Colorado in the spring

Spring has sprung...

Ok, so this lack of posting has gotten totally out of hand. I just am bad at keeping up with it since my Sarah isn't here helping me (sigh). But I am determined to catch the blog up on our lives over the last several (ok like 7) months...

LLAC...with the internship end in site (yah!!) our spring in Colorado went by so quickly. Easter was early this year, and I actually had the weekend off! Here is the one picture of Tom and I from Easter 2008 (so sad, plus it's not a very good photo of either of us!) but I did make Tom and all my internmates easter baskets to semi-celebrate Easter, even though everyone else was working.

Some other pics from March, these are from the mornings we had doing rounds with Dr. Swanson. This day we were practicing joint injections.

April was exciting since Tom and I knew we were headed back east. Don't get me wrong we LOVED Colorado, but being away from family made it tough to be so far away. Here are a few pictures from when Tom visited MD to find a place to live and look for a job. His parents, Vicky and Will, met him there to help out...they are great. Plus it was their anniversary!




There was a parade in Easton that day...aren't the Clydesdales awesome!


LLAC in April was also fun...the girls went to dinner with Cheryl (our Colorado Mom) at our favorite local restaurant NoNo's. It was right down the street from the clinic and had a great atmosphere and New Orlean's style food.

I know all of us internmates miss our Cheryl!!



This is a random picture where I felt like I looked like Lady from "Lady and the Tramp" even more than usual...c'mon it's true, I am totally Lady with that hair! I do look a little scary though.


Later that month, we FINALLY had our Princess Bride Party with a bunch of the girls from work. Becky had originally planned our "PBP" as we coined it in August 07 and it took us til April to actually get together!! Sad, but that's the way the year went...you couldn't really plan anything! Anyway, we had a great time at Unger's house. She made the best dinner and we all brought sides and desserts...Yum! And you can never go wrong watching The Princess Bride!

The part of April that was my favorite though, was that my mom and sister, Emily, came out to visit on their spring break. It was so absolutely wonderful to see them, since work was super busy and I missed home!

Here is us at Noodles and Co, one of our favorite quick eateries of the year...and it was right down the street.



Emily even got to go riding! Jenny was my absolute favorite trainer of the year! She is the sweetest person, greatest teacher (she gave me lessons when I had any spare time), and has a great group of school horses. Always a good time at the Colorado Horse Park.




Katie was there that night too, riding Chili, the wonder pony.



It was always fun with these girls! Here's Katie, me and Jenny.


May was extra fun because I had Memorial Day weekend off!! Tom and I visited Leo and Cristin and we all ran the Bolder Boulder, which is one of the largest races in the country. It's a 10K and I think they beat their old record by registering over 53,000 people this year. It was fun...and my knee actually held up to the challenge, the most I had run in 3 1/2 years!

Here's some pics at the race.

Here's the collage Tom was most proud of...catching all the port-o-potty action.

After the race, we all went back to Leo and Cristin's for a BBQ and some corn-hole (or corn-toss...depending on where you're from). There were actually a bunch of people from FL there and it was fun to reminsce about our old times in G-vegas, tailgating for the Gator games and playing some fierce games of corn-hole. We miss those days!

Kevin and Leo

Group shot!


There were several LLAC events that also made the month a fun one. The first was Margaritaville II at the Gaughan's. Apparently this has become tradition (since last year's party was a hit), so needless to say, we were excited to attend. I tried to get pics of everyone, especially of them making funny faces or doing crazy things...here goes:










Of course, we had to play our camara game, thanks for the great photography Tom ...the players: Hailey, FTB, Carrie-Margarita, me, & K-Zuti

Pics of our intern dinner and the KY Derby are coming up...sooner than later I hope :)

LLAC feb

donnie&dor vist

February 2008

June 8, 2008

Quite a spring…

So now that I figured out how to log-in to the blog again I can start filling in the gap from February to June. Clearly a lot has happened since then and both Tom and I have been super busy. I’ll try and keep up now though, since we’ll be moving in two weeks back east (and I’ll have a long car ride to blog).

To start off the month of February Dr. Story had us all over for the Superbowl…which of course was a must-watch for Tom and I (mostly me) since the NY football Giants were playing the undefeated New England Pats. Anyway, we enjoyed good food and friends and cheered NY to victory…what a game!!

A group shot of all the girls and Dr. Story's boys...this picture makes me happy!

It’s always fun to go to the Story-Brown house since her boys keep us entirely entertained. Nathan is going to be a buckin’ bull rider like no other of the bull he named “Dental Floss.” It’s the cutest thing to watch him on that bull in the living room.

Go Nathan!

Dr. Story and her husband, David. He made us homemade, awesome pizzas!

Alani and Matthew

Nathan loves taking pics of us all watching the game...

Kaylan and Becky lovin' the pizza

Later in February, I went on an east coast tour looking for a job. I flew into Raleigh, NC where I got to see Jim, Dawn, Ella, Meg and Cody. I also got to see old friends from NJ, Darren and Nicole Flynn and their baby Madison. I then went to Delaware, Maryland, NJ to see the fam for a night, up to MA and finally to VT where I flew back to CO. I got to see Kitty Milton (Kerri Mitton for those of you who didn't know her) and stay with her family in MA. Here’s a fun collage…

After getting back from a whirl-wind trip driving from NC to VT in 5 days, Dorothy, Donnie and her fiancé (then boyfriend) Aaron came to visit since I had the rare weekend off. It was such a blast…we just laughed the whole time whether it was at Starbucks taking funny pictures, at the grocery store, or at home playing the laughing game. We also watched practically the entire first 3 seasons of The Office thanks to Dor.


Random funnies!

Tom, Greasy Gina from Jouwsee, and Amy

Amy, Donnie and Aaron
Amy, Kevin and Tom when we played beer-pong at Kevin's house. Poor Tom hates being my partner because I don't drink beer so he gets it all :)
Aaron and Donnie are getting married on October 4th 2008...yah!! Congrats! Soon they'll be Aaron and Lauren Watson.
Aaron, Donnie, and Dor...

The people at Starbucks pretty much thought we were crazy :)

And of course I worked a lot, so here’s a few fun photos to remember the good times at LLAC…it’s always easier looking back on the months past and saying that they were “good” since at the time I was really suffering from work burn-out. None-the-less, time has flown and now the internship year is almost up!!

Jeff, Nick (the horse) and I after surgery

Kaylan, Dr. Unger and Dr. Bain sitting in Griffindore (we named our desk area)

Here's an assortment of pictures I love to remember...

Ash and Chai say bye-bye for now...