The Carpenters

June 1, 2010

Pictures

Josh and I getting our groove on at the banquet. I look like a creeper haha

I promise we were not drinking. We don't need alcohol to be this crazy!

All dressed up fancy. We LOVE our new clothes and we got amazing deals on them too

Dinner. Don't know what Josh was looking at haha. oh well he's still cute.

Alex and Mike. Josh's friend from school and his girlfriend who is also going to dental hygiene school.

Nichole, me, and Cindy at the SADHA convention in LA

Home made sour dough bread I made.

We went on the "its a small world" ride right before the fireworks show and we got a boat all to ourselves for a private cruise around the world. It was super cute and when we came out, it was dark and the fire works were going off right behind us. It was magical. We are so lucky to live so close to our favorite place. We have so much fun together there.

Standing in front of the Castle at Disneyland.

A not so good picture of us at Magic Mountain. It was so scary! The roller coasters there are definitely thrilling. I had my fill for the rest of the year though.

Brinja and I practicing our skills on our typodont in clinic lab.

Some of the girls in my class at our end of term 2 pool party.

Josh, Brinja and I at the oxygen bar at the CDA convention

Me, Suzanne, Ashley and Tania at the Senior's graduation.

Me and Susan, a girl from Josh's class, at the banquet for the end of their first year of dental school. We were excited about our twinner dresses.

Recent Happenings

Well a lot has happened in the last 4 months since I updated our blog so I'll do a quick recap in case anyone cares! I finished up my second term of dental hygiene school and managed to get a 4.0 this time! I have made some really great friends and we have so much fun together. We saw patients twice a week and learned soo much! I am now a senior and will be giving a speech at the orientation for the incoming junior class. I am going to run for president in the next couple weeks so we'll see what happens with that. We start preparing to take our national board written examination this term and will take it at the start of our 4th term. I graduate in January so i'm looking forward to all the new and exciting things we are going to learn and the more challenging cases i will see in clinic.

Josh is just about done with his first year of dental school! He is going to be done the day I go back to school so we don't get to have much of a break together but oh well. He was planning to go to officer training this summer but got put on the wait list. He is going to be off until August so he is trying to find things to keep himself busy. He is hoping to build a bathroom vanity to sell and i'm hoping he will remodel our master closet :) He has been doing really well in his classes and has passed all of them. His instructors are extremely impressed with his hand skills and constantly praise him for how well his preps and fillings look. They have even told him that he would pass the boards right now with them. I'm so proud of him and his hard work. It is challenging and stressful but Josh is doing great.

We were able to go to the California Dental Association's annual convention together a couple weeks ago and got lots of free stuff. It was cool to see all the new and exciting things that are happening in our professions.

We have been able to go home a couple times and our families have been out to visit us also. It's nice that we live so close that we can see each other often. His parents just spent the last 6 days with us and we had tons of fun seeing the sights and shopping. I am going to meet my parents in vegas after I help out with the orientation on friday and then its back to school for me monday.

Our lives are crazy busy with school and our church callings but we have a lot of fun and are enjoying every minute of it. We know that this is where we are supposed to be and that we are doing the right thing. Our faith in God continues to grow as we learn to count on him more and more through our trials. We are so blessed to be members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and are overwhelmed at all the blessings in our lives

HCG Diet

Josh and I took on the HCG challenge. It was probably one of the hardest things we have ever done but we are so glad we did it. I don't think we would have made it if we hadn't done it together. I didn't even want to do it but Josh needed to lose the weight for the army. I am so proud of us for sticking to it and following through. We both feel great and are so excited for our new healtheir selves. I lost about 23 pounds and Josh lost about 35. We lost several inches every where and had to buy a bunch of new clothes. I was having a hard time finding pants I liked so I took them to be altered and they look and feel great. We had fun shopping and rewarding all our hard work. It was a big life style change and although we eat pretty much what we want again, we are eating healthier and are more concious of our weight and what we eat. I have been exercising more regularly and trying to get into shape. We are glad that my mom and dad were so helpful and got us going with the diet, getting us all the stuff and then supporting us through it. They both did it as well and lost a bunch of weight and look FABULOUS. They were our inspiration. Thanks guys!

3 Year Anniversary! ( 5 months late, oops!)

I'm so behind on my blogging! Our anniversary was Jan. 6!! We have been together through so many big important things in our lives and we are excited for all the more things to come. We had a lovely sushi dinner after a long day of school. Josh bought me a gift certificate to get my hair done at a fancy salon in Pasadena that i'm going to finally use tomorrow. I have always been crazy about Josh and I didn't think I could love him any more but I just can't seem to get enough of him. I love him so much and don't know what I would do with out him. He is so good to me and we have so much fun together. We are definitely best friends. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful eternal companion and I couldn't ask for more. I thank the lord for him every day and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for us. Happy belated Anniversary babe :D

February 1, 2010

Catching Up Again!

SO this is our pictures from before Christmas through New Years Eve. It was so nice to go home and we had so much fun. It made us miss Cedar even more though. It was probably harder to come back to Cali after going home for the holidays than it was to move here in the first place. Enjoy the photo fest! I'm still working on posting pictures from our 3rd Anniversary.

I finished my first term of dental hygiene school and I started seeing patients in the clinic this week. Things went well and I am doing great. Josh is overwhelmed with the amount of information he is getting but he is very active in his class. He just became the vice president of the pipeline to health careers program for the youth of Pomona and he's been really busy with that. He is also going to run for Executive President for student government over the entire university. Its a big job but he would do great and he's looking forward to that.

We bought Season passes to DISNEYLAND and have been several times since the beginning of the year. We LOVE Disneyland so much and have had a blast playin there with our friends. It is a nice break from reality and studying and the everyday stressers of life.

Christmas at the Carpenter's

Rockin out

aww precious, He had a new, bigger diamond in her original wedding ring and had it resized for her.

Shelcy's B-day/Christmas presents from us

after all the excitement of opening presents. Josh's mom just gave us big boxes with coupons for stuff in them and the amount of money that stuff was worth so we could shop for ourselves.