Fall Visit

I've had a crazy time since last week. My wonderful grandpa passed away at the age of 95. I was able to drive down to Buckhannon and hold his hand one last time, and he was able to hold and squeeze it back. My sister drove up, and we spent some time with her cute clan. The kids are so grown up, so well behaved (for the most part!), and so sweet! Most of our time seemed to be spent shuttling back and forth to Buckhannon. Hannah was able to stay another day, so we actually got to visit and took a nice walk at Friendship Hill with everyone.

Dj's Life in Pictures

I did this with Dj too. He did not have as much fun as I did....

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into bighugelab's mosaic maker.
d. copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as) to your computer.

My answers:
1. What is your first name? Don
2. What is your favorite food? Chilli

3. What high school did you go to? Junípero Serra High School

4. What is your favorite color? Blue

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Alanis Morrisette

6. Favorite drink? Water
7. Dream vacation? Country of Georgia

8. Favorite dessert? German Chocolate Cake

9. What you want to be when you grow up? Dentist
10. What do you love most in life? A Good Laugh

11. One word to describe you? Happy
12. Where are you now? Morgantown

Becky's Life in Pictures

Kind of fun! Here is how you do it:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into bighugelab's mosaic maker.

d. copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as) to your computer.

My answers:

1. What is your first name? Becky

2. What is your favorite food? Mashed Potatoes

3. What high school did you go to? Albert Gallatin

4. What is your favorite color? All Colors

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Christian Bale

6. Favorite drink? Water

7. Dream vacation? Machu Picchu

8. Favorite dessert? Chocolate Fudge

9. What you want to be when you grow up? Goat Farmer

10. What do you love most in life? Sleeping In

11. One word to describe you? Hesitant

12. Your flickr name? rahbehkah

Not doing much, but with no time to spare

I haven't written anything lately, mostly because nothing exciting has really been happening. We have settled into our fall routines: Monday, Gossip Girl (it mildly entertains me); Tuesday, House and Fringe; Wednesday, Bones; Thursday, Ugly Betty and The Office. How depressing that TV has taken over my evenings? But it just so nice to sit and vege.

I also decided to take a Physiology course. I hate to admit it, but I work in a Physiology lab and have never taken a Physiology class. So this weekend instead of taking advantage of free museum day, OR making old fashioned molasses with the Chapmans, one of my favorite fall activities, OR heading to the Buckwheat Festival to determine if my teenage self was correct in exclaiming that buckwheat cakes are disgusting OR buying a scalped football ticket for $5 to watch the Eers, I spent a sickening amount of hours trying to figure out nine pages (nine!), with 4 pictures per page, of the above monster picture and evil friends. Who knows their histology?!?

The White Coat

One of the things that they seem to talk up at WVU dental school is the white coat ceremony, an induction ceremony in which you receive a white coat indicating your readiness to start treating your own patients. You start to hear about it at day one. Then you get to let the anticipation build for the next two years. Finally the day arrives and with it some mixed thoughts and feelings like, "wow, I wish I was sleeping right now" said one of my fellow inductees. Another, "I hope they have good food afterwards". My self "man I hope they don't stand up there and blow hot air for the next hour and a half".
After standing around in the hall waiting for the ceremony to start we next got the opportunity to practice some skills we learned in the K-guard, namely walking in a single file line and sitting when told. The speeches were short, which warrantied a sigh of relief from myself. After listening to some of the professors for past two years you realize how long winded they can be and the thought that there was no present ending point was a little daunting. But when it was all said and done, the comments that were directed towards us were thought provoking and left me feeling that receiving the white coat was a milestone in which resembled the culmination of all the long hours of studying, taking test, practicing preps on fake teeth and giving injections to my class mates. All of which are fond memories.
Although I may not have been too excited about the whole thing at first... having Dr. Hornbrook put that white coat on me sure felt good.






Me and some of my classmates.



Me and the Russian, aka Alex. We are members of the DDS club. Which stand for the Dental Domino Society. We, and the other member of our club who is not pictured (Larkin left early) play domino's every lunch hour.


My parents. It made me very happy that they were there to witness me receiving my white coat.

Woke up nice and early this morning and took a road trip to the DC temple for stake temple day. The closer we got to DC, the harder the rain came. The front lobby was filled with umbrellas. It was a super fast trip through the monsoon weather, so we could come back and watch the WVU vs. ESC game. The depressing WVU vs. ESC game... Time to go wallow in my sorrow, or at least take a nap...

Our car is smarter than us

We made the decision not to get a new car because we had so much trouble with I-79 Honda. We decided to try the Honda dealer farther away, Urse, and they made us an offer we couldn't refuse. So, we got a new car. It is definitely smarter than us. It tells us exactly how many mpg we are getting, when we need to change the oil, and a million other things. It shuts itself off when we stop at a red light, and then turns itself back on when we push on the gas. It rides like a sports car. We are in love.