Di d you hear it???  Around 3:30 yesterday afternoon???  Yeah, that was me crashing and burning in my exam.  Pew.  That was nasty.  And that's all I'll say 'bout that! 

I'm going to spend my day off today cleaning and studying and writing up some reports.  Yeah, this day off needs to be a couple hours longer!!  The coolest is that my dear, sweet husband is going to take me out to lunch to Ruby Tuesdays!!!!  I love that salad bar!!!!!!!  Isn't he the sweetest???

Well, I need to hit it.  Get on my cleaning outfit (what the heck is that??) and find out what color carpet we actually have under all the dog hair.  *shudder*  Y'all stay safe, cool and happy!

Hey all!  Yeah, I'm actually blogging.  Do you realize that I only get around to doing this when I'm in the midst of studying for a giganto exam??  What's this say 'bout my study habits??

I did have to let y'all know that my lil man is walking.  By himself.  ALL THE TIME!!  He gets soo excited sometimes that he does crash, but he crawls over to someplace that he can hold onto and he's up and runnin' again.  I tell you, this little guy just lights up a room with his smile.  The girls who are helping out in the church nursery always look forward to seeing him.  As soon as I get some walking pics of him developed, I'll post a few.

Of course I can't leave out my princess.  She is growing soo tall.  When I look at her now I see a little girl, not a baby.  Sometimes I get sad that she's not a baby anymore...silly, huh?  Kyra is definitely going to be a smart cookie...she knows soo much and is continually amazing us.  Her Spanish isn't as strong these days...gotta get Royce to work harder on that!  But she is definitely my wee peanut, no matter how big she gets.

Happy Birthday, my sweet

girl!  Kyra I can't believe

you are THREE!!  Mommy loves you soo much, it's ridiculous!    Stay just as sweet and silly as you are today.  Thank you, God, for giving her to us!

Hola!  School is still officially kickin my a$$, but atleast I haven't failed a test yet.    Like how I say "yet"???   

I wanted to update you on my neighbor...'cept I have no CLUE what happened!  All houses are still standing.  The only remnant from that night is a TON of emergency flares still laying in the road.  You have to understand that we live out in the country.  This is NOT a main thoroughfare.  Our street goes absolutely nowhere 'cept to our houses.  So, we'll just wait and see what our local paper says tomorrow...if it's covered at all.

Well, I must mosey off to bed as I have to be up at 5:30, on the road at 6:30 and in class at 8 PROMPTLY or I'm not allowed in the room....that's just the kind of professor I have for this 8 AM class.  He's a tough guy, but he knows his stuff.  I respect that. 

Hey everybody!  Wow, didn't realize it'd been such a long time since my last blog.  Y'all probably have given up on me.    I'm truly busier than I ever thought I would be.  Being a physician assistant is soo very important to me, but this is definitely the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.  Royce keeps teasing me that I'm talking like a geek all the time.  It's weird how your vocabulary can change in only 6-7 weeks.  I'm looking at the world in a different way now.  I can't really explain that, just that things are different.  I can't wait until I'm all finished (in a mere 24 1/2 months) and I can start working again and hopefully do some missions work.  Ya know, in church today that's where it hit me that that is my real reason for doing this.  I want to do mission work as often as my lifestyle allows.  I guess that's something I've always wanted to do, but never thought I had enough to give to warrant doing.  So, 26 months of torture so that I can get out there, help people, and hopefully lead 'em to Christ.  Yeah, God has a wacky sense of humor sending me on this trek!

Hey, if you all have a spare moment, it appears as though one of my neighbor's houses has caught fire.  I say appear b/c I live at the bottom of a hill and all i see is flashing lights, smoke, and no cars being let by.  It's after midnight and this has been going on for about 2 1/2 hours now.  Please say a prayer for those who have been touched by this.  The storm we had this evening was wicked....it ripped off a gutter from our house and slammed it into the study window, nearly breaking it, but succeeding in ripping a 6 inch hole in the screen! 

Y'all have an amazing week, y'hear?? 

Hey all!!  Yes, I am still here.  I'm trying to write a paper and am having no luck getting myself started.  I might just give up tonight and start studying for my neuro exam for next friday.  Yech. 

