HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORGAN!

Morgan is 29! Wow. I will never be that old :) This year his birthday was on a Sunday. He got breakfast in bed (my family tradition), cooked breakfast and his favorite cereal. Then he opened his birthday presents. We went to church, then came home and ate a delicious crock pot meal. Yummmm and then dessert later. I made my interpretation of strawberry shortcake, per Morgan's request.

Morgan's wrapping up his 3rd year of dental school. He did his first endo (root canal) a couple of weeks ago. He has also cast post and cores (goes inside the canal of the tooth) and made RPDs (removable partial denture). He's been doing really well. The other week I got to watch him do a restoration on a little girl. It was really fun to see him in action.

11 weeks and counting

This is just a heads up in case you may wonder if I have dropped off the face of the earth.

Or you don't hear from me until May.

Or you think I've become inactive.

I have 11 weeks left of my LAST semester of nursing school.

3 of those weeks are finishing up the first half of the semester, where I have at least one exam & two quizzes every week and clinicals and work. After that... Practicum. Practicum is where I get assigned to a preceptor and work their schedule (and I'm pretty sure I'll be doing the night shift too... we'll see how that goes :D). Yes that will be full time in addition to 2 classes during the week and work.

I'm on the last leg of this journey.

I couldn't be happier :)

My Nephew

Over christmas break... In the background you'll be able to tell what youtube video we watched OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.

Bonfire

We had a bonfire months ago. Just now posting the pics...oops. Here they are.

Christmas Pics

How do we look with a kid? Ha ha I just had to ask :D

He's a little Indian

He LOVES to help

i LOVE him

Minnie & Me in the hot tub

So at Christmas time, we left our camera at Morgan's parents house. THANK YOU MIKE & DIANE FOR MAILING IT TO US!!!! We just got it in the mail today :D Yes, that is a VERY happy face!

Bread Bowl

I always make the best dinners on Fast Sundays. It's so easy to devote time to your dinner when it's the most anticipated meal of the day. Alright, I realize maybe my perception of the day is a little skewed. I'm working on it. Today I made my first bread bowl. It turned out good! I found the recipe on Allrecipes.com. I wish it had pictures, but after reading it a couple of times, I realized how to make them. (So I included pics in this post, so you can see how I did it = super easy!) Of course, you can take the time to make it prettier than this. I didn't wanna take the time to roll out the dough, so I just sprayed the bowl with pam & worked out the dough on top of the bowl. It cooked at 375 for 10 min.

FINISHED PRODUCT!

Chillin with a Duck

Yesterday Morgan & I went to school. Yes, yes, you are right, it was Saturday. Morgan volunteered to do dental work on kids and I went to force myself to study (yes, force myself, otherwise I never would have done it). After putting in a good 3 hours, I went and watched Morgan do a cavity on a little girl. It was weird to watch him do this. I've never seen him work on a patient, or in the dental lab for that matter. I felt nervous for the little girl (I always get nervous when the dentist is ready to drill into my tooth; most of the time I feel it and he has to numb me up again, and again, and again...). Surprisingly, the girl just sat there and didn't feel a thing. Afterwards while Morgan was cleaning up his supplies, I went outside and sat on a bench by the pond. Along came a duck. Slowly it got closer and closer to me. Pretty soon it was within 1 foot of me and it sat down and just chilled by me. And if you know how much Morgan loves animals, you can only imagine how excited he was to come out and find that duck just chillin :D