Montana

Well, I'm sorry I've been such a slacker and haven't put anything up in forever. Mostly we've both been working, my belly's getting rather large, Justin's getting ready to have his first medical school interview at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk (YAY! We are really excited about it), we've been very impatiently waiting to hear from other medical schools, and we took a trip to Montana to visit Justin's grandparents and relatives. Whew!

We had such a great time with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson! They are both hilarious and are so great to us. They had us move the woodpile - a tradition when anyone in the family comes to visit. Grandma gives us each a pair of brand new "Brown Jersy Gloves" to make us feel just excited to do the project. And then we move their wookpile from one place to the next, wherever they deem neccessary. Sometimes there seems to be a point to the moving, other times not. But you can't go to MT without moving the woodpile or picking rocks or doing some little project like that. It always makes us smile.

Grandma even inspired Justin to inspire his parents to go in on a sailboat with us!It was just sitting there for sale and calling our names. It really turned out to be more of his parents buying a sailboat than us going together. At any rate, we are pretty stoked about the whole thing. I put some pictures below. It's a definite upgrade from our little sailboat. It's all his grandma's doing. She has this great picture of us having a whole fleet of our own someday. :) Justin's parents are wishing that she would inspire us a little less in the boating department.

On another note, Justin and I had never seen Larch trees before this trip. Apparently there are these trees that, like deciduous trees, turn yellow in the fall. But they don't have leaves, they have needles. Then they loose all their needles for winter and grow them back in the spring. We were very astonished, having never seen a tree with needles turn colors unless it was sick and dying. Anyway, you can see it in the background of some pictures. It made for a beautiful fall landscape. We always love being there in MT.

Oh, I almost forgot to explain the deer picture. Justin calls it the "alien deer". He was out feeding the deer some apples and caught a picture of one when it looked striaght at him, and it turned out like alien deer with it's mouth open like that too. Anyway, we thought it was kind of funny.