More good news?

I had a great 23rd birthday.

I got the best present ever: an acceptance letter from NYU!!!!!!!!!!

Can you freakin' believe it?

I read the letter over and over and over again to make sure that I was accepted and that I didn't just skip over the word "not." When I came to the conclusion that it said I was accepted, I started screaming, waking up Seth (poor guy!).

I STILLLLL CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

I was accepted into the Masters of Biomedical Sciences Program for Fall 2010 at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This program is sooooo awesome. Its a research degree, so I will be spending all of my time in labs with professors and other grad students. I even get to pick the research lab that I work in! Yay! I start August 18th for orientation and stuff like that. And the school is near Columbia!! So Seth and I both start graduate school this fall, and finish in 2012. SO EXCITED! I was prancing around all day yesterday like I had won the lottery.

So now Seth is a Lion and I am a Bobcat:

The question is, what color is Fatty going to wear to show support?? haha.

I was excited to go to New York already, but now I'm 10,943,634 x's more excited now! Who would have thought things would work out so perfectly? I can't even BELIEVE how lucky I am to have an opportunity to go to graduate school and study in this program. God has truly blessed our family and I am so grateful.

BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER.

More bathing suits!

Living in Hawaii (especially during the summer) allows me to have tons of bathing suits!

Seth says I have too many. More often than not, when I have some extra spending money, I come home with a super cute bathing suit. Seth's exact words are "Not ANOTHER bathing suit!!!"

hehehe.

So no need to tell him I'm already checking out the cute ones for this summer (though I'm sure he already knows.), right?

Here are some of my favorites:

From Juicy:

This one is cute in red as well:

(I plan on picking this one up at Nordstrom Rack sometime---I saw it a week or so ago there!)

From Anthropologie:

From Ruche:

From J. crew:

From Urban Outfitters:

Sooooo many cute ones!! I've already found some adorable ones for some great prices!

I picked up this Juicy Couture one for $39.99 at Nordstrom Rack (Originally $173.00) in a gorgeous sunflower golden yellow:

And I picked up this one from Urban Outfitters for $14.99 (Originally $88.00):

Can't complain about that!! :)

I heart summer!

Hiiii!

Wow!

I think this is the longest I have been without blogging!

Truth is, I honestly have had nothing to blog about. Absolutely nothing.

The only new thing with us is that Seth has accepted admission to Columbia and we are moving to NYC this August! We've just begun getting things ready to leave. Seth has been getting stuff ready for school. As for me, I've been thinking of the whole new wardrobe of winter clothes I have to get! :)

And of course, how am I getting my Fatty bulldog over there with us? Do you all remember the horror story of getting him to the mainland from HI? UGGGGggghhhh I don't want to go through that again. Poor Baloo, freaking out in a small cage in the baggage compartment of a plane for 6 hours. Well the best solution I have come up with is Pet Airways.

Ever heard of it? I was so excited when I read about it. They only fly from certain airports, but luckily they fly out of LA to NYC! Pet Airways is an airline only for animals. The only humans on the flight are the flight crew. They have attendants assigned to your pets, and monitor them the whole flight, and give them potty breaks along the whole way, giving the pet a chance to stretch out their legs too! They check on your pet every 15 minutes to make sure he is ok, which is perfect for a wheezing, stressed overweight bulldog! They give your pet another potty break after they land, and then you can pick them up at the "Pet Lounge" afterwards. Couldn't get any better than that. Now I can fly my Fatty without worrying about him rummaging around with the baggage under the plane.

Well other than that, all I have been pretty much doing is ... reading. I've turned into a book worm again. I used to read all of the time, but I had forgotten how much I loved to read. I think bio textbooks ruined it for me. Here are some of the books I've read in the last few weeks:

All of these books are fantastic. I loved every single one of them and would recommend them all. Any suggestions on some new good reads?

Now all that is left to do is enjoy good old Hawaii Nei. Would could complain about spending their summer in Hawaii? I plan on getting some cute bathing suits and heading for the coast to catch some rays. Oh and of course working. Though I would hardly call my awesomely fun job dancing at the PCC work.

I'm looking forward to some celebrating this week. Someone at work told me that once you hit 23 you're slowly starting to die. Great.

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I promise I'll blog again someday.

But not today.

BIG NEWS!!!

We just found out today that Seth got accepted into the the Quantitative Methods in the Social Science Masters Program at Columbia University!

What is so amazing is that they didn't even interview him...they said that his application was very strong and that the committee members were very enthusiastic to admit him into the program! What a smartie pants!!!!!!

I am so proud! And so excited!

New York, here we come!

Ok well we haven't officially said "yes" to Columbia yet, because Seth still has an interview at USC this weekend, but we are pretty sure that is where we are going!

Seth has worked so hard over the past few years, and it has finally paid off. I am so proud of him. And I am so grateful that Heavenly Father has blessed us with this. So grateful.