side be he always has been he has been growing on a steady pace so that's good!! I love my little boy I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful son!! He makes my days so much happier! I love being a mother, It's so much fun!! He can now show you where eyes are, what a monkey says and what an elephant says. It's so much fun to watch him learn, we are working on saying please, he has said it a couple of times but I really don't think that he knew that he said it because he wont say it when I ask him to. He is so full of life and so curious, he always wants to know what is going on and he LOVES pushing buttons, and has now racked up $3 on our phones from the internet and bought scrabble on Brandon's phone, we try not to let him play with our phones anymore.

More firsts for Krew

Here are a few things that have happened this month that Krew has done for the first time.

We went to Boise a couple of weeks ago and had an early birthday party for Krew, So that my parents could be apart of it, It was really fun, we had hot dogs and made a Mud cake, we put the mud cake inside of a dump truck and gave it to Krew, He had a blast eating out of a dump truck.

Krew with my parents

Krew with my Brother Adam and his Wife Kim.

Krew with my Best Friend Heather, Thanks again for coming Heath it was really good to see you.

Krew all of the sudden started giving kisses all of the time. It's so cute. This kid melts my heart!!

Krews FIRST hair cut

Before: The famous mullet

After: He looks so much older

Krew's FIRST tooth

I'm not a big fan of this stage, I was pretty excited that he was getting some teeth finally, but now more are coming in, like they're all going to come all at once and Krew is not very happy about it, I feel so bad for the poor kid, he is having a really hard time sleeping so he's very grumpy a lot I just want these teeth to be out!

He's trying to show off his tooth here.

Krew's FIRST independence day

At the 4th of July parade in Rexburg, it was a lot of fun. We loved this float of the big shopping cart, thought it was hilarious.

Krew with Emma. Our friends Logan and Jenny's baby girl.

Eating macaroni salad with a fork ( which is another first he just barely started liking to feed himself with a utensil)

Watching the Fireworks They were AMAZING!! we were about 20 feet away from where they were lighting them. it was REALLY COOL!! I LOVE fireworks, They were really loud but after a few minutes of watching them Krew fell asleep.

Family picture a few hours before fireworks.

Krews FIRST bubble bath

We have been wanting to do a bubble bath for Krew but just never got bubble's for him. I guess I'm lazy I don't know but we finally got bubbles for him and he LOVED it such a cute happy kid!!

last but not least Krew is WALKING!! It's so fun he so cute when he walks just waddles, He's been taking a few steps for a while now but we could never get it on video and finally we captured it, he's walking a little more now he's getting more and more confident, but since Crawling is so much faster right now he prefers it. He will take a few steps then lower himself down and start crawling.