9 MONTH OVERVIEW

So I guess it's been 9 month's since our last post. I'm not going to throw out a bunch of excuses, I'm just going to get to it. Here's the last 9 month's wrapped up into one long post. Luckily our life is pretty simple and easy to follow. Enjoy!

For Halloween this year Chad was a sumo wrestler and I was a mime. Chad's costume was a hit! Everyone loved it which won him best costume at all of the parties we attended this year. He defintely wore it well!

In November, Chad's dad was able to come out for a quick visit. We were able to get box tickets for one of the biggest games of the season. Not a bad way to experience your first Ohio State football game. Ohio State won in overtime, earning their place in the Rose Bowl.

Chad and Warren enjoyed some time in the pre-clinic lab drilling on fake teeth and touring the dental school.

For Spring Break this year we went to Arizona for a week to visit Chad's family. We had a jam packed week planned. We had Chad's grandparents in town from Idaho, a cousin to see off before leaving for Afghanistan, and the rest of the extended family to see all in the couple of days we were in town before leaving for the reservation. The majority of our friends have all moved back to Arizona since graduating from BYU, so it was nice to get together with everyone especially since there have been new babies, spouses, careers, and houses since we have seen everyone last.

The highlight of the trip was the couple of days we spent in Chinle and Canyon De Chelly on the Navajo Reservation. Chad has told me sooooo many stories of the time he spent there as a child, so it was great to be able to see it for myself.

All of the kids at Spider Rock

Kent in front of the Hogan where Chad's aunt Lisa was born

Grandma Ma' sani's house on the Reservation. I love how she lived here with no running water, and an outhouse. She lived in the most humble home with the most amazing view!

family picture in front of a Hogan on the family property in Canyon De Chelly

We were headed out of town just as the snow was heading in

Meet Nash! the newest addition to our family. In the beginning of April I went to one of our properties to take pictures for one the the marketing flyers I was working on. My brother and I walked inside and saw this little guy prancing around and I immediately fell in love. Apparently someone had just dropped him off and abandoned him. The manager had been taking care of him until she could find him a permanent home. Since I'm the biggest animal lover and sucker for anything furry, Nash has been with us now for 3 months and we love him to death. Chad was given exclusive naming rights as one of the conditions of us keeping the pup, and he named him after Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns

For Chad's 26th birthday this year, my parents treated the familyto Tommy's Pizza and a Graeter's ice cream cake. Chad's a simple man.

Two years ago my sister visited Chad and I in Provo right before Chad graduated and we moved to Ohio. While she was in town, Chad dislocated his left shoulder for the eighth time while putting on a sweatshirt so we could go out to dinner. We missed dinner and spent 7 hours in the emergency room and ate dinner at 2am at Ihop. Two month's later Chad had shoulder surgery.

A couple of weeks ago my sister ramdomly sent me pictures from that night that looked like this....................... however this picture took place 2 days after my sister sent me those pictures. Chad dislocated his Right shoulder this time. I think she jinxed us. Chad now needs surgery on his other shoulder! Here he is after they knocked him out to put it back in place. I watched the whole thing and loved every minute of it!

June 10th, 2010 - Chad finished his 2nd year of dental school yay! Chad gets two weeks off to study for boards and then it's back to school full time. He will now be in the clinic full-time taking patients and I highly recommend him!

Poor Chad has had a lot of distractions when he's supposed to be studying for boards. I've been really sick with my Migraines for the past four months and was just hospitalized again. When Chad wasn't at the hospital with me, he was at home trying to get some studying done but unfortunately Nash and Harley wouldn't let Chad get much done. I think Nash was trying to email my doctors to let me come home!