An Update...OUR NEW PLANS!!!

Well Crappety I don't have a picture for this week...or last. Last week was spent unpacking reorganizing starting to sleep train (different post) Chris starting school and me relaxing with Gray while I had NO kids!!! Can you believe that? NO KIDS! Well I did have Marley one day last week but that's it. It was quite heavenly and surprisingly Grayson did really well on his own...he wasn't super whiny or needy in any way. He would let me relax or work on projects or cleaning and play with his own new toys.

We started our week at Nana's for dinner as usual and Chris was back in class today. This morning we had Gray's 2 year old check up and he did awesome! Love that little guy. He's doing great and growing just fine...I still wish we could get him to eat more though. Today I was back to having the sisters...they are quite easy but it's more noisy. Gray enjoys it though.

GOOD NEWS?! I will be done watching these kiddos come April (if their parents are done with school) Or May when I have this bebe!! I'm pretty excited. Now for other good news...CHRIS WILL BE GRADUATING IN AUGUST!!!! WOOOHOOO!!! I am so excited for him to be done with Undergrad. Now here are our few options:

1. we are still waiting to hear from quite a few Dental Schools so if we get into any of them we will be headed to that destination in August when he Graduates. (That'd be our first pick of course. )
If he doesn't get into Dental School for this fall then these are our next options:
2. Graduate in August (he is definitely graduating no matter what) After he graduates he would LOVE to teach at a High School in TEXAS! for a year while he re-applies for the next year. He would like to teach a Biology or Chemistry class.
3. If he can't get a teaching job for whatever reason we would most likely move to Texas so he can work for my dad (we could secure our residency there--even though we already have it) and he would take some classes at UTD or something. He would take classes that he would be taking in his first year of Dental School.
4. If none of those options work out or we just don't feel are right for us then we will sadly stay in Utah and he would try to get into a Master's program of some sort just to stay in school...Dental Schools like you to stay in school. BUT it's more likely for us to be doing #3 than #4.

So we have quite a bit of research and deciding to do these next few months. Luckily Chris' school load is just as heavy but we are pretty sure it won't be as difficult as last semester due to NO O-CHEM CLASS!!! Which by the way he got a B in O-CHEM 2!!! THAT IS SERIOUSLY AWESOME IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW! (I guess not for some people who are complete genius' but for more it's sawweeet!!)

With teaching we have to figure out if anybody in Texas would hire him since he won't be available til August. Also he doesn't have a teaching certificate...some let you do it in your first year some don't let you do it at all.

I will be done babysitting in May when baby girl arrives and I won't be babysitting again until August. I guess if we move to Texas I will be looking again. We will see how that goes. :>

Feeling Better

Well as you might know Chris applied for Dental School back in August...which we knew could either be good or bad...mostly in that he's not the best candidate right now so he had a slight chance of getting in. We applied to 18 schools and so far only 2 of those 18 have sent letters saying we don't want you (that sounds horribly mean haha) So that is slightly good news. We are positive though that he's not getting into Baylor which is a bummer but OKAY. The thing is if he doesn't get in this year he will have a much better chance when he applies in May to get in August of 2012. HE will have taken more classes he will retake the DAT which hopefully will be a better score. He's just a little behind right now because he just decided to do this about a year ago. Anyway Baylor sent out their acceptances yesterday around midnight and I think they might be one of the only schools that sends pretty much ALL of them out at the same time.

Well Chris was a little bummed and frustrated about a lot of things. He knew he didn't have a great chance but he is just SOOO SICK of school and undergrad and classes that he feels are somewhat a waste of his time. He grew up in Arizona so I said well I think you should call into the school and just check in on your application see if they can give you anything. HE called and they didn't answer so he tried again this morning. She actually had some information for him. Turns out his letters of recommendations hadn't been received....either they're that stupid or somehow they didn't show up when he turned all of his other stuff in back in August. So she said we've received them I will put that in the computer and send it on. SHEESH! Seriously?! It gave me a little bit of hope knowing that they missed something but it's also crappy because that means he could be at the bottom of the stack. Who knows...could be good could be nothing.

I would love to end up in Arizona. Chances are small but we can always hope he still has one. haha. We will be doing more praying and scripture reading and attending the temple to search for answers on what our next step will be. There is a lot going on when it comes to what classes to take if he doesn't get in anywhere and all that jazz. Thanks for listening to me ramble on about Dental School business. It's kind of our lives right now. Studying and Dental School application stuff. haha. One little piece of good news if I didn't already say this is we applied to 18 schools and 2 have said no...those other 16 schools still have to turn us down. hahaha.
Lots of Praying....