Super Bowl 2012

It's official: Indianapolis will host the 2012 Super Bowl.

Who knows if we will be here or not for the big event, but we thought we should be proud Hoosiers and announce the news.
The game will be played in the new Lucas Oil Stadium, a 75,000 seat stadium downtown complete with retractable roof. The stadium was built to replace the RCA dome as home of the Indianapolis Colts and will be complete this coming season.
As the month of Feburary is one of the coldest here (sub zero without wind chill) I think they will be needing more than a retractable roof to keep everyone warm. But warm or not, with the way Hoosiers love their sporting events, I am sure we'll still see that group of a-holes with letters scrawled across their bare chests...

Hump Day 5-17-2008

Today was a special day for us second year students: Hump day! We now officially have two years left of dental school. The 4th years have graduated, and we are awaiting promotion to third year status on June first. To celebrate this memorable day, the LDS guys and gal (Kristin) decided we should get together for a BBQ and pyro technique event, a.k.a. the burning of the scrubs. Now we know what you are thinking; grow up, right? Well, it's tradition, and we wouldn't want to disrupt the delicate balance in the universe by breaking tradition. So Leo Christensen volunteered his house, the date was set, the hamburgers were grilled, and the scrubs went up in flames.



These next few pictures are the photo opportunities provided for our memories just before we symbolically torched our first half of dental school. You can feel the anticipation and excitment radiating from the shaka, the smiles, and the words scrawled across the worn, used, and ready-to-be-retired scrubs.

Here are nearly all of our crazy LDS (and one wannabe LDS) classmates.
From left to right: Josh Erickson (Montana), Aaron Layton (Utah), Kristin/Mark Simkins (Nevada/Utah), Paul Porter (Utah), Bob (not LDS, but we won't hold it against him- Oregon), Sean Morgan (Washington), Ryan Pini (Utah, but to make his wife TJ happy, Arizona), Dan Griffiths (Indiana), Bradley Tew (Washington), and lastly, kneeling in front, Leo Christensen (Arizona)

How much gas did you put on those scrubs, Leo? And TJ, where is the water?

Here is our burnt offering, after Leo managed to slip away from the flames to help TJ pull the hose closer to the fire, thus saving us all from a near disaster. The hose wasn't seriously that hard to control, was it TJ??? It only took a few minutes for Leo's neighbors to come out with an inquisitive look on their faces. They were probably thinking, these are dental students? We let Leo explain, and I am sure after his explanation of "it's our halfway mark," they were thinking: 1. He (Leo) never ceases to surprise us, and 2. Those crazy mormons. Anyway, everyone had a great time, and we are now ready to face our finals week and our promotion from the basement (where all the labs are, and thus where we have spent this entire year) to the third floor (where all the clinics are). We are looking forward to the windows and the change from dentoforms to patients.

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Faith In Every Footstep (or something like that)

With the "lovely vez'er vee are 'aving" we have been trying to take any opportunity we can to get outside and away from the bomb shelter basement lab at our school. It has been an extremely long semester, and we are anxiously awaiting our promotion to 3rd year status June 1st. This past week we escaped reality for an afternoon and decided to walk around the city. We found some interesting neighborhoods and sites downtown. We also decided that, since we had the afternoon free, it would be a great chance to enhance our spirituality and catch up on confession and prayers.



First we visited our local cathedral near historic Lockerbie Street. We have to admit that the building is pretty, but it was the cobble stone streets, restored homes, and beautiful weather that made everything that much better. Lockerbie square is the oldest neighborhood in Indy. The area was home to the Indy born poet James Whitcomb Riley and some of the first Hoosiers.



After spending time in Lockerbie square, we walked over to Mass Ave. It is kind of the hippie/artsie area. We found a bakery for our dogs and would have bought them some carrott cake if Starkisha (a.k.a. Beez) wasn't getting so chubby. Instead, we went to a cafe and got ourselves some drinks to quench our thirst and took a few pictures of the Murat Shrine.

Next, we drove through the city to one of the downtown churches. We were lucky enough to find the door open and thought we would go in to reaffirm our faith.

Once inside, we walked through the stations of the cross. Unfortunately, we didn't have 50 cents to say a short prayer, let alone $3 to say a long one. And as confession was closed, we simply admired Mary's bleeding heart and the stained glass windows. Needless to say, we were compelled to be greatful for the restored gospel and the light it brings into our lives.