football season

We went to a Michigan football game. 

Football is such a huge deal around here that if you 

don't join in the festivities you will definitely get left out.

This was such a cool old restored car. They even had music like the

ice cream man than played the Michigan fight song

this was very popular for little girls to wear a football 

jersey and a tutu at the game

Michigan played Air Force so the Air Force did a fly by

with the stealth bomber

Air Force also released a bald eagle during the national anthem

(sorry the picture is so blurry. The bird was flying so fast it was hard

to get a picture)

attendance at the game

an official welcome

The summer semester is already almost over. I can't believe where the time has gone. A week ago they had the white coat ceremony at the dental school where they welcomed all of the new students into the profession.   Sorry some of the pictures in the auditorium are terrible coloring. It was hard to figure out the lighting in there. 

Ryan receiving his white coat

the "fab five" as well call them

Ryan's parents came out for the ceremony

life in Ann Arbor

Things have been very busy since we got here. Unpacking and settling 

in and trying to figure out the town have consumed much of our time. 

Ryan in front of the Kellogg building

Ryan had a birthday the day before school started. 

We went to Zingerman's a popular Ann Arbor restaurant to celebrate 

His actual birthday was on a Sunday so we had cake and ice cream with a few of his fellow classmates

At the school they have an event that goes on in the summer time every night for 5 weeks called Top of the Park. They have food vendors and live music and show movies and things like that. We have gone to that several times.

First day of school!

Ryan's class

our dog Molly flew to Michigan and we went and 

picked her up the second day of school

she is adjusting well

So far things have been going pretty well other than we had

a bad storm roll through the morning after 4th of July

and we went about 40 hours without power. 

getting to Ann Arbor

So I was going to try and do better on posting more regularly because we are so far away from everyone and I feel like this is easier to keep in contact. Of course since we have been here I haven't done a very good job, but I am trying to do better.

There is so much to talk about that I decided to break it into two posts. One about getting to Ann Arbor including pictures and then another post about the things that we have been doing since we got here. Here it goes. Sorry the pictures are terrible quality. Most are from Ryan's phone. We forgot to leave a camera somewhere that is was easily accessible.

picture Ryan drew in Jamba Juice before we left Rexburg

this is the backside of the Tetons as we drove east out of Jackson Hole

Devil's Tower, WY

did you know that Devil's Tower was the

first official national monument?

Mount Rushmore

*spoiler alert* 

it is way smaller than I expected it to be

sprucing up

So I have had a bunch of requests for pictures of our apartment, but it is still a bit of a disaster. So... I thought I would show you something we have been up to.

When we walked into our apartment for the very first time we noticed that there were only ceiling lights in the kitchen, bathrooms and hallways. SUPER! (not)  Now we have to buy lamps. We started looking around for lamps at retail stores and discovered very quickly that most of them were far more than we wanted to pay. So we found these two lamps at Salvation army. I don't have a complete picture from before with their burgundy shades that were falling apart, but this is the base. Ick.

so we taped them off

and primed them (sorry this picture is blurry)

and painted

and voila

a totally different looking lamp

Next project: sewing slip covers for my chairs. 

Remember my ugly old orange chairs that I got a super deal on?