"New" Engagement Photos

One of my best friends, Whitney, took some engagement photos of us back in October. Things got crazy for both of us and I just now got to see them! So here are a couple of my favorites.

This is what it takes for us to pick up most of the local channels.

Does that make us redneck?

Week Four!

Beginning of week four... hooray! Eight weeks left. Praise God, I'm going to make it! I truly and really am going to make it. All I have to do is survive eight more weeks... 40 more work days... 240 more work hours. That's all. And then I can study for my boards, take them in July, get pinned and hooded on August 8, and head to Florida August 10th!

God is so faithful. Even when I'm exhausted and tired and want to quit (like now!) I know that He will complete His plan in my life and I will make it to graduation day! I can't wait. The thought of walking across the stage and shaking Lu's hand for the last time gets me out of bed each morning during this rotation, LOL. What a bittersweet, joyful occasion it will be. Please bring the video camera, I'm getting hooded! Hah! :)

Play-Doh and Skittles

Week three at BLC! I can't believe it's already been three weeks! I'm loving my kids - I really believe that God is giving me a love for the unloved at this clinical. Some of the kids need someone to just tell them they love them, to hug on them, to be a positive role model for them, and sometimes to discipline them in a loving way. And I am able to see them through His eyes... which is humbling and exhilarating at the same time. It's incredible!

On another note... I feel like my career is opening up right before me. I'm able to be creative and do therapy on my own for the most part, just checking in with my supervisor occasionally and to ask questions. I'm finding that I know much more than I ever dreamed I knew. It's all coming together and making sense to me now. I'm having to read a lot because I'm not so familiar with all the stuff we do with kids. I'm really doing a lot of researching and thinking outside the box for my own personal growth as well as helping my kids. Pinto beans are an amazing therapy tool... my kids are really loving them right now. Stamps, too... for some reason, being able to stamp all over your own hands is fascinating to them! It's awesome to have to use my mind so much to make things creative and enjoyable for the kids... spelling names with Play-Doh is so much more fun than writing them on paper... and the kids don't even realize they're working! Rewards are as simple as "You can have some of my lip gloss!" and the end of the "world" can be resolved with "Let's get some Skittles!" Those really are the important things in life - Play-Doh and Skittles. And loving the unloved.

Kids...

My adventures have begun at Butterfly Learning Center! I am having a great time with all the kids! They are sooo sweet and love hugs and kisses! It's been a blast so far... even though I'm only 3 days in. I like it a lot there and have a great supervisor. Kids are exhausting, but it's so rewarding to see them succeed! :) The traffic hasn't been so bad, either.

In American Idol news... who's going home tonight? It SHOULD be Ramiele or Kristy Lee Cook... but I have a feeling it might be Syesha, which will be sad because I think she is one of the best female vocalists on the show this season. It certainly ain't Ramiele or Kristy. David Cook did great, so did Michael Johns (he was the best last night). Hopefully we can say goodbye Ramiele.

I want it to be summer! Mmm... the beach... flip flops... sunshine... GRADUATION!!!! I'm tired of this rain and cold business. Just when I think the rain might go away... it comes back. Yuck.