Thursday, February 28, 2008

Our best volunteer!

The local news did a really nice story about a volunteer of ours. His name is Dave and his dog's name is Sasha. This is really an amazing dog and this story really reflects how wonderful she is, and her owner!

If you get a chance please watch it! It was all filmed at Regions but the little girl in it is a patient at Children's as well!

Enjoy!

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=FF2FC7B963A21898245CF5E9CA950702?contentId=5894787&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Our list is in!

Today was the deadline to send in our rank list!

So it is in and now we wait 22 more days, or 3 weeks from tomorrow or, 528 hours...

Wish us luck!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Welcome to the world Jackson!

Last Thursday my friend Angie (from high school) brought a beautiful baby into the world, I guess her husband Chris (Kiwi) helped as well!
His name is Jackson David and he was 6lbs 14oz, 20 inches. He gave his Mama quite a hassle for a few days of labor, but he is here now and both Mom and baby are healthy and doing well!

Chris and Angie just a few days before labor began!


Baby Jackson


Daddy and baby! (I asked Chris if the baby was going to come out with an accent, since he is from New Zealand) But so far his cry sounds American!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Pictures from birthday dinner


Lorri (Josh's mom), Kata and Tim


Mike, Paul (Josh's dad) and Peter (Josh's uncle)


Josh and Derrick


Josh and his girlfriend Jenna


Nate and Kelly

More of Josh's B-day


Derrick dancing...


Nate- doing something...


Chris and Angie at dinner


Bryan and I

Valentines Day

This year we had Angie and Chris over for spaghetti and kept it a nice laid back Valentines Day.

Here are our gifts, I got the roses and Bryan got the Brita with flavored water, his favorite!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Aloha!

What do you do when you're... VERY much in debt?
Your husband doesn't have an income?
You will be moving in the next few months?
You will need to (probably) find a new job?

You go to Hawaii!!!!

That's right, April 15th we are off to Oahu for a 8 night vacation before residency starts!

Another motivating factor for this trip is the Kokua Festival.


It is Jack Johnson's music festival which this year is going to feature Dave Matthews and Mason Jennings(my favorite)!!!

So we're going! And we're excited! If anyone has any suggestions on fun things to do please let me know!

Enough said!!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

My baby is getting so big!!

Last week my aunt Julie came over with Caleb,the closest thing I have to my own child since I was there when he was born. My favorite was the leg holding, I had my head right in there so I could see everything!
Anyway, he is going to be 2 in May and I can't believe how time has flown. Being there when he was born was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I am so grateful that I was there.

I can't get over how much he is talking. He says "say soo" for thank you and "brizza" for Elizabeth. Hey- I'll take it! He is very polite, "peez" is a very common word! The one word that you can't mistake is "No" and "Bye." He even knows some letters and colors, well he knows colors if you point to something blue, because blue is the only color he knows!

Anyway, he is growing fast and I love him so much!
Even if every picture I take of him he looks drunk or he is on a phone!


Tuesday, February 5, 2008

"Doctor Dilemma" M.D. = Mega Debt

This is a great article about medical school and our whopping debt. Although they have $150K for debt... I wish that was what we had!

Enjoy!

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=493988

Monday, February 4, 2008

Okay, so I have a problem...

I admit it... I take a lot of pictures... these are the last of them!

Addi was really enjoying collecting all the water bottles. She also shared them with Annie.



Someone needs to invest in kids cups so that my guests under 5 don't have to drink out of shot glasses... poor Addi



Mom and Dad and baby Kade



Naked baby!



Addi and Annie

More pictures of the kids...


Mama and Kade



Me and Annie



Addie eating some of Kat's yummy salsa



Holding Kade



Annie

Children, children everywhere!

On Friday Tiffany, Brian, Addi and Kade came over to visit. Along with Kat and Annie. We had a nice visit at my apartment and I took a lot of pictures so enjoy!

Annie all smiles!




Addi all smiles



Kat and Kade




Brian, Addi and Annie



Addi- cute as ever!

More of the ATL

More pictures from Atlanta...


Bryan and I in front of the World of Coke




Jeffie and I outside the aquarium



A picture of me that Jeff took when I was trying to get my camera back!

Welcome to Hot-lanta...kinda...

So, a few weeks ago Bryan and I took a trip to Atlanta so that Bryan could take a test. They offer the test in 5 cities in the country and since one was Atlanta we decided to make a weekend of it and stay with my uncle Jeff. We had a nice weekend and even though it snowed... yes snowed when we were there it was nice to get away!


This is the snow on Jeff's hot tub in the back yard. We did get some hot tubbing in though, so that was nice!


This is the Aquarium that we went to in downtown Atlanta


This is Bryan and Jeffie looking at the fishies, which I had to drag them away from.


Bryan petting the sting rays


My favorite animal at the aquarium