Darn you Amy Winehouse!

I only started listening to her early this year when I made my Pandora playlists...and when I realized they were covering her on Glee... but dang it, I didn't get a chance to get really familiar with her first!  Before this year, I don't remember knowing anything about her except that she was apparently crazy.

Sad.  Why do people choose to live complicated, destined-to-be-traumatic lives?  Chosen out of fear of change, no doubt....  Go to Rehab, people.

first family vacation

It's already been about a month since our family vacation- so I don't have much to say anymore, but I will at least post some of my favorite photos.

dolphin watching boat ride

Early in board studying I spontaneously decided to book us a vacation.  We picked a moderately nice hotel with a moderate price for a couple nights on Virginia beach.

a beach just as good as any Florida beach I've seen.  great waves, but saia was a lot more afraid of them this year than last year...

 We should've booked another night- only ended up having one full day there and only went to the beach once...  We camped out monday and thursday nights, and stayed at the hotel tues and wednes.

We stopped by the virginia aquarium after we checked out of the hotel Thursday

VA Beach is not much closer than Florida, and cutting the driving in half still meant 5-6 hr driving days.  That was a pretty good amount for Sai, and he was good for us all week.

very nice campsite in WV. perfect weather.  managed to miss any rain.  See Jeff fishing in the background

We stayed in white sulphur springs, WV on  Monday and just outside of Charlottesville Thursday.  the WV campsite was especially nice.

on the dock for the dolphin boat ride

The really special aspect of this trip was it was our first real family vacation.  And actually, it was the first time me and Jeff had even gone somewhere with just us.  Only took 7.5 years to hit that milestone.  The rest of the album is here: https://picasaweb.google.com/l.b.cornwell/FirstFamilyVacation?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCO_0nJzv7tmRjwE&feat=directlink

Last but not least...

time flying...

My heart has sunk time and time again as I have recalled the amount of time that has passed since my last blog!  What can I say though- I haven't had a lot of good "sitting down" time.  We just started the second week of peds, and I like it.  I loveeee babies.  and toddlers.  and I enjoy trying to communicate with those who are older.  However, we have assignments and I have about 6+ hours of them left to get done before a quiz Wednesday at 1 PM.  So sadly, I am actually off to that. :(  My current list of blogs to do...

finishing that "modeling" blog I made with final photos
nail biting and asians
Saia's new room + mobile arts club project
VA Beach, camping, cabin trips
Angela's Ashes book report
Bye Bye Ford Focus
Before and after photography...Germantown

P.S.  A fun note....Saia finalllllyyy figured out how to successfully whistle tonight. I am sitting in bed and he is blowing his train whistle every few seconds. :)