Update

I know our lives have kind of been lived one month at a time lately so we will update you with our newest evolvments. We finally found a house to rent, Spencer started ortho school today and I have a 2 day a week job at an orthopedic surgery center that I will probably start the end of this month. Our condo still hasn't been sold so right now is up for rent or sale what ever happens first. I feel like we have really been blessed with finding a house and work- thanks for everyone's concern with phone calls and prayers we will let you know if anything happens with our condo.

Good bye Ohio- Hello Oklahoma

Well we took a leap of faith leaving our unsold condo and said goodbye to Ohio. Sofie was like an angel in the car. I was suprised since usually she cries the whole way to the grocery store. Plus Spencer and I drove both the cars so I didn't have an extra body to help with her. There was a bridge that got washed out in Indiana and traffic had to be re-routed. Yea, it took us 4 hours to go ten miles. Luckily Sofie can watch little mermaid and peter pan over and over without getting tired of them.

So I have to say that I have met some of the greatest life long friends over the years, one of them being my really great friend Jess. Since our friendship really bloomed in our pop filling class we had in High school (yea I know you are jealous we had a period where we filled the pop machines at Rigby High school. Since that only took like 30 min we spent the rest of the time meandering around visiting friends and bascially doing whatever we wanted- and we got credit for it.) It was only fitting that four years after our last visit we reunited at "Pops" a gas station dedicated to pop from all around the world. Anyways if it wasn't for Jess we would probaly be living out of our cars right now. Jess is here in Oklahoma and she went home for a month and so we have taken over her house. I have to say she has the cutest house. She also has a trampoline and we put the sprinkler under it like the good old days and Sofie was having the time of her life. Also she has some pretty fun friends/ family out here that have taken us in and made us feel so comfortable here. Thanks Jess and Kolby

We feel pretty lucky to be here in Oklahoma because not only is my friend Jess out here but our friends the Sautters are here in Oral Surgery (old undergrad friends). So it has really helped us with the transition leaving some really great friends in Ohio. Sofie already has so many friends out here but she hasn't forgotten her friends in Ohio. We have been trying to soak up all the time we can with Spencer before he has to go back to the grind that's where some of the other random pictures come into play.

Dr. Johnson

The later part of our week ended up making the first part of the week bearable (refer to the wreck post). Friday Spencer's family flew in from Idaho and Utah and it was party till the cows come home. We had so much fun with everyone here. Sat. we had a really fun time at Hocking hills state park with a hike and a picnic. Then it was off to a BBQ and sand volleyball. Sunday was the main event with Spencer graduating. I know I probably shouldn't brag but I'm just so darn proud and I figure it's a once in a life time thing but Spencer graduated with magna cum lada, omicron kappa upsilon (Some dental honor) and an award for the National part II boards. Anyways Sunday night was a celebration party with games and pizza. Of coarse Spencer's siblings still living the college life stayed up till 3:00 everynight watching movies. Monday came too fast and Spencer's family had to leave. And now it is back to reality. We are moving to Oklahoma on Saturday. We are excited to see our friends down there, sad to leave our friends here behind, and stressed about leaving our house unsold.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Herring and all the Johnson's for making it out to Spencer's graduation. We already miss you all.

The wreck

Well funny how things go because our lives up until two weeks ago was pretty uneventful, easy going, etc. (except I was still stressed about not selling our house). Well the last two weeks here in Ohio have been some of the busiest, craziest weeks of our whole stay (at least for me- Spencer might disagree) It started with two weekends ago, Spencer had signed up for another bike race, my sister was going to come into town, we had plans to meet our friends for a memorial day picnic at one of our favorite hang out places when Sofie spiked a fever and became really sick. Spencer still bound and determined to do the race left with out his cheerleaders. It was about time for the race to get over when I got a call from Spencer saying he was almost home and didn't finish the race- he continued on telling me how he got in a wreck during the race. Another rider clipped his front wheel going 30 miles an hour. Spencers bike is in ruins, he whacked his head so hard his helmet cracked all the way through, he got a concusion and some really bad road rash down the left side of his body. To add to it he had just bought a new special bike seat the day before the race an now it is all torn up. I was just so glad he when he made it home considering that the race was an hour away and when he came in the house he was shaking so bad he couldn't hardley open a bottle of I-bprofen. Shortly after he started throwing up and it took him about a week to be able to sleep through the night because of the road rash. The next day we ended up having to take Sofie to the Urgent care because she hadn't slept or eaten all day was soo fussy and Spencer saw white patches on her throat. Sure enough she had Strept throat. So Monday was a day of me trying to nurse the sick back to health. By Wed. though we were all feeling better and ready to get out an about so we went camping with some of our great friends one last time in Ohio. In order to not bore everyone to death I am breaking our adventures up into two posts. I don't have any pictures of Spencer's wounds or his bike but I am sure you can imagine.

