The best thing that happened to me this year was that my son was born in April! It has been a great journey and he makes us so happy
the best thing that happened to me this year was going to college
Going to college is awesome! I bet you've learned a lot so far. Living on your own is pretty cool. You grow a lot. What do you like best about college?
yeah it's really fun up here and i really feel like im figuring out what i want to do
Yeah thats awesome. Thats a really fun part of college is figuring out your future. Some times its hard and stressful but it's good to have a plan.
probably a mix between the social aspect and the style of classes, i really like meeting new people and just doing spontaneous things and also learning the things i want to
It's weird though, time goes really fast. Yeah that is totally true. You meet a lot of cool people! And you learn a ton!
is way better than taking a bunch of classes i wasn't that interested in, also i really like choosing which teacher you want because some of them really make the class
It's definitely a good experience. Although, I don't do the spontaneous stuff much anymore.
also I probably wont be ver active at typing because im working o some stuff so just keep going and ill respond occasionally
Now that I'm getting to the end of the road it's getting a little more serious. Okay.
yeah it's probably harder when you're married but im enjoying the bachelor life right now haha
But yeah like I was saying, it's hard to do spontaneous stuff. The Bachelor life was fun while it lasted but honestly the married life is where it's at. It's a lot more work but it's also a lot more fulfilling. Because when you are a bachelor you are kind of in limbo, you have relationships but you never really know how long they are going to last and they can be superficial sometim sometimes. Not all the time, but sometimes. but when you are married then it's like you have a strong foundation that you can build on and you can improve it over time and it last foreve So just knowing that it lasts forever is pretty sweet.
yeah i bet, im jst enjoying this phase of my life while it lasts though especially because the married life isn't exactly an option right now haha
Yeah yeah I know. I don't think you shouldn't enjoy it. It is meant to be enjoyed. But some people like to stay in it because it's like the comfort zone. But no growth ever happens in the comfort zone.
but yeah I get what youre saying about being in limbo and stuff, like I'll sort of be in relationships with various people but i dont relly expect them to last so its kind just for fun and to get to know people
Yeah it's just for fun! But some of them you may end up being friends with for a long time. Like I'm still friends with some people I met freshmen year in 2013 and 5 years later we are still friends haha. They are all married now too, so it's like we are married friends. And just for your information, finding married friends is like dating all over again, because you need to find a couple that gets along with both you and your wife. So it's kinda like you have to play the whole game again until you find people that you both want to be friends with haha. But you really dont even want to hang out with anyone the first few month of marriage you just want to spend time with your wife.
yeah haha I hope i find cool people to hang out with once I'm married
You will. You just find people in your ward or in your classes. Plus your wife will have friends and you'll be introduced to them and if they have husbands then you can be friends with them too.
yeah but I've still got at least a few years until I've gotta worry about that so for now it's the bachelor life for me haha yeah true, do you and taylor do stuff with other married couples a lot or it it not that often
Yeah I know, I just want to make sure you know what it's gonna be like. I didn't have anyone to really ask these types of questions to. Yeah we hang out with people in the ward and our neighbors. And sometimes my friends from freshman year. But also it just gets really busy so it's hard to find the time. So now we hang out more with family.
yeah thats cool, and yeah I bet being the oldest is probably harder becuse youve kinda got to figure things out for yourself but yeah hanging with family is fun
Yeah it is a little hard thats why I want to pass down my knowledge. Seriously though like we would rather drive up to salt lake to visit grandma than go to parties. And we would rather drive down to AZ to visit family and watch 5 year old nephews play soccer than go hiking with friends Just because like I said before, the family relationships are the ones that last forever. Friends come and go. Not that friends aren't important, it's just a matter of priorities.
yeah I guess once you get married that sort of starts to set in more, but i feel like all of us sort of prioritized friends over family in highschool
Yeah thats true. Now I really wish I hadn't though.
i guess there's sort of a time for everything though, like in highschool hanging out with friends can seem more fun because they are a lot more similar to you but once youre
Because like I hardly ever see my friends from high school.
