Success is just so sweet...

Well...he did it! Jeff took the DAT and… alright, hold on. First things first, I know most spouses like to pat each other on the back (even when they do something mediocre), so that’s what I’m going to do. Jeff actually did an awesome job. He’s worked so hard and deserves to be noticed and appreciated. Since Jeff doesn’t like tooting his own horn, I’ll just have to do all the tooting (as weird as that sounds). His scores were…

Perceptual Ability Score: 25 Percentile: 99.8

Total Science Score: 24 Percentile: 99.1

Academic Average (overall score) Score: 23 Percentile: 98

Ironically enough, his best section in the sciences was in biology, which has always been his lowest scoring science section. However, the studying paid off and he scored a 26 in the bio section and was in the 99.6 percentile.

After the test Jeff shakily picked up the score report from the proctor (he was still in shock at his test results). She was surprised to see such great scores and told Jeff that she’d never seen anyone leave with scores like him. Yay! Who knew?! Jeff is a genius! We’re excited to move onto the next step of applying to dental schools. Now maybe we can choose a school instead of crossing our fingers and hoping to just get into one. Jeff has worked hard studying and this definitely wasn’t a random coincidence. We’re just glad that all his dedication has paid off.

So basically, you can start referring to Jeff as Dr. Youngberg. WAA WHOOO!

Countdown to the DAT

We are T Minus 3 days and counting...

Good luck babe!

And then the summer fun begins... Waa-Whoo!

Say What?!

With the school year coming to an end, my students started delivering presents to me. My favorite part was the thank you notes from the second graders. I'd received one that told me "You're the best Queen" and inside it said "To Mrs. Queen Yongbrg" (yeah let's just say not a single student finished the year able to correctly spell my name). But there are also humorous pictures in the cards as well. One student drew a picture of me, very tall of course, and a tiny, tiny boy beside me (he looks more like a preschooler than an 8 year old). I was patting him on the head with a speech bubble that said, "I like you." He's the class clown, and let's be honest everyone loves people that are funny. I guess he picked up on that too.

But as I continued to receive cards and pictures, I was very speechless when a cute girl in my class handed me her card with a picture folded inside. Looking at the crayon drawing, I realized I was in the picture and the girl was drawn a lot smaller beside me. She had a speech bubble that said, "graet bod!" I read it again because what second grade girl would write a note saying that to her teacher? I took it home to have Jeff confirm what I'd read was correct. He got a good laugh out of it. Jeff told me to hang on to it because I'd probably want to read it when I am pregnant :) After his confirmation I remembered hearing her say it at recess to another little girl, so there was no denying it - she must be telling me "great bod" in her picture.

Is that weird or what?

This is why I love teaching elementary school...

Jeff and I laughed our heads off when we watched this! Kids are super crazy.

So we're famous...

Well, at least our hands are famous! Jeff was going to class on Wednesday and decided to grab a Daily Universe. As he started flipping through the pages, he stopped on one page that had an artcile about how marriage license fees would not be increased. As enthrawling as that headline sounds, amazingly, the article was not what grabbed his attention. Instead, there was a picture in the middle of the article that seemed very familiar...a little too familiar. Jeff thought to himself, "That picture looks almost exactly like one of our engagement photos!" Then Jeff, like Scooby and Shaggy, started putting two and two together and sniffed out the real solution to this mystery. He realized the hands in the picture look so much like...wait! They were our hands! It was our picture!

It turns out that Jeff's mission buddy that took our engagements is a photographer for the Daily Universe and used our picture. We are very flattered, but I must say we are not that surprised we were chosen. I mean...come on...have you seen our hands? At this point, we are considering changing our career path to superstar handmodel! What do you think? I like it. But if you are hesitant to agree, just look for yourself. The picture that was published has been on the left side of our blog this whole time. Yup. We knew all along that it was golden. You can't deny the attractiveness of those hands, and if you can, well...really what do you know? Have your hands been in a major publication? Yeah...that's what we thought.

*Oh yeah...you may have also noticed that our...umm...Christmas Saga was never quite finished. Well, let's just say it was super fun, and we'll end it there. Blogging in depth about vacations is way too much work, and really who cares (at least that's what I think because I hated blogging about our Christmas. Too much happened).