Law School Results Are In!!

This year, Phillip applied to 3 different law schools across the country. Here are the results!:

-University of Virginia (top ten law school!): waitlisted

-Univeristy of Illinois: accepted

-BYU: accepted

We are SOOO excited! Right now we are planning on going to BYU unless we hear from Univ. of Virginia. We are looking forward to finally starting our law school adventure this fall!

Travel Across America Completed!!

We did it! We have reached Delaware safely after 6 days of travel! The last leg of out journey included going across the states of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware! The weather was great and we are happy to be out of the car. We got the chance to stop and visit two law schools on Monday- The University of Illinois and Ohio State. We especially enjoyed University of Illinois and are happy that Phillip has already applied there. We are now enjoying some time with Phillip's family before reaching our final destination in Connecticut.

Moot Court Room at the University of Illinois


Beautiful ice waterfall along the freeway

Phillip and our mounds of snack food! YUM!

Journey Across America: Part 2

Today we spent most of our time in the beautiful city of Nauvoo, Illinois. It was so much fun to walk where Joseph Smith has walked! We had a wonderful time. We then traveled across Illinois and are now in Champaign, where tomorrow we will visit the University of Illinois' law school.

Joseph Smith's home in Nauvoo

Carthage Jail and memorial to Joseph and Hyrum Smith

Bullet hole in door at carthage from the bullet that killed Hyrum Smith

In the room where Joseph and Hyrum were murdered.

Journey Across America: Part 1

Hey everyone! We are currently on our grand adventure across the country, where we will visit Phillip's family in Delaware and then head to our new home in Connecticut! We left on Thursday morning and so far have traveled through the states of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. We have now made it half way across the country! Our legs and backs are aching, but we are having a wonderful time!

The mighty travelers!

In Missouri we stopped and visited Adam-Ondi-Ahman. It was really cold, but really amazing to see the valley as seen below.

This is the beautiful Mississippi river at sundown. I took the picture from Illinois looking across at Iowa.


The beautiful Nauvoo temple!!


We will keep you posted on the rest of our journey. So far the weather has been amazing for which we are extremely grateful!

Major family update

It's been awhile since our last blog, so here is a little bit of what has been going on in the Sumpter family:



1. We're having a baby!!! This is probably not a shock to most of you, but we are VERY excited to be expecting our first baby on June 30! I am now 13 weeks along and doing very well. I had a rocky couple of weeks at first with bad morning sickness, but now I am so happy to be feeling great with a healthy baby inside!



2. We are moving to Connecticut! As we have mentioned before, Phillip has loved his insurance consulting job in Rexburg that he has been working at for almost a year now. As an added bonus, he was offered a position with the firm in Connecticut for the next couple of months. It is a great opportunity in which the company will pay for a furnished apartment and groceries. Phillip is really excited for the opportunity, and I am excited to enjoy the east coast for a little bit. We are leaving around January 5th in our trusty jeep and driving across the country. We are planning on stopping along the way in places like Nauvoo, and of course Delaware to visit Phillip's family. It is going to be so fun to be closer to them! (only about 4 1/2 hours away!) I will move back to Utah in May, and Phillip will come back in June. The entire journey will be such a fun adventure for us!



3. Phillip is on his way to law school! After deciding to wait a year before going to law school, we are very excited to be applying again for law schools across the country. At the beginning of December, Phillip took the LSAT again and did awesome! He scored a 161 (85 percentile)! We have already applied to BYU (our #1 pick) and are now trying to decide where else we would like to apply. He will start in the fall.



We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy the new year! We will be sure to keep you updated on all of our adventures! (pictures will also be added later)

Robin the orchestra teacher

It's true! I have officially been offered my first job as a middle school orchestra teacher! I will be teaching 30-40 6th graders who have never touched an instrument in their lives how to play the violin, viola, and cello. I am SO excited and nervous at the same time, and my first class is on MONDAY. I can't believe that I am qualified enough to be an actual teacher! Wow diplomas are amazing!

A typical day at the Sumpters

Hey everyone! So here are a few things that have happend over the last couple of weeks:

- Phillip's brother Dallin returned from his mission in Los Angeles! After spending 3 short days with the family in Delaware, he moved here to Rexburg to start school. It is so fun to have him living so close!

~Dallin arrives!~

- Along with Dallin, 3 other cousins moved to Rexburg to start college- Barbara, Mary, and Austin. We love having so many family members close by! ~Mary, Barbara, Dallin, and Austin~

- Phillip is loving his job more then ever. He is known as the "office clown" with his easy ability to always make everyone laugh. Lately, he has enjoyed sending emails to a coworker marked from the "boss." When the coworker opens the email up, it is a shocking picture of a big hairy man! Needless to say, Phillip is loving what he does and the people that he works with- and yes, he IS working very hard.

- I, surprisingly, am adapting well to not having a crazy schedule. I have kept myself busy lately with scrapbooking, organizing, cleaning, and baking! I have successfully made 4 loaves of delicious homeade white bread as well as 4 loaves of pumpkin chocolate chip bread. If anyone has any good recipes... pass them on!

~Fresh homeade bread!~

We are looking forward with anticipation to January when we will get to leave and travel the country for Phillip's job.

Happy fall everyone!!!