Anniversary

Trevor and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary yesterday! I can't believe it has already been two years since our perfect wedding day! Trevor had school all day and then went straight from school to his White Coat Ceremony, so it was a busy day! His White Coat Ceremony was such a neat experience. I'm so glad I was able to be there with him! I am so proud of Trevor for the amazing hard worker he is. He is just going to excel in dental school because of his dedication to his schooling. It's been so fun to see him studying his dental instruments. I kind of like to pretend I'm in dental school too, and try to have him explain what he has learned every day in school.

 After his White Coat Ceremony we headed home for some dinner I had made. We had shrimp scampi and salad for dinner, with strawberry shortcake for dessert. We decided to go out to eat last Saturday at Souplantation, because we knew it would be a late night last night. So we got two yummy anniversary dinners. Trevor surprised me with our anniversary gift, it is a Kitchen Aid mixer! I am so excited to start using it! And he is always so thoughtful and got me the most beautiful flowers. It was such a special day! I love being married to Trevor. He is so perfect and I feel so blessed that we found each other. I am so excited for this new chapter in our lives, to become parents. Trevor is going to be the most amazing father. He is already so loving to our baby, I can't wait to see him when our baby is born. I feel so blessed to have Trevor as my eternal companion! 

Disneyland

 One of the many perks of living in South Pasadena is getting to live so close to Disneyland! Trevor and I are big Disneyland fans, so we have been dying to go lately.

We decided to make our first trip (of many) last Saturday! We got talked into getting annual passes, and  it was so nice to be able to just relax and enjoy the day and not feel rushed to ride every single ride. I can't wait to go back for Halloween and Christmas time and get to see all of the cute decorations! It will be so much fun to be able to take little baby J when he is born too!

 We found this cute little shop in downtown Disney and had to snap a shot of this "dentist in training" :)

As you can see, I (and baby) am getting giant! At our appointment last week, we got another routine ultrasound done of the baby, and our doctor looked at us and said.. "Okay.. which one of you was a big baby?" So I pointed at Trevor since he was 9 1/2 lbs and 24 inches long, and she said "Oh, thats why. This is going to be a big baby!" So little baby J is growing great! (a little too great :) and he is definitely taking after his daddy! He is just comfy as can be and looking healthy as ever. His kicks are SO strong now. It is so fun for other people to not only feel, but SEE him move in my tummy. It's almost like he is doing summersaults in there sometimes! It is the funnest thing for Trevor and I when we lay down at night to watch him kick and move my tummy up and down. He is a little entertainer already! 

Trevor is loving dental school, so I am so happy and excited for him! He started working with his hand piece last week for the first time, so I made sure he documented it! I am so proud of him and excited for these next four years! Such exciting times ahead!

P.s. that jar that Trevor is holding is full of extracted teeth that Trevor has been collecting. He had the assignment before school started to collect 300 teeth to work on. Boy am I glad to get those things out of the house!

Disneyland 2013

The day after we were accepted to Roseman, Trevor was invited for an interview at USC. Even though he had already been accepted, he still thought it would be a good idea to go interview because USC is a really hard school to get into, and just the fact that he got an interview was pretty cool. The USC dental school has been around for over 130 years so it is a really good school, they really know how to produce good dentists. Also, he really likes California and it would be fun to live there. So since we were going down for the interview, we decided to spend a day at Disneyland too! 

Disneyland was so much fun! We woke up really early that morning and got to the park about 45 minutes before it even opened. We were there ALL DAY LONG! From 8:15 in the morning till 10:00 at night. If we were able to stay in the park longer I think we would've! We started the day out right, going on Indian Jones and ended it with Its a Small World. We did so many fun rides, everything we wanted to and some new ones too! Our favorites are of course Indian Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean (we did that twice, I could ride that one all day long), Radiator Springs Racers which was new for us, and we also watched the Aladdin show which I hadn't ever seen so it was really fun.

 My family and Trevor's family were also in Disneyland, so it was fun to go on rides with them and spend time with them.

This was on Pirates of the Caribbean

Trevor is the sweetest husband ever! He never stops surprising me. While we were on the ride Pirates of the Caribbean, we were talking with my family about how fun it would be to eat at the Blue Bayou because neither me nor my family had done that before. Then Trevor says, oh well good thing I got us a reservation for 2:00 today! I didn't even believe him! It was such a fun surprise. He had to call days in advance to get a reservation there. I love how he is always thinking of ways to surprise me. We got the Monte Cristo and it was the most delicious food I have ever tasted. 

