Winter Park, Colorado

So, I have obviously finished my pediatrics rotation! yay! I am officially on Christmas break. The day of my final I flew to Colorado to meet Lance for the weekend. He was having some meetings in Denver. We went to Winter Park Colorado and really enjoyed skiing and the snow! The first day we took a skiing class and we quickly got promoted, so we got to go further up the mountain with the instructer. The next day we skiied on our own and had a ton of fun! Here, just look at the pictures!!!

Lance waiting for the bus

And I played in the snow

My favorite picture! Looks so wintery!

In Winter Park Village. All the lights were so pretty!

Me on the ski lift

Us on the ski lift!

Speed racer!

Look how high up we were

About to go down a steep hill!

Sunday it snowed

Me in the snow

This is us eating the first night we arrived in Winter Park.

We had a blast! It was a much needed vacation together after we had been living apart due to my rotations for 6 weeks! It was only from Thursday to Sunday, but we made the most of it and had a blast skiing together. I will always laugh when I think of Lance going to fast that he skiied into the woods and fell in the soft snow. I enjoy making memories with Lance and maybe someday we will make memories in Winter Park with our kids.

-Amy

pedi

So, I am officially in Longview for my pediatrics rotation. By the end of the week I was sick. I am surprised I lasted that long with all the kids that cough all over me. It has been fun and many people recognize me, which is kinda weird. Oh by the way, the pediatrician I am working with was Lance's pediatrician since he was a baby. Pretty weird, huh?

Saturday morning I made the long drive back to Houston to hang out with Lance. It was nice, but would have been much better if I wasn't sick. I was there a whole whopping 20 hours before having to return to Longview. Lance will be coming to Longview this weekend. We are going to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.

Nothing else really going on in our lives. I'll leave you with a picture that is on my computer that I left here at home after getting married.Maggie is ready for Christmas!!!!!

End of OB/GYN

So I haven't updated in a while. The weekend before last we went to Marble Falls for a friend's wedding. It was beautiful out there! Lance and I went to Fredricksburg for the day and enjoyed the town. We also went to the famous Luckenbach, TX. It was so neat. It is seriously a small loop with a post office and a dance hall. That is it. Oh, and you buy beer at the post office! It is so neat. I will try and upload some pictures. The wedding was beautiful on the lake there, and we wish Aimee and Trey many wonderful years together.
On a totally different note, I delivered 2 babies last night!!! It was an awesome experience and I am so glad I was able to do that. They were delivered both within the first hour I was there, and then I studied the rest of the night waiting on more babies, but no more came. Lance knew I was going to have a hard time with the night shift, so I woke up to leave and he had a dozen roses, cinamon rolls, and a coke waiting for me. I actually was pretty awake all night. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush!

bath tub=water

Now that it is more than halfway through the week, I thought I should write something. I decided to stay home from the game this weekend to work on my research paper. Hopefully I will get most or all of it done and not have to worry about it for the rest of this rotation.

Maggie has been funny lately. She would go over to the bath tub and start crying. Lance figured out that she wanted her water bowl filled, even though her water bowl isn't anywhere near the tub. Then yesterday she sat by the tub and cried so I checked her water bowl and sure enough she was out of water. She normally sits by her water bowl when she wants more water. oh well, I guess she is smart because she knows water comes out of the tub faucet.

I am on my lunch break right now. I have felt lots of babies in utero today. It is fun for the most part and exciting for the patient when I find the fetal heart rate and they get to listen to their baby. 98% of patients here speak spanish so I have been picking up more and more phrases.

Until next update,
Amy

24

Lance's birthday is Wednesday. He will be 24; one year away from 25-quarter of a century. Man, he's old. haha. So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANCE! I am so happy you are my husband and happy to celebrate another year with you! Hope it is the best year yet!


Yay! Another Aggie win. It might just be the last win. haha. We had fun. Ob/gyn is going well. I think I might be tired of it by the end of these 5 weeks, but then I get to do labor and delivery and that will definately be a new experience. I am definetly excited about the hours I work- 8-3. : ) Can't beat that!!! I have over an hour drive to Katy and back, though but I don't mind being HOME BY 5!!!! Especially after my first rotation of 7am to 9pm!!
That is all. We didn't take any pictures this weekend and I know I haven't posted pictures of last weekend, I just have better things to do like laundry right now.

another tailgate tomorrow

YAY! I am officially done with block 1 of my rotations!!! Next is ob/gyn..... I am enjoying this friday off. Lance and I are going to a game night with his coworkers tonight and tomorrow is fighting Texas Aggie Football. I think it is fun to go and tailgate and this time I will take pictures. Yesterday Lance and I went out after dinner for some retail therapy! haha He has been going into work very early and working hard and I just finished my first block. I got a dress and shoes for a wedding in october and of course Lance got Aggie shirts. TJ Maxx was our best friend last night.

I wanted to get my hair cut today, but didn't exactly know what I wanted so I decided to wait. I don't want it short or anything. I also can see my pesky grey hairs and I am not sure what to do about that. I am 23 for goodness sake, am I supposed to be worrying about grey hair??? Anyway, I think there are only like 6 of them, but they stick out like a sore thumb in my dark brown hair. I just part my hair on the opposite side of my head for now!

Look for pictures from the tailgate.

Aggie football season is here!

Lance and I had a great time in College Station this past weekend. We always love going back to A&M and just walking around campus. Sadly, we brought the camera but didn't take any pictures. We decided to tailgate and had brisket, ribs, beans, corn casserole, and sweets. It was nice outside and we enjoyed chilling before the game. On the 19th we plan to tailgate again, but make something that doesn't take so long to cook. We will probably to hotdogs and hamburgers. We spent the night with my sister and went to church at A&M Church of Christ. We missed the church that we went to throughout college. We also did our premarital counseling there.

Thank goodness we both have labor day off and can do our grocery shopping for the week tomorrow and rest before our work week begins. I have a final in about a week and a half and I REALLY have to buckle down and study. I can't believe my first block of rotations is almost over. I am enjoying my current rotation and the freedom that it brings. I also like the interesting adn complicated cases that it brings. I also have done about 25 nasal swabs that came back positive for the flu, so I am bound to catch it. Good thing some places now have the flu shot out. I need to go get one.

After finally losing some of my "I am in PA school and all I do is sit on my butt and study" weight, I really pigged out this weekend!! oh well, I'll get back on my diet and back to working out. I still have quite a few pounds to lose. I am glad I was finally able to lose some weight at all. Lance has been working out too and doing the P90X. So, we will see in 3 months how that plays out!