September Update

Ok, so the photos were added as an afterthought and they CLEARLY are not in the right order. Mostly they are backwards. So if you want everything to make sense go down and read after the pictures and then go upwards : )Sorry, but this is the best I could get at the white coat ceremony. I tried others, but with a broken screen.... I mostly got curtain. : P
Tiff and Giles/Ryan dancing.
Cake cutting. And the random sister of Ryan sitting at the Carter cousin table.
Laughing.
This really cool pillar thing at the reception center!! It was fun hopping up there in high heels. No... it really was. I didn't even snag my dress!
Yours truly. : )
The AZ men and Weston.
Me and Weston's mom. I really liked her dress.
Yummy grapefuit sprite. Actually I think I was holding Weston's mom's.
Interesting artwork outside. (St. Francis of Assissi).
The amazing reception building. It's a converted greenhouse. So cool!
Hmmm... So Diane "sneakily" (actually I don't think he did have a clue) put a sticker on Weston's uncle's head. Just one example of why we liked getting to hang out with them.
The men. : ) They are great. I told Weston not to wear a jacket... guess I was wrong.
The women of Tiff's family.
Again.
This is the bride and groom. Tiff and Ryan.
Weston got this pic... we like it. (Oh right.... this is Weston's parents at his sister's wedding.)
Where we stayed in St. Louis for Tiff's wedding. I was happy to be out of the car and dancing around!
Our wonderful glorious hike up mount timpanogoes!! We only went to Emerald Lake but it was great!
I'm near the front. You probably can't see me. You can see though that we were in the Marriot center.
It started raining and being really windy right when we got out to take a picture! I LOVE this spot at byu. It's so peacefull and it was built the summer I started at byu so it kind of feels special or something. Plus I played on the ice when it was frozen over and cooled my feet in it in the summer after long bike rides. : )

So we are loving life! We've been busy with the first couple weeks of med school and getting into our routines. We've ordered windows for me to install! But unfortunately they're still not here yet. But we've both really enjoyed these last few weeks. I've gone to a walking group that the relief society sisters organize but I mostly just go to talk to people, well mostly just one but it's nice to feel like I have a friend. It's been good but it keeps getting pushed back and so I don't know if I'm going to go every time, it takes up a lot of time for me to ride my bike there after going to school with Weston and I don't know if I can justify using up half my day to just socialize when I don't have kids to let play at the park.

Weston's gotten to know the first years a little and studied with them on Saturday (that was unfortunately mostly pointless because they're all pretty comfortable with this test's material so they just talked the whole time). We've been trying to get in a good habit of taking time to study every night so he won't have to cram at the end or stress out about tests.

Most of all for me at least life feels great because it feels real! In Provo it just felt like we were waiting for one thing or another. Here we've started making friends and feeling like this is what we've been waiting for! Which has helped us to start making friends probably. Today we went over someone's house for dinner and there was another couple there and we all just talked and they were ok that we were a little younger and didn't have kids and it seemed they enjoyed us being there! And yesterday we watched an AMAZING football game at another friends and we felt so at home! I don't think I've felt so comfortable around people since I was single. Plus, I enjoyed watching a football game.... that's pretty amazing in and of itself! I called my dad today and talked about the game.... I think I completely threw him off guard and made his day : ) Also, we've gotten better at our callings! The first day I was pretty much convinced that the calling may very well stop me from wanting to have kids because I wouldn't feel like I could do it. But then last week I took one kid out that hit his head and was crying and then I held another one on my lap through primary and something kind of clicked that instead of just wanting kids but being afraid of them, I really want them now and feel like I can handle them. It's kind of a big change. This week was COMPLETELY crazy... they were totally out of control (except for the normal one that is usually out of control, he was good... hmmm) and somehow that feeling didn't go away. I knew this calling was what we needed but I didn't know that I would get that feeling so fast! Weston had it too. Maybe Heavenly Father was waiting for this to happen and maybe we'll be blessed with kids now.... but if not... I think I could handle adoption now. I was so afraid that without feeling it inside me that I'd never be able to feel motherly, but now I think it would be possible. Maybe we could just adopt a 5 year old and skip the age when they can't communicate!

Well that's all. And probably more than you were interested in reading... but... it's your own fault you did!

Oh, and by the way... I forgot how long it's been since we blogged. We went to Weston's sister's wedding and it was awesome! The reception was fantastic! The place, the food, the music, the atmosphere...everything! We also got to spend some time with his cousins and aunts/uncle and it was great! I feel more like I'm part of his family now and we may go up to his aunt's for Thanksgiving dinner. We also made it to Utah (thanks so much to Weston's parents) and I spoke at graduation. That actually went fairly well. So good job to me for that : )Graduation