Moving is hard to do.

I know I've said this a lot lately, but it really has been hard to do my blog. I promise once we are in Miami I WILL do better. We are in Idaho at johnny's parents for the week we don't have wireless there so I won't be on much this week. I will tell all about Thanksgiving when we get to Miami. Thanksgiving is my favorite!!! Moving went well. We still need to organize everything and put it all away in the storage closet. Fun times!

My New Smile

For all of you that know me personally, you know that I have stained teeth. I have always been embarrassed by them. My teeth are probably the thing I am most self conscious about. I always think when people see them they think that I don't brush my teeth. I promise I do. Its just when I was a little girl I hit a girl in the head with my two front teeth and "bruised" my new teeth coming in. Yesterday I went to the dentist and had it remedied. I have white teeth for the first time in a long time!!!!! I want to thank all the people that sent me birthday money this year. I think I spent it very wisely. Here are my before and after pictures.
I'm sorry I haven't been posting very often. We have been so busy. We have been packing and now we are very close to being done. I think I only have two more boxes worth of stuff to pack. I have a lot of cleaning to do though. That what I will be doing for the next couple of days. Only 11 more days until Miami!!!

Two More Weeks

My Life seemed to fly by this week. I now have no job. I still have a lot of packing to do and only a week to do it in. I'm also very nervous about the fact that it is supposed to snow next weekend. how are we going to pack and move when it is snowing and how are we going to keep all our furniture dry?
Johnny's mother came to stay with us on Wednesday so we could take her to the airport the next morning. Its always great to see her. She always makes me laugh! My sister, Rachel, also had her baby girl, Eden. We are going to go meet her on Thursday and help Rachel out with feeding the other kids and the house work.
Johnny and I are getting so excited to meet all you fellow MERPers! The snow has started and those warm sandy beaches are starting to sound really good right now. Only 16 days to go!

One more week of work, yeah right!

I wanted to let all the MERP students know more about the loan process with Wells Fargo MedCap loan. I was easy to apply for and easy to get accepted. The part we were not expecting is that you have to wait until orientation day to actually get your money. We thought they just sent the money to the school then the school sends you a check for whats left over. This is not the case. We were going to use that money to secure housing and buy our plane tickets, but not anymore.
Okay as for my life right now. I have not been doing very well on packing. I know it will all get done eventually, I just dont know how. I am very ready to be done with my job. I have had problems with it before, but it wasnt anything I couldnt handle. the last two week have been horrible! I just can not work there anymore. I only have five... more...... days...........................Yeah! I cant wait until Rachel has her baby and hope all goes well with that. I will let you know how the packing is coming.

Getting MERPed

For all those wanna be Ross students out there, this is for you. I wanted to let you know about our experience. Ross called back eight days after Johnny's interview and let us know that he was invited to attend the November-March MERP semester in Miami, Florida. We were very surprised that he got MERPed. Apparently they were a little nervous about direct acceptance because he retook a couple classes in college. We got the acceptance package a couple days later that had loan information, the schedule for the semester, a list of classes that you take, and a book list. You con't get a federal loan for MERP so you have to apply for a personal loan. They recommenda to do a MedCap loan with Wells Fargo or a loan from Sallie Mae. We went with the MedCap loan. It was pretty easy getting the loan. We just went to Wells Fargo and they put us in their system because we are currently banking with someone else. They then told us to call the loan people and they got us started. They ask for a co-signer, we went with Johnny's dad. They called us today and said we just needed to sign. They send all of the loan money directly to the school and they take the money you owe them and then the school sends you a check for the rest. This is why you have to accept your "award" before you apply for the loan. It makes it so the school can send you the money. I have to admit I didn't understand the whole award thing at first.
You are required to give a $700 deposit to reserve a spot for the semester. Once you send that they assign you a student ID number so you can log in to MyRoss. There you can search for housing and accept your loan awards.
The housing network they have is not the best, but it did the job. The biggest problem it has is that it doesn't show if a place has already been rented out. it was really annoying to call someone and then just have them say that it wasn't available anymore. It was probably annoying for the land lords as well. Other than that it is very easy to search on the website. They have plenty of places for single people. It was a little harder if you are looking for a family.
If you would like to know more about MERP here the address to their website. http://www.medicalreviewprogram.com/
I'll keep posting more info about life as a Ross student.

