M2- WEEK NINETEEN

oh golly.

If I can stretch a medical school week into one post, then I need about 13 to sum up this last one. I'm overwhelmed just thinking about it. This week began with Christmas Eve with one family, Christmas day with the next (both of those with 50+ pictures), my brother celebrated a birthday today, I've completed a few projects around the house, I'm in the middle of a few more, throw in a few social events and a few recipes...

whoa.

So, for this week we are going to have to just skim some highlights for now.

When I reflect on our Christmas celebrations I think of amazing family, fantastic laughter, good eats, and poor T feeling under the weather. Our families were beyond generous with gifts (they always are!) My Christmas list reflected my increasing age: organizational things for the shower and pantry, toilet seats, many basic kitchen gadgets, and dress clothes. Although my list was probably less-than-thrilling to shop for, I couldn't be more excited to have each of these things. Here is a lamp we received to light our basement stairs. Clean lines and a simple design = my style.

T was down-and-out for most of the holiday (poor guy!). So, our celebration was a little limited. We only made it to Grand Island for a few hours and then we headed home. However, T still had some energy for one of his biggest fans:

 

Christmas day we celebrated with my family. We played minute-to-win-it games and ate multiple meals:

The Christmas Day Crew (we failed to take a group picture!)

Then today we celebrated Ryan's birthday with fondue. It was quite the spread:

Main course (jerk or vegetable broth):
+ chicken
+ steak
+ lobster ravioli
+ sausage ravioli
+ chicken ravioli

Cheese:
+ broccoli
+ cauliflower
+ mushrooms
+ french bread

Chocolate:
+ angel food cake
+ apples
+ bananas
+ mandarin oranges
+ rice krispie treats
+ pringles

Then for a second dessert we had (by request) chocolate raspberry cake:

Ryan is an adult in the state of Nebraska- yay!

It was quite the week! I didn't even mention the epic number of movies I watched: Lord of the Rings I, II, and III, Les Miserables (amazing, amazing, amazing), and Silver Linings Playbook (cute but emotionally exhausting). Soon I'll show you the progress I am making in them basement and possibly a bedroom makeover for T's mom. It's going to be a busy last week of break! Can I just say that I am so thankful to be a student and have these few weeks off. I know the the world keeps spinning in the real world and I am so glad that I have a few more spoiled years with this time off to relax.

I hope you all had a safe and fun holiday! Reply to this post, send an email, or a facebook message, or whatever and let us know how you celebrated!

PS- here is our first Christmas Card!

 

Isn't T such a good sport! Gotta love that man of mine!

Out and About

This week you wouldn't have known that we are busy, busy students with no budget. We were social and went out with friends like normal people! Here is an outline of our week, as told by Krista:

MONDAY took a test in the morning then class in the afternoon and evening -- glad that is over.
TUESDAY date night at the Cheesecake Factory -- delicious! This time we split the red velvet cheesecake. It's our new favorite.
WEDNESDAY fairly normal day of classes and work but learned how to do a lumbar puncture/spinal tap 
THURSDAY had dinner at Pitch Pizzeria with two of my good friends from school -- T's favorite pizza is Two Peps
FRIDAY normal day of school and work -- sometimes a routine day can be refreshing
SATURDAY changed the progressive dinner to a stationary dinner  and shared a fabulous night of food and games with friends -- we learned a new game: signs
SUNDAY had our parents over for dinner and taught them the game mao -- T made an awesome pork tenderloin

You've probably noticed some slight changes on the blog. We've added a few pages along the top (home, recipes, home tour, and contact). recipes  we are going to start posting recipes as their own posts and you'll be able to find an index of all of them under the recipes page. Stay tuned for the fondue recipe we took to the progressive-turned-stationary dinner -- we got creative with the dippers! home tour we are also going to post pictures of our house for our readers who are interested less in us and more in our projects. contact finally, we added a few new ways you can communicate with us. We've linked our Formspring account to the blog. Formspring is a website where ya'll can ask us questions and we will answer. Curious how we track our budget? Want to know our favorite recipe to take to potlucks? How did we pick the paint for the dresser? You can ask anything under the sun on that site and we will respond. You can get there through the box on the left side of the blog, or under the contacts tab. We also opened an email address where you can contact us directly. comment don't let these new options stop you from commenting! That is still the easiest way to respond to each post.

Did you go out this weekend? Try any new restaurants? See any movies? We'd love to hear!