Smitty is 30!!

The pictures are a little out of order but you get the idea. Quick shout out to the Vogels in DC. We took Lucy to Target one day to blow off some steam because it was raining outside and she tried out every piece of princess furniture she could find, it was funny. There's also a picture fo her and Smitty watching a movie and a family shot with baby Ben.

Smitty turned 30 on Tuesday! I was so excited, I got him 30 presents and our group took him out to dinner at Red Robin. I also made a cheesecake and found these number sparklers for his cake. I made the server and her group sing to him, she was not excited to do it. They gave him a sundae which Casen wanted to "share" with him.  We have a great group out here with us and I think Smitty had a little fun!

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Vacation month!!!

fort ligonier days
painted barn
fall colors
Monticello


Italian festival
The italian festival happened before vacation month but I thought I would throw in a couple of pictures. The italian festival happens every year here in scranton and it is the biggest festival/ tourist attraction that scranton has to offer. I thought it was a disappointment for all the hype it receives but oh well.

Smitty had the month of october off and we tried to take advantage of every minute. WE tried not to think about or speak of school. I worked the first couple of day and then it was off to D.C to see Smitty's parents and help out his sister while she had baby Ben. (photos of the baby will come later, they are on smitty's phone) while we were in DC we took a day trip to Monticello, the weather was perfect. I thought I was taking Smitty to Mont Peiler but it all worked out because we had both not been to Monticello before.

After 10 days in DC we left for Pittsburgh, PA to watch the U of U play Pitt. The Utes dont make to out this way very often and Smitty was determined to go. He talked about it for months.

and the rains came down

Well from talking to friends and family across the country I have found out that the NE pennsylvania flooding was not as big of a deal as I thought. Anyway, about three weeks ago most of our area was under water (except out house) even all the freeways were underwater so there was no escaping. Clean up is stil underway almost a month later and to top off the bad news it has been raining almost nonstop for the past 10 days. We have only had sacrament meeting for the past couple of weeks so that we can volunteer our time on the weekends to the clean up. we went with a few members of our ward last sunday helped fill dumpsters with peoples belongings, and took nails out of studs so a family could hang new drywall. I was exhausted when we came home even thought we have not done near as much as other members have been able to. I am so grateful we were able to give service to the area

NYC

smitty was sick of taking pictures so I told him to come take a picture with this fake plant
central park
Lego store!
CHOCOLATE!!!!

Smitty has a week left on his general surgery rotation this month, and a couple more days until he heads to Ohio for a month for the next one. Before he gets to Ohio he has to stop in Erie, PA to take a couple of tests and golf for a friends of scouting tournament. He hasn't had a whole lot of time to study with this month because of the schedule the doc keeps so I thought on saturday I would let him study and for a break we would swing over to Pittston, PA for the tomato festival. Not long after I told smitty the plan we got a call from out neighbors Mike and Cassidy. Mike's mom was in town and they were headed for NYC to catch a show and we got an invite to come along.....um YES PLEASE!! 10 minutes later we were on our way. The weather was perfect, we did not hit any traffic and the show was great. We saw the Addams family musical.

Restoration Site

So Smitty is following a doc who works here in Scranton and at a small hospital in Susquehanna. Last week during surgery one of nurses told the doc to take Smitty to the shrine in Oakland (Harmony, PA) so he did. Smitty and I went up there on Sunday to check it out. There is not much there yet but we ran into a senior missionary couple serving in the area and they explained the restoration site's future plans. It is going to be great!

Mustache Sunday!!

Angela had to get on dane's shoulders to take this!

On Sunday my mom hosted a whole house of people for a salmon dinner. Our Utah friends Joe, Tai and Jaxson (now they live is Washington) and Kerry, Jill and Millie (who came up to seattle for a vacation) came over. We missed you Paige and Landon! We all put on mustaches and took pictures, it was so funny and the adhesive was really sticky so it was hard to smile. Kerry and mine match our hair color to well they almost look real! After dinner, fun drinks and Peach tart we went out to Snoqualmie Falls to show off more of our beautiful state. I think the pic we took of ourselves looks pretty good.

On Wednesday a couple of my childhood friends got together for dinner. I really need to scan in the photo off us dressed and angels for the nativity when we were 10, I think it would look so cute next to this photo. We had fun catching up!!