Sick

Wish we had more exciting news here, but alas, we've been ill.  I was sick two weeks ago and Will came down with it this weekend.  I'll spare you any pictures as it would consist on piles of tissues, bowls and soup and one sad sick husband.  Luckily today he is starting to feel better.  Not the most exciting way to spend your 3 day weekend.  However, I am now 1/3 of the way through hand quilting my 1st quilt.  It's going wonderfully and I'm really enjoying it, even if my fingers do get a little sore.

Hope everyone is able to enjoy today - on NPR they were playing some of MLK's speeches & I missed the inauguration due to clinic, but caught up when I got home. We wish we could have gone with Ann & Andrew!  

R5W1 - General Surgery

I've just started my 5th rotation.  It's general surgery and the surgeon is a wonderful woman that I've know since I was 11.  The best part however, is coming home to Will every night!  We've really been looking forward to living together again.  We also get to live with my lovely parents who are kind enough to open their home to us right now.  (Will's been living with them since September when he got his job at the middle school).

The surgeon I'm working with does lots of breast surgery so that's most of what I've seen so far.  The best part is I get to be first assist on all the cases we do, which means I'm right there doing everything she needs - retracting, suctioning, holding pressure and closing (the suturing is my favorite part).  It's been great so far and I'm excited that I still have 4 more weeks to go. 

Christmas

We spend a low key Christmas in Seattle with parents this year. We all missed Blake & Stefi (they were in Utah with her family this year).  Highlights included a delicious breakfast casserole on Christmas morning (thanks to Rachel Steed for her recipe that we use year after year!), a baking night with my mom and her friends, seeing Les Mis on Christmas day & the Hobbit on Christmas Eve, running my first 5k, spontaneous game night with Ann & Andrew on Christmas night, facetiming with family, and doing puzzles. 

Will and I are very bad a documenting our lives with pictures, however, here is one, and of course it is of food.  The park where my 5k was happened to be very close to one of our favorite donut places - Top Pot so we stopped on the way home to pick up some to share. 

Pie Night and Christmas Devotional

Will and I hosted possibly our favorite event of the year, Pie Night. We made toll house pie, chocolate cream pie, pecan pie, pumpkin streusel, and a lemon tart. Let me tell you they were all delicious. We had two couples join us that night to watch the Christmas devotional and some good friends who weren't able to make it got pie delivered the next day. We weren't organized enough to take pictures before digging in, but here's a picture of the aftermath.