it's time for an update

Seven Months:

Brad and I have been married just over seven months and a few weeks ago we ate the cake topper to Brad’s groom’s cake. We sang “Bear Down” as we cut it, and although Brad said it tasted good Bridget had a few respectful bites before she threw hers out (freezer burn is not her kind of scrumptious).

Our biggest news:

We are 98% sure that we are going to UIC. So it looks like come the end of July we will be moving our way to Chicago. We will be Midwesterners for the next four years at least.

Christmas Summary:

We had a wonderful Christmas with Bridget’s Mom here in Utah. Brad got two weeks off of school and Bridget took a few days off of work. With Brad pulling all nighters the last few weeks of Fall semester it was a much needed break. We received way too many presents, we were definitely spoiled this year! Our favorite presents were the Sonicare Toothbrushes (for the future oral surgeon family) and the large gift card to Café Rio (for the currently poor college family). Both have been used nearly daily, ha ha. Here is a summary of how we spent our Christmas day. This is Brad sleeping through brunch…

A few fun things we’ve done:

Before Christmas we went to see the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Choir with our friends Kristin and Kristi. It definitely put us in the Christmas mood! The day after Christmas we went to see the Dallas Mavericks play the Utah Jazz (Bridget survived a verbal assault by an intoxicated Jazz fun, real classy Utah). The tickets were a great Christmas present from Bridget’s mom even if the Mavs lost. We also went with our friends Amber and Matt to see the Utah Flash (the D league team for the Jazz and Celtics that play at UVSC). We got excellent court side tickets through Matt and sat a few chairs down from the team. Here is a picture of Bridget’s favorite player James Lang, she nicknamed him Knuckle-Crusha because he looks like a football player (he’s 6.10 and 285 lbs!!!). Funny story: One of the players named Aleksandar Urgrinoski from Croatia winked at Brad, gave him the rock and also pointed at him at the end of the game. We are hoping he just thought we were in a position to give him some type of an endorsement deal, ahem.

With just a matter of months left here in Utah we are trying to get out and do more so we went and saw the Young Ambassador’s at BYU. The Broadway numbers were the best, Brad said performances of Wicked were almost as good (visually and vocally) to the professional version!

New Years Resolution:

Keep the blog updated better :)