Hey Everybody!

We are still madly in love! We are doing great! I am half way through my last semester as an undergrad and Bradley is working here and there! We move soon, so we've been on the look out for random, fun furnature. Here is a picture of us at Temple Square, and another one of us eating!

Hola everybody! We haven't updated in ages! Today is Bradley's last day teaching Pathology and Anatomy at the hospital in Blackfoot. I think he's not THAT sad about it. He'll be done at BYU-I officially in April, so he'll need to start up a new job. He'll probably be driving for United Pipe and Supply again, if he can.
I am just trucking along with school. The whole 20 credits thing is starting to wear on me, but its worth it. I am still tutoring, and I am busier than last semester. I guess they got the word out that I was an amazing tutor or something. J/K. We are starting to look for housing in Des Moines. Its absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how we are going to move all of our stuff out there in a U-haul and tow our car behind. I am going to be very grumpy on the ride there. We will miss Rexburg a ton. Its nice to have the temple so close and live in the greatest apartment ever. Oh well. Maybe Des Moines will be the bomb. We'll see.
I thought I was done with the whole sickness thing after my emergency room visit in January, but I got a really nasty throat/cold thing. I thought I was on the homestretch. Oh well. They make some pretty fantastic cold medicine these days. I am high as a kite...almost.
Bradley and I have been trying to do some fun stuff on the weekends. For Valentines Day we went to Idaho Falls and stayed at a hotel and went to Ruby River and watch Brian Regan videos. Last weekend we went to a school thing called Extravadance and then went to Chili's. It was way fun. We also try and hit Coldstone often. I think I'm hungry or something. Tootles.

Life is busy

We just went to Lacey's sacrament meeting talk before she leaves on her mission to Uruguay. It was very good to hear her speak and she did a great job. A lot of the family was there as well as many of Lacey's friends. The food was very good and we all rolled out of the door like the girl on willy wonka after chewing gum. We are sure that Lacey will be a great missionary.
Ellen also went to the emergency room this week because she was dehydrated (stomach issues...). That wasn't fun AT all. But the recovery is coming along. We also had to (finally!) get a new lap top because our other one was so ghetto fabulous you couldn't do anything on it unless you wanted to spend ten years doing it.
Well for now peace out and we will be in contact!! We mainly wanted to test out our new computer's ability to post a picture on our blog! Chau.

A new year . . . A new semester!

Well we made it through 2008!!! What a great year one of the best obviously since we got married in 2008. We are looking forward now to the great 2009 starting out with this new semester. Ellen can graduate in July by really putting in the effort. She has 20 credits this semester and 21 next semester in order to finish!! Good luck to Ellen!!! Bradley walked in graduation in December but is taking biochemistry and a psych class in preparation for medical school which starts in August. Ellen is also going to continue to tutor sociology and Bradley is working as an anatomy TA and teaching anatomy and physiology at the hospital in Blackfoot. All in all it will be a busy time for both of us.

We had a marvelous Christmas break eating everything from crab stuffed tenderloin to chicken and dumpling soup. We also ate from a selection of every sweet thing imaginable. Bradley got a sweet tool set along with some nice clothes and other fun stuff. Ellen was excited to get movies, boots, a fondue pot, and other stuff as well. Thanks to everybody who helped make our Christmas amazing. The Stokes parents surprised everybody by getting a Nintendo Wii for the family how exciting!!!!

Change of plans

Someone once said that the only constant in this life is change. Well that is definitely true for the Stokes family! After some careful research Ellen realized that if she changed her minor to psychology and took a lot of credits in winter and spring that she could graduate this coming July. This meant that she would be done with school before we left for medical school. We were so excited!! This also meant that we no longer needed a place for her to study while Bradley is at medical school so now we are leaning more towards going to Des Moines Iowa in August. The school there is the one Bradley liked the most so that is exciting!
In other news Bradley's sister Lacey has been called on a mission to the Uruguay Montevideo mission which is the same mission as her dad! We are so excited for Lacey and wish her a huge congratulations.
Other than that school and work is as busy as ever but we are finding ways to have fun as we go through it all! We are very much looking forward to spending time in Colorado for Thanksgiving and being able to see all of the family there! We cant wait! Bradley is especially excited for all the pie! That is his favorite part!

Fieldtrip!

Well, first and foremost lets just say that Bradley got into Midwestern!! Yeeee-haaa!!! That's good news for the both of us! Yesterday we went on this very long geology fieldtrip for school. It was fun...but did we mention long? Mesa falls was my favorite. We went to Yellowstone and Montana and saw all a bunch of natural disaster sights. Bradley said his favorite part was about the earthquake...but I honestly don't remember the earthquake part. And we also want to say 'Hi' to everyone also...so hi.

We have some good news! Bradley has been accepted to two medical schools so far! One in Iowa and the other in Mesa, Arizona. He is very relieved to have that hurdle past him. We are still hoping to hear from Midwestern in Glendale, Arizona!

It's starting to get cold here in Rexburg and we saw some snow today! We've just been trying to stay cozy in our apartment! The semester is almost halfway over and time is flying by! Bradley's teaching job in Blackfoot is going great and Ellen enjoys her tutoring!