Lynn's Birthday

I know that Lynn's birthday was almost a month ago, but I wanted to post the cake I made for him. He absolutely loved it! I found the big toothbrush at the dollar store. Who know someone would love a tooth cake so much. It was fun to make!

Porter's first college football game! Go Buckeyes!

A couple of Saturdays ago we received a phone call from one of our friends during which they asked if we could use two free tickets to the game. Of course we said yes! The problem was deciding which two of us would get attend. Porter and Dad won out this time. It was kind of cloudy but he was still excited to go. We attended the Dental School tailgate before the game. He actually didn't want to stay at that too long. He was just soooooo excited about actually getting to go inside the huge stadium. To our surprise and Porter's dismay we had to climb several flights of stairs until we made it to our seats. The seats were only two rows from the top of the stadium. I was amazed at how steep the stadium seating was. It was incredible. Porter had a great time. He was the photographer. I think he ended up taking about 30 pictures. The game finally started as did the rain. It rained so hard we left toward the end of the second quarter. Porter and I were soaked to the bone. The amazing thing was Porter didn't even complain. By the was OSU beat Illinois.

Family Home Evening--Blues Clues

For family home evening the other day Porter wanted to make cookies for our activity. So, we made blues clues cookies and then delivered them to some of his friends!

The First Real thing I've made in my Residency

This is Erin's Night Guard. Things are going pretty slow clinically. I think that our director is trying to ease us into the program. I'm ready to start doing more with patients and I think things are going to start picking up in the next couple of days. Outside of clinic things are very busy. Between literature reading, lab work, and a couple classes there doesn't seem to much spare time. Well, I take that back, I do spend more time with the family each day than I did during most of dental school. We're enjoying Ohio and still glad we're hear. Porter mentioned the other day that he wants to stay here forever.

Ward Camp Out

Our ward had a camp out last weekend at Alum Creek Reservoir. There were tons of families and kids. Porter and Peyton had a blast. The ran and ran and ran. Porter got to play monkey in the middle with the Frisbee and later on in the evening one of our friends let him use his head light and the running continued. He had a blast. The pictures depicts the boys and myself trying to go to sleep. They just giggled and laughed. Peyton thought it was pretty cool to be in the tent with Porter and Dad. Erin had a blast staying up late with the ladies talking like girls can do. We think we might like to do it again.

Man VS Food Thurman's Cafe Columbus, Ohio

Ok, so...have you ever watched the show on tv called man vs food? I can't say that I have, but there are several fellow residents that love the show and one of the episodes was actually filmed in Columbus. It's called the Thurmanator. Aproximately 1.5 lbs of beef, covered with ham, onions, cheese, bacon, etc. If you look closely at the picture it's about the size of Nate's head. He ate it in less than 30 minutes, and without any problems. I ate the 3 cheese burger with bacon. It was suppose to 1.5 lbs of cheese on the burger along with a 3/4 lbs of beef. I ordered it mainly to see how much cheese that would be on a burger. To my disappointment it looked like the normal amount of cheese. The burgers were huge and even better they were very good.

ESPN Gameday in Columbus, OH OSU vs. USC

All of us decided to brave the OSU USC gameday festivities on Saturday with some of our new friends. It was actually a lot of fun. We participated in the dental school tailgate party and then wondered around the vendor tents to see all the free things we might be able to win. I think we have about 100 free cheeseburgers redeemable at the nearest AM PM; we still need to look up and see if there is actually one located in Columbus. We had a great time. It ended up being a pretty good game, disappointing in the end. Especially since everyone will be disgruntled and talking about it for the next couple of weeks. Fortunately for us the Cougars and Broncos did just fine this past week. So, spirits are high around our house.

Left to right: Laura and Nate Farley (kids: Maggie and Sam), Laura and Jeff Pack (kids: Ethan and Austin), and Us.


This is Daddy and the boys trying to pose for the Heisman picture in front of the sports illustrated tent.


This is the real Heisman trophy...well I'm not really sure about that, but we liked it.