Last day of Work

I can't believe it really happened- I had my last day of work Yesterday. For the longest time I haven't really thought that this Ohio adventure was coming to an end. I don't know if it is denial or we've been here for four years I just can't imagine life not being here in Columbus, OH. Work will always be work but the friends I made at work and the amazing families I took care of is what I am going to miss. It isn't always easy being far away from family and I think that my friends at work knew that was hard- especially when I had Sofie. They were so good at finding things all day to laugh about and they took me under their wing always bringing me little things for Sofie, cutting coupons, volunteering to be my mom away from home, providing me with helpful motherly tips etc. I just fell really lucky to have met all of these really great people that I am really going to miss- Thanks everybody. On Monday some of us went on a girls night out to. . . you guessed it my favorite restaurant P.F. Changs- it was soo much fun. I also included a couple pictures of some of my favorite kids (of coarse all the kids are my favorite :)) who I will really miss- of coarse I made sure I got permission to post their picture so I wouldn't be violating Hippa.

What they have hills in Ohio?

So Spencer had a road bike race he did this weekend. I don't know the technicalities- and I am sure Spencer will correct me on this after he reads it but I guess when you do road races there are 5 levels. You are supposed to start at level 5 and if you win enough races in level 5 you can get a license to move to level 4 then if you place in enough of those you keep moving up. So since Spencer hadn't done a bike race in 2 years he should have signed up for the level 5 but it might not surprise you that he was concerned that there might not be enough competition at level 5 so somehow he manged to sign up for the 3-4 group (they combined them in this race) even though he wasn't "licensed". It was a really hard ride with a really long steep hill that they had to climb 6 times-in a loop. Since there isn't even so much as a mound of dirt in our part of Ohio this was a killer for him. All things considered I was so stinking proud of him when he took 3rd place. Just as a side note Sofie thinks any guy in spandex on a bike is daddy. At the race anytime a biker went by she yelled "go daddy"- pretty dang cute.

Well most of you might already know that I love surprises. So even though I am sure there are lots of people who don't love surprises I still like to surprise others. It's probably like when you get a gift from someone and it is really what they want. Anyways my good friends Lori and Michelle helped me plan a surprise baby shower for our friend Melanie at MY favorite restaurant P.F. Changs. It was so much fun having a night out with the girls and I sure had fun trying to surprise Melanie.

Mother's day 5k

So in an effort to motivate me to exercise with Sofie I signed Spencer and I up for a 5K. The whole day before the race it rained and was so dark and dreary. I was so excited when I woke up the morning of the race and the sun was shining-it turned out to be a beautiful morning. It was also really fun the our good friends Lori and Richard ran it with us. Niether Spencer or I had done a 5 K before so it was pretty exciting that Spencer took 7th over all and ran it in just a hair over 19 min. I didn't have a grand entry like Spencer or anyting but I was pleased with my time and actually had a blast. But I really have to thank our great friends the Frandsen's for watching Sofie- so for once I could run without pushing Sofie in the jogger- It was soooo nice. I mean I don't know how we got sooo lucky to make these great friends but how many people do you know that don't have kids wake up early on a Saturday morning to come to a race they aren't even running just to cheer us on and watch our kids. Thank you soooo much Ben and Michelle.

This was Sofie's first try and helping me in the kitchen. We were frosting cup cakes and I think she ate more frosting thatn she put on the cup cakes but it was really fun to do it together.