The Year of Adele!

To celebrate Adele turning 1 I thought I would do a year in rewind...

Silly Adele

So peaceful looking!

Love her smile! It melts my heart!

She loves shoes almost as much as I do!

My mom got her this bike for Christmas and we thought she would be too little to ride it, but she figured it out right away. She even got her cousin Soren to push her around like a princess!

Then being the older and wiser cousin, he got her to push him around! When she gets on the carpet she really has to lean into it to get it to go. So cute!

Addie doesn't like to cuddle very much, but here she is with her daddy!
Love the grin on her face!

It really looks like I let her put her finger in the outlet to get this

crazy hair effect, but trust me, I didn't!

I took her hair out of pigtails when I was getting her ready for bed and

this is what it looked like!

The Medical School Update

Last Friday I received an acceptance letter in the mail from WVSOM! It was REALLY exciting to know that my future in medicine is a reality. I was able to move my interview in Yakima sooner, so that I would have an opportunity to hear back from them before having to commit to West Virigina. So I will be flying out to Boise next Wednesday and then driving up to Washington. It will be interesting to compare the 2 schools, and I hope that the decision on which school I should attend will be clear to me after my interview in Yakima is complete. More info to come soon.

Ice Fishing on Red Lake

I am not much of a fan of the winter time (I bet some may wonder what I am doing in Northern Minnesota), because I have never found a winter sport or activity that I enjoyed. Well, I finally found it...ice fishing. A couple months ago Katie's dad bought a "Black Ice Portable Fish House-For Extreme Ice Fishermen", and since then we have been slowly increasing our ice fishing gear. The Wednesday after Christmas we had the chance to go test out all of our gear at Red Lake. Red Lake is known for their walleye, so we were hoping to catch a nice meal. We set out for the 1.5 hour drive at dawn, stopping only for bait and some fishing tips. When we arrived at Red Lake, we followed the plowed roads on the ice (the idea of driving on the ice is still something I am getting used to) until we found our spot. We decided it was a good spot when the guy next to us pulled up his 3rd fish of the day just as we were getting unloaded. After cutting 4 holes through the 18 inch thick ice, we were ready to go. We landed 3 fish all together, the one that I have in the picture was in "the slot", meaning that because it was between 17 and 26 inches I had to throw it back. The other 2 fish we brought home and cooked them up. It was a really good time and I look forward to going out ice fishing again before the season is through, and I am sure I will have plenty of opportunities, because winter lasts a long time :)