I's been bein' industrious

I had a baby shower to go to and was low on cash at the moment, so I went through my fabric scraps and put this together. It was a big hit! Yay!

Florida does have rainbows! Who would have thunk?!

My chic paint job was looking rather shabby. So, I zenned and embraced. I painted the outdated drawer pulls "cake batter" same as dresser. Then attacked all edges with sandpaper revealing the mahogany underneath. Now we're "shabby chic"!!!

Our Journey: Medical School

Medical School, gosh, seems so long ago! But not really. Everything is just so different now.

Chad had several options for medical school. He chose OU because it was in-state and MD. Both very good choices in retrospect.

I remember Chad saying I was a snob for not wanting to live in the cheap apartments in OKC. I wanted to live in "The Village." The lovely town homes on campus that were not cheap. I said fine and we drove to OKC a couple weeks before school started to look at his cheap apartments he found online.

Chad learned a lesson that day. Large cheap apartments downtown are not for young white doctors' families. I had set up a tour with the apartment manager. As we went on our tour, I swear people were coming out of their apartments, looking at us and slapping baseball bats against their palms. He couldn't wait to get out of there! But I made him stay for the complete tour. The apartment they showed us had marks from a crowbar up and down the sides of the door!

Fortunately, I had also made an appointment with the nice Town Homes on campus. I got my way that day.

It was really fun living on campus. I saw Chad far more that any other wives saw their husbands and since Cougar was only 2 I wanted him to see his dad as much as possible. We made good friends and had a lot of fun. Frequently, we would have husbands on our couches crashing because they didn't want to drive all the way home during test block week. I'm so glad we lived on campus.

When another little one, Juliet, came along she slept in the hall and we were out of space. Chad went to Tulsa for the last two years of school, which was also nice because that is where we have family. Third and Fourth year were like a big party. Chad had good friends that also came to Tulsa and lived close by. We enjoyed it very much.

We lived in Loan Utopia. Borrow, borrow, borrow. Our motto was, "What's another 10 grand?!"

Food Stamps, Wic and Medicaid got us by on what we couldn't borrow. We managed to come out of Med School without any credit card debt. HA! I was Soooo proud. Pride has a way of humbling us. Residency is a whole different ball game folks.

Surf Camp

It's not everyday you get to live at the beach. At least that's our attitude. We probably won't live at the beach forever, but let's enjoy it while we do! Cougar had an absolute blast at Surf Camp.
I've never seen him take so much to any kind of physical activity. His surf coach honestly did not think he would be back after the first day. He hit himself in the head with the surf board at least 20 times.
But sure enough, he was back with determination on Tuesday. He caught a huge wave that all the other kids were afraid of and felt like a super star. He wanted to go to bed as soon as we got home so it would be time to wake up and go surfing again.

Hilton Grand Vacation

Playing with water.

Brock's new tall chair.

Sharing a bed.

Doll House

The kids are having tons of fun with the new doll house Granny Cheryl sent.

Juliet says thank you!

Cougar gets caught!

Wild Bunny Chase

Bunnies are so chic!

Pepper disappeared today. I sliced her a piece of apple and called and no Pepper came running. So we all went searching. No Pepper. We hadn't seen Pepper since before the UPS guy came, so we could only determine that she must have slipped out the door. Several hours go by. The kids are crying. We have searched the neighborhood on foot and by car. No bunny. The kids say a little prayer that we find the poor bunny.
Chad turns to go down the hall and, low and behold, there sits a little white bunny.