The House and Summer Highlights

As I prepare to head back to OSU next week I've been thinking about best parts of this summer. I worked at Banfield Veterinary hospital for 10 weeks as part of a student job program and I gained a lot of good experience and knowledge by doing that program. I got to meet some really neat people and see some cool things in the process.

The family came for a baby shower and it was so good to see everybody! Some of us hiked up Adams' Canyon and saw the awesome waterfalls. We were also surprised to hear the rattle of a rattlesnake and we saw the same snake on the way up and on the way down. Ironically, we only seem to see snakes on that hike when family is in town.

The small rattlesnake

The baby shower was a blast! It was a double shower for my cousin Amy and Kate, my cousin Jeremy's wife.  I enjoyed helping to make paper balls out of tissue paper for decorations and fill popcorn boxes for party favors. It was fun to see all of the extended family and hear their funny stories and to see all of the cute baby gifts.

One big pile of delicious pink popcorn!

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Grandma and her sisters

Another big event this summer has been the building of my parents house. We've been seeing it pop up before our eyes and hardly a day goes by where we don't go to the house to see what the latest new addition is. It's been really fun to watch and I think my parents have done an excellent job with the difficult task of picking out all the details and things for the house. Here are some photos of the latest additions. More photos to come!

The kitchen counters and cabinets

The fireplace

Mom in her kitchen. 9-6-11 the wood floor and the hood over the stove at the latest developments. 

The exterior of the house is nearly done

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we've been up too

These are a few of my favorite things: Camping, riding quad runners, hiking, shooting, playing in the river and family time!

Pictures to the previous post

School is almost over! In two weeks I'll be at home and gearing up to start working. I'm just excited to be done with school for awhile and to see my family. Here is a picture recap of the last few weeks. I've definitely made time for more than just studying this term!

My first trip to the Portland temple to do baptisms. It was a nice trip and I got to know some ward members a little bit better on the two hour drive there and back. The Portland temple is very beautiful.

My trip to the zoo was a great experience. We went behind the scenes with one of the zoo veterinarians and he told us about procedures he had done on various animals and gave us a tour of the veterinary hospital. Also, we got to get up close to some animals including a rhino and a tiger. I have pictures but we were asked not to post them on the web. It was a great day for the zoo so after our tour I stayed and visited the exhibits for while. The animals were very photogenic, especially one black bear that was up at least 50 feet in a tree!


Some pictures of my favorite Oregon flowers! Rhododendrons! They are everywhere and in many bright and beautiful colors. I especially liked the bright orange and pink ones.

Almost there!

Spring term is winding down with a little over a month of school left. Things are going great as far as school goes. Last weekend was the annual Pet Day which is put on by the first and second year vet students. I was on the Kid Zone committee and I spent the day face painting and helping to run the bounce house. I had a lot of fun despite all the rain. Pet Day was a bigger deal than I was anticipating and we had a pretty good turn out.

This weekend I am planning on going to the Portland temple to do baptisms with my ward. I'm excited to go there and I will make sure to take some pictures of the temple and post them later.

Next weekend I will be going to the Portland zoo to meet the veterinarian there and see some cool behind the scenes stuff with the ZWE(Zoo, Wildlife, Exotics) club. I'm way excited about this and I heard that last year the students got to go in with the elephants and learn how to find veins that would be used to collect blood. I really want to touch and elephant (: I'll make sure to take pictures if I'm allowed too.

Lots of exciting things are headed my way as I prepare to finish off my first year of vet school!