HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Our adorable little Christmas Tree. Scottie and I put it up the first Sunday of December

Scottie and I have done lots of exciting things this holiday season and it has been a while since I have posted, so I decided I had better get these pictures up before Christmas. I hope you are all well and that you enjoy!!! love you all

Some festive holiday decorations, most are from my dear MOM

Our turkey feast. Turkey was so cheap I couldn't resist. We have another in our freezer, we are saving it though so we don't get turkied out

The happy cook

Hannah and I having a girls night out...in. We gave ourselves manicures and of course talked and talked. We were celebrating the end of Hannah's dental finals. Congrats Hannah you are done.

Scottie opening up his first Christmas present of the year!!! Thanks Jenny and the Zaugg family for your wonderful gifts we were so excited to get them.

Merry Christmas to everyone. Scottie and I hope you have a wonderful holiday and that you all remember our Savior Jesus Christ is the reason for the season. We love and miss you all.

Washington DC Trip

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THANKSGIVING

So Scottie and I were traveling to DC Thanksgiving day for our little get away: which means we had our first dinner away from family, and since we were traveling we had to eat at a restuarant. We both agreed we needed to eat at a place where we could still stuff our faces so the only logical place for us was...GOLDEN CORRAL.

Scottie and I had been in the resturant for about 10 minutes when he leaned over to me and said "Ang I think we are the only normal people in here," and it was so true... the place was full of lots of interesting people... and then there was US!!!

Needles to say we had a great time and spend almost 2 hours eating. We didn't eat the next day until 4pm because we were still so full.

WE LOVE AMERICA!!!

Thanksgiving Break was a blast for Scottie and me!!! We decided that we would do something special since it was our first Thanksgiving away from family. The special something that we did was go to Washington DC. Scottie had never been there before and it's been years since I was last there, so it was a fun experience for us both. We loved seeing all of the monuments, museums, and important buildings (like the Capital, White House, and the Supreme Court House.)
US OUTSIDE THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

CAN YOU GUESS WHERE WE ARE AT???

THE WHITE HOUSE !!!(hope you were right)

You can't get that close,but lucky for us our camera has a powerful zoom

THIS IS AN AMAZING PIC OF THE CAPTITAL (taken by Scott Parker)

This is an ok pic taken by a stranger. I guess you have to do what you have to do to get both peeps in the picture LOL

This monument was built in 2004 and it was amazing.

Us inside the Museuem of Natural History (way cool, they even had real dinosaur bones!!!)

The history teacher was going crazy inside of me the whole time and I absolutely loved seeing all of the historical things there (I seriously almost started crying when I saw the original Declaration of Independence).

THIS WAS THE CONSTITUTION

(they keep it very dark to preseve the document)

The Lincoln Memorial (our fav)

THE WALL OF REMEMBERENCE

(this wall is from the Vietnam war and there are over 58,000 names on the wall. I am so grateful for all the sevice men who fought and died for our courntry... this memorial was very touching)

Here is Scottie's new best friend...NOT I would be jealous!

Korean War Memorial

Scottie and I appreciate our country so very much and we are grateful for this trip because it made us that much more aware of how great our nation is! This is truly the promised land and we pray that God will always bless America!

So I have too many pictures that I want to share and this post is getting too long, so I am going to try to figure out how to make a slideshow so you can all enjoy them!!!!

THIS IS A TRADITION HERE AT OHIO.

People take pictures all acrossed the whole doing this and then send them in to this competition thing... we just did it for kicks.

THIS IS A TRADITION HERE AT OHIO.
People take pictures all acrossed the world doing this and then send them into this competition thing... we just did it for kicks. And the two people of the end are complete strangers LOL.. disclaimer: they were fellow Ohioians who knew exactly what we were doing.

JUST THE TWO OF US

So I am sitting here next to my amazing husband Scott Jay Parker and I was thinking we sure have had some fun times together. I started reminiscing and decided to share some pics of us since we have been married, so here they are and I hope you enjoy.

BOYS NIGHT OUT VS GIRLS NIGHT OUT

Here are some of the guys

This last weekend Scottie and some friends went up to Cleveland to watch the Cavs play the UTAH JAZZ!!! They didn't want to miss seeing their beloved team play so they made the trip to cheer them on... in the meantime the wives, including myself all got together at Amber's house and we spent the evening together while our husband were away.

Scottie and Daniel (aka tough guys)

We (the girls ) a blast chatting, making pizza, chatting, eating lots of yummy stuff, and chatting. I hope you can tell me did lots and lots of talking. We stayed at Amber's just talking until after 1 in the morning (when our hubbies got back). We laughed about how different girls and guys are and we joked around about the fact that our husbands were going to tease us because all we ended up doing was talking... our conversations ranged from our childhoods to what we were going to be wearing the next day ( it was like our own therapy session LOL)

A REAL JAZZ FAN!

The guys on the other hand just ended up talking about sports and more sports... maybe a few other things here and there. LOL

We each had a fun night and because Scottie took the camera (I was impressed, he is a good picture taker actually) you only get to see this night documented from his point of view... It was a fun one though as I hope you can tell from his sweet pics.

Bye for now

Halloween...BOO

THE REAL DEAL

So Scottie and I had an amazing Halloween week and weekend!!! I don't think I have ever done so many fun things to celebrate. It all started out with a ward Halloween party, where we dressed up as Salt and Pepper (you may remember we did that last year too, but we didn't have time for new costumes...yet). Our party with our church was the weekend before Halloween, so we went there and had a blast.

