Whirlwind Weekends

Traveling is the name of the game this summer. Thankfully, it hasn't been long trips yet, but they are to come. This coming weekend, I am travling to Indianapolis for a dear friend's wedding, and I hope to go visit my Grammy in Florida sometime in July. However, my past week and a half (two weekends fit in there somewhere) have been spent traveling to family functions. Two Saturdays ago, I went to Charlotte for my cousin's wedding, stopping at Austin's house to pick him up. It was a beautiful weekend for celebrating my cousin and here new husband. After a lovely wedding and Sunday picnic, I went to Austin's for Monday night as I was warned by my considerate host family to stay away from there home as long as possible as they were battling a stomach bug. I came home from Austin's on Tuesday to work 7 am to 7 pm Wednesday, do laundry, pack that night, work Thursday 7-7 again, and leave from the hospital to go to Austin's for their family reunion. I thought I had avoided the bug until Friday afternoon, in the sun I sat, on the water in a boat, feeling seasick. I do not have a history of seasickness, but I was wary to try tubing... Anyway, this is no sob-story. I rested enough to feel well enough to eat on Saturday night, thankfully, because it was homemade icecream night. I enjoyed a bowl of peach, strawberry, and banana (a small scoop of each if you were wondering.) Yum Yum. I enjoyed my weekend of family reunion-ing or would that be reuniting? Well, I know that I am marrying into a special family. It was so neat to see how each of them loved the Lord and that Austin's Great Grandmother's prayers have been heard and are still being answered with a heritage of Christ lovers.
I have not had the chance to upload pictures from my summer yet, as I forgot my camera cord at home home... but instead imagine wonderful smells from the South in the early morning and evening, the smell of wet pine needles. I love that smell. It wakes me up in the early morning as I head to work.

Dracula's kin

The nurse I am shadowing this summer just happens to be from Transylvania, Romania... How funny!

My poor car has been taxed by this southern heat. Yesterday, I had a minor breakdown as I was driving into the city, planning to meet Austin and his family for a ballgame. Well, I was confused as to where to go, the traffic had stopped for a good while, I was in the wrong lane to try to turn around, I was on the phone with Austin who was graciously trying to direct me to where he was, my engine was starting to get hot, so then the heat in my car was on to relieve the engine, the windows were open, but to no avail as it was just as hot outside the car as it was inside, plus did I mention that traffic was stopped! So here I was in the city... not moving, heat on full blast, but the heat index still rising (or I was worried it would), almost making Austin's family wait and be late to the ballgame. I think it's understandable why I might have panicked a little. I wish that I had the calm nature that Liz has when she gets lost in the city. Oh dear.

Dracula

Call me a bat, call me a vampire... well not really. Actually, call me a nurse, well not yet, because I am still in training. I was trained to draw blood today. Can you hear me saying to patients "I vant to suck yaw blawd..." I don't think I would keep my job for very long.

What a good May!

May was full of good things. I worked for my dad and made some money, which was such a God-thing as I accepted a nursing internship job far away from home that left me unemployed for the whole month of May. Thankfully, Dad's office was in need of help for just the month of May. Also during May, along with my family and Austin's family, I celebrated five birthdays: Michelle's (the 4th), Jeremy's (the 16th), Austin's (the 21st), Abram's (the 24th), and then my own (the 31st). It was a month of celebrating as also in May, I visited with Austin's family in Charleston for Aubrey's graduation from Medical School! While there, Austin and I became engaged: yet another thing to celebrate! Here are the promised photographs.