a crazy week

Mike just left for work and today is my first day of my pharmacy internship. I was really excited that my site was Costco because its right up the street and they get to wear jeans. :)
I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping this week and it was really starting to affect my attitude and patience. I felt so bad for mike because I would get all moody for no big reason or just as i was getting in and out of bed would be waking him up, but because he is super amazing he was so supportive and loving and never got upset just tried to come up with ways that might help me sleep through the night. So FINALLY after 3 days and around 10 hrs sleep, I finally slept through the night last night and woke rested and smiling.
Marriage is really truly amazing! I just am so amazed by how it feels to always have a partner in crime that when things get hard you don't just have to face it alone that you have a buddy to help lift you up or just hug you and let you know its all going to be ok. A best friend to help strengthen your relationship with your heavenly father and bring more peace into your life. I feel like I do not deserve all that I have been given and hope everyday that I am bringing as much joy to mikes life as he is bringing to mine!
Mike started school 2 days ago and was a little scared (because like mine the teacher came off intimidating), but he is so excited and is even looking into adding another class to his 13 credit hour load. He studies a lot already and even has a friend of mine (who decided to take on the same major as mike) in a lot of his classes which is an instant study buddy. So far his classes include: statistics, physiology, fitness for life and an entry class for exercise science (not to mention he is also working like 24 hrs a week).
Well we have a 3 day weekend ahead of us today and are SUPER excited for the break already :). We are helping lay sod on sat and hopefully are doing a double date thing with lee.
We love you guys and are so grateful for you. Hope all is going well.
Star

The White Coat Day

Well it has been a very eventful day here in our world. So I (mike) decided that i would drive up with my loving wife to school because she had to be there at 9 and also the white coat ceremony was at 12:30 so we decided that we would drive up together. Starli had some problems with her class at 9, so I picked her back up and we went to Wally World to pick up a belt for me and a SD card for my camera (I forgot to grab it from my computer). After getting her back to her classes, we headed to the white coat ceremony and it was AMAZING!!! Starli even thought it was good, as did Dad, Mom and Dad Salmond, and Tom. Oh and uncle mark was there, Starli got a really neat gift from her mom, it was a thing of daisy flowers, and ripe tomato :):) a true indication that she knows Starli. The ceremony consisted of people from the faculty speaking, and some other people from the University. Well we are both tired and exhausted from the day. Thank you so much for your support and hope all is going well for you guys. LOVE YOU!!! Mike

School is sweet

Well the first day of school went as they usually do. Teachers trying to scare you so that you will push that much harder to succeed and you truly being a bit scared that you may fail. The scholorship I recieved was a little bit of a confidence booster that hopefully states that everything will be just fine. But I am a nerd and excited to start studying and can not wait for my biochem block! Mike starts in one week and I can not wait for us to be able to study together :) We got white boards and all :) Tomorrow is my white coat ceremony (which i think is SUPER SUPER LAME - i mean i just started ??) But everyone is really being supportive and bunches of family are coming to watch a pharmacist put a little white lab coat thing on me (haha-weird). (Just to add credit to my thoughts: Mikes Aunt Julie (A Pharmacist) also verified that it was boring and lame). But I am grateful for a super loving husband who wants to come take pics and a great family who loves me and supports me even when it may be lame. Dad (Anderson) will also be coming and thinks "the gayer the better". :) Love him!
Well off to sleep, we will try to include some pics tomorrow.
P.S. Mike needs to work on his marco-pollo skills! ;) (He thought he lost me and called my dad)
OH and lastly - one more time --> HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE! WE LOVE YOU!

A great day in the neighborhood

So update on the pan....IT LIVES!!! There is nothing wrong with it just gave it a good washing and all better. We slept in till 11 today, and had a interesting morning trying to figure out stupid information on school loans. Around 3 we finally got out the door and were able to get our mail key from the post office, renew my (mike's) license and changed starli's name on hers (now she is a more legal anderson). Then we got to shop for the rest of night for school (gives us a good excuse). We both got 2 new pairs of shoes, and starli found some amazing shirts and really nice church dress which fit perfect. We also got free stickers of cars and spiderman in our adventures ;) Now it is time to call it a night for starli starts her first day of school tomorrow and mike is super sad that he will have no one to come home to after work :(
P.S. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIAM!!
Kiss of the day: At target after starli tried on one of her new shirts :)

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

So yesturday was not super fun. It all started with this brilliant idea that although we were tired (we stayed up till 1 am the night before), I (starli) was going to wake up with mike (6 am) and stay awake so that we would both be really tired that night and start to get on a better sleeping schedule for school (starts tomorrow-whoa). So Mike leaves for work and I start the days errands. I go to the doctors and get some meds for this cold that will never go away and find out I have gained 3 pounds since the last time I weighed myself around June. :( Around 2 pm I decided to start the crock pot for dinner, I pulled out one the recipes we had bought stuff for and started to load up the crock pot. Lesson#1 READ the entire recipe before you start it. I put in the roast which was the last step and than read the line for how long it was supposed to cook....ummm 8-10 hrs. Which meant dinner would be around 1 am :(. I called mike and we decided we would just start it and have it tomorrow. So I decided to make chili and into starting the water to boil realized I was missing an ingredient. By this time mike was off work and I was more than happy to hear his voice. He said he would run to the store on the way home and get the stuff. When he got here before starting to cook we ran up the post office to get our new key and right when we got there we realized we had forgot our apt contract which was essential. So getting frustrated we went back to the apt to cook dinner, i put the pan back on the unit to boil the water and because we were both so tired thought it was a brilliant plan to take a quick nap. Lesson #2: DO NOT nap when waiting for water to boil. So yeah, we fell asleep and about an hour and half later we awoke to a brand new pan just burning on the unit. I was tired, and already a little overwhelmed with the idea of school starting in 2 days and this just threw me head first over a "life is too much sometimes" edge. I started to get silent and tear and mike just was like super confused and really trying to be super supportive but had no idea what to do with this new little wife who was breaking down. We ended up getting pizza and going to play rock band with Tom and Julie which lightened things up and later just talked about how today was just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day....and it was behind us. Oh and that night we went on this cute walk and kissed on this little hill in the sprinklers. :)
P.S. so I dont forget 2 days ago mike did the CUTEST thing, we had just got home with groceries and he stopped me at the door and carried me over the threshold (into our new apt). He said he was so scared he was going to nail my head into the door :) :) Man I feel so lucky to have such a great man by my side.
Well hope all it going well. Here are a few pics of our new little apt. We LOVE it and really feel like its home.

Pics of new apartment

We are not so internet savvy

So with the influence of John and Jeanette and their amazing blog we decided to follow suit. Problem #1 we are not so internet savvy!
We started the making of the blog around 7:30 and were super happy to get a picture on by 7:45 - the music however took us the next 2+ hours....but happy day we have music! :) :) And its music we both love so we hope you enjoy the tunage.
We have to hang some pics up in our new apartment at the moment so that is all for today but we will keep you updated with fun little tidbits.
We love you all so much
Mike and Star