NYC Pics

Me with a couple Gray's Papaya hot dogs. You might have heard of them, and they really are the best. Two dogs and a Papaya drink for $3.00. Can't beat that.
Ash and I with our Gray's Papaya drinks in hand
Street performer in front of the NYC Library. There was a whole group of these guys dancing like this.
Ash with our friends Brandon and Amy on the subway to Queens to watch the Mets game. Might be the only time I've seen an empty subway car like this. By the time we got there, the whole thing was packed with Mets fans. Shea stadium has very few parking spots because everyone just hops on the subway that goes right to the entrance.
We went down to a pizza place for dinner after the game in the Village (best pizza ever). While we were walking there, we ran into this huge gathering of people protesting. It took a while, but we found out that they were Armenians protesting the cruelty of the Turkish gov't to the Armenians. It was pretty cool.

Weekend in NYC

Once again, we decided to take a little trip to New York this past weekend. We went with our friends and had a great time. I took a million awesome pics and I want to put them all on here, so maybe I'll just tell you about the trip in installments. One of the items on the list that Ash and I made last week (see previous post) was to visit each of the ballparks on the East Coast and watch at least one game. So, we started on Saturday with a Mets vs. Braves game at Shea Stadium in Queens. We took a subway train from Manhatten out to the ballpark and had a great time. Mets dominated. As you can tell, we were out in the cheap seats, but it was awesome. The Big Apple goes up when a Met hits a homerun.

Ashley Did It!

It's official, my wife made it through the toughest year of Dental School. Now she starts her clinical work and will get her first actual patients in June. It was a tough week, but she is done now. Unfortunately, she still has her written board exams to take this summer. To celebrate, I took Ashley to a Japanese Hibachi restaurant that is just around the corner from our house. It was great. We had never been to one before and it was a lot of fun to have the guy cook all our food in front of us and do all the tricks and everything.

I am down to 3 and 1/2 weeks left until I am officially certified to teach here in PA. Hopefully I can get a job now. I could use some prayers because it is apparently very tough to get a teaching job here.

For our FHE last night, Ash and I went through and made a list of all the places that we want to go and see while we are living here on the East Coast. From what I can tell, we are going to have a lot of fun because our list was really long. We want to go everywhere and see everything, so come out to Philly and help us check off our list!

Busy Days

I realize that everyone is busy, but I was trying to come up with something good to blog about because it has been a while and I couldn't think of anything exciting. Ashley is studying for probably the toughest week of finals in all dental school. I am looking for jobs for the summer and the fall. It was nice for a couple days, but it started to snow again today. Just in time for my 4 day weekend that I have off. Baseball season started this week, so that is exciting. Hopefully the Mariners can pull something out of their bums to have a good season. General Conference was awesome last weekend. I especially liked Elder Holland talk about speaking with kind words. He is one of my favorites. Every conference, I think back to Brother Merrell's seminary class where he challenged us to watch all 5 sessions. I think Trev and I took that challenge and I haven't missed a session since (that's not entirely true, I missed every session while I was in Japan because they didn't get the live feeds yet and I missed a couple of Priesthood sessions while I was at BYU because they scheduled games for right after it ended so we couldn't watch). I am so thankful he challenged us that day because conference weekends have become a great blessing in my life and one of my favorite weekends of the year.
Anyways, I am kind of just sharing my random thoughts now, but I love that I am able to tell my family how my life is going. I love all of you guys.