May/June Recap…

Warning you now, this is gonna be a long’un with picture’s galore… due to a lot that has happened and me having no desire aka being lazy :) to make a separate blog post about each thing.

- I have the sweetest new nephew Easton Daniel Keck. It’s my sister Krystal’s second baby boy (all natural, and not by choice, she’s one tough momma!) We are all smitten with him.

May 19-27:  We headed to California one last time for Neal’s graduation from Optometry school. Neal’s parents drove down with us and Neal’s brother Nephi and his wife Mallory flew in on Thursday.  We had a blast! It was a great week and fun see friends we hadn’t seen since starting rotations. We truly made life long friends there and I feel blessed to have had such a wonderful opportunity to meet them all!

Here’s a few pictures of what we did while in Cali in no particular order:

Beach Bonfire with“Team B” (Neal’s study group who are some of his BFF now) they burned their first original school white coats…can you tell they were excited to be done with school?

May 25: GRADUATION!!! I can’t even begin to express how proud I am of Neal! He’s going to be a great doctor!

Sooo sooo grateful Neal’s parents and brother were able to make it! It meant a lot to both of us. We missed Tim and Kira but he’s in school so they weren’t able to make it.

Also my family was able to watch it live online. We appreciate them being so supportive and know they all wished they could’ve been there too! They told me they all cheered with us when Neal’s name was called.

Spa Pedi with my fav girls (Sarah, Shonee, and AubRee)

Lunch with Genny (I worked with her at Fullerton Behavioral Health) and she became my grandma away from home…love her!

Final Banquet with SCCO class of 2012

Spent a day in LA

Downtown Disney

Beach Day @ Crescent Bay

- May 30: We celebrated Jayden’s 3rd birthday by visiting his grave and all his cousins wrote messages on balloons and we let them go so Jayden could get them in heaven.

- We got to spend a lot of quality time with family (late nights spent laughing and talking and eating yummy food, playing games, and all other sorts of fun) while we were home for the last month until we moved out here to Spokane. We love our families and are so very grateful we have such wonderful ones! What a blessing they are! We miss you all and can’t wait until we get to visit again!

June 16: celebrated our 6 year anniversary

June 19: Moved to Spokane (more pics to come)

June 25: Neal started work at Optic One

Neal has a job!

I just have to brag a little but in a humble way (can you even do that in a humble way?) haha. Well regardless as soon as someone meets Neal (for interviews) he’s a shoe in! He has such a great personality that is warm, humorous, but also professional. What every employer wants right? It was his first job interview and he got the job! I knew he would! Just like when he was interviewing with schools, every interview he did he got offered to attend that school. I seriously love my amazing husband and am so proud of everything he’s accomplished!

He’ll be graduating next month and already has a job lined up…and a good one at that! What a relief!  We feel so blessed for  him to have such a great opportunity to learn from a great doctor in private practice in Spokane, WA. He’ll be working at Optic One Eye Care Centers. (As you can see there are 2 locations he’ll be working at.)

His name is already on the door…eeekkk… so many emotions….it is for real…we really are moving!

It’s a little farther from home than we wanted but 8 hours away isn’t so bad. (I have to keep telling myself it’s better than 13 hours away). I never thought we’d end up in WA… but we feel really good about it and know this is where we are supposed to go. He signed a 3 year contract and at that point may have the chance to buy in as a partner. Way to go Dr. Guymon!

Last Rotation Before Graduation…

We moved to Salt Lake City in the middle of February to start Neal’s last optometric rotation at the VA in Salt Lake. We are loving being closer to family and have already visited there a few times and have had some visitors here as well and we LOVE it. We love our families!

There is only 48 days until graduation. Time flies! I can’t believe that it’s been 4 years already! We miss our dear life-long friends in Fullerton and are so grateful for the opportunity we had to live there and meet such wonderful people! Can’t wait to see everyone again at graduation.

Here’s a couple of pics of our basement apartment we are staying at in SLC…totally vintage!

Bedroom

Kitchen

Living Room

Bathroom

Neighborhood

We were able to go to General Conference last weekend and afterwards ate at this German restaurant Siegfried's , Neal was in HEAVEN and it brought back a lot of mission memories.