Is it weird that I have a husband who is addicted to watching childrens cartoons? I think he's currently on the 2nd season of the Avengers.
And I was worried that I was a dork.
Ha.
(Love ya, Babe...)

Well, this week has been a little rough... I'm ready for the weekend. I've been sick since Christmas, badly enough that I've missed 2 1/2 days of work this week. I suspect my office manager is annoyed. :-S
So I'm not very sure of getting hired now, especially since I finish my extern next week and she hasn't brought the subject up yet...
But I've had enough of worrying. The good thing about being sick this week is that it's given me time to fix my attitude and adjust my perspective on things.
I really don't care if I get hired here or not.
I would be thrilled if they did, but I'm not hanging all of my hopes and dreams on it anymore. God will put me where He wants me, whether or not I stress out about things. It's such a relief to know he's in control.
Seriously.
Also, I think I worry too much about whether or not people like me.
Which is every bit as stupid as stressing out.
So no more of that, either.
Because people either like you, or they don't.
As long as you're being nice to them, who cares?
Geez, listen to me....
I sound like a 'Confucius says...' fortune cookie.
LOL
For being sick, I've never felt better.
I'm carefree, baby.
(And despite the way I sound, NOT high on cold medicine. Promise.)

Talk to you all next year!!
:-)

Christmasishness

Our first Christmas tree ever!!
I love it.
And I love all the Tinker Bell wrapping paper, too.
It's awesome.
I'm really really excited for Christmas.
Can you tell?

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So.. I've been busy with Christmas stuff and with extern...
I'm working in oral surgery and I'm hooked; if they don't hire me I'm going to be seriously depressed. Lol! I love oral surgery, I really want to stick with it. We'll see what God decides, I suppose.
:-)

On a different note, I've been finishing up some quilting that I've been too busy to work on. I finally finished the binding on this quilt...

And I added the finishing touches on this runner to give to my mom for Christmas. I'm hoping she loves it!

The selfish part of me is dying to keep it for myself.
But I know my mom will love it, so I'm forcing myself to give it up. For her.
Lol...

So that's all my news. Just work, Christmas stuff, enjoying life. Hope everyone else is having as good a holiday as I am!
Merry (early) Christmas!!!

1 day left!!

Tomorrow is my last day of class!!!!
So happy!!!!
And... I figured if I was going to update my blog just to say that, then I should at least leave you with some pics of my cute lil kids.
Lol....

Have an awesome fall afternoon!!!

2 Days Left!!

Yup. Only 2 more days to go. Then Friday we have a 4 hour meeting in which we find out our extern locations... I can't wait!!!! My enthusiasm is definitely taking precedence over any nerves at this point, thank goodness. I have a suspicion that I will be headed to oral surgery *crossing fingers*... but again, I won't know for sure until Friday... and there's a chance I could be wrong.
Which really isn't a big deal, since I'll be happy no matter where I'm going lol... at this point I'm just thrilled to be headed to an office and 100% finished with tests and studying!!!!!

These pics of Kia and Ash just crack me up.... they're a couple of goofballs.
I love my cute lil puppies.
:-)

I got my quilts back a couple of weeks ago and I've been so busy with all the school stuff that I haven't found time to post pics until now.
This first one is my 2nd quilt that I made, which I designed so that it's reversible... I ended up liking the "back" of it more than the front. Lol..

And this is another runner I threw together one afternoon.. I think my mom wants to steal it from me. I don't blame her... I love the colors!
I'm thinking I'll put on a green or brown binding and add a line of rickrack down each of the 2 white strips.

And now for my absolute favorite...

I LOVE this quilt!! It turned out so much prettier than I was expecting, and the colors are so warm and soft..... makes me want to take a nap on it! Lol...
Plus, it was so easy to make.... I put most of it together in only 2 days.

Well, that's all for now.
I'll post more pics when the bindings are on and they're completely finished.
And I'll post an update on where I'll be externing.
Only 2 more days!!!!!!!!!
:-D

~Latte~

Alice has been spending most of her time outside lately, climbing lots of trees and chsing leaves, but when she does come inside, she's crazy cuddly... it's awesome.

So, less than 3 more weeks of school left...
trying not to think about it too much lol. I'm excited about extern, but also pretty nervous... I just want those first couple of days to be over with. Lol

On a different note, meet Latte.
She's really really fat.
And cute.

She's also in love with Steve.
He's not really in love with her.
But he says she's ok.
Just really really fat.

And on yet another note, I found this pattern in Fig Tree Quilts Houses and thought it was the cutest thing ever (yes, I know I just said cute, which should only apply to baby animals and my husband, but I'm making an exception).
It made me think of Pride and Prejudice for some reason...

Well, that's all my news for this week.
My mom-in-law finally got our quilts back from the quilters, so I'm excited to see how everything turned out. I'll post pics once I get them.

Weekend Projects

So I spent my weekend recovering from taking the MO Basic.... and basically trying not to stress wondering if I passed or not.
I found this project and decided to give it a try.. I meant to go with fall colors, but then I saw the blues and greens and purples together and couldn't resist.
I haven't decided yet if I want it quilted or if I'll just leave it kind of scrappy looking... I'm leaning towards making it a wall hanging, but it might end up as a pillow instead.

And then I finally finished sewing the binding onto my runner... it only took me over a month to get around to it lol..

Next on my list is to finish the binding on my Essence quilt.... I'm horrible about bindings... I don't know what I'm going to do when I get my two twin size quilts back... hmm, they might just never get finished. Lol!

Anywayz, that was my weekend...
Nothing too exciting, just good 'ol down time.

~Ash~

So... we've finally been getting around to decorating and unpacking the last few boxes from our move... I'm putting up about a million pics of the new house on this post, so be prepared.
This is the garden off to the side of the house... I should have taken a 'before' picture... you couldn't even see the garden underneath the jungle, but we cleared the whole thing out and it looks so much better.

And....
This is Ash.

She's ridiculously cute.
We drove up to Oklahoma this past weekend to pick her up... she's kind of our 2nd anniversary present to ourselves.

And this is my centerpiece for the coffee table...
I'm so stoked that fall is finally here!! I'm planning to drink a million cinnamon dolce lattes before Christmas!!

These next few pics are of the living room... we still have a few more things to get on the walls, and I'm finishing the binding on a quilt that I want to throw over the back of the couch... but it looks a lot better than it did.

And here's my tiny pathetic kitchen lol...

And our room....
I'm planning to completely redo the color scheme in here sometime next year when I'm working and bringing in a second income. Haven't completely decided on what colors yet, though. I keep flip-flopping on ideas.

Our poor walls don't have anything up on them yet... hopefully we'll get around to it this week sometime.

Today is our two year wedding anniversary... it seems like forever ago that we got married. Strange how fast time goes by. I definitely got the better end of the deal than he did lol... I get spoiled rotten. It rocks.

Less than 6 weeks of school left!!!
I've got butterflies just thinking about going to extern.... prayers are deeply appreciated!!