White Coat Ceremony

This last Friday was "white Coat Ceremony" school. It is usually done at the beginning of the year, but they do it later here, since it is so hot when school starts. For those of you who are not familiar with this tradition, I will explain. We receive the white coat (a short version, you get the long one when you graduate) at the beginning of school to show our commitment to studying medicine and serving others. It is a nice ceremony, but in some ways it is a anti-climactic practice graduation. Just 3 & 3/4 more years to go!

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Student Doctors: Scott Moore, Brian Lehnhof, and Brian Liddell

Summer Waterskiing

We have not been real good about posting this summer, so we will try to do some updating over the next little while.

One thing that we did a lot of this summer was water skiing. Bryan and Ashley were so kind as to take us skiing many times on their nice boat. This was the first time both Bobbie and I have ever done slalom skiing so it was fun to learn a new sport.


Here are some pictures from the last outing of the summer. We will post some more from earlier.

Dog Beach

Orientation Week is over at school, and this is our last weekend before school officially starts, and life in many ways is committed solely to studying. We decided to drive to Southern California to visit my mom and do a last surfing trip. We decided to not go to our usual spot down in San Clemente. Instead we went to "Dog Beach" which is in north of Huntington, near Bolsa Checka. This allowed us to bring Mili and let her play in the water and with the other dog. It was a lot of fun. The surfing was not great, but it was good to see Mili have so much fun.

WE MADE IT!!

Brian and I took off Friday afternoon and drove to Utah and went to a Lehnhof family Reunion which was so fun. I got to meet cousins and ants and uncles I've never met before.

On Saturday we started our long journey to AZ. Brian was in the Moving truck pooling the jeep and I was driving our car with Mili. We made it safely with no problems.

Brian started his orientation for school and can't wait to get started.

The Jeep

For those of you who know we have a Jeep that Brian's had since he was a junior in high school. Before we made our move to AZ we wanted to fix it up or sale it. We decided take on the challenge and fix it up so Brian can drive it to school. We decided on a color and went to work. Brian has been working so hard sanding and sanding and sanding and bondoing and sanding. And thanks to our friend Bryan who painted it for us and helped us along the way, we were so grateful for all his help. In the end all the hard work payed off!!

Before




After

Our new home

So it has been quite a while since our last post, and we will try to correct our actions. We will try to bring everyone up to speed as we can over the next little while.

A lot of our time over the last couple of months has been focused on getting a house in Phoenix. We have been putting a lot of effort into it. We finally had a couple of accepted offers, and we are moving forward with one. It is a nice little house in a really nice area. It is a quick 4.5 miles to school. We are pretty excited.

Here are some pictures. We just found out today that the new Phoenix temple is going to be about 1 mile away! We do not close until August 12th, and then have to have flooring installed, so we will not move in until the later part of August, but it will be worth the wait.

Birthday Lunch

I took Megan and Heather out for lunch for their birthdays. They both turned 26 on May 6th. My cousin Melissa and her kid also joined us it was fun being with them, it doesn't happen enough.

Love you guys!!

Our little AZ trip!!

My parents, Brian and I took a trip to AZ for a week to relaxe and to get some house hunting in. We had a lot of fun looking around and enjoying the warm weather. We went to an Arabian horse show and a Diamondbacks and Cubs game. We also met up with our friends Taylor and Celeste and went to dinner at Pinnacle Peak Patio. They have a traditions of when ever someone has a tie on they cut it off and hang it on the wall with a business card. They also had two rattlesnakes inside so you could look at.
House hunting went well, there's so many house out there to look at. We haven't found the one for us yet, we did put some offers in on a few and were still looking.

Mili's Haircut

Since we have come back to Idaho we have been waiting for the weather to warm up so that we can give Mili a hair cut. It has warmed up recently and we had the chance.

Here is the before picture:

Here is the after picture:

We almost filled up a 30 gallon trash bag with all the hair trimmings. She looks like a little puppy. She also has a ton of new energy. It will be good preparation for moving to AZ where she will have to always be this trimmed so that she does not over heat.

All of the furinture sold

For those of you who have been following the blog you are aware that when we were in Reno anticipating the forthcoming move, we discussed what to do with our furniture. We did not want to make a bid deal of trying to move everything since most of what we have was random pieces. So we decided to sell all that we could and prevent having to move it twice within 6 months and then buy new furniture in AZ since Craigslist is so good down there and we can get good stuff for relatively cheap, in fact for much less than what it would cost to just move the random pieces we have accumulated.

We ended up selling everything, including a lot items that we thought would never sell, like a dying plant for instance! But it was all gone, and a lot of it was sold sooner than we expected, so we had to adapt to our new surroundings. Here is what we came up with.

Our new table:
**Disclaimer, in NO way are we endorsing Dell with this photo. It was merely a good sturdy box that we got from Bobbie's work. Please do not associate us with this inferior company:)

The new desk:
The air mattress:It was not too bad and it made it so we did not have to abandon it all at the end.