Cards By Reese

I just bought the cutest cards from www.cardsbyreese.com and I wanted to share them with you.

One of the radiology residents was telling me about this site yesterday. It was set up to collect money for the family of a young guy (he is a brother of one of the radiology residents here at the U of M) who died of ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) a month ago. He left behind his wife and 3 kids. The oldest little girl is Reese (she's 5 y/o) and she is selling cards to help raise money. They are $10/pack. I don't know the family but if you are interested in learning more, check out:

www.cardsbyreese.com

Zoe's Trip to the Airport

Yesterday morning I took John to the airport for his flight to Utah. Zoe loves to ride in the car so she came along. When we got to the airport I leaned over and gave John a kiss and then he got out of the car. Normally this is how our exchange ends at the airport. However, John came over to my side of the car and wanted a hug as well. So I opened the car door and stood up to give him a hug and a kiss.

All of a sudden I look down and Zoe had jumped out of the car and started walking across the lanes of traffic. I freaked out and ran after Zoe. Normally when I go after her she runs away from me but fortunately she just stopped and let me pick her up. We are so lucky there weren't any cars coming at that moment. I put her back in the car and proceeded to drive home. I laughed on and off during my drive home. Because she wasn't hurt, it was actually pretty funny how she was just casually walking around the airport drop off. I'm grateful nothing bad happened.

This picture doesn't go with this story but it's a cool picture John took from our last big snow storm of the year. Zoe loves to bury her face in the snow when we go out for walks. He caught her right in the middle of shaking the snow off before going inside.

Med School Bowling

Yesterday was the last day of Period 8 and the last day of my 3rd year of medical school. (I can't believe I will be graduating a year from today!) Our class celebrated with a bowling party and Chipotle burritos. It was a lot of fun to see many of my classmates who I haven't seen in a while (when you are in rotations and not sitting in class every day you don't see many people). My highest game was 87. John and Jon were playing speed bowling in a neighboring lane and John scored 102 (which is higher than when he was trying in our lane). We had fun hanging out with the Grimsby's and Meghann.
When we were taking pictures we tried to get shots of people from the front but kept blinding people. So the following are a bunch of "butt shots."

Jon Grimsby and some cool lens flare

Emily (look at that hook, no wonder the ball doesn't go where I want it to)

John (He always gets shafted on the cool pictures, I took this a second too early)

Erin Grimsby. She was the pro of the night. I guess she was in a bowling league when she was little!
Meghann Duffy with a private lesson from pro Erin.

Rise to Your Potential

For Easter in 2003 (when John and I were first dating), he gave me Gordon B. Hinckley's Stand a Little Taller. For those who are unfamiliar with this book, it has a scripture every day with a quote from Pres. Hinckley that goes with the scripture. Inspired by my amazing visiting teacher today, I picked the book up and loved today's scripture and quote and wanted to share them with you:

"A gracious woman retaineth honour." --Proverbs 11:16

"I feel to invite every woman everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass."
--Gordon B. Hinckley

What a beautiful promise. I will not say anymore and will let you decide how this quote and scripture apply to you and your circumstance.

(PS: I love the gospel.)

Spaz Much?

I have a quick, funny story to share that shows a little glimpse of my spaziness (I blame it on the stress):
Last night we invited our friends over to our house for dinner. They had never been to our house before so we thought it would be fun to have them over. I was on call at the hospital Friday night and it was a crazy busy night so I only slept for about 1.5 hours. I got home and took a short nap then we started to get dinner ready. We told them to show up around 5:30-6. At 6:00 they still hadn't arrived but I didn't want to call them until they were a few minutes late (I didn't want to be over eager). Around 6:15 John told me to call them to make sure they could find our place. As soon as he said this, I realized that I had never given them our address!! I quickly called LeAnne and they were waiting in a parking lot of a Baptist church near our house! Not only had I not given her our address, I also had never given her my phone number (what a great friend I am!). Last time we hung out, I told them the area we lived in. So they sent us emails and Facebook messages then decided to start driving toward our house hoping we would give them a call. I won't make this mistake again! I felt so bad. Sorry LeAnne & Donny!
I am my mother's daughter.

Oobees!!

So a while back I blogged about how much I love my Oobees. You can click here to see that post. Anyway, I found out today they are having a mega-sale to make room for new inventory. Almost everything on the site is only $8.00!! The slippers are normally $30 and well worth it, so it's a steal of a deal at $8.00. I went on tonight and bought two new pairs, as well as a shirt, and a blanket. I am so excited for the blanket that is coming. In addition to slippers they have shirts, bags, pillows, blankets, and hats. I wanted to buy more pairs but thought I need to wait and save room for when they come out with cute new styles. I just wanted to let you all know before they sell out!
http://www.oobees.com/
I went for Amber's Animal Instinct:

And Mandy's Surfin Stripes: Here's the blanket I ordered: Let me know if you decide to buy any and which style.

St. Patrick's Day BBQ

So we are SO far behind on blogging. Oh well. Life has been pretty crazy lately.

The weekend after St. Patrick's Day, Thomas and Kristin Rose had a St. Patrick's Day BBQ at their house. We were all supposed to bring Irish food. I don't know how to make anything Irish, so I just brought green appetizers instead. We also had corned beef, potatoes, vegetables, bread, wild rice soup, and yummy pies for dessert. It was yummy food and great company.

John must have caught me during a laugh or something. I look weird. But the cheesecake is cute!


On our second date, John and I went up to his parent's cabin with a bunch of his missionary buddies. We played the game Moods. We had a lot of fun playing it. Well, they don't make Moods anymore so John and I have been trying to find it online for a decent price since we've been married. I got the best present this year for Christmas when I opened up Moods! This was the first time we had played the game in over 5 years, and it did not disappoint. It helps we were playing with a fun group of people.
Thanks Kristin and Thomas for another fun party!