what a week...update time!

Lately its been really crazy for Jordan and I, so lets see how much I can catch you up on!

-Jordan and I have decided to put our condo up for sale. We are doing that as a proactive approach so that we are ready if we need to move NEXT Spring or Summer. We are expecting our place to take a while to sell, so we are putting it on the market now. If for some reason it does sell before that-like this summer or something, then we plan to just rent somewhere until we know more next May from the schools he will apply to. Please pray for this situation, that we are patient and ready for whatever might happen!

-Bella has been doing really well in her training! She has her first 'trial' (that's what they call the competitions) on May 22nd in the evening!! I am super excited! She will be doing a 'jumpers course'. I will give more details to follow if you would like to come cheer her on=) I know Zeus is excited to be there...lol.

-This past week we have been working with the families at our church to get together the Bridges Safehouse Yard Sale that our church's City Impact team put together. Bridges Safehouse is a non-profit organization to help pregnant women that have become homeless get back on their feet again and to house them while they are pregnant and in need. We were pricing stuff during the week a church member's home in Cedar Hill. Then Friday night a big group of us got together to help load up the huge UHUAL van with all the stuff for the yard sale! It took about 4 hours to do this. Then we got to the site (Clark Dental in Cedar Hill let us use his land for the sale) at 4am to start setting up for the garage sale (as you know garage sales start around 6:30-7am) and we had a LOT of stuff to set up!! It was very fun to do something for someone else! And Bridges SafeHouse raised over $3000!! It was awesome...I have a few picks below....

-Also on Saturday we went to the preview day at Jordan's soon-to-be school UNTHSC in Fort Worth for the Master Program that he got into. It was neat for me b/c I got to actually meet all 100 of the students that will be in the program with him. There were a few other wives of student's there, so hopefully maybe we can get together and hang out sometime. It was kind of daunting b/c the presenters kept saying how rigorous this program is, which I kind of knew, but the way they made it sound-I don't think I'll be seeing much of Jordan come August! This summer is apparently prep courses and not as difficult as when the Fall semester starts. 

-I can't believe that there are only 5 weeks of school left! It's about to be a year since I graduated from college, and Jordan graduates in a couple weeks! How time flies, and how God has surely blessed us in ways we did not imagine. I love the school I'm at and the people I work with-and I am NOT just saying that b/c some of them read this blog, it is sincerely true-I could not have asked for a better work environment, its such a great fit for me. =) I am looking forward to the summer though...hehe

-And last but certainly not least-this Friday Jordan is taking the MCAT for the 2nd time. He is hoping to raise his score and that is for the upcoming Medical School application that he will submit in June for the 2010-2011 school year. He has been diligently studying on TOP of his 3 part time jobs and full time school load, bless his heart. He is a hard worker and I really pray that Friday goes well for him!! It will take 3 weeks to get the score back (i know-a crazy long time!) so we have to practice our patience. But again, please, please, please keep him in your prayers as he is in the final days of preparing for that exam!!! 

Thank you for taking the time to read this and caring about us;)

Here are some pics from the garage sale: (ps i'm waiting on my new camera battery so I haven't taken much pics lately, I got these from someone else..)

All the stuff out at the sale!! look how much!! and that UHUAL in the back is the big one we filled up-this is from about 100yards away...

clothes anyone??? ya try sorting that blindly at 4:30am in the dark! lol

This was loading up all the stuff Friday night before the sale-Jordan was making sure it was all going to fit! And thank goodness MOST of it did! We had to come back a couple times. lol

ya this is after a lot of it had been cleared-people gave so much, it was awesome!

this is just ONE of the garages full of stuff for the sale, there were 2. We took it out, priced it, put it back, then loaded it in the van, and unloaded it for the sale, then re-loaded what didn't sell to take to a second hand store and unloaded it there. It was awesome=)

YaY for Jordan!!!!

OK, I will keep this post short, but I just wanted to update everyone on the exciting new news for us!! As some of you know, Jordan has been trying to get into this Pre-Medical Master Program at the UNT Medical School in Fort Worth. It is a great program that runs full time for one year. It starts this May and he graduates May 2010. He got his acceptance letter on Friday!!=) They only accepted 100 applicants to the program so-YAY!! I am so proud of him and we are so excited=)

Jordan is really pumped about this program, as am I! He will be taking classes with the Medical School's professors and in there with the medical students, basically like your first year of med school. It is in Fort Worth, however, so we are sad that we won't get to move back closer to family for right now=(

But it is a wonderful blessing from God that we prayed for, and it will really be a great step in the right direction for Jordan as he is applying for Medical Schools this year and the next. Please keep him in your prayers-he is taking the MCAT again on May 1st and he is kind of stressed about it.  We appreciate your thoughts and prayers in this journey that is far from over=) Here is the website for the program if you are interested:

http://www.hsc.unt.edu/Education/gsbs/medicalsciences.cfm

don't laugh ok? =)

Bella has been doing really well in her training these days. She's been working 'off leash' the past couple weeks and doing really well. She is so funny to watch-her furry little body runnin all over these big obstacles and stuff. I am hoping to compete with her in May, so I will let everyone know as soon as I know!! I finally took some pics of us going some of our tricks when my mom was there. I had to keep her on the leash for pics b/c I was kind of going in 'slow motion' and she wouldn't have 'posed' had I not. lol....

Bella goin over the 'walk it' Coming throug the tunnel!

Goin over a mini jump!! She loves the 'walk it'-look how fast she goes!

Lookin at me, showin her 'sit'. Just finishing a jump..little bit higher

Huffin and puffin=) About to do a big jump=)

-this is
And the scramble=really likes this one b/c it makes her feel like a 'big dog'=) where we train.

Let's not forget Zeus, who gets 'attacked' by Bella daily......

He's so good at being pretty though, and of course, this is him doing his best trick-making a bed. We love our Zeus too though!!=)

I love that God gives us the things we need sometimes in mysterious ways=) Obviously Jordan and I don't have any kids yet, but I have definetely enjoyed having my two little doggies to love on!! They are sort of like our 'kids' right now=) I think about them on my way home, Jordan and I talk about them when we're out on dates, I take them places with me..its pretty funny. Now OBVIOUSLY they are nothing like actually having kids, that's not what I'm saying, its just cute how we love them so much, and they make us laugh. They are a such little blessings in our lives.

**On a different note, please keep Jordan in your prayers-he re-takes his MCAT on May 1st and finding time to study between work and his already demanding classes can be quite the challenge. At least he's graduating in 5 weeks!=)