Okay, So I'm finally getting around to post these pics of Halloween.  Tommy looked SWEET!!  He was so psyched about dressing up like the joker.  He was kind of half Jack, half Heith.  We were looking for something at a thrift store and saw this purple suit, exactly his size...I was blown away!!  So that made his costume idea easy.  He won best costume.  All the teenagers in our ward kept coming up to me in awe saying how sweet they thought his costume was...it was a fun night in the midst of a lot of sadness for our small family...which I'll share another time.

This pic is terrible cause I took it with my cellphone during class (pharmacology...ugg!).  On Monday I finally got braces.  Since I was 19 yrs. old my dentists have told me that I need them, not to correct crooked teeth, but to correct my crossbite.  Well I finally took the plunge since I'm at dental school and the students specializing in orthodontics need patients, I got them for half what I would have had to pay at a private practice.  After about 6-8 months they'll see if I'm good to keep going with only ortho or if I'll need surgery on my jaw.  I never realized that braces SUCKED so much!!!  I can't do my favorite hobby...EAT!  My teeth are so tender, I can't even chew a banana because it hurts to much, and the braces are tearing up the inside of my mouth.  But I know it'll be for the better in the long run.  

Disney World 2008

Spring Break was great...we got to go to Universal Studios and Disney World.  Tommy was totally frozen with awe when he saw the lifesized Lightning McQueen, his favorite Disney character.

Orlando Vacation 2008

Believe it or not...T-rexes are actually quite tame.  This one actually let me pet it on the nose.  Nice T-rex!  Unfortunately he ate the next guy who tried to do the same.  Oh well.

NYC Vacation

Me and Tim hadn't seen eachother for a really long time.......so......yeah....that explains the look on his face. :-) Here's my family at the supposedly "best pizza place in NYC" rated #1 by Zagat......we tried their pizza and it was good but I think need New Yorkers need to get over themselves and how they think everything they have is the best in the world. I've got a pizza place down the street from me that has the best pizza I've ever had...ever. What I'm trying to say is don't to go to NYC for the pizza.

A backpack and a stroller in Times Square...the perfect way to let everybody know, "Hey look at me...I'm a tourist."
Would someone please shoot me if gas keeps going up. Man I wish I could get a hybrid car!!!

Another pic of Tommy in the Grove and us on top of the Hill Cummorah.  As you can see in the photo, it was quite a hike to get up there.  My dad had to take the car up due to his bad knee, but we made it up...huffing and puffing.

We recently took a family vacation up to New York.  We started in Palmyra and went east to NYC and Philadelphia.  Here's a pic of us in the Sacred Grove.  It truly was a lovely morning, bees were humming and sweet birds were singing.  It is such a beautiful place to visit.  

This is us at Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast just before we moved across the country to Ft. Lauderdale, FL.