And then there was Disney...

I didn't think it was enough to just have a party in honor of my birth so I decided to take a trip to Disneyworld - I mean why not?!?

We spend three days taking in as much as we could and it was pretty amazing. First day Magic Kingdom, then Epcot and topped it off with Hollywood Studios where we almost wet out pants on the Tower of Terror. It was so nice to just run around, looking at really cool things and spending money! We had such a blast and I think we should have a 'girls only' outting like this at least once a year.

There were so many great pics I just decided to post a little slideshow...enjoy!!!

Next, a birthday!

Happy 27th to me!!

When a single lady is about to turn the age of seven and twenty a party in most certainly in order. In honor of the amazing year of my birth I decided to throw myself a little 80's party and it was totally wicked sweet. People came all decked out in the best of 80's fashions and we danced the night away to Blondie and Billy Idol.

Lizzy made me an amazingly crazy neon cake fit enough for Punky Bruster and sure enough I got my face shoved in that very cake - ah good times.

You don't have to dedicate an entire evening like I did but I would like to encourage you all to take a moment of silence in honor of the 80's. I mean seriously, when else could you wear blue eyeshadow, crimped hair and leggins all at the same time!

Please be sure to take note of my amazing butterfly leggins I whipped right up just for this...top that Madonna!

First, a wedding...

So what if I'm like 3 months behind at least I'm finally posting something!! Yes, yes you can give me a hard time for starting this blog and then being the 'official' slacker, well aside from LE and Autumn ;)

(boy, don't I have some attitude!)

My lil bro's wedding was pretty sweet although I can't pretend that I still don't really believe it actually happened - so very weird. They got married in the San Antonio temple - sweet and short service...actually it was the shortest I've ever been in, in fact I'm sure there was even time to sit down - ha ha. Anyway I was a lucky lady in red and I must say my little bros looked absolutely adorable in their suits!

You know what the weirdest part about my brother getting married is that now I sorta have a sister...crazy.

Snow and Such

Apparently Milwaukee has had a phenomenal amount of snow this year.  While most people are sick of it and complaining, I still find it quite beautiful.  Then again, I don't have a driveway to shovel.  The above is a picture of Jason from our Cross Country Skiing adventure in January.

The cats are up to their usual mischief.  I was cooking in the kitchen when I heard something in the cupboards...Murphy just can't stay out of those small places.

When I was applying for dental school the admissions committee advised me to take an art class to help with my detail and perceptual ability.  I found a class through the local recreational department that the school has approved of.  My choices were watercolor or acrylic.  I called my mom to see which medium she had more supplies for and then signed up for the acrylic class.  I have actually enjoyed myself far more than I thought I would.  The teacher is great, and I love learning without having to earn a grade.  The above is a product of my own brush.  I really enjoyed creating the colors and working on brush strokes.  The idea was not mine, but I thought it was pretty good for my first painting experience since elementary school.

 

This is a tree from outside of our apartment.  I took it the morning after our huge snowstorm.  I like the way the snow has frosted the tree.  I walked to work the day of the storm (it's about a mile away).  It's a good thing too, I was three people that day: hygienist, assistant and receptionist.  Despite the storm Dr. Quinn and I worked 3/4 of the day.  I walked home in the worst of the storm, across a field that was knee deep with snow.  I had a blast doing it - I was dressed in my winter gear and it was the end of the day so all was well.  My philosophy was the less cars on the road the better.  (The city actually pulled some of the snow plows off the road it was getting so bad.)  I had a car pull over and beg to give me a ride home, they had seen me walking to work that morning and thought for sure I was going to succumb to the storm.  I gratefully declined and had one of the best workouts in a while getting home.

 

With all of the snow and the cold weather school has been canceled twice in the past two weeks.  This type of weather means cut hours for me which is tough on a few levels.  Thus, I've had a fair amount of reading time on my hands.  I've indulged in reading six of the books from the Anne of Green Gables series.  Any suggestions for other cheerful reads?

Carina

Dude, did you guys know that Carina has a second kid now? I had no idea, and apparently he's already almost two months old. Are we all filled in or do we need to post pictures for her? Anyone heard from Ellie lately?

Hey slacker!

So Steph, where are all those fun pictures from Walt's great land of fun?

Well, I guess that's really all I've got to say. Nothing much new going on here. Rachel is still the cutest kid ever. She's talking quite a bit (mostly saying ah-goo a million times in a row, which means "you are the coolest mom ever and I really like smiling at you"), and she's really smiley, especially when she wakes up in the middle of her nap--she'll smile really big for 3-5 minutes, then all of a sudden start crying like someone poked her really hard, or something. Then she struggles to get back to sleep. But if I manage to avoid eye contact and the smiley-ness, she goes back to sleep pretty easy.

I guess I'll post one of her cute pictures for your viewing pleasure.