Here is where the real fun kicks in... on Halloween Night Scottie and I went with some of his medical school friends to a roller coaster park called Cedar Point. It is one of the largest in the nation and man on man was it a blast. I was nervous about going because it was from 5-12pm and I was afraid it would be freezing cold and that the lines would be enormous, but get this it was so warm (70 during the day and was probably 55-60 that night) and hardly anyone was there, so we got to walk onto almost every single ride. We had to wait once for 15 minutes. It was so much fun and it was actually Scottie's first time at a big roller coaster park like that, so we created lots and lots of fun memories that night.

ps our fav ride was called Dragster and it launches you off going over 100mph and then shoots you straight up 400 feet in the air and then you drop straight back down, talk about a rush and it was only 17 seconds long!!!

The next night we decked out in 1950s attire (my favorite era) and went to a Halloween party at my friend Taunya's house. We played lots of fun games and ate lots of yummy food.

Needless to say it was a fun Halloween this year and sorry it has taken me so long to post about it. I have been busy.

Here I am posing in my sweet 50s outfit

We are chillin in our 1950s costumes

Pizza Night

So Scottie and I made pizza with some friends (our first time making pizza and now we are addicted!!!) and then we watched the Ohio State football game. It was a fun night and I won't tell you who won because I don't want to be reminded.

This is Hannah and I just have to tell you I absolutely love this girl, she keeps me going out here!

TWINNERS!!!

So I am waiting to have Scottie rush in the room and laugh that I am publishing this post. He did consent to take the pics because he thought it was funny that I wanted to document this event in our lives. Today after we both were ready for school and for work we realized we were dressed alike, but just flip flopped. I thought it was very amusing and told everyone about it today, so I decided to share some fun pics with you all. I guess great minds think alike.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

So Scottie and I got gas last night for $2.44! I was so shocked it was this cheap. I haven't seen it this low in a year or more I think. What do you all think, have you seen gas lower??? Do you all think it will keep dropping?

Well I just wanted to share this exciting news. Hope you are all well. We love and miss you all.

Parents in TOWN!!!

So this last weekend Scottie and I were lucky enough to have our parents on his side of the family come visit us for parent weekend for the med students. It was a fun filled weekend and now we are missing them a lot so I decided to put some fun pics up in memory of our fun time together.

All together!!!

Friday
Rich and Tracy arrived in Columbus, OH Friday afternoon and we had a good time showing them around the town that night and showing them where we live. We went to the Easton Town Center, (which is comparable to the Gateway in SLC, but way way bigger!) We had a yummy dinner at Red Robin that night and then went home to talk and talk. Scottie and Rich went to the priesthood session of conference and Tracy and I chilled together at home while we waited for them to come (sorry Tracy I didn't let you do much math, we were busy chatting LOL). It was nice to have Rich here so Scottie could still continue his tradition with his dad and go the priesthood session with him.

At Red Robin

Saturday
The next morning was fun with lots of neat workshops OSU planned out to give the families a better idea of what their children where going through at med school. The best part was all the hands on activities we did, as you can tell from the pics they let us play around on some pretty expensive equipment.

We're standing outside the med building where Scottie has all his classes

I am getting to do an ultrasounds on Scottie HOW COOL!!!

Tracy's Turn

Now Scottie wants to show us how it's done

Hopefully Scottie won't ever try surgery on himself! J/K

Rich is looking at a quater of a million dollar piece of machinery

Now he is touching it LOL

Now we are looking at our ears

We are learning how to draw blood, these arms have veins with fake blood in them. So we had to be very careful

My turn

Rich is watching closely

My favorite part was the ultrasounds, seeing a heart beat for reals for the first time was amazing, I don't even think I can describe it. Our bodies are so very amazing. After all of the activities we walked around campus and even snuck a peak at Scottie's body in the anatomy lab (shh shhh that part is a secret though). Seeing the inside of a dead body was very interesting and probably a once in a lifetime chance for me, so I decided what the heck and went in for it and even asked Scottie if I could hold the heart! Tracy jumped in too and now we can both say we have had the privilege of holding on to a real human heart

Sunday

The next day we watched conference at the gateway building. We went all the way over there because that building is right next to the Columbus temple and we wanted to show them their first small temple. (President Hinkley's idea to help make temples more available, and we are so grateful for this because we have a temple nice and close still.)

FOOTBALL STADIUM

The OSU Football Stadium

We also were sneaky and found a way to get into the famous OHIO STATE FOOTBALL STADIUM. This was our second attempt to see the field so we were all too pleased when we found an unlocked gate. (Man we sound like such rebels, I think Tracy and Rich must bring out our wild side or something LOL)

THE TOUCHDOWN PASS to win the game!!!

That night we wanted to let our parents in on a tradition of ours and we got together with some of our friends out here an played games. We played my favorite game (catch phrase). I must have gotten way into it because a couple of the girls that where told me Rich leaned over to them and said "I love watching how into it Angie is". So I get really excited and intense, but what can I say the girls won twice even though the boys tried to cheat once. Long story but girls that were there know what I am talking about LOL.

Monday
The next day was Monday and I had to head back to work, but Scottie played hookie and got to spend more time with his parents before they left. Who can blame him they are so fun and time was so short. Rich and Scottie played tennis and then later that day they went and checked out downtown Columbus before Scottie took them to the airport

It was super lonely with out them after they left but we were both so grateful they took the time to come see us. It will be a special memory that we will cherish forever. Thanks for coming Rich and Tracy!!!