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I hate this time of year, when you have to switch back the clocks and it is dark at 5:30 p.m. Blah! (Hence the title of this post.) I couldn't think of another title and just wanted to express my disdain for daylight savings. I do however, like it in the Spring when it stays light until after 9. I'm already sick of Winter and we've only had one tiny snowfall.

Anyway, on another topic.....Andrew finished his 3 interviews a little over a week ago. He really liked it in Pennsylvania! He is in the "pool" of applicants there at Excela. Meaning they interview about 300 people for 35 spots, and they are still taking applications until Dec. 15th. So, they are keeping his file open for a second review after everyone else has interviewed. Not bad, but not good either because if they do accept him, we won't know until February! That means that if TCU accepts him (we will know within a week and a half) he will have to pay the retention fee to hold his spot and he would start this January. By then, it will be too late to wait around for Excela. I think we were both really feeling like Pennsylvania was the place to go. There are a group of guys from Utah out there (Andrew used to work with one of them). He met up with them the night he flew in and said they were all really nice. They showed him around the school and the town they live in, and their wives hang out alot. We just had a good feeling about it.

He really wants to get a Doctorate degree though, he said it's been a lifelong goal. TCU offers that, it's just mucho dinero :( So now we just wait to hear from them. If TCU doesn't accept him, well..... Westminster did! They accepted him in his interview, at the very end! So Texas or Utah?!? (If TCU does not accept him, I think we will go ahead and pay the retention fee at Westminster and then wait for Excela to decide, if Excela does come through we will go there.)

There are a couple of possibilities, it's just kind of scary waiting to find out what's going to happen. Oh, Mayo didn't give him an interview. They said he didn't have enough "experience". Most of their applicants have 5 years apparently. Oh well, I've read that you pretty much have to have really good references from THEIR doctors, and have worked at THEIR hospitals to get in anyway.

We set our dates to go through the temple! Dec. 19th, we are doing our endowments at the Salt Lake Temple. Dec. 20th we are getting sealed at the Draper temple. We are excited and have 2 more temple prep discussions left!

Fall

Kaden was a Fireman for Halloween, we took him to our ward trunk or treat on Saturday, then on Halloween we went trick or treating on Main Street in Springville. There were CROWDS of people there, and he gots tons of candy! Andrew and I didn't dress up, we are boring like that. Later that night we went to my mom's and decided to take him to a few houses in her nieghborhood. It was the first holiday where I think he knew what was going on. He loves candy!

He is a little busy body and everywhere he goes he makes a mess out of everything. Our house is never clean when he is awake! He has been walking on his own quite a bit the last 3 days. He can walk about the length of half of our living room. I think in a couple of days he will be walking all over on his own.