Christmas Spirit

I love Christmas decorations.  The hospital has been full of Christmas spirit with trees, garland, lights, etc everywhere.  I finally had my first day off since Thanksgiving yesterday and Chris and I set out to bring some Christmas into our house.  For the last nine years all we have had is a 3ft fiberoptic tree that i put up.  This year we decided it was time to have a tree, a real tree.

I did a little research and found a tree farm Northeast of where we live and we bundled up, grabbed the dogs, and went to find the perfect tree.  After much tromping around in the snow and closely inspecting tons of trees we found the perfect one.  It is a 7ft, fantastic smelling, Fraiser fir.  Chris sawed it down and we hauled it home.  It was probably one of the most fun things that i have done in a long time.  Now decorated in gold and red, it is the most beutiful tree ever

Winter Fun!!

It has been snowing for the last couple of weeks and I am loving it.  It is beautiful outside, It feels like Christmas.  It is cold but i don't mind  bundling up in my coat, scarf and boots.  Here are some pics of our first snow.  The dogs were crazy excited and didn't know what to do at first.  
The driving has not been bad so far.  Chris has been shoveling like crazy (he even gets up at 4:30am to shovel before i leave for work).  He is beggin for a snow blower already but i just tell him real men shovel snow :)

 

First, thanks to everyone for there kind birthday wishes.  I spent my birthday day and night at the hospital but have spend a lovely five days off since.  Chris and i have hung out and worked on house projects.  For my birthday Chris took me to the 2nd annual Grand Rapids Wine and Food festival.  It was so much fun to dress up, taste tons of wine and cheese, and just spend an evening together.  We ended it with a late dinner of sushi and it was the perfect birthday celebration. 

Life has been good lately.  I am back on the General Surgery rotation and operating almost everyday.  While trauma was fun and sometimes exciting, i much prefer my hernias, breasts, and appendix.  The weather here has been a beautiful fall.  It is brisk but still warm enough to walk the dogs and rake leaves.  We had a fun halloween too.  First i went the "The Haunt" with some friends from work. It is a huge very well done haunted house in which i screamed appropriatly multiple times (i was wishing that hannah and meg were with me).  Chris and I then attended a party (where we were the only losers who did not dress up, oh well, there is always next year) and headed out to play in downtown GR.

The dogs are good.  Zoey has grown so much but she is still my baby.  Thankfully she is fully housetrained now and even learning to follow simple commands (sit, downs, up, etc).  She is a total love and is happy to snuggle me whenever i want.  She did give us a scare the other night when she snatched an ibuprofen that i dropped on the floor before i got to it.  These are very poisonous for dogs and we spent the rest of the night make her throw up and giving her pepcid.  Thankfully she is just fine.