Wondering if Ben will EVER blog?

Sometimes I wish Ben would do a quick update now and then so I am not the only one who looks like a slacker!

*I'll start with what I left out in our last blog. We went on a date! We go on dates often but this one we had to dress up for. We went to the Med Ball back in FEBRUARY!


*Ben had Spring Break starting the week after my mom came to visit. He was assigned 20 hours of community service this year for school so he decided to come and volunteer at school with me. When he walked in with me the kids were shocked at his size and couldn't believe he was my husband. It didn't surprise me because my 2nd grade class last year called him BIG Ben. They kept asking him to touch the ceiling or things attached to the ceiling. He helped by tutoring the kids, helping Miss Patterson with work she needed done, and teaching them about where boogers come from (not really, he taught a lesson on how to stay healthy and somehow boogers were brought up).


* Another big thing here was VCU made it to the Final Four in basketball. I went to Applebees with my coworkers to watch the game. There I received my first piece of VCU apparel in a raffle. Do you think it will fit? Definitely way too big for me and way to small for Ben...


Other things to mention are:

• I've had some interviews with school districts and am on the search for a full time teaching job. Wish me luck!
• Ben is still obsessed with Frisbee golf. He's so obsessed that we went and ended up getting hailed on last weekend!
  
• Ben is studying his days away and has made it through some pretty hard tests lately.
• My Spring Break is in just 5 school days from today!
• Ben and I have almost been married for a whole year!
  

Short and Sweet

My mom came to visit and we were happy to have her! She got here Thursday and will leave EARLY tomorrow morning.

*Thursday we took her to a very delicious Japanese restaurant called Sticky Rice. After a yummy dinner, we went shopping for another yummy dinner we were planning for the following evening. We wanted to make Cafe Rio pork!

*Friday Ben stayed home and studied for school while my mom and I went and did some must do's in Richmond. We went to the Holocaust Museum which we loved. After that, we went to Moe's which has become my Cafe Rio/Bajios substitute. Then, we went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. By the time we got home our Pork in the crock pot smelled so good and it was almost time for dinner! The Andersons came over to join us and we had salads and burritos. To end the evening off right, we played some games!


*Saturday Ben joined us for our Richmond must do's. We went to Meadow Farm Museum which we all really enjoyed. The house on the farm was built in 1860 and the museum showed us what it was like to live in the 19th century. The area around the farm was great and we really enjoyed the view. Then we went over to Maymont Park which had an even better view! I took a ton of pictures there. We took a tour of a mansion built in the 1890's. After all the walking around and exploring we did during the day we were ready for a good dinner so we headed over to Cheesecake Factory. We got some really good cheesecakes for dessert and are perfectly content with ourselves :)

Meadow Farm Museum

Ben was a GIANT in this house!

This was in the Japanese Garden at Maymont.

4 boys and a girl...

So this last summer when Ben and I got married we moved into Robbie's basement so that we didn't have to sign a contract anywhere before we moved to Virginia. Ben was definitely okay with the situation because Bean and Bry lived with Robbie too so Ben got the best of everything. He got a wife and he still got to live with all his buds. I was okay with it also because while Ben and I were dating the boys kind of became like my brothers but I also had two doors separating us from the boys if they got annoying (JK...they were never annoying).

Friday night Bean stayed with us. We ate pizza and played games (the obvious thing to do when the boys get together). Saturday we met up with Robbie and Angie in DC for a game of frisbee golf. We were supposed to stay for dinner but Ben got sick and we headed home early. We were sooo happy to see our friends and had a fantastic weekend with them!

I got to meet Angie for the first time and I approve :)
We picked the complete wrong day for frisbee golf. It was very windy but at least the day was beautiful. The place we went involved a lot of walking and at times meant crossing a river or going down steep hills! It was pretty cool.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We celebrated Valentine's Day a little early because Ben is in the middle of testing. Ben had a test Friday, will have 2 on Tuesday and 1 on Wednesday. We went to dinner on Saturday at a yummy Mexican restaurant and both got each other a bouquet. Take a look...

At the restaurant waiting for our food

Look at the size of Ben's burrito! He actually had leftovers for once.

I love daisies.

Ben loves reeses so I made him some flowers that taste really good.

I'm watching you

So...I got to be in kindergarten for a little bit on Friday. There was a little girl in between 2 other girls and she was being a little mean to the two girls she was beside. She wasn't doing anything bad so I kind of just watched her for a few minutes. I couldn't help but start laughing when she decided she was done with the conversation they were having. The way she ended it was not by saying anything, but by using her index finger and middle finger to slowly point to her eyes and then she pointed at one of the little girls. I think I may try that with Ben sometime :) A couple minutes later she started being mean again and I had to talk to her.

We've had a good week. I've been working and Ben's been studying. We got a little snow this week but it wasn't anything to really talk about. We are starting to have some really pleasant days and I am definitely ready for the nice Spring weather to stay around for awhile. Ben started studying early this morning so he could take a break to go play disc golf which meant I knew I would have a day to craft!

Here is today's craft:

Excited would be an understatement...

Ben got an iPhone! If you said he was excited you would be WRONG. He's ecstatic times 10. His phone broke more than a few months ago and he started the waiting game for the iPhone. He definitely has more patience than me. It finally came yesterday. Yay for Ben's new phone!

P.S Ben is currently starting another round of studying crazier than usual because he has tests coming up the day after Valentine's Day. What a bummer :(

Chuggin along...

Time is going by so quickly and each day is full of many things. I have 2 jobs, Ben is in school, we both have a calling plus we both have extra assignments for church that we work on, we try to do service and help those around us, and we live around a bunch of young married couples who always have fun things planned. We fill our days to the max and most days start out feeling like they will never end. But, here we are in February and we are already more than half way through the first year of med school! It feels great. I'm pretty sure being more than half way through the fourth year will feel better though. :)

Ben got some AWESOME news yesterday. He has a job doing research this summer! Lately, he has been very interested in anesthesiology. No, that is not an announcement that he will be trying to become an anesthesiologist but it is something he will definitely be considering. With this internship he will be putting in data for a professor and having the opportunity to shadow different doctors in the area. The doctor he will be working with had a lot of enthusiasm for the position he created for Ben and is looking forward to working with him. Ben is very excited for the opportunity and if you want to know more I am sure he would be happy to tell ya!

On to the crafty side of life...I made this wreath last weekend and waited to put up a picture until I had a flower...now that I have the flower I am not positive I picked the best flower but it will do for now...