older its probably easier to all get along and find things that everyone likes to do and yeah I kind of wish we were all better friends as siblings, like it's not like we all hated eachother but we just didn't do stuff much and sometimes I meet people up here
Yeah. well Taylor's family was always family first. And after hanging out with them you can see a difference in family dynamic. They are all best friends! And yeah I agree we didn't really do that much together. But now that we are older it's easier to relate.
that are super close with their family and it seems really cool, but It's not like it's too late, I'm definitly trying to be nicer to jason and kate and tessa whenever i'm back home so we can have some better memories because we didnt really get along that much haha
Yeah I feel ya. It's kinda sad to realize you dont really have that many memories with your siblings. Taylor have hundreds of memories with them and is always talking to them about them and they have so many inside jokes. And now they are better friends because of it.
yeah I can sort of tell that too, but i guess now theres no use worrying about it, you just gotta move forward and make new memories were only like 1/5 of the way through life so we still got time i guess haha
Their parents had a lot to do with it. Like they were never allowed to sleep overs, or to eat dinner at someone elses house, and family activities always trumped everything. Thats true haha if you live to be a hundred you are 1/5 there. I'm almost 1/4 Crazy how fast time goes by. But yeah I really like the way Taylors family did things. I want my kids to all be tight with their siblings and with us. Not that My parents didn't do things right. They did a lot of good things that I also want to incorporate into our family. That's one of the fun parts of being married is you get to decide how you are going to do things in your family. You set the rules, the traditions, and the culture with your wife. You kinda get to mix the best of both worlds and come up with something completely new and unique, but still with elements of your childhood. So what are you working on right now?
right now I'm just trying to figure out my schedule for fall semester becuase a lot of the classes i wanted were full like I had to get in on waiting lists and so now im looking for backups before they get full too
Oh I see. That stinks. You probably got a late registering day because you are still pretty new. Yeah get on those waitlists. It's crazy how fast they fill up. But whenever I had to be on the waitlist I usually got in if I was like the 10th person on there.
oh well rip im like 30 on one and 70 on another but ive been moving up pretty fast and yeah i had a pretty late date and its crazy how fast they fill up
Ok. Yeah I guess I don't really know how those work anymore. Maybe they do go fast now because there are more students. It's nice for me because I get like the 2nd date because I have so many credits they give me priority. I think the only people who can register before me are graduate students. But now I'm done. I already registered for Winter and that was my last semester. Weird.
yeah I thought that was really annoying because I literally couldn't get into so many classes I wanted to because they were already filled up but i guess it makes sense because the people who have taken more classes have less options available for them so they kind of have to take certain courses
Yeah I guess that does make sense.
yeah that is pretty weird that you're already done how many semesters did it take you to graduate? i feel like it was less than 4 years right?
Yeah. It's weird talking to freshmen in my classes because like they just graduated high school and I graduated 5 years ago and a lot has changed in 5 years. Like they all even have different slang now. I feel a little old haha. But it's also kinda exciting that I'm one step closer to being done and actually working in a career and making money so that we can have our own house and be more established
yeah that will be super nice once you can actually start working and stuff, how long is dental school going to be and do you have to do like a residency for that or can you just start working right after?
Dental school is four years. And you can start working right after so that's nice. But I want to be an orthodontist so I would have to go to school for 2-3 more years. It's kinda like a residency but it's mostly just school haha. Or I could work first before going back to school to pay off debt, and then later go back to become an orthodontist. I haven't figured out all the details yet. I need to get into Dental School first. But that's the plan. What kinda of doctor would you want to be?
im not really sure yet, but im taking a class next semester that has a bunch of guest lectures from different types of doctors and healthcare professionals so hopefully I can figure out that by the end of next semester have you gotten into and dental schools yet? any dental schools?
