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.