 Splash mountain

 Mint Julep! Such a yummy drink my family introduced us to. I'm hooked

 Getting ready for Star Tours

 I love this place!

I couldn't even feel my feet at the end of the day from being there for 14 hours, but it was totally worth it!! Such a great trip

The Best Day Ever

The day Trevor and I have been ever so patiently waiting and looking forward to for over 2 years is finally here!!

TREVOR HAS BEEN ACCEPTED TO ROSEMAN DENTAL SCHOOL!

Saying those words now, still doesn't seem real! I remember months ago, even years ago thinking about how great it would feel to finally have this acceptance, and it is even better than I thought. Trevor has worked so extremely hard for this. He deserves it more than anyone, and I am so glad that his hard work is finally starting to pay off. I feel so blessed to be his wife because I feel like I know better than anyone, and got to see first-hand just how hard he has worked for this and how much time and effort he has put into this. It definitely was not easy. Trevor has spent countless nights staying up until morning studying and focusing so much on his school work. That is one of the first things I fell in love with about Trevor. He always has a plan, and many times two or three back up plans, and he works on that goal until it is accomplished no matter what it takes. I am just so overwhelmed with gratitude for my sweet husband, and my Heavenly Father for this great blessing we have. I can definitely see how we have been blessed throughout this journey so far, and I know that Heavenly Father is taking care of us and has a plan for us.
So here's how it all went down: Trevor applied to 15 dental schools in June of last year. That is when the waiting game first started off. Then we waited and waited 3 long months without any word from a dental school. I still remember when Trevor texted me at the end of September and told me he got an interview at UNLV. I just started crying, I was at work but I just couldn't hold it back. I was so happy for him, because he needed that to show him that his hard work is being noticed. So we practiced almost everyday, going through interview questions and getting ready for November. Then on November 16, 2012, Trevor had his interview. We waited until December 3 and found out we would be considered for the second round of acceptances which wasn't until March. At this point we kind of thought that UNLV would be our only option for dental school, which we were very grateful for, but only having one school isn't the best of odds. So we started waiting again. Trevor was even making back up plans to start a masters program in case we didn't get accepted, which isn't even necessary, that is just how much of a hard worker Trevor is. Then in February, I got another text from Trevor saying he got an interview at Roseman. I couldn't believe it! This was just what we needed, so we headed up to South Jordan on Valentine's Day and I didn't even care that it wasn't the norm for Valentine's Day and not very romantic just traveling, I was too excited about the interview to even notice. After his interview, Trevor said that he felt like it went well, but that we would probably be placed on an alternate list just because it was kind of late in the year for acceptances. Then just a few short weeks later we got this great news! I am just so so proud of Trevor, he is accomplishing his greatest dreams. We couldn't even sleep last night, we just stayed up talking about all of our plans that we can finally start on now that we know. I am just so excited for what the next four years hold for us. I know that with Trevor as my husband, we will be able to accomplish anything that comes our way.

we've been waiting so long to drink that celebration sparkling cider!

DAT time!

Dear family and friends,

          Trevor will be taking the DAT (dental admissions test) on May 29th, so in about a week and a couple days. For those of you who don't know what the DAT is, it is the big test students have to take to be considered for acceptance into dental school. This isn't just any test either, it is a 5 hour grueling test of math, crazy organic chemistry, general chemistry, biology, perceptual ability, and reading comprehension. Basically it is the hardest test in the world. Trevor is the most amazing person ever and has been working SO extremely hard studying for this test. Over the past few months I thought it would be fun to take a sneak picture every time he studied for the test, not realizing that I would have a bazillion pictures by the time he took the test (and towards the end he started to notice what I was doing, so he would pull a little smirk in the picture) so I just wanted to post a few. I can't even begin to express how grateful I am for this guy! I don't know how he does it but somehow he manages to study on car trips, vacations, at people's houses, during american idol, and especially at home with me probably bugging him the whole time. He has the most amazing determination and he is such a hard worker. He has given up so much time, a fun summer, endless hours of sleep (seriously, he stays up till like 4 in the morning studying, I don't know many other people who could do that) to give us an awesome future. And somehow in between all of his crazy hours of studying he still makes time for me and makes me feel so important. He never once thinks of himself. I just love him so much!! I know he is going to do so great on the test because he is just so smart and is working so hard, he definitely deserves it. Please keep him in your prayers this week!