We must know how to make them...

 GIRL # 3 Heading our way on or before or after December 6th.

Salt Lake City!

Calire at Lyndon's graduation 

When we moved to New Hampshire 4 years ago, I thought Utah was just going to be a place we visited family. Why you ask? No, I don't hate Utah, no I do like all those Mormons (I guess that's why I still am one) and of course I love my family, But....I also like an adventure and I had already been there and done that.

However, I have been very pleasantly surpised at how much I really do like living in the good ol' Salt Lake Valley. Let me tell you the reasons why.

-the radio stations are a plenty and I actually hear songs that I like
-the mountains, though not nearly as green as the east are breath taking, especially on morning runs.
-We have centeral air, ahhh the joy of coolness at my fingertips.

-My parents have already bailed our butts out a millons times and this would all be a much much harder transition with out them (i.e. functioning on one car, no money, no cleaning supplies, no sanity, no Lyndon)
-I can walk to the grocery store
-I can walk to my doctors office and the hospital
-more stores than Walmart and Kohls (need I say there is a Target...yes, yes, I do love a good Target)

dropping our keys off at Sachem, yeah not a flattering photo and no I am not crying...on the inside I was

-a paycheck (it hasn't come yet, but the thought of Lyndon actually getting paid for his hard work is great)
-more than one road to get you where you want to go. Those living in NH/VT can appreciate this. Especially those that hate route 12A-the only road to most shopping- like I do.
-friends. I have a lot of catching up to do with some long lost friends and I'm excited for that.
-family, of course being able to go to events that we missed being apart of.

Niagra

-it really isn't like living in Provo or Orem, or Proem as I like to call it. This may be the Church headquaters, but there is a great variety of people here. No really...I it is different.

boat ride to Niagra

playing dress up at the hotel with what they could

Navoo

So eventhough I miss my NH/VT friends terribly and the green trees, no watering lawns, fun hikes, lakes, awesome members at church, the history, the Atlantic, canoeing on the Conneticut, listening to the frogs at night, the humidity (i.e. no cracking cuticles and skin)....I think we will have a good time here. And then comes Texas.......

Treckin across the US

Updates found here!

Lyndon is graduating from Medical School- woot!!

The school got renamed right before Lyndon gets his diploma, so it's a bit funny to have Geisel all over memorabilia-- that doesn't feel like the school he went to (Dartmouth Medical School) even though Dartmouth is still in the name somewhere, just at the end.

It is a well done video and our wee little family is in it if you care to see.

p.s. I am really proud of Lyndon. He did really well in school and in still being apart of our lives through it all.

Claire has something to say...

Internal Medicine Match...not San Antonio.....

If you are surprised, well... so are we. We were totally expecting to go to San Antonio again (we are still going there, it's just that residency doesn't start until July 2013). We are happy to be with family for a year and Claire is beyond excited. Beyond....

If you are wondering why Lyndon is "whipping his hair back and forth", it's because everyone had to submit a "theme" song, so we chose this one....

My hearts a radio...

Try to watch Claire. I am a bit of a spaz.

*post edit...Claire always tells me I remember it wrong..."my hearts a stereo Mom, not radio!"