Labor Day...

Weird! It was a bizarre experience making plans for labor day weekend. For as long as I can remember we do something with my family for my dad and brothers birthday. This Labor day was looking pretty boring, I needed to study (story of my life) and Travis needed to work on a presentation for a job interview. Friday night was very uneventful as we just caught up on errands that get forgotten during the week. Saturday morning I left for school around 8 and studied till around 2 o'clock while I was gone Travis had been successful in getting most of his presentation done. We decided last minute we were going camping at 3:00! We gathered all of gear, scavenged our pantry and picked up our friends. We drove about 40 minutes outside of Pullman to the Clearwater National Forest. We found a perfect little camp spot nestled in some trees next to a stream. We had a bit of a misconception on the tent that traveled to WA with us from UT. I believed we had a 4 person tent that was quite nice. After setting up our tent...well it was a bit small. Let's just say Travis and I cuddled real close that night! We had a fire, great dutch oven cooking, s'mores, and some beautiful scenery. We missed my family for the annual Labor dat vacation but it was a pretty good substitute. Thanks to our friend Kyle and Tess for the great company!

Vet School...

GO COUGS! WSU is a such an awesome campus and Pullman is a beautiful area. After arriving and unpacking two weekends ago I headed off to COLE which is cougar orientation leadership experience...aka Girls Camp. Me and the other 103 members of the Veterinary class of 2015 headed up to Post Falls, ID. (5 miles outside of Couer d'Alene) There is a baptist camp there that is set up to inspire leadership, bonding, and team building. We spend 2.5 days listening to lectures on how to be think outside the box, put down the competitiveness, and help each other through Vet school. There were definitely some team building activities such as climbing over walls, walking on tight ropes, and navigating through mazes. Sadly, there were no trust falls. I was looking forward to them! I know I sound sarcastic while saying all this and well... I was but it was a really great experience. It forced all 104 soon to be vet students to stop being competitive and realize the race is over, we all got in. Now it is time to help each other out and push each other to be better. It also gave us a chance to get to know each other before we stepped into class on the first day of vet school! I was ready to be home after 2.5 days but it was really fun. After I came home late Wednesday night we headed up to Spokane on Thursday to pick up my dad from the airport. We explored the city of Spokane for a while and ate some great food. We were able to find the Spokane Temple which is nestled in the middle of a subdivision just like in Utah. It is tiny but still beautiful. Friday we spend the day being typical College orientation family. We took a tour of the Veterinary school and teaching hospital, toured WSU campus, hit up the book store where my mother bought anything she could that said WSU and VETERINARY SCHOOL! It felt like I was in kindergarten getting ready for school, several stops to the book store, picked up my coveralls, got new muck boots, found my scrubs and of course the school supplies. Friday afternoon was the official "White Coat Ceremony". It is a celebration to welcome our class into the profession and congratulate us on all of our hard work. It was so exciting to finally feel official and to allow this accomplishment to set in. My parents and Travis were there to support me and I was so grateful for that. Saturday we decided to venture up to Couer d'Alene and tour the area that we will be living around for the next 4 years. We happen to arrive during the national annual wooden boat show. Lining the docks all around the Couer d'Alene resort were 150 old restored wooden boats. They were beautifully restored and functional. We meandered our way back to Pullman taking the scenic byways. It was a blast to have drive around the area with my parents and show them where we live. We were able to try out all the local cuisine..which was hit and miss but mostly good! Sunday we drove my parents back to the airport and said good bye! We are now all set up to start our new "adventure" and we are ready. Thank you to both of our parents for getting us all settled in!

Bonding time at COLE

Wooden boats in Couer d'Alene

Spokane Falls

White Coat Ceremony

Go Cougs!

My friends from Undergrad that are going here too! Us and our spouses are our new little family!!

Yay first day of Vet school!

My ride to school!

Washington...

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest!

We officially have moved to Washington State. We made it to WA on last friday after the LONGEST drive ever! It took us 14 hours to drive from Heber to Pullman. Which at about hour 9 my mom and I were completely over the drive. Travis's parents were able to drive up with us and pull our giant trailer, while Travis drove my car with my mom and I. I wish I had a picture of our trailer because we had so much stuff loaded in that trailer including Travis' CAR! You would never believe it if you saw it but yes his car was buried inside the trailer! We unloaded all of our stuff when we arrived with the help of our friends from UT that live here in Pullman as well. All of Saturday was spent unpacking and organizing. My in-laws were so sweet to drive up Friday, work all day Saturday and then turn around and drive home Sunday! I promptly left Monday morning for a 3 day orientation camp leaving my mom and Travis to finish up the apartment. I wish I could say that I am a 22 year old married, professional student and I don't need my mom anymore...but I can't. I could have never moved without her! It was so nice to have our house completely put together before I started school. I could have never been able to go to school Monday morning knowing that my house is a wreck. Thank you mom so much!!! School so far is going great I will update more in a couple weeks. Also we absolutely love Pullman, it is a great little town nestled in miles of rolling hills of wheat field! Here are some photos of our cute apartment, thanks mom for all of your help!!

Family Room

Dining Table..yes I painted our table robin egg blue!