Cops and Robbers

Happy Halloween! Well it wasn't the happiest day for me, but I get paid for working right? I was at work all day. I did dress up with my friend Chris from work. It made the day a little more fun. Chris was the cop, I was the robber. Oh and Jorge was an "under cover police".(This mad me laugh so hard!) I'm also very proud of my pumpkin that I carved.
Every day I get more excited about going to Miami! The land lord for the place we want to rent said we are the only people interested in the place and that he would call me if anybody else wants to rent it, so hopefully we have a good chance of getting it. Its been difficult to pack because we have to leave stuff out for the cold weather were having here and also try to keep the stuff we want to take when we go to Dominica in places we can get to them easily. Besides the fact that I got called in early to work everyday this week. I told myself that from now on I'm not going to go in early anymore. I hope I can be mean to others and keep my promise to myself. I want to get as much done now so that when Rachel has the baby we can go visit them.
I was thinking the last couple of days about how life works out. If I hadn't have had my miscarriage I would be delivering a baby this week. That would have put a damper on our present plans. It still makes me sad that I'm not going to be a mother in the next few days, but it will happen when the time is right for us.
I wanted to say thank you for all the prayers. They were all answered even though it wasn't what we expected. I love you all. We don't know how often we will be able to see all of you in the next few years, but I wanted you to know that I think of you often. Remember to keep doing your blogs. It is so nice to hear from you guys! I told you I'd nag.

Snow has fallen

We had our first real snow yesterday. A couple of weeks ago we had some snow but it didn't stick, but yesterday we woke up to a winter wonderland.
So we are moving into the next stage of our life. We are moving to Miami to go to the Prep Med School for Ross University. We are in the process of finding an apartment to live in. I think we found a good one, but I don't know how long it will stay available. We can't reserve it until we get our loan. I have started packing up our stuff. Johnny and I got a lot done over the weekend. Now I just need to do a couple boxes a day and we should be in good shape. The plan is to be out of our apartment on the 21st. We will stay with Johnny's parents for Thanksgiving and then fly to Miami on the 28th. Orientation starts on the 30th.
I will hopefully find a job and work while we are there. My boss at au naturale lived in Miami for 20 years and says he will help me find a job because he knows lots of people in the restaurant business. I really hope this will help.
I'm glad we will be getting away from the cold. Snow is fun, but not the cold. Especially when your a ditz and forget your coat when your running out the door in the morning.

But What Will I Wear!!!!

Fall has come to Salt Lake. I promised pictures. These are in my back yard.
Johnny and I went to the temple today. It was a great session. The first time I went to the live session I really didn't enjoy it but this time was different. I wished it could go on longer. The Salt Lake Temple is so beautiful.
I took a picture of myself so you all can see my wonderful brown hair. I wish I could have been naturally this color, but I guess the dye will have to do.

Long Time No Post

I'm sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I worked all day Saturday. Sunday we ended up sleeping through our alarm so we missed church. We both have been sick and so I think we needed the rest.
One of the ladies I work with had a party on Sunday evening. I missed her birthday party so I felt I needed to go. It was a birthday/welcome to the USA party for her children. It was fun even though it was a kid party. There was a clown and he looked like he could be one of dad's brothers. he looked a lot like Uncle Vance. He was really good. He did a magic show and made balloon hats and animals.
We heard back from Ross. We didn't get direct admittance. They invited Johnny to go to their MERP program. Its kind of like a prep school for medical school. If you pass you go to Ross, if you fail they assume your not cut out for med school and you don't get in. We have a lot of decisions to make in the next little while. I will let you know when we have our definite plans. If you have more questions about MERP let me know and I will do my best to answer them.

The Story of My Life

Today I woke up feeling worse than I did yesterday. I took Johnny to work, came back home, and then went right back to bed. I did eventually get out of bed after a lot of convincing. I had to go to work and clean my house which was still a mess from coming home from Denver. We've been so sick and so busy we still hadn't unpacked. It was another slow day at work, but that was fine by me cause I wasn't feeling well at all. Well I took some NyQuil and my head seems to be bobbing, so its off to bed with me. GOODNIGHT!!!