Journey to Ohio and More

Dearest Family!

It has been much too long since we tuned you in to what the Cutler clan has been up to. Our apologizes. Get ready for a long and detailed review. It has been an eventful past few weeks, and we are glad to say we survived! The past month we have been getting ready for our move to Ohio, getting through final exams, and training for the summer bugs. We are keeping our apartment in Logan so we don't have to worry about moving around that stuff, which is nice. Plus, if any of you are in the Cache Valley area and need a place to stay...it's totally up for grabs. We didn't bring much to Ohio so it looks as if we didn't even move. Anyways, here is a sum up of the past little while:

All last week was study, study, study! We each had three finals. I did fine, and Cody totally rocked it! He ended up with all A's and one A-. I am so proud! He's only .02% away from that A- being an A so his teacher is double checking everything to see if there was an error anywhere and hopefully get him up to a 4.0!!! We are so excited! This will definitely help with our dental school application. Cody is taking the DAT exam at the end of June and applications begin May 15, so we are in full swing of all this dental stuff. We will be happy with getting in this year or next year. We have plans for whatever the outcome.

After finals, we scrubbed down our apartment and packed up the necessities. By Friday afternoon, we were ready. We wanted to celebrate our one year anniversary before we arrived in Ohio so we could enjoy the Salt Lake Temple and not have work demanding our time. So we drove down to Salt Lake City with our enormous pack on out little Honda. It was quite the sight. We visited the temple and did sealings for about an hour. We loved it! What an incredible spirit and reminder of the covenants we made just a year ago. It brought back such wonderful memories! We were seriously so giddy!:) After enjoying the temple, we walked over to the Joseph Smith Memorial building for our dinner reservations. By the way...temple square looked amazing! The flowers were so colorful and just absolutely beautiful. I've never seen such perfect gardening. I almost want to hire whoever does the church's flowers, to do ours someday. It really was WOW!!! Well we took the elevator up to the top floor and made our way to the Roof. This was both our first time eating there, so we were totally stoked. Oh my, it was even better than we had imagined. Cody requested a window seat so we could see the incredible view of the temple. Wow, again! I would say aside from being in a very romantic setting with my most wonderful hubby, the view was my favorite part of the whole Roof experience. We arrived at 7:30 p.m. so we could see the temple in sunny, sunset, and star views. When the sun went down just enough that the rays were shining through the steeples, I just about died. It was surreal. Everyone stood up to take pictures immediately because it only lasted for a few minutes. (We didn't have our camera...I know, I need to repent and improve. I'm trying to used lots of detail though, so you can create your own picture in your minds.) Then the sun set beautifully and the temple lit up. WOW, once again! Not to mention the food was divine...the best gourmet buffet in town, if you ask me. Well after taking our time to enjoy the restaurant, Cody surprised me with a stay at the Anniversary Inn in the Phantom of the Opera room. He had me believing we were staying at the Moon lodge before we took off for Ohio the next morning. What a babe!:) I just love the way he loves me...it doesn't get any better than this! Here are a couple pictures we pulled off the internet.Well the next morning we were off on our Ohio excursion. We drove through Green River to see the Cutler clan and pick up a few things. We got to chattin' and stayed longer than we had expected. So here we are, it's 5:30 p.m. on Saturday (just leaving WY) and our goal is to be in Ohio the next day. Many did not believe we would make it, but did we prove them wrong or what!?! We arrived at 7:30 p.m. in Columbus, OH on Sunday. Oh yeah!!! I-80 cannot bring us down! Cody was a trooper. He drove until 3 a.m. while he let me snooze. I woke up at 5 a.m. and was more alive than ever! I drove all morning while Cody slept. The joys of being a morning bird and marrying a night owl. It's perfect for us:) So we made it to Columbus in one piece and felt quite zippy. We didn't make it before the leasing office closed though so we stayed the night at our managers apartment. The next morning we moved into our apartment just as the furniture rental company arrived. We got all moved in, realized it was 4 p.m. and hadn't eaten, ordered some food, and then went grocery shopping. So we are all settled and absolutely love our apartment. We had a lot more room in the car this year, and so we brought some decorations. It's definitely cute and cozy. Cody will start scouting area today and hopefully selling. The shirts got shipped away because our branch manager wasn't in the office to receive them so we're just waiting on those. We got my office set up last night and it looks great. I got an office assistant which will be very nice, so things are looking good!

Last night we ran into the missionaries on our way to the gym. (By the way...when we found out our community had a 24-hour fitness center, Cody was more giddy than a school boy...so cute!) They seem like awesome, hard-working missionaries. They let us know where the church is and we invited them over for dinner on Sunday. They are in the family ward, so we'll probably go there. They are rooming with the assistants who go to the young-married ward...so we may switch it up. What's even more exciting is that they live in our same community so we are hoping for lots of FHEs and dinners with investigators. Having grown up in Utah, living in the mission field is such a treat!

Well we came back from the gym pretty exhausted after such a busy day. We got all ready for bed only to find our mattress had s strong scent of smoke. So our first night in our apartment was spent on the sofas, but they actually are super comfortable so it wasn't too bad. The furniture company is coming today to replace it so it's all good.

It looks like it's going to be a very successful summer. We brought lots to keep us busy, and are both earning some internship credit. Cody will be studying for the DAT every spare moment and I may consider looking into some GMAT preparation. I may just decide to pull through for a Masters, we'll just have to see where life takes us until then. What's cool is that I may be able to take some graduate and undergraduate classes at the same time. So it may be wise to get going on the GMAT. I just don't know how thrilled I am of the idea of another three semesters of school on top of this next year. Who knows!:)

Well family, we sure do love you! We think of you often. We're happy all went well with Christine's delivery and are so excited for a new addition into the Moon clan. We can't wait to meet little Madsen in just a few weeks!:)

Many loves to all!
C&C