Father's Day Weekend

This weekend we went to Waco. Nathan and Lacie and Justin and Kassie were all there just on different days. Nathan had his 10 year school reunion so we saw them Friday and Saturday and then Justin and Kassie came in for church on Sunday.

Happy Father's Day! Justin with sweet little Blair. She is 3 months now.
G and Blair. (That's mom's name. We started calling grandmom G-mom, so we shortened it for mom so that she is just G.)

Kassi and Justin say that Blair looks like me as a baby. I mean, I knew she was cute but wow, what a compliment for Blair! Just kidding. She is the cutest baby ever but I'm a bit partial.

I know, I know. If you're not an animal lover you don't know why I'm posting these. But that's ok. This is Bentley, my nephew until Lacie and Nathan give me a real nephew. Bentley and Cherry love to play...when Cherry will get up off the couch.

Here's Daisy. She is getting old but she's a sweet girl.

On Saturday, we celebrated Clint's birthday. Mom cooked ribs, black-eyed peas, cornbread, fruit salad and for dessert a German chocolate cake. It was quite yummy! Unfortunately Clint had to study a lot BUT he will be officially done with first year on Friday!!! YEA!!!!!

New Camera

Clint decided with his birthday money that he would buy a new camera. Here are some random pictures we have taken with it.

I took a picture of this flower because it actually came from a small tree. The tree was about the size of a crepe mertyl. I thought the flowers were so pretty and unusual to come from a tree. It had these flowers all over it.
This is the middle school that Cherry and I pass on our walks on our way to the track. It's a beautiful old school. It used to be a high school. It isn't institutional looking like they make them now a days.

Our pretty tomatoes!

This is the side our house. It has a beautiful old magnolia tree in the front. Beside the crepe mertyl, is the side of the house and you can also see a little of the front porch.

Alright so there is some random stuff. We love our new camera so much! We figured out our other camera was 5 years old which is like 40 in technology years. :)

Clint's Birthday Party

We celebrated Clint and Brad's (one of our friends from med school) birthday last night. Clint is turning 24 and Brad will be 25. This was at our house. Everyone brought their own meat to grill and then Stephanie (Brad's wife) and I made some sides for everyone. We had a great time. Clint is in his element when people come over and hang out. I think it's one of his most favorite things to do.


This is Clint and Daniel. Another friend from med school. They were showing us their mad fly swatting skills. Clint had the fly swat and Daniel is using is hands...(yuck!)

Chris and Brad giving one another a high five. We went outside once it got dark. Luckily, we have a light outside so that we could sit and hangout.

Brad lining up his next shot...

Nathan got to come over. Unfortunately, Lacie was on call so she didn't come out.

These are all the wives. (L to R) Claire, Joanna, me, Stephanie. These are some of the girls that help me keep my sanity while Clint is off studying and what not. It's nice to have people who know what you are going through! Most people our age are getting established but for us, things are a bit delayed. That's okay though because Clint is doing something that is going to make a difference in people's lives one day. He may even save a few lives! I think he is awesome for doing what he is because not many people are willing to work as hard is he has. I'm so proud of him for having the courage and determination to go after what he most wants in life.

The FURminator

If you don't have a dog, you may not have heard of the FURminator. It is the best thing that has happened to Clint and I since our Roomba. It looks like a comb and it pulls the under layer of the dog's coat out. Because it has been soooo hot here, Cherry has been shedding really really bad. We have hardwood floors throughout the house, and so Cherry's hair forms tumbleweeds that float across the floor. I vaccum at least once a week and it still gets bad. But not anymore!

This is all the hair we combed off Cherry during one sitting! It was just as big as Cherry! I can't believe that would have been all over our house. Now, when Cherry gets off the coach, there isn't a bunch of white hair left behind! Yeah for the FURminator!

This Weekends Happenings

Friday, Clint took one the harder tests he has taken. I didn't see him most of the week because of this thing. He has only told me a handful of times that he was nervous about a test and this was one of those times. He ended up doing fine on it. Friday night we went to some friends' of ours' apartment. They fixed their signature burritos (yummy). And then we ended up just hanging out and talking til pretty late. Saturday we went to N8 and Lacie's house. N8 had smoked some chickens and then we went and swam in their apartment's pool. It was the first time I've been swimming this summer so needless to say I was quite pale. But that's OK because it got dark pretty quickly. Sunday Clint did a very romantic thing. We had planned to clean house, go grocery shopping, blah, blah, blah. But I was feeling pretty down because I hadn't seen Clint much and we just weren't in sync, if you will. So around 1:30 he comes into the living room and says hey, get up, were getting out of the house. I asked him where we were going but he wouldn't tell me. He ended up taking me to the Galleria mall in Dallas. We really didn't shop (it's waaay out of our price range) we mainly just people watched and went in to some of the fancy places and looked around. Then he took me to Campisis which is a very authentic Italian food place in downtown Dallas. It is so good. I had only been there one time and it was back when Clint and I first started dating. Then we went to a used CD place and we each got a CD. It was so much fun. We got home around 7 or so. It was really short and nothing fancy but it was probably one of the sweetest and romantic things Clint has ever done. He knows just how to help me de-stress. Thanks Clint. I love you.

More Food...

This is one of my okra plants. I grew this one from seed and it looks the healthiest. I will probably grow all my okra from seed from now on. If you look back at my old post about my plants, you can see how big they are getting. One is producing a few okras but they are so small, I think they are probably inedible so I haven't picked them yet.

These are my tomato plants and then my bell pepper plant on the side. My tomatoes got a fungus (one hazard of planting them in pots, I think) so they look a little ragged. But they are doing well now and are getting new growth everyday. Again, look at my old post to see how big these guys have gotten.

So this is the momma. It's my biggest plant. This is spaghetti squash. It has really taken off...in every direction. Soon, I won't have much room to plant anything else on that row or the row next to it! But it does have some buds so I should be getting some squash soon!

This is from my tomato plant with the larger variety of tomato. It has also taken off. One day there were flowers, the next nickel sized tomatoes. I definitely have an appreciation now for people that had to do this everyday in order for their family to eat. Pretty amazing.

Food, Glorious Food!

I haven't posted anything about my babies in quite some time. So here is an update. I don't know why this text is underlined. (Sigh) This is the first of the harvest. It isn't quite ripe, but I can tell you it will be a big day around here when we finally get to eat it! This one is from our grape tomato plant. We counted it up and there are about 20 tomatoes on the plant but they are a lot smaller.

These are the green beans mom sent us home with. Mom's garden is really awesome. It puts mine to shame. But that's okay. It's been fun calling her about my plants her calling me about her's. I don't know how many times I called saying "Mom, I think my plant is dying!" They weren't.

These are the bell peppers. This was the funnest plant to grow. I had no idea how they grew or what would happen. First, the leaves are large and dark green. Little white flowers start blooming and then the flower starts to die. Behind the flower, a little green bulge emerges. Within a day the little bulges are quarter sized. A day later, they are golf ball sized. It was amazing to see how quickly these guys grew.