Yeah that is a good class. You can also shadow people to figure out if you like a certain thing more than others. No. They can't release any information until December 1st. I've only had one interview though, so that is likely the school that will accept me if they decide to. Hopefully I can get some more interviews, just as back up, but if I don't it's ok because we already interviewed at the school we want to go to. But just the fact that it's the only option right now is scary because if they don't accept me then we our going to have to reapply next year. But there is still one application that I need to finish and then maybe that will give us another shot at an interview. Also a lot of school interview through march so there is still time.
yeah that would be pretty stressful, like it would be annoying to finish all of your schooling and stuff and then have to wait a year to actually get into medical or dental
Yeah it would. But then you could work and save money. I don't know, It's all in the Lord's time.
school, I really hope that doesn't happen to me if I go through with med school and stuff, because that would just make the whole process take even longer haha
Yeah it is a really long process. You have to be dedicated and really like it or I think it will be too stressful and long.
yeah I guess so, it's not like you jiust have to sit around and do nothing, but I still feel like I would prefer to just get the schooling and residency done with
Why do you want to do Medical School? Like what motivates you to want to be a doctor? For me, it was wanted to find a job that I could be my own boss, have time to spend with my family, and make a good living so that Taylor wouldn't have to work and could stay home with the kids. Unless she wanted to work. Then it was I liked working with people and helping them. And then I liked the science classes. And then I liked the detail work and artistic nature of it. Like I like building things and working with tools and putting things together and just doing things very detailed. Which is what you have to do as a dentist. But also I liked the business aspect of it. And since you basically run your own business (or you can at least) that also drew me to it. Like it was a way to be an entrepreneur without having to start up something completely new and take a ton of risk. Because people always need dental work so it's more stable. But it's still flexible and you can control how a lot of things run in your office. You manage the relationships and do your marketing and accounting and stuff which I think is fun. Although honestly after a while I'll probably higher someone to do all that stuff for me just because they could probably do it better than I could and it might get ti tiresome after a while. How is your class schedule coming? Any luck finding more options that are open?
I think ive got it mostly figured out so i guess ill just hope for the best with the classes im on wait lists for
Yeah. And remember there is the add drop deadline so sometimes a lot of people end up dropping stuff in the first week because of whatever reason.
and i guess with medical school its more just wanting to gain the ebst education in something i think is practical like med school because I feel like I wouldn't be satisfied doing something else that doesn't allow me to learn as much as I can and like become an expert in a field, Im not totally sure why but that just seems like the right path for me and i feel like im capable of succeeding while doing that since science and math concepts have usually come fairly easy to me, plus I think learning about that stuff is really interestig and uplifting in a way, like its hard to explain but i just really like learning things i guess, not in all subjects but in math and science I enjoy it and feel like i could really make it even though I know it will be competitive, i feel like if i push myself and work on improving my work ethic ill be successful.
Yeah that is really cool. I remember going to a meeting for the neuroscience club (I went for the free cookies) but in the meeting they shared a quote by Russel M. Nelson that Said, "you can learn more and grow more by studying the creations of God than you ever can by studying the creations of Man." It's kinda a biased statement considering the fact that he is a heart surgeon, but I really liked the quote and I totally believe it to be true. There is so much amazing truth and wisdom and just genius in the way the Universe and our bodies work. It's crazy that some people think it all just happened by chance. Like, it's way too complicated for stuff to just randomly fall together the way they did. Also I think that learning about the human body really implants a respect for what we have and makes us want to take care of our bodies and treat other's with respect because of the great gift they have been given. Like there are a lot of people that abuse their bodies and other's bodies and I feel like if they just understood a fraction of what I have learned about the body then they would not be so abusive towards it. Even things that I used to eat are getting hard to eat ( like junk food stuff ) because I know what is in it and what it does to your body and I just can't bring myself to do that to my gift that I've been given. That's not to say I don't still make bad choices, but I'm definitely becoming more aware of what I choose to eat and how it's going to affect me in the long run. So do you have any other classes today or are you done for the day? I'm done for the day I'm just studying for my Biochem Test and hanging out at home. I was just informed that Oliver has a fever though, so that might mean we have to go to the pediatrician. We will see. Taylor is doing a good job of taking care of him. You still there?
yeah I definitly have a lot more respect for my body and I've been eating way healthier and exercising way more ever since the start of this year and it has made a huge yeah I definitely have seen a huge impact in my life from eating healthier and exercising more ever since the start of this year hmmm my chats aren't sending idk whats up