Family Room

Kitchen

Hallway

Guest Bedroom

Guest Bedroom

Master Bath

Master Bedroom

Office! My new study room. Our lazy boy that my grandparents gave us didn't fit in our living room so it found a happy home in the office where I snuggle up to study!

Utah...

Wow I can't believe we are leaving Utah for 4 years! There are so many things that we are going to miss about this place that I can't even explain them. So I am just going to list them out...

1. Families

2. Friends

3. Loop, Packer, Boley, Porsche, Cayenne, Doc, Pecos, Bullwhip, Latigo, Ace, Jasper, Kissa, Callie, Kooka. ( All my pets)

4. Golfing 9 holes after work at Wasatch

5. Golfing 9 holes on Saturdays in Davis

6. Golfing 18 in St. George

7. Golfing in general

8. Second Sundays

9. Dairy Keen

10. Riding Mules & Horses

11.Mountains

12. Watching High School football games

13. Family Ski Days

14. Trips to the Barn

15. Our old blue truck

16. Zupas

17. Sunday Backyard Golf

18. Sunday Basketball games between 5 brothers

19. Tarahamara Churros

20. DP Cheesesteaks

We are so excited to get on our way! We can not wait to get to Washington and settle into our new life. Tune back in for pictures from our new apartment and Pullman!

xoxo

Micall

St. George...

So many things have been going on this summer it has been crazy. I know you are shocked that I have not been able to keep up on the blog front but I have been trying! We just returned from the annual Godderidge St. George golfing vacation. Since Travis was little his family and extended family have been going to St. George over the 24th of July. The weather is hot but the golf is cheap. We took advantage of both. Travis golfed 7 days in a row and I jumped in for 3 different rounds. The days were perfect, up early 18 holes before the heat settled in, get back to the condo for some lunch then head straight for the pool. The pool was my favorite part because well, let's face it I don't deal with the heat very well. We played non-stop with our nephews dunking, racing, diving, and wrestling. After the pool we headed to someplace great to eat every night. Between rounds of golf we slipped in some shopping, running, ice cream runs, and some fiesta fun. As usual, we were great at taking pictures (sarcasm) so there are not many to demonstrate our fun week. We had so much fun and it is crazy to realize we are almost leaving Utah! Thank you to all the Godderidge clan for a great week!

My view from my runs in the morning

Look How Cool We Are...

Everyone always claims that they have the best friends but I really do! I was talking with my mom the other day about how unique my group of friends are. With the exception of a new roommate that hit it off, I have officially not made a new girlfriend since 9th grade. A group of 9 of us have been friends since High School, we stay extremely close even while living in other cities, states, and even continents. We have now been graduated from high school for 4 years and continue to be very close friends. I love that we can not talk for a few weeks and pick up the phone like nothing has happened. You can always count on that whatever the circumstances we make it to the wedding/shower/baby shower. We have forced our husbands/boyfriends/fiances to become friends or at least tolerate each other because no matter what we are staying friends. My friends are completely drama free, if we have a fight or someone is being rude we just don't talk for a few days and we are over it. Nothing ever escalated or caused a lot of work. Our friendships are easy. We have to work to keep in contact but the relationships take no effort. Random texts, facebook comments, surprise lunches, phone calls just because, laughing and mocking to keep from crying, and lots of food are the keystones to our unique web of friendships. I hope we keep up this beautiful friendships through the rest of the weddings, babies, divorces, deaths, graduations, job changes, moves, and anything else life throws at us. I love you all so much, So Sarah, Kaylee, Danielle, Morgan, Heather, Cami, Kamrie, and Kenna thank you for being the best friends ever!!

xoxo

Mic

Summer Life...

It has been about a month since USU Graduation so I figure I'm doing well with blogging. We have been having a blast this summer. Travis is still working in Salt Lake at IHC, he does not love the commute but he does love the job. For my job...well I'm pretty much just labor. I watch my sisters kids once a week and then do pretty much whatever needs to be done on the farm/yard. Now that the weather has finally warmed up and the snow has melted in some places I have started riding our mules/horses to get them in shape. We just got back from a week long vacation with my family up to our barn in Bondurant, Wy. We scheduled this about 6 months ago and declared it a kids free week. If you don't know my family then our type of vacation may confuse you... Over the week we whitewater 8 miles down the river, rode bikes 50 miles, ran up a mountain 3 times covering 16 miles and 2,000 feet in elevation, had a feats of strength on a homemade teeter totter testing our abs ability, and golfed 36 holes of golf. Between these events of physical endurance we attended Bar J wranglers, drove through Yellowstone in a 16 passenger van (you know for more family togetherness), stopped at old faithful to see many bubbling mud holes, shopped and gallery hopped, and ate a lot of great food. We enjoy every action packed minute of our vacations and this one was no different! I'm sad I don't have any pictures of our Indian runs up the mountains because we saw some beautiful country. Thanks to my mom and dad for such a perfect week. We look forward to a whole week with Travis's family in St. George for lots of golf and lots of pool time!

Travis and Brian and I'm pretty sure Hunter crammed in the front of the 16 passenger.

Waiting for Old Faithful

Check out my mom's face...she LOVED it!

One of the bike rides through buffalo

Our amazing teeter totter.