.::No more crowns & No bed either!::.

Kris finished his last crown on monday. He's done with ALL of his graduation requirements! It's amazing. Really amazing. All his hard work and stress has paid off, thank goodness. We thought there was a very strong chance that he'd have some sort of problem and that his finishing would be delayed, so we're SO relieved that he's finished. So yay for that.

We sold our bed. We weren't planning on selling it until much closer to our actual move date, but Kris and I got anxious and listed a whole bunch of stuff on Craig's list this weekend, thinking we were running out of time. We didn't think that anything would sell right away (I guess I don't know what we were thinking honestly). We had a ton of emails on the bed right away, and somebody came and picked it up the next afternoon. So now we're sleeping on the hide-a-bed in the couch. For three more weeks. Augh. We thought about stealing Max's bed back, but he got a little bothered when our bed left, and said that nobody was allowed to take his. We figure if he sleeps well everybody sleeps better, so whatever!
And to everybody that's stayed over and slept in that bed, sorry. It's not quite as comfy as I'd hoped. Better than a lot of things, but just not as comfy and I'd like right now.
But now we have some money saved up for our new bed that we're going to get from Ikea when we move and I'm excited.

More news coming tomorrow hopefully...in the meantime please enjoy:

.::Project-pillows::.

I'm very proud of myself because I made all these pillows!

And for those of you that know me well, you know that sewing anything is a huge feat, and sewing something that actually turns out well (with out being helped every step of the way) is next to impossible for me.
So I'm very proud!
I got the fabric at Ikea, it was so cheap--like 2 or 3 bucks a yard for the blue, and about 5 bucks a yard for the patterned stuff. So great. And most of the pillow innards came from Ikea too.
Carie showed me how to make the first one (thanks Carie!!), and after about a week of trying and a lot of help for my mom I actually remembered how to thread my sewing machine. After that I went crazy and if I hadn't run out of fabric I probably would've ended up with like 15 pillows.
I'm excited to bring them to our new house, hopefully they'll look good on our nicer couch that someone else is borrowing from us right now. I'm looking forward to relaxing on that couch once again--with the new pillows of course!
I love the fabric, it's so cute. The colors are so cheery. And they make Max sing the Katamari song. "na, na na na na na na na na na na na na na" I can explain that later for those who are confused and care to learn more about weird japanese video games.

.:.:Big News, really really Big News:.:.

We heard from the "matching" service that Kris had to use to apply to his residency programs yesterday. We knew that the decisions would all be made public on the 28th, so we were pretty nervous the day before. But somehow we made it through the night and in the morning we got an email at 7:30 saying we are going to.......(a drumroll would probably be appropriate here)........Providence, Rhode Island for the next two years!! (Starting in June as far as we know)

We're not too surprised about it actually, because Kris's interview at that program went SO well, and they were very positive about him. They have a couple of locations, so we figured he would get into one of them. We thought it would be either Brooklyn, NY or Providence. We're happy about Providence because it's supposed to be the location with the best and newest facility and equipment.
We're especially excited considering that there was always a chance that things wouldn't have worked out. If that had happened Kris would've either had to give up the dream of being a pediatric specialist (which really would've bummed him out) or else wait a year and reapply. Neither of those alternatives sounded that good to me, so I'm just so glad that it all worked out.

Interestingly, neither Kris nor I have ever been to Rhode Island! The interview for this program happened in Brooklyn. So we don't have any idea what to expect. Luckily we have some great friends in the ward that just recently moved here from Providence (crazy, isn't it?) They're going to help us figure out some good areas we could live in and stuff like that. We're going to miss them and all of our other fun friends when we actually move. It's so sad to think of leaving, even though we'll be so so glad to be done with school and for Kris to move on to the next step in his "professional life." Probably the best part for me is that he is actually going to get paid. I'm typing it, but I can hardly believe it! He's going to get paid and we will have benefits, which is going to totally blow my mind. Hopefully I'm going to get to quit my job. I'm really looking forward to it.

So although we don't really have any idea how it's all going to be, we do have a few plans...
I'm looking forward to doing a lot of shopping here:

You luckies in UT have one, but poor me, I've have been suffering without. We should have one out here, I don't know why we don't! I'm excited because there's an Ikea between Providence and Boston. Yay!

Also I'm planning on frequenting this wonderful place:
I love H&M!! And for those of you that haven't had a chance to go, it's worth traveling for. Good clothes, cool clothes at excellent prices. There's one of these outside of Boston too.

We're also planning on spending a lot of time here:
and here:
and here:
assuming of course, that these pictures are all of Rhode Island beaches. They're supposed to be....
I love the beach, so I'm thrilled at the idea of living within a relatively short drive of some beautiful beaches.

We're also looking forward to frequenting here:
(New York of course!)

and here:
(Boston) We like big cool cities like these.

Kris is hoping for some good road biking opportunities, which seems likely to me, considering that road biking is kind of a preppy sport, and New England is preppy, right?

And I guess we're supposed to cheer for the Patriots now in football, and it seems this would be a good opportunity to do that, since they are probably going to win the super bowl. But I just can't. I think they're too boring. They just win to much. I guess that's a good problem to have. We'll see if living out there changes my mind.

So thanks to all of you for all your help and support!! Thanks for voting on Kris's application pictures, you obviously picked a good one since it got him some great interviews! Hopefully we'll have a chance to come visit all of our peeps out in UT this summer, maybe in may or june sometime. Everybody better clear their schedules. We'll see you then!