How you folks doing??  Can I brag???  Ok, I will, thanks.    Spencer has been taking his first steps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He gets soooo excited when cruising in our family room while holding on to our sofa...I can usually coax him to walk to me and we all cheer when he reaches me.  He starts clapping too!  I'm soo proud of this lil guy!!  Kyra has been soo great with him lately.  I can definitely see where she's having a tough time with me being gone soo much, but she's a trooper and I only have 25 more months to go!!!!!!!!!! 

Y'all stay cool and I'll chat with ya later!

Sheesh, looks like a one blog a week month for me.  Have my first exam on Friday...I have no idea how to adequately prepare for it.  There's a ton of info on it.  The worst part is that a lot of it is NOT related.  Oh well....I'm just gonna suck it up and do what I've gotta do. 

Got my stethoscope today!!  WOWWWW!!!  Dang it's cool.  Both kiddos let me listen to their hearts...but they were battling at the end on who I got to listen to.    Spence finally ended the battle by trying to chew on it!  AUGHH!!  Just finished ironing my white coat....I'm shadowing a PA tomorrow for a few hours.  It's a wonderful rite of passage to make us all feel like morons.  Well, y'all stay cool.  I'm reading all my SIR, I'm just not commenting everywhere cuz that takes tooo much time.  Just know I am thinkin 'bout you all!

June 4, 2003

Happy Birthday, Spencer!!!!

Wow, one year ago you decided to arrive ahead of schedule.  You've been keeping me on my toes ever since.  Thank you for being such a sweet and loving little guy.  Your smile is enough to turn around the most rotten of days.  Your giggle make me laugh soo hard...just thinking about them gets me smiley.  Your big ole sloppy baby kisses are the greatest!  (well, 'cept when you bite me... ) How did I get sooo lucky to be your mommy???  I look forward to watching you grow into the wonderful little boy I know you will become.  Mommy loves you, Spencerdoodledoo! (and i promise not to call you that when you bring your first girlfriend home....)

The Infamous Haircut...

Okay, I'm finally getting around to posting pics of my "big" haircut.  I love the short 'do, but there are definitely days where I miss just waking up and pulling my hair into a pony tail so I don't have to do much fussin'. 

Anyhoo, here are the pics...have a groovy day!

That's one of the deck boxes on our deck.  We store the kids there when we're not playing with them.  Just kidding!!!!!  Kyra wanted to spend the whole evening playing in there...thank goodness we always keep them closed!  (I'm a nervous enough mommy without worrying that she's going to climb into one of the boxes!)

Y'all stay cool, y'here?

Howdy!  Happy Friday, everyone!!!    One more class this afternoon and I will have survived my first week!  Can you believe we've already lost one person from the program?  She was overwhelmed and didn't think she could handle it.  I really think it's a shame after all we went to to get to this point.  Heck, we're all overwhelmed!  They are literally throwing us into the deep end to see which of us will float.  I hope I do...because right now I feel like I'm barely treading water.  All I can do is try my hardest, so that's what I'm gonna do.  As long as I pass...I still get to be a PA!!  (scary for my patients maybe, heh heh but great for me) 

I am totally enjoying this first day of sunshine!!!  I can't believe that the sun is actually showing itself!  YIPPEEE!!!!  If I never see another rain drop, I'd be a-ok with that!  This weekend I'll be crossing my fingers for good weather.  Not soo much for Saturday, the only plans we have are to take Spence for his first haircut!!!  And, of course for me to read, do homework, and read some more.    Sunday is the BIG day.  Royce, his dad, bro-in-law and nephew are going to the O's game.  Then the entire family is going to show up at the house and we'll bar-b-q and celebrate Spence's FIRST BIRTHDAY!!  Yup, my little guy turns one on the 4th of June.  I can't even believe it.  When did that happen???  I wish I knew how to link back to an old blog of mine so I could show you my announcement on Xanga...but if you're interested, just go to June 5, 2002 and that'll give all the details.  That blog had the most comments and eprops I ever got! 

Y'all stay groovy, y'here?

This is from the day after Spence arrived...the date on the camera was wrong...just like me, eh? 

And, another...me with my two kiddos the day after our wee one arrived.  Shoot, now I'm getting all teary.  See you later!