The Greatest Countdown of All

I love to count down to all the exciting things in my life.  Right now, there are quite a few things to look forward to including:

22 days until my brother Chaz comes to visit...

Chaz is 17, and a genius with home repair...he's offered to help us with some of ours!

27 days until Thanksgiving...

Last year I was able to wear shorts on Thanksgiving day!

49 days until the end of Devin's semester...

Blue helped Devin study for his pre-Christmas exams last year...

54 days until going home to be with my crazy family...

This picture is many years old, but we've probably just gotten goofier...

58 days until Christmas...

We posed with Santa last year.  It was really cold outside!!

109 days until Valentine's Day...

Valentine's weekend 2010 it snowed!!

154 days until Spring Break...

We went on a cruise for spring break last year!

187 days until our 3rd anniversary...

We went to Helen, GA for our first anniversary.

236 days until our baby is expected to arrive...

This was a HARD secret to keep!!

Yes, you read that right!  We are expecting an exciting new edition to the family, and this time it's going to be another human!  My estimated due date is June 20th, but we're hoping I'm just a couple days late because Devin's third year of medical school ends on June 22.  So far, the midwife says everything looks great!!  We're so very, very excited!!!

How to Handle a Craptastic Day

You might think this post is a very useful how to guide.  It's really not.  Mostly, it's just another opportunity for me to showcase my hilarious dogs.  Anyhow, if your day is craptastic, you should do as many of the following as possible:

- Cry...it really does help.
- Receive a hilarious email from your younger brother.
- Talk to your mom...who tells you to complain and cry as much as you want.
- When you are ready to laugh, just look at this photo of my dogs in their Christmas pajamas.  (I'm working on desensitizing them so that they don't bother them once it's actually Christmastime.

- For an even better laugh, watch this video of Moose who is clearly disturbed by his attire.  I can't stop laughing...you won't be able to either.

I hope this has made your day a million times better!  I know it certainly helped with mine!

P.S. Please ignore the crappy carpet in the video...it's the boys' to mess up while we are gone (we have a nice rug that we use when we're not leaving them home alone all the time!)

IM is finally over!!

Today is a very good Friday!  Devin's internal medicine rotation ends today...woohoo!!  This means it is also the end of a test week, he isn't in the hospital this weekend, and he won't have any studying to do!  I am particularly excited for this rotation to end because Devin has been sooooo bored.  I feel bad for him, but we both realize that it is what it is.  His next rotation should be a little more fast paced, though.  And, while it means that I'll see him less (and he'll have overnight 30 hour call shifts once a week), I have a feeling he's going to be much happier in general.  Besides, every time a rotation ends it just means that we are that much closer to graduation!!

To kick off the weekend, we will be going out to eat at the newly opened BW3 here in Augusta tonight with friends.  Other than that, we don't have a lot of plans.  I'll likely plant my tulip bulbs because it's feeling like the first frost might arrive sooner rather than later.  Devin has some tilapia he wants to cook up in a fun new way tomorrow.  And, we need to get a few errands (but fun ones!) done.  I'm pretty excited about having a weekend that's not over-scheduled.  No, I'm off to get through a non-clinic day at work.  Happy Friday everyone!!  Have a wonderful weekend!!

The best part of waking up...

...is smoothie in my cup!!

Thank you Bountiful Basket for making my gray, foggy morning just a little bit better!

The Grass is Always Greener

For once, the grass really is greener on the other side!  Of course, the "other side" was planted two weeks before this photo.  The barren side was about to get it's seed right after this picture.  That's the difference 14 days can make!!

PB & Moose

Forget giving a moose a muffin, it's far more interesting to give a Moose a peanut butter jar...especially when his older brother has already cleaned most of the easy to get to parts of it.  What happens you ask?

Well, you get to see the length a Moose's tongue.

You get to witness the Moose's tenacity.

You also witness the Moose's confusion over the state of his predicament.

And, you get to laugh for quite a long time.

Thank you for the show Moose!!

Homecoming

Let me just preface this by saying that Devin is in both his and my least favorite rotation so far.  This trip couldn't have come at a better time.  Honestly, if I could fast forward through the next two weeks, I would strongly be tempted to do so.  The hours aren't that bad...it's just everything else about it that is unpleasant.  I also started writing this last week, but lacked motivation because this rotation = yuck.  But, this post is not about whining.

Last weekend Two weekends ago, I decided to escape all my responsibilities and the craziness of life here in Augusta to drive 8 hours north.  It was Homecoming for WVU.  Not only did I need the escape, but I got to see Jess as well!  The weather was disgusting all Friday and Saturday, but it was sooo worth it just to be there.

On Friday, we went to the parade.  Jess and I both love, love, LOVE the old lady cheerleaders.  A picture doesn't really do them justice, but I missed seeing them for the past 3 years!

It's also fun to see the alumni marching band try to remember how to march in formation.  I did get a video of the super serious octogenarian (I'm guessing) beating it out on a snare drum.  I don't think his skills have faded at all in the past six decades.

Jess bought us matching shirts for the game.  Unfortunately, they were only one of 7 layers each of us were wearing, so you couldn't see them as soon as we finished suiting up.

We were trying to look fierce.  Mostly, I think I just look like I gain 20 pounds with all the layers and have to go to the bathroom.  We laughed over this one...a lot.

It was a very wet game.  I eventually moved the backpack under my poncho and spent the rest of the game with my arms inside it, too.  The gloves I'd brought were soaked pretty quickly.

This was part of the pre-game show.  While I've been able to watch many games in Georgia, I haven't been able to see this in 4 years!

On the way back, Zipper broke 30,000 miles.  

And, the weather was absolutely gorgeous...when it really didn't matter anymore.

Thanks Jess for the awesome weekend!