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Friday, December 31, 2010
Christmas break is over!
It's hard to believe that two and a half weeks passed so quickly, but here we are on new year's eve looking back on all the good times we had. Christmas was wonderful with my mom and my brother in town and Katie back from Georgia. Bindi got a cute little bumble bee car from Grandma Mitchell (Denise) which she's been buzzing around in. Lots of great presents from all the family - thanks to everybody. Derek and I went to the Monterey area for our anniversary. We went to the mission at Carmel-by-the-Sea, did the 17 mi drive at Pebble Beach, and went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We had planned to go whale watching on our last day, but the trip was canceled. Guess we'll have to go back a different time. Overall it was a great Christmas break and we're looking forward to another long hard semester before we get to go see our family in Singapore!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Merry christmas!
It's over! My first semester of medical school is over! And as far as I know I passed all my classes, although I won't get final grades for awhile yet. To back up a little, Thanksgiving break was great - my mom came down and watched Bindi for us so we could take a little break. We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner with Derek's family in Gridley and Derek fried his first turkey. We hiked Feather Falls near Oroville and we posted some pictures below. Also, we visited Apple Hill near Sacramento for our fried Ryan's birthday. It's a place where everything is apple- apple pies, apple turnovers, fresh apples, apple jam - it was delicious and fun. In other news, my mom and brother Jesse are coming down for Christmas - Jesse is coming all the way from Japan. Bindi is growing up quickly - she's learned to stand up (with assistance) and to sit up from a laying down position. She jabbers all the time (as demonstrated in the video) but no real words yet. I'm sure we'll have some great new pictures to post after Christmas.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
My first 2 months of medical school have gone surprisingly well. Even though it's every bit as hard as I thought it would be, I've managed to keep my grades up and still spend at least an adequate amount of time with Derek and Bindi. I'm trying not to get too involved in unnecessary things, but there are a lot of things that I have developed a strong interest in. Health policy, for example, is something I've been interested in for years, but here I can actually become a member of the AMA and help pass legislation. Student-run clinics is another thing - they throw us into the clinical scene without much experience. They have us seeing our own patients, performing exams, making diagnoses, etc. before we learn the material in school (don't worry, there's a preceptor at each clinic who is an experienced doctor and makes sure we're not doing anything wrong). There's church and there's extracurriculars (like ultimate frisbee fridays) and it all adds up to a pretty hectic lifestyle. But it's a lot more fun than I thought it would be, and I love the people I work with, and Derek makes everything better by being a perfect stay at home spouse. In fact, we went to Ashland, OR for my surprise birthday trip over labor day weekend. It was my first time to OR and I loved it. We did a speed boat excursion on the Rogue River, went to the Shakespeare Festival and saw Twelfth Night and went caving at Lava Beds National Monument. Bindi went to the cabin with the rest of the family for labor day, but we had a good time without her. Unfortunately we forgot to bring our camera, so I'll just have to include some photos I find on the internet. That's about it for now.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Back from Texas!
We spent the past three weeks with family and friends in Texas. The first week was in Houston with Scott and Angie- Scott (Elder Briggs) was the missionary that baptized me back in 2000. Derek was able to do some work for them such as building a riser for stadium seating and starting a secret playhouse under the stairs. We also were able to peruse the Houston scene - we ended up going to the fine arts museum, the children's museum, the museum of natural science, the aquarium, the zoo, the space center, and to the beach in Galveston. We were able to see my friends Zeina and Alan, who were my calculus study group at UT Austin, and their new baby Jonah. Also, Angie decided to have her baby Keller 3 weeks early while we were there. After Houston, we went to visit my Aunt Lou and Uncle Ray in Austin and went to the Salt Lick with them (one of TX's premier BBQ restaurants). We saw the old German town of Fredericksburg and climbed Enchanted Rock with Bindi (her first hike). I almost forgot the blue bell ice cream factory in Brenham, TX, and we ate Krispy Kreme with my old roommate Lindsey in Austin. We're kind of obsessed with Krispy Kreme since they closed down all the Krispy Kremes in our area. Anyway, after that we went down to see my dad in San Antonio. We found a really awesome Mexican restuarant with him called Taqueria Datapoint. We went back to Houston and picked up my mom from the airport (she had gone to visit her family in Singapore)and took her home to Longview. She watched Bindi for a few days for us while we went and enjoyed Dallas. In Dallas we went to Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor, saw Toy Story 3, and went to the temple. It made up for a lot of dates we had missed this past year. In Longview, we went to my favorite restuarant the Butcher Shop. It was supposed to be a mini-high school reunion, but only my friends Tiffany and TJ showed up. We saw them again the next day at Bindi's first birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's. Their two kids James and Jade were there along with Bryan and Maria's two kids (Bryan was my childhood friend) Sean and Natalie. Jade actually had the same due date as Bindi but was born two weeks later, so it was a joint birthday party. Yesterday we left from the Dallas airport and came back home. But tomorrow we'll be making the big move to Sacramento and I start school on Tues. Vacation is over!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Surgery Update
So we ended up having to stay a second night at the hospital because Bindi wasn't eating enough to keep her hydrated, so she needed to stay on the IV a bit longer. But we were finally able to go home Thurs afternoon. But first we stopped by Shriner's hospital where Bindi had an appointment to get her pinkie fingers checked out. If you remember, her pinkies don't straighten all the way. The good news is that she won't need surgery on them, just some splints and occupational therapy. After that appointment we picked up her meds and headed home. She still had some trouble eating until Fri afternoon, but now she's doing great, almost back to her normal eating schedule and even eating baby food and yogurt. We'll probably take her off her pain meds tomorrow because she doesn't seem to be in any pain anymore. In the meantime, we're enjoying taking things easy in Gridley and getting ready for our next move to Sacramento in July.
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