"My Boyfriend's Girlfriend", U of U interview

I have an interview on Monday at 2:30pm at the U of U Hospital, Gynecology Department. YAY. Keep us in your prayers. This would be the best job in the world for me. It's been one of my dreams to work in a hospital.

McCord will be on his FIRST movie set starting this monday!! Double YAY. He's going to start as an extra in the new movie "My Boyfriend's Girlfriend" starring Alissa Milano. They also said to send them his school schedule and they might have him work on some other things too. OH YAH! We are excited.

Keep your fingers crossed for McCord to get maybe a PA job, or some other position with this movie producing company and for me to get the job at the hospital. Love you all. Tschuss.

Accepted!

For those of you who may not know, McCord has been accepted to the film program at SLCC in Salt Lake City, Utah! We are so excited to continue with his dream to be a writer. He already has many ideas for movie scripts, and has completed 2 150 page screenplays. We are thrilled that he can get great experience in EVERY aspect of the film business through this program. Cheers to 2 more years in SLC, and to fulfilling dreams.

We got a call from the VP of the Fine Arts Department at SLCC. She said that McCord's interview went well last friday and they'd love to have him on the Fine Arts Student Leadership Board. Woo Hoo! We are so excited. He starts next monday. We are excited because this will allow him to be in the middle of all the Fine Arts happenings, including the Salt Lake City Film Festival! He is in charge of it! They meet every monday. They also pay for some of his tuition, which is huge.

CHUCK- Season 3...

CHUCK will continue!!! Season 3 is scheduled to come on the aire around this fall. We are so excited. This is one of our favorite tv shows (if not THEE favorite tv show). We are thrilled and invite all to watch an episode of Chuck. It's hilarious! After all, who can miss faces like these:





"Can you do it? Can you be awesome?"

Week with the Days

(Pictures to be added later)

Being home is so nice. I get to do all the little things that I couldn't do when I'm far far far away like:

Quilting with mom and sis. We come from a great line of talented women who can cook, clean, can, and sew anything. I hope to continue the traditions. For every occasion in our family, you get a quilt/blanket. When we got married we received and displayed 8 quilts. This is us quilting on Joe's eagle quilt.

Going to parades where my bros are marching, and J's lacrosse games.

Eagle court of honor. I've been to so many court of honors, but Eagle's are always the best. Seeing family is the best

Funny happenings at home. Nate was trying to warm up some of my Dad's hot fudge (Mmmm- he makes the best!) and he turned the pan on high and walked away to do something else while it heated. He came back to find the pan completely black and fudge burned and stuck to the pan, unable to get it off. My mom today decided she'd put the pan in the oven and turn on the cleaning cycle to get the crispy fried fudge off the pan. The oven door locked shut unable to open and toxic fumes filled the house. =) A day in the life of being a mom never never will be boring. We open windows and all will be well.

This reminds me of when I put a casserole dish of brownies from the oven onto the stove to cool. The burner on the stove was still on. Most of the mom's know what's gonna happen next. You guessed it. The dish exploded like a military grenade and scared me to death.
Last story. Who's ever ran out of dishwasher soap? ME! Who's ever tried to put liquid dish soap in the dishwasher to compensate? ME! Oh ya! I put liquid dish soap in the dishwasher and went to the store to buy more (this is when we were in NY). Came home to a kitchen ful of waist high bubbles EVERYWHERE. I was literally swimming in bubbles across my kitchen to get to the dishwasher to turn it off. It took all day to clean up the mess. Lol. Some things you just have to learn from experience.

3rd Anniversary. On different continents!

Today is our 3rd year anniversary and we are on separate continents. "Fidamt"!

TRIER, GERMANY

Trier, Germany is the oldest Roman city in the world and was founded nearly 1300 years before the roman empire. On top of that, it was the Roman empire's first capital city. "The Gate" to the city is mostly original and still standing. This is shown in the picture below. "The Gate" was built in 108 A.D.!!!! It was so cool!

Inside views of the city from inside "The Gate". The Gate was our favorite part of Trier. There are pictures of the big town square from the top of The Gate, and other views to show the old architecture.






This is the Jewish part of town. In the 14th century the jews were required to live in a separate part of town. This was their street.


This was the HUGE catholic dome in the middle of the city. It was built before the bible was compiled. This was one of Constantine's palaces.

Our favorite thing in the dome was the ceiling:

This is the Basilica. It was Constantine's throne room.


This is sorta like a mini colosium. They used this area for sports.



At the public baths. They actually had heated water from the ground, and saunas, that people would come and bathe in. There were huge tunnels underground showing us the technology of the heating of the water, etc. Very facinating. This structure I thought was beautiful.

AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND

Amsterdam in the Netherlands was so much fun. We took a train from Germany to The Netherlands and it was about 2 1/2 hr train ride. We were able to go there for quite cheap, and we decided to take a canal tour of the city. The tour turned out to be perfect because there are so many canals in the Netherlands. We had no idea. So, most of these were taken from the view of the river. It was beautiful. Hope you are ready for a long post because this one will be lengthy because we loved it.

what can I say? My hubby wants to be spiderman.


Main train station in The Netherlands. We actually saw 4 missionaries there and we went up and said hi to them. Most of them were from Utah and we thanked them for their work. I'm sure we made their day and probably will make it into some letters home this week.




The following pictures I'll describe to you are our favorites. McCord loved the pirate ship that we took a picture of. He dreams of going on a treasure hunt someday. My favorite was Anne Franks house, but I also loved the picture with the boats on the canal and the two big structures behind them. One is the huge dome/cathedral (left) and the long structure towering over the boats to the left is the place where the royalty stayed in. So cool! We love Amsterdam.






So many canals with beautiful bridges that we got to cruise under:


This is the most famous bridge in all of Amsterdam:


The dollar sized pancakes are FANTASTIC!!! Ser lecker!


The mothers would all tow their children around on bikes. One in front and one in back. I only caught a picture of this lady peddling her youngster on the back. Sarah and I thought it was hilarious.



Famous Vincent VanGough Museum:

This is the Oscar award for the Anne Frank movie:

This is outside Anne Frank's house. It was amazing going in and experiencing what she went through. And to think that she was just one of the many jews... they wouldn't let us take pictures inside, but we did see her diary and the pictures that she posted on her bedroom wall for her decor. Pictures outside:


over 250 people actually live in house boats like this on the canals:

I thought of Angie when I saw this sculpture, so I had to post it.

Mammuts vs. Devils

The Munster Mammuts played the Devils. We're the black team in all of these pictures. It was one of the best games to watch. Marijke, Margaret, and Tristan and Sarah were there to watch as well as almost the whole Inlingua staff came to support. Pictures posted below.

McCord and Joe giving the team a pep talk:



This is "Hillmer". He's the star player. He was easy to find because he was the one making all the great plays and he had a red helmet on.


The FINAL score was: