Our Little Visitor

Three weeks after we moved to Texas we had a visitor. This little visitor decided he wanted to see Drew's room, particularly the wall next to Drew's crib where we found him. From the look of him, he was maybe 1.5 inches in length and no more than .25 ounces. He was a gecko! Any day, I would rather have this guy in our house than some other things I can think of....cockroaches and spiders. The boys loved seeing the gecko and Josh managed to pick him up. I was afraid he was going to squish him just because he was so small, but no worries. We set the gecko free.

Fishing with Daddy

This is one of Josh's favorite things to do with daddy. They go to the pond in our community and fish for bass or bluegill. Almost every time they go, they catch something and then throw it back in. Their largest catch to date has been a bass. Can't remember how much it weighed, but in these particular pictures, you will not be seeing a 10 lb. bass! They do look like they are having a good time!

Feeding the Ducks

We have this really huge, cool pond in our community that is full of ducks, swans, fish, turtles, etc. Josh loves to feed the ducks and look for anything moving in the water. He gets so excited when we go. It's the highlight of his day!

Moving to Dallas

Around Thanksgiving time Jeremy decided he wanted to do oral surgery and had a friend who was in a program who told him to try and do an externship. So he went to Dallas for 2 weeks on an externship to work with the famous Dr. Edward Ellis at Parkland hospital. About a week later after the externship, Dr. Ellis called and offered him the internship position which would begin July 1st and last for 1 year. So now here we are saying our goodbyes to our good friends and dry heat, packing up our things, loading them into a huge moving truck that we are sharing with 2 other dental school graduates moving to the Dallas area, and are on our way to the great state of Texas! We are so excited for this next phase in our life and I'm excited to have a plan of where we'll be at least for a year! Life is much easier to handle, for me at least, when I have a plan to work with.
It took us a solid 23 hours plus or minus some minutes to drive to Dallas which should have taken us only 18 hours 23 minutes. I don't think the people of mapquest factor in children when driving long distance trips. But I will admit it went fairly smoothly, minus both Jeremy and I each driving separately in our cars. My genious husband thought to get walkie talkies for us to communicate without having to use our cell phones which was fun. Lots of movies and children's music later and the classic "Are we there yet?" questions we arrived! I have never been east of Utah so the landscape was a definite change for me. Once we reached Amarillo, TX one could see miles and miles either direction without a single hill or mountain in sight. This continued for a long time. Not much to look at, but in a way, very peaceful. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect once we got here, but so far, so good! People are very friendly, the drivers will kill you with their inability to drive the speed limit (meaning they drive slow and it drives us crazy!!), lots of fun, family activites, tons of humidity, and churches on every street corner. I do prefer dry heat to humidity, as I'm sure many of you would agree, however nothing I can do about that now. I'm here!