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Please be aware that both of these photos were taken during the same Pandora session. I like Jack Johnson, I love John Mayer, and I enjoy the occasional Dave Matthews. But Dave has plenty of songs.. It wouldn't be that big of a deal if it didn't happen to me EVERY TIME I listen to like three of my stations!! But fine, I thumbs down it once again (Crash Into Me has been my pandora rant now for about two months). This is approximately 20 minutes later on the same station.

But we just wanted to let you all know that we went to the doctor last week and Eric is officially in remission. And check out Eric's new project. Gotta love it. And go to the home opener!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxiivb8njI&playnext=1&videos=CIYhIeV17aE&feature=mfu_in_order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ypAMMP0UE&playnext=1&videos=KmowwuLSq7s&feature=mfu_in_order

Eric and I planned on moving back to Orem on August 25th. And it wouldn't be a day too soon. We are tired of our men's student housing!!! Last Wednesday, I received an email from our complexes management reminding us that we hadn't signed up for a cleaning check. I HATE cleaning checks! The email says to call and schedule an appointment for Thursday, which is the day after we are supposed to move out this week. So I call and say that I need to set up a cleaning check, and they say okay what time tomorrow? Me: Tomorrow? Why would I do a cleaning check a week before we check out? Mngmnt Girl: It's not a week before you check out, you check out tomorrow. Me: What?! I specifically called you two weeks ago to double check what day we move out and whoever I talked to said August 25th. Mngmnt Girl: Oh, I'm sorry. That was probably me. I'm pretty new here. Me: Okay... so if you said that, you understand that we are not ready to move out yet? Mngmnt Girl: Hold on let me ...

Summer goes by so quickly. I thought when I finished school I would finally have time to work out, read, play my guitar... and I do. A little. Here and there. But we have hardly had a night to sit down and do nothing. Here are a few reasons why we've been so busy: I've worked with Eric a few times at The Mug now, and it is a blast! It's been really busy the whole month of July, and Eric is there pretty much everyday. Mom and Kelli came out two weekends ago to visit and we spent most of our Saturday up there. We became aware that "tiger's blood" is a mix of something and coconut. Boo. Everybody loves it so I told Kelli to try it and it was a travesty. How do so many people enjoy coconut?! The hotdogs are delicious and the help are sweet as pie. Another part of being busy is our one night a week bowling league. If you have the means, I highly recommend joining one. Ours is a very casual league, thankfully. We are doing really well, I think our team has only lo...

Merriam-Webster online defines the word almost as... ... Oh wait. I'm not the youth speaker and this isn't a high school graduation. I'll skip this attention-grabber and get straight to the guts. We've had a lot of almosts going on in our life lately. First, for those of you who thought I already graduated... PSYCH ! I still had one class to take in the Spring. I had originally signed up for it in Winter, but due to Eric's chemo appointments being on Thursdays I had to postpone it. It ended up being worth it considering the busy schedule of a cancer family, but taking the last class in the Spring was awful! I had almost graduated. The good news is I got through it, it ended last week, and now it's official. I'm done with school. Mom, I know those last few phone calls where I asked you to pray for me really made the difference. Thank you. Second, I had almost got settled in to my new job a couple weeks ago when I was asked to interview for another one in t...

Eric did have a doctor's appointment this week. Again, these are all quick checkups only until July 1st, when he will have all his scans etc. again to see if the cancer is all gone. But I know everyone still likes to know what's going on. He's normal and he's gained a bit of weight back (~4lbs.). He talked to his nurse for a long time and she said she really thinks he won't have anything show up on his scans. She has been pretty right so far, so we won't start doubting her now! We are both a bit obsessive about his hair growing back. It looks so good! It's still really short, but it's there!

We went to our friend Nate's wedding, wait! Look back at our first post with a Visitor of the Week, and it was Nathan and Rachel! Yep, them. They got married last weekend, so we drove out. We wanted to fly, but Eric wasn't allowed to after transplant. He got the okay last doctor appointment, but it was too late to buy tickets. So we rented a Jeep. It was so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. The drive was gorgeous and we had a really good time. We took the back route through Napa Valley and it was well worth it. The wedding was on Friday, and we got to see the Oakland Temple and the gardens on top of it. It was really windy. We really love Nate and Rachel and are so happy for them! We love when a friend gets married to someone great, because we get to double our friends! Terry Herrera came out for the wedding; he is really close to Eric and Nate from their mission in Houston, Texas. It was really nice for me to meet him, and we got to hang out a...