The Perfect Date

As I've mentioned, life has slowed down considerably since entering this surgery rotation; and to Travis's dismay his 14 hr shifts aren't leaving much time for him to study. He seriously walks through the door only two hours before bed and is so fried he can't think about opening a book. However, now he is entering clinic hours which are much shorter, and we are also one month out (as of yesterday) from our final boards exam that will count for SO much; that nine hours he sits in on that test will effect years and years of our life to come... no pressure, right? Well, it's also very hard to want to study when you have a family here whom you get no time with, and so we made a decision that for this final month, the boys and I needed to leave. Plus my work said I could pick up shifts, so that moots out the cost!
It works out perfectly because one of my dearest friends is getting married, AND now my brother-in-law is getting married while we are home so it's the perfect time for us to bounce out of the big apple and let Travis become a secluded medical school hermit crab... because for four weeks he's going to hold the weight of our future on his shoulders...
That sounds so dramatic.
The nice thing though is having the beliefs that we have, we know God has a plan for us, and he is carefully laying it out in front of our eyes each day. So, whatever we score, what ever medical field we end up in, or where we go for residency, we can be assured that if we put in a full effort our our part, it was EXACTLY where where God wanted us to be.
That's more comforting.

That all being said, the boys and I have been enjoying the days of sun and rain and nothing stops us from playing outside when we want to. The other day we hopped on our scooters and went all the way to Juniper where we ended up playing in the rained out park. Scootering is our new thing: Maddix takes his own, Aaron stands on the front and place a foot behind his and we can scooter really fast and he's totally chill to just stand there. And he never wants it to end. Sometimes we even brave up and hook Nala to the front of our scooter and that's how we take her for her walk/fear for our life as she drags us everywhere.
We also have taken advantage of all the boxes lying around and built forts, and converted the cereal boxes into knights hats, by cutting them then taping them to real hats so they stay on :) That was fun. As you can see we're still enjoying our time and love the evenings when Travis does walk through that door. Sometimes we're the perfect picture, just waiting at the dinner table with smiles and clean faces (rarely). But other times he walks in the boys are running around the house, the dinner is ready to go, and I'm waiting at the door in running clothes, escaping out before he's even closed the front door; I love that hour in the evenings when I can run off the stress of harder days. Boys are tiring.

For Memorial Day our ward's scouting program hosted a bake sale/ bbq. We made a dessert to auction off, the whole time the boys jumped on their chairs/banged their fists/sang super loud to the "What do ya do with a drunken sailor" as their way of "helping."

They were tasty

He was pretending to be asleep

But THIS is his real sleepy face:) 

Then daddy came home:)

We love all the outdoor time we can get. We are so lucky/grateful to be in the area we are in. It's not too crowded, completely safe, and in a nice location that makes it easy to get over to the park! 

And it's not a park like in Utah, this park is like a community center! Everything goes on here. 

We love it. 

while playing in the back alley one day, we were asked to go in
our yard, and then the boys got to see THIS
concrete mixer carefully back
down the path. 

It is HOT

And HUMID

This was Maddix's last soccer practice of the season 

Okay, now for the BEST part of the blog... it should almost be a separate post... hmm... That's what I'm going to do: Find our DATE in the next post :O)