Sunday, October 10, 2010

Optometry School Decisions!!!

Jake has been traveling all over the last few weeks to interview at Optometry schools. He went to Provo to meet with someone from Houston and he got accepted there. He then went to Oregon to Pacific University and then to California to SCCO and was accepted to both schools. Where would we end up? Well we finally made a decision!!!We will be moving to California in August to start school at SCCO Fall 2011! We are very excited!

SCCO is located in Fullerton, California. This is about 35 miles outside of LA. It is located by many fun attractions! Including...
The Angles Stadium, it will be fun to see"real" baseball again! I hope they have garlic fries!


We will also be close to many beautiful beaches! It will be nice to actually be able to get some sun most of the year! We won't have to switch clothes from closet to closet as the seasons change like in Rexburg!!!

Disneyland is also super close by! I can't wait to buy a year pass and go whenever I want.
All of these wonderful attractions are within 8 miles of SCCO! We will also have a pool in the apartment complex we will live in! I am super excited! It will be a completely different environment then good old Rexburg, I just can't wait!
We are just so grateful that we know where we will be so far in advance. So many optometry students haven't interviewed yet and we already know where we will be. We have seen the hand of Heavenly Father so much in our lives over the past couple of weeks as we made this decision!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

GRADUATION!!!

My long awaited graduation came and went! Going to school for an extra semester was fun, I took fun classes and ended up with a 4.0! April 9th and 10th was graduation. My graduation with the business school was the night of April 9th and convocation with all the graduated was the morning of April 10th.

Jake and I before graduation began!

All of my friends graduated in the fall when I should have. Charlotte (on the left) and I had tons of accounting classes together. Michelle (right) and I met in my Nutrition class this last semester and just happened to both be accounting majors! So we became friends fast.

Grandpa and Grandma Eckersell came!

Grandma Marie and Colette came too!

Here I am walking down the stairs after I received my diploma.

Grandma and Grandpa gave me pearl earrings!

I got a pearl necklace from my Mom and Dad!

Dalton and Halceyn came over for food after the graduation friday night.

Saturday morning it was so sunny!

By the famous Brigham Young University-Idaho sign!