Rachel\’s Blizog

This will be the very last time I blog on Rachel’s Blizog (blog name courtesy of Pace).

So everyone change your google reader to:

http://nathanandrachel.net

This used to be our wedding website, but has now been changed to the life of the Fernsten’s.  If you do wish to visit our wedding website, here it is:

http://nathanandrachel.net/wedding

See ya over there!

(until my wedding day, of course.  Which, by the way, is in 1o days!!!!)

ATTENTION everyone:

My new name is now, Rachel Terribilini (Fernsten), RDHBS

YEAH BABY!!!

I would like to dedicate this blog post to my amazing husband-to-be.

I just want everyone to know how amazing and wonderful Nathan is.  I don’t think people realize how hard he works and how extremely stressful and busy his life is.  He is occupied with law school 24/7 (not an exaggeration), yet somehow he fits in family time, video chat/gchat time with me, fulfilling his church calling, fixing computers, surprising me with a new laptop, and LOTS of wedding planning.  Nathan put in HOURS and HOURS into our gorgeous invitations.  I have received countless compliments on those invites, and I owe all credit to Nathan.  And of course the help of the lovely women in his life, Donna, Rachel, and Megan.  I felt so bad that I was not able to be there to help out.  But he did it.

I am so proud of him for surviving law school.  I know that it is not easy in the slightest, nor extremely fun.  He is almost done with year 1!  Hallelujah!

Nathan, thank you for all of your hard work and sacrifices.  I appreciate all that you do!

I LOVE YOU!

4 weeks from today he will be my HUSBAND!!

This is a fabulous talk.  I recommend everyone should read/listen to it.

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf in Priesthood Session

This was my favorite:

Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit.

Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich.

Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and . . . faith [in] Jesus.”

Patience is a process of perfection. The Savior Himself said that in your patience you possess your souls. Or, to use another translation of the Greek text, in your patience you win mastery of your souls. Patience means to abide in faith, knowing that sometimes it is in the waiting rather than in the receiving that we grow the most. This was true in the time of the Savior. It is true in our time as well, for we are commanded in these latter days to “continue in patience until ye are perfected.”

This was such a sad time.  But still SOOOO much fun!!  I love these girls to death.  Seriously.  I am excited that school is now over.  But I’m really sad.

Last night, I got together with my besties from school.  We had our last big get together with all 5 of us.  We shed lots of tears and had a lot of good laughs.

Remember that Hispanic patient who told me and my partner that he would hire us if he were a dentist? The 3rd appointment he came in for, his BP was too high for us to be able to work on him, so he told us, in his thick, Hispanic accent,

“I just get so excited to be here and see you beautiful girls, I can’t help it, my heart go boom boom boom.”

A few weeks ago, he had his very last appointment with us.  We asked him how he was feeling and how his mouth was doing.  He sat straight up in his seat and exclaimed how it doesn’t hurt when he brushes his teeth anymore and there’s no more blood on his toothbrush.  Yay!  He told us that he isn’t scared to brush his teeth anymore.  He then stated,

“You guys saved my life, coming in here discovering my blood pressure was high and making my mouth feel better.”

Later on in the appointment, we told him that he needs to come back every 3 months to keep his teeth and gums healthy, and he told us,

“Only if I come back to you.”

I told him that I’m going to be in California and Emily will be North Carolina.

“I don’t care.  You have to come back just for me.”

I love it.  Hearing stuff like this from patients makes it all worth the hard work.

He had one area of NUP, but it didn’t quite heal the way hoped.  But it does look a lot better.

BEFORE

AFTER

Proof.  In case you didn’t believe me.

PHEW!  1 down . . . 3 more to go.

Here is Jessica’s version of the story . . . Make sure you read hers before you read mine!

Last Monday night, I walked into my home in Provo after being in CA all weekend, and our house smelled very dirty.  I thought, “Yuck, that garbage needs to be taken out”.  I walk over to it.  It was empty.  Hmm . . . What in the world is that smell??

Tuesday, I got home from school and Sarah was sitting at the table on her lap top, and I made this huge outburst as I walked in the door, “WHAT IS THAT SMELL??”  No clue.  We  searched all over our fridge, our pantry, the garbage, the counter, under the table . . .  Nothing.  Nothing showed that it was rotting or old.  Sarah and I opened up ALL of the windows and the door to the back porch so that we could air the house out.  Sarah started cooking and was consumed by the smell of her own food, but I could STILL smell it.  I was sitting on the couch, and it was driving me nuts.  All the windows were wide open with a breeze coming in, BUT could STILL smell it!  AHH!  Maybe it’s under the couch??  Very hopeful, I searched . . . nothing.  I was going insane.

Wednesday, same thing.  Still that strong, nasty, toxic, pungent, rotting fruit smell.  I couldn’t handle it.  Later that night I was downstairs in Jessica’s room using her printer to scan some stuff and it was SUPER strong down there.  Jessica asked me if I had painted my nails down there cause it smelled so strong.  I said nope . . . That smell had been lingering for 3 days now.  Maybe even more.

Thursday morning, I didn’t have any classes, so I made a stop at Wal-Mart about noon before heading over to school for clinic.  As I was heading back from Wal-Mart and on my way to school, I was stopped at a red light and received a text message from Jessica.  I opened it up, and it was this picture:

And it said, “Look what I found in my backpack!”  I let out a huge GASP followed by boisterous laughter.  I KNEW IT WAS ROTTING FRUIT!!  That night I walked into our house and violá, the smell was gone.  Now our garage smells like it . . . Even though she wrapped it up tight in a plastic bag and put it in our trash can.  It’s too powerful.

Thank goodness the mystery is solved!

(The first being my engagement!)

Well . . . my test is over with.  I guess we’ll see in a few weeks if I have to take it again . . .  ahh.

After my test I got to fly to CA to see my honey!!  It was just such a great trip.  I love to be with him.  Saturday morning we watched Conference and tried to figure out our wedding invitations (thank you SO much Nathan for working SO hard on those things!) and then I drove up to SR to see Mom and Dad!  We had some good chats and I got to try on my wedding dress (YAY!) and then I drove back down to Castro Valley.

Easter morning, I woke up right before Conference was about to start and I opened my door to go downstairs to wake up Nathan, and there was this Easter basket sitting there.  With my name on it.  And it had a brand new MacBook Pro sitting in it . . . . . . . . . I was so confused.  I just stared at it for a minute, looked around me, looked back down at the basket, picked it up, and put it on the bed.  I was too scared to touch it because I was still so confused.  I ran down to Nathan and just kissed him and said, “Um . . . Thank you for the new lap top?”  still very unsure about this. I was not expecting it all!!  Turns out, everyone else knew about it, but me.  SO SNEAKY!  Nathan had talked to me before about selling my lap top and using that money to buy a newer one, but I never really cared to that much.  We had talked about that a  LONG time ago and I was not expecting such a gift ever!!  Nathan woke up at 6:30 that morning to put the basket together and put it in front of the door.  SO CUTE!  So I have a brand spankin’ new lap top.  This was my graduation/birthday present and he couldn’t wait until then to give it to me.

THANK YOU NATHAN!!

I love Nathan SO so SO so much!  And NOT because he buys me things, promise!!  Every time I see him I get more and more excited to be with him forever.  I can’t wait!  7 weeks to go!!!!

I needed a lil break from the books . . . so I watched this weeks American Idol.

It’s about TIME this girl got voted off.

And I am pretty disappointed in this one.

And I think she’s going to win.  Even though I would never buy any of her music.

Boo on AI Season 9.