Flying to Seattle tomorrow...

Dean and I are flying to Seattle tomorrow evening to go to Chelsey's (Dean's sister) and Devin's wedding on Saturaday, and we are so excited. Wedding festivities are always a blast, and it is going to be wonderful to see some family that we haven't seen in 2 years. But of course the best part is that Chelsey and Devin are getting married. Unfortunately, we are only going to be in Seattle for 39 hours total and then we hop on an airplane to come back because Dean and I can't miss school.

Here's Devin Trowbridge and the soon-to-be Mrs. Trowbridge.

Dean's a travelin' man...

My sweet husband has been out of town these past 2 weekends for Activator seminars. The activator is a mechanical device that delivers a high velocity low force adjustment to the targeted area. The end-result of the low force delivery is the alignment of the bone and tissue into its normal position. Dean is becoming certified so that he can be listed on the Activator website which should generate referrals once he's in practice.

He should actually be getting home in about an hour from the one this weekend in Minneapolis so I need to go finish up a couple of things before he gets home but here's a couple of pictures for you.... This is what the latest model of the activator looks like.

He was in beautiful Minneapolis this weekend for a seminar...

...and he was in gorgeous St. Louis last weekend for another seminar.

Massage therapy chelle...

I started my first day of school at Capri College of Massage Therapy this last Monday, the 17th, and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! I will admit though that it is sooooooo much more difficult than I thought it was going to be, but I am up for the challenge. On the first day we went over the standard rules, regulations, and outline of the program, and then they threw 4 hours worth of anatomy lecture in right away. That sort of suprised me, but I guess it's better to get started on it and get it going from the get go. Then on the second day we had more anatomy lecture, and then we spent the afternoon doing hands on learning. How to set up the tables, how to drape, etc. Then on day 3 we had a quiz on the first half of Chapter 1 of A&P, then they started teaching us Theory, Bones and Muscles, we did a little bit of Practical, and we took some notes on Pathology. Yeah, that was the day we decided that I needed this to be my full time focus and that I wasn't going to be able to stay at my job because they had me going straight over from school and working until 8PM and then I was going to have to study until midnight or 1AM. Yeah, that's not happening. But my employer was understanding and they told me that if I needed a job when I was done that I have a position there with my name on it.

I have already learned how to give a posterior leg massage, and part of my homework this weekend was to go through the 'routine'-basically the massaging movements that they've taught us so far, on 3 different people and have them sign off on a sheet and turn it in on Monday. So I did the massage on my friends Keven and Tiff on Thursday, and I still have to do it to Dean but I'll have to get up early tomorrow morning and do it because we don't study or do homework on Sunday.

Honestly, I'm completely overwhelmed with how much studying and homework I have, but I just have to become a master at time management. I studied all day yesterday and didn't even get as far as I needed/wanted to. So that means that I'll be getting up at 5AM tomorrow morning to memorize some notecards because I have an A&P test in the morning.

I can't wait to learn everything in school, and I'm always eager to hear more. I make sure to ask tons of questions, I'm sure it's annoying to my classmates, but I don't care. We're not paying tons of money for me so sit there and be too shy to ask questions and fall behind.

It's going to be a good ride.

The token 1st day of school picture. Except that I'm 25. Sad, I know.

chelle's 1st day of school self portraits.

"I'm SO EXCITED to be starting school today!" picture.

Poolsharks

I am pretty much the worst pool player in the entire world. Seriously. I'll go to hit the white ball with the stick and completely miss it sometimes. Dean, however, is not half bad. We have a pool table at the LDS Institute right down the street from Palmer so Dean and I had a friendly game going last weekend.

Yeah, I lost. Both times.

Instead of playing, I'd rather pretend that the stick is a microphone and I'm a rock star.

I figured that Dean needed some real competition so I bowed out and let our friend Steve challenge Dean to a game.

Look at that concentration. 8 ball, corner pocket.

Sorry I've been slacking on the posts....

Sorry guys. I've been so busy with other stuff that I've been slacking on updates. But I'll try to be better.

Boards. Dean took Part 1 boards 2 weeks ago and he said it felt like he had been run over by a semi truck when it was all said and done. He was so emotionally and mentally drained by the end of the second day, which it is only a 2 day test thank goodness, all he wanted to do was go to our friends house, Keven and Tiff, and he just wanted to veg and play Halo so that is what we did. Then we went out for a celebratory 'I survived boards' dinner at IHop. I know I know, we live dangerously.

The only bummer is that he can't find out his scores until mid-October, so he just has to play the waiting game right now. We'll keep you updated when his scores come in.

See? My handsome husband looks so drained. That's right about 1 hour after boards.

Then he realized that he's all done so he can give a celebratory smile.....

So we went out to IHop to celebrate with Keven and Tiff. Keven took Part 1 too. I LOVE the look on Keven's face. Dean's face says that a fight is a brewin'....

So Keven instead decides to end his misery and slash his carotid artery....

Wait, nevermind. Our food got there 2 seconds later so a crisis was averted. Keven forgot what he was doing in the firstplace.

Meanwhile Tiff and I are having fun listening to Dean and Keven talk about how hard boards were and how they just want to die.

And he's off!!!!......

Dean is officially going to start taking his first section of Part 1 Boards in a couple of minutes. I thought I'd share some of how our morning was in the Sheldon household .

We woke up at 6AM, laid there in bed for 2 minutes trying to figure out what the loud booming noises were that woke us up in the middle of the night was (it definitely wasn't thunder; it sounded more like cannon fire to me and like someone repeatedly running over something to Dean). Then we got out of bed at 6:02AM, and I ran downstairs to get breakfast going and Dean got dressed and made sure he had all his stuff he needed together and packed up. I made him a breakfast skillet and hashbrowns and o.j.- it's what he said was going to give him the most brain power! =) He seemed to enjoy it.

Then we just chatted for a little while, said our morning prayer, and then it was off to school by 6:45. Suprisingly, there were already quite a few people there. I guess Dean isn't the only one who was wanting to get there ahead of the morning rush. So I dropped him off and must have told him 'good luck' 10,000 times and said 'I love you' 20,000 and then he was off.

I know he's going to do great. I'm so proud of him for all the time he's ben putting in studying lately. He is my life.

My sweet husband acting happy to be up at 6AM. We are never ever up that early. We're more of 7AM people.

Breakfast of champions.


My poor baby with his sleepy eyes. We both didn't sleep well last night. But we can still give a pretty good thumbs up for it being a great day.

Dean running to go register and take boards. Ok, no he wasn't. That was all posing. But he was anxious to get up to the registration desk and get things going.

I'm yelling, "Bye baby! Good luck!!! I love you!!!!!!"

Part 1 Boards tomorrow!!!!

10 hours and counting my friends. My handsome husband is taking Part 1 Boards in a mere 10 hours. These pictures are of him studying on our living room floor just a couple of minutes ago. He's trying to cram as much as he can into that brain of his before he has to go to bed. We're going to try to be in bed by 9:30 and asleep by 10:00 because he wants to get up by 6AM to have a healthy brain-food breakfast, and then he has to be at Palmer by 7AM to register and then he's in for a full day of grueling test taking. He'll best tested on anatomy, spinal anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pathology, and microbiology and public health. And then repeat again on Saturday, too. So wish him luck, and say a little prayer for him please.

One of the tons of pages of review he has been pouring over the last couple of weeks.

He LOVES this. Ok, no he doesn't. He's getting kind of nervous about if he'll pass or not but at least he can flash a smile when he wants to.


Ok, back to studying. No more posing for pictures.