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Guess who just started her classes as a structural engineering graduate student?

Updates

Just a few updates on us, nothing too amazing:

Schools continues on for Austin. It's a lot of work, but he loves it.

We just got him a new laptop to stay on top of things (see above).

He just applied for selectives (that's what they call electives in medical school).

He's hoping to work in the bone marrow transplant center, but it's on a lottery and probably not too likely to happen.

Even though we live close to family now, Stephanie is the only one who likes us enough to come visit.

We went to In N Out with her this week. UCLA has one of only three uniquely laid-out In N Out locations. The one here was designed by Kanner Architects.

Amid all the craziness, we still find time to go to the beach (not that hard when we're only a 10 minute drive away). Here's the amazing sand castle we made on Saturday.

Med School - Week One Done

Austin finished his first week of medical school! He was really excited to start and is loving it so far. There are many things to get during the first week like books, scrubs, a stethoscope and other scopes, white coat, badge, etc.

Here is Austin trying on his scrubs:

This is his favorite part about them:

On Friday night there was a White Coat Ceremony in Royce Hall at UCLA. This is when the students receive their white coats which represent humanism in medicine and also take the Medical Oath.

Here is Austin receiving his white coat (aka "being cloaked"):

The two of us after the ceremony:

Lots of family came to support Austin (including Ryan and Christian who were more interested in finding the food than taking pictures):

I'm so proud of Austin--he has worked VERY hard to get here!

No Summer Bummer For Us!

We've had several people visit us here at our new home.

Greg and Brianna stopped by on their way through California. The wanted to show us some property they're thinking about buying...

After BH, we went down to Universal Studios and caught a taping of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. So Awesome!


Then Jeff and Stephanie came up to check out the Museum of Tolerance, and other sights too.

We visited Griffith Park...

... and got really close to the Hollywood sign.


Jeff actually hiked up to within a few hundred feet of the sign, but was turned away.

We've been having a great time playing around in LA since we moved in. Now we're trying to squeeze every little bit out of these last few days before school starts for Austin on Monday!

First Anniversary Post!

First things first- we made a decision on medical school...
We will dutifully obey the results of our poll and attend UCLA this August!
(By the way, Rachel is mad that Baylor beat UCSD)


Here we are visiting UCLA in 2007.
It was destiny that we'd end up there!


In the meantime, we've been up to quite a few things while being funemployed this summer...

We've been painting Austin's parents' house.

We attended a Robinson family reunion in Farmington, Utah.

We moved to our new apartment in Los Angeles!!

Rachel's family helped out with the move.
We unloaded everything in an hour and a half!

Rachel loves the new apartment.

Austin loves the location (as you can clearly see by the expression on his face).

(No really, he likes it.)

Visitors

This past week Dylan and his parents were in Utah and he brought them over to our place!

We had fun getting lunch together, checking out the sites on BYU campus and just catching up.

Jacob even came to visit us. He and Austin had a little Sasquatch and the Yetis reunion, playing some of their old favorites from freshman year, "Theme Song," and "Nancy."

A little picture of them as freshmen. Austin still has that shirt! Ah, good times...

Also in the news... we attended banquet honoring this year's graduates in Civil Engineering.
Austin, along with all the other engineering spouses, got a certificate of achievement for "putting Rachel through."
Austin says it's nice to finally get some recognition!

Last but not least

We got in to UCLA! ...which was the last school to hear back from. Now it's decision time! Please help us by participating in our poll.