Ode to Rachel

Rachey...


You are SO cute!...


How did I get so lucky to be your Aunt?...


I miss you...


And LOVE YOU!


(I love you too Adam) :)

White Coat Ceremony

On Saturday, my dad flew in from Las Vegas to attend Jeff's White Coat Ceremony. This ceremony is for all the medical students at Texas Tech Paul L. Foster School of Medicine who are beginning medical school. During the ceremony, each of the students is called up, shakes hands with the president of the school, receives their white doctor's coat, and recites a medical oath with the rest of the class. This year, 2,700 students applied and only 85 were admitted. Of those 85, Jeff is one of the two that is not a TX resident. Congratulations Jeff!

Medical School!

This is Jeff on his first day of medical school, with his lunch I packed him and his new backpack! The weeks before medical school, I kept asking what he needed for his first day..."New folders? New binders? New Taiconderoga pencils? New Crayons?" (I guess it's the teacher in me...I LOVE first days of school!) He said he didn't need any of that, probably just his laptop for the first day. I guess the new backpack's a start, after all, you have to have something new on your first day of school! I love you Jeff!
Here's to the next __?__years!

Robbers Already?

One morning as Jeff was leaving for school, he gave me a kiss goodbye (I woke up less than halfway), I heard him go out the front door, and fell right back to sleep. An hour later, I thought I heard some voices and I sleepily figured, it's probably Jeff talking on his phone. "Wait a minute," I thought, "Jeff's not at home!" After this realization, I was fully awake, alert...and scared as I laid in bed...listening. Again I heard voices, louder this time. They were hispanic and they were laughing and speaking in tongues I could not understand. I immediately covered my head with blankets...still listening and trying to improvise a plan for the robbers that had somehow found their way into my apartment this morning. I thought, "Maybe I'll just lay here, and they won't notice me. No Jill, that's not very smart...you've gotta do something before they steal all your cute decorations and big screen TV!" So I flung the covers off my head, sat up in bed, and yelled..."HELLO?" In response to my inquiry, the voices stopped and I heard, "Hello? Hi...Maintenance! We didn't know anyone was here. There's a severe water leak and we came to fix it. We knocked and yelled to make sure nobody was home but we didn't get an answer so we let ourselves in to fix it." At this point I was: relieved that they weren't robbers (the maintenance guys for our apartment complex are actually really friendly), frustrated that management allows their maintenance workers to go into an apartment that has no answer (It's not my fault I'm a deep sleeper), and humored because well...it was just a funny situation. What a warm welcome to El Paso :)

New Bathroom...New Colors

As we moved into our new place, I got really excited when I realized we had an extra bathroom. We already had a theme for our one bathroom in Provo...golf, but now there were more possibilities (I'm sure Jeff thinks I'm weird that that's what I was excited about, but you girls understand) I decided on a black, white, and red color theme, and with my mom's help we found decorations for it. This is how it turned out...

Fourth Festivities

Jeff and I decided to be very domestic for the 4th of July and made a cherry pie and cupcakes. We decorated them with stars, stripes, and red, white, and blue. Happy 4th!

Mohlman Family Pictures/California Trip

After our cruise, Jeff and I went to California with his family to visit B.J., Brandi, our nephew Bennet, their newborn baby (and our new nephew) Cameron. We had an awesome time there. We went to the beach (and there saw two dolphins do several high leaps out of the waves), took family pictures,and went to an Angels Baseball game. We love family!



We also saw some nuns hanging out on the beach, it was great...HaHa!

Pretty Darn Cute

My niece and nephew had their 3rd birthday last month and Adam lately is very into Pink and Barbies and Princesses. So, for their birthdays, they each got a small bike, one green Diego bike and one pink Barbie bike. Adam claimed the pink one, the crowns, and one of the pink satin sashes :)

Surprise!

Monday, June 20th was our 2 year anniversary and a few weeks before it, Jeff and I realized that we would be apart on that day! He would be at our new apartment in El Paso while I would be driving down from Vegas to El Paso with my mom. I had a friend's wedding to attend the Saturday before and Jeff and I figured I could go to Las Vegas to attend the wedding while he, his dad, and brother moved all out things to El Paso. While making these plans, it didn't even cross our minds that we wouldn't be together on the 20th.

So, on that Monday, my mom and I started the drive. She told me we'd drive until Phoenix and then stop for the night and continue to TX the next day. I thought it sounded like a good plan, and although I was a little sad that day, it being my anniversary and not seeing Jeff, my mom and I had a nice time together. At about 4:00, I feel asleep as my mom was driving and I woke up 2 hours later to a knock on my car window. I woke up and saw Jeff outside my window at the Phoenix airport with a dozen red roses. I was so surprised and so happy! My mom had been in on it the whole time.

We dropped my mom off at her hotel and then Jeff took me to an amazing restaurant called "The Compass" in Phoenix, which is an elegant circular restaurant, located on the 24th floor of a Hyatt resort in downtown Phoenix. The entire restaurant rotates, so in the 2 hours we were there, we saw the entire city, the sunset, and the city lights. After dinner, Jeff told me about an amazing hotel/resort he'd found reservations for online, and the best part was, it was on a golf course :)

Moral of the story...I have the most wonderful husband in the world! :)

Goodbye Provo-Things We Will Miss

Provo, UT has been referred to as "The Bubble" since the beginning of time, but we really like the bubble and it will be sad to leave after four great college years here. Here's what we will miss the most:

-Walking outside on Sunday and seeing home and visiting teaching companions walking to their appointments
-So many friends within a 5-7 minute walk from your apartment
-Yogurtland, Earth Fruits Yogurt, Yoasis, Yozone, Spoon It Up, Spoon Me, Golden Spoon...
-Attending church at the chapel next to the BYU football stadium
-Walking on BYU's beautiful campus
-Your entire ward on one street
-Renting Tandem Bikes and biking past the Provo River
-Tucanos Brazilian Grill
-Wilson Diamonds Store
-The Movies 8 Dollar Theatre
-BYU merchandise in every and any store
-The BYU/Utah rivalry games
-The tune of 'Come Come Ye Saints' played every hour at the Bell Tower
-Sitting in Denny's and hearing the conversations behind you:
"I just prayed about it and I felt it was right,"
"The scriptures tell us..."
"My friend, he's just so...Christlike!"
-Working at Campus Craft & Floral
-The Creamery on 9th
-The CougarEat
-Snow
-The Police Beat in the Daily Universe newspaper (always good for a laugh)
-The Y on the mountain
-7 temples within an hour drive
-Having a picnic outside and before you know it, having 3 other couples from the ward walk by and stop to talk.
-Pink Trees in the Springtime
-Iceberg
-Driving by the dorms and remembering
-BYU Divine Comedy Shows
-Brick Oven Pizza
-Memories

When my family first dropped me off at college in Provo, my sister Amy said, "Jill, you're going to miss this someday. I've only been graduated for a few years and I miss it everyday." When she said that, I thought, "I can't really see that." Four years later, I definitely can. Although we are excited about Texas, we'll miss "The Bubble." Bye Provo, thanks for all the wonderful times.