Goofin' around...

Chelsey cheesin it up while setting up before the wedding!

Awww, look at the adorable siblings.
Picking up their soon-to-be-married sister!
Uh oh! They just about dropped her!

Chase piggybacking Dean over to go get some chocolate.

Awwww, cute brother and sister...

Awwwww, look at my devilishly handsome husband and his beautiful sister, Chelsey. Chelsey got married this past Saturday in Maple Valley, WA and Dean and I flew in to attend it and we had such a good time. Chelsey looked absolutely gorgeous, and Devin (her new hubby) looked like a stud. The wedding was beautiful and everyone had a great time. I'll post pictures from it later on tonight.

A wedding was a comin'...

Dean and I went to WA 2 weeks ago to Chelsey and Devin's wedding, and I have 5 billion pictures from it that I would love to post but I'll just start off with a few from the beginning...

I'm sitting on the ground in the Moline, IL airport doing homework waiting for our late airplane to take us to Chicago and then onto Seattle.

Here's my handsome Dean taking a self portrait in the airport.

We got to Seattle, visited our friend Anika, and then went right on over to Kristene's house and made centerpieces until 4:30AM, and went to bed at 5:30AM.

Then Dean, Makenna, and I got up at 8:30AM and started to get ready for the day. I did Makenna's hair and makeup and Dean went and got a haircut in the meantime. It was getting a mite long.

Here's the beautiful Makenna taking a picture of herself at Kristene's. Doesn't she look pretty?

And here's Chels eating some toast and cream cheese a couple of hours before the wedding. She needed to get a little something in her system so she wouldn't run out of fuel at the end of the day.

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.